| New Order – Ceremony Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I just want to say that it's been seven years since I wrote this comment. I still listen to this song a lot, but I no longer want to die. It's possible to heal from abuse & fight through depression, without pills too. Good luck to anyone else going through it. |
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| Veronica Falls – Stephen Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Personally, I think it's about Stephen King! | |
| The Cure – The Same Deep Water as You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song reminds me of 'A Strange Day' from Pornography so much. Incidentally they both appear during the climaxes of both albums. | |
| New York Dolls – Who Are the Mystery Girls? Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"I'm talkin' bout love" -- Well I'm glad he explained that because this song makes no fucking sense, haha. Anyway, it's "barefoot contessas" not "contestants". |
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| New Order – Ceremony Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I listen to this on repeat and I imagine my own inevitable suicide. Oh I'll break them down, no mercy shown Heaven knows, it's got to be this time Avenues all lined with trees Picture me and then you start watching Watching forever, forever, forever forever forever forever forever forever forever forever |
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| Grinderman – Bellringer Blues Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| So the book is obviously the Bible. Good on Nick, I hate the Bible too. :) | |
| Silversun Pickups – Substitution Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Great interpretation, it really makes the most sense. | |
| Peter Doherty – A Little Death Around the Eyes Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| nickdon72 is probably right, except it's not about a girl at all, it must be about a man, since Pete sings, "The MAN you used to be", and asks the subject of the song, "That's your medicine / Feeling better SON?" | |
| Conor Oberst – Snake Hill Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| That's a very interesting idea. Imagine if sometime in the future one could be born with AIDs. | |
| Conor Oberst – Snake Hill Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| What an amazing passage. Everything in the universe is telling me to read On The Road finally and I don't know why I haven't listened yet. | |
| Conor Oberst – Big Black Nothing Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I absolutely agree with you, thank you for writing this. To add to your interpretation, I think the lines 'Sing me something / Something I can feel / Sing it louder / The whole world has to hear' is him praying for someone to come along with some sort of philosophy that can appeal to the world as much as religion has, so that religion might finally be replaced. | |
| The Horrors – Sea Within a Sea Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I see this song as actually more depressing than the other interpretation on here suggests, but still, y'know, with a glint of hope in it. Here's what I think: I think he's talking about life in general... 'Some say we walk alone' = we go through life alone, as in with no divine power or force like God or fate or anything like that guiding us, with just ourselves and other people to depend on -- an existential idea; 'Barefoot on wicked stone, no light' = In continuous pain and darkness, since life can be interpreted as essentially, as bad as it sounds, suffering and more suffering as you get older and older, and though there are always moments of contentment, for some (and maybe for Farris, who I assume wrote these lyrics, correct me if I'm wrong), all they see life as is pain and they can't focus on the positives; 'and sanctuary found never waits around awhile' = you always end up losing the happiness you find in life at some point or another; 'Marching to the sea their dreams stay in the shadows their dreams stay firmly rooted in the shallows' = The sea being an infinite abyss, sounds like it represents death here, so throughout our lives we head closer and closer, stuck on this path (hence 'marching'), to our unavoidable deaths, usually never fully realizing the dreams we have and leaving them behind once the burden of family and work and all that catches up with us; 'See the scraping sky See my destination there tonight' = Basically, even though he knows he's stuck on this path to death, he's still "aiming for the sky", he's resolved to try to achieve his dreams and whatnot unlike others who leave them behind as they get older. Not sure why 'scraping', maybe because his desire to get off this path and achieve what we wants is always nagging at him, 'scraping' at his mind. 'Will you leap to follow Will you turn and go Will your dreams stay rooted in the shallows' = He's asking someone if they'll join him in the new path he wants to take, or if they'll just be like everyone else. 'Though youth may fade with boyhood's cares New fear will catch us unawares I know it will' = After the confused, angsty fears of adolescence fade, with adulthood comes new fears. 'So you might say the path we share is one of danger and of fear until the end' = So, with that previous thought in mind, one can conclude that 'the path we share', life, is ruled by fear right up until death. ANYHOW, sorry for the very long-winded comment, and it does sound pretty depressing this way, but that's my interpretation of this brilliant song. - Viv |
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| The Hives – Supply And Demand Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Lyrics are wrong here: "Learned a lot about the company doe" Should be: "Learned a lot about the company DOLE" Dole as in welfare. |
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| Kings of Leon – Holy Roller Novocaine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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A 'holy roller', apart from its slang meaning as a joint, is also 'used as a disparaging term for a member of any of various religious denominations in which spiritual fervor is expressed by shouts and violent body movements'. That might have something to do with the song's message, and probably more to do with it than if by 'holy roller' Caleb simply meant a joint. Maybe 'holly roller Novocaine' is another way of saying 'blind faith'. It's a reference to how people numb or ignore their consciences in order to do what they perceive as in service to their church (or a particular perverted pastor, in this song's case...). |
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| Raine Maida – China Doll Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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My sister thinks this song is a portrait of a prostitute. It might seem a tad too literal of an interpretation, but I agree with her and think it makes perfect sense. But if Raine Maida himself said it was 'inspired by Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth', then I suppose my sister and I must be wrong, although I don't see what these lyrics could have to do with any idea or theme in that doc... |
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