| Franz Ferdinand – Jacqueline Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Ref: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/apr/15/franzferdinand (15 Apr 2005) | |
| Porcupine Tree – Dark Matter Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| The soaring guitar from 5 mins gives me goose bumps every time. Absolutely superb! | |
| James Taylor – You Can Close Your Eyes Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I am a big fan, and I thought I knew of James Taylor's songs. I heard "You Can Close Your Eyes" for the first time, when I first watched the DVD "James Taylor Live at Beacon Theater". I fell in love with the song, and I wandered why I had not heard it before. I searched its studio version, which has James singing alone, and the harmony only coming in later in the recording. I can tell that JT cares a lot for this song, as it is in most of his concerts, usually harmonized throughout, from the start. | |
| Echo and the Bunnymen – A Promise Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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the rain is the tears that flow.... |
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| Echo and the Bunnymen – A Promise Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[laocoon:21809] , He has something heartfelt to tell me, I am dying< you complete me,his love never ends , remember me this way. in the reflections of the light on the water. constantly changing... sunlight to moonlight... this is our romance. That is what I absorbed. | |
| Johnny Flynn – Drum Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| It's 100% about DRUM magazine, a South African apartheid-era magazine that did investigative journalism and showcased the vibrant black culture. 'Mr. Drum' was the nickname of one of the journalists, Henry Nxumalo, and 'live fast die young leave a good looking corpse' was the DRUM journalists' mantra. | |
| American Football – Best of Me Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| some brilliant fucker in 2003ish put recorded this song and put it on kazaa labeled as American Football so it would get downloaded and listened to more. it sure fooled 15-year-old me! | |
| Van Halen – Love Walks In Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song is about being contacted by a past love after a long period of time through a dream while asleep. "Contact is all it takes, to change your life, to lose your place in time" (picture being married with two kids and some past love shows up in your dream one night. That's all it takes to lose your place in time... to forget about your current situation and think about what might have been had you never split from your past). "Contact, asleep or awake coming around you may wake up to find" (whether you've dreamed about this past love or were actually directly contacted by them, you come to realize maybe that's the person you're really meant to be with. Not your current spouse or partner). "Questions deep within your eyes, now more than ever, you realize" (you already had a feeling that the one you're with isn't the one you're meant to be with for eternity, and now you really realize you made the wrong decision after this contact from the past). "And then you sense a change, Nothing feels the same, all your dreams have changed, love comes walking in" (Those old feelings come back, your dreams with your current spouse, partner, and/or family no longer matter. Everything in your future that you've been planning for doesn't matter because you realize it's all wrong. You made the wrong decision years ago. You've fallen back in love with your past lover). "Some kind of alien looks for an opening and simply pulls the string" (Alien... something foreign. Not something from outer space... The person who has contacted you from the past is the alien. They're looking for an opening in your current relationship so they can move back in. This person has always loved you and knows that they have such power over you that they control you and the strings to get you back. Like on a marionette. "Another world, some other time, you lay your sanity on the line" (You think and remember back when you were with this person. You question yourself if you're nuts to be thinking about leaving your current situation for this past love). "Familiar faces, familiar sights, reach back and remember with all your might" (again, remembering the past with this person and things you may have done and experiences you may have had with him/her. You try with all your might to remember because you realize those were more pleasant times than with your current situation). "There she stands in a silken gown, silver lights shining down" (Tied into the previous line. You could have married her. You think back to when you used to think about marrying her and seeing her walk down the isle in a wedding gown to be with you. But it actually never happened). "Oh sleep and dream are all I crave, I travel far across the Milky Way" (Now that narrator has been contacted by the past love, being with this person is now all that matters. Actual conscious interaction with his current partner means nothing anymore. He gets to be with this past love only when sleeping and dreaming.) "To my master, I become a slave, 'til we meet again some other day" (He knows that his actions are dependent on this past love, but that he can not leave his current situation. He's going to only be reunited with the past love when they die. "Where silence speaks as loud as war, Earth returns to what it was before" (His current spouse or partner knows he doesn't love her and that he yearns to be with someone else, but speaks nothing of it and does not confront him due to possibly losing him and pushing him away. As a result, 'Earth returns to what it was before'. - the same hum-drum life that they were leading together. Nothing will change. The decisions made long ago can not be gone back on and corrected. But we can dream about what could have been). |
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| Van Halen – Love Walks In Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[ThereIsNoEye:21772] As stated earlier, this song was written by Eddie... Sammy has nothing to do with its meaning... he just sings it. | |
| Van Halen – Love Walks In Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[cactusdave:21771] Please stop.... The song was written by Eddie. Sammy just sings it. Whatever this interview is, it has nothing to do with the song. | |
| Kate Bush – The Man with the Child in His Eyes Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| In the beginning I thought she was talking about a man in spirit who was very kind to her but could not be seen by people other than her because he is a spirit and doesn't appear to the others. Then I read your explanations. | |
| Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[nbdubya:21616] I read your blog and I like it. I like to keep things simple. I came here more interested in actual possible artists intentions with the lyrics. I came up with something different. Not to dismiss the music (minus lyrics). That's essentially the hook. If you won't listen to the music, you won't listen to the lyrics. My first impression of the music was "Belly meets Hole." Yes, I assumed lead singer was a woman. I definitely get your impression of Smashing Pumpkins, especially "1979." As for the lyrics, I think they are simple and a little deep. As with many of the mesmerizing lyrics that capture our intentions, they have a double meaning (perhaps a third - a triple entendre, if you will). This song is without sexual reference, IMO, so a double meaning is my take. On the surface this song is about the crazy first steps in adolescent courtship (if you can call them steps - perhaps thoughts -- and many of them). Same goes for the quest to being a successful entertainment artist. Here's what I think -- the moment the artist has been waiting for is to get in front of a crowd to experience what the artist has to offer. When the artist gets there, it's not what they had imagined. From the crowd, they hear words but do have capacity to process or respond. At some point the artist realizes that the quest to connect with the crowd is riddled with decoys. The people staring back at him or her are not focused and engaged. Rather they are high, wasted, bored or other. They shine with the kind of excretion that musical events will foster (details other than heat & humidity omitted). This lead singer has a lazy eye (true fact). Perhaps it has been a source of stress in the past (I doubt so much now). The artist is relating a life long insecurity with a life long disappointment in the hope of life long redemption. This is not intended to be any deeper than the song itself. | |
| Omnium Gatherum – Skyline Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Took me a while to properly analyze my all time favorite song, but I think it basically tells one to accept the futility of existence, and realize that things like sentiments and emotions fade in time. And ultimately in the end, one is truly 'free' from all the confines of existence. Strictly my opinion BTW. |
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| Omnium Gatherum – Skyline Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Took me a while to properly analyze my all time favorite song, but I think it basically tells one to accept the futility of existence, and realize that things like sentiments and emotions fade in time. And ultimately in the end, one is truly 'free' from all the confines of existence. Strictly my opinion BTW. |
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| Wyclef Jean – Gone Till November Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[murphyov:21460] Yea because he is worried about the charges he will face and not seeing his son graduate if he gets caught at the airport "Goin on Tour"! Really? Thats what you think? | |
| The Rolling Stones – Monkey Man Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Monkey Man monkey on your back is the feeling you get when withdrawing from skag!!! all the nerves in your spine go mental!!! " i can use a lemon squeezer" the act of extracting lemon juice in the abscence of citric acid to dissolve heroin for injecting !!! how about you ?? whats your drug mate? iam a cold italian pizza !!!! like cold turkey ! feeling cold wet limp and sweaty due to withdrawals !!! its a song about smack abuse plain and simple !! take it from me a junkie for over 25yrs |
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| Pink Floyd – Mother Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[jgg122177:21333] Have you noticed there are 12 total questions the boy is asking his mother? Its pretty obvious this is referring to a literal mother and not a general authority because of the barrage of questions. That's what kids do. | |
| Pink Floyd – Mother Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Have you noticed there are 12 total questions the boy is asking his mother? Its pretty obvious this is referring to a literal mother and not a general authority because of the barrage of questions. That's what kids do. | |
| No Doubt – Don't Speak Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[Gwilwileth:20832] well you shouldnt break your soul brothers heart.. everything has to do with Karma... god send you perfect person and you ignored... sorry.. btw i think the song meaning is that she gat breakup but she doesnt know reason behind her breakup for long time.. and now she is just saying to heart breaker dont tell me reason behind our breakup... love,peace and harmony.... | |
| The Cure – Friday I'm in Love Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| yeah but you did just quote afi. | |
| Good Charlotte – Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| are you all deaf | |
| Small Brown Bike – I Will Bury You in Me Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| good song | |
| Led Zeppelin – Fool in the Rain Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| zeppelin. why wasn't i 18 in 1973 | |
| Sublime – Under My Voodoo Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| love lies, but i seriously love this song | |
| Sublime – Hope Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| fucking rad | |
| Piebald – They Don't Understand Us At The Academy Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| do not be mindfucked by school. | |
| Piebald – The Monkey Versus The Robot Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| fuck corporate america . | |
| Led Zeppelin – Hot Dog Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| this song is terrible. what the fuck was zeppelin thinking | |
| Hey Mercedes – Haven't Been This Happy Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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people never know how they really feel and often overlook a good thing. when you're used to events never going your way, it's hard to have a positive outlook. i guess |
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| Ben Kweller – Wasted & Ready Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| ben kweller seriously sucks so bad | |
| Thursday – In Transmission Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| geoff is amazinggg. -sigh- haha | |
| The Primitives – Crash Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| apartofmedies is my hero. im so pissed that the thursday section of songmeanings is polluted by this shit. | |
| Good Charlotte – Hold On Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| B E N J I can kiss my ass. along with the rest of this band. | |
| The Strokes – Sagganuts Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| i'd like to marry julian, yes i would. | |
| Sublime – Live At E's Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| the best song ever waaah | |
| Rx Bandits – Maybe Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| i wish utopia existed | |
| Thursday – Ian Curtis Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| thursday and joy division are both spectacular. that's all there is | |
| Rx Bandits – Cornered Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| ska.......................... but a good message | |
| The Anniversary – The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| the anniversary. enough said | |
| Piebald – Grace Kelly With Wings Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| wahhh im seeing piebald again on the nineteeth with hey mercedes! :] | |
| The Anniversary – Crooked Crown Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| mmm josh can be my pretty darling any night. | |
| Hey Mercedes – Save a Life Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| i love the symbolism of the color in this song | |
| The Stryder – King Of Coronas Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| what the fuck, these arent even the right lyrics you dicks | |
| The Stryder – Crook Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| i miss john, but i love the stryder. | |
| Sublime – DJ's Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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i love bradley |
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| 311 – Who's Got the Herb Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| when i hear pot smoking songs i cant handle myself | |
| Grateful Dead – Scarlet Begonias Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| wonderful | |
| Mest – Cadillac Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| i think the hardcore "mest groupie" needs to chill out and smoke some.......... | |
| The Strokes – Someday Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| i think the strokes were made for me to listen to | |
| The Strokes – Soma Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| i love the strokes. simply | |
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