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| The XX – Fantasy Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The narrator has found someone special, but the timing is all wrong.
I feel you Theoogabear. I'm at the same place. |
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| Black Star – Thieves In The Night Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The song is based off of a few lines from Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye (which is referenced in the first stanza) that states, "And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good but well-behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life."
It's a critique of society generally, and the hip-hop community specifically. |
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| The Knife – Silent Shout Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The song is an interpretation of Charlie Burns's comic series "Black Hole":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_(comics) |
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| Tricky – Suffocated Love Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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It's not about prostitution...it's about trying to define a relationship. Is this only a sexual thing or is this more? "You ask what is this/Mind your business" is her attempting to get more, and him refusing. Tricky is defining the relationship as purely sexual ("Is this love/No not love/She turns my sexual tricks"), but Martina is trying to push for more. At the same time, Martina is questioning her actions, "Will you spend your life with me/And stifle me."
What a great song. |
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| Devendra Banhart – A Sight to Behold Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The narrator is stating all of these things (creating a song, finding a great song, etc) that he enjoys so much, but then from the perspective of someone who has never loved another person before, stating that all of these things that he loves pare in comparison to what he believes love to be. Great song. |
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| Neurosis – Crawl Back In Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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ytriffy has got it. The narrator is looking upon someone who must go through a transformative process ("return your suffering") in order to become atoned for past acts. It sounds from the personal attributes given by the narrator ("we laid so long, eternal night" & "We won't fit right like it was before"), it seems to have been a personal betrayal upon the narrator by the individual the narrator is referring to. |
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| Massive Attack – I Against I Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I love the harsh, almost industrial, beats on this song. They pair very well with Mos Def's quick lyrical flow.
Great change from the typical Massive Attack flavor. |
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| Hercules and Love Affair – Easy Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is the perfect pace changer for the album switching from the first to the second half. Very underrated for the album.
Anywho, the lyrics are kind of ambiguous, but it seems to be talking about a certain pace within life of taking things easy, not letting stuff worry you. |
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| Tricky – Broken Homes Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It's a social commentary on a shockingly common urban black family situation, in which 60% of children (in the US) are raised in single parent households (normally the mother). He's pointing a finger to the men in these situation and their violent lifestyle as the contributing factor to this horrible environment.
The acquittal line is a smart juxtaposition of social status in reference to OJ Simpson. |
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| Fever Ray – If I Had a Heart Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I love the song. Same vocal pitch effects that she used to such great effect with The Knife, but much more ambient/drone based backing than anything that The Knife did.
I'm very anxious to get my hands on the album. |
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| Tricky – Vent Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Ventolin is an asthma inhaler, which is the medicine she's referring to.
The song is about how some individual is making the narrator have an asthma attack, but is also the one that hid the narrator's medicine.
It's also probably a metaphor for a relationship, in which the individual caused the person to get into this "state" and has hid his/her "medicine", which is getting out of the relationship. |
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| Tricky – Bad Dreams Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I love what they did with Topley-Bird's voice in this song...so unlike her...structural, mechanical almost...just repeating the dream in question as if there's no link between the memory recall and speech.
Great stuff. Underrated album. |
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| My Brightest Diamond – We Were Sparkling Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Such a stunningly simple song about, in my opinion, innocent childhood love...hanging things on a tree seems so childishly pure...could be a metaphor, but I'd rather take it at face value as someone remembering their past. |
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| My Brightest Diamond – Golden Star Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Best off her amazing debut.
Her Cabin Session at Lowlands clip on Youtube is stunning.
The meaning is fairly obvious in regards to how she is feeling when she is with her other half. |
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| The Knife – Heartbeats Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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No...not drugs.
As Rymon and other said, it's about a one night stand leading to love.
Stop trying to read too much into it. |
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| Portishead – Roads Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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In the Live version of this on the Roseland CD (which isn't actually recorded at Roseland btw), the quiver in Beth Gibbon's voice during the second "Ohh, can't anybody see" may be the single most beautiful word I have ever heard sung, without exaggeration. seriously.
It just sends chills up my arm every damn time, nearly 10 years on. |
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| Massive Attack – Mezzanine Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Between 2:07 and 2:18 with those distortions are probably my favorite 11 seconds of trip hop ever recorded. |
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| Massive Attack – Angel Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I'm taking the stalker theory about the song.
It's just so haunting, and the woman is just so disarming...the man feels he needs to have her...she's descended from heaven just to love him!
So creepy. |
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| Massive Attack – Inertia Creeps Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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bocmaxima and curbboy are absolutely correct.
The song is about being in a relationship when inertia kicks in and it just moves along, going nowhere, ultimately being destructive, but yet you're stuck up in the inertia and you cannot get out of it. There are obvious parallels to sex, but that is not the focus of the song.
Best song off the best album. |
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| Massive Attack – Blue Lines Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I'm pretty sure this song is describing The Doctor on Doctor Who, which is a long-running BBC show. The Doctor is an alien who travels all space and time, alone in his ship, the TARDIS. Sometimes, he picks up human companions, mostly women, to join him on his journey, but he always keeps them at a certain distance.
The Blue Lines are the Blue Lines on his ship, the TARDIS,which looks like an old-school Police Box.
There are some lines about the band members' upbringings...but mostly the song is about this. |
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| Neurosis – Locust Star Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I don't think it's about a guy going to hell, per say, but more of a general suppression of a man who believes in his greatness/superiority over those around him, possibly due to a religious element. |
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| M.I.A. – Galang Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Boys say Wha-Gwan, Girls say wha-what"
"Who the hell is hunting you..."
"Sell it out to sell you.." |
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| M.I.A. – Paper Planes Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"everyone's a winner, we're making our name"
"No one on the corner has swagger..."
"Hit me on the Bunner prepaid wireless"
"Already going to hell for pumping that gas"
Doesn't anyone look inside the CD case? |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Hello/Goodbye (Uncool) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Yea, I would agree with soccerman...it's about him falling to a depression after the aforementioned events took place...he's introducing himself to the depression, commonly referred to as The Darkness in literature. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Fighters (feat. Matthew Santos) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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^brail nailed it.
He's talking to a kid who is about to turn away from what he believe in in order to fit into the rap scene, or into the wider scene in the community.
Ultimately, telling the kid that it's ok to believe in what he/she does, he felt the same, and it's possible to still survive without having to fall back into what everyone else is doing. |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Streets On Fire Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I don't think that Verse 1 can be directly about AIDS because the line, "Scientists think it only infects the mind."
Definitely does not characterize HIV/AIDS.
I think BDP/Soccer are correct regarding the song. |
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| Clutch – Hoodoo Operator Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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^ I agree. Sounds like selling your soul to Satan.
Especially the last refrain in which he is regretting selling it. |
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| Neurosis – Purify Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Nature of fiery truth
sounds like the dual choices of one being born, in whatever capacity...of godship or to mortal suffering. The talk about purifying the hells to climb to the heavens is about rejecting human nature to reach a higher state...but the human always seems to fall back to the earth, falling back to weapons(stone/spear) |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Streets On Fire Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Seems to be about psychological struggles in society.
Probably the most creative song on this great album, which is saying something. |
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| Neurosis – Burn Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Looks like to me it's the paralyzing effect of the coldness being used as a metaphor for inaction...the subject can't be spurred by the heat to actually alter it's life, but the speaker is pleading (DON'T LET IT STEAL YOUR...) the subject to go before the cold fully paralyzes him/her/it. |
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| Cynic – Veils Of Maya Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The above poster who discusses the meaning of "the veils of Maya" is correct.
The key as to the subject of what is the illusion is in the word "Ahamkara", meaning self-egoism.
Piece it all together yourself. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – River In the Road Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Seems to me that the narrator is with his girlfriend/wife and their kids by a river doing something...and some muggers or the like attack the family...The narrator is telling his wife and kids to run while he fights them off and avenge his death later. |
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| My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black Parade Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Man I logged on just to say how horrible this damn song is. My hatred of MTV has just become magnified 10 fold.
I mean damn.
And don't give me that "oh you dont get it". this so is just transparent.
listen to some Tool. Itll do you all good. |
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| Tool – Sweat Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Im pretty sure this song is about sex, and more specifically, the universality of sex. Maynard is saying that no matter what you are, what time your from, or what your job is, you have sex, and you enjoy it. period. |
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| Tool – The Patient Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I just want to note that around 4:30, Maynard repeats "namaste" twice since this is not in the lyrics above.
My belief in the song's definition has already been discussed, interprete it as you wish. |
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