| Animal Collective – Fireworks Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Much better but still not quite right I think. He definitely says "meet me after the whirlwind" | |
| The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Forgot to add - although his future is bleak from his point of view, the title lyric represents his undying hope - the light at the end of the dark tunnel - that he and others like him will one day be accepted and will be able to live his life as he wishes, although deep down he is pessimistic about this ever happening, hence his deathwish. There a lot of ways to interpret the song, but I agree with Clayton and just wanted to expand on the post. Incredible song. | |
| The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I don't think the narrator necessarily has to represent Morrissey (although a lot of us would argue it clearly reflects his own feelings), but I think the song's lyrics are specifically about homosexuality rather than any from of rejection. It makes so much sense. He's just been kicked out by his family for being gay - " I never never want to go home, because I haven't got one, anymore " and asks his friend to pick him up and drive him somewhere, he doesn't care. He just wants to be with his friend who he has feelings for, but can't bring himself to tell him for fear of being rejected by him too. He could happily die in this fleeting moment, with the person he wants to be with, as he feels his future is bleak and is hopeless. |
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| The Cure – One Hundred Years Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Firstly, you have to bare in mind that so many of the songs on Pornography were so psychedelically drug-fuelled, lacking in context, often attempting to merely sound dark and depressing for the sake of it - and often meaningless in reality. R. Smith said himself that he wanted to album to sound "virtually unbearable". My interpretation of the song is, taking the name literally - One Hundred Years - It's essentially about a century of bloodshed, bloodlust, anger, greed and darkness. All the downfalls of human nature and their consequences. The different stanzas could be seen as referring to a different period from the last century - 'Ambition in the back of black car' (which might be metaphorical), 'In a high building [office block] there is so much to do' - suicidal or terrorist connotations. 'Going home time, A story on the radio' - Returning from the meaningless job you hate, a short-lived break from harsh reality, and listening to the radio to hear the same awful news stories about war or suffering in the world - the insignificance of a working man's life in the modern day. In the following stanzas - references to soldiers and war, take your pick from the many political conflicts and wars which have occurred over the last century (Baring in mind it was the past hundred years from when the song was written). The lyrics could be seen as revealing short stories in their own right, but I don't think there's any deep, meaningful, revealing context to be gleamed from the lyrics. The whole song is just a despairing look everything wrong in the world. The human race makes advances on the surface, but nothing really changes with time; human greed and selfishness and suffering are ever-present. All the same problems that plague humanity continue to exist over an entire century, just as they have for the already centuries past. One Hundred Years of darkness, suffering, inquality and despair. The opening line is essentially a summary of the whole song 'It doesn't matter if we all die' - and the world probably wouldn't suffer one bit from it. |
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