| Madonna – What It Feels Like For A Girl Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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| Ani DiFranco – Roll With It Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This clearly an anti-war song about the ravages of war and how completely pointless she sees it as. "Packed his uniforms And drove him to the base She was crying all the way" Military wife suffering the consequences of war: missing her husband, fearing his death in combat. Then there's reference to the phrase "Roll with it" throughout the song which is just another way of saying "Suck it it. Don't complain. Just take it." Who is saying this? Well, the men in charge who spin propaganda and don't spare any attention to the actual suffering. By their silence they might as well be saying "Roll with it, baby." "Baby" being a key word here as it adds an extra level of head-patting condescension, mostly from adult to child, that indicates a lack of actual seriousness about all of this. "The mainstream is so polluted with lies" This is obvious. She's saying the news/mass-media is a puppet for government propaganda and is wholly unconcerned with truth. "Make it your career" (i.e: Join the army.) "Keep the home fires burning Till America is in the clear" Propoganda. This totally sounds like a tag line that would be printed on one of those army ad posters circa WWll. "What if the enemy Isn't in a distant land What if the enemy lies behind The voice of command" What if the real threat is not some peoples of a foreign country, but instead the very people who are leading our nation? "And it's your world That comes crashing down When the big boys decide To throw their weight around" She calls the leaders and officials "big boys" because the people in positions of power all throughout America are and always have been predominantly men. To "throw their weight around" points to the fact that most declarations of war are power plays and created to dominate another land in some way and it is childish. "Who are going to be killed Aren't those who preside On capitol hill" It's easy to make the executive decisions to send the people of the country to war when you are in congress, insulated from having to do the actual dirty work. "She says my ass hurts When I sit down" Don't know. Maybe a reference to the rape of women in the military? "I told him, Don't fill the front lines Of their war Those assholes aren't worth dying for" Ha. She is awesome. I love how, in her performance, she really drew out the word "assholes". "Those ASSHOOOOLES aren't worth dying for" "I think my body is as restless as my mind And I'm not gonna roll with it this time No, I'm not gonna roll with it this time" And neither should we. |
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| Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is basically Jenny Lewis' statement of being drug free now and the wistful/awful aspects of her road to recovery. I'll go into depth in a minute. If you didn't get that that's what this song was about, don't feel bad. I didn't either. It took me about 20 listens. What is it with these indy artists? They make you work so hard with their poetry and their symbolism for things only they know well enough to decifer. So the first part is a Shakespeare reference as noted by other commenters. This could mean multiple things, really. But in general she was offered assistance (From God? Her friends? A little voice in her head? We don't know.) and she says she's not looking for a cure (from her addiction?). But here's the cool part: Seen enough of my friends / In the depths of the godsick blues. She doesn't want to be cured like them. She doesn't want to be cured like her friends were "cured", because even that cure left them sick. Godsick. So was the cobbler she was referring to some sort of Christian missionary, volunteering to help her to allow Jesus into her heart or some such? If so, then the passage makes sense as her way of saying that finding the church didn't seem to help her friends all that much with their existential angst. They're still "In the depths of the godsick blues." I don't get the liar chorus. Maybe she's pronuncing that she's hopeless and doesn't deserve help which fits in with the drug addiction/recovery theme. She goes into detailing her first drug experience mingled with her rock bottom. But then--and this is why it was hard to figure this song out at first--we're suddenly moving from drugs to romance. And on the initial listen it's like "What is with you, woman? With your drugs, your lies, your love life, and your godsick cobblers? The hell?" But I'm sure, now, that recollecting your big drug journey might also cause your mind to wander to other things that have shaped you, particularly romance. Especially if you were in one at the time of your addiction. "To be lonely is a habit Like smoking or taking drugs And I've quit them both But man, was it rough" And then she ties it all together. Hot damn. This girl is good. "Now I am tired It just made me tired Let's build ourselves a fire Let's build ourselves a fire" __ P.S: Although it's also entirely possible that she wrote this entire song about something trivial, like her shoes. Damn indy artists. |
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