@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Holiday
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
American Town
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran shares a short story of reconnecting with an old flame on “American Town.” The track is about a holiday Ed Sheeran spends with his countrywoman who resides in America. The two are back together after a long period apart, and get around to enjoying a bunch of fun activities while rekindling the flames of their romance.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
I think he wants to take his relationship, which was until now essentially just two people having fun, to a new level. Instead of the standard dinner and a movie date he wants to get emotionally naked with her, to have her expose her inner self to him and to bond and to really know her.
I totally agree, it is not only about physical passion and wanting, it talks about deeper cognition of the other person and I hate when people see this amazing song only as expression of sexual appetite..
It's not about sex or nudity. He wants to see her(?) true "self". In a media driven society everyone has faces representing the image they want the people in the different aspects of their life to see. "Leave it to Beaver" mom to the kids and nieghbors, "Ally McBeal" in the workplace, " "I Dream of Genie" in the bedroom. The "Without your television" line is saying don't show me what "Cosmo" or "The View" tells you I want to see. Show me who you are.
I think it's about that nakedness of vulnerability.
Davesnothere and Schfifty both have it right. Humanity has a lot of social masks that we portray to people, he is saying to his partner that he wants to see her stripped of all of her societally driven masks, he wants her to be the person she truly is.
I mean obviously to each their own, but i feel thats what he was talking about. There is too much underlying meaning in the lyrics for it to just be a simple song of lust and primal urge.
Exactly!! I love your interpretation! Definitely NOT about sex! I agree that it's about wanting your lover to portray who they really are. With no games or defenses up. Wanting them to speak of their their true feelings just for you.
Just want to say this song has to be one of the greatest fucking songs ever. And when I say "fucking" I mean in a car, at the shoulder of the road, at sometime past midnight.
this is the best interpretation! really! thanks for great idea
This song is really addicting...any a little eerie as well. I have an in concert version and it's creepy how quiet the crowd gets when he sings but how much they cheer before and after. By the way, Shiny Toy Guns covered this song as well and it's really, really good.
i agree im listening to this right now.
Stripped is DM's most beautiful song. I can't believe 1/3 of the people on this page are talking about how they like some cover better... "Rammstein's version of Stripped is better because it's funny!"
IMO, the best version of this song is from 101 (the concert movie). You can find it on YouTube. It's really good.
About a romantic get-away from technology and modern society, but the song seems quite sinister as well.
Saturnine, thanks for mentioning 1984. Now I'm ashamed I didn't notice it myself.
I'm not sure if you're right, but it all fits pretty well, especially "just for a day" and "for a few hours", and of course the reference to "television".
Also "speaking just for me". In the country, they don't have to act for the screens.