| George Michael – Careless Whisper Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think the line 'Guilty feet have got no rhythm' explains why white people can't dance | |
| The Menzingers – Good Things Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think that this ties in with 'Nice Things', not only because the titles are so similar, but this song explores the collapse of the West (specifically America) on a simpler level. It's saying that the superiority of this country is no longer. Perhaps he is looking at his own life in the same way in the first two verses, talking about irreversible mistakes and their impact. In the last verse he tries to bring this to the level of the country as a whole, showing how he will never feel American again, apart from that one, perhaps imaginary moment where the country was united and thriving. This is probably ironic. The end is a bleak, but poignant repetition of 'all good things should fall apart', saying that America's decline is brought on by itself and inevitable, due to its 'old and familiar failures'. He attributes the failures to himself at the beginning as well; he might be saying that we are all to blame for the decline. | |
| The Menzingers – Nice Things Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think that this is a scathing attack on materialism and also the collapse of wealth in America. The first 7 lines are about the decrease in riches of the very rich, though their loss is superficial and somewhat meaningless. Yet, the joker is self satisfied even though he has lost everything..I don't really know who he's supposed to represent, possibly the ideal? Western Walls closing in is definitely about the collapse of the West, trying to show that we're going to be trapped. This is shown again by the last few lines where he says 'climb the wall before the fall', though even here it means that you can try and escape but 'no one is waiting for you'. He's saying that this is the end for the West, whose 'gold [is] so strangely acquired'. The materialism bits and the criticism of excess and unnecessary wealth comes in the middle, where he calls the very rich 'degenerated...running out of time?'. The use of 'Nice Things' is meant to trivialise the wealth and money; the assets which the rich have acquired at the expense of everybody else in order to show how unnecessary they actually are. |
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