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| John Mayer – Paper Doll Lyrics
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Not heartwrenching like Dear John, besides, everyone knows he is a scumbag. I just can't wait for Taylor Swift's response-song. |
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| Imagine Dragons – Radioactive Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Hate to break it to you jenpen114, but this interpretation is based on unscientific dillusions that the members of Imagine Dragons don't subscribe to. It's actually about a communist revolution |
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| Vampire Weekend – Finger Back Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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It's saying that the kind of torture that the prisoners at Guantanamo bay suffer is no different than the way Muslims and Middle Easterners suffer from racism in the US |
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| Vampire Weekend – Diane Young Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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"But you got the luck of a Kennedy
So grab the wheel and keep holding it tight Til you're tottering off into that good night." Is a reference to the Chappaquiddick incident
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| Vampire Weekend – Obvious Bicycle Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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It's about George Bush leaving the White House
"The LED still flickers in your eyes,"
Bush was famous for his wink
"Oh you oughta spare your face the razor, Because no one’s gonna spare the time for you." Nobody cares about bush anymore. "From a house you didn’t build and can’t control," the White House. "So keep that list of who to thank in mind, And don’t forget the rich ones who were kind," the campaign donors. "Why don’t you spare their world a traitor, Take your wager back and leave before you lose." -Iraq War "You oughta spare the world your labor" -everything he did sucked "It’s been twenty years and no one’s told the truth." -1988 bush1 elected |
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| Imagine Dragons – Demons Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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"We still are made of greed" every man has no choice but to be driven by greed because we all live in a capitalist system |
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| Imagine Dragons – Hear Me Lyrics
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It describes Hypnagogia:
Hypnagogia occurs either when you are stressed (as the singer is, emotionally "I've got a lot that's on my mind") or simply uncomfortable, while falling asleep, and your body falls asleep faster than your mind. You can't move your body and it feels like you can't breathe ("Maybe if I fall asleep, I won't breathe right") or like something is sitting on your chest. These sensations might cause the person to think that they are screaming, which they aren't. ("Can nobody hear me"). This component of Hypnagogia is called sleep paralysis. Often in Hypnagogia, people hear sounds, either crashing and explosions, sentences that sum up their current state of mind, their name being called, if there is any sound in the room in which they are falling asleep, they would hear that ("Can you hear it, too?") |
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| Imagine Dragons – America Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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It is the case for welfare:
First, "Is this just an illusion That i made inside my head to get me by"
->the idea that the state is responsible for its citizens
Next, a plea for Welfare: "Lift me up, give me strength to press on" Welfare is needed in both rural areas and urban areas, which are usually split politically: "From farmers in the fields To the tallest of the towers that fall and rise" veterans need welfare to be able to re-enter society: "The names upon the list For all the ones that gave until they died Don't you hold back I can see in you in your mind and your mind will set you free" with Welfare America can "rise to the top of the world" and won't "cry" |
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| Imagine Dragons – Radioactive Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Its about a communist revolution.
"I'm waking up to ash and dust," the idea of waking up is the metaphor for radicalization. He is waking up because he realizes that he is oppressed and he can change that. Marx called this gaining "Class consciousness"
"I sweat my rust" The Bourgeoisie treats workers like machines, therefore he sweats ( due to hard labor) rust (since robots are made of metal). "I'm breathing in, the chemicals"; "This is it, the apocalypse, whoa"; these images of the apocalypse are meant to convey the idea of a Revolutionary situation, which is when the workers' conditions are as poor as possible. Lenin said that "without a revolutionary situation a revolution is impossible." "checking out on the prison bus."
This, along with the other prison-related images others have pointed out are allusions to the Marx quote "workers of the world unite! you have nothing to lose but your chains and the whole world to gain!" Breaking out of prison=losing your chains. "I RAISE MY FLAG, don my clothes,
It's a REVOLUTION I suppose.
We'll paint it RED, to fit right in, whoa." Raising the flag which he paints red, to fit in with the rest of the revolution. If the revolution is "red" then it is a communist revolution. "I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones. Enough to make my systems blow."; "All systems go, sun hasn't died. Deep in my bones, straight from inside." Feeling it in his bones illustrates his conviction in his communist beliefs. Being "radioactive", having a half life and being unstable describes the "tipping point" of a revolution, the workers all have class consciousness which, in an oppressed people, is "enough to make their systems blow" when it blows, then you have a communist revolution. "The New age" is a slogan of the Naxalites, Communists in India, who use the slogan to describe a future under communism. |
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