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| Portishead – All Mine Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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In the music video, it's a little girl singing to an older man. I'm not sure if this implies the song is about a clinging child, or if it's more universal, but it's brilliant either way. |
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| Portishead – All Mine Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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In the music video, it's a little girl singing to an older man. I'm not sure if this implies the song is about a clinging child, or if it's more universal, but it's brilliant either way. |
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| Coldplay – Arabesque Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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We are all relatives. We need to consider other humans from the same perspective we see ourselves from. |
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| Comus – Drip Drip Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I hear "your so mature" instead of "your shadow over chair", am I crazy? |
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| Mount Eerie – Through The Trees Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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That point in time, where you come to a stop and view normal human activity from behind the lens of pure wilderness. It suddenly seems distant and strange.
The wind, all the while, blows, uncaring. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Jesus Alone Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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Cave's son died during the recording of this album. This song definitely feels like Cave is calling to his lost child, or perhaps wishing that he had a chance to say goodbye. "Let us sit together in the dark until the moment comes". No father should outlive his son, Cave wishes he had the chance to sit longer in the dark with his son, instead of having his son pulled away from him.
Also, it sounds like Cave is coming to bitter conclusions himself. "You believe in God, but you get no special dispensation for this belief now
You're an old man sitting by the fire, you're the mist rolling off the sea
You're a distant memory in the mind of your creator, don't you see?" God is there, but he doesn't care for the suffering of his creations. |
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| Arcade Fire – Wake Up Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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"Wake Up" is, for me, a song about the loss of religion. "Children, wake up! Hold your mistake up." Four years ago (was it really that long ago?), I was teetering on the brink. I had been a member of the LDS religion since I was born, and long story short, was finally coming to the conclusion that it wasn't real, wasn't true. And what a loss it was! Belief in God was the only thing that had held me together, through my depression and anxiety and love and loss. And now, to discover it had never been true, was destroying me. When first I heard this song, I had an immediate connection with it. I also hated it. I hated the way it made me feel. Up to this point, I was a fence sitter leaning one way; this song pushed me over the edge. "Children, wake up!"
I had never been so devastated in my life. Everything I cared about was gone. But there was also potential for growth there, an opportunity to hold my mistake up. Arcade Fire taught me that.
Of course, I recognize everyone will have their own opinion about this song, and I respect that. For me, however, it will always be the song that broke my heart, and then showed me how to mend it. |
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| Sia – Elastic Heart Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Electropop artist and singer/songwriter Sia has written a lot of mediocre songs in her time. One exception is her beautiful, touching and brilliantly written single “Breathe Me”, which is (in my opinion) one of the greatest moments in pop history.
“Elastic Heart” seems to confirm that Sia is, unfortunately, no more than a one hit wonder. While including some interesting and engaging electropop synths and beats, these ultimately fall flat when the dull, uninspired lyrics make themselves heard. Sia has a lovely voice, but some of her lyrics are so eye-roll worthy that I can’t even enjoy the good parts about this song. In particular the wannabe simile “I'm like a rubber band until you pull too hard” seems forced and incidental. It seems like something a would be poet junior high school student would write for poetry class.
This song isn’t bad musically; in fact it contains some interesting and fresh ideas. This is a good example, however, of how powerful (or impotent) good or bad lyrics can make a song.
Could be a lot better, but not the bottom of the barrel. 2.5 / 5. Let’s hope Sia has another “Breathe Me” in her; otherwise, I fear her legacy will be mediocrity. |
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