| Stone Temple Pilots – Creep Lyrics | 22 days ago |
| The lyrics to this song are pretty dumb. "Living under house, guess I'm living, I'm a mouse"? C'mon | |
| Queensrÿche – Silent Lucidity Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| I like to think it's about a child who's lost a loved one and the loved one comes to him in a dream (or he just dreams of the loved one) who teaches him how to lucid dream, where they can be together again. | |
| The Wallflowers – The Difference Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I think it's about two boys who were good friends and then one became interested in the other's sister and their friendship fell apart. The boy never got over it and became isolated and bitter at his former friend and jealous of his sister having taken his friend. Even in his old age, he never got over it and was still the angry, hurt and jealous little boy. Maybe he said he needed love, but they always loved him. | |
| Arrested Development – Tennessee Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I agree with K2skiyer's comment. The song is about discovering how hundreds of years of oppression resonates to this day and that recognizing this truth is imperative. The song emphasizes how fundamental and true this is, but how unapparent, obscured and suppressed it's become, by having it revealed by God himself and only to those who seek to understand. The song is even more relevant today, since CRT is so publicly under attack. | |
| Lead Belly – Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I thought this was about a woman whose husband was a railroad worker killed (decapitated) in a train accident (head found in the driving wheel of the train and body never found). Now she has no where to go and sleeps in the woods under the pine trees, where she shivers each night. | |
| Ozzy Osbourne – Perry Mason Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| Seems to me like the song is about violent crimes against innocent victims that go unsolved. The first verse sounds like a guy gets mugged on his way to dinner one night. There\'s a life or death struggle and the mugger pulls a gun and shoots the guy dead.\n\nThe second sounds like he\'s watching kids at some park on a merry-go-round and he knows there\'s someone there who intends to kidnap one of them. He\'s been taught to mind his own business, but he knows that if he doesn\'t do something a kid will go missing, with the story making the front page of the newspaper.\n\nHe\'s lamenting the injustice of it. But I also think the guy has taken a lot of drugs. He thinks that what needs to be done about this is to get Perry Mason (a fictional lawyer that would always end up solving a case while defending his innocent client) to solve the cases so the guilty will always be punished, just like on TV. To me it emphasizes the hopelessness of the situation. These crimes will happen over and over again, and the only hope he can come up with is that a fictional character will come and fix it. | |
| Tom Petty – You Don't Know How It Feels Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[jackdiamonds:37560] I think the part about his old man means that his dad has spent his life working instead of doing what he was meant to do. His dad was born to rock, but he's still trying to beat the clock (which I believe is an idiom referring to when factory workers had to line up and stick a card into a machine that would punch when they arrive and when they leave-clocking in and clocking-out of work). It's consistent with your observation that the song is about lack of control and wanting to escape to somewhere. I think he has no idea where to go and maybe there is nowhere and to run away/ escape/leave is all there is. | |
| The Cure – Close to Me Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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This song helped me through times when I've had serious anxiety about an approaching stressful professional situation. I could feel the waves of anxiety through my body, the fear of failure, of looking like a fool. I felt like such an imposter. People had always thought highly of me, but had never seen me in action when it counted, because I avoided it. I felt like I was going to be exposed and everyone would know I'm not as good as they thought, and what they thought of me meant everything to my sense of self-worth. Plus the client had paid us hundreds of thousands for everything leading up to this event (a civil trial), complaining much of the time about cost, and was so sure of his case, so angry at the other side, and expected so much of us. There was nothing I could do to stop it from happening. I had to do it. No way out. I even thought about trying to break my arm to get out of it. And the worst part was still had weeks to go before the event. So I'd keep preparing and preparing but constantly thinking I wasn't doing the right preparation and it wouldn't matter anyway because I'd freeze. And it would compound, because I'd get anxious thinking my anxiety was preventing me from preparing and anxious that I'd become so nervous during it that everyone (my colleagues, my adversary, the client who would be there) and I wouldn't be able to think. And the event would go on for an entire week. I've found that if you think about what you're going to do and how relieved you'll feel when it's all over, you feel much better. To me, the song is sung from the perspective. It's nearly over. I never thought it could be this close. |
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| Vampire Weekend – A-Punk Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I think it's a song about the rich and the poor. Johanna drives into NY City. She doesn't live there and has a slow commute. Maybe she's a nurse because she sees a silver ring on a dying rich man's finger. She isn't scared about being caught taking it because she knows he's dying of cancer. She couldn't afford that ring in a thousand years. The song switches to the rich man's perspective, when he was still healthy. He is able to travel where he wants and buy expensive things as souvenirs (seeking exotica). He cuts his teeth (which is an idiom referring to the first time someone does something, usually easier than things they become expert in later) on turquoise harmonicas--frivolous touristy stuff. That explains how he came to buy the expensive ring-basically just as a souvenir of one of his vacations. Again, it's something Johanna could never in a thousand years be able to afford. Then we see that Johanna is in the subway, no longer having to drive into the city. She has sole the ring and used half to rent an apartment in a poorer part of the city, washington heights. The other half she has spend and is gone (might as well be at the bottom of the sea). I wonder if the raincoats could be a reference to police who are coming to question her about the missing ring-that law enforcement is there for the rich (society willing to expwnd more to protect the wealthy than to help the poor) and would go to great lengths (through bad weather) to protect the rich-to catch whoever stole a ring that meant nothing to a dying (or dead at that point) rich man, and was used to better the life of someone more deserving. | |
| Vampire Weekend – A-Punk Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I think it's about rich and poor. She's a hospital worker who steals a ring from a dying rich man. She's not afraid because she knows he's dying, having seen younger people die of cancer. She could work for 1000 years and not be able to afford that ring. But "his honor" had bought it as a souvenir on a frivolous trip to New Mexico. She sells the ring and is able to rent a cheap apartment. Not sure what half of the ring means. Maybe that she still has money left over and the rest is gone. | |
| Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I can't tell what this song is about, but it awesome. Some thoughts: Seems like the song has something to do with innocent deception or untruth in the early stages of a relationship or the attempt at trying to convince someone to be in a relationship with you. He wants to relate to someone or enter into a relationship like other people he sees who are intimately rearranged and clearly focused. His lazy eye might be a metaphor for that--it doesn't point in the right direction, it isn't true or real, it's the real truth that he wants someone to discount, ignore, or see past to what he wants them to see. The verse about "this 'real'" is so hard to understand. The "real" (reality) is "impossible" because the only proof or what is real is someone's blind word--what they said is true only because they said it. Maybe it's like the "puffing" people do in relationships, trying to put their best foot forward. He acknowledges that what is "real" may merely be what someone says is real and what the other blindly believes to be true and real. Like a relationship has some amount of deception--we try to get the person we're interested to like us by kind-of pretending we're better than we really are and by convincing the other we are. Maybe that person wants to believe it to. Or maybe it is clear but unheard when the recipient isn't interested or doesn't believe it. "To appear sad" seems like there some deception going on but it might be innocent because the lazy eye is "decent." The lazy eye is "fixed to rest on you" just mean his gaze is fixed on the subject to whom the singer appears sad. "Aim free" (if that's the lyric) might mean that his lazy eye kind of points wherever. And "untrue" may mean that that the "aim" is "untrue"--i.e., not aimed properly. When someone's aim is not true, it means his aim has missed the target. But it could also be "untrue" because it "appears sad" when he's not really all that sad. Perhaps he's trying to get sympathy/attention/affection from someone by looking sad, even though maybe he isn't all that sad. As a young man, I did this a bit. Trying to have a deeper relationship with someone by showing you are vulnerable and sad, maybe because you have profound thoughts that make you sad. "Everyone's so intimately rearranged. Everyone's so focused clearly with such shine"--maybe the singer is noticing that everyone else seems to have everything figured out, maybe they're paired up another "intimately rearranged" and that gives them focus. Note that "focus" is also a vision-related word (there are several references to words having to do with vision--lazy eye, focus clearly, blind word, gaze). Maybe he's lamenting that he doesn't really feel like he has his stuff together and is alone. Maybe that's why he's innocently deceiving someone about appearing sad so as to draw them in, so as not to be alone. Are all relationships in the beginning a little bit about deception--you're nicer, sweeter, more profound, attentive, than you might end up being as the relationship goes on? Maybe that's why in the next refrain he's shouting about "relating." He repeatedly says they "relate." He's trying to convince someone that he does relate to them to try to initiate a relationship so not to be alone and to be like others in relationships (relate=relat-ionship) who look like their have the stuff together. "It's the room, the sun, and the sky. The room, the sun, and the sky" Not sure what this is about. It's like he's trying to connect what's immediate and mundane (this room and the moment) to something more profound--"the sun and the sky, his whole life he's been waiting for this moment"--trying to get the person he's talking to to get to that level, to get some greater connection or relation with that person by bringing up concepts greater than the mundane and immediate and themselves. Maybe it's not quite right because he knows it isn't exactly real. He's not the profound or deep. He just wants someone so as not to be alone and to validate himself to show he can be in a relationship too. |
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| Vampire Weekend – A-Punk Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I believe someone said this song may be about cultural theft. His Honor has a ring he bought as a souvenir that actually had deep cultural significance to Johanna, so she took it. I think then she threw it into the sea to prevent others like his Honor from having it and to preserve its meaning to her. "She spied the right on his Honor's finger." "1000 years in one piece of silver." She recognized it is a ring, likely from South America culture (because that's where His Honor seems to go to collect his trinkets), with significance culturally to her heritage. Incas and other ancient American cultures had silver and cherished it. "She took it from his Lilly-white hand"--showing, in a derogatory way, that his "Honor" is a white guy with money or power, unlike Johanna. Maybe she is his maid? She took it when she was sure his Honor was dying of cancer. She wasn't afraid to take it because she knew he was dying (she perhaps she's had a young friend or family member (son) die of cancer, or maybe she is His Honor's nurse at Sloan Kettering. I think she is his maid). Maybe she knows that His Honors heirs will come and take the dead person's possessions, so she takes the ring before they can come and get it ("look outside the raincoats come"--maybe the heirs are the raincoats coming--nameless and faceless, coming to take the ring without any understanding of its significance except maybe they know it is valuable). The song flashes back to tell us how His Honor got the right. "His Honor drove southward seeking exotica down to the Pueblo huts of New Mexico." He's just looking for trinkets of other people's culture. He isn't seeking to understand their culture or who they were. He just wants interesting things. "He cut his teeth on turquoise harmonicas." "Cut his teeth" means he made his first purchase of a bit of heritage. Usually you cut your teeth on something meaningless to get the first one out of the way. It suggests he continues his quest for trinkets and just buys something, anything without caring what it is. He bought a touristy bit of turquoise. That was his initial foray into purchasing or stealing other cultures. Lamenting the fact that the native Americans and other ancient cultures have had to trivialize their culture by selling trinkets to tourists who don't care about the culture or how it has been devastated by the arrival of whites like His Honor is, I believe, the thrust of the song. His Honor has no culture of his own and he doesn't truly understand other cultures--he sees them as interesting trinkets to purchase--something physical rather than spiritual or cultural. Maybe this is how early settlers viewed natives--with disdain for their culture, seeing it as inferior. Purchasing trinkets from what's left of these cultures 100s of years later is seen as a continuation of the injustice of white settlers. Perhaps on one of his trips, His Honor stumbles upon some true piece of cultural heritage and buys it. He is a man of means, being "His Honor" and from New York. Later, the narrator (singer) sees Johanna in the subway. She has an apartment in a poor part of New York (maybe she was His Honor's live in maid had to get a new apartment once he died or maybe she needed to find cheaper housing now that she no longer works of His Honor). She says that 1/2 of the ring is with her and 1/2 is at the bottom of the sea. The ring is both cultural and it is physical. The cultural half lies with Johanna. The physical have is gone to the bottom of the sea. Perhaps she did that to ensure it never comes into the hand of someone who doesn't appreciate it (the raincoats). Perhaps this was her way of returning it to her ancestors. Either way, she feels to preserve is cultural meaning, she has to destroy it physically. I think this is one of the deepest songs I have ever heard. I've never heard a song address this topic and do it in such an interesting way. |
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| Social Distortion – Story of My Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I was high school in the early 90's. This reminds me of a dear friend of mine from that time. He always cut class, smoked cigarettes and pot, drank, snuck out of the house, wandered around downtown at night, wore jeans with holes in them, liked rock and rap and country. He never did anything mean or bad to anyone else. He was a good guy, just a ne'er-do-well. He had a huge crush on my sister. He moved away, and we lost touch. Last I heard, he was married (to a girl who looked like my sister and even had the same first name) but was not able to hold a job and had some mental-health issues. Although we were good friends (best friends, in fact), I was not like him. I'd tag along with him for some of his misfit adventures, but I always held back from diving in completely. I have a college education, a good-paying job, a family of my own now. I miss him and those times. This song reminds me of him. I am so grateful to have had a friend like him. |
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