| David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[GeraldFnord:40291] I agree and I detest the religious overtones in the song. Although D.B. did get involved in the religious argument by playing Pontius Pilate in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).\r\nI do think that D.B. is talking vaguely when he speaks of spirituality when he probably just means drug dependence and the "creatures of habit" | |
| David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[BillIamBillIam:40290] \r\nMy interpretation is -- The song could simply be about someone who turned David Bowie on to drugs specifically Heroin - bar other drugs. The laughter and friendship is about the good times and bad you get with drug dependance. D.B. is looking back, thinking how it\'s possible this person is alive, considering he\'d "sell his \'right leg\'" for another "kick". | |
| My Bloody Valentine – When You Sleep Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| When I look at you\nOh, I don\'t know what\'s real\n\n\\\\she has been around, or that she is just playing a character that he doesn\'t know how to take, but she\'s intriguing to him.\n\\\\he doesn\'t believe she would be around him for love\n\nOnce in a while\nAnd you make me laugh\n\n\\\\it\'s surprising that she can make him laugh\n\\\\maybe since he lived a life thinking that he couldn\'t get someone, like her, or maybe he\'s just in disbelief that things can go right, despite all the bad things happening to him and the circumstances of them having met, seems, unreal, like it possibly wasn\'t meant to be\n\nAnd I\'ll see you tomorrow\nAnd it won\'t be long\nOnce in a while\n\n\\\\flirtatious relationship of girl constantly wanting to be around boy. Courting.\n\nThen you take me down\nThen you walk away\n\n\\\\girl just doesn\'t make him feel high, just a bit down, as if she was stringing him along, all along, not saying it doesn\'t come without perks though, he just doesn\'t know how to take it, still him questioning, is this how love is? Or is this the way it\'s gonna be, for me?\n\nWhen you say \'I do\'\nOh, I don\'t believe you\nI can\'t forget it\nNo\n\n//again girl stringing him along, telling him what he wants to hear, she knows he loves her, but she is either not reciprocating the feelings or "synching up" during conversations about each other. She likes how things are going, which is why she lies about saying I love you, but in the lyrics it\'s "I do" so he see\'s that she is giving him the sense of marriage, with the "I do" talk, again she enjoys his company, and would consider making it official, but he see\'s her as a liar or at least, a bullshitter, he possibly thinks that she is saying "I do" like a marriage to put him off, but this can be a cruel game of pulling at what he wants, sort of, not what she wants, necessarily. A relationship of convenience, not of love. And the marriage talk could also be about commitment issues, for both him and her.\n\n\nWhen you sleep tomorrow\nAnd it won\'t be long\nOnce in a while\nWhen you make me smile\nWhen you turn your long blond hair\n\n//it wont be long till i see you again. both invested in seeing each other.\n"smile" this time, means comfort or content with how things are going.\n\n//"When you turn your long blond hair" in essence relating to the title "When you sleep" that it is a highlight of the relationship, when although she turns to sleep, she chooses to sleep with him, in a sense, or literally.\n\nWhen I look at you\nOh, I don\'t know what\'s real\nOnce in a while\nAnd you make me laugh\n\n\\\\then a shift, self doubt from him, bewildered by some kind of pain or just self hurt, unsure again about the relationship. woe. but then also memories telling him a good sign of the relationship, makes him smile and laugh. good signs.\n\nAnd I\'ll sleep tomorrow\nAnd it won\'t be long\nOnce in a while\nThen you take me down\nWhen you walk away\n\n//Him and her seeing each other like usual, not much time spent apart, although this could mean that \'this time, it won\'t be long before we see each other again\' (I had a relationship like this where for months almost years we wouldn\'t talk, then when I reached out and called her again it was like picking up where we left off, without really arguing or anything, just happy to talk to each other again, mutually so we didn\'t want to spoil it by arguing. This turned to moments of nothingness to end of year cycles where we would meet up again and hang out every second day if it wasn\'t every day)\nSo yeah these kind of lyrics make sense to me, and the him and her, I believe, is supposed to be switchable, so example sometimes it means she would laugh, she would smile, he would take her down, she would take him down, when she walk away, when he walk away etc; This kind of dual meaning can represent the reflectiveness of love and reciprocation. taking someone down could mean a crash of reality, bringing them down to earth and giving them a chance to see love and relationship for what it is, for them, and if they are willing or ready.\nTwo things, "And I\'ll sleep tomorrow" possibly her longing for more time with him, such as "And I\'l sleep tomorrow" - when I\'m with him. I do see she has trouble in her home/family life. And being with him is like a break -a break in her own reality...And "When you walk away" like I said interchangable between persons, both him and her have had their share of walking away, and then its up to the listener to decide was it him? - Was it her? (to finally walk away) | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Gave Up Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[trinity22:35684] to me, throw away the person you keep trying to be and give it up. when you meet someone that changes your view of how you THINK things should be, then goes away leaving you wanting more. Its about capturing that moment with someone you like and it moves to, Happiness in slavery, just like A copy of a Copy, become one with the group, just another echo of repreive. A person, Just trying to make it out alive, survive (Survivalism) I see NIN as "a constant reminder of who I used to be" filled with self doubt, worthless angst/unrefined anger |
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| Mazzy Star – Fade Into You Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[Miss:35192] Mess I thought "fade" would be to blur the lines between him and her. making compromise for the relationship however frightful it may be | |
| Mazzy Star – Fade Into You Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[crowjanie:35191] ha either you're an art major or you relate all too much to this song, good luck to you | |
| The Weeknd – Call Out My Name Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[gibsun:34466] wait, just read some other songmeanings by this artist, this song is probably about kicking cocaine. | |
| The Weeknd – Call Out My Name Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I think he regrets falling for someone who was using him. In turn he would hope she would call out for him so he could choose whether to leave her so he leaves her not the other way around. kinda like a regret he fell for her tricks and left cold, if only he could do that to her instead. | |
| Post Malone – Circles Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Pretty sure it's about Pi being an irrational number. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – March of the Pigs Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[poetic_fire:20168] reminds me of the Charles Manson case, all the media interviews trying to discredit him and find flaws in his thinking, wanting and watching their destruction like the need them to be to keep themselves self righteous as a member of society. They want to watch what they call evil burn yet still are seen as the good guys even though they crave peoples destruction and distortion. | |
| Rollins Band – Low Self Opinion Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| What is he saying on the outro I wanna know..sounds like low-asshole or low-and-so | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Sunspots Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| (When everything "is" said and done) | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Terrible Lie Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[wordbarber:7734] true that the influence and upbringing with "god" can mess you up pretty bad, but I feel all artists can get in a very bad place yes spiritually and that takes a toll on "sanity" whatever that means ha ha :) but emotionally and physically I do see the comparison to the company and noting the worker ant thing he said, its true, if you haven't seen the film "Barton Fink" it will show both similarities of both God AND the music industry or any art industry (in the film in was movie writing) and this theory to terrible lie is compounded by the song "happiness in slavery" sorry I skipped a point on the physical and emotional aspect, when you are a creative person you are already very weary of control, because art can be interpreted and used in soo many ways that can be very negative, which is not why artist do art in the first place (mostly)...this loss of control can also be disheartening for someone who is only gifted in art, it feels like a curse...plus Trent is known to try and maintain control over his work thats why his first album was done all by himself...And that very much so can lead to fear and pain, because most people that can create are living on the edge of existence in my opinion, ghosts (ha ha) really so imagine the fear and pain of an artist living on the street or not being able to hold a job due to mental illness or being a victim of drug addiction/abuse. I tell you from experience the pain of not having a place to go and the fear of merely trying to survive in a place soo designed for people to follow the system and people soo afraid to lose that system would kill off somebody else stuck in a hard place just so they can live in a dream like matrix that does nothing to develop a healthy human being. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Terrible Lie Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[LyricallyAnonymous:7733] What do you mean? |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Leaving Hope Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Haven't any of you people seen the music video for Leaving Hope? I haven't looked for the actual sources of the compiled footage from it or story behind it but it had something to do with Death Camps. | |
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