| Elvis Costello – Little Palaces Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| @[snizz:49740] Bournville (the chocolate town) isn't in Ireland. The song is clearly about England. | |
| Frank Zappa – Bobby Brown Goes Down Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Clearly, the song is written from the standpoint of an unreliable narrator. We're not meant to sympathize with him, nor are we meant to assume Frank Zappa believed any of the stuff written in the song. Bobby Brown is a douchebag, and he becomes everything he hates. The terms he uses are from his perspective, not the songwriter's. | |
| Lily Allen – Fuck You Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I saw her in concert tonight and she said quite clearly that the song was about George W. Bush. She also said that it applies to Trump as well. In fact she said if there were any Trump fans in the audience, they should probably leave. And she adjusted the lyrics to include references to Trump. Great gig! | |
| The Cranberries – Zombie Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[enno117659:28352] How can anyone "love" an organization that uses the murder of children to forward its goals? I'm guessing you've never known anyone who lost a child to an IRA bomb. While I share the cause of home rule for Northern Ireland, I despise the IRA's methods. | |
| The Cranberries – Zombie Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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The lines... "With their tanks and their bombs And their bombs and their guns" is a reference to the 1867 antiwar song "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye", which has the similar phrase... "With your drums and guns and drums and guns" |
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| Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| It's a guy talking to his girlfriend, and when he says, "I never want to hear you say, I want it that way" it's because she wants him to have sex up her bunghole and he doesn't like that idea. | |
| The Cranberries – Zombie Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The lyrics... "With their tanks and their bombs And their bombs and their guns" ...are an homage to the traditional anti-war song "Johnny I hardly knew Ye": "With your drums and guns and guns and drums The enemy nearly slew ye Oh my darling dear, Ye look so queer Johnny I hardly knew ye." |
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| Elvis Costello – Brilliant Mistake Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| George Bush was certainly a mistake, but I wouldn't say he was a "brilliant" mistake. | |
| Elvis Costello – Brilliant Mistake Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Seems to me that it refers to the Bonnie Bartlett incident: "A trick they do with mirrors and with chemicals" seems to refer to the alcohol (chemicals) and the mirror that the press holds up to celebrities when they make a "brilliant" mistake. The "brilliant mistake" being, of course, his attempt to stifle conversation by being (as he put it) as offensive as possible - brilliant in the (drunk) moment, but a mistake in (sober) hindsight. But the song is great because it can be interpreted as any "brilliant mistake", and we've all made them. |
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| Elvis Costello – Tramp the Dirt Down Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Regarding the lyric "She spills with compassion": in the Middle Ages spill referred to much more devastating things than it does today. Spillan, the Old English ancestor of Modern English spill, meant such things as "to destroy, mutilate, kill." I think perhaps Elvis Costello was (consciously or subconsciously) tuning in to that older meaning when he wrote this line. | |
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