| Aerosmith – Pink Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure this is a song about raw doggin' it. I would refer to the following verses as proof: "it's kink, but you don't ever tell her" - Take off your without telling her, or you just don't wear one in the first place. "Pink when I turn out the lights." - Take off your condom as soon as the lights go out. "think everything is gonna be alright no matter what we do tonight." - Even if we have unprotected sex, everything should be okay, hopefully. All in all, a pretty fucked up song if you have any respect for women. But I still like the song. Maybe I'm fucked up too. |
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| OutKast – She Lives in My Lap (feat. Rosario Dawson) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"She stays alone, never sheds a single tear She stays in the coolest moods, clearly woman of the year She and all her girlfriends, they go out dressed to win She comes back to the cooler side of town But she lives in my lap" The speaker describes a woman he is involved with. We can infer from her lack of emotional display that she is cold and distant to the speaker. She and her friends enjoy attention from other men when they are out socializing. Like a stripper sitting in a man's lap, her attention can easily shift toward another potential customer. "She lives in my lap Forever my fiance She lives in my lap Don't leave, don't stay She lives in my lap I'll get the courage one day" The chorus describes a perpetual state of limbo, forever engaged, but never married; Wanting to commit, but wanting just as much to leave. The last line of the chorus leaves the plot open-ended. The speaker knows he will have to decide one day, but for now he stays in limbo. "Make me want you, make me miss you Make me wonder where you are, then forget you Girl remind me, just who we are We're oh so close, but yet so far" The woman does just enough to elicit feelings of attachment from the speaker. He misses her when she's not around and he has no clue what she's doing (we might assume she's seeing other people), and his only recourse is to try to not think about her. The speaker and the woman have no official title. They are an item, but paradoxically they are also noncommittal. "Baby why are you acting like this? I don't care about any of them I care about you! Baby I love you!" This is pivotal. The woman (an antagonist of sorts) enjoys, for reasons unspecified, having the speaker in her life. She reveals that she is, in fact, seeing other people, but she claims to love the speaker the most. "You've got me open wide (I love you) Just Come inside (baby) It's yours (it's yours) I'm yours (I'm yours) For sure (for sure) Play baby play" The speaker is emotionally defenseless and vulnerable. He's too psychologically attached to this woman. The line "Just come inside" can be interpreted to mean that she let's the speaker cum inside her during sex, which for men is liable to engender strong feelings of attachment. But how many other men does she do this for? This woman is a player. I'm in a relationship like this right now. The woman I'm seeing is seeing other men, but I like having her in my life enough that, for the time being, I can look past that and will continue to do so until I gain the courage to either leave her or... until she gains the courage to leave me. |
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| Frank Ocean – Strawberry Swing Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Best break up song ever? | |
| Radiohead – How I Made My Millions Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Yes, let's just stop using rational thought! After all, thinking is innately pretentious, and our higher brains serve absolutely no purpose at all! To hell with the meaning of lyrics! And for that matter, why do we even need a site like songmeanings.net when discussing the meaning of lyrics is destructive? | |
| Grizzly Bear – Sleeping Ute Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Don't hate me, ladies and gentlemen, for making this comment about a band that I, undoubtedly like many other people who visit this page, love so dearly; but how many more songs about failed relationships is Grizzly Bear going to write? I mean, it seems like every hit single they release, namely, "The Knife" and "Two Weeks," as well as songs like "Easier," "All We Ask," and "Ready Able," all have to do with relationship problems. Don't get me wrong. I get the chills listening to the lush and almost magical soundscapes that this band creates in its music, but I often find myself craving something more novel and refreshing from the Grizzly Bear lyrics department. I think the group has yet to reach its full potential, and I eagerly await that moment. | |
| Radiohead – True Love Waits Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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First off, I'd like to say that, for as much freedom of interpretation is allowed for the listener, I still believe that any good artist/singer-songwriter can effectively manage to convey a lucid argument, as well as affecting emotions, through well-written composition. While I acknowledge that no analysis of lyrics, or art in general, can be purely objective it still bugs me when I see interpretations of songs that stretch beyond any indications found within the lyrics themselves. In my opinion, most good songs have concrete meanings, and while the listener often must be flexible in formulating her or his understanding of the song, this is simply the listener's attempt at relating with the artist. What the artist wrote, on the other hand, is not so flexible. My spiel aside, Thom Yorke has presented us with some rather keenly distressing metaphors, but nonetheless they can be analyzed with greater objectivity than what I've seen so far on this page. Starting with the aching refrain, "Just don't leave," we can assume that the poetic voice of the song is already with someone as opposed to waiting for someone. Moving back to the first verse we gather from the personal sacrifice ("sacrifice my beliefs), commitment ("have your babies") and humiliation ("dress like your niece") she or he is willing to endure that the poetic voice has strong feelings of attachment to this particular person. Attachment, and more specifically the loss of one's identity, dignity and autonomy out of fear of ending a relationship, in my opinion are the key themes of this song. Thom reminds us when he writes "I'm not living, I'm just killing time" that when we stay with someone solely because we're too afraid of not having her or him in our lives, we sacrifice our hopes and dreams, which couldn't be any more true once you have someone's children and act as their foot-washing servant. And what would anyone do all of this for? For the true love that we dream of as kids sucking on lollipops? You can't make true love happen with everyone as Thom suggests pessimistically in his ironical and sobering statement, "True love waits in haunted attics." Sometimes we just need to end the relationship and move on, lest we should spend the rest of our lives in haunted attics waking up next to someone with a "crazy kitten" smile. |
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| Radiohead – Nude Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Actually, this only took about 15 minutes to write. I like writing when I can because I feel like it's an important skill to be able to express yourself articulately and to communicate effectively. I see this simply as practice... and fun. | |
| The Flaming Lips – See the Leaves Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song, like the rest of the album, is terrific, and its lyrics are quite amusing to decipher. Let's analyze the piece stanza by stanza according to my interpretation: 1) To start with, we get a hopeless and unloved woman who objectifies herself. She simultaneously looks down on herself hatefully and idolizes herself with no hope of ever being who she wants. 2) Her hair is untied and possibly cleaned/styled using her own saliva??? This could mean she lives a sort of carefree lifestyle, not concerned with fashion/appearance. Or her unkempt demeanor could represent her poverty and suffering. Juxtaposed, these two lifestyles conflict. 3) And yet, it makes her happy to live this way, but also, returning to her hopeless outlook on life, it constrains her to believe that there is no life after death. 4-end) The leaves dying serve as proof for her fatalistic beliefs, and yet another moth is flying again, which goes against her notion that there is no life after death. The grass dies, but then the sun brings it to life again. Apparently the woman is only able to see death; she is, after all, hopeless and without love. In spite of all of this, the sun persists. Perhaps the significance in the repetition of this verse is to show how the sun, the giver of life, perseveres in the face of death. It is possible the poetic voice in this song has faith that the woman will eventually see the light. Overall, the song is dichotomized conceptually into two contradictory and yet complimentary notions: that all things die, and that is the end for them, yet life is born anew out of death, and so, in a manner of speaking, there is, indeed, an afterlife. But these are just my musings... |
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| Radiohead – Nude Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Another song about relationships to be sure, but I don't mean that disparagingly; the song is both ethereal and moving, although very similar to a previous Radiohead song entitled "There There." "Nude" addresses the lustful tendencies in relationships where love is tenuous or otherwise nonexistent but nonetheless something desired by both parties involved. When entering a relationship Thom says not to get any "big ideas," presumably about having found love. After "painting himself a smile" and "painting himself white," meaning that he's pretending to be honest and committed to his partner, he "fills up with noise," with strong yet uncertain emotions. And just when he thinks he's in love, he realizes that his feelings are either unrequited ("And now that you've found it, it's gone") or that they were never feelings of love to begin with ("Just when you feel it, you don't"). The "noise" he fills up with in this sort of relationship is simply physical desire that he succumbs to when he sees his partner naked, and he knows that if he sleeps with her he's going to get attached and "want to come back" to her. There's a slight twist in the song when the protagonist says "you'll go to Hell for what your dirty mind is thinking." By this he acknowledges his carnal desires and admits that he's willing to use his partner in spite of whatever expectations of commitment she may have. In short, this song discusses what is common knowledge for any who have endured the trials of a committed relationship, that lust is not to be mistaken for love and that love is difficult and requires serious commitment from both partners. | |
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