| Modest Mouse – Night on the Sun Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song, as has been mentioned before, is about a recluse with depression, ignoring the help from his loved ones. Let me explain. "So turn off the light 'cause it's night on the sun You're hopelessly hopeless I hope so for you" The recluse, the narrator, is speaking to someone trying to help him through his issues. Night on the sun is referring to how the narrator sees the world as such a dark place, when in reality there are plenty of bright parts he fails to see; it's a sarcastic comment, obviously. He knows the friwnd's efforts are hopeless as he wont listen, and hopes the friend doesn't think he'll actually change the narrators perspective, because the friend would be let down by his lack of change in perspective. Basically, the narrator is stubbornly keeping his own views no matter what. Likewise, he wants his friend to turn off the light provided so he can wallow in his own sadness alone. "Stab your blood into me and blend I eat my own blood and get filled up" Blood being an opinion or a perspective. He wants to feel what the friend feels; a happiness for the earth that seems obvious, one that the friend is trying to dump on the narrator. Problematically, he is caught up in his own world view and has already fallen into it to the point where everything is dark... Even on the sun. "Well there's one thing to know about this town It's five hundred miles underground; and that's alright Well there's one thing to know about this globe It's bound and it's willing to explode and that's alright Well there's one thing to know about this town Not a person doesn't want me underground There's one thing to know about this town It's five hundred miles underground; and that's OK There's one thing to know about this earth We're put here just to make more dirt; and that's OK" This exhibits more evidence for his depression; he doesn't care about anything. He is letting the world fall apart. He accepts some interesting things in this beautifally worded stanza: the town he lives in is completely ignorant and sinful, the people of the world know this and are willing to "explode" or torture themselves over it, and do things like commit suicide. But he's accepted this, and so its "alright." Likewise, he is paranoid everyone hates him and wants him dead. As a recluse, he feels hatred against him. While people outside try to get him out of his depression and into reality, he denies that anyone cares about it and that he's ok with his mental state and how awful he is. He knows humans are trash doing nothing useful, and doesn't want to break the cycle. Basically, this guy is depressed out of his wits and doesn't care about people who try to help them. The bright world is dark to him; he doesn't care. |
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| Silversun Pickups – The Pit Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song is obviously about drugs and the ruined lives of several teenagers who were stupid enough to submit to whatever it was that gave them an addiction and took over their lives. As @[nomadakza:8702] said, there is an interview about how an old book about a twisted teenage hangout of some sort influenced the song. This gives a lot of evidence of what it is about. "I’m marching through the branches in a fit of wanderlust To see you in a black hole reaching out for something just Silhouettes of neighbors dancing in disgust" This omnipresent singer sees this young person reaching for drugs to take his mind off of pain they feel (hence it's something "just"). He is telling this person about how disgusted his neighbors would be to hear of his position in involvement with drugs, and yet he is aware this person will continue. "I’m sure you recognize my noise and you heard about the Pit Been told to be afraid of everything that lives within But it’s much worse where you are So will you go for it?" Pretty much everyone teen has heard about drugs and the bad things associated with it, and how you should fear them, etc. But now that this teen is taking drugs, they're living the fears they've been told about, and the singer is asking if they'll keep going deeper into this addiction with the information they already knew. "Somebody somewhere Will clean out your wounds With dirty fingers We’ll bury the lie" If anyone finds out this person is taking drugs, they would be in serious trouble. Anyone trying to help would be cleaning out the wounds "with dirty fingers," meaning they're involvement would increase the deep depression or problem the teen is feeling, and putting them deeper into the pit; in more trouble, and maybe in a place to do even more drugs, as the addiction has picked up pace. So he must bury the lie. "Now we tumble down a hill to a fire with a crowd The flicker becomes thicker as we bottom out The residents don’t even notice the sudden shouts" This shows the realization that the society of others around the same age as this victim are almost all in as much trouble with mental disorders, bad influences, drugs, etc. and they don't even realize this young man's trouble, as they have their own issues to solve. "When your eyes can adjust and you see what’s in view Discolored and distempered smiles that seen you Do you realize we were all once like you?" I think this is very interesting. It is kind of a side note, showing that everyone starts innocent, and in denial that they could possibly end up in such a bad place in the future; but it happens, and as it continues a realization comes that life is very dark, and the situation is inescapable. They're in a heavily populated pit of teenagers who have ruined their own lives. "We can talk about it later But I think you’ve given in We can talk about it later But I think you’ve given in" The negative truth: Most people with drug addictions don't end up so well in the end, and so the singer eerily presents this fact, and shows how big of a trouble the teenager is in (as well as his peers), ad they ares stuck in the pit they never thought they would end up in, and probably won't escape. |
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| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[OddInterprets:8700] (Obviously an affair wouldn't be subtle, as I look back at this- perhaps that's just something he did a long, long time ago and wants to let it go) | |
| Modest Mouse – Gravity Rides Everything Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I see this song as an analysis of a weakening relationship, dampened by arguments and serious matters that the singer doesn't like. "Oh, gotta see, gotta know right now What's that riding on your everything It isn't anything at all" This shows "gravity," which could be a metaphor for whatever is weakening the relationship, is ruining it and everything around him, and yet he cannot see it. He feels as if the matter that is ruining this relationship isn't really a big deal, but it's still caused a lot of problems. "Oh, gotta see, gotta know right now What's that writing on your shelf In the bathrooms and the bad motels" The thing ruining the relationship, "riding on your everything," is also writing on his lover's shelf, in the form of a diary or some other way she has voiced her stresses. Even when they had heartfelt moments, he thinks about the mistakes he might have made in the bathrooms and motels (sex he shouldn't have done, things he did while being in touch with his loved one), and how he feels his partner is making a big deal about it, as it is "nothing at all." "No one really cared for it at all Not the gravity plan" Obviously he doesn't like the fact his partner's love for him is going away, and for reasons he thinks are silly. "Early, early in the morning It pulls all on down my sore feet I want to go back to sleep" The issue comes up at times he doesn't like, and he just wishes to let it go and leave it alone. He wants it to stop; he's tired. "In the motions and the things that you say It all will fall, fall right into place" He's telling himself that maybe the relationship can be saved, and all the issues will go away and their love will continue as it was in the beginning. He hopes it all falls into place as he accepts everything his partner says and does in a hope she will forgive him, though it doesn't seem to be going that way. "As fruit drops, flesh it sags Everything will fall right into place" As they both age and more events pass that could possibly strengthen, he hopes she'll forget and let it all go. "When we die some sink and some lay But at least I don't see you float away" He's glad he's held onto the love so far, and he hopes she doesn't slowly let their love go away and then leave; he'd rather her just break up with him and stop the pain he feels when wondering what will happen in the future. "And on split milk, sex and weight It all will fall, fall right into place" Spilt milk obviously being a situation his partner over exaggerated, an argument they had over something stupid, or some small thing he did to make her sad. Sex and weight being subtle ways he has hurt the partnership, like him accidentally insulting her on being fat, or having an affair (or having her believe he's using her as a sexual object, possibly). In the end, it's a call for forgiveness, as he wants the relationship to continue. He's tired of his small mistakes being used to weaken their love and make him feel bad, and he doesn't want the memories of what he did and his thoughts of the bad things she could do to leave to ruin what they have. |
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