| Pulp – Laughing Boy Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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What the ... hey, it seems I'm not alone failing to understand the meaning of these lyrics. If that's not the case...write something!!! Maybe just Jarvis knows... Beautiful song though. |
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| Pulp – Wickerman Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This song makes me want to see Sheffield next year (I have to save up for that). That's a great idea 'cause I've wanted to travel to Great Britain for a long time (and listen to that lovely accent). Subterranian rivers running through partly abandoned industrial areas just sounds perfect (though some say I have very special ideas of what's beautiful). I hope it's still there and better accessable than in Berlin, I've seen that Pulp film from 2012 and it looked like there was still a lot to be seen. The café has a web page, so it must still exist, though I'm not sure about the child's ride. | |
| Pulp – Countdown Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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To me it's well to understand, okay, also because I know a bit of Jarvis' biography. But mainly because I do arts myself. The "you" he is referring to is the "time of my life". It is about a feeling you have when you start doing something referred to arts. I know that very well, it is stirring inside and you know you need to do it and somehow, that you'll be able to do it, too. It is a feeling without proof that keeps you going on trying. But you also doubt it, and other people, too, and often they say, there are a lot of people who want to be pop stars or artists, don't do that. "They say I'll never fly". Maybe he refers to own doubts as well. Pulp needed a long time to get recognised and this song was written shortly before Jarvis left Sheffield and went to London and the band had been trying hard but reached a low point. Jarvis also says that he doesn't understand what this feeling is about for he has tried to see its face and to catch it, but it always seems to land "in the arms of other men", who seem to know and reach what they want early. So he doesn't know what this stirring feeling is and decides to leave the town and to move so maybe he'd find out then or not. "And if I messed it up baby, Then, that's all up to me." Something is there, inside, maybe the own creativity, the want to do something that he can't escape (this time it was for real there was no place to hide). I had this, too, I knew there is something I can do (and successfully messed up apprentenceships and jobs that weren't related to creativity), but I didn't know what and how, I found out late. I think for Jarvis, according to these lyrics, it was the same. In conclusion, you don't know if the thing you so much want to do and believe in is ever going to unreveal itself to you. And if so you don't know if it'll be that special and working out. You just have yourself to rely on and you have to believe in yourself. "I'm gonna make it all someday". I love these lyrics. |
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| Pulp – Glory Days Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I don't think it's that bitter at all. To me it's about how we long for the past (or the future) and how when we are sixty think of the days that we have now as glory days. Maybe you won't have to wait that long till your glorify the past, as he sings: So catch me now before I turn to gold. That means to me, that it's only a short time until you blur your memories to a great time. I'm 30 watching friends settle down and maybe it doesn't take long till they start telling "when I was young everything was better" and stuff. My father uses to talk about his youth a lot (and already did so when I was a child) and I think this is one of the saddest things that can happen to you for you always have the Glory Days, as long as you're not stuck in a nursing home or plagued by pains and disesases forever. You can just try and have a good time now, if you look around, go out, meet people, and so on. And if you enjoy just what you're doing once in a while. I mean, I like to remember the past and have a bit of nostalgia when listening to music (not by Pulp, I've just been so addicted to them for a few months now) but most of my youth was crap and now it's much better (I love my life, ha ha). The thing is, it's good to know you can do something to help your life and yourself get better and make the present special. Create your Glory Days! :D | |
| Pulp – My Legendary Girlfriend Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Maybe the name of the song helped it get famous. If a song's called like that you have to get curious, and then you listen to it and think, that's crazy but you have to listen again. And again. Please, can somebody explain that cheese bit to me? I'm not a native English speaker, so why does Jarvis sing "no cheese tonight" (besides, I'm having cheese for supper :D)? I even have a book with the lyrics by Jarvis Cocker, with translations, but that part is only translated literally without explanation or comment. |
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