| Jimmy Eat World – Let It Happen Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| 15 yrs later... my OCD wants to help connect the answer to your question, haha! @[thecrowing83:48935] You might not have seen it, but @[Beagle:48936] posted on Oct 30 2007: "According to booklet the singer in the chorus is Amy Ross (Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl)" | |
| The Band – The Weight Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| @[just12:48904] So... is it 'Universal Language" or "Biblical", or both [the latter being a smaller overlap in the Venn diagram of the former] :D | |
| The Band – The Weight Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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@[Yarand21:48902] +1 on the "nah" mentioned by @[likelylads:48903]. Robbie Robertson quote said he was strumming his guitar in the house they shared, "Old Pink", and he saw in the guitar's soundhole: made in Nazareth, PA. and that that, was where that came from. Simple as that. Straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak. /Granted, I've very aware of why I love SongMeanings.com vs the other lyric sites, so reading into lyrics is a given... but I'm not about to tell a songwriter what they meant. |
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| Lykke Li – Gunshot Lyrics | 10 months ago |
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Lykki Li says it's about this: "Well, it’s about that point of no return in a love relationship. About all the things you say and do that you can’t take back, and ultimately about love’s toxicity and its similarity to addiction — for better and for worse." from NY Times interview [the NY Times "T Magazine" specifically] https://archive.nytimes.com/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/lykke-li-interview-latest-album-gunshot-song-stream/ |
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| Metric – Help, I'm Alive Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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In Emily's own words in this video: 1:19 One of the first songs I wrote was 'Help I'm Alive.' 2:17 It pretty much sums up the state I've been in since I came here, since I was honest with myself and accepted that I'm really scared and I don't know where my life is going and I don't know what I'm doing. While, easily the imagery of zombies comes to mind, it's nothing like that. [For me, it's not zombies, but just 'people', that are the danger in the song.] Link goes the the 2:17 mark of the video https://youtu.be/ii_lhpUUPxQ?t=137 |
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| Metric – Help, I'm Alive Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[deepwater03:37018] Yep. That is the answer from Emily, herself, in the video you linked. Nothing to do with zombies, although, yeah... that's what can easily come to mind. |
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| Bad Brains – I Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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These lyrics are for a different song, called "I Against I", it's even noted in the credits at the bottom with: "I Against I" as written by Darryl Aaron Jenifer Gary Miller" "I" and "I Against I" are from different Bad Brains albums. Both songs are amazing, of course. |
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| The Psychedelic Furs – All That Money Wants Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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"painted lies on painted lips" ... "I don't believe that I believed in you" Great lyrics |
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| Dramarama – It's Still Warm Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[starwhisp:33683] I stand corrected, again. ha. Thanks so much, I found the full length "long" version and you're right. It's super clear on that version. | |
| Bouncing Souls – Gone Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[kiera91:28215] Exactly. Yeah, these aren't the lyrics to "Gone". These are: It was a cloudy night, or so it looked to me I felt so lost, I couldn't say why I needed strength to change my mind, [but these ghosts stick to me like glue] Hating life, believing I was no good It was a darkness all my own A song played on the radio It went straight to my heart I carried it with me until the darkness was gone It was a cloudy night, or so it looked to me I felt so lost, I couldn't say why I built this cloud to live in, it was a bunch of lies in my mind The world wants me to believe it, so I had to change my mind It was a darkness all my own A song played on the radio It went straight to my heart I carried it with me until the darkness was gone I built this cloud, I can break it The world can't change how I feel Because I know it's a lie My heart is real |
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| Gary Numan – M.E. Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[NRGman:23986] The line by line analysis is partially correct. But, it's definitely about a machine/android as it's from Gary Numan's "Machine" trilogy. [His 2nd thru 4th albums.] Many of the songs are about or from the perspective of machines. | |
| Gary Numan – M.E. Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[DJgif:23985] Yep, you're on the right path, but it's definitely about a machine/android. His 2nd thru 4th albums are his "Machine" trilogy. | |
| Ash – Jack Names The Planets Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[fanta:1348] from Wikipedia: They're saying the name of a town in Holland: Nieuw-Vennep. "During the spoken section at the beginning of the song, two Dutchmen, Oscar "Wilde" Vermeer and Patrick "The Brewer" Schrama (who met Tim Wheeler during a holiday in France), suggest that the song should have been called "Jack Names The Planet Nieuw-Vennep", given that, in their opinion, "Nieuw-Vennep" is a good name for a planet. Nieuw-Vennep is a town of thirty thousand inhabitants in the west of Holland, midway between The Hague and Amsterdam." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Names_the_Planets |
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| Gary Numan – Are 'Friends' Electric? Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Guardian article Feb 2014 w/his story of how he made this song. [pasted in full for posterity/avoiding broken links/etc. No copyright infringement intended.] Source: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/18/how-we-made-are-friends-electric-gary-numan "In 1978, I was fronting a three-piece punk band called Tubeway Army. We'd had a couple of unsuccessful singles, but our record company still wanted us to do an album, so they put us in a studio to record it. That was when I saw my first ever synthesiser, a Minimoog. When I turned it on, the sound blew me away. In that moment, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I converted all our guitar-based punk songs into electro-punk numbers. Because I had blond hair, the record company saw me as a pretty-boy, punk-pop crossover act. When I came back with this weird electronic stuff, they were furious. One actually squared up to me in the office. I'm only little, but I was so passionate I leapt out of my seat as well – we were going to have a fight. When it all calmed down, and because there was no budget left to rerecord anything, they released the album. By the time it was in the shops, I'd written another track called Are "Friends" Electric? I wrote it on an old pub piano my mum and dad bought, which I didn't realise was out of tune. It was initially two different songs, which is why it's over five minutes long. I had a verse from one, the chorus from the other, and was struggling to mix them together. I got so fed up, one day I played them one after another and suddenly they sounded right. So the song is a combination – of me not being able to write songs, and not being able to play them either. The main melody is one note sharp, since I hit a wrong note on the old piano, and it sounded better. I ended up recording it on a Polymoog synthesiser played with one finger. It sounded very different and futuristic, but there was still some bass and drums in there, so people had something familiar to connect with. All my early songs were about being alone or misunderstood. As a teenager, I'd been sent to a child psychiatrist and put on medication. I had Asperger's and saw the world differently. I immersed myself in sci-fi writers: Philip K Dick, JG Ballard. The lyrics came from short stories I'd written about what London would be like in 30 years. These machines – "friends" – come to the door. They supply services of various kinds, but your neighbours never know what they really are since they look human. The one in the song is a prostitute, hence the inverted commas. It was released in May 1979 and sold a million copies. I had a No 1 single with a song about a robot prostitute and no one knew." |
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| (+44) – 155 Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Many songs by many bands write songs about members that quit or were fired acrimoniously. They're written for marketability from the POV of a man to woman, but they're really targeted directly at a fellow male bandmate. Not as a straight/gay thing, but as a put down. Off the top of my head: "I Want You Back" by Hoodoo Gurus "Lucretia" by Sisters of Mercy . Quoted in Wikipedia as about the bass player, but elsewhere it's widely regarded as being about another band member that went on to form Mission [UK]. |
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| Fugazi – Public Witness Program Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Found them at http://www.superlyrics.com/lyrics/kGRU0hkES3@H@c/Public_Witness_Program_lyrics_by_Fugazi.html The eyes have it and the eyes always will The eyes have it and they're watching you still Go see, go see tonight I've been watchin' 'cause they're workin' tonight Alright! Public witness charter - look but don't touch Public witness says he's seeing too much Go see, go see tonight I've been lucky 'cause they're workin' tonight Alright! I like to walk around it And I'm paid to stand around it Public witness seen it all |
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| Duran Duran – Come Up and See Me (Make Me Smile) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Duran Duran covered "Fame" by Bowie. Maybe that was what you were thinking of? Cheers. | |
| Dramarama – It's Still Warm Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Whoa! Fail on my part... it is Frank, Dean and Sammy. Sorry 'bout that. In the studio track it sounded like he stretched out Frank[ie] like he does for Sam-my. But, a live clip on youtube shows him count out three fingers as he names them. Egg on my face. |
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| Dramarama – It's Still Warm Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Laura and Roger, above are absolutely correct. Also, it's: Well that's one less thing to care about, just like me. Not: Well that's one less thing to care about, just like Miami. And: I'm gonna get my picture taken with Frankie and Sammy Not: I'm gonna get my picture taken with Frank, Dean, and Sammy And the last: "Don't (?) too good" he repeats the "Don't think too good." Which is clever of John Easdale. |
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| Pixies – Here Comes Your Man Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Actually: The word "boxcar" was apparently a starting point for the song's lyrics, and Francis has suggested that this was in part inspired by the song "Carnival of Sorts (Box Car)" by R.E.M.: "I probably liked the word 'boxcar' because I heard it on the R.E.M. song, from their first record." [citation: Sisario, Ben. (2006). Doolittle. Continuum, 33â…“ series; page 88] | |
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