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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Hey Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[r1vers:1919] tourniquets are also used for IV drug injection.. knowing Anthony that is the use I assume he is referring to. |
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| Elliott Smith – Needle in the Hay Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I think the drug thing works, but also remember Elliott had stated in interviews he likes to use the imagery of drug use/addiction/abuse as a metaphor for love/relationships and other life events. So while on the surface, yes the drug angle makes sense, I think the ultimate meaning is deeper than that. |
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| Elliott Smith – Needle in the Hay Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I think the drug thing works, but also remember Elliott had stated in interviews he likes to use the imagery of drug use/addiction/abuse as a metaphor for love/relationships and other life events. So while on the surface, yes the drug angle makes sense, I think the ultimate meaning is deeper than that. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Death of an Interior Decorator Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I have heard the song is about Woody Allen's movie Interiors. Just to fill in some of the blanks (and oversimplify for sake of the song meaning):
The movie is about three sisters ("You were the mother of three girls so sweet"), and their sad/crazy mother ("Can you tell me why have been so sad") who is an interior decorator ("While you arranged flowers and chose color schemes"). THe mother keeps waiting for their father to take her back after a separation.
Eventually the father moves on and remarrys a new woman who he (kinda) met on a beach ("He took a lover on a far away beach, ").
So the father gets married, and the night of the wedding, which the youngest sister did not approve of ("The girls were all there; they traded their vows. The youngest one glared with furrowed brow"), the new woman trips and breaks a vase that was a symbol of their mother and her interior decorating career ("The bride then tripped and broke the vase, The one you thought would span the years, So perfectly placed below the mirror "). Then the mother crashes the party after everyone has gone to bed ("Arriving late, you clean the debris") and after a heated discussion with one of the daughters, decides to commit suicide by walking into the ocean ("And walked into the angry sea") |
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| Tricky – Taxi (White Boy) Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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it may or may not apply to this song, but in some places heroin is known as "boy" while cocaine is called "girl" or more specifically "white girl". |
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| Phoenix – If It's Not with You Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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To me the song is pretty straightforward but I love it. I think he is talking about a lover that just left him.. he tries to tell himself that "he'll move on" and so forth. He is trying to "do things" on hi s own and is apparently "getting better". She "tries to treat him like a friend" but still calling him late at night so he keeps getting mixed messages. I do think in the end he knows he wants her though and resigns to that fact " the only one I want is is you" |
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