| The Stranglers – Peaches Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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However, according to Hugh Cornwell's book "The Stranglers Song By Song" it is actually clitoris... he just didn't know how to pronounce it at the time hence the confusion. So the line should apparently be: Is she trying to get out her clitoris. |
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| Ghost – If You Have Ghosts (Roky Erickson cover) Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Now corrected. :) | |
| Ghost – If You Have Ghosts (Roky Erickson cover) Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| The current lyrics are for a completely different song. | |
| Ghost – He Is Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[Onlyonepapa:41880]\r\nI would translate it as:\r\nOur God of the Underworld, our Teacher.\r\n\r\nLiterally it is "Our rich father, our nourishing mother" but Dis Pater is the pagan god of the underworld and alma mater is the school/college you graduated from. | |
| Måneskin – Zitti e Buoni Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Shut Up and Behave (English translation): They don't know what I'm talking about Clothes are dirty, bro, of mud Cig's yellow in between the fingers I'm walking with a cig Pardon me, but I really do believe That I can make this jump And even if the street is uphill I'm training for this now And good evening, ladies and gentlemen Bring out the actors You better hold on to your balls You better keep quiet and be good Here people are weird, like drug dealers Too many nights I've spent locked outside Now I'm kicking these doorways Staring up like climbers So sorry mum if I'm always out, but I'm out of my mind, but different from them And you are out of your mind, but different from them We are out of our minds, but different from them We are out of our minds, but different from them I've written pages and pages I've seen salt, then tears These men in cars Don't climb the rapids I've written on a tombstone "In my house there's no God" But if you find time's meaning You'll climb back up from your oblivion And there's no wind stopping The natural power From the right point of view You feel the intoxication of the wind With wax wings on your back I'll go look for that high If you wanna stop me try again Try cutting my head off Because I'm out of my mind, but different from them And you are out of your mind, but different from them We are out of our minds, but different from them We are out of our minds, but different from them Unfortunately people talk They talk, they don't know what they talk about Bring me where I float Cause I lack air here Unfortunately people talk They talk, they don't know what they talk about Bring me where I float Cause I lack air here Unfortunately people talk They talk, they don't know what the fuck they talk about Bring me where I float Cause I lack air here But I'm out of my mind, but different from them And you are out of your mind, but different from them We are out of our minds, but different from them And we are out of our minds, but different from them We're different from them |
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| The Who – Who Are You? Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| This would be London, not New York (Underground and Tube are names for the London subway). There is (was) a 'Tin Pan Alley' in London - Denmark Street - where members of the Sex Pistols lived. Denmark Street is in Soho in London. | |
| Steel Panther – Asian Hooker Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I'm guessing it's about a guy who happens to like dating prostitutes of the Far Eastern type... can't be sure though. | |
| AC/DC – The Jack Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| 'The Jack' is Aussie slang for Gonorrhea - apparently written after the band got 'The Jack' from some groupies. When they performed it for the first time the groupies were down the front as usual and Bon Scott pointed at each one in turn when singing the tag line. | |
| Neil Young – Powderfinger Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Nice thought - but it doesn't fit with the description of the boat, which to me sounds more like a motorised Police Patrol Boat. | |
| 10cc – I'm Mandy Fly Me Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| The guy is looking up at a National Airlines poster at the stewardess on there, and has a fantasy about her saving him. However when he snaps out of it, he's back on the street in America - and he would never have been there if it hadn't of been for the allure of the poster getting him to fly from the UK (presumably - it is 10cc after all) in the first place. | |
| Mott The Hoople – All the Young Dudes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Back Home wasn't the UK where the song was written - the Vietnam war didn't really affect the UK at all as they weren't in it. | |
| Mott The Hoople – All the Young Dudes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The line about Wendy depends on which edit you have - the radio edit has unlocked cars to stop M&S complaining. It's unlikely 'Freddie' refers to Freddie Mercury, Queen had only formed a year before the song was written, hadn't released their first album, and were probably not contemporaries - certainly not famous enough to be put in a song alongside the established T-Rex (who had kick-started the Glam Rock scene over a year before). Bowie offered the band Suffragette City - but they didn't like it so he wrote this song specifically for them - it was never written for the Ziggy album. |
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| Queen – Seven Seas Of Rhye Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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To those who are thinking of a conection beteen Rhye and Rye and 'pub' singing at the end... Rye is a seaside town on the South coast of England, and 'Oh we do love to be beside the seaside' is a common English ditty sung a lot by holiday makers. It was almost certainly Queen having a laugh. |
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| Queen – Another One Bites The Dust Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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To be honest, given the big controversy of playing things backwards to find hidden meanings at the time the song was written, I wouldn't be at all surprised if John didn't do that on purpose... just for a laugh (and possibly good marketing). The song itself isn't about smoking weed. |
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| Steel Panther – It Won't Suck Itself Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Just a few notes on the lyrics posted. It isn't 'San Diego show', it is 'San Diego Zoo'. It isn't 'right now you'll choke it out', I believe it is 'right now just suck it out'. It isn't 'I need you to be with us', it is actually 'I need you to be the nurse'. Awesome song though... anyone tried it? ;) |
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| Deep Purple – Burn Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| plane, not place! | |
| Deep Purple – Burn Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Isn't it about the nuclear bomb being dropped over Hiroshima - the woman is the place 'Enola Gay'? Or is that too obvious? | |
| Yes – Going for the One Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Sorry, have to disagree. I don't see it as being about the futility, but about the addiction of sport. Going for the one means going for the best. Mountain masses are rapids (shoot the rapids). 'Here you stand no taller than the grasses' means you're the same as everyone else there - in the same boat. Should you really push yourself to the limit? That's what sport does to you - it's much bigger than you and runs rings around you. You throw away all concepts of danger and go for it. When you think about what you've achieved you don't feel depressed at all. It's really touching life, feeling alive, and as strong a feeling as love. |
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| Hawkwind – Fahrenheit 451 Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Inspired by Ray Bradbury's novel of the same name. In the future firemen are employed to burn books, because books cause unhappiness, but one day a fireman picks up a book and reads it... It's a classic novel. | |
| Hawkwind – Death Trap Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Hawkwind's best punk track, inspired by J G Ballard's novel 'Crash'. | |
| Hawkwind – High Rise Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Of course, this song is inspired by J G Ballard's 1975 novel called 'High Rise'. | |
| Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - V) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The line 'Well you wore out your welcome with random precision' refers to Syd often turning up late or not at all to gigs and rehersals. The band members got fed up of it and Roger had to reluctantly fire Syd from the band. I also think that 'exposed in the light' refers to Syd's behaviour under the spotlight when on stage. He would just freeze, and only became the lively character he was when off stage and out of the spotlights. |
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| The Kinks – Lola Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Of course, the album version may have been different because of selling to other countries... not all were as liberated as the UK back then. | |
| The Kinks – Lola Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Guess these must be the US Lyrics because they aren't quite how they are on the single played on UK radio: Met her in a Club down in *Old* Soho .. She said '*Dear* boy won't you come home with me?' .. Well I left *home* just a week before .. she said '*Dear* boy I'm gonna make you a man.' .. but I know what I am *in a bed*, I'm a man and so's Lola. Definately those are the lyrics for the Kinks single played in the UK and Ray is very well spoken on the single. Some of the cover versions use slightly different lyrics, but this is the original here. It also tells you that he didn't actually discover she was a he until they got back to her place. It also gives the song a great twist at the end. |
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| Gallows – Staring at the Rude Bois (The Ruts cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This isn't a good cover version, the lyrics have been updated but this has made the chorus out of place. The original by the Ruts highlighted the divisions among youth culture at the time which were happening on a weekly basis, the Gallows version is just about a shooting. Hardly comparable, and I'd agree, it's not really relevant. Except to say that axzion needs to take a chill pill... sounds like the sort of person the original song was highlighting. :) | |
| The Divine Comedy – Party Fears Two Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This was originally recorded by The Associates back in 1982. Sorry, but I do prefer the original. | |
| Horslips – Cu Chulainn's Lament Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is from The Tain which is the Horslips album about the old Irish legend of the same name. Basically a Bull Raid. Here CuChulainn is lamenting for Ferdia, his best friend and foster-brother, who he has just killed at a ford whilst holding back Maeve's army in single combat. | |
| U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think some people ought to heed the sentiment of the song rather than arguing over what actually happened (which is unlikely ever to be known). Anyone who kills innocent people should be condemned, and yes that includes the members of all the paramilitaries as well as the army and police who have innocent blood on their hands. I can't see how people can kill (or support killing) in the name of a religion that has forgiveness and peace at its centre. If everyone heeded this song and didn't take up the battle call then there would be far fewer children without their fathers and mothers. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think the line 'Now when she tells she's gonna get it' should actually be 'Now when she's told she's gonna get it' having just listened to the song (again). | |
| Muse – Knights of Cydonia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Superficially, this is about not being able to rely on political leaders, and having to fight for your own rights and survival that the leaders would happily take away without thought. Cydonia being on Mars, this also suggests to me that this is something set in the future on a Mars colony which has a 'Wild West' attitude (echoed in the video and the Spaghetti Western type opening to the song). |
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| Muse – Knights of Cydonia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's 'through the VEINS of history' and 'I'll show you a god who falls asleep on the job' according to Muse's own web site (www.muse.mu). | |
| Muse – Starlight Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Takig the context from the album, and looking at it on the surface, this is about the thoughts of a convict being shipped out to life on a Mars colony. His thoughts about his loved ones, and what his own hopes and expectations have been turned into. Take a Bow (the previous song in the album) is about him being sentenced to transportation for life, and Starlight is the journey to the colony. Why Mars? Basically the last song (Knights of Cydonia) on the Album mentions Cydonia which is a region of Mars. |
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| Muse – Take a Bow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Of course, looking at it rather simply. Its about a future political leader who has been found guilty of crimes against their country and the earth as a whole, and have been transported to Mars in punishment. This fits in well with the rest of the album (Starlight being about the convict's journey to Mars), echoes historical events when British convicts were transported to the colonies (including the US, not just Australia), and sets it all in a futuristic context. So much deeper than being about current events, and just shows you how clever Muse are. As for the Hex/Hate debate. It's Hex. Just go to Muse's web site if you aren't convinced (www.muse.mu) as they have all the lyrics there. |
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| Supergrass – Caught By The Fuzz Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Blow has always been weed for everyone I know. You puff on some blow, you can't snort blow. | |
| Hawkwind – Days of the Underground Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Well, ok, specifically it is about the UK Underground movement that blossomed in Ladbroke Grove in London in the late 60's and early 70's. Hawkwind were one of the main bands in the movement (along with the Pink Faries). | |
| Elvis Costello – Accidents Will Happen Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| When this was released on 7" vinyl back in the late 70's, the single's picture cover was printed inside out. :) | |
| Guns N' Roses – One In A Million Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Redman - immigrants do not come over and 'steal' our jobs. They are willing to do a lot of hard work, unlike the people who complain that they can't find a job when in reality they can't be arsed. Its just an excuse. | |
| Hawkwind – Magnu Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I'd have to disagree, for me Hawkwind at their best are a head above Pink Floyd. The 'Warrior on the Edge of Time' album is one of my all-time favourites. | |
| Hawkwind – Jack Of Shadows Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Inspired by the book 'Jack of Shadows' by Roger Zelazny. | |
| Hawkwind – High Rise Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is off the PXR5 album and is about the pressures of living in high-rise appartment blocks (presumably in London). | |
| Hawkwind – Assassins Of Allah Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Titled 'Hassan-i-Sabah' on the 'Quark, Strangeness and Charm' album. | |
| Hawkwind – Days of the Underground Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is about the very early days of Hawkwind. | |
| Hawkwind – Damnation Alley Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Inspired by Roger Zelazny's book 'Damnation Alley'. | |
| Hawkwind – Choose Your Masques Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I guess, due to the heavy involvement of Michael Moorcock with Hawkwind, that this is inspired by MM's Hawkmoon series of books. The nobles of 'Granbretan' hide behind metal masks. | |
| Hawkwind – Zarozinia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is from the Chronicles of the Black Sword album which is effectively a musical version of Michael Moorcock's Elric saga. Zarozinia was Elric's wife, but she was kidnapped in order to get Elric to do the Gods of Chaos' bidding. | |
| The Stranglers – Peaches Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Secondly, the original 'Radio' version replaced 'clitares' with 'bikini' as they didn't think the general population would understand - and 'bummer' with 'summer' just in case. Though UK radio played both versions. | |
| The Stranglers – Peaches Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Firstly, I really don't think that she's trying to get out of her clitoris... that really doesn't make sense. The word should be clitares which is a french bathing costime (or so we were told at the time the record came out). | |
| Motörhead – Motor Head Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Just a song about Speed (amphetamines), a Motorhead being a Speed-freak. I remember an awkward moment on a British TV Children's show (Tiswas), where Sally James asked the band what the name meant... they got out of it quite well. | |
| Chris Rea – The Road To Hell (part 2) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Apparently about the M25 motorway (London's Orbital Motorway), which is renowned for being more like a car park. | |
| The Vapors – Turning Japanese Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Cobain would have been 12 when the song was first released (back in 1979). I really don't see some band from Surrey (UK) picking up some 12 year old's lyrics and running with it. :) I remember when the record was first released, and all the talk in school about what 'Turning Japanese' really meant. There was no question back then, it was masturbation. |
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