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| Portishead – Western Eyes Lyrics
| 4 months ago
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@[Yahuar:54171] crazy I’m responding to you 20 years later!! I don’t think there’s a meaning. But I did read that was not a sample but they recorded that bit and slowed it down. |
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| The Sundays – Cry Lyrics
| 8 months ago
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@[sjaya:53564] Sorry but nothing indicates it can't be a former lover/ relationship. In fact, most of The Sunday's songs are about ex's etc. Why cant you have ex's pictures in a frame? this was the 90s... |
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| Portishead – Western Eyes Lyrics
| 9 months ago
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@[lordsummerisle:53347] I’ve written about this in another forum. I’ll start with your last sentence and move backwards. Not long after first hearing this when it came out, I started reading about Western Imperial culture. That’s what “western eyes” means. The westerner’s gaze. On the ‘other’. You also mentioned “the heart of love is their only light” Joseph Conrad’s book ‘heart of darkness” directly correlates with the sentiment of the song and that word play and its title. The “innocent turn to crucifying” for me is about the Native peoples being turned into and treated like savages. Or towards conversion or death by Christianity. Portishead were super lefties as most musicians were then. Very political. “We lay our own conscious to rest” - we westerns put down our conscious when we pillage and plunder the 3rd world. Then (colonial / Conrad’s time) till now with blood minerals. And we are aching at the view of what we’ve done. And I’m breaking at these seems in shame and utter frustration of what our culture and country has done. UK artists came to be coy but forth with criticizing colonialsm etc at this time. So many bands jn 80s and early 90s started in collectives. Squats. Even Sade lived in one. Portishead wrote a bit about western critique in their lyrics |
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| Sunny Day Real Estate – Every Shining Time You Arrive Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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FIRST - there's a whole other set of lyrics here that aren't the song? ALSO - I think people don't realize that Jeremy at this time had found god and lived with it, but was less radical. This song was supposedly supposed to be on his slate of songs for FROG QUEEN - so as he's stated many times, that entire album was about a woman. I feel that this song could be about that woman coming back in his life, or god, or it doesn't matter, it's about something or someone popping back into one's life again. And of course, it is not nihilism at all, he's talking about fate in a way that could harp to Nietzsche but also fate in general - we cannot control how a relationship would pan out, no one can. You go into relationships (friend or lover) with fate always looming over everything. So, to sum up - sure it can be about your relationship with something or someone including god or a girlfriend or an old friend or band mate, etc |
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| Portishead – Western Eyes Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[ezydriver:45488] This is just rediculous interpretation sorry, but no. The entire album focusses on the effects of capitalism and the Western dominance in the world. This entire song is from that perspective also leading to the above suggestion of the Conrad novel. My dude, this is not it. Nothing to do with baddy and goody - you've completely missed the meaning. |
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| Crass – Fight War, Not Wars Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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Hi! I've thought about this many years ago as well as over many years. The song means fight war itself, but not wars - in the sense of war against poverty, war against oppression, war against pollution. Keep the fight up, but don't join in any actual war. Great lyrics, great band, that molded my ideologies as a teen. Thanks Penny! |
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