| Audiovent – Underwater Silence Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I've always listened to the song taking it as a very literal 'ohgod you're comatose let's sing about how I miss you' song, using the stillness in its literal sense, as opposed to a metaphor. I viewed underwater as the sob wave-of-tears junk, and the silence as 'her' inability to acknowledge the crying. The lonely eyelids happen to belong to the singer, and the descriptions are his imagination running with what sort of world she must be in. 'Tonight, you are emotionless, hold on and on..', as a coma patient must to..um. Not die. |
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| Subtle – Requiem for a Dive Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Though a little less final than other opinions given, I believe The Ends is really just an Ends to both Hour Hero, Yes's dependence on his high class life, his own selfish mind and perhaps his cloudy self image? The mention of a mother before the eclipse of The Hero gives an impression of the vitality that a mother takes in general life. Throughout the album, Hour Hero, Yes always maintains a standard of selfishness and vanity. The fact that a mother named NOW, during The Ends implies that there is a point now where The Hero realizes that he is not so great as to give birth to himself alone. That he himself was once a one-celled-organism. "At the foot of the bright light blocking and locked hundredth door of luck." Another 'door' he has been found before (reference to Nomanisisland), only this is “the door of your choice”. It seems strange to me that the rest of the song is about him trying to get inside of this door, (with a wishbone, of all instruments!) and the moment he does, he takes on the only form we've seen him; perhaps finally- FINALLY, our hero sees himself as he has been all along. |
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| Subtle – Arsenic Chic Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't know a thing about the context of this song in relation to the rest of the album, or if there even is a context. But looking at its yrics alone, and listening to the scream of the violin and Dose's pretty mouthwords, I get a sight of death from this song. The window's shatter, as well as the loss of sight, yet the ability to see the entire universe through vertigo speaks to this, I feel. Arsenic Chic must be very beautiful demon clothes? |
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| Subtle – Return Of The Vein Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I am too lazy to write an in depth glance at this, the Hero's dream in conjunction with The Long Vein of the Law from A New White, and the Longvein instrumental from Yell & Ice. I wish only to point out a line, which I think not only describes the song, but perhaps the album alone: While he opens a wee door wide in his overall armor, he then shows you a change slot boure where his appendix would be and says softly, " see how" he too had been bit by the audience once. He takes to the floor from his stilts. |
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| Subtle – The Ends Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Ps: The last half is a different song from the Yell and Ice album, in case you did what I did and turned up your song as loud as possible so you could try to make out the words in the music. It's just music. | |
| Subtle – The Ends Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Though a little less final than other opinions given, I believe The Ends is really just an Ends to both Hour Hero, Yes's dependence on his high class life, his own selfish mind and perhaps his cloudy self image? The mention of a mother before the eclipse of The Hero gives an impression of the vitality that a mother takes in general life. Throughout the album, Hour Hero, Yes always maintains a standard of selfishness and vanity. The fact that a mother named NOW, during The Ends implies that there is a point now where The Hero realizes that he is not so great as to give birth to himself alone. That he himself was once a one-celled-organism. "At the foot of the bright light blocking and locked hundredth door of luck." Another 'door' he has been found before (reference to Nomanisisland), only this is “the door of your choice”. It seems strange to me that the rest of the song is about him trying to get inside of this door, (with a wishbone, of all instruments!) and the moment he does, he takes on the only form we've seen him; perhaps finally- FINALLY, our hero sees himself as he has been all along. |
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| Subtle – Nomanisisland Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less." - John Donne Clearly, Our Hero, Yes disagrees. This song makes me giggle. |
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| Subtle – Middleclass Stomp Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song makes the most sense of the album, I think we can all agree. Though Dose constantly promises he is telling a story about Our Hero, Yes, this is the song that actually takes that path. Clearly, at the beginning of the song, Our Hero has just hit it big, and then things start going crazy. He finds himself becoming accustomed to his upperclass life and realizes that his rapping career just isn't going to keep bringing it to him, so he revamps the 'apes' ugly skates from a previous song' (A reference to A Tale of Apes I, which can be credited to Our Hero, as opposed to a part of his story) and a 'sturdy bag of sperm' . And then comes the collection, Debt Officer Promise and his thoussand swarming forks! They, poetically, begin to pick dry the life Our Hero, Yes has created, and Our Hero, Yes is desperate for work, for anybody to pull him out of this slump via the dance floor and the list (assumingly a set list). And then? Middleclass. And still, it shocks him, that people still want his autograph... |
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| Subtle – Junior's Band Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is quite straightforward, a look on 'kids today' and perhaps how Juniors revolt is based solely on your own obvious distaste for life. Which is sad. Which makes it funny. |
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| Subtle – Midas Gutz Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think yours makes more sense, even if there's no Disneyland prize. | |
| Lodger – I Love Death Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Through the video, it seems to be simply an addendum to actually loving death and the crappiness of life. However, the lyrics seem to be talking about one inflicted with cancer and simply waiting to die. His lover, of course, is there with him through the duration of the end. The title depicts love for death as redemption from the burden he is on his lover, less than a morbid self-interested desire. |
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| Lodger – I Love Death Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Through the video, it seems to be simply an addendum to actually loving death and the crappiness of life. However, the lyrics seem to be talking about one inflicted with cancer and simply waiting to die. His lover, of course, is there with him through the duration of the end. The title depicts love for death as redemption from the burden he is on his lover, less than a morbid self-interested desire. |
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| Subtle – Silence... Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I quite agree with the suggestion. The asprin is seemingly valued at no cost to it's workers, leading to union meetings of course. Following the brief intermission, an offer is made. Money for love: To pretend to love the company, money Popular songs: Presumably an option for Radio, popular in union requests License to pill: Now you can make the asprins legally, presumably. Spare no expense in the endless supper with Dr. Moon & Gun: I enjoy this line the very most. Dr Moon being the night shift, and Dr. Gun being suicide- saying, pretty much, that you can work here and like it or kill yourself- Adding irony to the other offers and making them moot, and probably lies. The dream ends, of course, and you are at home ready to go back to work to make more asprins. (Your dream ends where the song begins 'between space heaters and constellations' -At night in a run-down building with shoddy heating-) The last paragraph suggests that, ironically, the asprin making requires hospital aide for the workers and there is no 'absolute asprin' to remedy the cost of labour to make them. And, perhaps a somewhat obscure thought on my own part (and my own experience) I thought of 'pink' as always being Pepto-Bismol. That perhaps Pepto-Bismol being poured into the clouds will solve the problems of the world- perhaps pouring the drug into yourself will solve your own problems. Of, of course, the other way around. |
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| Subtle – Eneby Kurs Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is best understood in it's somewhat intelligible starting lines. "There will be no ape with a fire for a face" knowing the focal point of all sorrowful songs written by Adam Drucker, and his art, suggests that the 'fiery face'd' ape is Our Hero, Yes. "singing a word like fate while banging a fork on a plate" is obviously Our Hero, Yes asking for his own fate, and expecting it to be delivered to him with ease. "No gates, no stakes, no planes that are fake- just the simple terrahedron and it's vagina of states" These are things that Our Hero, Yes -does- have, and none of which, of course, are the fate he so kindly hopes for. All he has, indeed, is the 'terrahedron of states' which can be surmised to be the United States, which is really not too terribly much for a hero. "Did you really think that hydrogen was made to make apes, or maybe made to make an ape to make a net for catching whales in space" this line sort of ties it all together, in my eyes. It implies that there is no larger force prepared to deliver the fate requested, and suggests that Our Hero, Yes would like very much believe that there is a heaven (in space, naturally) where he can go to God and be fed forever with whales caught in the nets of a Divine. The final part is just a glance at the earth from space. The 'cracked ink' being the darker rivers seen, the rock wind being the actual wind on our 'rock'. The final line seems to be a prayer to a no-god, 'could you let it just be a rock?' implying a desire for no more omnipotent being, so Our Hero, Yes can finally get his hands on that fate he's been banging his forks for. |
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| Subtle – She Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I love this song. Everytime I hear it, it has new meaning strung into it's words, but quite consistantly, and most intelligibly, it is about a bumbling idiot virgin (presumably) who falls in love with a sexy, cynical woman and hasn't the slightest on how to please her. There is quite a lot in the song suggesting a violent courtship following the initial attraction, or at the very least, a rape followed by remorse on the part of the virgin 'You'. (Tiny spears of beard, you bring nothing but a raft's hope, as well as the man's presense at the climax of the song.) A confrontation leads to fighing and an eventual slit-wristed suicide of the girl right in front of the man who sired her child, as depicted rather obviously in the last bits of the song: Proof, of course, that she did indeed leave 'you' for the Undertaker and his Baby Morgues. |
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| Subtle – Swanmeat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song seems to be about 'you'- a person living in a metaphorical fishbowl. The owner of the fishbowl is the propmaster of life- yours included. You think it's you, naturally. You are like every other person pretending to be in charge of your own life. Except you are blinded by your beauty in a world of fakes (convincing human remains that you are convinced of living human beings). You have made yourself into a 'swan' amongst ducks, if you will. Yet, because you live in a fishbowl, you cannot escape the fakes, or even comprehend who is fake. And, naturally, your narcissm is so inherantly wrong, that you indeed are the swan's meat: no better off than the raw meat of ducks you despise, in the end. I believe, by this, subtle is trying to ask even the most wealthy person if they are ultimately happier when they are the sucessful, self claimed 'swan', or if it would be better to discover who the real 'propmaster' is. |
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| Subtle – Farewell Ride (Subtle Remix) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I believe this song, Retaken from Beck's version, follows the same vein of thought as the original: A sorrowful song about an overdose of drugs leading to a slow, drudhing death. The white horses in a line allude to the drug referense, as well as the subtle rennovation of the 'end happened upon in the neck'. |
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| Subtle – I Heart L.A. Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is rather straightforward about it's meaning. It's an expression of the darker side of LA (or all large cities, really), to match all of the praises in various other songs. The singer seems to be leaving the city and reminiscing as he rides on the plane and looks down at the winter-shrouded streets. | |
| Subtle – I & #8217 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think, given the lyrics and the absolutely stunning feature of a female voice in a Subtle song, that this is more or less a song about rape- which causes the singer to wish herself blind and leads her to an act of reprisal. Lumen is the name of the tube from the eye to the brain; the blue on the eyes are obviously tears; not wanting to seeing them techni nothing coloured; et al. The end of the song alludes to the recompense to the rape- knives and numbness and the ironic return of the phrase used in the mourning of the raped... Just my thoughts. |
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| Subtle – Midas Gutz Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Adam Drucker (on Midas Gutz): The actual song is about how I found, over time, watching some of my contemporaries;whether I know them or not, whether we’re friendly or not, how the world really wants to love someone who might punch them in the face if they actually meet them. Like your favorite person being someone who is some asshole or violent monster man. I wrote this poem when I was thinking about what would weed out the tough guys from the tough guys, and it would be this sort of cool calm [contest]. I guess they’d pump them full of morphine, I kind of left those details out. I don’t know how they would get it on ESPN, but it would be fantastic. Seeing all the big guys there with their stomachs out, and the winner, at the end, going to Disneyland. | |
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