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Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics

22 years ago

this song is examining the "white man's burden" of the exploration of the new world, and how it applies today - how people put their own concerns over everyone else's, and feel utterly justified in the most ignorant of presumptions. the speaker is acting as god through an internal monologue, and "doing all he can" by condemning those around him because he can't understand them ("talks in maths") or misinterprets them ("hitler hairdo"). the end is ambiguous - either the speaker started paying so much attention to other people that they started to feel crowded out, or maybe they're clinging to their identity and are starled by the fact that they were starting to be tolerant and see things through other peoples' eyes.

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Radiohead – Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box Lyrics	22 years ago
i think this song uses rush hour as an example for how we waste our lives waiting for something that's never going to happen or really isn't worth it... or both. like people who go to college and become buiness or economics majors just because there's a better chance of a job, even though they'll hate their work. what is their reward in the end? knowing that they wasted their lives being unhappy.

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Codeseven – Southie Lyrics	22 years ago
i think he's talking about overextending himself, and needing someone else to support him before he completely collapses. however, i also get the feeling that the person to whom he is looking for comfort is part of the problem... "i let go of myself" - "sing to me all the stones being thrown" ...i think perhaps she is the reason for the stones, but if she loves him, then it doesn't matter.

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Fairweather – Blood On The Pages Lyrics

22 years ago

he's talking about a quote from the dictators' guitarist, a quote which is actually in the liner notes of the ep. it's something like, "from that point on, it was blood on the pages, blood on the strings, and everything else was just bullshit." i think he's explaining fairweather's new musical direction - in an interview he said that they had played their fun record (if they move...) and that now they were going to expand themselves musically. he's saying that he refuses to say or do anything that isn't his all, which i think is one of the most important credos by which ay kind of artist can (and should) live.

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Milemarker – Incest Incest Lyrics	22 years ago
the album is about the commodification of people as product - specifically, sex. this song is talking about how people react to sex, and saying we might as well do like insects, because we are less efficient about it. if you didn't catch it, this song is being sarcastic, just like nearly everything else they write.

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