| Godspeed You! Black Emperor – BBF3 Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[Nisher:5595] Yeah so the two explanations are that they knew ahead of time that this dude was a liar, or that the dude speaking in the song was asked his name by the band and he responded with what is the name of this song. | |
| Swans – Mother of the World Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Ok I think I've listened to this enough times to give a fair opinion of it: So basically the first half of the song is the band playing the same riff over and over again with Michael Gira breathing in and out of the mic. I don't know about others, but the breathing combined with the idea of "Mother" makes me think of giving birth. Since the song is called Mother of the World, the woman giving birth is literally Mother Nature, and she is giving birth to the world/universe/whatever. After the first part of the song we are left with just the piano, some strumming, and drums. It's relatively calm compared to the first half and so I would say that this symbolizes the birth being over. The piano gives off a primordial and just really empty feeling, like I see the universe at a young age, without humans and without life perhaps. Gira comes in and has noticed the absence of the mother, as if she doesn't appear to have anything to do with the world after creating it, she just leaves it: "And where are you now O Mother of the world" Michael then seems to give some imagery of how he sees life: "While we feed from your hands and we drink from your filth and your oil" He's wondering where the mother has gone, why she's seemed to abandon her "child", perhaps a feeling of being betrayed by God for not feeling him/her presence in his life... I'm not sure. I like that he uses the word "filth" because really all life eventually just feeds off the corpses and shit of other life through some traversing of the food chain. "In and out and in and out again In and out and in and out again Mother's son Mother of senseless things Mother come Kill time as it begins" I think the "in and out" part just characterizes the repetitive aspect of nature, which he perhaps sees as never-ending and infinite. She is the mother of senseless things because he doesn't really see a point to it all. He then begs the mother to come and "kill time as it begins". If it's pointless why not just end it before it starts instead of letting it run on forever? |
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| Swans – Screen Shot Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think the song is about life and death. The first and second verses juxtapose life against death, respectively. In the first we hear Gira listing off a bunch of random things, which at first seem senseless. "Cut, push, reach, inside Feed, breathe, touch, come" As the list goes on, the things seem more and more familiar, more and more like what we might do every single day. So repetitive and monotonous. At some point you might think "wow, look at all of these things I have to do, I'm getting kind of sick and tired of doing all these things every day". The thought seems enticing for a minute. In comes the second verse. Gira knows what you're thinking, and gives you just what you ask: "No pain, no death, no fear, no hate No time, no now, no suffering" It sounds nice for a minute. A reprieve. No hate, no suffering, no time, nothing to worry about, nothing to try to improve, nothing to fear. Sounds great, doesn't it? But wait... "No need, no hate, no will, no speech No dream, no sleep, no suffering No pain, no now, no time, no here" No anything. Nothing at all. But maybe you'll miss the struggles of life, the ups and downs. The pain and anger, just trying to make it through. Maybe these are the things that make life what it is. Life without any of these things would be, well, nothing at all. So Gira encourages us to live, while we're still alive: "Love! Now! Breathe! Now! Here! Now! Here! Now! Here! Now!" Pay attention, it will be gone soon enough. |
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| Hop Along, Queen Ansleis – Kids on the Boardwalk Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The song seems to be about innocent love and innocence in general. The key seems to be in the final two sections: "You kids on the boardwalk come back in to the dry, choked up land" These lines create the contrast that the singer wants to demonstrate... that between the "kids on the boardwalk" (the innocence that she describes in the first half of the song) and the "dry, choked up land." Adult 'love', for her, is a desert in comparison. She wants simple love back again, like she felt as a child. |
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| Swans – Miracle of Love Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I would just like to point out that I'm not presupposing the existence of any God, nor that Gira believes any such thing. The fact that the song could be interpreted as ironic may point to the fact that Gira may not believe in such a thing. He might not be angry, so much as he might be mocking the idea. | |
| Swans – Miracle of Love Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This is a tough one. I've been trying to figure out what Gira is trying to say in this song for quite a while, but have never come to any conclusions. I have a few ideas as to the meanings of certain parts. Building on many of the existential themes of the album, here I think Gira is expressing a certain anger towards God. Songs titles such as "Why Are We Alive?" point to obvious questions and a search for meaning in his life. "How can they hold what they can never perceive?" seems to reference the idea of God as the source of love, and as love itself. I can't tell which way to interpret this... one way would be to see it from an ironic standpoint. Gira seems to despise the idea that love can exist here on Earth. If humans can never see God, or never know (You Know Nothing), how could they possibly hold it for one another... how could they (they being the theoretical relationship couple that exists in the first part of the song) know it's love? A second interpretation could be that, because of the lines that follow it, he's asking almost a question to which he follows with an answer. How could they know love? Well look around, the undeniable existence of "one second in your memory," "one heartbeat in your body," "white light on a black sky" are all pretty miraculous, which could be seen as the ultimate form of love given by God. However, he follows with the line "One lonely moment in your arms is the miracle of love," where his use of 'the' instead of 'a' might indicate that no, these aren't miracles, they aren't expressions of love, life is only loneliness and suffering. "One second denied is a miracle of love," again points to irony. It is the other half of the coin to the previous line "One second in your presence is a miracle of love." Seemingly contradictory, I think Gira seems to be asking how being in the presence of God could be a miracle of love, yet being on Earth, away from the presence of God, could also be (what many proclaim) as a miracle of love, how life, so full of suffering, could ever be an expression of God to his children. "God said to no one to do what he did," I have always felt means the creation of life... having a child. That's about all I have. Feel free to add input. |
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| Swans – You Know Nothing Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The first line seems to sum it up. Gira seems to have come to the conclusion that it's impossible to truly know anything for sure. You can debate all about meaning and right and wrong and good and evil until you die, but there's no way to know anything for sure. Sure, you can say you know something like that gravity pulls you at a rate of 9.81 m/s^2, but both the meter and the second are completely arbitrary constructs of humans, so the statement really holds no truth whatsoever outside of what you choose to frame it in. Every lie that you pursue eventually turns true. People are going to believe what they want to, and your beliefs form your reality. Everything is a projection. You can never see reality as it truly exists. |
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| The Doors – Break on Through (To the Other Side) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| As others have said, it's about using psychadelics and "breaking through" to the other side of perception. Being "sucked into the rabbit hole" as one put it. The fact that it is the album opener is probably more telling as to the purpose of the song. | |
| Talk Talk – Inheritance Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The song has to do with the futility of progress in the face of nature's "incessant drive" to "linger on." But to finally see this and be free of the desire to achieve more than what nature intended for you is to be dressed in "gold's surrendering gown." You surrender yourself to futility, "redress with open arms" and be enveloped by it (and willingly do so)... finally achieving a "calm." Ascension comes with incentive's end. Once you come to this realization and closure, it becomes possible to finally achieve what you truly want for yourself... feel whole and fulfilled. Your eyes are finally opened. | |
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