| Wire – Ahead Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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To me it's obvious this song is about oral sex. The title is word play: ahead = a head. "it's enough for ahead/a head" It's about giving head to someone, not receiving it. I think it's most likely about cunnilingus, especially if the "lips" in the first line refers to the labia. Otherwise it could also be anilingus. So "lips growing for service" could either be the receiver's labia swelling, getting ready to be served, or it could be about the lips of the giver who is getting ready to serve. If this is the true meaning, "kneeling for pleasure" is pretty obvious. The giver is kneeling before the recipient of the "service". "Making the body search" would be a reference to a "cavity search", wherein a police officer, prison guard etc is searching the body cavities of someone to see if they've smuggled something inside it. The "monkey caught stealing" in the song could be about the person being searched (for stolen goods) or the singer being caught and "punished" by having to do sexual service to the other person. "scattering desires" is more evidence this is about something sexual. "smothering fires" could be metaphorically about someone who is so turned on they're "on fire" and the singer is using their mouth and tongue to "smother" the fire. Or it could be that the fires (desires) themselves are smothering, like they're too overwhelming. I don't understand the thing about the "TV" though or what the "word that matters" could be about. |
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| Echo and the Bunnymen – With A Hip Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I have my own personal NSFW interpretation of it being a song about someone trying anal sex for the first time, LOL. First it's like "Nobody's allowed [...] Out, out, out, out" and then it's "Trespass all the way down [...] I can handle it and I want some". Then it's "Relax. Feel the pleasure inside" "Collide, collide" and "With a hip-hip-hop and a flip-flap-flop" - the movements and sounds they're making. "This is the one called Heaven and this is the one for me". "Gonna steal some bananas from the grocer's shop" - He likes it so much that he's gonna use bananas on himself the next time. Just my dirty mind... |
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| Echo and the Bunnymen – With A Hip Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I think Ian McCulloch said he tried heroin once, just once. Then this feels like the song about that. "I couldn't handle it but I had some" |
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| Echo and the Bunnymen – Lips Like Sugar Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Ian McCulloch, the singer, comes off as very narcissistic in his interviews. He has dressed up as a woman at least twice* and seems to enjoy the way he looks. In my mind this is a song about him dressing up as a woman and standing in front of the mirror. He kisses himself/"her" in the mirror. "She'll be my mirror, Reflect what i am" and "Mirror kisses". He loves himself/"her". "I know what she's thinking" - obviously he knows what she's thinking because it's also his own thoughts. She's his "siamese twin", because they share one body. She's also unattainable to others, to the "you" in the song. He just uses her good looks to allure and tease other men, but he won't let them have her/him. "To laugh at how you break and melt into this lake You'll flow down her river but you'll never give her..." This theory is also supported by the fact that he's using a close-up of his own lips in the music video to seduce the audience. He's the "sugar lips" he's singing about. But yes, as others pointed out, there could be some cocaine references too. He's snorting cocaine from a mirror, he sees his own reflection in the mirror/"lake" and falls in love with himself, like Narcissus did. *See this interview: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/that_time_ian_mcculloch_dressed_up_as_dorothy where he expressed that he was "a better-looking girl than you are", talking about either his old female tormentors from school or Judy Garland. And watch the music video for "Seven seas" at 1.51 where he's made up as a gorgeous girl and he walks seducingly and coyly past his band members who all turn their heads to look at him/"her". |
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| Ultravox – Rockwrok Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I love this song! It's obviously about gay sex. I don't believe it's just about any type of sex, because of the examples they use in the song: "Penetration boys in hotel lifts" - at least two boys and lifts/elevators are not that big to fit a lot of people and penetration speaks for itself. "Invitations on sinking ships" - could be heterosexual, but the *sinking* part speaks of desperation, like even heterosexual men would turn to another man for one last moment of pleasure. "In aircrafts, destroyers"... feels like military places where usually there are only men, especially in the end of the 70's. "and cinema foyers" - could be heterosexual, but maybe it's like a porn cinema because I don't think people would have sex openly in a regular cinema foyer. "Gay, wild and willing, stripped of grace" - he even uses the word "gay". "Fuck like a dog" is doggy style and while it could be heterosexual, together with everything else it suggests a homosexual encounter between two men. "A nimble mambo in the park" - parks were the obvious place to cruise for gay men in the 70's. "A lovely sucker in the car park" - could be any gender but I think most women would prefer a safer place to have anonymous sex unless they're paid for it. "An anal sailor in the bar" - I rest my case. |
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| Echo and the Bunnymen – Lips Like Sugar Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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| The Chameleons – Things I Wish I'd Said Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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This song feels like it's about unresolved issues with someone who now is dead. It also feels related to The Truth isn't Truth Anymore: TIWIS: "An old face came to me tonight, I don't know why he came" TTITA: "I dreamt about you last night, Why I don't know" TIWIS: "Oh God, not you again" TTITA: "And always he comes bouncing back" |
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| The Chameleons – The Healer Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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This feels very related to "Tears", which apparently is about Mark's dear friend who died of cancer. The Healer: "Here comes the sun, Calling out to everyone " Tears: "Oh, now drawn to the sun[...]He calls out to everyone" The Healer: "Here comes the moon" Tears: "I can see the colored moon now" The Healer: "You're not the only one" Tears: "He was the only one" Also, in The Healer, he actually uses the word "tears", unlike in the song Tears : "Running on a river of tears" I think in "Tears" he feels lonely and maybe he wishes to join his dead friend in the afterlife: "Waiting for the light to turn green, And carry me home, To the kindest eyes that I've ever seen, Carry me home [...] In a cold world how will it be? In the real world how will it be? In the lonely world how would it be? Will the ghosts just stop following me?" But in "The Healer" he has decided he wants to live: "So I got to thinking, Perhaps I should think about staying. At least for a moment or two. I'm feeling shakey, But I'll be okay" That's my interpretation. I may be wrong, but I think the two songs are about the same tragic loss of a loved one. |
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