| Tool – The Pot Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[rock_hawk:18900]. Right. Also note that it's "The Pot" that calls the kettle black. | |
| Nirvana – Lounge Act Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Remember that Kurt liked to play with words in a nonsensical manner ("There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before" - Serve the Servants). It is intentionally confusing when he sings "I'll out of my way to prove I still smell her on you." It would make more sense if he sang: I still smell you on her. He has broken up with his girl. He still loves her, but he wants to see other girls ("I've got this friend you see") and he's jealous that she's seeing other guys ("I'll keep fighting jealousy"). He's putting up a false front ("I'll ... wear a shield"). He wants her to think that he cares about these girls as much as he cared about her -- I smell you on her; you weren't special. The punchline comes at the end when Kurt sings about her relationships with other guys. It's at that point that the confusing line actually makes sense: "They still smell her on you." Her new guys are just using her to get over girls that they'd rather be with, just like he's using other girls to get over her. She's not special. |
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| Nirvana – Plateau Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top." - Margaret Thatcher Curt Kirkwood wrote these lyrics in the Reagan and Thatcher eras, and he agreed, as did Kurt Cobain later. There was no Everest in life. We were all just scaling a mere plateau, and all of our accomplishments were nothing more than cleaning the surface of the plateau. These lyrics are thoroughly sarcastic, Have you seen the movie Michael Clayton? See it. "I'm not a miracle worker. I'm a janitor." To "plateau" is not at all an accomplishment. It means, not only that you haven't succeeded, but that success is not possible. Listen to "Oh, Me" off of both Meat Puppets II and Nirvana Unplugged - "I don't have to think, I just have to do it, the results are always perfect." These are songs about futility. |
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| Eels – Abortion In The Sky Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think this one is about the instruments. | |
| Eels – New Alphabet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I believe this song was inspired somewhat by the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which was developed by E's father, Hugh Everett III. If you've seen the BBC documentary "Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives," which is available on Vimeo, then you are familiar with this story. The elder Everett developed the theory because he thought that the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics did not make sense ("When the world stops making sense . . .") . He wrote a lengthy dissertation backed up by the kind of math that physicists use, which is incomprehensible to a lay person. As E said at one point, "It's like a completely different alphabet." That is, to make sense of the world, the elder Everett needed a new alphabet. Through the making of the film, E learned about the universe and about his father. At several points he was genuinely shocked with how much more he understood. The point, I think, is that sometimes the world is so strange and so complicated that we cannot explain it with our common sense, our experiences, or our language, and you cannot come to terms with it unless you make your own alphabet. |
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