| Rollins Band – Liar Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[loneokami:23513] you can do the character in an ally by a bar, surrounded by some assholes, and getting the shot kicked out of him? That’s one of the many things I envision. | |
| The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| So yes, it’s about loneliness. We all know how it feels to be lonely with no one there for us. And Eleanor has been alone it seems for a long while. She seems to be waiting for someone to come along that cares and acknowdges her. That never happens however, and she dies alone, with nobody even caring or even aware of it, except the father, but doesn’t seem to particularly give a rat’s ass. | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| So yes, like most I first took this song as Hendrix describing an acid trip. I also know he would constantly say it’s a tribute to his love of science friction, and that it was also a love song of sorts. And I respect the man’s take on this song. He did write it after all. | |
| Three Days Grace – Bully Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I take this song as a critical eye agasint blame-fests that occur after a tragic event. I take the verses about the boy as him being bullied and verbally (and possibly physically) abused at home, so he decides to off himself. As for the girl’s verses I’ve taken them as her being lonely and friendless, as the verses say she has a temper, and now she’s had it with what’s happening in her life (or lack there of), and decides to do something to be recognized. Whether it be getting pimped, having sex, and doing hard drugs, to inflicting extensive pain or death onto other, or herself. (I also know there is an interpretation out there saying she was the boy’s bully and she feels so guilty that he killed himself that she does the same). And the chorus, as I said is society trying to pin the tragedies on someone or something, when really we should have been there helping the persons from the start. But we only give a shot when something bad happens and/or someone dies. Also, I think to add more layers of complexity to this song, they could of also tackled the issue of how appalling and nonchalantly there will be media coverage, showing all this pain and grieving, and not helping in anyway, because one minute they are talking and filming a tragic event, and the next you see a commercial trying to get you to buy something. And no one can tell me there aren’t many good examples of this. So that’s what I think about all that. |
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| Black Sabbath – Sweet Leaf Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I hope people just start referring to weed as Sweet leaf now. That’s be the best damn thing | |
| Rollins Band – Liar Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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As it has been said many times, the lyrics are self explanatory. I know we chalk it up as a shit relationship, which is what I agree with (this song hits all the marks of when I was in my first and worst relationship). Relationships based around lies and betrayal are damaging as all hell. I also think It can apply to anyone who you’ve ever trusted and made apart of your life and has betrayed you and lied, but you keep coming back and they don’t change, they say they will but they won’t. (Could be a good friend, a significant other, a parent, another family memeber, etc.) |
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| Pearl Jam – Deep Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I agree with the homosexual idea to the song’s meaning. On first few listens I took it, and still mainly take it as someone who is too self-aware of things, he smart, but he’s different and being different doesn’t help you it’ll just make others single you or I’d isolate you. You have no sense of belonging. So when the character shoots up he’s trying to numb himself to his natural heightened sense of self-awareness about himself and the world he’s living in. But he also thinks a lot, he has a mind that is always thinking. That’s why he “ponders his maker.” Thinking about religion, god. When he’s at on the edge of the “know nothing town” “feeling quite superior,” I take that has town of small minded, intolerable people. He feels superior to them because he is different and more open minded and so on. And the “to the sky above, he just ain’t nothing.” Is again, the god and religion. He feels higher than the people of the town, yet lower than god, if there is one. As for the “burning knife” I’ve always taken it as self-mutilation or maybe mutilation/murder of another (like a memeber of this town). Now, the “young virgin” verses, as I call them. Yet again another way for him to try to escape all this (his self-awareness, inferiority and superiority). A young woman, still a virgin comes to him for her first sexual experience, but I feel near the time that’s supposed to happen, she’s having second thoughts and doesn’t want to do like she initially had. So I take it as rape, yes. But again, he wants to escape and numb himself that he doesn’t care and rapes her. And I also feel that when Vedder used the descriptors, “Christmas clean” it’s refering again to the character’s ponderings and inferiority to god (Christmas, heaven). He also wants to try and feel more pure by having sex with this young women (clean, virgin). And lastly, the “In too deep,” “can’t touch the bottom.” Of the chorus is the sum up of all this that the chrcater is facing/feeling/thinking. He feels he’s falling in an endless, bottomless void. No matter what he does to try and escape it, he’s always be trapped, he will never touch the bottom. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet with Butterfly Wings Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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What I interpret this song as is, the truth and likeness of the human species. Of any species, really. When you’re stripped of your “individuality” you’re nothing but an animal of raw instinct, and no different from other humans. Our one job in life is to survive long enough to pass on our genes, just like any other animal. Also, when billy says, “tell me I’m the only one,” “Jesus was an only son,” and “tell me I’m the chosen one.” It’s like you’re desperately clinging to the idea/acknowledgment that you have something about you that is speacial, and no one else has. Again, your “individuality” But that’s just what I take the song as. I also acknowledge the interpretation that it’s about the music business. |
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