| Linkin Park – Bleed It Out Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Here at SongMeanings.net our task is to figure out the meaning of songs. Fortunately, the author of this song gave us a big hint: "half the words don't mean a thing" Once we figure out which half the rest of our task will be easy. |
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| Alice Cooper – Caught In A Dream Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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No comments on this song yet? Well, this song was my favorite the year it was released, when I was 15, so perhaps I should be the first to comment. Somewhere upstairs I have a copy of this on 33 RPM disk but without a working turntable I hadn't listened to it in many years. Inspired by my son listening to the "Nights with Alice Cooper" radio show, I recently bought "Love It To Death" on CD. Now I've listened to it, oh, 3000 times in a row. What does the song mean? It's a mocking description of someone caught up in the pursuit of wealth, but that person is also becoming aware that not all is OK -- that his pursuit is a dream that's not making him happy. He's waking up but trying to convince himself to continue dreaming: "I tell that to myself and I agree". By the way, elixir808 recorded the second line as "to get away from that success smell". That's what I thought it was, too, until finding "to get a whiff of that success smell" on a lyrics website. "Whiff" is cleverer and more in tune with the song's meaning. |
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| Linda Ronstadt – Long Long Time Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song describes a pathetic person. In response to "all the while you fell over girls you never knew", I would say "yeah, and he didn't know you either, Linda". Get a life. | |
| Sheryl Crow – Hard To Make A Stand Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Lilsista and Online: I think you're both right about this song but I also think the lyrics are more accusatory than you say. MoogleDr: I think your interpretation is reasonable but is way too charitable to Ms. Crow. I think she's saying this: There are two kinds of people in the world: the oppressed and the oppressors. James Dean Monroe and Crow's pregnant friend are among the oppressed, who find it "hard to make a stand". The rest of us, the oppressors, -- refuse to give money to bums at the supermarket because of our "big suspicions" and -- murder people at abortion clinics because of our "big guns and small ambitions" and -- waste effort "arguing over who is God" instead of making this earth a humanist paradise. Clearly we oppressors "all need a revelation". So does Sheryl Crow think of herself as an oppressor or one of the oppressed? Is she finding it "hard to make a stand"? Believe it or not, I love this song and think it shows off Crow's great talent. If, however, in some alternate universe, _I_ had invented this song's music, the lyrics would be completely different. |
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