| Our Lady Peace – Thief Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I always thought where he was saying "clocks tick" that he was saying "christ here?". I thought this because of the previous line "I don't want to hear who walked on water". And because that's a question anyone in that situation would be inclined to ask. Now that I listen closer it does sound more like clocks tick. In my eyes they both make sense, maybe that's just me. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Crash Into Me Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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*I'm sorry for how long this thing ran, but I was bored, and I kinda went on for a while. But here it is: Let me preface this by saying that I'm definitely not the biggest Dave Matthews Fan but I do enjoy listening to a couple of his songs from time to time. This is definitely a song that has a meaning that isn't really exact, you can look into it as shallow or as deep as you want. In this way most lyrics are like classic literature, there are English proffesors who sit around all day and come up with stuff that these books supposedly mean. Whether the author actually intended it to be what these guys make it out to be or not, they still come up with it and force students to learn it, but that's beside the point. There really is no "right" or "wrong" translation of this song, and no ones opinion can really be labeled that way. It could quite possibly be a shallow song about sex, or it could have some deep philosophical meaning. I guess the only person who would know (well, maybe) would be Dave Matthews. He might sit down to write a song with the intention of fooling people into thinking it had some deep philosophical meaning when he's only writing about sex. If your wondering what I personally think about it, I think it's just about sex, of course I think "A Tale of Two Cities" is just a boring story with no hidden meanings. (I mean, come on the guy was just writing a book. He didn't sit there and think about every word he wrote ["hmmm.. water could symboli..."] no.) If you've come this far and only care about the meaning of the song you can go on, if you care about my opinion on how to be a good dave fan, and people who post stupid anti-band crap in boards like these, keep reading. Here's a breakdown of what's going on in the rest of this thing. The next paragraph type thing down there is a guide to your being a mature Dave fan and interacting with mature people who aren't Dave fans. The next paragraph addresses people who post really stupid things on message boards and the like. First off let me preface this section by saying that in the rather small "not Dave-Matthews fans" section of American society, 'Dave' fans can have a pretty bad reputation. There are typically two types of Dave fans and several hybrids in between. Here are some simulated conversations with each. Type 1: DF: "Hey have you heard Dave Matthews new CD, is that not the greatest album you have ever heard" NDF: "I haven't heard it yet, I'm glad you like it, but I'm not really the biggest Da..." DF: "WHAT THE CRAP?! Are you trying to tell me you don't like Dave Matthews?" NDF: "Well I..." DF: "That is so stupid, Dave is the greatest...." -- Then the conversation goes downhill from there. Type 2: DF: "Hey have you heard Dave Matthews new CD, is that a great CD or what?" NDF: "I haven't heard it yet, I'm glad you like it, but I'm not really the biggest Dave Matthews fan, I'm not big into that style of music" DF: "Hey that's cool man, I really enjoyed the CD, if you ever just need something to listen to I can let you borrow it sometime." NDF: "Hey thanks, he really is a talented musician, I do enjoy listening to the occasional song of his, I might have to take you up on that offer some time." DF: "No problem, any time, see ya later." Now which one of these was the more pleasant interaction? Amen. Don't be a type 1, please accept the fact people have different tastes in music than you do. From what I can tell most of the people who posted here seem like mature self-respecting people who would lean more toward type 2, I respect and congratulate you all on that. This brings me to the sometimes unpleasant, other side of the fence. These two types of people are echoed on the other side of the spectrum. There are people who accept other peoples tastes and respect them. Then there are people who find their way onto a Dave Matthews message board thing like this and posts something really stupid. It's the second group that is responsible for most of the tension between major groups. To bring up a good example - democrats and republicans. Both sides have done more than their fair share of name calling. Let's face it, I don't think there has ever been or will be a politician who has fallen into the category of "Moronic" or "Stupid". Any man who has gotten to the position of president is clearly not a stupid person, I think we would be better off if we left name calling back on the third grade playground. No mainstream band actually "sucks", they might come close, but they will always have fans, so they only suck in a select groups eyes. Moving on, it would seem common human decency would prevent someone from randomly taking the time to come onto this board, just for the sole purpose of saying "dave mtthews sks.>!". What a waste of time, most normal people wouldn't take time out of their day to go to a conference room full of people discussing Toyotas and why they like to drive them, poke their head in the door, yell "Toyotas Suck" and leave. That is just really, really.... really dumb. I mean how in the world does that benefit anybody? It doesn't. They just do it to, well, be stupid, and nobody in here remembers it after the next persons post so it's just very pointless and an uncalled for annoyance. So before you do anything like that, stop, think, realize what a loser that would make you, and just walk away. Well, that turned out to be a little longer than I thought it would be, I apologize about that to the people who had to scroll to get past my ramblings. If you made it this far and think I'm not cool, I'm sorry you feel that way. If you made it this far and enjoyed it, thanks for bearing with me and uh, your welcome, I guess... That's all for me, g'night. |
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| Rush – The Spirit Of Radio Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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The first 3 stanzas are kind of just describing the radio and what a good thing it is. The 4th appears to deal with the controversy when the tape recorder was first introduced, people could just record music off the radio, so it's saying it's a question of your honesty. (The same issue that went on with the VCR and now the file-sharing) The rest of the song kind of ties it together with the whole music-for-profit theme that seems to be going on overall. Now to the reason I am really writing this, because, thanks to Philosophic Musings quoting that line I realized it's almost a direct copy of a line from Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence". Rush: "and the words of the *profits* were written on the studio wall... and echoes with the sounds of salesmen." Paul Simon: "and the words of the prophets were written on the subway walls... and echoes with the sounds of silence" Now that I take the time to think about it... The two songs really have a lot in common. The most accepted meaning of Sounds of silence was that people are building to much on pop-culture and not really listening, and if they did they would find that the music has a lack of meaning and is not heartfelt. So by writing this I realized a few things myself, I guess it's true what my professor always tries to tell me. "If you write something down, it causes you to think about it." Once again he's proved right. Sorry for being kinda long-winded there (I say this as I continue to type) But, you know, it kinda happens sometimes. Especially when you don't have something outlined and of course I'm not gonna take the time to outline what was originally a "comment" and turned it into this... Well never mind. |
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| Audio Adrenaline – Chevette Lyrics | 24 years ago |
| After me and my friend were discussing exactly what this song meant aside form the phrase "rich poor man". Then he brought up a really good point. This song could symbolize our walk with God. No AC and no FM saying it's not always gonna be glamorous, and we hav eto give up things of the world, yet we don't regret it. Then dodging the pothole of life, and no prob keeping it on the narrow road. Just something to think about. | |
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