| Roxy Music – Psalm Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[BogusMan:35913] I agree that there's irony in the song, especially in the opening verse but it goes on to offer something more complex. 'Believe in me once seemed a good line' can be read as a dismissal of belief, but it can also should be understood as the speaker no longer being able to rely only on himself as all he needs to be believe in. 'Once seemed' but no longer does and 'belief in Jesus' offers a better answer. The narrator can't achieve such a belief easily but he understands it as the only possibility of facing death without fear. it scarcely matters if Ferry was a nihilist-atheist, this is a song from a point of view. | |
| Guided by Voices – Gleemer (The Deeds of Fertile Jim) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Very much seems like a song about depression. | |
| Big Star – What's Going Ahn Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Alex Chilton staring into the abyss - and the abyss staring back into him. | |
| Brian Eno – Cindy Tells Me Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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It's about the trials and tribulations of college girls. 'They've given up sleeping alone.' Goodbye mom and dad, hello bringing strangers home. 'Left the hot points to rust in the kitchenettes/And they're saving their labor for insane readings.' Ignoring domestic standards and instead throwing themselves into their studies. 'Living quietly'.. This is Britain in the early-70s so these aren't your spring break drunkards but upper-class or art-school women who take their studies seriously. |
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