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| Pearl Jam – Off He Goes Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Says to me that this song is about someone working in a
high-powered stressful job, who has lost the able to do the simple things like converse with friends and chill out. The kinda guy who is always on his mobile phone. He listens to the warning to slow done but can't help himself. |
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| Pearl Jam – Present Tense Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Is this the closure to grunge? The band which was so attached to the nihilist sound of the early 90s, finally find hope in the world and become happier with themselves. |
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| Pearl Jam – I Got Shit (I Got Id) Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Are these the right lyrics? I thought that the lines were:
"And I fight back in my mind, never lets me be right" and "if just once I could feel love, i'd say it like I mean it".
Reminds me of starting University and having very little confidence in myself, though outwardly looking so controlled. |
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| Gin Blossoms – Hey Jealousy Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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A song about needing the support of an ex while descending into alcoholism. The entire album is about having a drinking habit.
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| R.E.M. – So. Central Rain Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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A relationship that never really started but the protagonist wished had......she is going to "Go build yourself another dream, this choice isn't mine"
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| R.E.M. – Imitation Of Life Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This is a song about the desire to be a celebrity and the cold reality of what it is actually like. The Koi and the goldfish bowl lines suggest that being a celebrity makes you an object for a voyeuristic public. |
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| Moby – That's When I Reach For My Revolver Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Jesus, I hate it when people put claim that a song belongs to someone simply because they like that guy......for starters, Moby released this in 1996 on his Animal Rights album, Graham Coxon released it five years later......this song is Mission of Burma's.....accept. Plus the Graham Coxon version is cack. |
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| UNKLE – Lonely Soul Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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One of the ultimate songs about travelling......lonely but enlightening. Time to cut the cord and safety of home and go people........... |
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| Placebo – Days Before You Came Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Song about calming down your social life when you get into a relationship, only going back to that life and bringing your partner down to the same depths with you |
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| System of a Down – Aerials Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Song about giving into stupidity, and boredom. Does the title Aerials refer to the brain-dead lifestyle of those who sit in front of the TV all day. |
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| Matchbox Twenty – Shame Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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The sadness at the end of a relationship that is failing and going nowhere.......but for no real reason |
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| Stiltskin – Inside Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Means nothing. Levi wanted a Pumpkins song for an advert.....were refused permission so got someone to mimic the grunge sound and lyrics. |
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| Live – Top Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Songs about being a 17 year old guy who is forming his opinion that he will keep in later life. It is a time of teenage anger and curosity, where you read books like the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Doors of Perception, UFO books and Mein Kampf. Song comes in just as the guy realises that these extremist or out-there views are wrong. |
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| Tori Amos – Precious Things Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Song about being the ugly duckling at school and over compensating by being easy......the line "So you can make me cum that doesn't make you JESUS" is so sharp it stings.
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| Tori Amos – Winter Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Song about a "daddy's little girl" who ends up as a spinster (the grey hair refers to her) because she never grew up enough to see the World outside the childish domain that she grew up in. |
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| Linkin Park – In The End Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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........and lets be honest....the bridge to this song could be an N*Sync number. What is wrong with pop sensibilities in rock music? Just cos it has a tune doesn't mean it sucks. Linkin Park are bubblegum rock (not as much so as Limp Bizkit) but that aint necessarily a bad thing. You guys will be hiding this album from your kids like your parents hide their Whitesnake and Foreigner albums.......... |
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| Linkin Park – In The End Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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OK, the point of this is to see what other people think a song is about, not saying "like hey man, LP are like the coolest band ever" (in a bad American accent). Yes, the band, album and live sound is good. We know that. This songs has got to be about relationships when you are younger......how you think at 17 that this relationship is gonna last forever and when it doesn't, you get a nihilist sense of anger and loss. |
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| Counting Crows – Recovering The Satellites Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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This song is about never being able to escape your upbringing, and despite what facades you put in your way, you are a product of your childhood. He describes youthful, wild-eyed ambition ("the wildest people they ever hoped to see "), painful adolesence ("Your mother recognizes all you're desperate displays
And she watches as her babies drift violently away"), the hope and dreams of getting to that place they call adulthood, and then the realisation on achieving this of where you came from (" Gonna get back to basics "). The home town is personified and those that leave are satellites that feel gravity's pull of this place, and one by one the realisation that the town was what shaped their minds....is the recovering of the satellites.
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| Powderfinger – The Metre Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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This song reminds me of driving along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. Like most songs on this album i think it is about coming to terms with where life has led you, and learning to appreciate that you are doing OK, no matter what life throws at you. Success isn't about possessions. Success is not having to wear a suit everyday. |
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| Sebadoh – On Fire Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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A song about frustration. A guy who is so often misconstrued that he resigns himself to it. |
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| Fuel – Hemorrhage (In My Hands) Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Song about a girl who ended a relationship with some guy, which pulled him apart. She then returns realising her mistake but he has moved on. |
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| Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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This song is blatantly about loss. Trading dreaming and hope, for realism and the outside world. Could be taken as a song about a loss of childhood. It is a song to someone on the other side of a barrier (whatever taht barrier may be). I know little of the Syd Barrett story but it seems to fit with that. |
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