| Yello – Sometimes (dr. Hirsch) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| A picture inside a picture inside a picture of sorrows. Deeper yet still than those sorrows one simply can't express. The protagonist of the story of this song has the saddest sadness, the unreleasable melancholy of sadness you know is there, but somehow can't even quite feel. I believe the character within this song represents an inside looking out view of Schizoid Personality Disorder. What heartbreak is greater than a heart that is broken....in the sense that it doesn't even work? | |
| Gang of Four – Muscle for Brains Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Don't help me I can save myself If I'm incomplete don't fill the gaps (Each of us can find an authentic personal philosophy, without need to lazily glom onto someone else's dogma) Save me from the people who would save me from myself. (There is little more terrifying than being cornered by soul winning evangelists.) They have reservations in heaven ("The meek shall enherit...") Down here they're not so fashionable (Nobody cares what you think unless you're rich) Morality is used as a tool (What is called "morals" is really code for mores, which amounts to the poor "knowing their place".) For reasons that are not mysterious The weak are sent to the wall (Prosperity theology considers those who are rich to be more righteous than those who are poor. The poor, are poor, because...they are not) They got muscle for brains (You cannot have a rational discussion with anti-intellectual zealots) |
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| Elvis Costello – Clowntime Is Over Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's a tale of mutual disaffection: "Tears on your blackmail" were hers upon finding the letter from his flame. The "point of the fingernail", different than 'pointing a finger', is fingernails scratching a back; symbolic of the throes of passion of her revenge affair. And "he's handsome". "Clowntime" reminds me of a different lryic: "If I'm not the sole fool that pulls his trousers down, then dear Madam Barnum, I resign as clown". That is, the general idea of "being the last to know" of a betrayal. Where the others don't walk: nobody "walks" on "lovers lane" and the somebody is most likely a detective whose job is spying spouses and their lovers. There is the possibility, especially given the music lovemaking makes, if the detective's assistant spoke softly into his cell phone, he wouldn't have been heard. And even if they saw they were seen, might not have startled if they didn't recognise who saw them. I'm assuming that "otherwise unprotected" despite the dramatic image of weaponry, implies that he was protected in one way: that at least he was having protected sex. "Almost too good to be true": Where their "lovers lane" might have literally been an alley, the dective's work was almost too easy, with no need to be clever about figuring out how to find a vantage point. This case was bereft of the usual chain of expenses. "Who do you? why do you? what do you do?" It seems after a fruitful investigation, rather than keep her newfound knowledge under wraps, she confronts him. "Who’s making lover’s lane safe again for lovers?" I'll interpet that line by invoking a different lyric: "Let the bad guy win every one in a while." In a world of James Bond technology equipped super-sleuths, how is this a level playing field? |
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| Soen – Savia Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I see the line "I am not deciding the results", as being a statement that the teller of the story is not not meaning to 'judge' the things they see as being 'bad' in only the sense that it displeases them, but instead as relation of cause-and-effect...as facts that won't won't disappear by being ignored or denied. That the wheel, is already in motion. I see the line "autonomously blessed", as a rebuttal to the idea of absolution of personal responsibility, that those involved were only executing policy, following orders. That it wasn't their choice. I see the victim, the "mother", as being the earth itself: 'mother earth'. I believe that the lyric "what we have in common has been lost", is meant to relay that what we, all lifeforms, not humans alone, have in common is a dependence on the planet, which we humans are overreaching our share. That this has already been comprimised to the degree that the earth's soil cannot return to its level of health before our time here. The idea of the soil becoming sand symbolizes both mankind's contribution to global warming and overfarming's depletion of the soil's nutrients. I see the "halo" as symbolizing guilt assuagement, as a reference to the bible being used to justify the exploitation of the earth. The idea that the earth was only created as a 'resource' for our use. Similar to the idea that animals were created for the sole purpose of being our food. I believe the "what is mine I'll take" refers to self possesion of ones own observation, to have open eyes, to be mindful, not complacent and oblivious. That one can at least say, what is mine is my own mind. I see the "guilt breeding in me" as imparting that teller has a feeling of being complicit in the times they were ignorant of the problem they now see. That is the guilt they feel now. I see the "bury me" lyric as expression of the feeling that they by even being, are part-of-the-problem. I believe "the scythe harvesing what is not yours" in this whole context is pretty much symbolic summary. |
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