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| The Cure – The Lovecats Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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I think the song is about the band's disintegration after the Pornography album and its subsequent revival when Let's Go to Bed was an unexpected hit. Suddenly everyone wanted Robert back "we missed you" hissed the lovecats, who are the cynical record industry people always smelling a quick profit. Bite & scratch & scream all night refers to Smith & Gallup going at each other which ended up in the Pornography tour being cancelled. And then he went and threw all his songs into the sea because nobody was hearing them anyway: ie he quit the band. Oh you know I'd do anything for you... let's have each other with cream, curl up in the fire (consuming each other, not lying in front of the fire but right in it) references cynically his relationship with the record industry. It's all about The Cure's commercial comeback after its very unpleasant demise in 1982 and whatever else Robert says about it is probably just him leading us astray with fibs as usual lol. |
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| New Order – Love Vigilantes Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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This song is about a soldier at war who's been longing to go home and see his family. He's a brave soldier who's been fighting in the name of truth with God's help. His cause is a noble one. He describes how happy he was when he was finally granted leave and could fly home. When he arrives however he's surprised to see his wife crying and he doesn't know why. Then he sees the telegram in her hand. There's been a terrible mistake! The telegram states that he's dead which is obviously an error as he's just walked through the door. I imagine his wife being overjoyed when she sees her husband standing in the doorway and everyone lives happily ever after. |
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| The Smiths – The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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This song is sung from the perspective of an absent, wayward father expressing his love for his son and regret that he's not there for him. He's full of love for his child and wants to protect him as expressed in the first few stanzas "My life down [for you] I shall lie..I'll love you till the day I die". Having a son come into his life felt like redemption for the father: "I once had a child and it saved my life...", however even his love for his son couldn't stop him from returning to his bad old habits whatever they might be (we aren't told): gambling, drug addiction, crime perhaps. Whatever it was he said "never never again, and all too soon I did return just like a moth to a flame". The song is definitely NOT about child abuse. The line "Climb up on my knee, sonny boy/Although you're only three, sonny boy/You're, you're mine" is borrowed from the song "Sonny Boy" by Al Jolson which is also about a father's love for his son. The song ends in a kind of wistful regret for a relationship that is over. The narrator sings "As long as I did my best for her" referring to the mother. That it's in the past tense, suggests the father and mother are no longer together and the father is just visiting his son. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Sad Waters Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[vchamberlain:39920] Need to edit my reply: That\'s a great reading of the lyrics (as a devotion to Mary) especially as the line after it (not present in this transcription) in brackets on the album sleeve lyrics is "And I don\'t know right from wrong" haha |
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