| Wild Beasts – Two Dancers (I) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Heteronormativity. Duh. | |
| Chris Garneau – Fireflies Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I interpret the song to be about not knowing who to trust anymore due to fame. The "fireflies" are stars/entertainers. "When they die their light stays alive," means the legacy of their art lives on even after death. Reading on, the fireflies are fame-hungry may achieve this lasting legacy through using others. The entertainment industry has some fresh blood. The good friend is starting to achieve recognition and "coming 'round the bend" to a certain level of fame. "You're making friends with the fireflies I can't say that that comes as a surprise" With that status, the friend is mingling with the folks in the business which doesn't surprise the narrator, possibly because this friend is a very social person. The friend doesn't realize people may only pretend to value you-- "they say, 'my good friends, best friends'"-- and try to earn your trust so they can take advantage of you. The narrator has warned the friend, "It's a plot, though. I told you so." He has encountered people like this before and knows their intentions may not be the most honest. They may be cooking some way to sabotage the friend's act, use the friend's connections, etc. "You've been called to tell us what they mean," could be the narrator putting the friend on the spot, telling him or her to think about what's happening, because this friend is smart enough and ought to know the fireflies' true intentions. Cheers to Chris Garneau for these lovely lyrics. Songs about fame tend to alienate the common listener, and disguising it as a delightful tale of whimsy is a clever way of making it something more refreshing instead of tritely providing commentary on the desperate and destructive hunger for fame. (...That is, if my interpretation was actually Garneau's mindset when writing the song!) |
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| Chris Garneau – Fireflies Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I interpret the song to be about not knowing who to trust anymore due to fame. The "fireflies" are stars/entertainers. "When they die their light stays alive," means the legacy of their art lives on even after death. Reading on, the fireflies are fame-hungry may achieve this lasting legacy through using others. The entertainment industry has some fresh blood. The good friend is starting to achieve recognition and "coming 'round the bend" to a certain level of fame. "You're making friends with the fireflies I can't say that that comes as a surprise" With that status, the friend is mingling with the folks in the business which doesn't surprise the narrator, possibly because this friend is a very social person. The friend doesn't realize people may only pretend to value you-- "they say, 'my good friends, best friends'"-- and try to earn your trust so they can take advantage of you. The narrator has warned the friend, "It's a plot, though. I told you so." He has encountered people like this before and knows their intentions may not be the most honest. They may be cooking some way to sabotage the friend's act, use the friend's connections, etc. "You've been called to tell us what they mean," could be the narrator putting the friend on the spot, telling him or her to think about what's happening, because this friend is smart enough and ought to know the fireflies' true intentions. Cheers to Chris Garneau for these lovely lyrics. Songs about fame tend to alienate the common listener, and disguising it as a delightful tale of whimsy is a clever way of making it something more refreshing instead of tritely providing commentary on the desperate and destructive hunger for fame. (...That is, if my interpretation was actually Garneau's mindset when writing the song!) |
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| Carina Round – Ready to Confess Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Thank you! I corrected some other flaws as well. |
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| Cake Bake Betty – Backbones (Dead Dead Sounds) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Agreed, on "february corpse. And: "Lustful or our of lust, we are the sainest bunch." is probably: "Lustful or out of lust, we are the samest bunch." |
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| Cake Bake Betty – Jaws Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Hah. I thought the first line was "I got a man in a bag". Hm? | |
| Cake Bake Betty – Jaws Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Hah. I thought the first line was "I got a man in a bag". Hm? | |
| Cake Bake Betty – Jaws Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Hah. I thought the first line was "I got a man in a bag". Hm? | |
| The Anix – Sometimes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The "Play Dance Repeat" version totally kicks the Illusion of Time one in the dirt. | |
| The Servant – Cells Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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go to their site http://www.theservant.co.uk/servant.html and enter ilovecells as the mailinglist password and download the instrumental! |
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| Patrick Wolf – The Libertine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love this song to no end. | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Perfect One Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I will get the last laugh. | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Sick Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Someone has to keep their significant other's interest, so he tries to keep her with a freakshow of changes. | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Loretta Young Silks Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| There is a tune on the new record called "LORETTA YOUNG SILKS" after the practice, invented by her cameraman, of placing silk stockings over the lens to achieve a soft focus. The song is about vanity and soft focussing yourself and, as such has nothing to do with Loretta herself but out of idle curiosity we went on to the official Loretta Young site and downloaded a pic of her that looked back at us every day. Sneaker Pimps do not believe in the pre-destined but there was something pretty spooky about the fact that she died the very day we left the house.Howe affirms. “I think in that way we are quite obsessed with tragic forms like Loretta Young; she was someone opposite of the character she portrayed.” | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Small Town Witch Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Underneath the floating melody of "Small Town Witch" you'll find a story of small-town resentment. "Me, Chris and our mate Ian (Pickering, lyricist) grew up in the northeast (of England)," says Howe. "And there's a feeling of anti-success in these small towns. We used to go back quite a lot and people sometimes resent any success you may have. It's quite bizarre." | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Sick Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "Sick" is an up-tempo anthem about identity, says Howe. "It's about reinventing yourself because you feel people get bored or sick of you too quickly. In a relationship, when it's going down the tubes, you try so hard to be attractive to the other person and you contort your identity to please them."Chris: “I think that’s our idea of pop. There just doesn’t seem to be anything like that in pop music and it really confuses me why because people would seem to like it.” | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Kiro Tv Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Ok, you had sedatives and cold champagne They say that must be the price of fame It's not a joke if you can choke on the thought of it You're not my friend to defend if you're loving it So Kurt I heard that you squeezed somebody's hand It doesn't hurt if you think about your fans Kiro TV They've got their visions again like it's oxygen Kiro TV They've got their visions again want your heroes dead So high, if you think of the fans So high, if you think of the fans Ok, they got your file down at the c.i.a. They say you're worse than manson for the USA It's not grief if you can see through the source of it It's only true if you're bruised by the force of it So Kurt I heard that you opened up your eyes They call it work but it don't make it civilised Kiro TV They've got their visions again like it's oxygen Kiro TV They've got their visions again like it's oxygen Kiro TV They've got their visions again like it's oxygen Kiro TV They've got their visions again want your heroes dead Ok, time takes your cigarette They say it puts it in your mouth then you'll forget No longer "live 105" can you hear me The life expectancy of any popularity So Kurt I heard that the side-show bet your life It doesn't hurt at the worst go Nevermind Kiro TV They've got their visions again like it's oxygen Kiro TV They've got their visions again like it's oxygen Kiro TV They've got their visions again like it's oxygen Kiro TV They've got their visions again want your heroes dead Kiro TV Kiro TV They've got their visions again want your heroes dead So high, if you think of the fans So high, if you think of the fans |
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| Sneaker Pimps – Kiro Tv Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Kiro TV opens the album and it's a song the group feels sets the tone for their current sound. Appropriately, it also opens Sneaker Pimps live show. "It's like an electronically controlled version of a punk song," describes Westlake of the track's many layers of beats, vocal wails and guitar bursts. "It's dirty and dense, similar to 'Tesko Suicide' from the first album. It works really well live."“Tragedy is far more interesting than success. Tragedy resolving into happiness is very Hollywood but the European way is wallowing in tragedy. That’s the way art is. A happy ending is not really the truth,”“We made the track about people’s reaction to stardom. It doesn’t actually make any particular comment about Cobain but just referencing it. I wouldn’t want to put the back-stop to the Nirvana world - there’s too many out there!” | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Cute Sushi Lunches Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Chris: "This song is about uncomfortable situations - being taken for Sushi in L.A. for the novelty, being in this cold, awkward situation you really dont want to be in." | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Empathy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Chris: "It plays with androgyny and incest. I think that the reason for love is that people want to become one person, this super adrogynous person. It's a personal things, I don't want to sound like a pervert... erm.. okay. It's about a specific person that I am in love with. It's about wanting to become that person, wanting to be inside that person, to be everything to that person; brother, father, mother.. everything." | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Low Five Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Chris: "It's an anti-corporate anthem; its about how we hate American-ness. It was exciting going there, but I couldn't handle it. This is a statement that we are going to be English. Lyrically, it's not sensational. We talk about ordinary things. We're European and this is a European record." | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Half Life Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Chris: "Halflife is about past relationships, your sexual history, talking about how losing someone is like having a limb chopped off, then having a phantom limb and getting an insect sting on that phantom limb." | |
| Sneaker Pimps – How Do Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Liam: "The last tune on the album, "How Do," is a cover tune from an old 1973 British horror film called "The Wicker Man." The song actually features a sample from the film with Britt Ekland. We had to ring her up to get permission to use her voice. I've actually got the piece of paper she signed giving us permission to use it." | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Wasted Early Sunday Morning Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Liam: "The title is taken from a Robert Lowell poem, but the song owes little to it. Every Sunday is less like the start of a fresh week and more like the end of another week with nothing done. The 'day or rest' is a real effort - too much time to think of nothing. It's a question of what you put your faith into get through it. Dope? Booze? Bird? (not gender specific). How do you get by? Nothing really helps." | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Roll On Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Liam: "'Sink With Me' An invitation to the content of the album. A puzzling parallel between the gravity of sex and the ill fates Roll On Roll Off ferries. Promiscuity, satisfaction and disaster." I don't miss Kelli. She was a really weak vocalist. Now, Chris Corner can really sing! |
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| Sneaker Pimps – Waterbaby Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Liam: "A slab of self loathing. Not just living the worst kind of life, but actually nurturing it, caring dor it. Complete dependance and desperate need. What is done is done - a little water clears us of this deed." | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Post-modern Sleaze Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Liam: "The re-introduction of sleaze by a conceptual mechanism that turns a once cultural weakness or symptom into a cultural affirmation of power. How many re-inventions can we take? Ironic sleaze? Irony is post-modernisms excuse to shit out anything it wants. Time to wipe its arse." Explanation 2: It dissects the 'Thelma & Louise' syndrome, whereby seemingly happily married women ditch their partners for a trashier lifestyle straight out of a magazine. | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Spin Spin Sugar Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Liam: "12 lines to capitalism and consumerism. The sheer sleaze of life is helped down witha spoonful of satellite TV and a skinful out on the town. Sell me something else. Give me what you say I want, not what I need. It's impossible not to play a part in it." The girl crying is in the cd version. If you had the actual cd, you'd know. There are many many remixes of this song. |
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| Sneaker Pimps – Becoming X Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Liam: "Consequence of wanting to be something to anyone - an audience, a friend, a lover. Are emotions a priori or consequences of other existences. (Phenomenology)." | |
| Sneaker Pimps – 6 Underground Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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6 Underground [Short for 6-Feet Underground] Liam: "At the same time, the most self critical and arrogant song on the album. A complex introspection into personal ability; the occasional burst of brilliance followed by the frustration of mental; drought. The struggle with needing people you could easily hate and having to choose something you dont want." This song is sex live when Chris sings it. Kelli was such a weak vocalist. |
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| Sneaker Pimps – Tesko Suicide Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Liam: "Magazines make monsters. Go on girls you know fulfilment starts with blind independance." Explanation 2: the track was inspired by a drunken argument Liam and Kelli had about the glamourisation of suicide, where Liam suggested that suicide kits might as well be available in supermarkets. | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Low Place Like Home Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| BY THE WAY, Kelli DID NOT write this song. | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Low Place Like Home Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Liam: "This targets a particular breed of person, but has a universal sentiment sent out to anyone who has f**ked you over. Sometimes it's about an eternal victme of magazine propaganda, problem page wannabees, designer troubles. I've got no sympathy. No one is listening." Hey, Kelli sucks. The Sneaker Pimps with Chris as vocalist are far superior. |
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| Sneaker Pimps – Becoming X Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "The symbol 'X' is one of the most abused symbols in 20th-century culture. "'X' is a variable in mathematics," he notes, "meaning that it's a substitute for whatever you like. So there's that instant ambiguity. And when we were in America, someone said that it could be a cross. Then someone else said it was a kiss. Plus there's Generation X, and Malcolm X, and on goes the list..." | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Think Harder Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| ALCOHOL. | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Cute Sushi Lunches Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about hating new experiences. | |
| Sneaker Pimps – Miami Counting Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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So I wake up on my way east I'm ironing out this crease that sleeps underneath me 1 for sorrow and 2 for killjoy 3 the girl who gets to the boy Freeing the girl who gets to remote-control me 10 stops till she drops, dressed up to the 9s 8 o'clock on the dot on the 7th line 6 to the best, low 5 for the rest I'm 4 on the floor Miami 10 stops till she drops, dressed up to the 9s 8 o'clock on the dot on the 7th line 6 to the best, low 5 for the rest I'm 4 on the floor Miami counting, miami counting If she drive us down to the beach Conceiving our kids on the seat She's a valley girl and a mainstream freak 1 for trying and 2 for escape And 3 the boy who made the mistake Of freeing the girl with affections too rare to ease you 10 stops till she drops, dressed up to the 9s 8 o'clock on the dot on the 7th line 6 to the best, low 5 for the rest I'm 4 on the floor Miami 10 stops till she drops, dressed up to the 9s 8 o'clock on the dot on the 7th line 6 to the best, low 5 for the rest I'm 4 on the floor Miami counting, miami counting Miami counting, miami counting 1 for sorrow and 2 for killjoy 3 the girl who gets to the boy She remote-controls me So I wake up on my way east With only myself to please And after today has crashed I'm left with the aftermath 10 stops till she drops, dressed up to the 9s 8 o'clock on the dot on the 7th line 6 to the best, low 5 for the rest I'm 4 on the floor Miami 10 stops till she drops, dressed up to the 9s 8 o'clock on the dot on the 7th line 6 to the best, low 5 for the rest I'm 4 on the floor Miami counting, miami counting Miami counting, miami counting Miami counting, miami counting |
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| Jack Off Jill – American Girl (tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this song was confirmed to have been recorded as a b-side, but it has never seen the light of day. | |
| Jack Off Jill – Nazi Halo Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"Nazi Halo is more about people making preconceived judgment calls and how when they are called out, they usually retract with their tail between their legs. 'You're so predictable no shadow of doubt when you are suffering know who sold you out'. People have a lot to say when they don't expect a righteous answer, I find." ~Jessicka |
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| Jack Off Jill – Underjoyed Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I can really relate to this song, yesyes. Boredom can really drive you insane, I know from personal experience. (eheh..) This is what I relate this song to... When you’re so bored but there’s nothing, nothing and no one at all: Underjoyed. There’s no “friction” because there’s not even internal conflicts, everything is empty. Agreed scumshine, it’s a form of self-destruction. Scumshinedeary, your name makes my insides smile. It causes you to do things (scumshine is lovely.) such as drugs or cutting because it’s something you can actually feel for once. (Boredom can be like depression in ways and such.) This is one of those things you can’t explain well with words. …eh "keep yourself in 6 degrees" I think trying the get the meaning of that line is kinda overanalyzing. I mean, it rhymes with "no one ever comforts me" I know when I write songs a lot of it is a play of words and making it sound – well – good. Songs can be very vague and just hint at the thought that caused it. (I think I made a complete ass of myself in this.. >_<) |
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| Jack Off Jill – Media C-Section Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think this song is simply about the media. People go over the edge to try and exploit celebrities and accuse them of just everything and anything. All this is done just for people to buy the stuff. In doing this they can destroy someone's life and career by exposing something they kept secret. The media then has to find a new victim to watch and tell lies about. "I want to kill on video, I want to go real far Let me kill celebrities, I'll be your next media superstar" If she killed on video all the media's eyes would be on her, she would be the media superstar of the moment. Celebrities try to get the media's attention, and scandals catch their attention. It's all about pushing the envelopes and trying to be as shocking as they can. |
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| Jack Off Jill – Devil With the Black Dress On Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I had to register just because no one was getting the "real" meaning of this song. (Everyone has their own interpretation) You know about Jack Off Jill's earlier shows, yes? -- They put on a show with all the stuffed animals and the blood and Jessicka cut herself onstage and it was insane -- The shows made the kidfans go WILD and everyone wanted to be Jessicka. Jessicka=the devil. Jessicka cut herself on stage, and all the kids cut themselves to just be like Jessicka. They worshipped her like she was the devil. She could do anything and everything, and they’ll believe it because Jessicka said so. The whole song is very comical and nonsensical, really. I hope I explained it well enough? |
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