| Passion Pit – Take a Walk Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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So many things wrong with the posted lyrics, you'd think that someone would fix it by now considering this song is well over 2 years old. Kieranr posted a much more accurate lyrics so I'll give my interpretation off of his version. Anyways, to put it simply, this song is about the boom in European immigration in the United States in the early part of the 20th century and the common struggles those immigrants had after coming over here during those times. The singer expresses a singular example from that, perhaps being from his own family's first hand experiences from that era. The first half of the part of the first verse refers to the United States at that time. The Industrial Revolution was in full swing and there were lots of opportunities for families to come in and prosper. Because of this, the USA started being referred to as the "land of opportunity" and a lot of people from countries overseas, especially those from areas just ravaged by World War I, started making their way here. ('All these kinds of places makes it seem like it's been ages') is a comparison of the 'old country' to this booming new 'land of opportunity'. A lot of the older European countries already went through their golden ages and periods of growth and not much was going for them at that time. The second half of the first part of the first verse refers to one of those common scenarios where most of the first immigrants that made their way over here did so either alone or with their spouse, the majority of which were younger, newly-wed couples who did not have kids yet, mainly due to them holding off until they reached this new land of opportunity ('I love this country dearly, I can feel the ladder clearly') and could have the means to provide for them. None of them could afford to bring both themselves as well as their immediate family, so lot of them left behind their parents and siblings, thus being alone. The first part of the second half of the first verse ('Once I was outside Penn Station, selling red and white carnations, we were still alone my wife and I') refers to what a lot of these immigrants had to do in order to make money at first. Not everyone was lucky enough to land a job in any of the new industries right away and had to start out as street vendors and such. Penn Station in New York City was a popular hub for soldiers returning home from World War I in the mid 1910's. Many family members of those soldiers typically bought flowers from these street vendors to give to them when they arrived (The colors red and white may also have some significance, I believe the red carnations were for soldiers that may have been injured or wounded, the white ones for those that were lucky enough to come back without harm). ('Now I want to bring my family state side') refers to the husband's goal of making enough money to bring the rest of his family he just left behind to this great new land. The last part of the first verse shows that, while he did reach his goal to being his family over, a lot of them chose not to stay in the same city or even state and moved away to the many other growing cities on the Eastern seaboard, such as Philadelphia, Boston, etc. (Or in my family's case, straight to California :) ). This seemed to cause some anguish for the husband, which leads us to the chorus. One common way to deal with anger, frustration, or sadness is to go out and Take a Walk. Gather your thoughts, breathe, figure out a way to deal with whatever it is you're dealing with or choose to let things just run their course. For the second verse we fast forward a bit, the "roaring 20's" brought much wealth to these immigrants that came over and the money they were making eased some of the anguish left by their families moving to other suburban communities. The 1930's saw the rise of Wall Street and a lot of immigrants, already making more money than they anticipated, thought they'd find even more riches by playing the Stock Market ('my wife wont ask me questions, there's not so much to ask, and she'll never flaunt around an empty purse'), some made money, a lot of them lost some money, very few gained a large amount of wealth. While this is going on, the husband's parents decided to move in. This was somewhat typical at the time because there was no social security back then and the parents that they brought over are now at retirement age and cannot work the industrial jobs that were making money at the time and could not afford to live on their own, so they moved into their kid's house, typically on a permanent basis. The husband then turns to see his kids, making the goal of him never wanting to have to move in with them when he becomes too old to work. Going back to the first part of this verse, most of these immigrants playing the stock market thinking that they had nothing to lose ('I remind myself that times could be much worse'), so they took a gamble on the Stock Market with some more riskier investments. When it crashed in 1933, many of them lost everything they owned ('But then my partner called and said the pension funds are gone, he made some bad investments now they accounts are overdrawn'). The third verse is a plea for help, I assume from one of the husband's kids some time later, perhaps the 1940's, maybe even the 1950's. The United States, once called the 'land of opportunity', was mired in a Great Depression. One interesting part of this verse is when the son says 'tonight I swear I'll come home and we'll make love like we're young', this likely refers to him wanting to bring happiness into both his life and his father's life during this trying time by having a kid, or in a lot of other's cases, multiple kids. This led to the "Baby Boom" of the mid century where many families typically had 5 or 6 kids. Banks at the time had a TON of power, perhaps too much power. They typically influenced outcomes of bills and laws in their favor from many of these 'socialist' politicians they had in their back pocket. Back then there were no collection agencies or Credit Reports, so if you owed money to a Bank and did not pay it, they threw you in jail ('They'll see I am no criminal, I'm down on both bad knees. I'm just too much a coward to admit when I'm in need'). Nobody likes to see their kid in jail, this again causes some anguish for the husband which leads to the final chorus. This just about sums up the song. It's pretty astonishing how immigrants from European countries dealt with all these situations during that time period, yet somehow managed to make it all work in an honorable way. Not unlike the immigrants we see these days that try to enter the United States illegally to take advantage of Government handouts and welfare that us taxpayers have to cover like we see too often these days. |
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| Gob – Oh! Ellin Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is actually about losing a friend (could be girlfriend or childhood friend, either way) to death. | |
| System of a Down – Hypnotize Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think everyone understand the first verse of this song. Its pretty plain and simple and was directly related to the Tienanmen Square Massacre of 1989. However I think the 2nd verse is really about the Chernobyl Incident of 1986 where a Nuclear Power Plant exploded which led to the evacuation of 2 nearby cities ("she's scared that I will take her away from there") just north of Kiev in the Ukraine, which then was a part of the USSR. The Soviet government hid the truth about what happened at the power plant not only to foreign media, but to its own citizens as well. The government closed off a 50-mile wide radius including a rapidly growing town called Prypiat ("dreams and her country left with noone there") which even today is devoid of people. |
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| System of a Down – Vicinity of Obscenity Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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looks like a lot of people dont know what a terracotta is, let me inform you. a Terracotta is a type of flower/plant pot that has a bunch of holes on the sides. put that with a bunch of bananas and you have a song about sex. |
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| Linkin Park – From The Inside Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| This is a great song, my 2nd favorite LP song behind "With You". Simply awesome. I hope they make a video for this song soon. | |
| Linkin Park – Somewhere I Belong Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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Very good considering Linkin Park don't write their own songs... -Stix- Ok, unless you yourself or someone you know wrote the lyrics to this song I suggest you STFU, stop trying to think your all cool because you wanna be a rebel and post bullshit about a song and group you probly know nothing about. Get a life asshole |
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| TRUSTCompany – Figure 8 Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| This is my favorite trust company song, I wrote the lyrics for it here before but songmeaning was having some sort of server problem and it didnt go through. This song is fucking awesome. | |
| Blink-182 – Fuck a Dog Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| Any who talks shit about Blink 182 in Blink 182's area are pretty fucking gay. If you have a problem with them nobody hear wants to see your childish Bullshit. If you have a problem with Blink 182, go post it in your gay ass Death Metal bullshit band's area, and go fuck yourself. Have a nice day. | |
| Linkin Park – High Voltage Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| This song is similar to the song "Step Up". He's tired of fake hip hop bullshit that gets played on the radiowaves nowadays. | |
| KoЯn – Thoughtless Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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If you have nothing good to say about Korn, than dont fuckin post it here, cuz nobody has to hear your childish bullshit. If you hate Korn so much then post it in your gay ass death metal bullshit band's area, and fuck off. As for the song, this is the deepest Korn song Ive heard since "Daddy", very powerful lyrics that make Korn one of the best rock bands ot there today. |
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| TRUSTCompany – Hover Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| This song is awesome, will definitely get some radio airplay inthe near future. | |
| Stroke 9 – Kick Some Ass Lyrics | 24 years ago |
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Another version of this song exists that has the f word in the chorus. "I am, Well I am too So don't lay a fuckin' finger on her She's mine and I still want her " |
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| Eve 6 – Bang Lyrics | 24 years ago |
| This song is pretty obvious, he's found his soulmate. This is one of my favorite Eve 6 songs. :) | |
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