| The Only Ones – Another Girl, Another Planet Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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last few lyrics are most intriguing to me- could "another girl is loving you now" be directed towards heroin, as the other "you" parts throughout the song are? I always thought that it could mean that his girl had od'd (or maybe even given up H and in turn given up on him) only to be replaced by another girl in a similar situation (or a bunch of them, continuing to get hooked n die in a vicious cycle). As for "another planet, is holding you down", this is where it becomes really obscure. Perhaps it is directed at his deceased/ex girlfriend, wherein "another planet" alludes to the afterlife, or, maybe, the real, drug-free world is "holding you down". I feel that another possibility for the meaning of this line is that the euphoric effects of the drug have worn off- he is feeling that the high is being held down, while another (new) girl is on another (newly found) planet wayout in space. Might be a stretch. The repetition of "with you" when he says he's on another planet, is what makes me think that she was his dopin' companion. One "with you" is directed to the heroin which takes him there, and the other is to his girl who accompanies him. Notice he doesn't use these words in the last lines. |
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| Tame Impala – Sundown Syndrome Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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love the eeriness of the lyrics in this song. from my perspective, it seems as if he may be talking about his resolve to refrain from acts of rebellion weakens when the sun goes down. perhaps this is drugs? 'sundown syndrome' is an actual disease suffered by people with alzheimer's causing them to wander off in the night. "i wander around for days, wondering what i'll say, when they want the truth" like a mischievous elderly losing his mind, he becomes weak and wanders, oblivious of the consequences and the words from authoritarian stand over men, but his eyes always give him away when he's been up to something. "the depth of every touch is real as you need, but words don't do any favours for me" his only language is actions, words mean nothing to him. so i think "sundown syndrome" in this case is probably a metaphor for parallels between the young and those who are going through mental decline. they rebel in the night time and are oblivious of the consequences until the sun comes up and the words start flying. |
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