| Supergrass – Sometimes I Make You Sad Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| A brilliant way of exposing the depressed mind with a bit of over-the-top satirical levity. When I listen to this song, I just imagine a miniature sized Gaz Coombs dancing about in a devil costume onesie trying to get inside your head, and telling you all sorts of nonsense as he tries to isolate you from the rest of the world and drive you crazy. He sings it with such devilish relish, his voice drips with twisted, tortured, impish, satirical glee. But the beauty of the song is it's transparency. He admits it's all lies, none of what he says is true, even if you think so, and then, hilariously, repeats his lies all over again. Its like the rational mind breaking the surface for a second telling you no! I know people care about me! Before the tide of irrational subconscious washes over you again and swallows you up in depression. If ever I feel isolated, sad, depressed and not myself, this song doesn't dignify or glorify it with emo angst, but illustrates that it's just a state of mind, and generally a load of b.s. it's a sick joke played on you by a cheeky malicious demon you've let inside your head. If I find myself chuckling by the end of the song, I know it's done the trick. Demon exorcised. | |
| The Smiths – That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I've always interpreted this song to be about Morrissey's (or anyone's) first homosexual experience. I take the "joke" to mean peers, friends or family mocking the lonely and suicidal, but more specifically, people who have found themselves in that place due to homophobia. "It was dark as I drove the point home, and on cold leather seats well it suddenly struck me, I might just die with a smile on my face after all" This is the main part for me- a first time homosexual encounter. Now he can no longer pretend to himself that he's something he's not. Now the homophobic jokes apply explicitly to him, the joke is therefore, no longer funny, and now he's struggling to cope with the internalised shame, guilt and fear of being discovered. And yet- now he has finally been true to his nature. Now he has learned what it's like to live, to be brave, and to connect with someone sexually, and that's why he might just die with a smile on his face after all. So what he's seen happen in other peoples lives is both the downward spiral of depression and suicide, and the thrill of an awakening sex life, but sadly for him, the two are one and the same. |
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| R.E.M. – Low Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think it's about a lengthy depression, after being hurt badly by a previous toxic relationship. Whether he now skips love altogether to in order to shield himself from the inevitable low times, which is depressing in itself, or whether he now realises that for all the joy, self-validation and euphoria he went through last time, he doesn't actually love that person because he will only end up hurting him again and would therefore, prefer not to go through all that again, the meaning is left ambiguous, but the main emphasis is on being hurt. | |
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