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| Blondie – Atomic Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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It's losing her virginity. It's her first time so she wants it to be magnificent. |
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| The Boomtown Rats – I Don't Like Mondays Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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When it was happening I felt like it was the end of the world. Now we're shot up everyday and it takes higher and higher bodycounts to make it to the media. This song is an innocent flashback to when we cared. |
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| Alessia Cara – Scars To Your Beautiful Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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I can't believe that there were no comments. This is about a young woman who wants to be like the models/cover girls she sees in magazines. She cuts herself because she's frustrated because she's not like a cover girl. Then she's starving herself to be more like a cover girl and she dies. |
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| Garbage – #1 Crush Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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This was in the opening credits of a show on the BBC called "Hex." This is the first song I heard sung by Garbage. This the type of obsessive love that leads to death. |
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| Suede – Stay Together Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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One of the singer/songwriters said he hated it because he thought of his father. This song is about death with two lovers who will be together in eternity - in any incarnation. |
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| Delta Rae – Bottom Of the River Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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I think that she had a baby she couldn't abort. She's schizophrenic. Voices in her head are giving her instructions on how to get rid of her unwanted baby. |
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| David Essex – Rock On Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[stringofpearls:30250] This song was came out in 1973. Old Time Rock & Roll came out in 1978. |
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| Machine – There But for the Grace of God Go I Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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"Too much love is worse than none at all" pretty says it all. They tried to shelter her:
"Let's find a place they say, somewhere far away
With no blacks, no Jews and no gays"
They moved overseas and banned rock and roll but she was on drugs and ended up leaving her family anyway. |
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| Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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1. The title came from the band saying Kurt smelled like Team Spirit deodorant, which is for girls.
2. "And I forget just why I taste. Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile." A taste is a shot of heroin, which he was already using. |
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| Nirvana – Imodium (Breed) Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[mrmateo:29387] I'm not sure if you're in the States but here Imodium stops diarrhea by putting a cork in your ass (not literally but it definitely plugs it up somehow) |
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| Nirvana – In Bloom Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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Kobain has said that the chorus is about those uber men who show up for his gigs with their guns and they don't even know what they're singing. |
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| Steely Dan – Black Cow Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[sisterdisco:29385] Black Cow is a drink. Per wiki: A root beer float or Coke float
An alcoholic drink (sometimes referred to as a Black Cow #2) featuring Kahlúa, half-and-half, and Coca-Cola
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| Steely Dan – Black Cow Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[sisterdisco:29386] Black Cow is a drink. Per wiki: A root beer float or Coke float
An alcoholic drink (sometimes referred to as a Black Cow #2) featuring Kahlúa, half-and-half, and Coca-Cola
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| Steely Dan – Charlie Freak Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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I think the narrator is actually the Angel of Death which is why he takes the dead junkie's hand.
Now come my friend I'll take your hand
And lead you home |
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| Steely Dan – Peg Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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It sounds like he knows Peg, maybe loved her at one time but the best he can do is look at her pics and watch her porn flick. |
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| Steely Dan – Haitian Divorce Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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This is one of Steely Dan's songs that I can actually can interpret. Babs' and Clean Willie are so in love that the PDA made the preacher blush. But the passion Babs and Clean Willie had turned turn to hate. So Babs went down to Haiti to get a divorce that she didn't need Clean Willie for. At that time divorce was a lot more laborious to get and you needed both parties. She got drunk out of her gourd and got laid by one of the locals. And got pregnant by him. And never got divorced. She and Clean Willie got back together and are pretending the baby is his. But as he grows up it's too obvious he's not. |
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| Steely Dan – Home At Last Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[Karlin:29382] I was thinking it was about heroin. "
She serves the smooth retsina
She keeps me safe and warm
It's just the calm before the storm
Heroin makes you feel safe and warm |
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| The Rolling Stones – Mother's Little Helper Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I think the point is that people talk about hard drugs but don't say anything about how dangerous prescription drugs are, at least at the time they wrote this song. It shows the hypocrisy. |
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| Squeeze – Up The Junction Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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The thing that's the most amazing is that there's perky music even at the end when the guy realizes he's "up the junction." the music stays perky. It's quite unnerving. |
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| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I thing it's about drug addiction.
"I was born sick, but I love it
Command me to be well"
Drug sick and with the drug, he's instantly "well."
"Take me to church
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies
I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife
Offer me that deathless death
Good god, let me give you my life"
Addicts worship their drug and even though they're technically alive, it's a deathless death, they're a shell of who they used to be and have given their life over to the drug. |
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| Fannypack – Seven One Eight Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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(718) is an area code for Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens, NY. They're saying that they act like they're from NY (Manhattan) but they're really from the (718) which isn't as "cool" I guess. |
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| Neko Case – Deep Red Bells Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I know it's really late since someone commented here but as I sit here at 4 AM, trying to interpret one of my favorite songs. And I'd say that the "deep red bells" are drops of blood. She mentions it with the looking like engine oil. |
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| Christina Perri – Jar of Hearts Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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The video for this is as haunting as her voice. She was on Conan this week and when I saw the performance I had to buy the song and video. The naked pain in the song gives me chills and for some reason the piano brings the ache more than a guitar would've. |
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