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Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics

10 years ago

I think this is in reference to the Holocaust. The bridge is about the general Holocaust. "Hide and seek." Meaning, hiding from the Nazis. "Trains and sewing machines." Meaning, the trains used to transport the people to concentration camps and the sewing machines women were often forced to work with, until they died from malnutrition, starving, or execution. "All those years they were here first." Meaning, that the Jewish religion was there before Hitler. The Chorus is mostly about Hitler. She uses a lot of sarcasm in it. Basically she means that she can't believe that Hitler did this and claimed that it was for the best. The first and third verses are about when the Jewish people first arrived at the camps and their houses had been ransacked. "The dust has only just begun to form crop circles in the carpet." Meaning, the empty houses. "Oily marks appear on walls, where pleasure moments hung before." Meaning, the items gone. Show less

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mewithoutYou – A Glass Can Only Spill What It Contains Lyrics

11 years ago

I admire the lyrics (and music) of Aaron Weiss from mewithoutYou...but I can't help but smart from his derision of skeptics and atheists, while still admiring his great poetic talent - and respectfully disagreeing with his mystical, misled religious worldview. Below is my analysis of the lyrics. A Glass Can Only Spill What It Contains +++++++++ VERSE 1 A cat came drifting onto a porch from the outside cold And with eyes closed, drinking warm milk from my bowl, Thought: "Nobody hears me (nobody hears me) I crept in so soft! And nobody sees me (nobody sees me)" As I watched six steps off. ========= Analysis: The foolish cat, who believes that the world disappears when she closes her eyes, to commit her theft in secrecy. So, too, do humans smugly think "nobody sees me!" as we try to hide our sin from god, while he still "watches six steps off". ++++++++++ VERSE 2 Like the peacocks wandering the walkways of the zoo Who have twice the autonomy the giraffes and tigers do Saying: "No one can stop me (no one stop me) No one clips my claws! now everyone watches me (everyone watches me) Scale these outside walls!" ========= Analysis: The proud peacock, deluded by her seeming autonomy, foolishly declaring that nobody can stop her (nobody bothers) and pridefully reveling in the attention afforded her by the others inside the zoo. Humans, too, are afforded autonomy by god, and so pridefully think ourselves invincible - and we take pride in the attention we get from other earthly creatures. +++++++++ VERSE 3 you took the pious and profane, turned around the praise and blame, said "A glass can only spill what it contains!" To the perpetually plain and the incurably inane A glass can only spill what it contains! ========= Analysis: The atheist, praises the profane and condemns the pious, criticizing religion - and now we come to the title of the track and oft-repeated (mockingly) line: "A glass can only spill what it contains!" This is the Atheist's accusation to the believer that if god is so unknowable, immeasurable, metaphysical, transcendant, infinite, and unquestionable - then, how can you possibly explain what god is, or defend him? After all, a glass can only spill what it contains! +++++++++ VERSE 4 What new mystery is this? what blessed backwardness?? the Immeasurable one is held and does not resist! struck by wicked words and foolish fists of senseless men the Almighty One does not defend! ========= Analysis: And this atheist's accusations against god, condemnations of religion go unpunished by god? God is "Almighty" and yet does not defend himself against, what Aaron describes here as a physical assault. Isn't this backwards? Isn't this a mystery? +++++++++ VERSE 5 I was halfway listening to what she thinks she knows We're like children dressing in our parents clothes saying: "Nobody knows me (nobody knows me) No one knows my name! No, Nobody knows me (nobody knows me) Nobody knows me... " ========= Analysis: Here, Aaron becomes downright petulent as he expresses boredom or disinterest in the attacks of Atheists on god. He describes her words as "what she THINKS she knows" - just like children (and the foolish cat, and the delusional peacock), who think they know better than their parents. +++++++++ VERSE 6 I half-heartedly explained But gave up peacefully ashamed as a glass can only spill what it contains! We went from Portugal to Spain And in her mind the entire time it rained! A glass can only spill what it contains! ========== Analysis: Aaron expresses a wariness to explain god to this atheist, and then just gives up (not in frustration, but in peaceful humility) - after all, like the atheist said, god is unknowable, so he can't explain it. This is a REVERSAL of what the atheist intended as an accusation and attack on Aaron's belief, as Aaron demonstrates that, unlike the cat, peacock, child, and atheist - he acknowledges that he is ignorant, not wise, and humble before god in his ignorance. To contrast, he says the atheist's mind "rained" despite a glass only spilling what it contains, further alluding to what he believes is the atheist's foolish, pridful, sinful, delusional pretention to knowledge of god. +++++++++ VERSE 7 What new mystery is this? in overflowing emptiness! the invisible is seen among the shadows and the mist, Before my doubting eyes, The infinite appears this time. The unquestionable is questioned But makes no reply! ========== Analysis: And yet, in Aaron's surrender to humility before god and admitting his ignorance - an "overflowing emptiness" of his "glass" - he glimpses god. Despite his doubts and questions, god graces him. ++++++++ FINAL VERSE What new mystery is this? [x5] "My rabbi" my lips betray with a kiss What new mystery is this? ======== Analysis: "what new mystery is this?" his incessant questioning here (repeated 5 times) is depicted as the betrayal of christ via an allusion to Judas' betrayal of "his rabbi" Jesus with a kiss from his lips. Beautiful, since his betrayal of doubt & questioning comes, too, from his lips.

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Blue Öyster Cult – Burnin' For You Lyrics

11 years ago

That would be incorrect. The term "give the devil his due" means either to give credit where it's due or to pay back what is owed -- whether it be debt or revenge. Neither implies selling your soul to the devil. So you've got a guy here who doesn't feel like there's any place to call home, and no reason to fight the desire to keep going because he's burning for (the target of the song). It's the burning desire that keeps him moving, with no place he needs to be and the fear that there won't be enough time to reach the person he's burning for.

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Blue Öyster Cult – Burnin' For You Lyrics

11 years ago

You're wrong about The Stand (Don't Fear the Reaper came out two years before the book was published), but you might be on to something here. One of the most famous quotes from On the Road goes "...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" So there's a repeated "burn, burn burn" that matches the concept of the song lyrics pretty clearly, too.

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Bicycle Lyrics	12 years ago
I think it is about LSD (bycicle, a reference to Hofmann's bycicle trip and a common blotter art). These lyrics are quite clear: Disassociated by combinations that were ill advised and a dosage quite unwise What a difference between what I saw and what was before my eyes

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Tool – Part of Me Lyrics

12 years ago

I think it's about narcissists. They ignore any boundaries between you and them, because to them there are no boundaries since you are a part of them. They cannot see you as a person on your own, but they see you as an extension of themselves, a blank screen for them to project their movies onto. And when you complain and request a respectful treatment and healthy boundaries, they'll make you doubt your perception and they'll try to make you believe this treatment is normal. In other words, you have to sacrifice yourself and "die a little" for you to become their perfect little pet, trained like a dog only to satisfy their needs. Someone who will always oblige requests from others, but who will never expect or ask anything in return. As long as you are that to them, they don't care about your behind-the-scenes or how you feel about it, like you're not a real person. Your life is not about you, you don't live for yourself, the entire purpose of your life is to serve them. As long as you do that they don't give a shit what else happens to you.

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Oh Land – Rainbow Lyrics

12 years ago

While this song has sexual elements I think you've completely missed the point if you think that's what it's solely about. "Rainbow" is about two secret lovers who share an intimate moment that's not even necessarily sexual. It might be realizing that you're deeply in love with someone, sharing your first kiss or touch with together, or perhaps feeling the electricity and passion between you. In this song, two people share a very close, intimate moment together and it's as if time is standing still. It's so intense it's almost surreal. Some people seem to think that the lyrics are explicitly sexual ("making me pop" either referring to fellatio or losing one's virginity ) I don't think it's the case at all. I believe the "pop" refers to how the woman is so in love that her heart is almost bursting with love. She is so in infatuated, everything her partner does just makes her realize how well they click/fit together. Her partner is her entire world and everything that's in it. To me, the song is not very much about sex at all but how you emotionally submit to someone completely when you fall in love.

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U2 – Ordinary Love Lyrics

12 years ago

I think this song is written from Nelson Mandela's point of view. He has just been released from prison (The sea wants to kiss the golden shore, the sun warms your skin). I think he is saying he wants to make peace with his enemies after the violent struggles against Apartheid (I can't fight you anymore). He wants to make sure South Africa is ruled fairly, without black domination and without white domination (It's you I'm fighting for). He wants to rebuild South Africa, but this is not possible if all the people of South Africa remain angry and full of hate (We can't reach any higher, If we can't feel ordinary love). South Africa will be beautiful once more. R.I.P. Nelson Mandela, father of the nation.

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Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal Lyrics

12 years ago

I was thinking it was a flock of birds. The "scarves of red" are just the red markings around their throats. (There's actually a red-throated loon, for example...) That's why the narrator of the song looks down -- because the formation of geese is flying over the ground. (And that's also why Michael "would fall".) The melody even suggests the repetitive motion of their wings flapping over and over. And if you were in a pack of birds flying along continuously, and suddenly you looked down and one bird was heading for the ground, you'd first say "there you go" (in a different direction...) So it could just be about a bird that's been shot suddenly by a hunter on the ground. But if you imagine that the birds have lots of red feathers, then there's an innocent reason for why Michael "turns the white snow red as strawberries in summertime."

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Metallica – Leper Messiah Lyrics

12 years ago

So somehow we have "free will" even though we are subject to a God, who has created a divine plan for everyone in the universe? Yeah, nothing fundamentally wrong with that. Nor is there anything wrong in calling it "free will" and then basically kowtowing to the fearmongering that these organized religions peddle on the public. Religion is the greatest insurance scam in the world, because it's convinced millions that as long as you believe, there's nothing to fear. Its benefits far outweigh the risks, hahaha. There are neither benefits nor risks. By the way, faith is less a choice than a belief; beliefs happen to be far harder to change than you seem to think. I'd actually say your mentality is worse than people who actually do believe in this piffle. You seem the most disingenuous of the lot.

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009 Sound System – Standing Stones Lyrics

12 years ago

Straightforward lyrics, plus some vague ones. Nowhere to be and nothing to do -- isolation, like a prehistoric monolith standing stone (or menhir/lith). The subject is alienated from "baby", who isn't going along with the plan. Occasionally, standing stones are found together, as in a henge; even with "you're standing next to me...feeling we're bound to be alone", stones alone together. The subject wants to "get stoned", meaning intoxicated. I'm guessing alcohol. Getting drunk can cause ethylic "acetate" poisoning (a hangover), which is a bitter end, especially after intoxication "past the point of contemplation". "Another way", without getting drunk, can cause an alcoholic to suffer delirium tremens, which are "bitter shakes", but "a better way than those" drug abuse "mistakes". Either way, the subject will "live without a fate" "in quiet desperation", still alone like the standing stone.

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Arcade Fire – Porno Lyrics	12 years ago
beautiful song

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