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| Joanna Newsom – Monkey & Bear Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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Probably warped my mind a bit but I've just finished reading 100 Years of Solitude and now think of this song as Ursula (Iguarin, matriarch of the novel's main family, the Buendias) attempting to prevent her family from becoming wild, or "monkey and bear", as in either wise and solitary like a monkey or brutish and large like a bear. Haven't really analysed the lyrics just saw the name Ursula and went from there (although I know Joanna likes her allusions so its possible no?) |
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| PJ Harvey – Catherine Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Is it me, or is Catherine de Barra actually Catherine de Bourgh from Pride and Prejudice, and the song is from the perspective of Mr. Collins. |
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| Slint – Don, Aman Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I'm sorry, but this has to be a mockery of teenage emos. I cannot take it seriously (even though I am also a social outcast teenager). |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Lay Me Low Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I haven't looked at these lyrics that intensley, but from a quick listen it sounds like the ending of the Faust legend (I am doing Dr. Faustus in English, so that could be it) |
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| Swans – The Seer Returns Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Oh god, these lyrics are so weird, so SWANS!
"both my arms are broken" makes me think of a similair line in the earlier Swans song "Animus" when Gira says "My arms spread out and broken". |
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| The Smiths – The Boy with the Thorn in His Side Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Although the obvious meaning to this song is that Morrissey wants to be loved, but nobody believes him, I draw a darker meaning from these lyrics.
The exact opposite: that Morrissey holds no love in his heart, yet nobody believes that anyone could really be as filled with hatred on the inside, as well as the outside, so they say that "underneath it all, he just wants to be loved". Morrissey expresses his frasturation that he is judged by the same standards as others, and wants them to accept that he thinks differently. |
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| The Smiths – Cemetry Gates Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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While the verses are obviously about Morrissey's plagerism and the critics who "trip me up and laugh when i fall", I feel that the chorus describes a day in Manchester when everyone is outside doing sports and such, which Morrissey calls "a dreaded sunny day", and to escape he and a friend go to the cemetary, where no one will ever look for them, and read poetry. |
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| The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I think it's a bit unfair to take out the flaws of the system of the monarchy on the royal family. They were born into it. |
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| Patti Smith – Birdland Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I mean, I love it, I'm just saying that Patti Smith is labelled Punk Rock, but this is about the polar oppisite of the genre. |
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| Tom Waits – Ice Cream Man Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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No interpretation, be warned.
Stereogum said this song was embarassing, but I think that they are just taking music to seriously. This is such a fun song. |
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| Sonic Youth – Total Trash Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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The lyrics somehow represent the way this song is so warm and friendly at the beginning, and then deteriates so much that it reminds me of a speeded up version of the crashing section in "The Seer". |
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| Nirvana – All Apologies Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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When he says "everyone is gay" he is mocking thuggish people who use the word "gay" as an insult, and seperating himself from them, saying that just because he is a hard-rock musician, dosen't mean he is a cruel perosn. |
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| Swans – The Beautiful Days Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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God this songs awesome (In a fucked up way, of course).
I have no idea what Micheal Gira was trying to get across when he assembled these clips, probably just some kind of contrast with the innocence of the child's "sunny day, beautiful day" and the woman "talking to the man while he masturbates" and how when people grow up they lose their innoncence. Just a theory. |
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| Swans – Helpless Child Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Instead of critizising politics like most bands, Gira is crtisizing the relationship between mother and baby. Truly chillling stuff. |
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| Sonic Youth – Eliminator Jr. Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I think this is Sonic Youth's way of saying "were still punks" after the conceptual artsiness of the previous track. Great song, though. |
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| Sonic Youth – The Sprawl Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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For some reason this song reminds me of Brenda from Six Feet Under.
Great song!
Okay, i know this is a meanings site, but i have no idea. Postitution sounds about right, though. |
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| Joy Division – Insight Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Never really liked this song, the instrumentation is a bit too stagnant. Although good lyrics.
I think the "I'm Not Afraid Anymore" is less a positive statement, more the fact that Ian Curtis was saying fear created all his best memories, and made him do things. He is no longer afraid of wasting his life, and will now stop living it. |
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| Joy Division – From Safety To Where Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This reminds me of a quote from the Sopranos, where Dr. Melfi says "the choice between freedom and security. The child often switches between them". I think Ian had trouble with the loss of innocence, so this song may be about deciding weather to stay in the safety of home or leaving. Hence from safety (home) to where (Ian has no idea what the world has in store for him). |
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| Blur – Far Out Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this song was heavily influenced by Syd Barret and early Pink Floyd. |
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| Bob Dylan – Ballad of a Thin Man Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Good idea, but when this song was recorded, David Bowie had yet to release his first album. Unless Bob Dylan is a seer, it is unlikley he was singing about Bowie. |
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| Radiohead – Separator Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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If you think this is over than your wrong.
Is it a coincidence that this lyric is on the last song of the latest Radiohead album? |
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| Radiohead – Just Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I have a vague idea, but it is by no means definite. Some of the lyrics refer to it, but most don't.
Thom Yorke is singing from the perspective of a person in a gay relationship, ("Can't get the stink off, he's been hangin round for days") and his best friend is being very homaphobic towards him, so Yorke comes after him ("I'll teach you have how to get to Pure,est, hell"). The song's title questions weather homosexuality is "Just". |
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| Radiohead – Bones Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song is about some kind of bone disease, which disables people. Thom Yorke remembers when he didn't have the disease, where he "flew like Peter Pan". |
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| Radiohead – The Bends Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this is about a young teenage couple, who have just had a baby at a very young age. They realise they have no real friends, as they have alienated everyone they know by having a baby. The biggest event they have in their life now is when their baby gets the bends. |
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| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A version) Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this song is about an elderly couple, the wife has died, and the husband is mourning his loss. The lyric "It's not like the movies" refers to the fact that in film's, couple's are always young when the film ends, and you don't see them grow old. "I will see you in the next life" is not him committing suicide, it is him accepting that he dosen't have long left in this life, and he'll see his wife soon. |
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| Radiohead – Paranoid Android Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song is in a broad sense about how we live in society, a Paranoid Android, because like an android we have behaviour programmed into us by the media, and we are paranoid others will think we do not fit in.
More specifically, though, it is about an evening Thom Yorke spent in a bar, were a woman when crazy when someone spilled a drink over her.
The "God Loves His Children" of the end is obviously bitter sarcasm on Thom Yorke's part. |
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| Muse – Nature_1 Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song is about Great Expectations. Pip's had enough of Miss Havisham/Estella's coldness towards him. He realises neither of them ever cared about him. |
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| Muse – Falling Down Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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For some reason, this song reminds me of the scene in The Knife of Never Letting Go when the mayor attacks Farbranch. |
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