| Talking Heads – The Overload Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Distinctly apocalyptic feel, which used to scare me away from this song a little. Now I feel like I have a more clear idea of what it's getting at. degree7's comparison to The Hollow Men is spot on. It's as if this song is part five of that particular poem, the last leg of the album, standing at the outer limits of knowledge, on its deathbed, but before its reached its time. "A view to remember The center is missing" When you compare this song to the earlier tracks like Crosseyed & Painless about a mania driven by an obsession with facts and logic, this song is like the subdued aftermath of the mania, in which the narrator reaches the state of ubiquity that comes after being denuded of everything but facts. "They question how the future lies ...in someone's eyes" In the end there's no truth except what our individual perspectives convince us is the truth (sounds like Seen And Not Seen doesn't it?). He's overloaded with this lucid worldview, it empties him, weakens his signal, causes a collapse, and sends him down a more quiet, less verbose road. As an anecdote, I feel like I was once on that quiet road, and I rejected this song. The lyrics didn't carry anything meaningful for me other than a particularly unfavorable perspective on the situation, I used to skip it. Maybe I hadn't drifted as far, maybe I had drifted farther, maybe I was just up my own asshole about the whole thing. But it's tone just always seemed to me melodramatic (while without any logical flaws), and shed an inappropriately negative light on a truly and utterly neutral phenomenon. But I guess that's what you have to expect by imposing words on a situation that nullifies words. |
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| The Radio Dept. – Too Soon Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I think this song is commenting on fleeting love. The romantic interest eventually gets to know and 'figures out' the speaker, and decides the relationship isn't what they want, too soon for the speaker. Then the partner moves on to a new relationship likely to be just as brief. But rather than become bitter about this cycle, the speaker just savors love while he can. | |
| The Olivia Tremor Control – Another Set of Bees in the Museum Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think the first line is We will find a way to where they make the sounds We're hearing stop |
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| The Velvet Underground – The Murder Mystery Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I find it interesting how they say "Hello to ray, hello to godiva and angel, who let you in?" because Ray is from the song Sister Ray and Godiva would be from Lady Godiva's Operation from White Light/White Heat and I assume the angel would be from Black Angels Death Song from VU and Nico. I don't know what it could mean but it's interesting. | |
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