| Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Dachau Blues Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The last part on the track where they're talking about the rats sounds like a rendition of Albert Camus' "The Plague." | |
| Nico – The Falconer Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| That's interesting. Maybe it's about both... | |
| Frog Eyes – Sound travels from the snow to the dark Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Yeah, I agree for the most part. I always took it as the personal lamenting interpretation: The first stanza seems to be about the narrator relating their experiences and feelings with the radio, as an emotional outlet with its "sounds from lovely caves" that "hear your sobs." The second stanza shifts the focus from the narrator to the radio itself. They have built trust and a mutual love for listening to music, and begin to believe in the hopes it tells in the songs. At least that's what I think the "blue light" symbolizes. The third stanza is much more pessimistic, so I assume it's following an event in the narrator's life which the music gave them false hope for. So they develop a sense of hate for the radio's promotion of lies and false dreams. They stop listening to the radio in their car; instead of playing music, "through your roof comes the hidden signal of things gone wrong." All the trust they built up that was lost makes them hostile to the radio, and everything associated with radio. The fourth stanza sees the entire story in retrospect. While the angst is faded, they seem desensitized a bit, recognizing the patterns of the radio and its lullabies, but gaining respect for what it did to them. But it doesn't have to be just about the radio... it could be a metaphor for nearly anything anyone gets pleasure and hope from. Or maybe it's a broader, more political commentary I don't see yet. |
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| The Dismemberment Plan – What Do You Want Me to Say? Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I don't think it's limited to just his relationship with one person. It reminds me of when I was lonely for a long period of time. Eventually you realise that your misanthropy drove you to this low point where you can't find any love or attention, you want to give it another chance. But it is really difficult to make new connections when you don't have any at all, and you question what made them leave you behind. Operarational has a good analysis though. |
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