| The Beatles – Within You Without You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is about Buddhism. George studied Buddhism and Hinduism during his time in india, and all of these concepts are about inner peace found through meditation (which George did do) and finding your own inner light. I always loved this song, and then I got into Zen awhile ago. Coming back and looking at this song, I realize it's all about the state of samahdi and the revalations had within during meditation. |
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| Beck – Walls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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You got warheads stacked in the kitchen (I believe he is talking about the state of the common family, and how explosive the close relationship can be in a family these days. It's not like it used to be, what with the "American dream" of a perfect life anymore. At the same time he is also talking about how families have TVs in their kitchen now, and have to hear all the doom and gloom of CNN) You treat distraction like it's a religion (A bit of a build from the last line, refering to the distraction of TV in the modern world. Most people sit and allow themselves to be absorbed by the television, to the point of treating it like a religion these days.) With a rattlenake step in your rhythm (No clue : P) We do the best with the souls we've been given (Humanity is losing is spirtuality, but people still want to feel something deep. Most people feel like they're missing something in their life, but don't do anything to change it) Because you know we're nothing special to them (Refering to other people, and how we don't think that "we" are special to other people in our lives. I really don't think this line is about terrorism) We're going some place they've already been (I think Beck is refering to "they" as the generation that birthed us, and how even though we hate them for ruining the earth for us, we keep doing the same thing to it) Trying to make sense of what they call wisdom (We're trying to understand the wisdom in our parents generation, but for most of us it doesn't make sense, especially because they grew up in generation X. Our parents generation has less wisdom than our grandparents did at that age, because they haven't been through a war, and now that our generation is in one, they have no wisdom for us.) And this riff-raff ain't laughing with them (Not entirely sure about this line, but I think it goes with the theme of things. Even the "white-trash/riff-raff" of our generation isn't laughing at the state of the world. But it seems like our parents our, because when they were young, this is exactly what generation X wanted.) Hey what are you gonna do When those walls are falling down falling down on you Hey what are you gonna do When those walls are falling down falling down on you (I think the chorus has two meanings. Literally, he's talking about the world ending and the walls of our houses coming down on us because of all the war, famine and other awful things that are happening. Metaphorically Beck is talking about our generally delusive state of thinking that we've grown into, about how we let the government get away with ridiculous things because we are so focused on pop-stars, and other trival things. Once these walls are finally torn down and people realize what terrible shape the world is in, they might freak out hence: "what are you gonna do?") |
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| k-os – Crucial Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Hmmm, I don't know where you get off judging Canadians like that. Anybody in the world can be any religion they want to be, regardless of race, color or where they're from. | |
| Blondie – I'm on E Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| clearly about ecstasy (mdma) and how it fucked people up when it hit the scene back in the late 70's. kind of an anti drug song, like just showing how bad addiction is | |
| The Shins – Black Wave Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| James mercer strikes me as the kind of guy who might smoke pot occasionally; but it's hard to tell these days, stoners are a lot less cliche than they were in the past. | |
| The Shins – Australia Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think the song is about him falling in love with a girl that he doesn't want to. "And your shape on the dance floor Will have me thinking such filth I'll gouge my eyes" He sees her, finds her attractive, but knows he shouldn't think these thoughts, so he wants to gouge his eyes out. "You’ll be damned to be one of us girl Faced with a dodo’s conundrum I felt like I could just fly But nothing happened every time I tried" He is feeling the elation of being in love, but his brain is holding him back from really letting himself go. He feels like he can fly, but he can't. |
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| The Shins – Sleeping Lessons Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"go, without... till the need seeps in" I think this refers to insomnia, which James is rumored to suffer from. Considering the name of the song is sleeping lessons, I think it would make sense that he is talking about sleep in the first line I agree with what Doctorim said, in that it sounds like animal collective. |
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| Pink Floyd – Breathe Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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don't sit down, it's time to dig another one for long you live and high you fly but only if you ride the tide and balanced on the biggest wave basically rogers is saying, you have to work hard to get somewhere, but if you really want to live the high life you will have to take risks (balanced on the biggest wave) and your life can fall apart if you shoot for it all and you fall off prematurely, ending your life before it even really starts |
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| Björk – Crying Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Oh man, when I listened to this song first I thought she was saying "Krankus I need you" because her english is so worbled... great song though, and I think riko is right on the spot. | |
| The Flaming Lips – Brainville Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Why has no one commented! Anyway, I think it's about LSD "Enlarge your space" is a pretty common feeling on the drug, it doesnt' cost much and it definatly makes you feel "inside your brain" |
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| The Flaming Lips – Brainville Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Why has no one commented! Anyway, I think it's about LSD "Enlarge your space" is a pretty common feeling on the drug, it doesnt' cost much and it definatly makes you feel "inside your brain" |
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