| Rogue Wave – Harmonium Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I think chalking this down to war is missing a lot. There's a lot of that, to be sure, but it's also about our culture and how insensitive WE are to violence and the cost of our entertainment and lifestyle choices. "the air is thick / the air is wasted" sets the table suggesting that the atmosphere we're living in is harsh and oppressive. the lamb speaks to US and OUR COLLECTIVE NEED for entertainment, perhaps even leading to some perverse enjoyment or at least fascination with suicide (i take the son/pavement/eyes to describe the leap from a building - i guess you could even draw out 9/11 if you try hard enough to interpret WAR), and finally the warning that it could just as easily be us on the pavement. and that's life. and you know you shouldn't waste it, but lets face it... you're probably wasted. i think the second verse is about the personal cost of serving in war. the first half might be about us again, and how we can send our soldiers to fight without even considering them or the so-called enemy. the last half is pretty clearly suggesting we kill for resources. or in other words, that we spill blood for luxury. the third section is back to the atmosphere: your dreams are garbage, whenever you were born there was probably some kind of war, you're not allowed to question it and it might be useless anyway because the darkest things you can imagine are already in motion, having been decided by people hopelessly more powerful while they were distracted by a tipsy meal. finally the last two lines have almost convinced me the entire song is meant to be about shell shock. i still think there's a lot more to it than simply war. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – One For The Road Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Much as I love this song, I keep getting the feeling it's about some kind of rape. Frankly, I tend to feel this way about the Monkeys and I think it's the menacing tone they manage to find, but I'll try and bear this out. The bridge is where this whole idea comes from. I heard this song dozens of times before the narrative flow in this section started to sink in with me. It flows from pouring the last drinks (presumably, "one for the road" a round for both parties) into the mixture hitting her hard, comforting her against the sinking and falling apart, and then straight into discordant music and disaster. The first lyrics in the song speak of a "relegation zone." I'm not a dictionary, so if you don't know what relegate means, look that up. It's got a negative connotation which goes really well with the word "zone. You've got a definite motive in the first verse. I am basically thinking, frustrated friend zone situation boiling over into a drugging. Of course most of the lyrics are supporting the drug experience, as you can see from others comments. In the chorus, it seems we follow a group back to "her" place, and the question is... once everyone is gone, will you pour me (I think, meaning "us") one last drink. This would be where the drugging presumably occurs. In that light, "I knew this would be on the cards / I knew you wouldn't fold" becomes somewhat chilling. More chilling than that, the concept that the narrative isn't an isolated incident ("...no need to show me around... / ...I've been in here before..."). I love this song. Love it so much. But it's hard to hear without hearing this, and I wish someone could dissolve the guilt and convince me I'm wrong. It's a great song but it's gonna end up in my mind right there along side a song like "Every Step You Take." |
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