| Jonathan Coulton – Christmas is Interesting Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This guy is just ignorantly making fun of everything. It's not funny being dumb. Pretty typical mindless atheist garbage, make songs about video games and making robots in the future and then scoff at religions and stories about getting the kind of life this guy lacks. We can't all be single forever, Jonathan, and put off adulthood until senility. |
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| Jonathan Coulton – Furry Old Lobster Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song is about nostalgia. Things changed and you think it used to be better. Maybe you're right. | |
| Portal – Still Alive Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[histmyst:188] This song is about a video game including a character named GLaDOS, which is like HAL in 2001. | |
| Portal – Still Alive Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is another song about the mad scientist who seeks revenge by destroying everyone. It's got a lot of great science lines. Songs like this are interesting but not so great. Songs should clearly encourage people to good will instead of maliciousness. We all have enough temptations as it is. |
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| Jonathan Coulton – Nobody Loves You Like Me Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is about divorce. Divorce is common in the USA and what it comes from is Consumerism and paying more attention to making money than to figuring out how to live a good life. I know the answers, I found them. But people despise me, because they're all part of the cycle. There might be obscure references to suicide. People just get increasingly selfish each generation here, as marriages fall further and further apart and people sublimate their failures into things that will just make for more failures. So then, seek out the way to have happy and lasting marriages: it's worth it, many people benefit from it. I have one, they exist. (See my other comments, perhaps.) |
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| Jonathan Coulton – The Future Soon Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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In the messed-up Western model of courtship and marriage, guys go after ladies and it doesn't always work out. This song is gentle guidance that it's ridiculous to want to force someone to marry you, or anything like that. You can stack your cards and see what happens. The problem is that most people can't handle this sort of reckless and insane cultural model, then blame themselves instead of their culture. Arranged marriages are superior and ubiquitous. The West is retarded. At the altar of individual choice, we sacrifice the better part of our lives chasing after increasingly unmarriable and incapably selfish fellow-Westerners. The song is also about sci-fi geeks who retreat into fantasy because the real world is terrible, thus making things worse. They should all know better, but as long as someone is making a dollar off their souls, any warnings to the contrary will be squashed, they'll just keep cooking up the kinds of stories that appeal to sci-fi fans. |
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| Jonathan Coulton – Alone at Home Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The singer is complaining to the audience, but not to his wife, about all the boring stuff he has to do in order to make her happy. This is very selfish of him, since that's how God makes marriage: If you're not going to become a religious or priest, you get married and the test that God gives is that you have to put up with the other person and do things for them to make them happy. There's rules to the whole thing, and it's not just about you. The purpose of life is to live in community, even if everyone else fails at it. Jonathan Coulter's songs are very interesting, but like everything else, what's going on in his own life (or that of his uncredited songwriters) comes through. Jon isn't married and has never been married. This song and "Shop Vac" are really just inane fantasies of his about how things work in the real world. Fiction in songs is just as useful as fiction in the real world. |
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| Maureen Mcgovern – Can You Read My Mind [From Superman] Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think they put a lot of religious stuff in this song. From what I've read, reviewers say that Lois Lane in 1 and 2 was very selfish and self-absorbed. This song is really in awe. This guy can fly and see through things, and do so much ... it occurs to Lois that maybe he can read her mind. What they did with this movie is say that Lois was too shallow to go for Clark, she wants the glorious Superman. And maybe also, she's hoping he can read her mind because she's too shy to say exactly what she's thinking. The movie's interesting, their chemistry is interesting, but the song is a bit better all-around than their chemistry and Lois' characterization in particular. Or maybe the reviews I read were wrong. |
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| Good Charlotte – Girls and Boys Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Americans are greedy. Not everyone is like this, but you've got to look to find people like that. People who chase after things like this are miserable losers. People like this need to grow up and stop being so selfish. | |
| Bowling for Soup – High School Never Ends Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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What? The rest of life is like high school ? Maybe none of the people who posted went to university or left the town they grew up in. Or had kids of their own. Nobody I ever knew thought like this. High school is very different from the rest of life. High school students in America grow up with the same people, then get to high school and live like it's not going to end and disappear in 4 years and you're never going to see any of them ever again. American high school is parochial and pathetic : kids are stupid, starting with conception and on through to death, with milestones at 30 or 40. American high school is a joke. Co-education (having boys and girls in the same school) is a brand-new idea that's horrible. Boys and girls should be separate because all the romance adds to the drama. In fact, before about 1850, no one anywhere around the world would have even considered having boys and girls in the same school, it's such a recipe for children out of wedlock. Americans are retards. Our high schools are like concentration camps of peer-on-peer abuse and the people who run the schools do nothing. America outlaws spanking and then overreacts and is surprised when kids start bringing guns to school and shooting everyone up. Read the book "Columbine", Eric and Dylan did it because of heartbreak and rage against the crooked American juvenille legal system. The Boomers messed this country up. Now we have immigrants from Iran come here as crooked psychiatrists so that they can slap some nonsense diagnosis on kids and get them on drugs they don't need. Do some research and un-do what they did, take this country back to the 1890s when people could breath. And if you're parents are dumb enough to send you to high school, try to get them to homeschool you and then run away if they don't. It's not worth the abuse and you're not going to learn anything useful or valuable anyway. Your teachers are all under-paid morons who work for your highschool so they can endoctrinate children in liberal garbage. Mandatory 8 hours of brainwashing a day ? Don't go along with it. |
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| Disney – Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is about the evils of small towns and parochialism. The people that everyone loves and trusts in small towns, if they want to, will just crush and destroy you, for no reason. What's valued in small towns, at least in America, are football stars like Gaston, and cops. Poor people, smart people, better watch out. In the big city, nobody cares about you, but at least they're more open-minded and tolerant. This song develops Gaston's obscured identity as the villian of the movie. You sort of think it's The Beast, but it's actually Gaston. Gaston doesn't care about other people, and he's obsessed with himself. He's a good picture of what the USA is like on the international stage, though we don't realize it. We're another 1st world country who doesn't pay attention to how the 3rd world is starving to death while we're driving an hour to the grocery store and buying Low-Fat milk so we can eat more and more. |
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| Michael Jackson – Remember the Time Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Hey, and this site is cool and it's going to be big, especially if it's monitored and more general-interest, unlike the turn-off Urban Dictionary and more like Wikipedia, but it needs to allow someone to "edit" or "delete" their comments later on, like Facebook. | |
| Michael Jackson – Remember the Time Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This is also one of the best "ancient egypt songs" of all time. I study ancient languages, and when I'm doing Egyptian, I think of this song. This song is also very evocative of the Afrocentrist historic movement, which does contain a lot of truth. | |
| Michael Jackson – Remember the Time Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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When you love Jesus and / or you have a wife, you always remember when you first met and what you did. You remember your marriage. It's foundational, like Egypt. You can't forget your roots, you'd have no identity or you'd have the wrong one. The West is addicted to unfruitful relationships, but it doesn't have to be that way. |
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| Evanescence – Everybody's Fool Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This reminds me of the philosophy expressed at the end of the first "Firefly" movie. Along with a bunch of other things (see my commentary on "Lithium") this song is anti-Christian. "You can't save me" refer to how Christ saves people and "never was and never will be" sound like a negation of doxology. I study languages and idioms quite intensely and this is what I'm coming up with. Their songs also have a big Zoroastrianism-feel, like the Behistun Inscription or something. "The Lie". People in Hollywood say all sorts of things against Christianity but then lie and cover it up. Like Cool Hand Luke or ET, these both say things. Don't believe when people say, "Well, that's not how we meant it, you're reading into it too much." There's a lot of indications that they're making statements about religion in this song, the choir too. As far as the implied statement that perfection doesn't exist, we have as evidence the miracles of the Saints that God exists. Men not proding for proofs have no zeal true for truths. Aside from that, the song is aboiut not being like (Britney Spears). This is a really good message, America needs less people like Britney Spears. Unfortunately, the government allows it and must want it, so the amount of vice grows daily, racking up the human carnage. |
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| Evanescence – Lithium Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Modern American artists craft their songs for ambiguity and target audience appeal. "Lithium" is about pain, human relationships, and drugs. Evanescence have this whole "goth/emo" asthetic to them, so a song about letting go of sorrow and a ton of other things, brought up subtly through the poetic use of language. "Bipolar disorder" and all the definitions of modern psychology are not absolute truths, nor are drugs going to solve everyone's problems one day. Society needs to change, families have to change or be abandoned, individuals have to make the right choices. Modern Western psychology is just a bunch of horoscope-like ambiguous definitions tailored to describe stuff that humans have trouble understanding. The modern Western approach is one of many and it is actually one of the worse. Humans are sensitive and if you work them too hard and make life too stressful, they start to fall apart. In the West, we've been building up the last several hundred years this damaging ideal that humans are supposed to be like total-efficiency robots, as if man did not need God and could understand and arrange this reality on his own to its zenith. The modern West has been acting as if the wisdom of the ancients were foolishness and as if we with new things do better. And so the entirety of society must suffer for this insolence. |
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| Annie (Musical) – Maybe Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is really having children and caring for other people. People in the West now-a-days make excuses for being selfish and have really small families, but that's not how they did it in the old days, nor how they do it in the rest of the world. People don't realize it, but they get married really late and then contracept until they have 1 or 2 kids, and it's not good for the West. An epidemic or natural disasters will come, wipe us clean out, the Mexicans take over. All this "overpopulation" stuff is sinister, it's just an excuse for selfishness. This happened to Rome and Egypt, too : people in civilizations get wrapped up with themselves, neglect having kids through the greedy, then get overwhelmed by "the barbarians", who at that point have the better idea about what it is to be human. This song is also about Divine Providence, because pretty soon Daddy Warbucks is going to adopt Annie. And in real life, God and the Saints are looking out for us, especially if we let them. "Annie" is a great movie about kids and parenthood, but in allegorical ways. |
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| Annie (Musical) – It’s a Hard-Knock Life Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song describes how rough they all have it in this NYC orphanage. It shows forth how much of a heartless villian Ms. Hannigan is. She doesn't care about the orphans, she's absorbed in self-pity. This song is so true. If you don't have money, almost everyone will not be your friend or show you any kindness. In Catholicism, we have the concept of not murmuring and redemptive suffering, but the kids do end up giving a fair description of what's it's like. This is like the song of the 3rd world. Nobody in America thinks about them, but they suffer a lot more than us. This song sets up their situation before Daddy Warbucks decides he gives a care. |
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| Michael Jackson – Thriller Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song's about how he's going to protect her. They went to a movie. But this guy's for real. There are plenty of monsters in real life. But they look like people, which is all the scarier. They usually look good, too. |
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| Sheena Easton – 9 to 5 Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is a romantic song written by someone who never got married and had kids or stayed together. Marriage isn't like this. Pretty soon after getting married, you have kids and either get a baby sitter or don't go out much. When you first get married, it's like this, just you and her. But after you start having kids, you realize how selfish all single people are, thinking about what they want and not having anyone to take care of. Being a stay-at-home housewife is really different when you have a ton of kids and are usually pregnant. Now-a-days, in the West (but not in the East, thankfully), almost everyone is Peter Pan and don't know how to grow up. They have a divorce before or after the first kid because they just don't get it. Then they make laws that make life more difficult for the people who actually stay married and have kids. The entire Western society now is geared around being single : large families have a rough time. Most women in the West act like men, wear pants and go off to jobs, leaving their kids with the pedophiles that run the government indoctrination centers. They do this because "it's cool". Then, because there's women at work, people commit adultery and it causes stress to marriages. So the West is jettisoning the "old way" has made itself into the global village idiot. And at least in America - oy - jobs are more like 9am to 9am, perfect for eternally single people. Then there's a whole cottage industry feeding off the loneliness of single people. How the mighty have fallen. Escape. |
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| Billy Joel – Goodnight Saigon Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is about Post Traumatic Stress disorder for sure. It reminds me of "Zombie" by The Cranberries. When you get so stress out you're messed up for life and freak out every now and then, whoah. I have doubts that he got everything right about how they ruled the night and stuff in Vietnam and this and that, but it's a great song to get into the history of the Vietnam War. My uncle became an alchoholic and died of it after retiring from some cool-looking engineering job, got a divorce from his wife, all this kind of stuff. He didn't even go in there, he was on a ship the whole time. Vietnam was a mess because the government messed it up. It's all a big conspiracy by the Socialists, they've taken us over, they want to kill us all and replace us with 3rd world peoples who will obey them better, like how the Irish were imported to fight the Civil War. Them botching Vietnam and its perception at home is part of a larger plot to destroy the family in America and build The State. Europe is right on one thing, America is run by gangsters. America is too heterogenous a society, from the top to the bottom it doesn't function like other countries where people know and care about eachother more. I found this from research. |
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| Disney – Prince Ali (Aladdin) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is what Aladdin wishes he was instead of what he is. I saw some of the first DVD commentary, and I think the song is about Aladdin's interior riches. In real life, Aladdin could never make it with a princess, because he's poorer than dirt and that's not how things usually work out. In the original story and in Disney's movie, the appeal is that Aladdin goes from zero to hero to zero to hero. Real life is like this, fortunes do rise and fall very quickly. This is one of my favorite songs of all time for its smart lyrics, using really clever and complex words that post a challenge to little kids. I puzzled over these lyrics for years before I looked up all the odd words. At some point near the end of the film, Aladdin learns some sort of lesson about being his real self and not Prince Ali. But a lot in movies like this is "Life is pain - anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something". The better lesson is that in real life, people should marry people of similar economic backgrounds and put a lot of work into setting up a lifelong marriage. What's more, in real life, princesses are only desirable to princes - as royalty and rich people are the most spoiled, selfish and mean people on the planet. What's more, when the power is shifted in favor of the wife from the get-go, it adds unnecessary stress to the equation. Better the man be richer, and better to not let your life be decided by emotions and undue familiarity. |
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