Both as a standalone and as part of the DSOTS album, you can take this lyric as read. As a matter of public record, Jourgensen's drug intake was legendary even in the 1980s. By the late 90s, in his own words, he was grappling with massive addiction issues and had lost almost everything: friends, spouse, money and had nearly died more than once. "Dark Side of the Spoon" is a both funny & sad title for an album made by a musical genius who was losing the plot; and this song is a message to his fans & friends saying he knows it. It's painful to listen to so I'm glad the "Keith Richards of industrial metals" wised up and cleaned up. Well done sir.
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave.
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Ed Sheeran
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“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
This is the tragic boy loves girl, girl just wants to be friends story. He obviously wants something more but she wants to remain 'friends' hence the clever title 'the f word' (great pun!) I think this song has some great lines: "she was in a love triangle, but it wasn't like my feelings weren't there to make it a square" "why debate, you think you can fit me in that annorexic space between love and hate?"
how does nobody comment? kind of a obvious song for cann ox, however, very powerful. about a guy that cant get his feelings to match with a best friend...
I dont know why nobody commented this one at first either. Its a very different love triangle song. You gotta feel the music along with the feelings you or anybody has felt in the same situation. If you cant do that, then its not really a song for certain people because of the original production by El-P and poetic lyrics from Vast and Vorduls chorus. This is one of my personal favorites. Love it.
"cupid had me runnin' circles blindfolded in the day time with a flashlight looking for her"
"she was in a love triangle but it wasn't like my feelings weren't there to make it a square"
amazing lyrics to a great song.
I don't think I'd be so in love with this song if it weren't for the lyrics. El-P has sharper beats on other songs, but it's hard to beat Vast's words.
theres something much more intelligent about their metaphors as well, instead of boring shit like "ima hit you like a speeding bullet" you've got "check this situation, I wore my lust like cologne she called it Obsession the background's black and white and we adolescents" using calvin klein to explain the situation...its like the opposite of consumerist mainstream rap
this song may sacrifice some cutting edge musical stylings, but i think i'll forgive it for the most complex and (let's not cut corners) true expressions of a situation that is so pervasive in more than just my life. for decades pop culture has been shaped by the mishaps in opposite-sex friendships, and while the beauty of this is its subculture, the message is as transient as ever. many people seem to think that "the" f word in this song is actually friends. i have always taken it to mean forever.
"and together forever just sounds fly that's how it sounded to me when I heard it and slow motion was her lips as she worded the f word"
clearly to me this is him saying that forever sounded great when she said it... then iterating "the f word" just my take on the lyrics.
so put this on. get heavily booted thinking of your american beauty and indulge in the disfunctions of your opposite sex friendships and your sexual obsessions.
or better yet, a symbol of what friends do, they die and together forever just sounds fly that's how it sounded to me when I heard it and slow motion was her lips as she worded the f word 'don't take it personal, I like you a lot but I don't wanna lose what we got'
I definitely think that the f word is friend. "as she worded" prolly refers to the quote 'dont take it personal...,' rather than her actually saying 'forever.' the line 'and together forever just sounds fly' refers to the previous line 'what friends do, they die'.. (ie together forever just sounds fly, it isnt the case in reality). but then again, idk. they spit really fast so its hard to tell what goes with what. I just dont see any real motivation for forever being the f-word beyond that one instance which is unclear at best
eyo cannibal ox b the isht no doubt about that. He switches from being emcee minded to just down to earth, a simple guy like you and me who writes lyrics but does not emcee. Eyo where can i find more cannibal ox's songs? If any one of ya'll knows contact me on 078 787 1639 (South Africa)