I think the chorus is incorrect, it should be
I think the chorus is incorrect, it should be
Break cheese with me, Won't you break bread, And have some wine
Break cheese with me, Won't you break bread, And have some wine
Everyone comes so close to getting this song, but are off by just a bit. Firstly, yes, this is akin to a suicide note. It's position at the end of In Utero is no accident, it's Kurt's final message to the world
Everyone comes so close to getting this song, but are off by just a bit. Firstly, yes, this is akin to a suicide note. It's position at the end of In Utero is no accident, it's Kurt's final message to the world
"What else should I be All apologies"
"What else should I be All apologies"
Most get this, this is like, what else can I be? To put it in today's terms, should I be like Pearl Jam and just make forgettable records a decade after anyone cares about them anymore, or be like U2 and criss cross between techno and saving the world?
Most get this, this is like, what else can I be? To put it in today's terms, should I be like Pearl Jam and just make forgettable records a decade after anyone cares about them anymore, or be like U2 and criss cross between techno and saving the world?
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"What else should I say Everyone is gay"
Many times Kurt wrote in an abstract and intuitive way. And other times, he was blatantly direct. This is one of those times. This line has nothing to do with being happy or whatever bullshit people are telling themselves. It means exactly what you all deep down know it means. Everyone has homoerotic feelings. Everyone. Get over it. So what else do you cretins want me to say? How about this!
"What else could I write I don't have the right"
He mentioned in his suicide note that he didn't have the right to write music if he no longer felt the passion anymore.
"What else should I be All apologies
In the sun In the sun I feel as one In the sun In the sun I'm married buried"
Most people get this. The sun is the equivalent of being dead, and feel as one is being free. Married and buried? Maybe that's what comes to us all? Or maybe that's what makes you feel as one? Or perhaps both. Nirvana lyrics frequently had double meanings
"I wish I was like you Easily amused Find my nest of salt"
He wishes he could be like most people, and be happy with their TV's and beer and strip clubs. Or be like most celebrities, and be happy with the money, fame, drugs, and whores. He can't
"Everything is my fault I'll take all the blame"
Again, this is very direct, and means exactly what it seems. No one is responsible for Kurt's suicide besides Kurt, and no one should feel responsible. This seems like it could be sarcastic, but it's not. Sarcasm generally doesn't litter suicide notes, sincerity does (as well as self-loathing)
"Aqua seafoam shame Sunburn with freezerburn Choking on the ashes of her enemy"
This is a little tougher, as it's very much on the abstract side. "Aqua seafoam shame" would seem to indicate shame that goes out to the ocean like ashes. "Sunburn with freezerburn" seems to indicate something akin to a double edge sword, or between a rock and a hard place. You get burned both ways. Maybe that's how he viewed being a famous band versus being an underground band? And "choking on the ashes of her enemy" would seem to go in line with "aqua seafoam shame," meaning the ashes of the enemy of mother nature will go out to be part of it. It's a self-loathing view. It has nothing to do with Courtney Love.
"All alone is all we are (x14)"
I changed it to what it really says. "All in all is all we are" means absolutely nothing. "All alone is all we are" means exactly what it says. We're all alone in this world. He says it very clearly, especially at the last line when the instruments go off. Listen closely to Kurt's final message to the world if you want to know what All Apologies says
This seems to be a song of unrealized love. Not necessarily unrequited. He's wanting to be there for someone and they can rely on him, but are they necessarily going to? He wants to write out all his feelings, but holds back. He's hoping they'll come to him.
This seems to be a song of unrealized love. Not necessarily unrequited. He's wanting to be there for someone and they can rely on him, but are they necessarily going to? He wants to write out all his feelings, but holds back. He's hoping they'll come to him.
Something worth looking into is attachment styles. He has this anxious attachment and she's avoidant. It's very common and the chase can be very real.
Something worth looking into is attachment styles. He has this anxious attachment and she's avoidant. It's very common and the chase can be very real.
hard to tell if this song is supposed to satirize or glorify this sort of behavior... either way: lesbians don't exist for men to jerk off to them and they don't secretly want to be fucked by men and just play hard to get. this is straight up fetishistic and homophobic.
hard to tell if this song is supposed to satirize or glorify this sort of behavior... either way: lesbians don't exist for men to jerk off to them and they don't secretly want to be fucked by men and just play hard to get. this is straight up fetishistic and homophobic.
My best friend used to play this on our school piano while we ate our lunch, but I never heard the lyrics until years later. I happened to play it late at night, a few months after a very complicated, painful breakup. I was stopped dead because the girl in the song reminded me very much of my ex. She was a little hot-tempered, but she had an enigmatic and irresistible charm. I was drawn to her in a way I could never explain.
My best friend used to play this on our school piano while we ate our lunch, but I never heard the lyrics until years later. I happened to play it late at night, a few months after a very complicated, painful breakup. I was stopped dead because the girl in the song reminded me very much of my ex. She was a little hot-tempered, but she had an enigmatic and irresistible charm. I was drawn to her in a way I could never explain.
This song held a mirror up to me, and showed me that I was responsible for...
This song held a mirror up to me, and showed me that I was responsible for the death of the relationship. I’d never been in love before, and tried to constrain her to my blinkered idea of how I thought a partner should behave, stripping her of her personality. I realised much too late that I’d been the selfish one.
This is obviously Billy Joel’s best song, but it’s always a difficult listen for me. Hearing it forces me to wonder how different my life would be now had I given her more room to be herself.
"Losing My Religion" is actually an infatuation by a man towards another person with the same gender. It was a closet gay anthem. It was an attraction that he wanted to act upon but does not have enough courage to do so as he felt that he could fall short or will end up in bitterness or major disappointment as he has yet to come into terms with his confusion of his gender identity and orientation.
"Losing My Religion" is actually an infatuation by a man towards another person with the same gender. It was a closet gay anthem. It was an attraction that he wanted to act upon but does not have enough courage to do so as he felt that he could fall short or will end up in bitterness or major disappointment as he has yet to come into terms with his confusion of his gender identity and orientation.
Interesting. The open line is sort of a double entendre play on words that can change the entire meaning of the song. Think like "Lola" and the closing line " I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola".
Interesting. The open line is sort of a double entendre play on words that can change the entire meaning of the song. Think like "Lola" and the closing line " I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola".
"Like his Dad you know that he's had animal nitrate in mind" Could mean he has animal nitrate ( a feeling) like his dad had. I don't think it means he 'had his Dad' as in had sex w his Dad. But then the video has a man in a bikini to further confuse the issue....
"Like his Dad you know that he's had animal nitrate in mind" Could mean he has animal nitrate ( a feeling) like his dad had. I don't think it means he 'had his Dad' as in had sex w his Dad. But then the video has a man in a bikini to further confuse the issue.
I think the meaning of 'nitrate' could be missed. TNT, is often referred to as Nitro and Nitrate is also a combustible substance. Ammonium Nitrate is the common explosive used in mining, so think the title refers to just the animal energy release or explosion.
Going to have to go w a rough heterosexual relationship and how the victim ( a girl here) will get excited in the aftermath. The singer was heterosexual but I think wants some androgynous ambiguity for intrigue.