| Oasis – The Hindu Times (Demo) Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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I also agree that the demo is far superior to the album cut, especially in the cool way its sonics almost call back to Oasis' start: The cracking drum loop and proper shoegaze guitars are very early-'90s UK, in a good way. Only problem here: These are NOT the lyrics to the demo, somebody just reposted the orginal! The lyrics to the demo are different, and also an improvement: You fall in, we fall down There's no love in this shotgun town What you believe is not fair When you leave, yeah the world won't care The ghost that is your soul it leaves me cold, babe The ghost that is your soul it leaves me cold, babe Cos you get so high, you just don't feel it Yeah you get so high, you just can't feel it In and out your brain Running through your veins You've got no sunshine You've got rain [Mostly just repetitions from there, with variations at the end, "Why'd you get so high? You just can't feel it", etc. A much darker, poetic tone in this cut] |
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| The Living End – Tabloid Magazine Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[Pigmy:23435] I know you posted this years and years ago now (did people abandon 'Songmeanings'? And if so, why??? Was it replaced?, but either way, this is a spot on-analysis of one of Chris' simpler but still clever tunes. The chorus hook and etc play up the magazines being trashy, untrustworthy, desperate, all of which they are, but what makes it a "Living End" song is this idea that people are willingly reading this inane bullshit INSTEAD of keeping up on what's important, and the issues, and the unpleasant realities of the world at large and even their own lives. | |
| Elliott Smith – A Passing Feeling Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[JimiCobain:321] , I realize this is years later for both of these posts and so this'lll go unseen, but felt I needed to reply to Jimi's reply. I understand the natural touchiness E.S. fans have about casual listeners thinking "every" song is just about drugs. However, he did OFTEN use substance abuse as a strong element in order to heighten narratives of other situations and emotions, and there ARE tunes where it is itself the core subject. This is one of them. "A passing feeling" refers to the unsustainable high, and the repeated "requests for relief" or, alternatively, "help to exist at all" are fairly obvious nods to the chasing of that escape through suppliers, now needed just to cope with reality rather than enhance it. Finally (and I'm purposefully not breaking down each section, though I could), even if you wanted to argue the rest was simply about deep depression rather than addiction, breaking free from depression normally, and then slipping back into it does not happen with the clockwork-like nature of "an hour to fall". It is, as illustrated in other Elliott songs which ARE just about depression, a layered and constant 'funk' which one does not enter into OR get out of with anything close to that speed or ease. That "hour to fall" is a specific and notable reference to the rapid vanishing of the false happiness generated by intoxication. The whole song itself is haunting and masterful, from the foreboding "bad shit coming" piano that opens, to the stuttering guitar and drum outro, to the words themselves. I understand being frustrated if people think every song is about a certain subject, especially if it's something you can't relate to, but some of them are. A song is NOT shallow merely because it is about substance abuse; in fact, thinking that that is the case, as you seem to, is shallow. Just take this song as an example: it is a deeply moving and poetic meditation on the buzzsaw cycle of suffering, craving, temporary peace and then even deeper suffering that is addiction. | |
| The Living End – Maitland Street Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's totally about 9/11, although like most songs, it incorporates and touches on other events that also fit into the metaphor. Chris said himself "My take on 9/11, for what it's worth." The WTC was not on "Maitland Street", so it's either a fictional location, or a street he came upon (I imagine in Oz, I live in NY, so) and liked the name enough to use it. | |
| Jimmy Eat World – Crooked Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I guess this is technically slightly "off-topic" since it doesnt actually apply directly to the TRACK "Crooked" itself, but why do so few JEW listeners know about/seek out/seem to even recognize the existence of JEW's TRUE debut (not Static prevails)...I mean, some of the stuff on the S/T record (and yes, this is their ONLY self-titled album, even if they pussied out and tried to swipe out the title post 9/11...the CD I bought says "Bleed American", and thats also the name of its first track, not...salt, sweat, sugar?!!) JEW is dfinitely a band big enough to have at the very least a semi-obsessive fan base, so youd th but apart from the lack of discussions on JEW b-sides and rarities, this is an entire ALBUM worth of tracks that nobody recognizes. For random example, the Radiohead forums I tend to frequent, it seems like EVERYBODY has already heard everything the band has ever put out in any way/shape/form, to as recent as some totally new song they played somewhere in Europe the other day. And JEW have tons of great rare tracks. Anyone hear ever hear their cover of Duran Duran's "New Religion"??? Fucking amazing. Just seems silly, don't it?? But ANYWAY, "Crooked" is a great tune...I dig it especially I think cos one of of the few Jimmy songs in general where the bass has a prominent melodic role, and also being their first album its the only one Mitch Porter played bass on before he was replaced by Burch (I'd be curious to know how far into their record deal that departure happened. |
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| The Walkmen – Rue The Day Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Without any exaggeration, I can honestly say that this track contains what is (at the very least) ONE of my favorite lyrical couplets ever. Particularly considering Hamilton is generature known more for his seizure-like stage moves and signature vocal strain than his lyrics (which are often more of a mood-setting tool than a literal message)his perfect description of crippling nostalgia stands out all the more. "I'm a lucky guy now, But I'll never know until it's gone. Yeah, I never know until it's gone." |
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| Coldplay – Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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LOST IN TRANSLATION, anybody?? I can't help but think of that, even before I heard the actual music and just saw the title, that movie is the first thing I thought of...a romance blooming in the futuristic/alienating yet beautiful Japan. Even if it's a moment that comes and goes, you hold on it to the memory, you soldier on, dreaming of the "osaka sun".... or something |
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| Elliott Smith – Coast to Coast Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| P.S. I say the song is about Elliott's drug habit and not his suicidal tendencies/depression because suicide is a willing, committed final shove into the abyss, basically the opposite of "leave it alone", whereas that statement perfectly applies to letting a rampant addiction continue its course. | |
| Elliott Smith – Coast to Coast Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| An excerpt from Elliott's comments on the song shortly before he died, in explaining the poetry being read at the end of the song, and how it came about: "I asked this friend of mine to make up something he could say as fast as he could in fifteen minutes about people healing themselves or being unable to heal themselves." I don't think the topic Elliott asked his friend to write about in the poetry is in anyway insignificant to the meaning of the song, in fact, if anything, it's probably a direct connection. That said, particularly in light of "pushy, preachy..." I think this is another song in the vein of "Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands", where Elliott basically tells all the people on his case to get clean to "just...leave it alone", as Elliott has, like the poems, TRIED to heal himself and been unable. That's why. | |
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