| OutKast – Hey Ya! Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| That was beautiful, you are the Andre Whisperer. | |
| Ima Robot – Lovers in Captivity Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Beautiful video. It really adds to the song's meaning. He has been with a woman so long that having sex with her is basically masturbation. They have become so familiar that the excitement is gone. They are captive in their cage (place that we call home). He feels like such a stereotypical example of a couple that he might as well be a zoo exhibit representing a monogamous pair. They're comfortable with enmity like only long term partners can be, irritated by the very presence of the other one but still dependent on it. He longs for what they used to have, the love that is pure, delicious sin but admits that they were never very good at communicating. He tells her that the spark is gone and that he wants out. He even refers to suicide as an option for escaping the relationship and seems to break up with his partner towards the end of the song. However, the last turn of the song rings nostalgic. He calls up his ex and tells her that he will always love her and that the loss of intimacy is hard (it's cold in space). When he says "I'll always be a lover in captivity" he might mean that part of him will always be with her. If you want to take a broader view, he might be referring to his love/hate relationship with intimacy and monogamy. That the trade off between the warmth of a real and long relationship will always be juxtaposed with the tedium of consistency. P.S. On a personal note, I recommend that he finds a woman he likes and gets creative. That way he can have a little bit of sin and some warmth to go with it. |
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| Broken Bells – The Ghost Inside Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Shaking her hind (as in ass?) or hand? | |
| The Flaming Lips – Fight Test Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is a complicated and beautiful song. I'll try to organize the breakdown chronologically but I am not sure that the song is written in linear time. With the song and the official video it seems like a straight forward struggle for the love of a woman. He seems to be addressing his foe in the video but if you read the lyrics it seems that he is fighting his lover. He says that "to fight is to defend", but he did not realize that he was supposed to fight to defend the relationship from the anger of his lover. He did not realize that he had to fight her for her love and that "playing it cool" (letting her blow off steam/win) was not what she needed. "I don't know where the sun beams end and the star Lights begins it's all a mystery" Refers to the passage of time and his wondering where it has gone. The song uses the chorus to show that the singer often revisits his memories of this breakup and that the woman he let go might have been more than just a girlfriend. He did not fight to keep her, and he regrets not fighting for her as much as he regrets losing her. When he says that he is a man and not a boy, he tells us that he recognizes that he should have been more assertive and his ambivalence about the relationship is gone now that she left him. He wants to try again, but "you're with him now do no good" Without the opportunity to fight for her, he slips back into indecision. He knows what he has done wrong but he is having trouble changing and moving on. He knows that he needs to stop thinking about her so he tells himself "the test is over, now" The echo on the "now" feels like the these memories are not over and will continue to haunt him. This is a great song and I've revisited it for years. |
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