| John Frusciante – The Will to Death Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song is all about Spirits (Ghosts etc). "And they're thought to be lies, but we saw them", talking about how people don't believe in ghosts. From what I have interpreted from John's recent blog post about it (although I don't quite understand it) and from my own thinking is that: the fear of death is actually a fear of underachievement, and by creating something you are then achieving something and the fear of death ebbs away but is replaced by a will to die, or at least a state of not minding it. "The will to death is what keeps me alive/It's one step away, step away" is saying how John's creativity is bringing him "one step" closer to the will to death. "Endless and formless They fly to the end And back to the Beginning again" This is talking about the plight of the spirits that John interacts with. It shows that a spirit's life is just a loop. This is supported by the last lyric "But for them nothing's changed, for them nothings changed" |
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| John Frusciante – Dark/Light Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think that just going by the lyrics isn't enough to interpret the song. If you listen to the music behind you'll notice that its split into three parts, only the first two lyriced. I interpret the song as the process of falling in love. The first bit is kind of the bit up to "Will we ever get together? (in a song)". The first bit is like 'Do I like the other person?'. He says "I can't put hose thoughts away", "Every time I had fun you were on my mind" is him reassuring himself that he loves the other person. He ends it "I was made to think that we would wind up round here". You'll notice that there are gloomy piano chords played, and his voice has some weird reverby panning stuff on it. The piano seems dragged out, I interpret this as him being mentally exhausted by the process of thinking about it: he's unsure about his feelings. The reverby thing makes it sound like the lyrics are his thoughts on the subject that are confusing and overlapping at different rates. The second bit is confirming his doubts about it, he's being pessimistic about asking the other person out. He asks the questions in falsetto and he gets an answer from the baritone soloist, who I interpret as his voice of pessimism/reason. "Will we ever get together" John is wondering, "In a song" is the answer the voice gives, meaning that he will only be with her when he writes a song about her. The last bit is actually John asking her out "Do you need me, or are you waiting?", the voice again answers but as you can here he goes up at the end, I interpret this as the pessimism being surprised that she's said yes. Through this bit there is a clock ticking, this is showing how the time is running out to ask her out, and when it carries on for a bar before the next bit, its showing the awkward bit right at the start of the relationship, almost waiting for the feelings of elation to come in. The next part is my favourite, the FIVE MINUTE BASS SOLO. It's really upbeat and I think a lot simpler to interpret: as many people say you cannot interpret love through words, but John argues that music can express what words fail to, and this is a prime example. It's showing how in love he is with her, and how happy he is. |
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