| David Gilmour – Murder Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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This is a song about Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon. "Some of them standing, some waiting in line," refers to all the people in the crowd Chapman stood in to get a look at John Lennon or get an autograph for his then-new album "Double Fantasy." "What was it that brought you out here in the dark?" Chapman was from sunny Honolulu and traveled all the way to New York City in the dark month of December to murder Lennon. The weapon in this version of the events is changed from a pistol to a knife, probably because it rhymes better in the general scheme of things, but this is absolutely an outcry against Chapman by David Gilmour because Chapman killed Lennon who was an icon to not only him but millions of people. This would have been a good song to put over the end credits of that Jared Leto movie "Chapter 27." |
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| Randy Newman – I Want You To Hurt Like I Do Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think I know what Randy Newman's trying to say, here. If not, then this is just what the song means to me. On the surface, this song sounds like it's about a broken man who's so downtrodden and fed up with his reality that he just wants the entire universe to feel as crappy as he does-- and while that is a big part of it, I feel there's a certain... underlying theme. He's singing about the thrill of quitting. It sounds strange, I know. But Randy's lyrics have always been neurotic in nature, and as neurotic as I am, I think I know the feeling he's attempting to convey. Often in life, big things happen to people-- they get married, they have kids, they get a good job, save money, buy a car, buy a house, get involved with local activities, be it political, religious or recreational or whatever. But as we all know sometimes these things go awry. He sings that he 'ran out on his children and his wife,' and that he's 'gonna run out on you too, baby,' because he's 'done it all his life.' The narrator of the song has a sort of desire to start something and leave it unfinished. Maybe he had a bad marriage before the first mentioned one, where he went down on a business trip to some bay area and decided to disappear-- forsaking his own name and lifting crates at the dock, all day until one day he met a new woman, had kids with her, but then in his restless mind he knew he couldn't do it because pathologically he has to move on-- not necessarily out of spite for these people, but because he understands the fundamental nature of the human condition is pain and sadness and regret and negativity and that's why he says to his 'little boy who just hung his head' that "I just want you to hurt, like I do." So when his one dream comes true and he gets to speak to all the people of the world, the singer is saying to the 'rough, rough, tough, tough world' that all things are impermanent anyway and that ultimately human life is but a temporary existence in the vast sea of infinity and that if we were to ever work towards something better, all we have to do is understand that things aren't ever going to be perfect. They'll probably never even be a whole lot better but if you understand that in the end nothing truly matters then you're truly free. Things don't always go the way we plan, it's one thing we all have in common and one thing we all can understand is that our time upon this globe is very brief and in the end we're all going to hurt, anyway. |
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| Portugal. The Man – Purple Yellow Red and Blue Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I didn't say those conditions didn't exist. I know they exist-- I'm saying that 'science' dictates mental illnesses as being altogether too complicated to explain to someone in simple terms or so ridiculously oversimplified that it falls under a general umbrella and eventually it comes to a point where the patient cannot understand the diagnosis thus becoming entitled, hedonistic, lazy and narcissistic and danoelmano would later put it in his equally good interpretation. | |
| Portugal. The Man – Everything You See (Kids Count Hallelujahs) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| To me, this song is about lucid dreaming. The idea of "climbing up laser beams that light the electric seas" sounds like the sort of thing you'd see in a dream. Like, "everything you see can be measured, weighed or gauged," I think is a slam at Freud, who was really a total fraud, a pervert and overall terrible person who tried to simplify the spirituality of dreams into cold science regarding sexuality. | |
| Portugal. The Man – Sleep Forever Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Well said. If I may add something, I feel that he describes at one point "We're just like old lovers who never leave home," then "we may not grow money-- but man, we grow old." I think if put along side the singer's anti-organized religious context, he's suggesting the idea that instead of working to go to Heaven ("I don't want to work forever") in life, that life on Earth could be Heaven if we just let it be. | |
| Portugal. The Man – Smile Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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My take on this song is similar to my take on "Purple, Yellow, Red & Blue," but from the opposite perspective. It's told from the point of view of someone who has become heavily disillusioned from the constant onslaught of technology-provided information (the internet) and is trying to disassociate himself from the horrors of the modern problems that are online-- the "hungry people" and "the war" are metaphors for technozombies who engage in anonymous arguments over the third world and various military conflicts but never making a true point. The storyteller says that "we watch the sun come up just to take down and hide it," I think what he means is that people are so attached to their computers, cell phones and internet that they don't sleep right, anymore (nobody goes to "sleep when the sun goes down" anymore), and that we've hidden "the sun" aka the light of day, reality, connection to the real reality, the real flesh only to hide behind the dots of light traveling up and down the information superhighway. So, then he says he just wants to 'try and forget that the times have changed,' in the days since about 2001, humanity has gotten a technological boost a thousand times more advanced than the technological progresses made during World War I and World War II combined, and that we're all just "plastic soldiers" SLOWLY growing older using our computers who are also "plastic soldiers NEVER growing older." |
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| Portugal. The Man – Purple Yellow Red and Blue Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I heard this song when the music video was recommended to me by YouTube a few weeks ago, and honestly, I feel that the song makes much more sense in context if you watch it with the video, but, let me try to explain what I think it's about anyway... We begin with the words "All I want to do is live in ecstasy, I know what's best for me." Then goes on to "I can't help it. It's this hopeless itch. I just wanna feel purple, yellow, red and blue." At first one might think the song is about drugs, pills, poppers or booze as those things come in many colors, many in the titular colors, but that is not what the song is about-- the first lines are put into context by the continuing lyrics... "When I grow up I want to be a movie star or on TV," the singer is an adult, and is portrayed as an adult in the video, a young man, but still an adult, then the words "Cause working just don't work for me." He's (the actual singer) not saying he doesn't want to work because he can't, he's saying that the person he's singing as is a lazy, overly privileged manchild living in the internet generation. "But I can't FOCUS feeling hopeless, so I'll try to sit back and try to relieve." Then the chorus, again. Many of us these days bask in front of a computer hours on end, endlessly and hopelessly arguing with other faceless users across the world and we're focused when we're online but offline we're not focused-- the young people, myself included born between 1984 and 1989 were often screened for Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit HYPERACTIVE Disorder, ADD and ADHD, respectively. Now the children of those days are growing up, endured to our lives of privilege, being told that there's no such thing as those disorders, and that's all part of some sort of "autism spectrum." The song not only conveys the lazy, narcissistic and nihilistic people of my generation, but how our reliance on constant technology use is actually dumbing us down, as seen in the music video, when the girls in the limo are completely oblivious to everything, not because of the alcohol or drugs they're ingesting, but because they're glued to their smartphones. It also places an emphasis on the lies that the common psychoanalyst will tell in order to push speed on children-- when I say speed, I mean Ritalin, a drug that comes in a pill that's often times purple, yellow, red or blue. Then there's a second chorus, "I just want to be evil," I believe this is the actual singer interjecting into the song, mocking the character singing the lyrics. He's saying that all of this technology and pharmaceutical solution to keeping children quiet has turned the once hopeful Millennial generation into invalids who expect everything to be handed over to them. The song climaxes with "All that I needed was something to believe in, because everything just falls in place like that." He's saying that the only reason Millennials even made it through this far in life is because everything fell into place for them by chance, blind belief and a whole lot of corrupt sociologists who think they did the world a favor by saying we had this, then that, then that and so on and so forth. |
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