| Tom Waits – I'm Still Here Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This is Alice's reply to the speaker in the title song of the album. He sings his love to Alice, he's entranced... but years later when the pond is clear and time is no longer an issue, she waits, but he seems to have forgotten her. | |
| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The protagonist has come to the sad realisation that his love interest is deeply broken. It's not her fault that she's so broken but he can't repair her and she probably can't repair herself. In moments without restraint (wine and pills) he is drawn back to her but then he realises he needs to go and then drowns the sorrow of their situation in bad films and cheap sex. "It's not like the movies" he says, it's not like there are happy endings and all the threads and problems are sorted in the end. "They fed us on little white lies" that love could conquer anything, but it can't conquer her broken, unstable nature. Maybe he will see her in their next life and she'll finally have a chance at life without being broken from the beginning. Because of the nature of her "crazy" being unavoidable, instilled since birth, it makes me think of an inherited mental illness. Very sad. |
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| Architecture in Helsinki – Everything's Blue Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| These lyrics are garbled and inaccurate. If anyone can post better ones, please do. | |
| Queen Adreena – Weeds Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To me it's not about being physically barren. I understand that resonates with some, to each their own. I find that too literal though. I think it's about someone trying to find a home, a way of living. She can't find an origin (a root to herself), she can't find a home to call her own, she never can quite settle down and the relationships she attempts to cultivate do not grow. It bothers her deeply, and why is it so seemingly easy for everyone else? When will her season (of happiness) come? Was she born of infertile soil (doomed to never bloom)? Is her seed without song (does her core of self have no purpose or artistry?) Can she not see the woods for these forests in my head (is it possible happiness is possible, but she's so used to being lost that it's all she can see?) Can she not see the sunlight as she plays dead? (Is she so used to negativity that she's blinkered herself?) "Nothing to be? Nothing to prove? Nowhere to go? Nothing to lose." |
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| Agnes Obel – Philharmonics Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Her master is dead, she doesn't care beyond moving on and selling his possessions. She knows he would have replaced her without a second thought, but now every other servant and slave under his thumb is free. Joyless, genuine relief. | |
| MGMT – Weekend Wars Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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There's a part of this I don't think anyone has talked about yet. Here in Australia a "weekend warrior" is someone who is involved in pseudo-military activities but not actually in the armed forces. They are playfully and sometimes dismissively referred to as "weekend warriors" in that they talk the talk but don't walk the walk of enlisting. However the reasons for being a WW are many and varied, serious injury in combat being one of them. I think the protagonist of this song is someone that was previously deployed and injured. Now they are a weekend warrior as it's all they can manage both physically and emotionally. You may think this is a stretch but alongside the drug references there are lots of military/wartime connections. I won't go over the drug and relationship analogies and references, enough have already done so. I will list these and you can decide, in this light, what they add to your interpretation. "A beach that doesn't quiver any more" (Storming beaches is a vivid mental image of ANZAC sacrifice. Anzac Cove in particular was a brutal staging ground where many were maimed and killed. It was basically a human zerg rush in the dark night over a beach into incredibly hostile forces... the stuff nightmares are made of.) (...Though sometimes it sounds like he says "a beast that does not..." which makes me think of a terrified, wounded animal. Also very appropriate for PTSD.) Where we can trash some plans to paint my walls (he considers blasting his brains out, but those plans are trashed) Now I can shoot a gun to kill my lunch And I don't have to love or think too much (He has been reprogrammed, he still suffers from this reprogramming) Instant battle plans written on the side-walk (even trivial things become symbolic) Mental mystics in a twisted metal car Tried to amplify the sound of light and love (perhaps his vehicle reminds him of a "twisted metal car", a car is just a passenger compartment, it could remind him of an APC, tank, chopper, anything could fit here) but he exerts willpower to attempt to see the light in life) Might even take a knife to split a hair (wars are often the result of demagoguery) Or even scare the children off my lawn (the old vet alone in his house, kids make him feel bitter) Giving us time to make the makeshift bombs Every mess invested was a score (a score for the warmongers, also 20 people) It might take a hundred years to grow an arm (perhaps an arm lost in battle) I'll sit and listen to the sound of sand and cold (the beach again) Twisted diamond heart, I'm the weekend warrior (diamond by pressure) My predictions are the only things I have (he sees wars again in the future) I can amplify the sound and light and love (but instead of war he dreams of love) |
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| Animal Alpha – 101 Ways Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| A soft, sweet song about homicide. Why does she want to murder them? Who knows. Maybe she's wishing revenge on an ex lover, perhaps she thinks as their lover she could do it as a favour instead of a natural death, maybe she's just a sociopath. | |
| Goldfrapp – Annabel Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"Annabel" is about gender identity. The protagonist is a woman in a man's body, and the name of that female identity is Annabel. Every night Annabel is present in his dreams. I say "his" because at this point Annabel is still "in secrets". There is some frustration with gender binary when it is sung "Why they couldn't let you be both, Annabel?" But there's also resolve; "Nothing that they did will stop you, Annabel." Under the stars at the end of the song, the protagonist becomes Annabel completely. I suggest watching the video that accompanies the track for further clarity. It's a beautiful song. |
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| Tune-Yards – Bizness Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This is exactly what I got from it. | |
| Broken Bells – The High Road Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I agree; this song is definitely about suicide (for me). Even the chorus "Come on and get your overdose / Collect it at the borderline"... the overdose being escape/oblivion and the borderline being that between life and death. "A detour to your new life / Tell all of your friends goodbye / The dawn to end all nights / That's all we hoped it was" |
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| The XX – Crystalised Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm in love with this song. After some time dwelling on the lyrics, for me, it feels like an internal discussion with a force/divinity/self identity... like the speaker is in the eternal process of refining and understanding what drives them to go on, admitting both good and bad. The pressure of "bringing paradise" and that, in the worst times, they are growing closer to what they believe as it is testing them most strenuously. The voice gets closer to their own core as the harshness of life cuts them to the quick. Most importantly the voice realises that if they burn down their ideal, they will end themselves. When everything is at its worst, it's what we believe in that holds us together. "Glaciers have melted to the sea I wish the tide would take me over I’ve been down on my knees And you just keep on getting closer" All in all it makes me feel both sad and hopeful. |
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