| Tom Waits – I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Okay so after reading the comments here I think there is something nobody noticed. There is a temporal inconsistency between the first verse and the rest of the song, because in the first verse the girl is: - calling out for him; - opening her heart; She does nothing of the sort in the other verses and she barely acknowledges his presence ("we've never met") So I think the first verse is actually the (happy) end of the song, at least the author's wishful thinking of a happy end of a song. Kinda like those movies that begin with the ending. Besides, it makes little sense that she's calling out for him when she's there with someone else and when she barely acknowledges his presence later on. Now I'm not here to make it cheesy and I'm not one for happy endings in general, but I cannot help but notice and be somewhat bothered by this inconsistency like a thorn in my side. I do cover the song and I feel it every time. |
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| Mark Lanegan – Carnival Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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It's clearly about dating a girl at a carnival while on smack, and there is more than that in the details, but rather hard to figure out. Seems a very personal song about a particular situation. The motif of the song is "what in the world can it be" / "it's as strange as I've ever seen" / "I'm gonna find it all out" / "Where in the world have you been" So probably he is wondering and meditating over the reasons of a break-up or her being upset/distant, something that is strange and consuming for him but she refuses to communicate. He also has a hunch that it all may be related to him using (turning your back to the ghost/you just might know that all of the good that you've seen went down into the drain) And then what makes the song really strange and hard to understand are the repeating elements which make it impossible to place the events in a chronological order and give the whole song an eerie feeling in tone with the carnie atmosphere/time is a flat circle kind of thing, cause it starts with something that might as well be the end or the intrigue (where in the world have you been) and then the girls and the return the freakshow. I would love to hear more inputs, anyway, amazing song with such a unique atmosphere, it really pulls you into that world. |
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| Mark Lanegan – Lexington Slow Down Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Mark Lanegan – Lexington Slow Down Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[vergatim:25545] What exactly is Lexington? | |
| Suzanne Vega – Gypsy Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| So in your book because he gave his bandana as a sign of reciprocity and appreciation, instead of writing her a song on the spot, like you would have done, of course, makes him not-too-bright? | |
| The Pretenders – 2000 Miles Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's funny how everybody thinks this is such a cute song, but it's actually about a promiscuous woman (not that ain't cute to me). What other explanation for the two ways of addressing - the second and third person alternately - one for the husband who is away, and one for the lover who is near. | |
| Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – On High Heels Through Nights Of Broken Glass Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Sounds like the song is sung from the perspective of the devil. | |
| Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – Three Is an Orgy, Four Is Forever Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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There are circles of forever Made of fire; made of stone There are circles of a lifetime Made of silver; made of gold I think these verses express the categories of values. The circles of fire and stone represent the immortal values, such as dignity, truth, freedom, etc. just like fire and stone are part of the nature's cycle, they are here forever. The circles of silver and gold represent the ephemeral values, such as materialsm, fame and wealth. They are intricately human, and can only last a lifetime. |
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| Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – Hell Is Where The Heart Is (The Gospel Of Tomas) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It's about the fact that life has no meaning and and the world is as random, non-deterministic and fucked up as can be. However, that doesn't mean that life is not worth living, as in the middle of all this pointlessness the only real truth becomes the moment, thus swapping the initial existentialist resolve with a hedonistic one. | |
| De-phazz – Something Special Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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If there’s no chance to reach you, No bridge, no boat, no stones, Then I would swim the waters, Just like Brian Jones. If I would ever lose you, To someone else one day, I shall be diplomatic, Just like Cassius Clay. ‘Cause you’re so special… ‘Cause you’re so special… Just like anybody else. You don’t need to worry, Just rely on me. I forever will be faithful, Like Lady Chatterley. If there’s a need to tease you, As a chance to make you stay, I’m gonna, I’m gonna be your wild one Just like Doris Day. ‘Cause you’re so special… Just like anybody else. ‘Cause you’re so special… Just like anybody else. You’re my everyday sensation, You’re my heaven, you’re my hell. Like a roller-coaster ride, We can make it to the bell. Perfect combination, Like the seashore and the shell, ‘Cause you’re something special, babe, Just like anybody else. ‘Cause you’re so special… So incredible… Just like anybody else, Unbelievable… ‘Cause you’re so special… So deceivable… Just like anybody else. ‘Cause you’re so special… So impossible… Just like anybody else, So incredible… ‘Cause you’re so special… Unbelievable… Just like anybody else, So deceivable… ‘Cause you’re so special… Just like anybody else, ‘Cause you’re so special… You don’t need to worry, ‘Cause you’re so special… Just rely on me, Just like anybody else, ‘Cause you’re so special… Just like anybody else… …faithful, like Lady Chatterley… These lyrics are obviously satirical, best depicted in the contradiction "Special like anybody else". ' However, the salt and pepper are not in the chorus but in the comparisons made with famous characters (also satirical): "I would swim the waters just like Brian Jones" is probably a reference to the Rolling Stones member who drowned in his own swimming pool. "Diplomatic like Cassius Clay" speaks for itself; (for those who were born into the young hipster generation, he is Muhammad Ali, the famous boxer). "I forever will be faithful like Lady Chatterley" is a reference to the character of the book with the same name by D.H. Lawrence who used to cheat on her paraplegic husband. Finally, Doris Day is a classic movie actress who gained a reputation for her good girl roles, turning down a the role in "The Graduate" for moral reasons, and being deemed by critics the "world's oldest virgin". |
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| Swallow The Sun – Out Of This Gloomy Light Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think his song is about someone's ghost who sits in trees and weeps for his lost love | |
| Swallow The Sun – Deadly Nightshade Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| That's a nice track for having sex :P | |
| Tiamat – Lucy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Lucy is a slang for LSD. With that in mind the song speaks for itself. I like the last line very much. | |
| Tiamat – Wings of Heaven Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is about marriage, kid. | |
| Tiamat – Sixshooter Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this song is about drug consumption and abuse. I think the demons represent the addiction, under the form, respectively, of: hallucinations ("demons haunted me"), rehabs ("demon doctor gave him pills for it all"), if one is to interpret the following verse, which totally makes sense, with the stardust in Tel Aviv which may suggest a relapse, maybe cops, dealers, although the verse with the V8 kinda leaves me dumb, then the lighter used to melt the heroin. "as Egypt kings Rotten, embalmed before the fat lady sings" I think this verse depicts the fact that they are dead on the inside before their time. The 6th verse depicts a rehab and lastly the demons appear again as a vice and the incapability to quit and as the great indulgence or acknowledgement of the drug addiction as some kind of a necesary evil: And the demon smiled as the circle spinned And in my whiskey sour the devil grinned I was rolling another hundred dollar bill And cleaning my nose for the ultimate thrill Now about the title I think the chorus is a comparison between addiction and Russian Roulette. The sixshoother is a revolver, and the "don't spend it all on me" suggests that drug abuse is as dangerous as playing Russian Roulette with 6 bullets. If we imagine the barrel empty at the beginning of the song and notice the fact that the drugs start from mild to strong (LSD, Coke, Heroin) we can associate the drug categories with the bullets. Every drug addict, especially superstars start with weed and go up to heroin. Just like adding one more bullet to the revolver. As the addict realizes that the sixshooter gets full he prays that his body will not become a complete bin of toxic wastes. And he does this because it is the only thing he can do, because "in his whiskey sour the devil grinned". Therefore he can't help it, he succumbs. The drugs are just stronger than the will. I know the interpretations are a bit far fetched, at least the one with the sixshooter, I like to believe it is so, I like the idea, but I am eager to see more interesting ideas about this song. Please post. |
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| Tiamat – The Pentagram Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I guess this is pretty obvious, it depicts the evolution of man and his mastery of the elements. He made household out of earth, sailed the seas, discovered fire and flew around the world. However, only the last element separates human race from a metaphysical godlike condition - spirit. Which means we need to learn how to love. And that is probably never. | |
| Tiamat – Via Dolorosa Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I thought he says "shave me" until I read the lyrics. Anyway I like the idea behind this song very much. Via Dolorosa (Path of Pain) is the name of the street in Jerusalem on which Jesus walked carrying his cross. What I like though is the arbitrary and somewhat existentialist view upon Jesus' destiny. I think Jesus is depicted as a normal being, not as a messiah, and more than that his life and destiny are depicted as a great and tragic misunderstanding. "This is not what it seems" "This ain't no mysterious way" "This ain't no universal mastermind" "This ain't no projection of one of a kind" "This ain't no religious highway" Now all these lyrics, including all those which end in "alone" express the fact that there is actually nothing religious in all the prophetic charade, in his mind he realizes that there just might not be no universal mastermind, no final purpose for his death, nothing special about him. He is just a man. He has no heaven to go to, he will die alone. "I carry my burden alone" and "This is just another Sunday" make me think about Sisyphus and his absurd destiny, stressed so much in existentialist works. Especially the "Sunday" part gives the impression that Jesus is doomed to carry his cross just like Sisyphus carried his boulder over and over again until the end of time. And to some extent I dare to say that from this point Jesus, with his earthly depiction represents the absurd condition of the human race. |
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