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Elliott Smith – Independence Day Lyrics

3 years ago

@[Maaza:41523] In recovery AA/NA whatever you get a key ring with the reminder "Just For Today" It means to keep things in the here and now, one day at a time "you only live a day"). It enables us to deal with each day without projecting good or bad into the future. It\'s part of circumventing an addictive mindset and safeguarding sobriety for one day. Today. \r\n\r\nIt could be a junkie friend which maybe why Elliott felt a need to say it was about something else but it could also be about someone who\'s tricked by future illusions of happiness . If I was reading as a Buddhist it would seem to describing attachment, loss, suffering and rebirth.

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The Fall – Kicker Conspiracy Lyrics

3 years ago

Mark E Smith\'s disenchantment/disillusionment with the modern game of football. The game becoming commercialized, sterile and conformist. Where at one time the individual flair of players such as George Best was a thrilling spectacle, would now have less of a place in the conservative style of play, modern regulations and the club and the team as a brand constructed by corporate visionary\'s rooted in marketability, expansion and wealth. The game now, less an expression of tradition and loyalty and a sense of belonging has become so much more than your local team. The terraces of old, are now places of privileged accessibility for sponsors, potential investors and marketing opportunists who know the cost of everything but the value of nada. Now with all of the plastic glitz and tackiness of a hotdog franchise. Where the traditionalists have long since left. Players wages are no longer capped and conformity reaps rewards for the new generation of footballer being the exorbitant beneficiary for adherence to a broader Globalization. In regular speak thank you for playing the world game, here\'s your cut.... I mean he was a Man City fan he reckoned before it all became what it did. You could say his values were of a certain time and place.

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At the Drive-In – One Armed Scissor Lyrics

4 years ago

@[WhiteTide:36502] Skin graft machinery for Injuries caused by napalm. Cut away means the helicopter has been shot down. Dissect a trillion sighs away is him writing about the horror caused to everybody there. I write to remember means it's his way of keeping in touch with his former life and humanity. Solar eclipsed because they've been shot from the bright sky. It sounds like they've landed in an abandoned ex Russian base. "banked on memory, mummified circuitry, Sputnik sickles found in the seats etc Between the Viet Cong and their injuries becoming infected they're dead without support. Anyway hi from 20 yrs in the future. Bought this album when it came out and I thought I might read the lyrics. Personally I don't take individuals from a band's word as gospel. They're as in the dark as the rest of us if they didn't write the lyrics.

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The Gun Club – Jack on Fire Lyrics	6 years ago
I reckon it's a play on the myth of Stingy Jack. He couldn't enter heaven or hell so roams the marshes with a lump of burning coal to light the way.

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Foetus – Anything (Viva!) Lyrics

6 years ago

The perspective of this song seems to be from an extreme, nihilistic, survivalist redneck. Who believes most people are idiots and breeders for a self interested Govt that is ultimately going to blow up the planet. This guy thinks he's a giant among insignificant fools, whose valueless lives will all be annihilated by the greed and parasitic behaviour of the state, probably nuclear war. While he'll reclaim the devastated terrain as his own. He's waiting, watching and ready with his guns, that are so valueble to him that contraception is way more important than having to waste a pellet on another unplanned stupid baby. Classic sociopath.

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