| Tad – Ulcer Lyrics | 11 years ago |
|
This is what I think it is: Tried to ignore Dance by it all day Something she said Either way Grinding my teeth World of decay Find the hole Either way Dark marks inside of me The views you'll never see Dark marks inside of me Once you're in Planted the seeds A fever of pain Burns are Nothing Anyway Feeling angry Feeling betrayed MY heart beats my blood Either way Dark marks inside of me The views you'll never see Dark marks inside of me Once you're in Dark marks inside of me The views you'll never see Dark marks inside of me Once you're in |
|
| Tad – Throat Locust Lyrics | 11 years ago |
|
A couple of corrections first: This is the second verse: Can't break those toys with you My head a place You once knew Good friends you left behind Cast your thoughts Back to life Yeah back to life Yes, another song about a relationship ending, and/or possibly a friend or lover dying. In it, the speaker thinks abuot realizing that all the pain problems will be meaningless without the person there. That both the good and bad of a situation fall into an irrelevant limbo once that situation is over. An excellent song, TAD is/was great at putting complex ideas into simple concepts and songs. |
|
| Placebo – Protege Moi Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
I speak French and write music and poetry, so I decided to do a translation that both preserves the rhyme scheme and the rhythm of the original. The translation is a little less exact, but pretty close. It's the epidemic that's all the rage The sickness of our new age When the party is done you just leave With the thoughts that freeze your reason Grey-faced and fading alive The ghosts of our bedrooms arrive Time to unlock the lock on your dive On that shithole that you call home Protect me from what I want Protect me from what I want Protect me from what I want Protect me, Protect me Are we how fate passes time? Remember those moments divine Up to dawn with our drugs and our wine But now we're all alone The dreams of love left to die The waste as our time passes by There's nothing left now but to cry But now we're all alone (repeat refrain) |
|
| Melvins – Grinding Process Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
These are the lyrics as best I can tell: One thing to shred and tear Glass meat never stares Feed me karmic lies Of those less fortunate Must exterminate Left me haunting you Win my lottery Fingers needled black A cross around her neck She chokes her dying brain ANd blows it in my face Stick your lucky sticks To my more waiting flesh No one's rumors now For my last kiss to taste For my last kiss to taste Cry my lonely last number But I'm waiting to see How very long I can keep up the pace ****** I think it's about being in love with a severely self-destructive person. However, the narrator, who is worried about it, recognizes that he is a hypocrit because he is also self-destructive to one extent or another. Finally, at the end, he realizes he can do nothing about the situation, even though it is doomed; he has to ride it out the end. |
|
| Melvins – Mombus Hibachi Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
Just a few quick things: It's "sings together," not "sings to get up," and "keep it open" not "keeping open". And the title is "Mombius" not Mombus The song is not very direct, but questions the idea that "ignorance is bliss," suggesting that wisdom or bliss comes with knowledge. Keeping with the philosophical/esoteric theme of the album. |
|
| Melvins – Pitfalls In Serving Warrants Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
I think this is the more accurate version: Can you hear their tiring prophecy Are they holy? Otherwise they trust it all again Listen to the babies sigh It's only at the wind The boy who rose alone This green is mine, though Is the only air will stall this soldier's son of mine I've goten in this way The only feel is not to save Till every feeling's not hte same |
|
| Tad – Gouge Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
I think this is more accurate: Gouge ***** Time always slips away Curls up its edge And colors fade Caustic varnish Weathered doors Saturday morning Makes me feel so small I'm not waiting for a change I'm not waiting for a change Can't be a passing thing There's a feeling that always stays Warm memories clutched too tight Family days and massive fights I'm not waiting for a change I'm not waiting for a change I'm not waiting for a change I'm not waiting for a change Time slips away Time slips away Time slips away Time slips away Time slips away Time slips away *************************** As for what I think it's about the narrator looking back on his childhood. The images of decay, and the aging of inanimate objects is symbolic of the effects of time on people. All always picture it as hte narrator walking around the now-abandoned farmhouse that he grew up in. Familiar colors all faded, everything changed and damaged with time, as he is. He is feeling old, and mortal, thinking about death, and missing his childhood. That childhood is shown in almost the musical equivalent of a hyper-realist painting. First, in the standard, detail-obsessed, warts-and-all, but neutral stance of hyper-realism. The brief mention of the actual family is the inversion of that, the same neutrality in the ambiguous descriptions of the emotions rather than the details. The result is the questioning if the narrator's childhood was particularly sad or difficult, of was it just normal, and unremarkable? A man depressed over his own mortality attempts to go back to his childhood, but finds that childhood lacking. |
|
| Melvins – AMAZON (Part I & II) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
BTW, here's the other one with the title, the all lowercase one, "amazon" Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song Okay. . . Understand that the colors are given midnight I got nothing, but the numbers are killing you Every night when my pocket is a stairway It could feel like the numbers are beating you Feel the cold when the numbers are going nowhere Understand that the colors are given midnight I got nothing but the numbers are killing you Every night when my pocket is a stairway It could feel like the numbers are beating you Feel the cold when the numbers are going nowhere |
|
| Melvins – A History of Drunks Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Try this: She helped remove the bullets from my leg She took the blade, cut them out while I lay screaming She showed me bloody things, and held them in her hand And said that these were hers and put them in my pocket I begged her, shoot me in the head She took my gun, shot my leg instead The way she held my gun and looked at me with rage Told me that everything was okay if I survive And now she stays with me, it's crazy, but she's mine She says that I'm insane because she doesn't lie She was the killing need, she left me here to die In all the ways the worry is alright. |
|
| Melvins – Civilized Worm Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Try this: We move on Man, I would like to gamble I came with my poor four eyes Crawling, weakling wanting My favorite come and lie here Under my bed, A demon cut my fingers (Or deep under my fingers?) With all my hands and needs in times of winding We Knight. . . It's only when we civilize that worm For vagrant times we need it What secret of your knowing Is there beginning? Fine chance to be a Believer Believe it His widow's missed his growing cold. . .cold. . .cold Set sail and hide your handywork And lies You're going home. Wait Wait Wait Wait Fine chance to be a believer Believe it This widow's nest is growing cold. . cold. . .cold. . . Set sail and hide your handywork And lies You're going home Wait Wait Wait Wait Fine chance to be a believer Believe it His Widow's missed his growing cold. . .cold. . .cold. . . Set Sail and hide your handywork And lies You're going home %%%%%%%%%%% I think it's about war, accusing a retreating, defeated side asking them if they feel guilt for throwing away it's people's lives on a hopeless cause. I think the title is a reference to "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allen Poe. In it, the hero of a divine play is decided to be the title creature, that destroys humanity (and the mimes who act out the play). We try to "Civilize that worm," try to make the destruction of humanity seem civilized. Pretty dark stuff, I think that "A Senile Animal" is one of the Melvins' angriest albums. A good one two. Great double drum solo at the end of this particular one too. |
|
| Melvins – The Talking Horse Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Try This: The golden talking equine god Speaks nothing to me The nature of the burning bee Means nothing to no way The burning talking nowhere near Means nothing to me The golden talking equine god MEans nothing to no way ********* And Mr. Ed. . .nah, but like many songs on the last few albums, Buzz is describing organized religion as modern idolatry. |
|
| Melvins – Big As A Mountain Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
I think the last line is "Leave you with a golden ribbon" |
|
| Melvins – Now A Limo Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Try This: Golden issues Lack of union Shine too slow Steel pulls in Your cross and daughter LEft asunder Is there really A God above you? Now a limo Gonna carry you over Dis mold Johnny Dissenter Dis belt Sharper protector Dis mark Shows us amazed and bloody |
|
| Melvins – With Yo Heart Not Yo Hands Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Okay. . . Try This: With your heart not your hands With your heart not your hands Do you understand, baby Baby love me up Lost in a woman My loss is yours You feel my power You call me a monkey grip oooh I'm feeling Losing your mind Still, I'm stoned, so I can't deny The muscle you chop You're annoyed one time With your heart not your hands Baby love me love me love love Do you understand baby Get me WIth your heart not your hands You know baby, baby Crime is the get low Cuz it's yours that's for sure Hit me! You do feel my power ANd you call me a cassanova Pool full of poison You'll make this place something Still, I'm stoned, so I can't deny You bottle up the bottle you know YEah With your heart not your hands Baby, love me, love Don't ask my name, man, I am free, I am free I make it on my own time Look at me, look at me And all my time is my own time So I don't want to know And I'm telling you NEver go home alone But only have it one time With your heart not your hands Baby baby baby WIth your heart not your hands Baby Do you understand? Baby, love me, love me You can stand, you can stand ***************** First of all, this is a Malfunkshun cover. Secondly, here's what I think it's about: It's from the point of view of a guy who has been in a long term, but non-serious friends-with-benefits situation with someone. They've always just been around each other, casual, just-sex kind of way. But now, he has fallen in love with her, but can't tell her. First he tells the listener that his problem is the same as the problem for everyone else who can't tell someone that they love them. Then, in his head, he thinks about explaining the situation to her, but also has low self esteem, and ends up thinking about the fact he considers both her, and himself, to be lowlifes. Kind of a weird, sad song, actually, but the song itself. . .amazing. Perfect noisy sludge. Think Crowbar meets Sonic Youth! |
|
| Melvins – Boris Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Try This: I'd like to take I'd like to feel wanted Take the love and take the toll I'd like to make the law ANd generate the worn out mouths Build them up and let them fall Just lay and moan and leave the limits tight Take the love and take the toll Generate the little flap like monkeyman Leave them built, wracked, standing tight-mouthed It's like sin Boris likes a lot of little things to kick Makes every single one that he could ever need Boris need Let friend/spoon friends soon lie Let's mate Let's feel wanted Take the love and take the toll My shake, my monthly battle Boris knows, and boris likes it all It's like steel It's a killer She's a killer-maker It reaches in and takes from the back of your mind I'm not awake Still life Twenty boards, hack 'em back and see the lines A god, a small Got what they call a lack A lack that's half-way done But it's all my own I say I can't But I really mean I won't YOu mark, but maybe you know I see it all See Boris has a way of seeing through my house He touches an infection A mastermind Manipulate me My arms and legs and spine He's got you proud I'm sinking to the weight weight LIke a straight on jewel Let him hum |
|
| Tad – Crane's Cafe Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Try this: Black malaise Crack me up Exhaust leak Clouds my mind Copenhagen Stains my mouth But it gets me high Yeah it gets me high My veins: tattoo blue Black worms Of the earth In Crane's Smokescreen light Get's me where I'm worth Get's me where I'm worth Pedal to the metal, I'm all used up Pedal to the metal, I've had enough Pedal to the metal, I'm all used up Pedal to the metal, I've had enough Yeah! My wife Don't know where I'm at My daughter Blew out her brains My shadow Scares the cat Hanging it clean Yeah hangin' it clean Pedal to the metal, I'm all used up Pedal to the metal, I've had enough Pedal to the metal, I'm all used up Pedal to the metal, I've had enough Yeah No one touches my car No one touches my TV No one touches my kids Except me $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Like a lot of characters in TAD songs (especially early on) this guy is simply a rural psychopath. He literally destroys everything he touches, feels no remorse about it, and is self destructive in a form of pure reflexive nihilism. |
|
| Tad – Rotor Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
Wow, that's wrong. Here's the actual lyrics: Weld in place Tripped because I knew it was a waste Kill my drive Burn the hand that buried me alive Slowed my pulse Drank my blood and joined the secret cult Pulled the shades Lit a match and watched the sunlight fade The engine is running Friction is burning me The engine is running Smothered in gasoline Held the smoke Shut off the gas, I'll be nodding soon Closed my eyes When they both looked north, I was hypnotized The engine is running Friction is burning me The engine is running Smothered in gasoline Weld in place Tripped because I knew it was a waste Kill my drive Burn the hand that buried me alive Steaming air we breathe Noisy old machine %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% This one's definately about drugs. . .mostly pot. The narrator is bored, stressed, and uninspired. He's not sure if that is why he started getting stoned, but it's no longer relevant. Now that time has passed, and the machinery of life has gone on, it's just a fact. |
|
| Sonic Youth – Little Trouble Girl Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I always thought the song was the beginning of a conversation where a teenage girl tells her mother that she is pregnant. Contrasting the general conformist, right wing tone of the mother's hypocritical "lessons" of "not this/then this," and the aspects of reality presented by the daughter who narrates the song. | |
| Tad – Wired God Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
The first set was closer to correct. These are the lyrics: I'm thinking I'm God's son I'm drinking And I'm driving CB Calling me Don't eat Don't sleep Got meth smell On my clothes Wired God No one knows They're after me (repeat) They're after (last time) After me I'm grinding $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ This one's fairly obvious, but still has that smarter-than-you-expect thing going on. Song's about meth. Specifically, it's a truck driver whose done so much meth (purely recreationally or partially professionally) that he's in the middle of a psychotic break, complete with delusions of grandeur. |
|
| Jello Biafra With The Melvins – Yuppie Cadillac Lyrics | 14 years ago |
|
By the way, it's "What a great way to *thin* the herd" |
|
| The Monkees – Sunny Girlfriend Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| You know, I haven't really looked at the lyrics to this song since I was a kid. Now that i look at it knowing the world. . .this is a pot song, no doubt about it. | |
| The Monkees – Shades Of Gray Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Pretty sure that's it's "It was easy then. . ." not "It was easier than. . ." i.e. "It was easy then to tell truth from lies," | |
| Melvins – A History of Bad Men Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
This is the correct version (as far as I can tell) in the correct order: Wake up, you never looked so glum Tell me how do you know they can't hear us coming It's easy for me, I got a head start running away Keep up for your disease spread quick so How did you learn to be sick so Cunning It's easy to sing, but you just keep on humming along Did you hear that? I got a real bad feeling How many more do you suppose they're keeping? Don't make a sound they're not dead, just sleeping. Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Dire dire dire. . .It's fleeting Wake up, you never looked so glum Tell me how do you know they can't hear us coming? It's easy for me, I got a head start running away Keep up for your disease spread quick so How did you learned to be sick so cunning It's easy to sing, but you just keep on humming along Did you hear that? I got a real bad feeling How many more do you suppose thier keeping Don't make a sound, they're not dead, just sleeping. ****** Basically, it's about people who inspire movements/styles/fashions, etc. They seem so important, dangerous, edgy and new at the time, but, most of the time, it just fades away, covered up by the next temporary fad. No matter how important and famous it seems at the time, there's always another half-baked idea ready to take it's place. |
|
| Melvins – Hooch Lyrics | 16 years ago |
|
Actually, if you know how to decode it, it's a story song. It's about someone who was formerly a drug dealer, who, against the wishes of his significant other, while in financial trouble, goes for one last score. . .and gets himself killed in the process. Interesting story about this song. I was at an in-store concert by the Melvins in NEw Orleans, and everyone in the crowd is calling for "Hooch" (This was during the Stag tour) and Buzz keeps saying, "We haven't practiced that one in a long time." Finally, they give in, an start playing it. IT sounds perfect until the second verse, where Buzz sings "Los ticka toe rest" again, and then realized what he did, and in perfect rhythm, sings "I forgot the fucking words." for the next line. |
|
| Sonic Youth – In The Mind Of The Borgeious Reader Lyrics | 16 years ago |
|
This is what I always thought it was: Seaside lover gonna rock to boat Gonna roll it up, that super dope Better pass it around or stick in on a pin Fang-tooth lover with the bunny skin A plastic lady she's a'ready to roll Straight from my heart through thy soul And I don't care about dirty hair Or praise to queen and Yogi Bear So get back in the boat, Hey! Vicarious pleasure in my brain Fantastic lies never the same Identity, come set me free Come set me out to mystery A mystery night! Hey! Silly little rabbit, trix are for kids Your carrot souflee's got me on the skids But I don't care about dirty hair Gonna fuzzy-finger Miss Bunny Tail So kick on till you drop Hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop. **** At least when my band covered it, that's how I sang it, though sometimes I'd say "flame-toothed lover" instead of "fang-toothed lover" Out of song contest, "fang-toothed" makes more sense, in context, "flame-toothed" makes almost as much sense, and it sounds more like "flame-toothed" to me. I think it's about a group of young friends getting high together. The quality of the drugs is crap, but they don't really care, as the important part is the social setting, but of course, none of them will break the illusion by admitting it. |
|
| Nirvana – Even in His Youth Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
There are two different versions of this song, with slightly different lyrics. (Not uncommon for Nirvana) This is what I get from the version I have: Even in his youth (3x) He was nothing Kept his body clean (3x) Going nowhere Daddy was ashamed (3x) Even in his youth (3x) He was nothing Read this form before you're through I've got nothing left to prove If I die before I wake Hope I don't come back a slave Yeah yeah Read this form before you're through I've got nothing left for you If I die before I wake Hope I don't come back again Even in his youth (3x) Yeah yeah (etc) This is the version where the audio cut out on the vocals on the third time he sings, "Disgrace the family name," as if he leaned away from the mic or something like that. I prerfer this version. The other version I've heard a lot, the words change a lot more. "I've got nothing left to do // left to lose // left to prove" and "Hope I don't come back again // a slave // the same." (IIRC) But I think the music is a lot better in the version I put the lyrics up for. Even in his youth (3x) He was nothing Kept his body clean (3x) Going nowhere Daddy was ashamed (3x) He was nothing Disgrace the family name (3x*) Going nowhere Read this form before you're through I've got nothing left to prove If I die before I wake Hope I don't come back a slave |
|
| Leonard Cohen – The Future Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
I've always liked this song. To me it's like T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men". "Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima" is the equivalent of "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang, but a whiper." I think like Eliot, Cohen is asking if we can even manage the bang, and if the bang is perferable to the whimper. |
|
| Tad – Grease Box Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
Actually, these are the lyrics: DIg dig deep For your self Dig dig deep FOr your soul Dig dig deep Dark black abyss Dig dig deep Bury you a soul What the hell's in me? I said, "Hey, don't look at me" What the hell's in me? Six dead horses chase you down Fourteen guns in your hometown Thirteen men run after you Ten million babies your dad gave you Like a little beast in a sparkle robe Sat writhing in pain all afternoon Salt from his tears bringing blood to the surface Like dark-haired fears make thier way to the surface What the hell's in me? I said, "Hey, don't look at me" What the hell's in me? And you don't have to stand Stand by me And you don't have to stand Stand by me And you don't have to stand Stand by me What the hell's in me I said "Hey don't look at me" What he hell's in me Like the little beast in a sparkle robe Sat writhing in pain all afternoon Salt from his tears bringing blood to the surface Like dark haired fears make thier way to the surface Just as you tie that belt Makes your skin start to sting Then one day you're feeling everything Trees outside weather the bark and the war Like a callous on your heart where a face once stood What the hell's in me? I said, "Hey, don't look at me" What the hell's in me? And you don't have to stand Stand by me And you don't have to stand Stand by me And you don't have to stand Stand by me **** I think the song chronicles someone who turns to drugs as a way to deal with a broken heart, becomes hopelessly addicted, and then tries to quit, and goes through withdrawl, parallelling the suffering of withdrawl with the suffering of the end of a relationship. |
|
| Glassjaw – Pretty Lush Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
I like the song, I love the style, I just wish someone else had done it. No matter how much I like the sound, and no matter how much talent and energy they have, I can't get into Glassjaw. Two reasons: 1) THe band, or at least Darryl,hates women. Complete misogynist. I have had a lot of people, very close to me, very close friends, people who have meant a lot to, fall to abusers. Some who physically abused them, and some who just wanted to control ever single aspect of thier lives. This seems like the kind of person he is, and thier music seems like an abuser's theme. 2) STraight-Edgers. How far that movement has fallen! It's been completely taken over by violent control freaks, who want to completely run everyone else's life for them. Or worse. . . I had a very close friend of mine beaten almost to death by a gang of straight edges. Four of 'em, body builder types. SHe was 5' tall, and less than 100lbs. The had bats. Real tough guys, eh? ANd she's going to walk with a cane for the rest of her life. Add to the fact that I had two other friends who ended up in jail because of straight-edgers, and of course the ones that attcked her never got caught. Most of the straightedgers I have told the story to have said that they were totally justified in attacking her. Her sin, by the way? She was walking back to her apartment from work, and was smoking a cigarette. Certainly cause to be beaten with bats, eh? |
|
| Melvins – Honey Bucket Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
First of all, I have the lyrics slightly different: Eight times of fel-an-fo-fi Like cobalt cast and clean I got a mojo felt the wheel Real fashion Tri-jack it black it for more Handcuffs with special keys Triple locked and been down defiled It's a V.S.I. Throw a case of plasticine down, Baby I can immolate And it's rotten in my rounds This is in my way I'm as fast as my home town Green glass it most of all Been around this foreign cage VIllage in the wall. *** IN my opinion, this song is about small-town boredom and rebellion, looking back on it from a later perspective, and asking yourself what you accomplished in the necessity of breaking away from what people tried to make you, and what you almost allowed yourself to be. |
|
| Melvins – Honey Bucket Lyrics | 19 years ago |
|
First of all, I have the lyrics slightly different: Eight times of fel-an-fo-fi Like cobalt cast and clean I got a mojo felt the wheel Real fashion Tri-jack it black it for more Handcuffs with special keys Triple locked and been down defiled It's a V.S.I. Throw a case of plasticine down, Baby I can immolate And it's rotten in my rounds This is in my way I'm as fast as my home town Green glass it most of all Been around this foreign cage VIllage in the wall. *** IN my opinion, this song is about small-town boredom and rebellion, looking back on it from a later perspective, and asking yourself what you accomplished in the necessity of breaking away from what people tried to make you, and what you almost allowed yourself to be. |
|
| Nirvana – Beeswax Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
I spent about two hours slowing down and repeating a temporary recording of the song ot figure out the lyrics. BTW, to a certain someone, I think it's ironic to call someone a dumbass, when not using apostrophes, or being able to spell the phrase "goes, you. . ." |
|
| Nirvana – Beeswax Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
I spent about two hours slowing down and repeating a temporary recording of the song ot figure out the lyrics. BTW, to a certain someone, I think it's ironic to call someone a dumbass, when not using apostrophes, or being able to spell the phrase "goes, you. . ." |
|
| Nirvana – Beeswax Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
I spent about two hours slowing down and repeating a temporary recording of the song ot figure out the lyrics. BTW, to a certain someone, I think it's ironic to call someone a dumbass, when not using apostrophes, or being able to spell the phrase "goes, you. . ." |
|
| Nirvana – You Know You're Right Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
Okay, first of all let me state: I think that Kurt Cobian committed suicide. Now, let me say one other thing. . .if he was murdered, Courtney Love did *not* do it, not matter what your opinoin of her. Why? There were menthol cigarettes in the ashtray that was found near the body. Kurt Cobain did not smoke menthols. (From what I have read, he smoked Winston Lights.) Courtney Love does not smoke menthols, IIRC, she smokes Marlboro reds. Now, if it was for hire, or if there was anyone who could shed light on it, it's someone from the Seattle area, who Kurt Cobain knew, and who smoked or smokes, menthol cigarettes. |
|
| Nirvana – You Know You're Right Lyrics | 20 years ago |
|
Okay, first of all let me state: I think that Kurt Cobian committed suicide. Now, let me say one other thing. . .if he was murdered, Courtney Love did *not* do it, not matter what your opinoin of her. Why? There were menthol cigarettes in the ashtray that was found near the body. Kurt Cobain did not smoke menthols. (From what I have read, he smoked Winston Lights.) Courtney Love does not smoke menthols, IIRC, she smokes Marlboro reds. Now, if it was for hire, or if there was anyone who could shed light on it, it's someone from the Seattle area, who Kurt Cobain knew, and who smoked or smokes, menthol cigarettes. |
|
| Babes in Toyland – Sweet '69 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This is basically a sarcastic song about somone who's crushed socially by the conformist society of the time essentially being unable to deal with a life they don't want. Great song, by the way, my favorite by this band. | |
| Minor Threat – Straight Edge Lyrics | 21 years ago |
|
Ian MacKaye would have an aneurysm if he knew what straight edge has turned into. Down here, the straigt-edgers actually worked with the police, and backstabbed people, thier own friends, family, etc. Another group had taken to beating people with baseball bats. A friend of mine was put in the hospital after she got jumped by 5 *big* straight-edger jocks who beat her with baseball bats for smoking a cigarette while walking down the street. She was 16 and about 5' tall, maybe 90lbs. That made them big, tough, straight edge warriors, eh? Straight edge is quickly becoming the new hatecore. I talked to someone who was one of hte origional wave of straightedgers when it first started, a DC native, who has since moved down here. (then up to Boston, but that's another thing) She was extremely pissed to hear what straight edge was turning into. When she was in it, it was never about forcing or threatening or attacking other people. It was about people making thier own choices. Pentalarc |
|
| Nirvana – Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle Lyrics | 21 years ago |
|
Ehhh I don't think Kurt Cobain had the manic symptoms to be bipolar. FWIW, Frances Cobain was named after Frances Farmer. As a pagan, I know quite a bit about the witch trials. In fact the idea was at if they floated, they were guilty, and if they sank/drowned they were innocent. Kurt reverses it in "Serve the Servants" for effect. |
|
| Nirvana – Floyd the Barber Lyrics | 21 years ago |
|
Actually the line goes "I was shamed / I was shaved / I was shamed" so you're both right. Actually I may have that a little backwards. It might be shaved/shamed/shaved. Anyway, you're pretty much right. . one of his punkier ideas, a small town gone bad, references to the ANdy Griffith show, which he thought was hte most hyprocritical, absurd show ever, especially when he compared it to his hometown of Aberdeen. THus the bizarre nightmarish mix of a character being raped and slaughtered by the cast of the Andy Griffith show. |
|
| Nirvana – Dumb Lyrics | 21 years ago |
|
Man, one of the few relatively happy songs Kurt wrote, and everyone gets in a yelling match about it. :-) Anyway, to settle the debate, Kurt Cobain used marijuana on a regular basis throughout his adult life. Just because his heroin habit has become famous does not mean that that's all he did. As far as the song. The song is about whether or not you can figure out if you're actually happy, or just too stupid to see the problems out there. Throughout his life, Cobain considered conformist (whatever, sheep, you know) people to be dumb and happy. Now that he's looking at the time that he is happy, he has to ask himself, "Am I really happy, or am I just not looking close enough." |
|
| Nirvana – Drain You Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| It's a combination. The song compares love through the innocence of childhood, vs. the world-wearyness of adulthood. Thus the mix of love/drug and birth images. If you notice a lot of times, he goes from good or neutral to bad. . .giving a comparison. | |
| Nirvana – Dive Lyrics | 21 years ago |
|
Actually, I think the line is "Left alone, I'll signal." I would agree pretty much with what's been said so far, but I would add that there is a feeling of desperation to be wanted |
|
| Nirvana – Breed Lyrics | 21 years ago |
|
One of my favorites. I think it's more about having to choose between what you want, what you're told to want, and what you can't have. I think it's about a hard decision to make, when you realize what's impossible. I also agree there might be something to "desperate to stay with someone", but I think its' more desperate to get with someone," the start of a relationship, not the continuation: "Even if you have Even if you need I don't mean to stare, We don't have to breed. We can plant a house We can build a tree I don't even care We could have all three. . . This seems like "I don't care, I'll do whatever you want, just accept me." Besides, think about it. "We could have all three" This is actually very subtle, adn I think shows some of the meaning. Count it off. House is one, tree is two, thus breeding/children would be three. THe speaker offers the house, offers the tree, and offers not to have children, but then goes back on the last one. Very subtle, very cool. BTW: the song itself, the lyrics, have nothing to do with Tad Doyle or hte band TAD, just the orginoal title, Immodium. For Kurt Cobain, a lot of times, teh song title came last. His annoyance with Doyle's digestive problems on the tour brought about the title, "Immodium" from a medicine Doyle was trying to use to control it. WHen the title was changed, as evidenced by the simple title, a word mentioned in the song, "Breed" he probably didnt' ahve a title in mind for hte song. |
|
| Nirvana – Breed Lyrics | 21 years ago |
|
One of my favorites. I think it's more about having to choose between what you want, what you're told to want, and what you can't have. I think it's about a hard decision to make, when you realize what's impossible. I also agree there might be something to "desperate to stay with someone", but I think its' more desperate to get with someone," the start of a relationship, not the continuation: "Even if you have Even if you need I don't mean to stare, We don't have to breed. We can plant a house We can build a tree I don't even care We could have all three. . . This seems like "I don't care, I'll do whatever you want, just accept me." Besides, think about it. "We could have all three" This is actually very subtle, adn I think shows some of the meaning. Count it off. House is one, tree is two, thus breeding/children would be three. THe speaker offers the house, offers the tree, and offers not to have children, but then goes back on the last one. Very subtle, very cool. BTW: the song itself, the lyrics, have nothing to do with Tad Doyle or hte band TAD, just the orginoal title, Immodium. For Kurt Cobain, a lot of times, teh song title came last. His annoyance with Doyle's digestive problems on the tour brought about the title, "Immodium" from a medicine Doyle was trying to use to control it. WHen the title was changed, as evidenced by the simple title, a word mentioned in the song, "Breed" he probably didnt' ahve a title in mind for hte song. |
|
| Nirvana – Been a Son Lyrics | 21 years ago |
|
I had never head the idea of a female Jesus before as part of what this song is about, but it's a very interresting concept. I always considered this song to be a pretty straight-forward attack on sexism. |
|
| Melvins – Berthas Lyrics | 21 years ago |
|
This song is from the album *Stag* From this one, I just get a scene, a young boy and his grandfather, old, poor, and rural. Perhaps the speaker is an outside observer, regretting lost opportunities. |
|
| Melvins – Bar-X The Rocking M Lyrics | 21 years ago |
|
First of all, I just noticed that none of hte albums are listed. This one is from the album Stag. I think this is one of two songs that Buzz Osbourne (lead singer/guitarist/primary songwriter of the Melvins) wrote about Kurt Cobain's suicide. (They wre friends). The other is a re-write of Night Goat, when they play it live, they do different lyrics. It's a very dark song when you decode. |
|
| Melvins – At The Stake Lyrics | 21 years ago |
|
I'm pretty sure the line here as "Has finally passed indeed" is actually "Has finally pissed it deep." There's a lot of occultic symbolism in this song, but I've never been sure what the song is about. Lots of talk of judgement. . .obviously, whatever has happened to leave who ever "she" is forsaken, the speaker thinks he's going to be blamed, physically, morally, and mystically. |
|
| Melvins – Antitoxide Lyrics | 21 years ago |
|
Update/correction to these lyrics. . .the actual lyrics to the second part are: (first part is fine) Maybe since I'm mad inside my heart Set go and let it affect me Tried hard to let her stay. When she's like a piece of candy I know, Bless you, gonna let it toss away. ***** Please note, I also think that line three in part 1 is also "Tried hard to let her stay" |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.