| Mumford & Sons – I Will Wait Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Mumford and Sons is like U2. The members of the band are Christian, but they play secular music, and like U2 they tailor Christian meaning into a post-Christian world. This song is about Jesus. When I first heard this song I sort of figured it was, and when I heard it was by Mumford and Sons (which, frankly, I had suspected from the first listening) I knew it was. The bit about being forgiven, clearly this relates back to the fact that Jesus forgave. The whole song is about waiting for Jesus to return and how he, the singer, will wait and grow spiritually. |
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| John Lennon – Working Class Hero Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| John Lennon – Working Class Hero Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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A song's meaning, although generally the same, vary by person, no one is wrong in their meaning because we each see things in a different light. Allow me to break it down the way I see it. "As soon as you're born they make you feel small "By giving you no time instead of it all "Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all "A working class hero is something to be "A working class hero is something to be" -This first verse is about childhood, well the first two verses are. However this is saying our parents start the cycle of being a "working class hero". They themselves must work, and we are left at home, their work takes away the time they should be spending with us, and by not giving us the time we need as a child they prepare us for this life of pain, which we will live oblivious of because our parents trained us to simply nto feel the pain, by no fault of their own. "They hurt you at home and they hit you at school "They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool "Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules "A working class hero is something to be "A working class hero is something to be" -Verse two. Now we are old enough for school. Still at home our parents hurt us, we still do not get the time we need, maybe they punish us with words or maybe it is physical. At school we are treated badly, which is generally true, they punish little kids for doing small deeds that ought only be forgiven. They hit you, force you into submission with their rules. These rules drive us crazy, I think this is Lenon saying our freedom is smothered by these rules meant to make us safe and free. The smart kids are hated because they are smart, I have seen it, the teachers respect them and all, but they are loathed, you can see it in their eyes. I know students, actually a lot of students, and they are far smarter than the teachers, teachers are not allows smart, they recite from a book. The dumb kids are hated because they are dumb. Why? They are seen as a burden, hated for this, I was in a low level HS class and I watched how the teachers just didn't care about their kids. "When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years "Then they expect you to pick a career "When you can't really function you're so full of fear "A working class hero is something to be "A working class hero is something to be" -After twentey some years of school, if you go to college, and all the time we have been taught to obey these rules and we have been taught about the punishments, scared by them. Now these people, parents, teachers, the Government, Mr. President, Mr. Senator, they want us to pick a job that will only keep us down, 5x5 cubicle placed in effective rows, meant to maximize room. We don't function how we can or should, we do our job and what is meant, but there is so much more we could do, so much more potential. "Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV "And you think you're so clever and classless and free "But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see "A working class hero is something to be "A working class hero is something to be" -This is from a very well known idea. Religion has been seen for thousands of years as a way to keep people down. It teaches them these rules they must obey or they will suffer in Hell. It requires them to worship images, to bow to men who are seen as higher than anyone else. TV, it slows our minds, that is known. Cartoons and sitcoms, and soaps weigh down our brains and keep us dumb, keep us content, but nto happy or fulfilled. These mediums, religion and TV, they show us that we are free and they make us feel smart and they make us feel equal and classless because they portray "normal" people. TV is about the middle class life and how great it is, we see this and assume it for truth when really it is a problem ridden class. Now Lenon is saying he sees this to be true, he knows we are chains and classed, he knows the truth and is striving for freedom. "There's room at the top they are telling you still "But first you must learn how to smile as you kill "If you want to be like the folks on the hill "A working class hero is something to be "A working class hero is something to be" -The greatest lie we are told is that we can all be President, we can all be Senators. It is a lie, most people will never do this, why? To be a politician requires the ability to sell yourself, sell your morals, and they know that and they train us to be moral, they train us to hate killing and to frown on backstabbing, and that is the truth these things ARE wrong, but the way to become a politician is by selling your morals, you need to kill, you need to backstab, and if we can do this, what we KNOW is wrong, than they will give us a job. To them it is a joke, they have no morals. "If you want to be a hero well just follow me "If you want to be a hero well just follow me" - Lenon is saying the way to be a hero, a real hero and not a politician is to work, to allow for this society they made for us, but DO NOT beleive the lies. We MUST work to live, but we can live free of mind, and that is what he is doing, he is living free of mind, he is speaking out against these injustices. To follow him we must throw down the lies, we must live on and work on, but we must live without the lies and we must speak the truth as we see it to be, share, and fight most important, fight the Man, the established power, because they are corrupt and have no morals. |
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| Peter, Paul and Mary – Puff (The Magic Dragon) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Music can be seen in many ways. PP&M may have meant this song to be about the loss of innocence, and this is how I see it, but music, or my philosophy of music, is that once an artist releases a song it is the public's song. Although we may have to pay for it on a CD the lyrics are there and they are going to be interpreted in different ways. We take things and find meanings in themt hat pertain to our lives, even if that is not how the author meant it. Just because Yarrow wrote it with the intent of it being a song about a loss of innocense doesn't mean it is the only meaning, or that someone who views it as a drug song or a song against war or just a song about a dragon is any more wrong than the person who thinks it is about lost innocence. It is interesting though, this song is meant to be about losing your imagination and such that we have in childhood, but the ability to imply a new meaning onto a song, such as a meaning of drugs or war, takes an imagination. |
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| Peter, Paul and Mary – Puff (The Magic Dragon) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree with you that drugs have been around far longer than this, or any modern song, in the 1920s weed was banned in Mass. because the white leaders feared that blacks would use it to seduce white woman, and in fact in the Roaring Twenteys weed was a very prominent substance for white woman at partys although usually it was introduced to them as a simple cigarette. |
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| Flobots – Handlebars Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I recommend people watch the music video. It is what got me onto a new track of thinking for this song. Before I saw the video I thought it was about how we can do anything we want to do, but the video makes it all apparent to what they artist meant it to be. | |
| Flobots – Handlebars Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It is about the United States and the power she holds and about how all this power will lead to corruption and ultimately fascism. -------------------------- I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars This line is repeated over and over. To me it says that he is riding something that is out of his control, as the government is out of our control, well to a point it is not but when it comes down to it the government is not in our control, truly. --------------------------------- Look at me, look at me hands in the air like it's good to be ALIVE and I'm a famous rapper even when the paths're all crookedy I can show you how to do-si-do I can show you how to scratch a record I can take apart the remote control And I can almost put it back together I can tie a knot in a cherry stem I can tell you about Leif Ericson I know all the words to "De Colores" And "I'm Proud to be an American" Me and my friend saw a platypus Me and my friend made a comic book And guess how long it took I can do anything that I want cuz, look: I can keep rhythm with no metronome No metronome No metronome I can see your face on the telephone On the telephone On the telephone To me this is listing things that WE can do not I. Everything he lists are things we learn in school or things we take for granted. We know all the words to De Colores and the pledge and such patriotic songs, it is almost brainwashing! ---------------------------- Look at me Look at me Just called to say that it's good to be ALIVE In such a small world All curled up with a book to read I can make money open up a thrift store I can make a living off a magazine I can design an engine sixty four Miles to a gallon of gasoline I can make new antibiotics I can make computers survive aquatic conditions I know how to run a business And I can make you wanna buy a product Movers shakers and producers Me and my friends understand the future I see the strings that control the systems I can do anything with no assistance I can lead a nation with a microphone With a microphone With a microphone I can split the atom of a molecule Of a molecule Of a molecule First of all he says how it is such a small world and says it over and over. Everyday the world grows smaller. We grow closer to everyone else through technology, a trip across the Atlantic that once took a boat a month now takes a plane hours. --------------------------- Look at me Look at me Driving and I won't stop And it feels so good to be Alive and on top My reach is global My tower secure My cause is noble My power is pure I can hand out a million vaccinations Or let'em all die in exasperation Have'em all healed into lacerations Have'em all killed by assassination I can make anybody go to prison Just because I don't like'em and I can do anything with no permission I have it all under my command, because I can guide a missile by satellite By satellite By satellite and I can hit a target through a telescope Through a telescope Through a telescope and I can end the planet in a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust In a holocaust Alive and on top, that is what power does! You get to like it, and you won;t let it go. The fact is the USA is on top. Our towers are secure. We hand out millions of vaccinations, without our good will millions would die, because we didn't care. We help people, but we don't have too. We can kill anyone, make them die, assassinations... When you have the power you can make people look bad, make them go to prison by lies alone. The President has power. He is at the helm, he can make an emergency usage of the military for 90 days without any intervention by the Senate, in 90 days we could have the world! He is the sole person with the codes for our nuclear weapons! He is the one who essentially guides them via satellite to their target. To top it off he has the power to make it all go to hell, a mass haulacuast. Country vs country. Race vs race. It is a song about control and it tells of the possible, not the definite. It is a warning of sorts. |
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| Bob Dylan – The Levee's Gonna Break Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is based off of the song by Kansas Joe McCoy, a black jazz muscian in the 40s and 50s, called When the Levee Breaks, which was adapted by Led Zeplin on the Mothership album. This has nothing to do with New Orleans, in a press release after it was brought up that Dylan seemingly 'copied' this song without giving credit he said it was loosely based off it in lyrics and in meaning. In the 50s Katrina was a name and not a hurricane, so I doubt it was written as a homage to Katrina. | |
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