| Death from Above 1979 – Black History Month Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Sounds a lot like the concept of white flight in many American cities. Where white Americans left cities due to well racist reasons of black Americans. Saying how it was a nice place at one time and how your parents are leaving. Also the title has "black history month" in it | |
| Pissed Jeans – Teenage Adult Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think the meaning is obvious, it is about not wanting to grow up. | |
| Failure – Solaris Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"It is that quote from Hamlet, but it is being quoted by the main character in a film directed by Tarkovsky called The Sacrifice. The song Solaris is, of course, based on the movie of the same name also directed by Andrei Tarkovsky." What Ken Andrews replied when I asked him about the Hamlet quote. |
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| Failure – Solaris Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think the whole song is about the Shakespeare play Hamlet as the excerpt is from Scene II when Polonius asks Hamlet what he is reading and he says "words words words". "I've been slowing my breath" relates to the motif of Hamlet's inability to act. "Are you thawing out my head?" relates to two lines in Hamlet's famous motif "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" "I'm on a mission to escape from what my life has been without you." Hamlet missed his father. "I've been treading on ghosts" Hamlet listened to the Ghosts orders to kill Claudius. "I want you to get out..." King Hamlet is trapped in a ghost state to roam the kingdom, because he couldn't confess his sins. Now why may Failure write a song about Hamlet? I think it has more of a suicidal meaning behind it because Hamlet had a strong suicidal meaning or I think it maybe is to avenge one of their fathers. |
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