| Low – Words Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"man in a box wants to burn my soul" The first thing I thought of was a priest in a pulpit. |
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| Swans – I'll Swallow You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| For me the first part is about someone that wants to believe - but is losing faith. In the second part he/she realizes that all that all he/she liked about religion/God was a part of himself or herself all along. It is the former believer that finds his/her freedom and "devours" God - not the other way around. | |
| David Bowie – Life on Mars? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I figure "Life on mars?" is at least partially a song about men and violence.. The planet mars is traditionally connected with the male sex and war. (The astrological symbol of Mars is also the symbol of the male sex, the roman god Mars was the god of war.) So when Bowie talks about sailors fighting, "cavemen" and a brutal lawman and then asks us "is there life on Mars?" he is pointing out the empty and destructive nature of the traditional male gender role. The girl in the first verse is supposed to admire this spectacle of futile male bravado, but she finds it a saddening bore. Bowies androgynous looks in the music video could be seen as a way for him to distance himself from traditional masculinity. |
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| The Magnetic Fields – Bitter Tears Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Great throw-away track. The lyrics in the second verse are hilarious and makes it all worthwhile. | |
| Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – My Human Gets Me Blues Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I love this song. I love the little analysis about how everybody made God a boy - how it turns out that the real reason he wants to dress girls "the way he wants" is that he never had a doll. I always thought the title "my human gets me blues" was Gods sadness about the cruelty of mankind. His human gets him blues so to speak. |
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| Tom Waits – The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| In my opinion, Bone Machine is Tom Waits best album. This song, however, doesn't quite make it in my book. While there is something endearing about the goofy "strangels"/"braingels"-wordplay, it doesn't work well within the context of a song about someone contemplating suicide. | |
| Tom Waits – All Stripped Down Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| In my opinion this is one of Tom Waits finer moments. While there are some (brilliant) double-entendres about judgment day and strip tease, this is something far more worthwile than the sleazy smugness of "Pasties and a G-string". A song about the second coming, nude shows and honesty that evolves into something that resembles a... love song? With a dark undercurrent of tragedy. And all sung in a truly disturbing falsetto. Need I say more. | |
| Tom Waits – Saving All My Love for You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I hate this song with a passion. This is Tom Waits at his most obnoxious. So, he sleeps with some poor hooker and we are supposed to pity HIM? All this sentimental sexism is just unbearable. The music is dreadfully dull as well. Luckily, I am not the only one that dislikes this sappy crap (from a Tom Waits-interview in Mojo): "TW: Maudlin and schmaltzy. Oh yeah I’m aware of that. My wife [ co-writer Kathleen Brennan] electrocutes me every time I do that. SS: She has a schmaltzometer ? TW: She really does. And I have to be careful - ‘ Am I slipping into self parody here ?’ ‘Is this worthwhile or just a lame exercise ?’ The song she really hates is Saving All My Love For You, off Heartattack and Vine. ‘ What is this bullshit ?" I think meeting Kathleen was the best thing that ever happened to Tom and his music. |
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