| Porcupine Tree – Drown With Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is so gorgeous. Sounds like The Bends era Radiohead... | |
| Porcupine Tree – Gravity Eyelids Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This site is evil. I thought Blackest Eyes was an awesome song; then I read here it was about rape. I thought this would be a good song to fuck to; it's about child molestation. Seriously...fuck you guys. Anyway, in the "song to fuck to" sense, this needs to be sung by a woman. Definitely. |
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| The Smiths – Unhappy Birthday Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is great fun to sing along to. It's enhanced by not being able to sing. | |
| The Jam – Thats Entertainment Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love this song. It appears to be about normal British life, as it's played up by the media to be "cool" or interesting. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Collapse The Light Into Earth Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| God this song is so beautiful. | |
| The Smiths – I Know It's Over Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| As I mentioned in the comments for "Is it really so strange", it's obligatory to drink a lot and listen to this song after getting dumped. Singing along less so, but possibly therapeutic. | |
| The Smiths – Is It Really So Strange? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I agree with Birdy, tbh. It's absolutely obligatory to listen to I Know It's Over while drinking heavily if you've been dumped. Not this song tho...not enough self pity in this one... ;) | |
| Scissor Sisters – Return to Oz Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This sounds so much like something Pink Floyd would make. Utterly brilliant song. | |
| Panic! at the Disco – The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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And there was me thinking the difference between martyrdom and suicide is that martyrdom kills lots of people in the name of a belief system, whereas suicide...doesn't. I hate Panic! At The Disco. |
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| Roger Waters – Amused To Death Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| A gorgeous end to a gorgeous album. The lyrics are pretty much self-explanatory, but they're about people neglecting the intellectual/rational side of things and instead caring about Melrose Place and cheap supermarket goods. | |
| Hard-Fi – Cash Machine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it's about neo-imperialism and the rich countries of the world exploiting the lower classes for their own benefit. Jesus, it's obvious, just read the damn lyrics... |
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| Pink Floyd – The Final Cut Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this song was intended to be on The Wall (Floyd's previous album) but was rejected. The sound effects were dubbed in to disassociate the song from The Wall. Shame, really, it ties up a lot of loose ends from that album. |
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| Moloko – Sing It Back Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Sex. Jesus, it isn't that hard. |
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| Pink Floyd – [The Wall Concept] Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Right, I'm going to try my best here, wish me luck... (NOTE: SPOILERS BE HERE) The Wall basically deals with depression and, as a result of that, a loss of sanity. The protagonist, Pink, is beaten down all his life; his mother smothers him (Mother), his father was killed in an act of pointless sacrifice during World War II (When The Tigers Broke Free), his teachers destroyed his confidence (The Happiest Days Of Our Lives) and his wife cheating on him (Don't Leave Me Now). He then goes from merely depressed (merely!) and crosses over into madness. The difference between the two is clearly delineated; on Disc One he is depressed and is looking over his past, in Disc Two he is mad. This also coincides with the building of The Wall, which is designed to keep everyone out and leave Pink alone, inside and undisturbed. It is gradually built up over the course of Disc One and by the end of it is completely finished. In Disc Two, Pink has gone over the tipping point into total insanity. His manager finds him comatose in his hotel room, and enlists a doctor to wake him up (Comfortably Numb), however Pink is trapped behind the Wall and in a world of his own. In his mind, the concert he is about to perform is nothing but a Nazi rally (In The Flesh), and the image of him being a cold-blooded dictator comes fully formed into his mind (Run like Hell). He eventually rebels against this (Stop) and puts himself on trial (use your bloody common sense). At this trial, he finds himself to be responsible for a lot of his problems, for pushing away his wife and mother, and is ordered to tear down the Wall. In the end, he finds that the "bleeding hearts and artists" have been trying to reach out to him, but thanks to the wall their efforts were in vain. This is neatly summed up in the beautiful line "After all, it's not easy; banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall". The Wall is a brilliant work on depression and insanity, showing those who have probably never been so low just how terrible it is...in the end however, you don't know whether to feel sorry for Pink or to scold him; the Trial is quite vague on what the verdict is. Is it Pink's fault for not talking, or everyone else's fault for not listening? Maybe a bit of both; he was so far gone, he didn't care any more. Whatever the verdict, this is a powerful work which every single person on Earth should listen to...the film is a work of genius, a mindfuck in every single way. Very well recommended. |
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| Queen – Hammer To Fall Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about the Cold War, and the tensions that went with it. The hammer could represent the hammer and sickle, the emblem of Communism/the Soviet Union, and the west is just waiting for that hammer to fall, else...boom. And if you don't "toe the line" and "play the game", well, the US will bomb you til you do :) | |
| Eurythmics – Doubleplusgood Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is from the soundtrack to 1984, so none of this may make sense :) Basically everything except the "doubleplusgood" chorus is read by the voice of the telescreens in the film. It's meant to be emblematic of the Party's conditioning. Or. Something. |
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| Radiohead – I Might Be Wrong Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is about some poor little kid trying to keep alive a relationship which isn't working. He wants to put the bad things behind him ("Think about the good times"), and in the end can't get an audience ("Open up, and let me in"). He can't imagine life without his girl ("What would I do/If I did not have you"). The going down the waterfall symbolises making a massive commitment. | |
| Radiohead – Fog Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Agreed, the Com Lag version is the best. | |
| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| periwinklebyday, I'm in the same boat as you on this one. Down to a T. | |
| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| periwinklebyday, I'm in the same boat as you on this one. Down to a T. | |
| Radiohead – Black Star Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about a guy whose girlfriend or partner or whatever has mental problems, and is at a complete loss as to what to do about it. | |
| Radiohead – Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's also about just trying to cope with your own emotions, and not be affected by them, and failing. | |
| Radiohead – Paperbag Writer Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about the US and its overprotective homeland security policies, and how everyone is afraid (Take your armour off, you're not under attack) and how they should cool it off (Blow into this paper bag) | |
| Radiohead – Paperbag Writer Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about the US and its overprotective homeland security policies, and how everyone is afraid (Take your armour off, you're not under attack) and how they should cool it off (Blow into this paper bag) | |
| The White Stripes – Fell In Love With A Girl Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Look at the title: that is what the song is about. Duh. :) Yes, Joss Stone should be shot for her pisspoor cover of this song, which ruined my mental image of it and replaced it with whiny caterwauling. |
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| The White Stripes – I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about being put upon and not getting anything back by way of favours or anything. Good song :) | |
| Radiohead – Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about this person being mistreated by everyone, being taken advantage of and being beaten up (physically and emotionally), and eventually having nothing to do except hide under their quilt away from it all, and seal themselves away, where they're invulnerable. | |
| Radiohead – A Punchup at a Wedding (No No No No No No No No) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think it's about the whole time after 9/11. There was this wedding, everyone coming together in a show of unity for the US, but then they started making wars and so began the punchup. | |
| Radiohead – Fog Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about some horrible tragedy, some past torment in your childhood. And it'll never leave you. It'll make you grow up fast, knowing too much about the bad side of the world, and it will certainly never wash away into nothing. You can do anything you want to...but it'll never go away. A personal song, with a big personal resonance for me. | |
| Radiohead – Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders.) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It's about nuclear war. "Walk into the jaws of hell", "we can wipe you out any time" - c'mon, can't be that hard to find :) "The Raindrops" likely refers to either the black rain that occurs after a nuclear explosion or the actual falling of bombs. |
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| Radiohead – I Will. (No Man's Land.) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| From what I can tell, the song seems to be about an incident called Amiriya, where the US deliberately bombed-and incinerated (literally) the people inside of-an Iraqi bunker during the Gulf War. Google it for more info. | |
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