| Rainer Maria – Hell And High Water Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Well, since no one actually said what the think the song meaning is yet, I'll opine... Maybe this is obvious and that's why no one's said it, but I think both girls are the same person. She's either in a dating rut or always falls for the wrong kind of guy and is trying to figure out how to be free of that. |
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| The Whigs – Technology Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Just put this song on a mix-tape... nice upbeat song about a boring girl. I'd say it's about wanting to believe something is there when it's not, about getting dumped by a hot chick who was not really into you, and the guy tries and screams like the TV would to keep her attention, but she uses technology to put him off. Didn't like several nuances of the lyrics above, so thought I'd post my own: Well I watched on CBS as Rudy made it's now on T.V. debut. And through all the big commercials it's clear that she was missing me too. And I try, and I try, and I try, and I try, cause it would. And I scream, and I scream, and I scream, and I scream, cause it would. But through all these thoughts, she said "I'm ready to go." She said "I miss you for an instant but that instant is old." And she said, "Technology, it needs me." I'm screaming at ten like on a daily talk-show. She said "I... didn't feel like myself." And she said, "Technology it needs me." We're sinking like sailors. We were tailors to the house of your dream. On the surface she was shirtless but regardless still a homecoming queen. And I try, and I try, and I try, and I try, cause it would. And I scream, and I scream, and I scream, and I scream, cause it would. Still stuck in the thought, that she was ready to go, she said "I miss you for an instant but that instant is old." And she said, "Technology, it needs me." Well if you want me then I would tell ya, "Too bad." Cause I... gotta be by myself. And she said, "I'm all your fault I'm leavin." And I try, and I try, and I try, and I try, cause it would. And I scream, and I scream, and I scream, and I scream, cause it would. Still stuck in the thought that she was ready to go, she said "I miss you for an instant. That instant is old." And she said, "Technology, it needs me." Now if you want me then I will tell ya, "Too bad." Cause I... gotta be by myself. And she said. "I'm all your fault I'm leavin." Oh yeeeaahh! In the end, its your fault, and your fault, and your fault, and your fault, and your fault. Oh yeeeaahh, yeah! In the end, its your fault, and your fault, and your fault, and your fault, and your fault. |
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| Modest Mouse – Truckers Atlas Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| P.S. this song is about doing meth, same as styrofoam boots... | |
| Modest Mouse – Truckers Atlas Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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@ColinSmith the original saying is "scot-free", Brock just throws in "fucking" for emphasis, but scot-free means to get away with a criminal act without consequence. Comes from an olde english (Great Britain) saying about avoiding taxes. |
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| Rainer Maria – Bottle Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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For being one of the only entirely upbeat sounding RM songs, I'm a little surprised there's not more comments... Anyway, I don't think it's all as cut and dried as lonelydreamer has it. A bottle to the head isn't pleasant, no matter how you spin it, and seeing red means you're angry. Definitely one of my favorite RM songs, for it's energy alone, but the story is still one of flawed love to me. It's never good when one half of a relationship loses themself in the other. |
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| Rainer Maria – Ears Ring Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure this song is about a Catholic boy (or lesbian girl?) feeling guilty for a one-night stand. Here's why: The blue lady is definitely Mary, of the bible. So that lyric becomes pretty self-explanatory. After a night of "wrong doing", the subject of the song is left to sit in silence thinking about the "wrong doing". Even in perfect silence, like in a church or when you're just sitting there reflecting on your bed, you will hear -or percieve- an almost imperceptable high pitched ring (or at least I do, yay loud music!, and I guarantee Caithlin does too). The arms stinging, is not literal. It's referring to the pang of regret after a one-night stand when you've got nothing "to show for it" afterward. It's the "Why'd I do that?" thought that creeps into the head of a romantic. The "you need contact / conscience failing" chorus is just about wrestling with acting like a man-whore, when you're actually a romantic at heart. The "you already love her" thing is just reaffirmation that the subject is a romantic, and doesn't want to be a man-whore. |
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| Rainer Maria – Make You Mine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Don't know why I'm surprised that no one has commented on this one yet... such an exuberant beginning, one of the brightest in RMs catalogue, no? Like so many of their songs, it's almost too close for comfort, but I can't help but love it. My fav to dance to... | |
| Dntel – Roll On Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song would be awesome if it wasn't for all the stupid blips and electronic droning crap going on behind Jenny's angelic vocals. | |
| Pavement – Range Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Pavement is rediculously overrated. | |
| The Beatles – Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Crazy, and I always thought this song was about acid (MK ULTRA = Mr. Kite) and heroin (Horse, Mr. H) | |
| Rainer Maria – Artificial Light Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this song is about how people are replacing humanity with materialism and technology in our increasingly individually insular worlds. your car doesn't defy you, TV doesn't defy you, you're computer doesn't defy you, your gaming console doesn't defy you, your cellphhone doesn't defy you and people defy those devices less and less (preferring them over people). People are replacing people and the necessary real interactions and connections that come with them, good and bad, with technology rainer maria = burning, brilliant light |
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| At the Drive-In – Doorman's Placebo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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One of my favorite songs ever, period. Neverminding the fact that ATDI songs commonly have multiple levels of meaning, or no singular meaning at all this is my interpretation... To me it's a song about not knowing how to, or maybe not wanting to, interact with or be a part of the "real" world, human drama. Drowning out real life with some substitute, in the song it's music, but I feel the repeated references to headphones, speakers, decibals, etc. is a metaphor for whatever is your distraction (drugs, sex, art, games) positive/negative, whatever you use to get away. It's about knowing you should give a damn, or wanting to, but not being able to. It's about willful distraction. Well, that's not very satisfactory, but I can't express it any better right now. |
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| Wolf Parade – I'll Believe in Anything Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is about believing in romantic, "true love" despite pragmatically knowing it likely does not exist. This may just be my interpretation as I am one of those people, but everything fits within this premise. Give me your eyes, I need sunshine Your blood bones voice and ghost. That all is pretty self explanatory. The person of desire gives him life like the sun does plants, everything about them. Both been very brave walk around on both legs Wait for the scary day we both pull the tricks... To me would be saying how they've both (singer and the desired) went out on their own, away from the "familiar" things such as family and friends to make their own way in the world. And in this process have acquired a history that they don't share with just anyone, but want to share everything with each other. They'll both believe in anything (love), because they have to, to reconcile risking so much with another person, plus they WANT to believe. If I could take the fire from the wire I'd share a life and you'd share a life Wire is slang for cocaine, their drug use is one of those things coming between them, one of the tricks up their sleeves. But if they can find love in each other, then they won't care about anything else. They won't have to care what others think about them. Nobody knows you, nobody gives a damn Is just a reflection of how nothing will matter, or perhaps that they could start over together, and get away from drugs. I could take another hit for you, take away your trips Both of these seem to be more drug refrences to me. Give you my apologies By handing over my ideologies (which spencer slurs the my and i together) Would be a part of the compromise that is necessary for relationships to work. Shaking trees, is an expression to get fruit too high to reach. Olive trees is obviously a refrence to olive branches being a sign of peace. Oh look at the trees and look at my face And look at a place far away from here This is the lyrical and sonic climax of the song, it's just saying, "Look, we're not going to try to reach for things beyond our grasp, we'll make peace with our past, and we'll start over together" All of this, falls right in line with wanting to believe in love, while knowing that love is little more than a poetic abstraction. |
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| Harvey Danger – Jack The Lion Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is the only song I've ever heard that makes me cry (yes, I'm a dude). Every time I hear it I can't hold back tears, I hate to listen to it but I love to listen to it. Certain lines in it strike chords with me from around the time when my grandpa passed. Only. Song. Ever. To make. Me. Cry. Powerful. | |
| The Dismemberment Plan – Ellen and Ben Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| My impression from the song is it's about two people who were mutual friends of the narrator (i.e.Travis, i.e. I assume this is a true story) and also of his whole "Scene" of friends, the rest of the band and original fans of the band, i.e. the people who "grew up" with the D plan, possibly. Whether or not Travis had a thing for Ellen, I don't think is indicated either way in the song (so probably yes). Once these two friends hooked up , their relationship was such that they didn't hang out with the Scene anymore for whatever reason, didn't trust each other with their insestuous group (which, at least in my experience, such Scenes can be), or they only made time for each other , or maybe they were both druggies and were just stoned all the time, whatever. And ere go it cost Ellen and Ben their friendship with everyone else in the Scene. Either way, both of these people have a history not only with the narrator but also the band, that's why he "thought it was cheap", and why it wasn't clear why they showed up at shows when they didn't talk to anyone. | |
| Thursday – Ian Curtis Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Personally, I think it's naive to say Joy Division created "New-Wave" or "Post-punk" or "Goth", or that any band created any genre. You think they were like, "Ok, this punk thing is getting old, let's create a new genre of music" Fuck no, these are terms applied in retrospect BY HISTORY, only for relative reference to what came before them and certainly can't be attributed to any one band. Nirvana didn't create grunge, the Cure didn't create goth, and Joy Division sure as hell didn't invent post-punk. They were all merely a part of wide-ranging usually SIMULTANEOUSLY ARISING movements which, while they may be used to characterize, in the end are only labels of convenience used to sell you records. No music is created in a vacuum, it (the history of music) is rather like evolution, except with no spaces in the fossil record. |
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| The Dismemberment Plan – The City Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Sorry, I'm not commenting on the meaning but neither is anyone else so... yea, this is the first D-plan song I ever heard and it was at a time in my life when I had finally settled into "the City" I moved to, away from my family and old friends, and it's wierd how you can be around soooo many people (millions and millions within a few square miles) but feel so alone. It's this shared experience that if people would own up to that could bring them together, realize everyone's alone and everyone wants to be with other people. | |
| The Dismemberment Plan – You Are Invited Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Nah, I think most of you are slightly off base. If you know anything about the D-plan, you know their music has a pervasive energy of exuberance, and on that basis, I feel this song is about the fact that you can do whatever you want with your life, the "invite" is just a metaphor for free will and being an adult, but it is your responsibility to make it happen, and when you all are saying that "no matter what you do , it won't fill you" you're wrong, the song is just pointing out that partying is not what it's all about, and partying is only cool for so long before you need something more real. Travis is a total romantic (see gyroscope), and I think is in part disclaiming parties, I agree with jonbash in the whole, passing it on thing though. And this is not only my favorite D-plan song, but one of my favorites of all rock n roll, and that's saying ALOT. | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Pruno Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well... Pruno is a term used in prisons for fermented fruit (alcohol) made in plastic bags to get f-ed up on. I think the song is about keeping up a veneer of having your things together while you're really falling apart. | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Still Remains Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Scotts lyrics are CHARACTERIZED by double meanings and double messages/meanings, but look under love song in the dictionary and you'll find this song. I'd like to think history will look back and find Scott Weiland up there with not only the greatest vocalists in the history of man, but also a profound song writer. | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Pop's Love Suicide Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it's also a thinly veiled reference to David Bowie (one of Scotts biggest influences) and his song Rock n Roll Suicide. That song was for the sixties seventies, Pop's Love Suicide is the 90's update? | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – I Got You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song has an amazing dichotomy, the first verse is about Mary, it's the spoon that is the troubled times, it's the fix that twists his mind, the first verse of the song is about how he's got something better, her. She paints over the sorrow that otherwise makes his days grey, and roses (something beautiful) on death (something ugly). Then the second verse is the heroin, when he doesn't have it he goes through withdrawl ( cold, feel like dyin) And only heroin can fill the craving that he gets from this. Then when he shoots ,up he wants to cry either because it feels so good, or because he knows he's killin himself. Then the heroin paints sorrow onto his day, and if he dies while on heroin, it'll all be roses to him. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – MC5 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is indeed a tribute to the Motor City 5 , one of Scotts big influences and indeed one of Rocks n Rolls big influences though they are largely overlooked by mainstream media. The MC5 wanted to be/were revolutioinaries and were likely ahead of their time and that is what I think it's about. | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Glide Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well these lyrics above are incomplete and incorrect in numerous places but nm that... this is in my top 5 songs EVER. Amazing falcetto, beautiful musicianship (as always)... it's almost enough to make me believe in God. Probably about trying to beat addiction and save his own life. | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Daisy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| A beautiful instrumental, so much fun to play with it's composing chords, i'm guessing it has some relation to death... but that's just because it's titled "daisy", as in 'pushin up daisies'? *Shrug* The DeLeo brothers f-in rule, which reminds me Army of Anyone is waaayyyy better than Velvet Revolver. | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Kitchenware & Candy Bars Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The title, "Kitchenware and candybars" is undeniably about drug paraphenelia, and I'm thinking he's lying when he says it's about an abortion, I would go with seattle lite amazingly... i would think its about the music industry. Being "sold down the river" is a phrase that essentially means you've been cheated (it's a reference to slaves in the north being resold down south to harsher conditions/masters). Then again this could easily be about abortion too... you think it will fix everything, but afterwards you feel cheated, very intriguing. If you ever hear anyone say scott weiland is a rip-off artist or has no talent etc. point them towards this discussion, the mans a frigging drug-addled genius. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Seven Caged Tigers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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There are numerous obviuos drug references as always... "wastin time kickin as time rips by.." a reference to writhing around on the floor after using heroin, perhaps. "buy a minute spend an hour burnin, burnin" buying a fix of heroin, takes a minute, burns through your veins for alot longer than a minute. "chasin those cows.." likely a reference to how junkies are always chasing the feeling of that first high. All in all , I think it's a song about using drugs to fuel the creative process and the conflict that causes within Scott (ruins his relationships with EVERYONE, ruins his health, but its how he creates and is successful at what he does). |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Atlanta Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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MtterOFctItsAllDrk , did you ever think that quote was in relation to "Interstate Love Song"? LOL anyway... Atlanta is likely about both his first wife and heroin and how he lost her, and she lost him, to heroin. "She lives by the wall, waits by the door, walks in the sun" is probably about her waiting for him to bring home a fix for them both, walking in the sun is obviously shooting up with heroin. White light/white heat anyone? |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Art School Girl Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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seattle lite, you are a fool this is a great song, a fun song, and only adds to the master-craftery that is Tiny Music... As far as it's meaning, nothing deep here, just a fun song , likely inspired by real events/people/places in scotts' (or someone he knew) life. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Adhesive Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well, some of it is about dealing with bi-polar disorder, and some about being famous, but everytime he mentions "purple flowers" that's a direct reference to poppies, which produce opium, which is sythesized to make heroin. Adhesive is about drug addiction, and about using drugs as a crutch (which is how it relates to bi-polar disorder and fame). There's also a reference to Kurt Cobain here, "sell more records if I'm dead". Kurt, or more specifically Courtney Love, is also the subject of another STP song, Too Cool Queenie. | |
| Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well, I'm gonna go ahead and blow all of your minds ;P I'm from NE, been to North Platte many times have many friends there. About 3 miles east of North Platte, Nebraska is an airport , the North Plate Regional Lee Bird Field to be exact. Lee Bird, obviously, being the name of a person the airport is dedicated to, pilot? financial supporter? dunno. Whether or not he is related to Andrew , dunno, but it wouldn't surprise me if Lee Bird is his grandpa or some such. Why then did he say six miles south of north platte ... well the airport is south east (more east). Lee Bird could have lived north of the South Platte river and maybe had an alcohol problem? Brown-baggin' liqour is very common. . . besides , if asked, I bet Andrew Bird woulnd't say what the song is about, but instead, say that that is for the listener to interpret, as all art is. | |
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