| King Crimson – Starless Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is simply about the futility of living. It closed one of the most powerful chapters in progressive rock history and with it closed the most intriguing chapter of King Crimson. The first verse refers to the brightness of adolescent life, of the demure touch of a beautiful sunny day to spark one's imagination, but the verse reveals that a bright and enthusiastic world does not export its beauty to you. All things that world promised you fade to black and you are lifeless in a sunny world. The second verse confirms that sadness will extrapolate over all of your desires and dreams, that your life will retain the emptiness and the lack of meaning over time, the bright disingenuity of younger days will never shine on you again The third verse is the most interesting as it hauntingly describes the poisoning of the soul by which no helping hand or smile could rescind the damage that has been done to you by the world and by time, true hopelessness has ensued. The chorus of the song is a very interesting metaphor. In the most unequivocal sense it means that your skies have become starless for nothing you will see will ever compel you again - and so it entails that you are stained bible black. Whatever spirituality or happy hopes in the world exist that could have placated you are dead and black, but held habitually by time and empty hope. Finally the most important verse of all - the one spoken by Robert Fripp. The monotone squeal of his guitar piece that occupies the next 5 or so minutes after the third verse is like the progression of time from months, to years, to decades. The child who acknowledged the dying of his world has lived a zombie all his life and finally sees the inexorability of his own death in his final hour after an age of emptiness. The last 3 minutes of the song are powerful but the last minute postulated absolute death. It is the most powerful minute in Rock history and probably a contributor to such events like Kurt Cobain committing suicide, Cobain regarded this album 'Red' as the greatest rock album of all time... ...When that last minute hits you, you finally taste the pathos of the character described in the song, because you see that character to be you. You see your own death, and the worthlessness of your own life, it is beautiful, terrifying, and on an implicit level - why most people love this song to death. This song ended a golden age Thank you to anyone who took the time to read this RIP King Crimson (1969 - 1974) |
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| King Crimson – Peace - An End Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song says a powerful thing to the pomposity of the intellectual "Searching for me You look everywhere Except beside you Searching for you You look everywhere But not inside you" For me these lyrics and this section of the song - is the song. In the Wake of Poseidon closes shrewdly on this note. The lyrics mean that peace has no cardinality. It is not an object that may be defined by postulates and formulas, nor a subject of extreme contemplation or calculation. Peace is an essence that you feel; if you must rationalize peace then you are empty. Peace is simple and primordial for those who can feel. |
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| Alice Cooper – Laughing At Me Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The song is very flamboyant, it appears to be about someone who is neglected by the great majority of the people they know. The song has two implications; The first is that the individual makes a fundamental change to stop the neglect, but the second is much more dark. "Then I ended the end" Seems to imply they may have committed suicide. The song's undertone seems indicative of a person who is sick of living and exemplifies that in the songs disingenuous lyrics, particularly the final lyric "And its laughing, its laughing at me" This lyric implies there is no sense of self worth left in the individual, it says that their life may be broken by the gratuitous cruelty of others but its just 'laughing at me' as they brush it off... Very powerful song |
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