| The Smashing Pumpkins – Glass + the Ghost Children Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but as I go through this website, I can't help but realize that no one actually listens to songs anymore, or even attempts to understand their meaning. And when and/or if they do, it's always some selfish interpretation derived from their own life. Not that that's bad thing but you all still miss the big picture. YES, this is a concept album, albeit not too hard to figure out. Basically, the entire album is about God and Us (or Christ). | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Blue Skies Bring Tears Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's about the "end of the world" (aka Armageddon to most). Or more specifically, about someone causing the "end of the world." Obviously. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – The Everlasting Gaze Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I intrepret the song to be sung (through Billy Corgan) from Christ's perspective as he addresses the world. Trust me, if you really listen to the song, this intrepretation is conssistent throughout. I'd go further into this interpretation... but seriously, who'd read it? | |
| Radiohead – Exit Music (For a Film) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Despite the Romeo+Juliet film connection, I agreee with thinksoup that this song is about the end of the world. | |
| Radiohead – Arpeggi Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| eatenbytheworms, the version I'm speaking from (the one that will be on the new album I suppose) is the one of the entire band playing -- not the one of Thom and the Nazareth Orchestra (the original lyrics). I think the latter may be the one you're getting you're lyrics from. Listen to the version of the band playing (the recorded version), and you'll hear him clearly sing "we're fishes". | |
| Radiohead – Go Slowly Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Anyone know where I can get this song? | |
| Radiohead – Creep Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Anyone else find it odd that this song has gotten over 300s posts (the most)? I mean, the meaning to this song is obvious -- probably the most obvious meaning of all Radiohead songs. | |
| Radiohead – Dollars and Cents Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't mean to gripe, but the lyrics above are wrong in certain places... "There are many things to talk about" is actually " There are better things to talk about". And this one... "Even when it's only Warnings Even when it's only War games" actually is... "Even when He turns The water blues Even when He turns The water greens" |
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| Radiohead – Airbag Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Let me first say that, despite what the booklet saids, I'm sure that the verse, "in a fast german car" is actually (listen carefully!) "I fly in a stolen car." I noticed with Radiohead sometimes the booklet and the actual sung verse don't match up. In short, I think it's some kind of messianic theme with the airbag in the song symbolizing God. I think the jingle bells near the end of the song are an obvious reference to Christ. Here's my detailed interpretation, line by line: "In the next world war, jackknifed juggernaut" It's popular belief that Christ will return during a doomsday scenario such as a world war. It's also believed that he will come as an unstoppable and powerful force; which would explain the "jacknifed juggernaut" line. "I am born again" No one truly knows how he will return. Maybe he's reincarnated like this verse may suggest. "In a neon sign, scrolling up and down, I am born again" Like a bright neon sign, his existence will be made known to the world in an obvious manner. "In an interstellar burst, I'm back to save the universe" His coming will be sudden and in an instant. "In a deep, deep sleep of the innocent, I am born again" Again, no one truly knows how Christ will return. Call it a stretch, but I believe this verse is suggesting that Christ will be "awakened" within someone ("the innocent"). This interpretation is supported by the next line... "And I fly in a stolen car, I'm amazed that I survived" I think the "stolen car" is a metaphor for someone's life. The "innocent someone" may have been going through life not knowing who he/she was (hence, a "stolen life") until... "an airbag saved my life" The airbag being a metaphor for God in this verse, God saves this person's life by helping him/her realize who she was. Yea, I know... this interpretation is a little far-fetched and a bit too imaginative but I came to interpret it in this way due to other facts. I find it interesting how a lot of Radiohead songs ("Where I End and You Begin" "Arpeggi" "Prove Yourself" "Paranoid Android" etc.) seem to have religious undertones in them (note the image of Christ on the back of the Pablo Honey album). I sometimes wonder if Radiohead is actually a "Christian" band under the guise as being mainstreamed. If I'm right, they're doing an awesome job at being subtle, something that religious bands should take note of and stop spouting heartless crap like "Jesus loves you! Halleluhah!" |
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| Radiohead – Arpeggi Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree with cielan as to the meaning of this song. But given certain lines in the song, I think there's a small twist to that meaning. I think the song is about searching for God amidst life's troubles ("Where are you?"). It's directed to God, almost like a desperate prayer ("I'll follow you to the edge of the earth" or "Are you out there?"). Btw, here are the lyrics to the recorded version of the song, performed by the band themselves (as opposed to the Nazareth Orchestra lyrics above): In the deepest ocean At the bottom of the sea Your eyes They turn me Why should I stay here Why should I stay Here I'd be crazy not to follow Follow where you lead Your eyes They turn me Turn me into phantoms I follow you to the edge Of the earth And fall off Everybody leaves If they get the chance And this Is my chance I get eaten by the worms And we're fishes Troubled by the worms And we're fishes We're fishes (x2) Where are you? I hit the bottom Hit the bottom of the ocean Escape(x2) Are you out there? Hit the bottom Hit the bottom of the ocean Escape(x2) |
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| Radiohead – Planet Telex Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Forget my first interpretation, although it's the same as this one only longer. This one's only shorter. To sum it all up, this song is about trying to make sense of the world. But you can't. You just can't do it. So you might as well forget about it and just live life. Period. | |
| Radiohead – All I Need Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Wow, the lyrics to this song are everchanging. The version I listen to seems to be a little different (and the most finished). Not to mention it's the clearest version I could find; almost as good as a recording. Listen for yourselves: http://myspace.com/3141592617. Here's the revision of the lyrics as I hear them, along with my interpretation of the song, line by line: 1.) I'm a next act Waiting in the wings 2.) I'm animal Trapped in your hot car 3.) I only stick with you Because there are no others 4.) You're all I need (x2) I'm in the middle of your picture Lying in the leaves 5.) I am a moth Who just wants to get out the night 6.) I'm an insect Who wants to share your light 7.) I am all the things That you choose to ignore 8.) You're all I need (x2) I'm in the middle of your picture Lying in the leaves 9.) It's all right (x4) 10.) It's all wrong It's all right It's all wrong It's all right It's all wrong It's all right In short, I think eatenbytheworms had it right that this love is one-sided. The song is about a lonely guy (or girl, but for generalization's sake i'll keep it masculine) in a friendship with a girl that he has come to love more than just a friend. 1.) This first line I'm not too sure about -- lyrically or interpretation-wise. But, I think he is comparing himself to a "next act waiting in the wings" as another way of saying that he has potential. Basically, he's waiting for his chance that he so desperately wants. 2.) Like an "animal trapped in a hot car" he's truly helpless and cannot live without her. He needs her just as badly as animal needs its owner to open the car door. 3.) Here's where the loneliness theme really shows. I believe when Thom sings this line, he sincerely means that there "are no others". A beautiful line that nicely accomodates the previous one about the trapped animal. 4.) He's content with just her in his life. I believe the picture is a metaphor for the girl's life, and the leaves signify other people in her life that she has just bunched together indifferently. But the guy is saying, "Hey, I'm right here ('in the middle of your picture'). I love you most and am ready do anything for you." 5.) This line further pushes the lonliness theme. If you know anything about moths, you know that they only mate at night. Meanwhile, butterflies mate during the day. Basically, he's saying that he's lonely ("in the night", the darkness) and wants to be with her. 6.) Samething here. He wants to share in her love. 7.) This takes me back to line 4 with the picture metaphor. He's been indifferently bunched together with everything and everyone else in her life. OR, his advances don't mean anything to her and she just ignores him. Same difference I guess. 8.) Read my line 4 interpretation please. :-) 9. and 10.) I believe this is the voice of someone who is being tortured by unrequited love. He's lonely but he has her. He's in her life at least and he should be content with that, right? ("It's all right") Wrong. He loves beyond friendship and he can't help what he feels ("It's all wrong"). He's in a dilemma and doesn't know what to do ("It's all right, it's all wrong"). It's possible I may have delved a little too deeply in this song. But this is what I got when I listened to it. =-/ |
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| Radiohead – Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I feel as though I should elaborate on each verse: "There's a gap in between, where I end and you begin". I think ellie had it right when he/she said that the song is about the space between God and man. I think this verse has God basically saying, "We are not on the same page. You will never be me. I Am Who I Am." A message I think is directed specifically to the rulers and religious people, aka "God husslers" (read: people who use God's name for their own purposes). "I'm sorry for us, the dinosaurs roam the earth" refers to the ignorant, those who refuse knowledge and persecute the children of God. "The sky turns green, where I end and you begin" I think the "green" in this verse stands for "animosity", "sinful", "sour", "ugly", "bad", "betrayal", etc. This basically has God saying that what lies between Him and man is evil. "I am up in the clouds and can't come down" He's here but doesn't do anything. "I go watch but not take part, where I end and where start, where you left me alone" I think of the phrase "God is dead" and how it is increasingly becoming a matter-o-fact in the mind of humanity due to science and its logic. "X will mark the place, like a parting of the wave" The X stands for God's vengeance which can happen at anytime or any place. "Like a house falling into the sea" I think the word house is a metaphor for familiarity and comfort. This verse is basically saying that everything as we know it will end and be drowned into oblivion in the face of the coming vengeance. "I will eat you alive. There will be no more lies" If at all in any verse, God speaks here, saying he will make things right and reveal all Truth. I think of tsunamis and floods when I hear this verse -- how the earth is slowly eating us alive. "Oh no, Pop/God is dead, long live pop." - Christ |
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| Radiohead – Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is so frightening and beautiful, it's awespiring in a strange and powerfully profound way. This song is about God and sung from the perspective of God towards the world. Period. I really get a vengeful vibe when I listen to this song as if all problems wit the world will be avenged -- it's so incredible this song. "Oh no, pop/God is dead, long live pop." - Christ |
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| Drugstore – El president Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| ...must... kill... Bush... | |
| Radiohead – Blow Out Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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If my life could ever be described or manifested as a song, this would be it. "Know yourself." - Christ |
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| Radiohead – Vegetable Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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People might say that I'm thinking too deeply, but this song may be about Christ - told from his perspective as a human being, a normal person. It's about the burden of what he had to do ("I never wanted anything but this") and how it was recieved ("I never wanted any broken boes, Scarred face, no home, Your words surround me and asphyxiate"). Yet he stayed true to himself and his mission (" And I burn all hate"). He refused the world ("I spit on the hand that feeds me") and didn't let it make him who he was by changing himself ("I will not control myself"). Anyone who really knows the Christ story should agree, and if you haven't you should refer to it to understand where I'm coming from. I'm not religious at all, but just look on the back of the album case for "Pablo Honey" and you'll see an image of Christ on it. I think there are other Radiohead songs with similar meanings behind them (like "Prove Yourself" and "You"). "Know yourself." - Christ |
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| Radiohead – Prove Yourself Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree with some of what l337MonkeyCrap said. It's about wanting to be yourself ( "I want to breathe") but being hated for it. You want relief so badly but it's so difficult ("I say I want it but I don't know how"/ "I look, I bleed, I beg, I pray"). And because someone is hating you for something so simple (being yourself is like breathing, right?), it seems impossible to be yourself ("I'm better off dead"). Yet regardless of it all, you want to prove to those trying to kill you that you are who you are and prove to yourself (and whoever else) that you can win them over. ("Prove yourself"/ I want to breath, i want to grow"). I may be thinking too deeply, but when I listen to this song I imagine what Christ (as a person) might have been going through when he tried telling everyone who he was ("I can't afford to breathe in this town"). Anyone who knows the story should put themselves in his position and think hard on it. I know I can't be thinking too deeply because if you look on the back of the album case of "Pablo Honey" there's an image of Christ on it. Makes you wonder the meaning behind other Radiohead songs, eh? "Know yourself." - Christ |
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| Incubus – Make a Move Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"I'm at the end of my REBORN again" I'm pretty sure that's the first line. From my interpretation of the lyrics, I think the song is about doing what you know is right in sight of a problem ("...cast the first stone"), instead of cowering up by pretending it isn't there ("...plead the fifth [as in the Fifth Amendment] and walked away"). The message in here is similar to "Make Yourself" as well. You can't know what is right without knowing yourself and allowing the world to make up who you are. ("I'm cautious of who I would call a friend, Who you acquaint is who you are"). And needless to say, there are things some would call "Christian" overtones in the song.("...cast the first stone"/" ...apple hanging on the tree" / "...reborn again"). In short, I believe that Brandon is taking on a Christ-like persona for everyone with a little "hero" inside of them ("For those who won't do apathy"), and is telling everyone to wake up and stop sitting on their asses by lying to themselve and pretending nothing is wrong with the world. "Know [make] thyself." - Christ |
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| Coldplay – Low Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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No offense, but everyone's lyrics are horrible. First off... "The parting of the seas" "But you mean more, mean more to me Than any colour I could see" "You see the world in black and white But paint it white" "I'll give it to you on a silver spoon" "Saving you no moment too soon" "'Cause I feel LOW"- those are the correct lyrics everyone's getting wrong. Everything else seems fine. I'll say that its common for anyone to associate their own personal outlook on life to a favorite song. And there are a lot of examples in the posts i'm seeing here for this song. With that being said, i think tyhale19's interpretation was most objective and closest to this song's true meaning (if ever something existed). If you listen carefully (with heart and mind; not just with heart or mind), you'll notice the theme of "God" throughout the album. In short, the song is about the love of God and that feeling of elation you have knowing Him/this (backed up by the up-beat rhythm and tempo). Ironically enough, it is only when a person is "low" (sad, depressed, blue, etc.) when he/she is truly close to God, hence the title ("nothing is as down or as up, as Us" - God's words). In fact, the entire song is sung from God's perspective. And He's crying out to whoever wants to listen and trust in Him ("Don't you want to see it come soon?" "I'll give it to you on a silver spoon") Know-it-alls too steeped in their "logic" can only see the world in black and white, and like most people, decide to paint it white. Black and white refers to good and evil. But God is too much to be put in a box - He is both good and evil, defying all logic. He is the LIGHT (if you know anything about the light spectrum and its involvement in the way we see colour, then you already know) But it's so easy to see ("Floating in a big white balloon"), if only you'd stop trying to understand and realize there can't be good without the evil (and vice-versa), then you would be free. Also, though your lost and feeling "low", God will ALWAYS come, and usually at the last second, the very last inch of faith ("Saving you no moment too soon"). But if He is always with you, always there to save you, then what's "low"? High is low and low is high (again, "nothing is as down or as up"). Just as black is white , white is black. Good is evil, evil is good. Makes no sense, but that's God. To sum it all up, human beings are already perfect -- they just haven't realized it yet. That's what I can extract from the song. "Let those with knowledge understand." NOTE: Radiohead music is God-themed as well but they go way deeper than Coldplay and are harder to understand. By the way, I'm no Christian. |
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| Radiohead – Planet Telex Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "Chasing you home"... yea, that supports it too. I almost forgot. | |
| Radiohead – Planet Telex Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "Chasing you home"... yea, that supports it too. I almost forgot. | |
| Radiohead – Planet Telex Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Let me first say I'm no religious fanatic - believe me on this one. I believe Eatcarpet came the closest in his interpretation. My interpretations are usually long, so i'll try to get straight to the point. The subject is hard to describe with words, but I think the "it" in the song refers to something that's been with humanity since the beginning. You could call "it" the soul, or even God (I believe it's the latter). It's the impulse of creation ("you can taste it but it will not form") - the very thing that drives mankind into progress. Progress into what? To put it simply, to transform planet Earth into "Planet Xerox" - mankind's material (or rather physical) copy of heaven. "Everything is broken" refers to how things are not yet at their full potential, or form. "Everyone is broken" refers to how people aren't who they think they are; they belong to something... "more", something that's been hidden from us (we hide it)but we can't forget about it. The original title of the song was "Planet Xerox", but had to be changed to "Planet Telex". I believe the decision for "Telex" supports the idea, since the two titles have roughly the same meaning and are both appropriate for the song (look up the definitions for telex and xerox to better understand). The "it" refers to gifts God "communicates" to humanity. It could be intelligence, love, wisdom, or all three in some odd way. It's what brought us from the Stone Age to modern times, and it will eventually bring us to something wonderful. Basically, the "it" in the song is God's love for humanity. By the way, the same thinking can be applied to Airbag also. |
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| Radiohead – Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Hail to the Thief", like the rest of Radiohead's albums, is conceptual. It's a statement--through music--on rarely addressed issues in our society. And with a title like "Hail to the THeif", it's obvious that this album's general concept is about the tyranny of government (or more specifically the Bush Admin.). So this song, like 2+2=5, pretty much falls in line with the concept of government tyranny and dictatorship. I believe the title "Sit Down, Stand Up" is a euphemism for the control the government has over us all. To think that the government (especially one as the US-govt) doesn't have control over us would be foolish and stupid. Through propaganda, informational filtering, and other manipulations, we are basically told when to "sit down" and to "stand up" "anytime" at the government's will. When to support, when to oppose; what should be our concern, what shouldn't; when to sit down, when to stand up. have little influence in global "We can wipe you out anytime" is self-explanatory as being another allusion to the power of government. We, as normal people, who have no major influence (international decisions, war, peace), as oppose to people in power (government-ranking individuals) who do have that kind of influence, can be "wiped out anytime". To sum up, I basically interpret "Sit Down, Stand Up" to be about the secret power of government. Or perhaps Thom is talking about some force (i.e secret organization, occults, movements) in this world we don't know of. |
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| KoЯn – Blame Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| My interpretation of this song is about someone who may have had a crush on one of his/her friend's but the relationship went sour because of the crush or something else. It doesn't necessarily have to be a crush but just someone he/she cares about. So now things are ugly and they both hate each other, although one of them still has a crush on the other ("Tear me from your heart, tearing me apart"). That's just my perspective. Haha, I'm going through something similiar right now and that verse, "Loathing, exploding, controlling, etc..." describes my crush perfectly. | |
| KoЯn – No One's There Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I agree with most of what LordElfStone interpretation. Most of the album addresses issues such as depression and hate, and it is clever how it ended with that song. Jon singing all his pain and suffering yet he feels no one's there for him. This concept is repeated throughout a lot of KoRn's songs if you've noticed. "You and me..." is him talking to whoever's out there that can relate to what he sings about. Also, another good name for this song would be "Suicide Note" ("...leave these places far behind"). Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed that this song sounds somewhat like a letter. I look at this song in two different ways. One, a personal song for the fans out there that truly understand Jon. Two, kinda of what Life is Peachy posted about how posers fake and feed off his success, stealing his sound ("Echoes back at me..."). In this sense, this song kinda gives the impression that KoRn may retire soon ("I know it's time to leave these places far behind"), but that's a little far-fetched. | |
| KoЯn – Embrace Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Yea... I agree with Oscar on the lyrics and the meaning. Well... then again, I always thought it was "Blood is boring, sleep is boring..." but whatever. Anyway, yea.. the song is about when life is pissing you off, although you try not to, (sleeping and cutting yourself don't work, hence the first verse)you're left with no other option but to Embrace the fucked up, bottled up (haha, song pun there) feelings you have inside. | |
| KoЯn – Hollow Life Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Where the hell is my post?! Does anyone know if there's a page button somewhere? Anyway... in case for some reason my post didn't make, it was basically a longer (much LONGER) version of what JozzyJosbourne wrote. I don't think Jon is denouncing God in this song. Maybe he's echoing it a little (I doubt it though), but that's not what the song is about. It's about anyone who feels that they're just wasting away. The title is self-explanatory. | |
| KoЯn – Hollow Life Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I haven't read all the interpretations (too lazy) but from what I have read, I think everyone pretty much got the basic meaning down. Personally, I think the song is about what the title saids, "Hollow Life". It's someone (ANYONE) who feels that their life is hollow because it lacks meaning. That person may not be doing anything with their lives and are just wasting away. That person knows this, hence the verse, "Feeding the fall I can't help but desire of falling down this time Deep in this hole that I'm making I can't escape Falling all this time ". Maybe they've given up and are just letting themselves fall through time, never reaching for anything to grab on to - no goals in life, no direction. So they search and wonder why God hasn't blessed them like he's down everyone else ("Where is God looking down?") with the talent and self-esteem to go on. Yea... so I think the "we" in the song represents people like this. A miserable and wretched person that just feels lonely and lost. Honestly, I think this song is a bit of a "self-pity" song, but that's part of the reason why I love it. It's sort of the opposite of Here to Stay in my opinion. |
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