| Massive Attack – Man Next Door Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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If you compare the lyrics with the actual video of the song, you will notice that the song does not actually describe an annoying/abusive neighbor, but a schizoid man which probably has experienced trauma with the break up of his family... really sad... but what can I say, art is special; there is nothing disgusting or bad with this, just a matter of taste and/or understanding/establishment of the song. |
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| Massive Attack – Man Next Door Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Oh my God, watch the video... :O | |
| Massive Attack – Paradise Circus Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song can have many possible meanings. We must mainly focus on the following - The tittle - Paradise Circus 'unfortunate that when we feel a storm' 'we can roll ourselves over 'cause we're uncomfortable' 'devil makes us sin' 'we like it when we're spinning in his grip' 'love is like a sin, my love' 'the ones that feel it the most' 'her with eyes like a flame' 'love you like a fly, never love you again' As we can see the links between all of these are random, hence we must research carefully. Firstly, the tittle does not link to any part of the lyric, as it does not correspond to any feeling of love, nor the belief that love is a sin within the human nature. However, we can infer that the tittle is somewhat the setting of the song. The song begins with the lyric 'it's unfortunate that when we feel a storm, we can roll ourselves over 'cause we're uncomfortable'. The chosen lyric reveals that we are frightened by a storm, as we are naturally too scared of harsh sounds in our surroundings, linking the lyric to nature and our feelings. Through this, we can guess that the meaning is to with natural feelings and our environment, for instance, we can 'fall in love' with a stranger passing by, due to our natural instincts. 'The devil makes us sin' portrays that love is a feeling, that crushes us, if we missus it - we look at it this way, if we follow it with the previous lyric. This twists the songs meaning, by interpreting love as a natural feeling we all missus. If we follow the past lyric meaning to 'We like it when we're spinning in his grip', we automatically twist the previous overall meaning, by developing an understanding for the words we, like, spinning and in his grip. We can infer that the meaning changes into something such as - we like the trembling moment of us misusing love, until we are broken. I believe this, as from the lyrics, the devil is practically controlling our feelings, from the phrase - spinning in his grip. 'Look at her with a smile like a flame, she will love you like a fly never love you', as humans, we do not care for flies, hence by saying 'love you like a fly' indicates that we mean very little to the person saying this phrase. This changes the meaning by giving us the understanding that the one we have accidently fallen for, is not loving you back hence you are playing the devils game, by falling for the sin. The trick of the lyrics, however, is the word 'again'. This word completely changes the whole lyrics meaning, into something more extravagant. Most likely - the one you have fallen for a long time ago, in the paradise circus, has loved you back, until you have found that the devil was controlling your feelings, for the wrong person, leaving that 'wrong' person to break your heart and leave you. If you compare the lyrics to the official video of the song, then we are all wrong with the meaning entirely... (Please explain to me the pros and cons of my writing skills - I'm a 13 year old student and I am trying to build skills for my English exams) |
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