submissions
| Alice Cooper – Poison Lyrics
| 3 years ago
|
I think this song is quite obviously about the temptation of infidelity - being strongly attracted to someone else while already in a committed relationship.
"I don't want to break these chains"
Chains = the security of the committed relationship
"One look, could kill"
Kill = severely threatening the security of the committed relationship
"My pain, your thrill"
Your thrill = the temptress being single and hence having less at stake
The video confirms this theme, with the two different women - the blonde, Madonnaesque woman dressed in white representing the safe haven, and the dark haired, black corset clad lady representing the temptress. It is very explicit towards the end when the blonde woman literally pulls a rope and the narrator as represented by Alice Cooper approaches her, away from the temptress. |
submissions
| Björk – The Anchor Song Lyrics
| 5 years ago
|
|
My father used to play the Debut album in the living room of our house when it first came out. I was still a toddler, dancing on the carpet and finding the songs haunting and beautiful. The Anchor Song might be my all time favorite Björk song. I've always felt a strangely strong connection to the ocean, and for me this song captures that feeling I get when faced with the big, untamable ocean - a feeling like I want to get into it, to swim towards the bottom and let the currents carry me until I become one with the water. |
submissions
| Timber Timbre – We'll Find Out Lyrics
| 9 years ago
|
To me this in unmistakably about depression, psychosis and the stay at a psychiatric ward. The "we" is the psychiatrists and nurses perspective - they'll find out. They know and understand more about you than you yourself do at the fragile, upside-down state you're in.
I think this is a recurrent theme in the whole album. |
submissions
| 10cc – Iceberg Lyrics
| 9 years ago
|
I believe this song is meant to be about schizophrenia. Graham Gouldman said the following about How Dare You! (the album in which the song appears) in an interview with Melody Maker:
"It's a strange mixture of songs. There's one about divorce, a song about schizophrenia, a song about wanting to rule the world, the inevitable money song, and an instrumental."
It's pretty obvious that the songs he is referring to are Don't Hang Up, I Wanna Rule the World, Art for Art's Sake, How Dare You, and I can't see any other song on the album that could possibly be about schizophrenia but this one. It becomes at it's most clear with the lines "They say that I'm belonging in a home for crazy people, but you know I don't belong there". |
submissions
| of Montreal – Art Snob Solutions Lyrics
| 10 years ago
|
|
So we all know the filmmaker Tarkovsky, the poet Apollinaire, the art movement Arte Povera, the painter Kandinsky and the composers Pärt and Schoenberg. But what the hell is Le Serpent Mascara?! Ok, after googling, now I know. Before, I must admit, I had no clue. I'm only an 86% art snob. |
submissions
| of Montreal – Art Snob Solutions Lyrics
| 10 years ago
|
I've always been confused by the "Arto Parv feast of repetition". There is an Estonian composer named Arvo Part (Pärt in the original language) who makes repetitive music, sometimes based on other classical composers.
I think the Arto Parv part actually is supposed to be about him, but was misspelled and mispronounced.
So, maybe no so art snobby after all... |
submissions
| of Montreal – Art Snob Solutions Lyrics
| 12 years ago
|
Sure sounds as Barnes sings "An Arto Parv feast of repetition from a Schoenburg 12 tone composition" but I'm sure it's actually supposed to be "An Arvo Pärt feast of repetition..." which actually makes much more sense.
And yeah, of course repetition, not repitition. Dyslectics. |
submissions
| Björk – Joga Lyrics
| 13 years ago
|
|
I think this song is about emotional landscapes, that puzzle her. |
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.
