| Weezer – Undone - The Sweater Song Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The guys in Weezer apparently have smoked a lot of weed. So I always assumed this song was about the weird social cocoon you find yourself in when you go to a party where everybody's drunk, but you're completely stoned. The short lines “I'm me — Me be — Goddamn - I am” represents disjointed existential thinking. The singer finds his 'center' of self assurance in the fact that he is, he can, and he can sing. In this manner, he avoids stoned paranoia, and is content to just chill out. However in this situation some people, especially drunk people, will find it funny to try and disturb a drug user. The sweater is therefore the comfy high the singer is enjoying at the party, but this could potentially be ruined by others. The ease with which this is possible is represented by the simplicity of pulling a thread while he walks away. Later on the singer mentions that after unraveling his sweater, he'll be naked, and I take this to mean his ego will be fragile. The relevance of the tank top and superman skivvies I thought was the dress of the antagonist who seeks to ruin the singer's vibe. There's hope of a peaceful resolution in that the singer doesn't want to “destroy your tank-top” (ruin his good time) and they should just be friends and walk away. The superman skivvies seems like something a 'lad' (or 'frat-boy' in the US I'd imagine) would wear to a party but be embarrassed of when he passes out drunk and his friends steal his trousers (for a joke). At the end of the song, the negative consequences of both drugs are mirrored when “Lying on the floor, I've come undone” is repeated. Of course, it could still be about a relationship, but being Weezer I'm not so sure. |
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| Death from Above 1979 – Go Home, Get Down Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think it's about not spoiling falling in love by making it explicit. There's something between them, but it doesn't need to be analysed out loud: "Don't ask I don't know" and "Don't tell me you don't know". They just need to live it and see if "we're living and we're happy and I come back when I go" rather than the girl saying "you'll have me never leave me till I die", because that just spoils the game. I think the relationship might be like, guy doesn't want to be tied down, but girl wants a lot more commitment. There's an element of bravado and coldness when the narrator suggests staying up all night but maybe he'll just fall asleep instead, or the repeated point that he'll leave her and she just has to deal with it and see if he returns. |
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| Broken Social Scene – Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Park that car, drop that phone, Sleep on the floor, dream about me" This is the only puzzling bit. If it's instructions from a more mature version of the girl, surely dreaming about being the future mature self is what causes her to wear makeup and whatever else the song laments. The other possibility is that it's from an admirer who wishes her to stop all her vapid habits and dream about him. It reminds me of one 'will they/won't they' couple who I used to know. At 14 they looked perfect for each other, at 17 she was more interested in dressing slutty and hanging around with older guys who had decent cars and cocaine. But this kind of undermines the personal quality of the lyrics, with short lines written as repeated affirmations as if trying heal the singer's regrets. The only compromise I can think of is that the elder singer is telling her younger self to live in the moment and only dream about being more mature, not trying to be mature beyond her years. |
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| Broken Social Scene – I'm Still Your Fag Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Like most people, I think it's about a relationship between the openly gay narrator and a man who got married and tried to live a straight life. But I think the context of the song is that the speaker had a fling with the guy earlier in life, AND has just now slept with him again. "Heard about your wife and kids where we slept" [Speaker learnt about the guy's wife and kids as they lay in bed after sex] "Felt their mouths with stitches at that were slowly lit" [Possibly a sympathetic reflection on the man's family who can only now understand or talk about why their father/husband was distant and strange due to his latent sexuality] "Kept your uniform this time because I couldn't quit" [Not sure, but in some schools it's a tradition that when a school year is leaving that they write messages on each other's clothing or sports teams swap shirts; the overall sense is that the speaker didn't take a memento of the guy but has probably wanted one for years as he couldn't quit thinking about him] "Haven't felt the ground so cold without getting sick" [Having had sex with a married man, possibly in the family home, the speaker is sensitive to the hallowed ground he is treading on (i.e. a wife and kids) and therefore finds the ground cold and uninviting] "And I'm still your fag I'm still your fag" [As previously discussed it's slightly mocking, but it also reflects that the speaker's attraction to the guy has, perhaps unfortunately, lasted all this time.] "It's a possibility to live without lips" [Lips representing truth and passion, the married man hasn't been truthful about his sexuality or able to express it] "Clinics love to fill right up with the broken kids" [The father's emotional distance made their home somewhat broken] "I swore I drank your piss that night to see if I could live" [Submitting to the married man's unpleasant fetish represents the decision whether the speaker could see a future with this repressed man as his submissive 'wife'] "But my wrists couldn't stand the light that we missed" [But a relationship seems unlikely as the speaker couldn't stand the lost decades of good times, and would be entering a relationship in the dark period with a jaded man. Wrists are symbolic both in that the pulse (therefore life) is close to the surface, and that the wrists handle the day's work (reflecting emotional work to be done if this relationship were to go ahead)] "You're only coming out because you came back in You're only coming out 'cause you came back in" [The only reason for the married man's coming out is that he tried to deny his sexuality in the first place] This might seem like a very literal interpretation but it makes sense to me. |
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