| Duran Duran – Planet Earth Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This might sound insane and perverse, but I think this song could (also, alternatively) be about sexual intercourse/pregnancy/birth control (one or all of them). I'm not trolling. "Only came outside to watch the nightfall with the rain"--This is the most Freudian of all lines in the song. "Came outside" is the crudest form of contraception that doesn't involve bloodletting...it's pulling out. The "rain" could be the spilling of one's seed and the "nightfall" could be the fact that the interaction could be happening at night or just in the dark. "Making patterns rhyme" could be the rhythm of bodies in lovemaking. "You'll see I'm right some other time" could be the speaker's conviction that it's best for both him and his partner not to conceive at this time in their lives. "There's no sign of life"--There's no conception, no new life to be born from the mother. "Another sound"--Ultrasound. Enough said. "This is Planet Earth"--This is the way "adult" humans act in the real world: they make love, then move on. "My head is stuck on something precious"--His "head" (manhood) is probing the partner's virginity. "If you're coming down to land"--Is the partner going to climax? "Is there anybody out there trying to get through"--Is his partner with child; does she have "someone to come through" the birth canal in time? "My eyes so cloudy I can't see you"--A male's sexual organ has an eye (opening); the discharge is cloudy. Not sure what the "seeing" is, but it might simply be that the speaker does not know if his partner has conceived. Good songs are written for a variety of interpretations; there may well be more than one meaning one takes. I like the nuclear apocalypse and outer space ideas mentioned also here. I think on the whole, though, that this song's lyrics have some sexual overtones that cannot be ignored. |
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| David Bowie – The Prettiest Star Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I too always loved the end of this song (as well as just the whole song generally)...there's just something about the way it fades out the last thirty/forty seconds, such an easygoing trailing off just before the manic, over-the-top cover to "Let's Spend The Night Together"...the last 30-45 seconds or so of "Prettiest" are like being taken by the hand and strolled/escorted ever so lightly to the edge of a precipice which leads to a sharp, abrupt, very vertical drop to the next track on the album (again, the nutty cover to Jagger/Richards). | |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Vague Space Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| So many people hate this song...it isn't his best, for certain, but it kind of grows on you IMO. I like it generally. I have no idea what in heck the lyrics mean, though. I think this song was released somewhere (maybe as a track to download online, I can't exactly recall) as "I love to turn you on"...how goofy (although of course that phrasing makes more sense than the refrain here...but then again, it's Stephen Malkmus and that's why we love him!). | |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – All Over Gently Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It wasn't until I went to the Malkmus concert in my town this past week that it occurred to me, as they played this song on stage: it's not just about any breakup--it's got to be about Malkmus's permanent break from Pavement. Sure, it could be interpreted just as a garden variety breakup song, but it just fits so much to be about Malkmus's wanting to stay away from the Pavers--even though they toured reunion in 2010. Maybe my realization is that at the level of "No s**t, Sherlock"--but it honestly didn't even dawn on me till again I was at the concert and it just hit me then. It's a great song at any rate and whatever the meaning. | |
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