| Meat Loaf – Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| To add: it's not an accident that the music video is about a disenfranchised teen who feels she has no where left to turn. That fits exactly in with the theme that music that touches you can literally be a life line that saves you. | |
| Meat Loaf – Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Hope found in music. Music is not only a gift, it can be a balm, a salve, a companion when you most need it. "If you hold on to a chorus it can get you through the night" and "you're never alone cause you can put on the phones and let the drummer tell your heart what to do" says that when no one else understands and when nothing else can help, the music will always pull you through, if you let it. It's not God (since not everyone believes in God), it's music. Music reaches everyone, regardless of religion, and it's that connection with the songs that speak to your heart that can get you through a bad night where you just want to give it all up, that can make things look better in the morning, that can offer you hope that your dreams can come true. |
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| Bowling for Soup – 1985 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| She wanted to be a groupie and dance on White Snake, the band's car. That's what the music video shows, at least. | |
| Poe – Haunted Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| That's true, she tells the whole story in the CD leaflet insert. | |
| Poe – Spanish Doll Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Excellent, thank you! I didn't get the House of Leaves reference until you mentioned it, read it too long ago. | |
| Coldplay – Fix You Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Seems like this is a song about standing by someone and trying to help and comfort them until the very end, no matter what happens. | |
| Lady GaGa – Dance In the Dark [Explicit Version] Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think it's clear that this song is a general commentary on our materialistic and shallow appearance-obsessed culture, specifically as it's applied to women and also some men. Look at the first few (spoken) lines: Silicon, saline, poison inject me Baby, I'm a free bitch I'm a free bitch So we're "free bitch(es)", but we still feel obligated to inject ourselves with poisons to "look better". But this girl, the one the song is about, she doesn't "dance to the beat of (that) track". She does her own thing, but it's not good enough for her boyfriend, who then says "she's a mess". So "she's stressed", she goes full-on make up, "vamp" out, and now the boyfriend says "she's a tramp". Sounds like a swell guy, yet it's an example of the double bind women face - don't prettify, and you're a mess. Prettify, and you're a tramp. This also fits in with the chorus, which Gaga has said: " is about a girl who likes to have sex with the lights off because she is embarrassed about her body... "She doesn't want her man to see her naked. She will be free, and she will let her inner animal out, but only when the lights are out," (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_the_Dark) Gaga's other comments explain the spoken bridge: Work your Jon Benet Ramsey We'll haunt like Liberace Find your freedom in the music Find your Jesus Find your Kubrick You will never fall apart Diana, you're still in our hearts Never let you fall apart Together we'll dance in the dark Where she's basically saying 'hey, we're all there, we all hate our bodies sometimes'. Yet despite that, you should still shine, still work it in whatever way makes you happy and comfortable. Like, even if it's done in the dark, you must still DANCE. Some additional notes on the people mentioned by name: They are all people who met a tragic demise too early. Marilyn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe Judy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland Sylvia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath JonBenét: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_benet_ramsey Diana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales Liberace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberace Jesus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ Kubrick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick You can see that the women (and girl) on the list all were renowned for struggles with their self-esteem, in some cases including drug and alcohol abuse (Judy Garland). The men noted were all creators of a kind, maybe signifying the freedom that artistry brings? |
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