| The Sundays – Through The Dark Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This one doesn't seem so cryptic or difficult to understand... looks like a song about the illusions given by the world of television and shows. It's pretty evident. The screen of the TV is shining through the dark, but one touch and it's gone. And we're "pulled under" by that world. The language from this last Sundays' album is much more open compared to the previous one ("Blind"). |
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| Björk – Who Is It? Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Ithinksthisnthat, Gwepoi amd particularly Mangusu got close to the true meaning of the song, in my opinion. I watched an interview in which she talked about this song almost as a conversation between Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket. The Talking Cricket is that conscience in you which tells you to behave yourself, Pinocchio is the very human part of you which makes you live making a lot of mistakes. So "who is it?" is as if she were asking "how am I gonna get this right?". I think the answer is "carry my joy on the left, carry my pain on the right", as Mangusu said, yin-yang. P.S.: guys, inform yourself before saying this is about god... Björk has claimed herself atheist and pagan (religious towards Nature). |
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| Tears for Fears – Mr. Pessimist Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Actually, I heard that according to some interview, Roland just wrote down his own thoughts about pessimism. Not the entire Elemental album is an answer to Curt. As far as we know, the song wich actually is about Curt is "Fish Out of Water". | |
| Björk – It's Not Up To You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think that this one and "It's In Our Hands" actually express the same. In "It's In Our Hands" she says: look no further, it's right here; you already have all you need, don't be cruel to yourself: it mustn't get any better off. Nature should be enough for us, but we always foolishly struggle for more. In "It's Not Up To You" she says: there's too much clinging, too much pressure. You can't decide what you receive, so just accept things as they come to you. Don't struggle looking for some magic formula - it mustn't get any better off than this. Don't be cruel to yourself, it's not up to you... and I could even add: it's not meant to be a strife. So it's quite the same, you see. |
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| Björk – Isobel Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Look for Björk stereogum interview about Post ("A Tribute to Björk's Post"), she said that after Bachelorette there also are Oceania and Wanderlust. The entire sequence is: Human Behaviour - Isobel - Bachelorette - Oceania - Wanderlust. | |
| Björk – Isobel Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Quite talking as if you knew Björk more than anyone else. You must be an extremely close acquaintance of hers, depicting her as some cunning calculating woman who's plotting behind our backs to make fun of us. Back in the 90s, Skin of Skunk Anansie used to sing "yes it's fucking political, everything's political". Now we should write another one: "yes it's fucking christian, everything is christian". In christian theology, Lucifer rebels against God, he does not want to worship God nor to be subdued to him. The way you described it is only in your own head. In no way Björk would describe worshiping Nature as something negative. At the end of "Bachelorette", Isobel goes back to Nature and finds happiness again. About "Isobel": "She didn't like all the people there so much because they were a bit too clever for her. She decided to send to the world all these moths that she trained to go and fly all over the world, to go inside windows of people's houses, the ones that are too clever, and they sit on their shoulders and remind them to stop being clever and start to function by their instincts. And they do that by singing 'Na, na na, na na na, na na..' to them. And they say 'Oh, sorry, I was being all clever there', and they start functioning on instinct." Also, I'll give notice that it's not a trylogy, after Bachelorette there are Oceania and Wanderlust, as Björk herself said in the stereogum interview. I am leaving this harbour giving urban a farewell its habitants seem to keen on God I cannot stomach their rights and wrongs I have lost my origin and I don't want to find it again rather sailing into nature's laws and be held by ocean's paws |
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| Tori Amos – Leather Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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In my opinion, this song is about Tori's own musical career. The leather sounds like a reference to her dressing style during the Y Kant Tori Read era. I think it's pretty much about her turning point with Little Earthquakes, then in phase of writing, and critical acclaim. She has often said that she hates Y Kant Tori Read, as it reflects a period of time in wich she was lying to herself, she was just doing what she felt was expected, not what she really wanted to. After that, the first version of Little Earthquakes was rejected by Atlantic Records. She was probably doubting that she would have been accepted as the girl with her piano, as this idea has been rejected more times before. She's saying that she's "naked before you", probably referring to Little Earthquakes itself, in wich she talked very much about herself, it is in fact a very personal album. "Don't you want more than my sex" could mean, don't you want more than who I was in Y Kant Tori Read? She's capable of that, but she "can't claim innocence". So the line "But why do I need you to love me" could mean that just being herself now matters more than being loved i.e. accepted. The refrain sounds sardonic, if it's not just the weather that makes you reject me, then hand me my leather, I'll be like others want to see me. I thought of this meaning reading this reference from Tori: "I've never told this story. People think um, that this next song is about wild sex. And I think... well, it isn't. And um, it is for you, probably, that's fine. I mean, I, you know, whatever your experience is, you've probably had much more fun with this song than I have. But um, I've never had fun with this song, but I sing it all the time. I do adore this song because it reminds me of the time that this bitch came over to my house. And I lived in this hovel in um, Hollywood. And I don't remember what my manager called it, but it was a pit. And um, when you walk in all my clothes were strewn, you know, peanut butter and banana, all that stuff. I know, gross. But anyway, you get to my piano, right, and my fish tank, and I had dead fish in the fish tank. Because I forgot to feed them, but I couldn't throw them away. And so I was sitting there at my piano, right? And this girl comes over there that is very very very very very close by - not mentioning any names. And so she comes over... So she comes and goes, "Can I have some sugar?" And I said, "Yes." And uh, she goes, "I hear you wrote a new song." I said, "Yes." And um, I played it for her, and it was one of the songs that went on Little Earthquakes, I won't mention it. And she says to me, "Well, you know... I really think you better get a new writing style, because that's like, not catchy." And so I say, "Obviously you have the sugar. Good day." So... The next eight minutes of my life..." [Dew Drop Inn tour - 1996] Still, it's ok if you find a different meaning for yourselves. Tori Amos herself is open to that. |
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| Tears for Fears – Falling Down Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Imagodoc, Roland's not catholic at all, he said in an interview that he does not subscribe to any organized religion, and that he believes we gain conciousness after death. It's true that this album is about a hard time he experienced with his wife, but he also said in an interview that it's about his father's illusions on their family tree and about the reality of their poverty. In "Raoul and the Kings of Spain" and "Los Reyes Catolicos" he clearly makes fun of what his father told him about their family's descent. He also stated that this album's about the relationship between rationality and spirituality, explaining that "God's Mistake" pokes fun at Albert Einstein's statement "God does not play dice". "Yet if he's everywhere, he's in casinos with aces to spare", says Roland, along with "God, you look mighty fine, dressed as the devil in a cosmic pantomime". What's more, in a song from Elemental called "Mr.Pessimist" he says "mr.pessimist with you catholic taste, we do not relate", so he doesn't seem to look at catholicism in such a favourable way, just saying. |
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