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| Inner Circle – La Long Lyrics
| 2 months ago
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@[simoooontje:54610] If you cry, I'm going to push it some more? Come on. You can see why that sounds rapey |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Gave It A Name Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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See, I read it not so much as rationalizing actions as admitting what they are and calling them by their proper name. What I did was murder. I\'m a murderer. I hit my wife. I\'m a wife-beater. I\'m an abuser. Sometimes we don\'t want to put labels on things but sometimes putting a label on something is important to categorize it, understand it, fess up to it. \n\nAlthough I do have to say that Cassack\'s interpretation makes some sense. Whatever\'s going on, it has to account for how giving it a name follows from, and possibly alleviates or addresses, the guilt and shame that the offenders feel lying awake at night. Whether it\'s rationalization or acknowledging what they did I\'m not sure. \n\nIn either case, what follows is this brief meditation on the idea that violence begets violence, dysfunction breeds more dysfunction, that kind of thing. \n\nThe first place I encountered this song was the intro of David Simon and Paul Haggis\' TV miniseries Show Me A Hero, where it\'s used quite movingly and effectively to introduce a show about the effects of racial segregation in Yonkers, NY. The cinematography is beautiful and this song felt very appropriate for the issue - something with a long, sordid history that continues to generate consequences and the importance of calling it what it is and admitting what\'s going on.\n\nBeautiful, moving song. |
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| Modern English – I Melt with You Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[midnightcitysky:33564] But what does mesh and lace mean in the context of the song? I get that it's a reference to their earlier album but does the lyric make sense? My thought is that mesh and lace are fragile, right, so maybe he's struck by how fragile the world is, as it easily rips apart (as mesh and lace do) in a nuclear blast. As he's making love to this girl. |
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| Modern English – I Melt with You Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[dcba:33562] You and I have the same impressions and questions about this. To your first sentence: yes, that's what I hear too. To your second sentence: I'm wondering about that too. For one, it's apparently a reference to their earlier album. But what does it mean in the song? One idea I had is that mesh and lace are fragile, right, so he didn't realize the world was so fragile? He's struck by how easily the world rips apart (which he can see as he's making love to her during this nuclear blast)? |
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| Belly (US) – Gepetto Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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I'm not so sure about that. That could be, but I think that I perceive something a little more risqué.
He's lying on top. He's like Gepetto. Gepetto created Pinocchio. Notice the play on lying. He's lying on top of a doll. He's working with his wood. He lies and something grows.
I can see an interpretation of this where this is kind of a bad boy from the neighborhood who is sleeping around and the girls competing for him better keep him entertained. But I'm not sure and I'm curious what others think about this song. |
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