| Joan as Police Woman – Chemmie Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure this song is about her relationship with her causal sex partner. Atleast that was the relationship in a nutshell at the start. I think that she began to feel strongly about this partner as it developed into more than, by the sounds of it, fantastic sex! But this song is positive about that being the foundation of the relationship, because it's great. "We don't have to die to get to heaven." And it seems that she'll never get bored of it, because its so great with her partner. | |
| Elliott Smith – I Better Be Quiet Now Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is another amazing song that i love. However i believe many people have mistaken its message. I believe this song is about Elliot's alcoholism/ drug addiction. Elliot sings as if he is talking to the drink/drugs. This is not uncommon for him to do, considering how he sung as if to his depression in the song 'miss misery' and drink in 'between the bars.' This also fits to this song, where he sings as if his life would be so much easier if he never met her, meaning alcohol/ drugs. Elliot sings about it as a bad thing that happened to him, and now he has to forget about it, which would make his life better. As if he has to get over it. The reason i don't believe Elliot is singing about a girl is because he repeats the phrase "got a long way to go, I'm getting further away." This is consistent with his need to recover from his addition, to break the habit through rehab but because he is addicted he knows he is getting worse. He is continually drinking/taking drugs which he knows is terrible for him, making it harder to break the habit/ reliance on them. In a sense, like many of Elliot's songs, this is a beautiful but very tragic song about him in despair. His honesty and cryptic messages are easy to mistake which makes his songs so powerful. |
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| Eddie Vedder – Society Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song is fantastic especially because of the message it carries: To me this song is about how our society revolves around greed and how in general people strive for more or 'want' endlessly. Basically that society is materialistic. The point of the song though, is that the voice or character in the song has realized the flaw in this. That more isn't always better, that there is not even correlation between 'getting' and happiness, or fulfillment. I love the chorus, how it is so witty pointing out that without the singer buying into this mindset, that society would be lonely as 'it' can't have it all. Its insinuated that this mindset of course is ironic to the fact that without the singer, 'it' or society as a character wouldn't be better off. |
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