| Placebo – Blind Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It's about masturbation in part. "If I could tear you from the ceiling..." is actually literal; Young guys are known to put posters of hot girls on their ceilings over their beds to (masturbate, and then) fall asleep to. The narrator is simply wishing that his poster-girl is a real woman, because he is very attracted to her and convinced that if she were real he could give her all that she needs. Also note the "Please don't drive me blind." lyrics, as they refer to masturbation yet again, as the narrator pleads not to be alone in his efforts of affection and sexual desire. | |
| Phantogram – Mouthful of Diamonds Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Hi there. I was diagnosed as bi-polar when I was eighteen, and this song is very very very relevant to my life. I can hear it as if my best friend were singing it to me. Because I know that being my friend is hard. "wake up you're getting high on your own supply oh baby you're still alive when you could've died" I also had a drug issue, haha. I'd buy all of this weed and just smoke it all whenever I was alone, because I couldn't STAND being alone and sober. I'd get to thinking awful things. At that point I stopped eating and it got really bad. I'm still alive when I could've died. "the world is not round because of you you know i'm not around because of you" I'm not egotistical or narcissistic or anything, but I AM selfish. I get so caught up in my own head that I start to think I make the goddamn world spin. "you've got a mouthful of diamonds and a pocketful of secrets" I have a lot of friends, mostly because I've got a sharp wit and a "mouthful of diamonds", but I hardly know anyone deeply. "i know you're never telling anyone because the patterns they control your mind those patterns take away my time" My best friend has had to deal with a lot of secrets I kept, for instance, how I was sexually assaulted as a child or how I was deeply madly fucking in love with her. I was-- am-- the best liar, the best at keeping secrets. And it's all because of overly-complex networks of irrational thoughts snowballing and treasure maps to brick walls that don't make sense, and sifting through all of that must be difficult for her. "hello, goodbye wasted you tell the truth when you could've lied" Reminds me of a very specific moment, ironically, when I was fucked up. "troubles are on the rise cause you're in disguise and if it isn't me then pack your bags and leave i wish i could believe the devils won't take you back out to the salty seas" When my illness gets bad, it's like some negative demon got inside of me and starts eating all of the good things. I get angry, scared, and I can't trust anybody. Paranoid. Nihilistic. Everything feels catastrophic, but I know it's not ME-- not the real, positive placid me that I KNOW as myself. And my best friend must always have to keep that in mind when dealing with me; that sometimes the "real" me goes away, and the crazy one takes over. "you've got a mouthful of diamonds and a pocketful of secrets i know you're never telling anyone because the patterns they control your mind those patterns take away my time hello, goodbye i wish i could believe" She wishes she could believe I'm stable, reliable, and constant. Hell, I wish I could be that, too. But I'm just not. And this song is about getting to that point where you're debating whether the fight is really worth it. I'm there right now. Jesus. |
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| The Antlers – The Universe Is Going to Catch You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is about tripping on acid. I did acid when I was eighteen, and while I was high I felt like I understood everything, and I comprehended a vast amount of knowledge and, let me tell you, I slept in the crooked arms of justice and I felt safe. I thought the universe would catch me. That I was on some different level now, that suddenly the rules of Karma I'd always wanted to be real would finally catch up with me and prove themselves. "It's been a long time coming It's not up for debate You've been a hollowed-out apple Though you're standing up straight" The person mentioned is probably a normal person, maybe someone who doesn't break many rules or who keeps in line most of the time. His friends convince him he's a "hollowed-out apple" and needs to experience LSD to jumpstart his soul or become a little more interesting or something. It's later than you think And we're not going to wait If you continue to tell us If you continue to tell us "The universe is going to catch you" The first line alludes to the fact that the tripping has begun. When I dropped acid, my time perception was completely messed up for a good eight or nine hours. Which can be a little exhausting, by the way. I think the rest is just conversation during the trip, but I'm not sure. Meh. Well, it was fine until you fell off Of the face of the Earth Because we would call you at home And no one picked up the phone But we were worried that you'd fallen In the river, or worse But then you sent us back a letter It said in capital letters "THE UNIVERSE IS GOING TO CATCH YOU" This person is completely caught up in their trip. He is really into it and trying to explain it to his friends, who I assume are more drug-experienced and don't take him seriously. I think he's starting to worry them with his insistence and fervor. Come back inside To this house To your home Made of steel-structured styrofoam As opposed to the chemical-induced "home" he's found. Nobody's out there But someone is singing you Back to your birthplace That voice is the same voice You heard on the same night that Everything glowed In my opinion it's alluding to another trip now, because obviously this guy was convinced the truth can only be exposed while he's in an altered state. The "same voice" is the acid. It does talk to you in certain ways, and now he's dropped again-- Took you into the air And the arms of the universe Kept you from falling The trip was going as well as last time. But after that happened Those arms did not come back So when you leapt up And nobody caught you Your neck broke I mean, this could be a literal translation, and the guy could have accidentally died while tripping, being so sure that nothing bad could happen to him. Maybe he leapt from a building thinking he couldn't die. Or it could be metaphorically, like when he stopped tripping he realized that it was all a fantasy, it wasn't real, and his sense of comfort was a lie. And he couldn't cope with that. That's what it sounds like to me, anyway. |
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| Neutral Milk Hotel – Ghost Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"And she goes And now she knows that she'll never be afraid To watch the morning paper blow Into a hole where no one can escape" I listened to this on LSD, and I thought the hole symbolized History. And how every event that is written in the morning paper (or noticed, for that matter) is- unavoidably throughout its process- thought about, created and produced, and remembered; and therefore birthed into existence and history and memory, as a Happened Thing. Where it can't not have happened, where it can never un-exist on a timeline. In this way the Anne Frank (or Anne Frank-inspired) character Jeff is singing about takes comfort in knowing that when she dies, she will not be afraid, because you can never erase that she lived, you can never take away the love she ever felt or the struggles she ever faced. Being jotted down into history (in very minuscule ways) is pretty much unavoidable, and that in itself can be an intimidating or terrifying thought (depending on how deeply you think about it). But Anne is no longer afraid of that fate, because she finally understands it. Keep in mind that more people know about something in history that happened if it was a gruesome, terrible thing, or something really profoundly sad. Such as the Holocaust, such as when you forever vividly remember a girl falling from a burning building. In order to enter that level of history within someone's mind and to be that pronounced amongst the other thoughts of the masses, something really tragic must have happened to you. I feel this is also relevant to the song. But like I said, LSD. Who knows. |
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| Crystal Castles – Pap Smear Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I love this song. It's definitely about abortion, and hits on a subject that I myself have been constantly going back and forth over: When does life begin? "You never got to bloom They cut you from the stem You're innocent at birth until you understand" Talking about the fetus. "Repeat every word that you say to me They put you to use or put you to sleep" The world either puts you to work (you're born and forced to work through your life and constantly struggle) or you don't make it that far, and die before you are born. "I cant tell you the difference between an embryo or a planted seed" Those of the pro-choice persuasion often say not to call an unborn child a "baby", because it's technically a fetus. But is it a baby in the terms we think about? Does it have a soul? When does a fetus become an individual life? The narrator is having trouble figuring that out. "So many shades of white So many shades of pale" Nothing in life is just plain right or wrong-- there are thousands of shades of gray in between, and exceptions and other options-- and that in itself can be kind of tiring; sometimes we just want something to be a simple Good or Bad, but that's not how life works. "I know how to cut a wound that will not heal" Alluding to the procedure that kills the unborn child, and also majorly effects and could possibly emotionally scar the mother-- that is, the abortion itself. "Consistancy of dirt Insects that spun your silk They wait for gratitude They wait for mother's milk" Maybe the narrator is trying to convince themself that a fetus is the equivilent of a "parasite"-- as I've often heard those who are pro-choice try to sway me with-- which gives us the image of some lower lifeform, of some sort of insect, even. Still, it seems like the narrator is having a hard time persuading herself of all of these things she's heard . Even if they seemlogical, and she believes them to be true, her naural emotions and automatic sympathy get in the way-- even insects just want to survive, and even insects have mothers. This comment was, for the record, neither pro-life or pro-choice. In fact, that's the point. The narrator is debating her stance on this, because it's an uncomfortable subject that no one can really give you the answer to. It's just shitty like that. Like I said, I love this song. I can relate so much. |
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| Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – Quiet as a Mouse Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is clearly about war. "Tourists rob you of your home In sunken boats And you can hide quiet as a mouse But they'll find you out And she aked me why have you felt So down and out You can stay with me at my house" She offers him a place to stay while the warfare goes on near where he lives. "When I woke my back was broke from lyin on the floor Sunlight poured through all the cracks in my front door" I figure this means they were bombed or something; either way his home was destroyed while he was away hiding. The song is telling us to WAKE UP because we have so much to do here on earth. There is so much bad shit going on, and for the most part, we sit back and ignore it or hide, and we don't do anything ot help. He's also telling the people effected by the war to stand up and do whatever they can. Do not back down, do not go down without a fight. Anyway, it goes on about this guy's story, and how wherever he lives is still wartorn and he's managed to raise a son in these conditions. (Or, perhaps, it's a different story altogether at this point.) "Tourists robbed me of my child They smoked him out He was draft dodgin some war Till they found him out And he came wanderin in the night to his mom and me And he said times, they gotta change, but so do we." The most important lines being the last two. "Times, they gotta change, but so do we." No more cowering, especially if this stuff is happening to you. Fight fght fight, wake up and do something. "When I woke I was alive in somebody's room I felt life and love and hope infesting my bones." This is followed by, once again, "Wake up." because the singer doesn't think this is the attitude you should have towards said war. Hiding with someone else, feeling gratitude, that's all great and good, but it's missing the MOTIVATION and the PASSION to fight and defend yourself. "When I woke my body was dyin all over the floor I felt apathy and hate infesting my bones." Now there's a space in the music after these lines, BEFORE it goes to "Wake up!" I think, because this IS the way to feel about it. Feel angry, feel violated-- because you ARE being violated. And do something about it. The only problem I have with this is "apathy", which doesn't make much sense in that line. Because you can't feel apathy AND hate, seeing as apathy is the absence of emotion. So what I make out of that is, perhaps, apathy is used to mean a dull sense of "I'm so tired of this happening.", where you're right about to give up and not even take the effort to care anymore, and THEN this person starts feeling the hate in their bones, therefore motivating them. That's what this song meant to me, anyway. I think hate can be a good motivator if you don't le it blind you. After all, if people hadn't hated how things were in the past and done something about them, imagine life today. This song really gets my blood pumping. |
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| Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – A Children's Crusade On Acid Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I know this probably isn't what it's about, but it reminds me of a sexual predator. "Sarah, settle down, put your helmet on," Like he's mentally warning her to get ready for the struggle that is about to take place. "Walk these streets of gold with cigarettes you hand rolled" Pretty obvious. I got the visual that this was a kid about 16 or so who is trying to be cool and caught this guy's attention. "I don't know you, and I don't owe you a thing." Which makes him feel better about attacking her. "But I smile so hard it hurts just when things get worse. You said you've woken from a dream, abandoned by your mother could this be?" He's talking to her, and making an emotional attachment as she tells him about her problems at home. He acts sympathetic, but he's happy internally because if she trusts him, he might be able to rape her/have sex with her easier. On the other hand... "Satan, settle down, keep your trousers on, you can warm the globe but leave my wretched soul alone." He's fighting his inner monster. "I don't know you and I don't owe you a thing." He doesn't owe "Satan" anything. He hasn't willingly sold his soul to do evil, so he wants this part of him to go away. "But the children lose their minds in such uncertain times." Children = his victims, probably young girls. Minors. Uncertain times = the aftermath of the rape. "And I'm woken from a dream, surrounded by my lovers. oh, woe is me!" His "lovers" are, again, the victims. They haunt him in his sleep. "And a hundred thousand times a day, the yellow lights turn red." He wishes it would all just stop. He's given opportunities to slow down and back off, but evidently he never takes them. "And a hundred thousand miles away, I'm turning myself in, oh, Christ, I am." He wishes he had the strength to do this. So yeah. That's my interpretation, although it's most likely wrong because he's mentioned Sara in not-sexual-predator songs. Unless this was, in reality, a part of Sara's past, and he's imagining it from the predator's point of view. |
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| Head Automatica – Beating Heart Baby Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I love this song. It's WAY catchy. The only thing is, I think the singer is trying a little TOO hard. The "aah!"s sound like he keeps drinking something really refreshing, and the high=pitched squeals at the end of his words are not cute. At all. So, a great song, but completely overdone in some aspects. |
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| The Meg And Dia Band – Monster Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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His little whispers. "Love me, love me." That's all I ask for. "Love me, love me." He battered his tiny fists to feel something. Wondered what it's like to touch to feel something. (This, to me, is the point of view of an unborn child. In the song, I believe the main character is a girl who is pregnant, and she's imagining how the baby inside of her must feel.) Monster, how should I feel? Creatures lie here, looking through the windows. (The mother seems to recognize that her baby wants to live, but she's having other thoughts, probably contemplating abortion. At this point in time, we aren't sure why she's calling her baby a monster, but she almolst wants him to understand that there is a lot of pressure on her to have the child, although she doesn't neccessarily want to. She feels like the nurses and whatnot in the hospitial she's in are sort of judging her.) That night he caged her, bruised and broke her. He struggled closer, then he stole her. Violet wrists and bound her ankles, silent pain. Then he slowly saw their nightmares were his dreams. (This describes how the baby was conceived. It obviously implies rape. But the last line might have adouble meaning-- the rapist enjoys the girl's pain during the rape, but it could also point out that without said attack, the baby would not have been given life. Therefore the rape is the best thing to happen to the baby-- in a sick way, her nightmare was his "dream".) Monster, how should I feel? Creatures lie here, looking through the windows. (This can be either addressed to the baby or the rapist.) I will hear their voices, "I'm a glass child, I am Hannah's regret." (Personally, I think this last line is the main character, Hannah presumably, imagining the kind of life the baby would have, knowing it was an unwanted product of rape. This fact would surely make the child emotionally fragile, like glass.) Monster, how should I feel? Turn the sheets down, murdered ears with pillow lace. There's bath tubs full of glow flies, bathe in Kerosene. The words tattooed in his veins. (Perhaps this part is after the baby is born-- meaning she didn't go through with the abortion. Hannah's ears feel "murdered" by the cries of her baby, a constant reminder of that awful night. She tries to sleep, but in the end, she [maybe] decides to light the house on fire and just end the pain once and for all. The last line might refer to the rapist, who is now in jail. Tattooing is a common practice in prison among inmates, but this line might go a bit further to suggest that the rapist has, in a way, won, because he has a personal tattoo of Hannah's screams and cries of pain inside of him forever, as opposed to just being branded in the skin.) |
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| Crystal Castles – Through the Hosiery Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the meaning is pretty obvious. This girl's weakness is sex. "Through the hosiery, to the armory, to the nothing" It's one of those I-have-sex-because-it's-all-I-can-feel-anymore deals. Like her self-worth (or what's left of it) lies in sex. Great song. Love it. :] |
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| Crystal Castles – Mother Knows Best Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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| Crystal Castles – Mother Knows Best Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Does anyone else here "OH, SHIT SON!" during the first time she says "Broken tramp"? It's pretty clear to me... |
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| Crystal Castles – Mother Knows Best (Take 1) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I used to think it was "I am fierce, I am hot, She wants me to Tear her apart." Lol. And later, it sounds more like, "Thou should be closer to God" not "She should feel closer to God". Still, I like the other version better. The "c-c-c is for cunt" line was the best part of the song. |
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| Crystal Castles – Exoskeleton (Take 2) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Whatever version you're listening to, it sounds like it's about a guy who's a complete a hole to his girlfriend. And when he finds out she's cheating on him or whatever, he has the nerve to be offended. | |
| Crystal Castles – Alice Practice Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think it's about a school shooting. I know, plenty of songs are, but this makes sense to me. (I believe these are the correct lyrics, by the way.) hi scars will heal soon you shrug it off except that you don't (Pretty self-explanatory. She's reasurring herself she'll be okay, and she'll just shrug off the terrible thing she's just done. But she knows she won't.) better, it surely it don't fall out said, i live low i lisp, i die (I think this is describing the shooter's life. The kid who never said anything, who sat in the back of the room and maybe had an embarassing flaw like a lisp or clumsiness.) sugar shooting bled with deadbeats only crawl so your sad eyes quite christian blood ("sugar shooting" refers to killing children, probably the students. "bled with deadbeats" might mean that her victims died next to people she considers boring or people who did nothing to help save the injured (probably out of fear). The students just crawl around and try to hide, with big scared eyes, instead of being the good Christians they claim to be and helping their fallen peers. Perhaps it is a Catholic school?) drop it, it's dead we drop it and took the body home sad eyes (Again, self-explanatory. realizing her victims are dead. "drop it, it's dead" I think actually refers to hdr desire for vengance or bloodshed. She got finished killing. "took the body home" could be literal, taking someone (or part of someone) that she killed home with her as a sort of trophy. The use of "we" could imply that she either has a partner in crime, or is schizophrenic.) scars, i'm chopping dagger see you'll never walk only stagger. sad eyes quite christian blood (This is her message, her point, her reason. To have pain linger with these people forever. "scars, I'm chopping dagger" might mean she's a dangerous weapon. She might even be referring to the students as scars-- distorted tissue left after an attack. "see, you'll never walk, only stagger" means she's crippled them or traumatized them in some way, whether physically or emotionally or what. And the things she remembers: "Sad eyes, quite Christian (sarcastic) blood.") |
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