| The Stone Roses – Elephant Stone Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Sometime back in the late 90's I saw someone post on a Stone Roses message board that a as an airplane passes through a cloud, ice will form on it's wings. The block of ice that comes off and falls to the earth is called an "elephant stone". Mind you, I've never been able to find independent verification of this. But as a metaphor, it make more sense than any other interpretation I've read. |
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| The Stone Roses – I Am The Resurrection Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song is a sequel to Elephant Stone. John Squire said Elephant Stone was "about a girl that I don't see any more". And the I Am The Resurrection was "a murderous attack on one individual, I don't want to tell you who it is. It's someone both Ian and I know." Elephant Stone is about her leaving. I Am the Resurrection is about her coming back. |
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| Ringo Deathstarr – Brightest Star Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's about LSD. "You gotta ride that feeling". As in when the drugs start to kick in, you don't fight the feeling. You ride it. You go where it takes you. "You gotta die to be free" refers to ego death. As in an intense hallucinogenic that shatters your ego and makes you truly self aware. I think the title is a sly nod to the Primal Scream song "Higher Than the Sun" (if ever there were a song about hallucinogens, it's that) whose opening line is "My brightest star's my inner light, let it guide me". |
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| Mansun – Witness to a Murder (Part Two) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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In 2008, Paul Draper sent out an e-mail to the people on his mailing list for the 10th anniversary of the release of Six. He gave song by song commentary for each track. Here is what he said about this track. "The title 'Witness To A Murder (Pt II)' refers to the possible murder of Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones in the swimming pool at Cotchford Farm, and a supposed witness to that murder detailed in the book 'Paint It Black' by Geoffrey Giuliano which is on the front cover artwork of 'Six'. For the backing track the idea was to do something so off the wall, so fucking wacky that when people listened to it they think: "FOR FUCKS SAKE, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?" That was the brief. So Chad and I had a brainstorming session. What was the maddest, craziest, fucked up thing we could think of. Something you would never expect to appear on a rock record in 1998. The conclusion we came to on a piece of paper was as follows... An 18th century baroque harpsichord movement featuring one male and one female opera singer singing how miserable they were in Italian with Dr Who playing a dead Brian Jones in a swimming pool in East Sussex." "The lyrics Chad wrote relate to the book and the circumstances that led to Brian leaving the Stones and a possible motive for his murder, although there could be some personal experience in there too in a couple of lines, you'd have to ask Chad. If you've got the time or inclination to read the book and re-listen to the lyrics afterwards, it'll all make sense. Of course there's the obvious references to the pool in 'chlorine' and 'disinfected womb'. Lyrically it's narrated from the perspective of Brian Jones as he lays dead in the swimming pool at Cotchford farm. We needed someone to play Brian who could pull it off. Tom was my first and only thought. So we set about contacting his agent. The lyrical idea could have come about after the incident with the girl in Denver, leading to the idea that there was a consciousness still left after Brian died. You'd have to ask Chad. Chad's lyrics spoken by Tom are that consciousness reflecting on the events leading up to his death or possible murder spoken from the pool itself. This may explain Brian becoming philosophical about events, possibly in the knowledge that there is something after death after all." |
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| Mansun – Witness to a Murder (Part Two) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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In 2008, Paul Draper sent out an e-mail to the people on his mailing list for the 10th anniversary of the release of Six. He gave song by song commentary for each track. Here is what he said about this track. "The title 'Witness To A Murder (Pt II)' refers to the possible murder of Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones in the swimming pool at Cotchford Farm, and a supposed witness to that murder detailed in the book 'Paint It Black' by Geoffrey Giuliano which is on the front cover artwork of 'Six'. For the backing track the idea was to do something so off the wall, so fucking wacky that when people listened to it they think: "FOR FUCKS SAKE, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?" That was the brief. So Chad and I had a brainstorming session. What was the maddest, craziest, fucked up thing we could think of. Something you would never expect to appear on a rock record in 1998. The conclusion we came to on a piece of paper was as follows... An 18th century baroque harpsichord movement featuring one male and one female opera singer singing how miserable they were in Italian with Dr Who playing a dead Brian Jones in a swimming pool in East Sussex." "The lyrics Chad wrote relate to the book and the circumstances that led to Brian leaving the Stones and a possible motive for his murder, although there could be some personal experience in there too in a couple of lines, you'd have to ask Chad. If you've got the time or inclination to read the book and re-listen to the lyrics afterwards, it'll all make sense. Of course there's the obvious references to the pool in 'chlorine' and 'disinfected womb'. Lyrically it's narrated from the perspective of Brian Jones as he lays dead in the swimming pool at Cotchford farm. We needed someone to play Brian who could pull it off. Tom was my first and only thought. So we set about contacting his agent. The lyrical idea could have come about after the incident with the girl in Denver, leading to the idea that there was a consciousness still left after Brian died. You'd have to ask Chad. Chad's lyrics spoken by Tom are that consciousness reflecting on the events leading up to his death or possible murder spoken from the pool itself. This may explain Brian becoming philosophical about events, possibly in the knowledge that there is something after death after all." |
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| The Smiths – This Night Has Opened My Eyes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"She could have been a poet Or, she could have been a fool Oh, you did a bad thing." I'm reminded of the part of The Great Gatsby.... “I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘all right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” |
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| Suede – The Big Time Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Like many Suede songs from this era, it's about the love triangle between Brett Anderson, Damon Alburn, and Justine Frischmann. It's written from Justine's perspective. She's singing about Damon to Brett. When the song was written, Blur were the bigger band. They had a top 10 hit with There's No Other Way while Suede were still looking for a record deal. By the time this song was released, the roles had switched with Suede enjoying popularity while Blur were in danger of becoming has-beens. Although this would change again the following year. |
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| Gene – London, Can You Wait? Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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A friend dies and this should have been foreseeable. So I take it that this could either be addiction, poor health, or whatever. In the UK, London is the place you go to if you want to make something of yourself. Become star or be a somebody. To those who live outside London, the city can have almost a mythic quality. So as the friend is dying he say "London, can you wait?" He doesn't believe that what's happening to him is the end. Just a minor setback. He still has dreams to fulfill. He will get there eventually. It just might take a bit longer. Even as he's dying, he still hold out hope of fulfilling his dreams and making something of himself. Although we know that never happens. |
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| Ride – Ox4 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Here's my take on it. A girl breaks this guy's heart which brings on a deep depression. So he spends all his time in his room feeling depressed and thinking about this girl. So much so that he's kind of lost touch with the outside world things ("Never been so far away"). But he's getting tired of it all. He knows he needs to get out and start living his life again: "I don't think I want to stay in this room anymore" But he's having difficulty finding the motivation: "If I crawl across the floor then I'd be closer to that door but it's too far." And not just the motivation but how to even begin living one's life after spending so much time in isolation "What happens now?" He accepts that the girl he's been spending all this time thinking about is and never was going to come back: "Some fantasy you've been" And at the end of the song, he finally gets the motivation to leave the room and start living his life again. "Pick up the pieces in my mind. I'm going home." The "room" is his depression or his isolation from the world. "Home" is the old life he had before he fell into the depression. The band explores this theme of isolation in other songs like Castle On the Hill "And a friend of mine, one of the few, has locked himself away like Howard Hughes". They even wrote a song about Howard Hughes. |
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