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| Rush – Jacob's Ladder Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[Blaze_Infernus:43039] I'm ignoring the fact that Neil wrote it? How the hell did you get that out of what I said? What are you smoking and can I have some? |
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| Rush – Jacob's Ladder Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[Blaze_Infernus:43017] @[tragicEushFan:43018] Inspired by that, yes. Only one small stanza is actually about that part. You're completely ignoring the entire first verse, describing the storm leading up to it. |
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| NOFX – Drugs Are Good Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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These lyrics are wrong.\n\nCorrect lyrics:\n\nWant to fuck up?\nDrop out?\nNever trust a fucking hippie?\nFor that matter don’t trust anyone.\n\nQuit school!\nDon’t work!\nLivin’ out the music, you punk.\nIf I can do it, so could anyone.\n\nDrugs are good,\nThey let you do things that you know you not should,\nAnd when you do ‘em people think that you’re cool.\nAnd when you do ‘em people think that you’re cool\n\nWant to join a punk band?\nShave your head\nAnd get a tattoo?\nYou don’t need talent, just sing outta tune.\n\nSelf destruction,\nHoldin’ up two celebrities.\nFor no particular reason beat up everyone.\n\nDrugs are neat,\nAnd you can buy ‘em relatively cheap.\nAnd when you do ‘em people think that you’re cool.\nAnd when you do ‘em people think that you’re cool. |
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| Neko Case – Halls of Sarah Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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Sarah is the muse that artists either exalt or vilify in their works, the ones they credit or blame for their creative suffering.
Sarah isn’t a real person, and that’s entirely the point.
Neko said she basically got sick of the notion that you have to rely on a person or persons as a so-called muse for your creativity, to fawn over or to destroy as an act of revenge for some wrongdoing. She feels it’s ethically wrong and just a shitty thing to do.
So she wrote Halls of Sarah with a completely made up character as the centrepiece, just to show that you can craft a song and pine for someone or air your dirty laundry, whatever suits your fancy, without having to condemn a real person to that fate.
And it worked; I’ve completed fallen for Sarah, and she’s not even real, but that doesn’t change anything. It shows that you don’t have to destroy anyone to make magic.
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| Nirvana – Come As You Are Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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It's not "soaked in bleach", it's SERVED in bleach. That line has become so prevalent around the internet that no has bothered to go back and listen to the actual line in the song. It's very clear too. |
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| Paul McCartney – Too Many People Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[PaulDavidHewsoncol:34281] I’m sorry but “The only thing you done was yesterday and since you’ve gone you’re just another day” (referencing TWO of Paul’s works) is far more clever and amusing than anything Paul ever wrote during this dispute. Savage, basically the origins of a diss track. |
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| The Monkees – Goin' Down Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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It's not about getting dumped. It's about having way too much to drink at a bar, hitting on a girl, getting rejected, and being chased out of the place and jumping into a river to get away. And then he realizes he probably shouldn't have done that. Wikipedia is wrong, as usual, and doesn't even cite a legit reference if you follow the link provided. |
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| Corrosion Of Conformity – Doublewide Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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I think it's about being stuck in the same life he can't get out of, sometimes feeling like he's wasting his life away, other times thinking it's not so bad, and fucking the same fuck-buddy who keeps coming back around. Maybe an ex-girlfriend. Doublewide is white trash living in a doublewide trailer, but it's also sexual term. I'd bet Pepper was going for a double meaning to the song, hence the appeal of writing the lyrics. Doublewide in a doublewide. |
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| R.E.M. – King Of Birds Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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It's about trying not to copy other writers and finally finding your own voice as an writer/artist. Truly original ideas are hard to come by, and getting harder. |
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| R.E.M. – Orange Crush Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[Outthere:24442] The lyrics don't need to be flipped because the entire thing is satire to begin with, it's sarcasm. Works perfect as is. |
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| R.E.M. – Orange Crush Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[CorgiKid:24441] Hahaha they didn't spray it on the Vietnamese they sprayed it on their crops in obscene amounts. It's a herbicide. |
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| R.E.M. – Monty Got A Raw Deal Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[QOP:17683] No, but he does talk a lot about how people should just accept others for who they are and the tragedy attached when people don't. You can bet on that. |
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| R.E.M. – Monty Got A Raw Deal Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[QOP:17682] No, but he does talk a lot about how people should just except others for who they are and the tragedy attached when people don't. You can bet on that. |
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| R.E.M. – Ignoreland Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[rhithedwarf:17681] Nope, the 1979 bit is actually referencing a major gay-rights march into Washington D.C. on October 14th, 1979. |
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| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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The song isn't about a gay couple, Hozier never came up with that idea until he was making the video long after the song was written. People are putting the video meaning here as the song meaning. While related, they're not one and the same.
The song itself is just a classic torch song about a love affair; he uses the hypocrisy of the church to put his own spin on it. That's it. |
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| Deftones – Passenger Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Having sex in the backseat of a convertible with the top down that's flying down the freeway at night doing about 75 mph. |
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| Hozier – In a Week Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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A man and a woman left for dead in a pasture. I love the ambiguity of it since we're not really sure quite what's happened to them, but I'm thinking they were travelling along the road and were robbed and beaten to near death. There's a quiet melancholy to it, the juxtaposition between their persistence to survive—the longing to soon be home again safe in each other's arms—and acceptance of their fate, that they are going to die together, hand in hand. |
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| Opeth – The Drapery Falls Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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It's about Mikael Akerfeldt's dead goldfish. True story. He came home to find that the wind had blown his curtain, knocking the bowl onto the floor. |
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| Michael Nesmith – Joanne Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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It's not "for Joanne and the man and the time that made them both wrong", it's "the time that made them both RUN". You can hear it plain as day, on the original recording, but especially here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBQUvL0RQY8
It was inspired by Joanne Woodward, but it's not necessarily about her. He turned into something more universal. |
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| Nirvana – Floyd the Barber Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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The song is about a nightmare Kurt had about being in Mayberry from The Andy Griffith Show, sitting in Floyd's barber chair and everyone taking turns slashing him with a razor. |
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| Primus – Mary the Ice Cube Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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It's just a song about being in love with an ice cube. This is Les' sense of humour, and he is laughing at you too. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Lazarus Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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You've got it the wrong way around. The son is alive and the mother is dead. The whole of Deadwing is a script that Steve wrote. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Lazarus Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Wow the lyrics have a lot of errors. I've submitted the correct ones, taken directly from the official site:
As the cheerless towns pass my window I can see a washed out moon through the fog And then a voice inside my head breaks the analogue And says
"Follow me down to the valley below You know Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul"
I survived against the will of my twisted folk But in the deafness of my world the silence broke And said
"Follow me down to the valley below You know Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul"
"My David don't you worry This cold world is not for you So rest your head upon me I have strength to carry you"
(Ghosts of the twenties rising Golden summers just holding you)
"Follow me down to the valley below You know Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul Come to us Lazarus It's time for you to go" |
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| The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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II think the meaning is a bit simpler: it's just about traveling to the desert to watch the Selenicereus Grandiflorus bloom, becoming completely transfixed by it, dying there as a result and being left behind as a ghost to forever haunt the place. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Time Flies Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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He talks about how time flies because he's come so far from where he started, and I think in a sense it means it can be hard to know if you're ever really making the right decisions. Everything can happen so quickly and you can find yourself in a place with no idea how you really got there. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Time Flies Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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The song is about the music business, and reflecting on what motivated Steve to even get into it to begin with, industry or not. Musically the similarities between this song and a few different Pink Floyd songs are intentional as an homage because Pink Floyd was the band that started it all for him to begin with. He even includes a lyrical reference to the PF song "Have A Cigar", questioning how much he's willing to put up with on the industry side of things to afford himself the luxury of living his dream: making a living off of his music. |
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| Blackfield – Christenings Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I've often wondered if for some bizarre reason this song is about David Bowie, because of the line "what happened to the prettiest star?". Bowie has a song called The Prettiest Star.
But I guess this is how rumours start..... |
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| Gotye – Heart's a Mess Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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It never ceases to amaze me how much people read into crap that's not even there. The meaning of this song is quite clear:
The singer is in love with someone who's been burned in relationships so many times that he or she has locked their heart up and thrown away the key. He's desperately trying to get through to the person, to help them heal, because you can't survive without love. But it's getting harder and harder to deal with, so he's pleading with her to give in, the alternative being that he will leave and find someone else, because he has so much love to give but can no longer waste it on someone who can't give it back.
Pretty straight-forward. |
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| Pantera – Strength Beyond Strength Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Pretty easy to see the song is about drug dealers having all the power and running the country, and the only way to take that power away from them is to legalize narcotics. No it's not about the band and their success, anyone who thinks that is the one that's drawing lines where there's nothing to be drawn. The lyrics are quite literal. |
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| Neko Case – This Tornado Loves You Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Neko said this song is actually about a dream she had where a tornado knocked on her door and professed its undying love for her, and she thought it was just the most bizarre thing to dream about, so she just had to capture it in a song before it escaped her. True story, it was during an interview with Jian Ghomeshi when she explained it.
No imagery or metaphor, she's talking about a real tornado. |
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| Neko Case – Polar Nettles Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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The correct lyrics are as follows:
He takes his dinner in the bed,
Love sickened and infirmed.
The orderly found him there,
Filleted on the marble stairs.
Hat still in hand, his smokin' remains
Blown out by a kiss from Nurse "Some Day Soon"
Someday soon
Someday soon
Someday soon
Some day
Some day
Some day...
His eyes are closed, he mouths her name
The rosary: her lips and tongue.
She is the centrifuge that throws the spires from the sun;
The Sisteen Chapel, painted with a gattling gun!
Some day soon,
Some day soon,
Some day soon...
Some day soon,
Some day soon....
Polar nettles set on end,
Move like starlings up a cliff -
Antennae of her foggy touch,
The force-field 'round her frosty hips,
Whose shape recalls the wicked spade,
That buried him but on his lips:
The last rites of Nurse "Some Day Soon". |
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