| The Shrubs – Black Saloons Lyrics | 1 month ago |
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@[coolwalking:54907] It can even apply to beliefs and ideas. Like, look at some event that happens in your life through a particular lens once (e.g. "no-one will ever love me", "men are all bad people", "this type of parenting style / government / toothbrush / etc. is the best kind of toothbrush for all time", "I am a victim and that other kind of people are oppressors") and then you may be stuck with that lens for the next 40 years, unable to shake it once it took root and got folded into your sense of identity and worldview. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Confessions of a Dopamine Addict Lyrics | 1 month ago |
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I think it's about: 1. The Hedonistic Treadmill 2. The present ubiquity of behavioural conditioning by companies upon individuals (e.g. Facebook measuring the microseconds you look at something, building a profile of your psychology, microtransactions, "Freemium" - they hack the way the human brain works, to manipulate people). 3. The old stand-by song theme of "love is like an addiction". "Love is easy, whichever way you start" makes me think "it's easy to become used to something, ... and then to love it"; so be careful what direction you start walking in. It's applicable to any time-wasting thing; to becoming involved and attached to people who are bad for you; to allowing yourself to become controlled by things which you start, and they build up and up over time until you *need* them, when really they are useless and bad for you. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight Lyrics | 10 months ago |
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What I get from the song is "let's do something together; something scary, but we are going to be courageous and have faith in each other". "Believe in me as I believe in you" ends on a tensioned note (can we make it? Our hope and faith in each other is precarious and vulnerable), and then the "tonight ..." resolves it. "Tonight" is the third main character - there's you, me, and this moment. That's the secret sauce; the magic in the air, the spell over proceedings like A Midsummer Night's Dream; that makes this normally impossible leap of faith possible. The obvious example that comes to mind is two people becoming lovers - crossing that dark chasm of possible destruction, to build closeness. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Sacrilegious Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| "coming back, coming back baby" is reminiscent of "superstar, superfuck baby" from Mister Superstar. I wonder if it's a purposeful allusion to draw a lyrical / meaningful parallel somehow, or just a case of a musician pulling similar musical tricks from his bag. | |
| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Angle of Repose Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I have some incomplete musings that are probably wrong: Today I came across the phrase "lying in repose" and thought of this song. "Lying in repose" is where a dead person is displayed to the public. So in that context, "in repose" means "dead". It also brings in the idea of displaying the dead (thing) to the public, possibly as a part of the grieving process. "Angle of repose" is a technical scientific thing that seems to be related to how high something can be piled up before the pile will collapse. This seems spot on for explaining the last stanza about the "avalanche"; keep piling up more and more (something), and eventually it comes crashing down. "In repose" can also just mean "resting", rather than dead. "I am made of tonnes of tiny countries" always grabbed me as an interesting lyric. My first thought was that it was talking about a person being a complex, multi-faceted, sometimes conflicting within themselves -- being. It could also just be about actual countries; setting the stage of the song with the Earth as the protagonist. That seems less interesting to me, but maybe that's it. "I buried the dead and they came stories" made me think of someone grieving. You bury the dead, then they take on a new "life" in the world and to their survivors, as stories told and remembered. "I planted the stories, they came up singing I planted the song and it came up dancing" At each stage of crystalization and transformation of what was the person and their impact, the themness becomes more positive. First, singing (I imagine here a /gentle/ singing - someone singing wistfully to themselves in an empty house one day while thinking of a memory of the deceased), and then positively *dancing* (no-holds-barred, energetic joie-de-vivre). "I buried the dance and it Came up facing home" I got nothing on these two. "Facing home" seems like it has to mean something, but I don't know what. |
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| David Bowie – Love Is Lost Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[coolwalking:44238] "Say hello to the lunatic men". Now you've joined the company of everyone else in the world who's lost a love. "Tell them your secrets" is just telling someone about your grief. "like the grave". A grave is a place where you pour something in, and then seal it up, and say goodbye to it. |
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| David Bowie – Love Is Lost Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Right now, to me, it's simply about what it says on the tin: love lost. The protagonist is 22; around about when many people would experience having loved and lost for the first time. "Your country's new, your friends are new" Love makes us see the whole world anew. Losing love does the same (albeit much less pleasantly). "Your accent too"; You don't even recognise yourself; the things you do, the things you are; you seem alien to yourself. "Say hello, you're a beautiful girl" Forced to look at yourself anew... you also notice what you are to the world, and can appreciate that. "Say hello": join the world. "Oh what have you done?"; part of the grieving process is blaming yourself, fixating on every tiny little thing that you might have done wrong. "If only I had not taken the last cookie that one time, we would still be together!" |
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| Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – A Hymn to the Morning Star Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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"The blood is the life; the flowing milk for the infant god". One interpretation: A new religion - an "infant god" - consolidates itself by shedding blood. 1) By killing those who oppose it, it survives. 2) By encouraging the bloodshed of martyrdom, it crafts "meaning" affixed it to the religion, wedding those left alive more closely to it; it creates an identity. |
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| Silverchair – Spawn Again Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[coolwalking:42467] Is it meaning "we have turned the creation of meat into an industry"? Like, instead of hunters hundreds of years ago ("soldiers", who have to go out into the wild and engage viscerally with what they're doing), we now have industry (animals born in captivity, and a human just ducks in to a store and picks up a packet of mince without having to be involved in the process in any way; without having to think about the effect of their actions; their connection to the world; we have distanced ourselves from the world and this is partly what allows barbarity). | |
| Silverchair – Spawn Again Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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"Why can't the livestock be free When trading soldiers for steak" I don't understand what this means. I don't know what the relevance of soldiers is. In what situation or metaphor are soldiers being traded for steak? |
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| Silverchair – Spawn Again Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[aqueous:42466] I think it's about meat being a source of iron, nutritionally speaking. And how people use as an argument against veganism "you won't get enough iron". "Who's the bad guy?" could be "who is the bad guy when human beings require iron in order to survive?". Is it God / natural selection / the universe, for designing us to require iron? It could be rhetorical, meaning: there is no bad guy, in one sense, because it wasn't our choice to require iron. Similarly, it wasn't our choice to enjoy the taste of meat; our biologically-determined tastebuds forced that upon us. | |
| Peggy Lee – Is That All There Is? Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| The verse about love got me. I'm not sure it's an intended meaning, but it's what it meant to me. I lost a friend who I loved very much. She stopped caring about me and disappeared. And that relationship is still the closest thing I've come to feeling like somebody really loved me. And yet: is that all there is to love?; that they just leave, like that? That it just ends, with a whimper? It's a very sad thought that the idea I have of love does not actually exist in the world, and the closest I can get is deludedly thinking that someone loves me, for a few years, until they get bored and disappear, and the meaning and reality of that love disappears in a puff of smoke. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Thru the Eyes of Ruby Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The lyric "Your innocence is treasure, your innocence is death" may be a reference to the so-called "aria della piovra" ("Octopus aria") "Un dì, ero piccina" in Pietro Mascagni's opera Iris (1898), which contains the line "That octopus is Pleasure... That octopus is Death!". | |
| The Cranberries – Zombie Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think the lyric "With their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns" may be a reference to the traditional Irish anti-war song "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye", which contains the line "With your drums and guns and guns and drums". | |
| John Lennon – God Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think the dream is over because he woke up. | |
| David Bowie – Afraid Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "I believe in Beatles" is a reference to a line from the John Lennon song, "God": "I don't believe in Beatles". | |
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