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| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Deathless death is orgasm (le petit mort).
The song is about carnal worship - the spiritual union between lovers, which the Church proscribes as a sin. According to the Church during the time of the witch hunts, women were in league with the Devil (the Prince of Lies). To worship at a shrine of lies then is to penetrate a woman's core.
Incidentally, this reminds me of the story of Heloise and Abelard. She worshiped at his shrine in much the same way, whereas he, believing himself to have been punished by God, chose the Church. Watch Stealing Heaven. It might make a nice accompaniment to these lyrics. |
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| Ghost Loft – Seconds Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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A request for a tryst with a partner who's taken, likely an ex looking to try and mend things on the sly. |
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| Moons – Bloody Mouth (Watchtower Version) Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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The song is brilliant, and heartbreaking. One of the most touching, accurate portrayals I have ever heard of knowing a love is slipping away. Though the conflict is heartrending, he's unable to bear a separation and fights with all he's got, day by day and night by night, to keep her with him. |
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| The Presets – Fall Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Love as both heaven and hell, in which the lover sees he is losing control, yet rushes headlong, taking his partner with him into utter abandon that both frees and terrifies him. |
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| The Cure – Apart Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Unrequited love in all its abject misery. She can't take the status quo, and he can't give her any more than that. Checkmate. |
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| Lycia – Drifting Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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A woman for whom one feels a mix of reverence and resentment. Conflicting messages of intimidation and hope, followed by cognitive dissonance and melancholy, and finally numbness. |
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| Mind.in.a.box – Change Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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The classic bravado of a narcissist, peppered with hints of the uncertainty that lurks beneath the facade. Lonely, sad, and proud beyond belief. Very well done. |
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| Lana Del Rey – Gods & Monsters Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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She soon learned that though the connection she craved wasn't available to her, she could party and get by, using her sex and chemical highs as substitutes. Using gods in plural and pairing it with monsters seems to be meant to communicate a world of indifference and menace, or even chaos. She's adrift in a world that doesn't care, filling the void on a self-destructive path that leads ultimately to ruin (Jim Morrison's addiction killed him at the tender age of 27). |
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