| Stone Temple Pilots – Big Empty Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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you guys, you have to take what weiland says the song is about with a grain of salt. It's definitely about drugs, something that weiland struggled severely with and which eventually took this amazing artist from us all. He had a very complex relationship with drugs, simultaneously glorifying them (very often) and being ashamed of his use of them, often lying and saying he was no longer on them when he clearly was. Driving faster in my car-------- in his autobiography weiland told stories of his driving through LA, high as a kite after scoring drugs and driving home full of giddy anticipation in order to use them. Falling farther from just what we are------- Every addict knows this feeling well. You are no longer yourself. Or maybe this IS who you have become. Smoke a cigarette and lie some more These conversations kill----------------------- Referring to the constant conversations an addict has with themselves inside their head. I'll stop tomorrow/this is the last time...and the toll it takes on you. It's a depressing and lonely and awful conversation to have with yourself all the time. Time to take her home, Her dizzy head is conscience laden Time to take a ride it leaves today No conversation Time to take her home her dizzy head is Conscience laden Time to wait too long, to wait too long To wait too long: To me this stanza beautifully sums up the multiple conversations an addict has while they are holding drugs/waiting to blast off. That debilitating internal monologue...take them now, while you are still high and never come down, take them right now before you feel the withdrawls, no conversation, just do it. OR wait as long as possible, try your hardest. That cycle of drugs that is so hard to kick because you are so sad and confused. You know that there are only 2 ways you could possibly feels better. 1) STOP NOW, ONCE AND FOR ALL AND NEVER TOUCH DRUGS AGAIN --or-- 2) JUST ADMIT DEFEAT AND TAKE THE FUCKING DRUGS IN YOUR POCKET. Just thinking about it makes me nauseous. Either way, the entire time your conscience is just gnawing on your bones and on your heart and mind. Too much walking shoes worn thin Too much trippin' and my soul's worn thin------- a reference to the physical toll drug addiction takes, as well as the emotional/mental/spiritual toll Her name is what it means: Obvious wordplay for heroin being his heroine. Conversations kill: Basically saying that the internal conversations inside yourself never subside when this is your life. That's only what this song means to me, having been severely addicted to drugs before. That hopeless feeling when you want to stop and just can't, over and over again. i love this song btw. one of my favorites of all time |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Soul Meets Body Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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to me, this song has a very straight forward meaning. It's about loving someone who is depressed. It makes you depressed...I've been in this situation before and it's the most cruel form of torture. Just thinking about it makes me feel sad and this song...it's like I can relive that time of my life just by hearing it. I view this song as...almost the stages of acceptance: "I do believe it's true That there are roads left in both of our shoes" (*DENIAL - you really do believe both of you will make it past this dark period) "But if the silence takes you Then I hope it takes me too" (*BARGAINING - you can't live without this person) "So brown eyes I'll hold you near 'Cause you're the only song I want to hear A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere" (*ACCEPTANCE: you just do your best to love this person while you still have them) TRUELY A HEARTBREAKING SONG. for the record "If the silence takes you, then I hope it takes me too" is probably my favorite lyric of all time. so powerful. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Born as Ghosts Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I've lived in LA all my life. This song is about LA's rich and/or famous turning a blind eye (or completely oblivious eye) on the impoverished children of LA. The following lyrics have to do with the rich: "The hills find peace Locked armed guard posts Safe from the screams Of the children born as ghosts" The rich are locked away in their hillside mansions and have no idea what life is like in the inner city, literally just a few miles outside their doorsteps "Under the toxic sunsets they dine and toast Their walls deny the terror faced by the children born as ghosts" "A suffering that shocks the lives off the screen" The LA basin (low income area) is the view you would have from The Hills (where the rich live). These areas are crime ridden and impoverished. Gunfire and sirens and whatnot ring out LITERALLY constantly. The following lyrics are in regards to the lives of the poor living in LA: "Gates, guns and alarms Shape the calm of the dawn Peering down into the basin Where death lives on." It also talks about the public school situation in LA "One book and forty odd Stuffed in a room Ah, the school as a tomb" These children are told of the American dream, and with their family situation: "Where home is a wasteland Taste the razor wire" and the desperate state of their impoverished lives, it seems like a cruel joke or myth: "The tales that tear at the myth of the dream" |
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