| The Walkmen – The Rat Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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"rat" is usually used to describe someone who cheats on their partner. I've always thought the song is about the singer cheating on his girlfriend, and the devestation it caused. He's been pushed out of the social circle, and is begging for forgiveness from everyone |
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| Oasis – Champagne Supernova Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[Bowie1984:14737] Noel has said in interviews, that the song is loved, because the lyrics mean different things to different people. And the chorus is acually about anxiety. Noel has said this. "Caught beneath a landslide, with a champagne supernova in the sky" is how he described the crushing feeling of depression. |
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| Oasis – Champagne Supernova Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Bowie1984:14736] Noel has said in interviews, that the song is loved, because the lyrics mean different things to different people | |
| Oasis – Champagne Supernova Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| But in conclusion, the song is just a commentary on how fake the music industry is, how fake bands are, and how crushing it is for fans when they realize their heroes are fakers | |
| Oasis – Champagne Supernova Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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So the verse are about your heroes letting you down/cheating you And the choruses are about the crushing dissapointment it causes. Noel has said all of this in interviews. So no need for debate on this one! |
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| Oasis – Champagne Supernova Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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And the chorus is about anxiety "Some day you will find me, caught beneath a landslide, in a champagne supernova" Noel said it's how he describes the crushing feeling of anxiety and sadness |
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| Oasis – Champagne Supernova Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The song is about being let-down/cheated by your heroes. He said in an interview that he grew up thinking bands like The Sex Pistols and The Clash would change the world - but then he realised it was all fake, to sell records. That's literally what the song is about. "special people" are the bands and musicians that fans worship. And how they always let you down. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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A lot of younger fans don't realize how much the Manics changed after Ritchie's death. Their musical style, lyrics, attitude, public personas all changed, remarkably. The Ritchie era Manics played very dark, arty, disturbing, punk music, with extremely poetic, complicated lyrics. And they sold themselves as almost doom-rock, EMO, anarchists. After he died, they changed to a much more melodic, anthetic, positive band, with much simpler and easier-to-understand lyrics. And they had great success. So much of this song is about that change, and the feelings of guilt that are associated with it. Abandoning Ritchie's vision of the band, essentially . Because they simply couldn't do it without him. He was the driving force of that era, both in the songs, and on the stage, and in the media. So the song is saying: "We're sorry we can't continue as we were, but it's impossible. We have to try something new." |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The song is an apology to the fans. Nicky Wire, said in interviews that he felt very guily about not only carrying on without Ritchie, but changing the musical direction of the band after his death. But at the same time, he knew it was what they had to do. Because Ritchie drove the "old" Manics sound, and he wasn't there any more, so they had to try something else. Mixed emotions the lyrics express rather touchingly |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Tsunami Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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And the lyrics are quite abstract. Most of the lyrics are from the books the girls published. They were both talented, published authors, before they were locked up in a mental insitute "Disco dancing with the rapists" is from one of the books. They wrote mostly about sexual harassment and bullying. Virtually all their books are on that subject. "Your only crime is silence" obvious refers to the fact neither girl was able to talk |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Tsunami Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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As many people quote, it's about the Gibbon twins. Two girls who had mental health problems that meant they were unable to talk. They were known as the "silent twins". I believe the only way they were able to communicate was an intricate, invented, sign-language that they developed between eachother. That nobody else could decipher. They ended up in a maximum security mental hospital. While incarcerated, they basically decided that their only hope of freedom, and a normal life, is if one of the sisters killed themselves - which they hoped would break the mental-health issue that stopped them talking. So, sadly, one of the girls did then kill herself. As a sacrifice to save her sister. And bizarrely it actually did work. The surviving sister lives a relatively normal life now, and is able to talk and communicate, like a healthy person |
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| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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But in general, the song is about the working classes. Their opression, and then celebrating the current generations freedom and power. The song starts with the depression of the holocaust and Auchwitz ("libraries give you power" and "work makes you free" were both holocaust slogans) and then breaks into a more positive crescendo about the freedom and hope of the current generation. It's a "fuck you, we won" sort of anthem, celebrating the working classes struggles over the last 70 years. The most important line is "I wish I had a bottle, right here in my dirty face, to wear the scars, to show from where I came" This is them saying, although you should enjoy your freedom, don't forget the people who died, suffered, and struggled to win it for you. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Also take into account that there are many references to the holocaust and Auchwitz on the album. It's a theme that appears in quite a few songs on the album. So don't discredit the notion that he's possibly writing about Auchwitz prisoners, and comparing them to zoo animals. Perhaps. Particularly the line "you have your very own number" |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I personally think that Ritchie was far too intelligent to write a song about abused zoo animals. Nicky Wire writes straightforward lyrics about relatively simple subjects (he loves to write about history, for example)so if he had written it, I'd have believed it. But Ritchie wasn't like that. His songs were so complexed - I struggle to believe the entire song wasn't about himself, in some way. If you ask me, he probably used the symbolism of the zoo animal-cruelty to describe his own life |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The inspiration was animal cruelty in zoos (he'd watched a documentary that upset him) But most of Ritchie's songs (if not all) are autobiographical, so many fans think he was possibly using the imagery of abused, trapped, zoo animals to his own mental state at the time |
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| Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The verses are about a Auchwitz prisoner. They mentioned this in a few interviews. "Libraries gave us power, then work came and made us free. What price now, for a bit of dignity" "WORK MAKES YOU FREE" was the slogan of auchwitz. And libraries/education didn't give working class people the power they thought it would. It's a bit of dark humour about how screwed the working classes get, basically! The choruses, in contrast are about the modern day working classes, celebrating life, and their freedom. So, the lyrics are about the the persecution working class people survived (The Holocaust) and the freedom and hope they now enjoy. It's a celebration basically. |
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| Mott The Hoople – All the Young Dudes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song was part of the Ziggy Stardust story (99% sure). It's not a literal song, about real life. It's a fictional story. He offered Mott the Hoople either this song, or Suffragette City, that he wrote for the Ziggy album and they chose this, I believe. As I remember, the song is simply describing Ziggy Stardust's fans. And his desire that they spread his message of peace and love. |
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| Mott The Hoople – All the Young Dudes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The lyric is "Wendy's stealing clothes from Marks and Sparks". Marks and Sparks is British slang for the supermarket "Marks and Spencers". He's basically saying Wendy is a shoplifter |
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| David Bowie – All the Young Dudes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The song is part of the Ziggy Stardust story. Bowie offered them either this track, or Suffragette City, and they chose this. The characters in the song are basically Ziggy Stardust fans. And he's telling them to carry his message. |
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| David Bowie – All the Young Dudes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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And "boat race" is London slang for "face". He's saying "he has a funky little face" |
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| David Bowie – All the Young Dudes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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You have the lyrics wrong. It's "Wendy's stealing clothes from Marks and Sparks" not "Wendy's stealing clothes from unlocked cars" Marks and Sparks is London/English slang for the English supermarket "Marks and Spencers". He's basically saying Wendy is a shoplifter. |
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| R.E.M. – Man On The Moon Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Seems pretty obvious to me. The song's obviously about Andy Kauffman - who was a known hoaxer and faker. It makes several references to Wrestling (Fred Blassie was a wrestler, as was Kuaffman) and Kuaffman's impressions. They're basically talking about conspiracy theories, and questioning whether the US really put a man on the moon, or whether it was a hoax. Saying - well Andy Kauffman tricked a lot of people, so why do you defintiely believe it And they end with "if you believe, that nothing is up their sleeve, then nothing is cool" Which is basically saying "if you believe everything everyone tells you, and everything the government tells you, then you're an idiot To cut a long story short, the song's about hoaxes, what is real, and what is fake? And it uses Kauffman as the protagonist, as he was the world's most famous hoaxer |
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