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| Placebo – Johnny and Mary (Robert Palmer cover) Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think this song is about a codependent relationship. Johnny isn't ready to take responsibility for his life as it is. He's more willing to place blame, chase false sense of security, and live as a fraud or a poser.
Mary is the enabler that just sits by and does anything but leave him. She thinks that he's all she deserves. |
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| Placebo – Passive Aggressive Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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With passive- agressive people you either react to them by becomming frusterated that the person can't directly say what's on their mind, or what the song is saying here- the person reacts by becoming an enabler and wanting to fix the person.
The reference that "God is in crisis" I think explains that; the person want to act as a savior for the other.
Every time a person helps a passive-agressive person they get worse instead of better. I think the verse "every time I rise, I see you falling" explains that. A passive-agressive person feels threatened by others who have their emotions together because they are unable to articulate their own.
The song is written through the eyes of someone having to deal with this condition. |
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| Pink – Just Give Me a Reason Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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It's about a guy that is mad at her about something and she can feel the effects of it. So in response she wants to know what it is that she did.
Then, he says that she's just being paranoid about their growing distance. Something has made her dellusional.
They are both bent but can choose to come clean-sobriety/living in reality. |
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| Bob Dylan – All I Really Want to Do Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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If you love (friendship, or otherwise) someone, you don't want to place yourself in a postition of division; all the negetive in the song is about how people place themselves in a position of dominance over the other. |
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| Bob Dylan – All I Really Want to Do Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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If you love (friendship, or otherwise) someone, you don't want to place yourself in a postition of division; all the negetive in the song is about how people place themselves in a position of dominance over the other. |
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| Bob Dylan – All I Really Want to Do Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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If you love (friendship, or otherwise) someone, you don't want to place yourself in a postition of division; all the negetive in the song is about how people place themselves in a position of dominance over the other. |
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| Bob Dylan – All I Really Want to Do Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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If you love (friendship, or otherwise) someone, you don't want to place yourself in a postition of division; all the negetive in the song is about how people place themselves in a position of dominance over the other. |
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| Bob Dylan – All I Really Want to Do Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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If you love (friendship, or otherwise) someone, you don't want to place yourself in a postition of division; all the negetive in the song is about how people place themselves in a position of dominance over the other. |
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| Bob Dylan – All I Really Want to Do Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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If you love (friendship, or otherwise) someone, you don't want to place yourself in a postition of division; all the negetive in the song is about how people place themselves in a position of dominance over the other. |
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| Bob Dylan – All I Really Want to Do Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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If you love (friendship, or otherwise) someone, you don't want to place yourself in a postition of division; all the negetive in the song is about how people place themselves in a position of dominance over the other. |
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| Bob Dylan – All I Really Want to Do Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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If you love (friendship, or otherwise) someone, you don't want to place yourself in a postition of division; all the negetive in the song is about how people place themselves in a position of dominance over the other. |
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| Bob Dylan – All I Really Want to Do Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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If you love (friendship, or otherwise) someone, you don't want to place yourself in a postition of division; all the negetive in the song is about how people place themselves in a position of dominance over the other. |
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| Primal Scream – Beautiful Future Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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The bells in the song remind me of operant conditioning-which takes away freedom.
In particular, it sounds like they're church bells-which controls people's minds. Religion is supposed to be a salvation from the reality of how ugly life is, but instead the church works to suppress you. Government is no worse than the church. |
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| 'Til Tuesday – Voices Carry Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I agree with the user before me. She's singing about what it's like to be a mistress. The guy is to preoccupied with getting caught they will never have a deep connection. |
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| Aimee Mann – Save Me Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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A psychopath coercing someone of his choosing to love him. He makes her life better and in return she has to be his slave. |
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| The Kills – Hook and Line Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think it is about a guy that is a typical superficial sort that thinks he has to spend money on a woman- buy her things to make her happy (the "hook and line" spending on things); the reality is that she "blows away" because buying her love doesn't bring the fullfilment of deeper (heavier) spiritual connection that would anchor their love. |
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| George Michael – One More Try Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think the song is fearing loss of intimacy with a lover (heartbreak); so if you fear having a lover because you don't want to lose him, then you never make an effort to build intimacy with someone ["who just isn't willing to try"]. It's still a loss because not building intimacy with someone will leave you "cold inside". Whichever he decides about starting a relationship will be a losing situation in his mind. So, he decides to give it "one more try" to escape the fate of lonliness risking heartbreak; he decides being lonely is worse than heartbreak. |
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| George Michael – One More Try Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think the song is fearing loss of intimacy with a lover (heartbreak); so if you fear having a lover because you don't want to lose him, then you never make an effort to build intimacy with someone ["who just isn't willing to try"]. It's still a loss because not building intimacy with someone will leave you "cold inside". Whichever he decides about starting a relationship will be a losing situation in his mind. So, he decides to give it "one more try" to escape the fate of lonliness risking heartbreak; he decides being lonely is worse than heartbreak. |
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| Foreigner – Double Vision Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Oh, and I see some here think he's talking about alcohol. He's talking about cocaine. you tear up when you sniff it and you get a burst of energy. |
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| Foreigner – Double Vision Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think the song is about how everyone struggles between being a radical and a conservative. You see and live both ways, hence double vision. |
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| Placebo – Infra-Red Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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When I listen to this song I get the impression that there is a fascist-communist atmosphere where the person wants to take control of the other like a dictator would; like the husband in "Sleeping With the Enemy". |
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| Michael Jackson – Stranger In Moscow Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Thanks for the suggestion. I came to this website to read the lyrics too; never heard the song. I was thinking about his death and how he used to wear a red arm band; Recently I started studying Putin's politics. If these lyrics are in any way offensive to Russia, he could have been assassinated. |
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| Pink Floyd – Empty Spaces Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song is about people that love things over eachother. It is a anticapitalist song. People who are egotistical are what Hobbes calls a "robust child", or someone who thinks about themselves and the priciple of "MINE" that results in a division from self from other. |
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| Placebo – B3 Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song sounds like spiritual metamorphosis, which I think is going to be the highlight of the album's meaning.
Passionflower is used for medicinal purposes, namely, narcotic withdrawl and generalized anxiety.
I think he's talking about the difficulty and triumph of sobriety. |
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| The Silhouettes – Get a Job Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I can't believe nobody has anything to say about this song in this economy, with age age of individuality.
It must have sucked coming from an era that only valued obedience and becoming a cog in the wheel of society.
just sayin'....
awesome song! |
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| Pixies – Where Is My Mind? Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Also, I think there is a clear line between where a songwriter got his inspiration from, and what the song is actually about. So, the song may have been inspired by a scuba diving trip, but the meaning of the song can be quite different. |
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| Pixies – Where Is My Mind? Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Also, I think there is a clear line between where a songwriter got his inspiration from, and what the song is actually about. So, the song may have been inspired by a scuba diving trip, but the meaning of the song can be quite different. |
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| Silversun Pickups – It's Nice to Know You Work Alone Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I think this song is about a person finding a lack of allure in the other because the mysery of their personality has faded. The mystery was built up from being a loner, and the singer is saying in literal terms that its nice because that sort of aloofness is what was attractive. |
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| The Kills – At The Back Of The Shell Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song made me think about someone's ego. The back of the shell, meaning that someone who is not popular, quite shy. Then, the person puts a lot of effort in to being the center of attention. I hear in the song, that he/she becomes the opposite of shy, which is the "stuck on yourself" sort. During this change, the relationship with a particular friend or lover fails, and is written from this point of view...of being hard to relate to because someone went through a radical attitude change. |
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| Autolux – Turnstile Blues Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I believe the song is about wanting someone so bad who seemingly is out of reach of the pursuer's effort. |
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| Pink Floyd – Brain Damage Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Thank You! 8 pages later, YOU got it right!~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlOz33AIS1w
for everyone else.....watch link! |
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| The Dead Weather – I'm Mad Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this song is about drug rehabilitation. About 7-10 days later, you start getting irritable from the withdrawl.
So, the 20 days referred to in the song is the remainder of the month (totaling 30 days). Often rehabs are minimum of 30 days.
I think, at the same time, the story of being mad may be about "detoxing" from a relationship; the person you got high with. You relate to people much differently (in a more intimate way) when you're high. |
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| The Dead Weather – The Difference Between Us Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think the song is rhetorical; meaning there is no "difference" between the two people in the song. When it comes down to putting the "turd on the table", people are more similar in feelings and reactions despite any variables- especially seemingly "mentally healthy" and "sane" people. We all have a capcity for self destruction or to hurt others; this was Freud's main argument, that people act on instinct, and therefore need to be controlled.
See how people lose it in an environment that is controlled too much. Look at how many suicide pacts there are, especially in Asia. How many people say on reflection that those that committ serious offenses were seemingly "happy and healthy"? |
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| Placebo – Happy You're Gone Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think the song is about the relationship between Brian and his girlfriend who was pregnant. I think, as is a common occurance, she cheated on him while he was on the road- explaining "i can't look you in the eye" and the lyric "see me in the eyes of another's child", explains that the child (Cody) is not his biologically.
When you think about it, its a repeating cycle. His was born into a detached relationship with his father...probably for being a super slut, or drug user...hence, brian's expressions with his sexuality, his own struggle with drugs, etc. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Weeping Song Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I think this song is about war; how it affects the role of men and women in society; and then i got the ieda that God is the father in song-so he is the one weeping for humans taking humans life.
the son...is a small boy in the "why" stage of life, asking God a question to which responds.
so in short, i thought it was an antiwar song. |
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| The Kills – Goodnight Bad Morning Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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the bad morning, to them, are when they spend the day bullshitting eachother to be polite, but when it's over,they see eachother for what they are-their flaws exposed, so, in short, the state they are in is reality. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Tourniquet Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I think this song is about a passive agressive relationship. "she's a crippled plaything" represents her passiveness or maliable mind; he says "i am your tournequet", meaning he works through her like a god and her own life supply is cut off. the whole relationship is based on his inability to find his own self esteem,so it is replaced by his deep need for her to believe in him like a god.
the "flies will lay their eggs" thing is about the incubation period for her mind to change to his influence.
he feels that without this relationship, the attention he gets from her, he, as a person, would be devoid of meaning. |
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| Adam Lambert – A Loaded Smile Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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i think its about the parting of an idea or attitude that used to comprise him; but he has new ideas-like seeing the world through new lenses.
these new lenses he is seeing the world makes it harder to relate to his partner.
he smiles out of an epiphany about himself-like an ah-ha moment.
but the glass is empty-cause there is no connection in the relationship anymore.
and the rest of the lyrics have to do with coping withs new way of seeing-part of it having to give up his partner for someone he can relate to.
its a really sad song. |
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| Tori Amos – She's Your Cocaine Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I think at the end of the song it sounds like she's still fucking him while she's in this horrific state. she's mad at herself that she cant give him up, despite knowing all the facts. |
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| Mazzy Star – Fade Into You Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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good point. i also think she may be singing about a women, so maybe that's why the person never realizes how she felt... |
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| Mazzy Star – Fade Into You Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This song, to me, expresses that feeling you have when you are completely in sync with someone else, you're in tune with another's energy, that it seems your the closest to 1 entity, as you will ever be. |
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| Scissor Sisters – Running Out Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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It's a terrible thing, that what once was a strong social connection,may naturally weaken and dissolve, in such a way that neither lover can prevent. it's a terrible crash! |
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