| PJ Harvey – Let England Shake Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Well bobby is British slang for police, so could be construed as meaning our penchant for playing policeman of the world. Definitely makes sense in the context of the rest of the song. | |
| The Jam – Going Underground Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| A brilliant song against the jingoistic war-mongering and materialism/"aspiration" appropriated by our press and politicians; but chiefly their prioritising warfare over welfare and how it makes you want to opt out altogether and go 'underground'. A testament to how good it is, is its relevance today - just look at how we're told our NHS has become "unaffordable" whilst non-renewal of the costly, useless, unusable, nuclear warheads AKA trident is off the table. | |
| The Cure – Fight Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| "Don't cry at the pain" sounds more like "Don't hide your pain". | |
| The Stone Roses – Guernica Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Not 100% convinced, but could this to be do with the infighting and repression the Republicans suffered with around said time? Barcelona May Days et al. Stalinists vs Anarchists etc, with this song lamenting both being destined to defeat by such actions, that no one strand holds the definitive belief, that they swore to the same army and they're both equally whores in the current system, so for god's sake unite! | |
| The Music – THE LEFT SIDE Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Given Rob's anti-war/pro-independence stances (Bleeding from Within, Freedom Fighters etc) + he also wore a NATO: Now a Terrorist Organisation t-shirt at the Bordeaux festival I seen, I've always suspected this as a call to arms to join the left-wing. As the time of this album - 2007-2008 - seen a pretty thorough discrediting of Thatcherism/Reaganomics/neoliberalism that had been in ascendancy since the 80's - and yet the only people who seemed to be benefiting from it were the far-right. It seems like the song is an appeal to left-wingers to organise and show they're actually still out there, cos he's still fighting. | |
| The Music – Freedom Fighters Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Oh and "But now I’m feeling lost and something here is wrong" is actually "But now I realise that something here is wrong". |
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| The Music – Freedom Fighters Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The last three lines of the chorus are blatantly: They'll help you on your way I won't hurt you babe, though It's okay. |
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| The Music – Welcome to the North Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think it's more of a criticism, personally. That us Northerners tend to be more conservative ie close-minded, loud-mouthed idiots (it's probably just because they know more Northerners, growing up in Leeds) and have deduced the majority as just that; but in actual fact, it's really not restricted to the North at all. "You know the numbers" to me, means the population size of these idiots, as in, "you know the amount". I reckon the "show me your knuckles" line is about aggression on the part of these close-minded thugs, certainly when they're criticised, as The Music are doing here. So yeah, I think it's more of an attack on the chav culture that's swept over Britain. |
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| Alanis Morissette – London Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I always presumed this was about the London in Canada - what with the: -"My friends come to visit and love me a lot" line - there's a large percentage of French in Canada's population (Quebec, innit?) so those lines didn't look out of place - the fact that she's Canadian But the "train out of France" must mean she's talking about our London. |
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| Ryan Adams – Argument with David Rawlings About Morrissey Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Surely they're on about 'Suedehead'. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Condemned To Rock N' Roll Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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You've missed the best lines off! Sterile like a line of piss, motherfucker Review with avant-garde lips You're just a motherfucker There's nothing I want to see There's nowhere I want to go... |
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| The Concretes – Lonely As Can Be Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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My favourite Concretes song. A couple of minor lyrical differences, but here's my interpretation: It's an overview of a friend, who is indeed, lonely. The first verse explaining how his social anxiety overcomes him, so desperately he tries his best to escape away from people. He obviously succeeds, as the narrator explains he is known as nothing other than a friend of theirs. The "There he goes again/Then he's gone again" lines are evidence of that, as he merely walks to and fro with no interaction. Here's where the lyrical differences appear, I believe the second verse to be from the lonely persons point of view, possibly a quote, so it would be: "Well I followed them around 'cos I, I never really tried, inside of me a fear will grow, holding hands with demons." A text-book tag-along, never really trying, infact probably doing the opposite, to make an impression and be noticed. So introverted that any attempt to talk caused those fears and demons to rise, so he remained quiet. Therefore he is as lonely as can be. |
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| The Concretes – Grey Days Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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After the penultimate verse the chorus changes to "Baby, baby, baby you have to leave for good" and with the last verse sung, the two variations are rotated. One of my favourites on In Colour, on face value it seems to paint a picture of a girl who's being smothered by her mothers rule, what adventurous nature she had being slowly sucked out of her. Accordingly, the Concretes urge the protagonist to escape the depressing clutches of her mother and live her life - for her self. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Die In The Summertime Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| "Without ruining lines" doesn't necessarily mean wrinkles... scars from self harm, anybody? | |
| Our Lady Peace – Let You Down Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Could be wrong, but it feels like it's written from the POV of a person with low self-worth, and is currently depressed. Whose starting to feel they're simply a bother to people, and can't do anything right, and thus become a little quiet and more introverted. I think the first lines fit with that anyway, the person spending less time socializing and therefore not being seen or spoken too much. The "why won't you share?/it's not fair" sound like typical self-pity, whether they're just meaning about society itself, or a particular person whose brought a lot of misery towards them such as a sibling. At a guess, the slightly nonsensical bicycle lines, would be that the person's that miserable, even the impossible wouldn't interest him. I think the majority of the second paragraph is the person realizing who gives a damn if they bother people, they're not living to satisfy other people, he no longer cares. Don't have a clue about the last three though, maybe loosened up a bit, and want to live a bit more dangerously... |
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