| The Standells – Dirty Water Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[Johnny0225:38609] YEP, when that song came out, we all knew what they were saying... | |
| The Standells – Dirty Water Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[JimmyCarlBlack:38608] YES YES YES | |
| Foo Fighters – Breakout Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[Punker829:35922] yep thats it | |
| Foo Fighters – Breakout Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[Punker829:35921] yep thats it | |
| Collective Soul – Perfect To Stay Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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As a published songwriter and huge fan of this incredible band (too good for the dumb masses who don't understand brilliance in music, art and creativity) I can tell you that this is an underage boy in love with an older woman. "...how much we change as we grow older." "She said good night BOY Are you feeling alone? I said I love time But never ever this LONG" And just the title of the song "SOONER OR LATER I'LL BE Perfect to stay" doesn't imply a problem in an adult relationship. This song is talking about something out of the boy's power to embrace his love because it would be illegal and he doesn't want to get her in trouble. Love has boundaries, thanks to laws from people thinking they know what's best for their citizens and THEIR children. I personally don't endorse relationships where one of the parties is under 16. I'm old, and back in the day, if the same laws applied to my mom and dad, my dad would be a sex offender, unrightfully so. They met at church, hung out at their fatherless homes while their mother's worked, and nature runs it's course. My mother was 14 and my dad 18, my mom had my sister when she was 15, then me at 16, and my brother at 18. By that time, my dad was 22. They were married and living with my grandmother. It was very hard for them, but here I am, and unfortunately both my parents took their Final Journey when they both hit 85 years old (four years apart, my father first). So my mom's children were lucky in some circumstances of having a beautiful but very strict mother who salesmen and men in general thought that my brother and I were my mom's younger brothers. I feel bad about the punches I threw at a guy who was a lttile too loose with his tongue talking to my mom. My brother, well... ummmm... he has a condition from Spinal Menengitis but it didn't affect his growth to 6'5 and 335 lbs, with no patience for disrespect of his mother. He, uh... probably left some mess of a chauvanist pig in the alley behind JC Penneys. Ok law dogs, this was over 50 years ago when you could still be an American. (NOT A TRUMPER!!!) |
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| Soundgarden – Burden in My Hand Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think all the opinions of this song are taking the song way too literally. If you know anything about Chris Cornell, his bout with heroin was his monkey on his back, and the "Burden In His Hand". He refers to the object of his addiction, (heroin), as "her", but that doesn't mean it is a woman or female creature. Below is a copy of the lyrics, and my interpretation. As a songwriter, lyricist and producer of 40 years, I have a good understanding of where the pain of many artists come to write about... and remember, this was in the days of the "Seattle Grunge Invasion", where most of the big musicians were into heroin. (Layne Staley, Kurt Cobain, others): +++++++ "Follow me into the desert As thirsty as you are Crack a smile and cut your mouth And drown in alcohol" ---- he's asking you to follow his story of desperation regarding his addiction, his "desert". If you "smile" you "cut" your mouth because the smile is fake. You are desperate too. Drowning in alcohol is only the legal "painkiller" you can buy freely, which is why the 30% of the world population can be considered alcoholics. Drowning in booze is just another path to self destruction he knows he's on, and his "go to" solution if he can't find his heroin fix. He never admitted to using "heroin" and made his comments about his addictions strictly about "alcohol", but this song was released after his friend Kurt Cobain committed suicide, and Layne Staley overdosed, along with several other close friends he saw dropping due to addictions. "'Cause down below the truth is lying Beneath the riverbed So quench yourself and drink the water That flows below her head ----the "riverbed" is the source of Life, and below that, even if the riverbed is dry, you can dig "below" for water and find "truth", but there is a "lie, a deceit" that "flows below her head". What is the first big hint at what the song is in this phrase, "her head" --it means the tip of the syringe needle. He's saying you think you'll find satisfaction and relief in heroin. You think you're drinking water of "truth", but notice it's "below her head". Who is "her"? Heroin. Also, take notice that the "truth" is "BENEATH" the riverbed. It's not the real water flowing in the riverbed, its the dried up riverbed that forces you to dig to find release to your emotional pain. ----- "Oh no there she goes Out in the sunshine The sun is mine, sun is mine ----- I am shooting up, the day is not rainy because I'm high and the "sun is mine"... said TWICE. "I shot my love today Would you cry for me I lost my head again Would you lie for me --- then he actually states he "shot" (shoot up) his "love" (heroin or other drug). Will you cry for him and his lack of control, and spiral to these depths of self-destruction? He lost his head, and if you were his friend or "hanger-on", would you "lie" for him? "Close your eyes and bow your head I need a little sympathy 'Cause fear is strong and love's for everyone Who isn't me ---- "close your eyes" to his addictions, his failures, bow your head and say a prayer for him because he "needs a little sympathy". His fear is strong, and he thinks everyone else gets love that "isn't him". "Kill your health and kill yourself And kill everything you love And if you live you can fall to pieces And suffer with my ghost ---- If you follow his path, you will "kill your health and kill yourself and kill everything you love". If you "live", you will still "fall to pieces" and suffer with his own "ghost", predicting his own death, and if you're on his same path of self destruction, you will "suffer" with the memory of him dying, regardless of his rockstar status, he died unhappy, addicted, and his addictions will be his "ghost" following you. I shot my love today Would you cry for me I lost my head again Would you lie for me I left her in the sand Just a burden in my hand I lost my head again Would you cry for me Just a burden in my hand Just an anchor on my heart It's just a tumor in my head And I'm in the dark ----- "Just a burden in my hand" is his bottle, his syringe, his simple drugs he can fit in his "hand". It's an anchor on his heart because he doesn't want to be addicted (he's now sober). He looked at his addiction as a "tumor in his head" and that he was in the "dark" about it. So follow me into the desert As desperate as you are Where the moon is glued To a picture of heaven And all the little pigs have God ----- He's daring you to follow him into his "desert" (his desolation of addiction), as "desperate as you are" (he's relating to the pain that lures you into self-medicating with alcohol and illicit drugs). The "moon", described symbolically as a portal to a fake "heaven", and that all the people who worship money, success, fame, and beyond that, the conservative mindset of those who "judge" those addicts for their lack of strength or ability to fight off their demons by going to church, praying to God, yet still living a materialistic "piggish" life. (That's not hard to connect if you look at conservatives, how they use Jesus as their frontman, yet do nothing that Jesus would do. Be religious, and you can be as rich as Mitt Romney) Oh no there she goes Out in the sunshine The sun is mine, the sun is mine I shot my love today Would you cry for me, yeah I lost my head again Would you lie for me I left her in the sand Just a burden in my hand I lost my head again Would you cry for me Would you cry for me --- this last line "I left her in the sand" means he beat his addictions, they were just a "burden" in his hand. Now he's sober and having to deal with his demons without medication, booze, so the pain could be greater, but either way, would you cry for Chris Cornell? Would you cry for yourself? Chris Cornell is a prophet in the same realm as Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain. |
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