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| Bruce Springsteen – I'm on Fire Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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This is for the guys who lay awake at night, burning with sexual desire and ravenous like a prowling tomcat stalking the streets at night. It's a longing that is unfulfilled, teeters on the edge of despair, exquisite and engulfing. Probably never satiated, and probably better off that way, too. |
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| Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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I have to disagree with you, zepkid5678. You say that things are ephemeral because of the line "All things pass into the night". But you have perhaps conveniently overlooked the following line: And I say, "Oh no sir I must say you're wrong".
This isn't a plea. It's a truth. In The Alchemist, Paul Coelho writes that "Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever".
Material things may indeed may be ephemeral, such is the nature of this Earth, but there is a higher truth, a veiled meaning. It's enlightenment, as others have pointed out. |
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| The Cowboy Junkies – Misguided Angel Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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I think the line about the heart like ivory, pure and white, followed by "soul like a Lucifer" refers to the duality that lies at the heart of human nature and even some religions. |
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| Billy Joel – A Matter Of Trust Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[Good:37279] OL MC spot on. We've all been here before - we have difficult trusting people in the present because of whatever's happened in our past. |
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| Jessi Colter – I'm Not Lisa Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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No comments for such a beautiful, emotionally raw song? It's obvious this person can't get over an erstwhile lover, whether it be death that led her away or another man is up for debate. |
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| Stephen Stills – Love The One You're With Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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get over your silly FOMO (fear of missing out), and start loving the one you've been seeing, instead of chasing the green light & entertaining every possibility that comes your way. It's a great pean to commitment and monogamy. |
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| Eagles – Certain Kind Of Fool Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[BeautyUntamed:30078] An inability to commit to one relationship could be a pattern of something more sinister and serious, like narcissistic personality disorder (ego tripping). |
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| Eagles – Certain Kind Of Fool Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[BeautyUntamed:30077] An inability to commit to one relationship could be a pattern of something more sinister and serious, like narcissistic personality disorder (ego tripping). |
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| Eagles – Certain Kind Of Fool Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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"It's a certain kind of fool who likes to hear the sound of his own name". In the modern days of dime-store pathology, it sounds like this is about narcissism. It sounds like this person is always trying to make an impression on people for the sake of approval or admiration, then they run away, and shirk their responsibilities. They start over again and the cycle just repeats itself until they have that one moment of awakening where they realise they're a rolling stone, and their loneliness has been self-inflicted. |
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| Eagles – Desperado Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[AUengineer50:29572] I think it's more about an attitude to life/relationships than addiction. But then again, there is such thing as a "love addiction", and sometimes desperados go searching for love in all the wrong places, only to get hurt again, repeating the old cycle of abuse that began when they were young. |
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| Eagles – Desperado Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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Does anyone else think that the term 'narcissism', now widely understood and recognised in the modern era, was what the old fashioned word "desperado" really meant? Think about it. Narcissists tend to seek approval in all places ("these things that are pleasing you can hurt you somehow"), they require constant validation ("your prison is walking through this world all alone"), they have an inability to commit to love, they're always chasing status or power or something ("queen of diamonds"). I find it so sad, especially given that I had an intense relationship with one who really convinced me that they'd change. Beautiful song, btw. |
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| Janis Ian – At Seventeen Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[talkaboutsongs:29553] Sometimes, as cruel as it sounds, some people only fall in love to leave. We live in quite a shallow world (although I think it's getting deeper, more intellectual, less materialistic) but the popular won't always have the upper hand in life, and the down & outers won't always be down & out. The tide turns in life. |
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| Janis Ian – At Seventeen Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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"Pity, please, the ones who serve
They only get what they deserve"
You reap what you sow. You put nastiness out into the world and break people's hearts, even if in a small or subtle way, you will get it back to you. The older you get, the more you realise the worst kind of ugliness is an ugliness which comes from within. |
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| Lady GaGa – Shallow Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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It's about getting away from superficial, selfish, narcissistic or shallow people. |
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| Lady GaGa – Shallow Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[jaimerichards:29550] I agree. If you surround yourself with shallow, narcissistic people you will get burnt. It's sort of like the lyrics in the Eagles song 'Desperado', "Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds boy, she'll beat you if she's able". If we pursue hollow things like money, status, materialism, we will end up empty voids. Everybody has depth (though some people are much deeper than others), it's just that for a long time society has taught us we need to shut it off to be happy and adopt a perky disposition to be accepted. |
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| Big Country – In A Big Country Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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I wonder if this song is about Australia. It’s a big country (bigger than the States by area), of course, and then there are the lyrics “I’m not expecting to grow flowers in the desert” (a high percentage of Australia is desert). So perhaps he’s framing the deeper meaning of the song in the context of a place like Australia... |
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| Vera Blue – Mended Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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About a terrible break up where there were no chances for closure or reconciliation. Maybe? |
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| Eagles – Desperado Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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I think it's about someone who spent their life chasing the green light, thinking the grass was greener on the other side. Along the way, they probably discarded a lot of very valuable, good people who could not offer what the desperado thought he/she deserved, and ultimately probably would never find. It's like Jay Gatsby, always chasing something, never fully appreciating what he had. |
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| Gang of Youths – Let Me Down Easy Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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I think the song is about a one night stand. The guy likes the girl and wants to continue things. But she's chasing the green light (thinking something better is out there, suffering a bit of FOMO) and wants to keep sleeping around/enjoying her freedom with strangers. He wants her to be "straight" with him, to be real and honest, but she might be too shallow for honesty or truth ("In truth and grace in the grievance").
So she's going to play him. |
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| Lorde – Green Light Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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I think it's a scathing attack on people with FOMO (fear of missing out). The green light is an illusion. They are always chasing something, but it's always a little bit out of reach. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Gold Dust Woman Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[jonerez:23912] Yes, especially the kingdom analogy. Kingdom = illusory love, a snake oil potion. When you buy it, you realise you've been duped. Your partner is a fake, a phoney. Then after it's, "Do you know how to pick up the pieces and go home?" |
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| Lorde – Supercut Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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The lyrics "But when I reach for you, there's just the supercut" are the most painful lyrics in this song, perhaps even the entire Melodrama album. She wants to reach out to her ex-lover like before, but all she has now are the pixelated memories from videos and images replaying in a loop, in her mind. It's the hardest part about lost love. Even when they are gone, the thoughts of better times linger for ever. Hence the "super cut". An endless flash of images in your head, that can't be erased or diluted, but are not tangible, even though we just want to reach in there and grab them. To hold on for dear life. |
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| fun. – Some Nights Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[Maelglon:22326] I don't think martyr in his bed connotes sleeping with a girl at all. Why does everything have to be seen as symbolism of reckless sexual activity? |
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| Lorde – Liability Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[askingtoomuch:22207], I can't see that here. I don't think Lorde is the type of character who would run around cheating on her partner, and the "liability" comes from the fact that emotionally, perhaps, she was a burden. Her feelings were intense, and her intensity was driving love away. She's always claimed to have an introverted person, an observer of society, not really a participant...a wallflower. She said in a 60 Minutes interview that while the song was written about her fame being too much of a responsibility, she felt most people could relate to feeling a little bit too much for somebody at some stage of their life. |
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| Lorde – The Louvre Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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A love so perfect that it becomes a work of art.
What happens with a work of art? It captures a moment, even when the people in that moment change.
So that's eternity. |
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| Lorde – Hard Feelings/Loveless Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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A loveless generation. That sums it up.
We don't know how to GIVE love or be in love anymore.
Instead, we're all hung up on playing silly little games (skipping calls, kissing to keep distracted from our real problems, fuckin' with our lovers heads).
Yep, that sounds about right. |
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| Lorde – Perfect Places Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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She's tired of searching for something that doesn't exit.
We think the perfect lover is out there, the "one" for us. So we keep looking. We travel the skies, and the seas.
Perfect place isn't necessarily a location or geography in this song, but a person. Sometimes someone can make you feel comfortable, and being around them is like you're home, because they are familiar.
She's tired of emotionless, meaningless hook ups with strangers ("meet somebody, take 'em home). That line is sarcastic, to me. Notice how the next line she calls this act "graceless". Because it is. We fuck people we don't even know, out of some sick pleasure or kink. But she's sick of random casual sex. She wants someone she can count on, something meaningful. She wants to give love to one person. So there's a monogamous theme to the song, which is so rare in contemporary pop music. It's interesting she disguises it in a song about seeking casual sex, when it's really an indictment or criticism of that and the emptiness it creates.
She's used alcohol to self-medicate ("all these nights spent off our faces"). She uses alcohol us liquid confidence, or a tool for seduction. She goes out, she drinks, she scopes out the guys she's around, which one is for me? "Trying to find these perfect places". Remember, the "place" represents a person here.
In the end, a perfect person doesn't exist ("what the fuck are perfect places?") What is a perfect person, anyway? People will always let you down ("All of our heroes fading"). You just have to find someone who's problems are worth working through. |
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| Lorde – Writer in the Dark Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Unbelievably deep song, and a little bit dark too. She is talking about a fiercely loyal, obsessive love that has created unhealthy habits for her in terms of an insatiable need to possess her resistive lover ("I'l love you til you call the cops on me"). But it's a story arc, and as the song possesses, she finds a strength. I take it that the strength she finds is her ability to give love so intensely and that she derives power from that ("I found a secret power"), from something that society and even her partner told her was a sickness, or a weakness, of the mind.
So the closing is that she will always love her partner. Until her very last breath, or until she is literally under restraints of authority. But she will find a way to live without him, because she's simply too intense to be around. He's exhausted, but she's her mother's child, and her love is endless in a world where attachments/relationships have become sadly fleeting and transient. |
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| Lorde – Liability Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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She's talking about a guy, who was attracted to her, they had fun. She opened up, showed vulnerability, wanted commitment, had a little bit of baggage so he bolted and it ended. Simple. She writes great lyrics...so insightful for a young person. |
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| Meat Loaf – Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[liftednevermore:17615] Or maybe love is fleeting and arbitrary, and that whatever he felt for this girl was going to be good enough for the both of them (two out of three ain't bad). |
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| Alanis Morissette – Thank U Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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"How 'bout getting off these anti biotics"
I find that comment all the more relevant in this day and age, what with all the antibiotic resistance and super bugs we are seeing. Of course, I don't think Alanis meant for it to be taken that literally, but it did get me thinking. |
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