| Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[benedick96:22522] *slow clap* I came on here because I just came back from watching this play and recognized some of the lines from this song. I wanted to see if I was right in thinking it was a direct reference, and you've explained it so impressively thoroughly, bravo. |
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| Squeeze – Cool For Cats Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song sounds as if it's about things not being what they're cracked up to be. The first verse seems to reference how people reading Davy Crockett and frontier adventure books like that would get the idea that the leading the wild frontier meant being a cool swashbuckling hero, while in real life there were bad experiences on both sides. The third verse describes a guy who doesn't get much out of trying to get buff and dress up cool and thinking about how awesome all his friends say it is. And even in the last verse when the guy seems to manage to get with a lady, it ends up that "she likes to go to discos but she's never on her own", which sounds as if she would take some on the side, but wasn't actually single, so the hookup couldn't lead to a relationship like the speaker often sees happening on TV. So again, something which is made out to be much better/easier than it actually is. It also could possibly be about how it seems some people just get all the luck, and life is only "cool" for the cool people out there (the "cats"; cats is a slang for cool person), and how even if you aren't doing anything differently from those people, it seems things only work out for them, not you. Either way, it's a bit of a downer song for being so darn catchy and upbeat. Which makes me think the first interpretation is more likely; like all the things in life this song is about, it's funky, bubbly and upbeat, pure fun on the surface, but it's actually sad, just like being in these situations can be. |
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| U2 – Vertigo Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I always wondered if "teaching me how to kneel" was a throwback to Mysterious Ways which has the line "if you wanna kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel". These songs always remind me of each other because of that. | |
| U2 – Vertigo Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[PencilNeckedGeek:7472] Great blow-by-blow interpretation, makes a lot of sense Interesting explanation of the intro there. I seem to remember reading that when asked about that Bono basically chuckled and shrugged and said there was probably liquor involved. |
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| U2 – Vertigo Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[fen:7471] Wow. I was always reminded of that gospel story from the bridge, but I never thought of how that played into the rest of the song. Really great tying the song together, that makes a lot of sense! |
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| Taio Cruz – Dynamite Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This song's chorus has a lot of parts that are similar to Avril Lavigne's song "Freak Out". That's got the "hands in the air" to the "let go" to the "live my life" and everything. Could easily just be chance, but I feel like the writers of the two songs at least had quite a bit of the same stuff in mind. | |
| Katy Perry – Hot N Cold Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[Alessbelli:7470] Interesting thoughts. I guess "up" and "down" could be considered innuendo as well. Though I honestly figured "it's black and it's white" just meant that it was obvious (as in it's in black and white, an expression for straightforward). |
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| Katy Perry – Hot N Cold Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song especially makes me wonder if Katy Perry was ever into Sting. This song reminds me a whole lot of his song "All Four Seasons In One Day", which has a very similar idea, about a lover whose opinions, moods and relationship with the speaker pretty much flip to their opposites at just about any moment. This even has the same comparison of changing minds in its first verse that Sting's song has (one of the lines in that song says "she changes her mind like she changes her sweater") and that song even has the lyric "hot and cold" right in it! This pretty much uses the idea, except while Sting's song was endearing towards the song's subject, this song seems to be more of a complaint. One of Katy Perry's songs (same album as this one, I think) has a line "Send out an S. O. S." which sounds very possibly like a "Message in a Bottle" reference. Has anyone asked Katy Perry if she's ever listened to Sting? It would explain a lot if she did! |
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| Katy Perry – Hot N Cold Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[kflyyy:7469] I could've sworn it was "critically" from listening to it, but "cryptically" makes more sense in the context actually. |
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| Katy Perry – Hot N Cold Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[athomeintheclouds:7468] I'm inclined to agree, seeing as the song says "love bi-polar", implying it's particularly in terms of their relationship. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[dapew:7467] That's what that reminded me of too. Though I'm curious if the line actually says that, in the Wainwright version it sounds a lot like "holy dark", which is what the lyrics read on this site for his cover. Is this a deliberate change made for Wainwright's cover, I wonder? In any case, I'd imagine you're right about what the holy dove would be, if that's what the lyric is. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I always thought the 4th verse sounded like a lament from God about the diminishing relationship he has with people. As if he's remembering the time when people would pray a lot more and come to him in prayer to tell him their troubles and what's going on in their life (thus telling him what's going on below on earth), and remembering a time when faith was something more people had, so people used to have God within them (so he moved in them). Though it goes right into the line "Maybe there's a god above" in the next verse, so there'd have to be a pretty big perspective change, but that's what the verse has always brought to mind for me. |
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| The Beatles – Back in the U.S.S.R. Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Huh. I always thought the first verse said "the paperback was on my knee" and figured it was a throwback to "Paperback Writer". Mondegreens can sure be funny things. And I don't know if "Take me to your daddy's farm" is a deliberate reference to Animal Farm (George Orwell Soviet Union-allegory novella), but that's always what it will remind me of when I listen to this song. |
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