| Porcupine Tree – Normal Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[lintasmic9000:38861] Is the line you quote written on the sleeve? I have the Blank Planet Recurring version and it doesn't have printed lyrics. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Normal Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[Service to busy] This was the first song he wrote for FoaBP. | |
| Queen – Another One Bites The Dust Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| I read it as a song about the competitive society we live in. We're constantly at war with one another (figuratively) - sometimes we win, sometimes we lose, but in the end, we all lose our humanity. | |
| Rush – Prime Mover Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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The song is a soul brother to "Freewill" in that it rejects predestination. Primum Mobile or "Prime Mover" is the deist vision of god - the uncaused cause - a god that doesn't intervene in history (therefore not a Christian god). In this version of theology it is god that "sets the wheels in motion and turns up all the machines - activates the program and runs behind the scenes - who sets the clouds in motion - turns up light and sound...and then merely activates his "window" on the world and watches it go round." After that..."Anything can happen". According to the song, we shouldn't accept the idea that we have a particular fate. We rise above our basic elemental instincts and ignite our both our imaginations (our "higher passions") and our reason ("rational resistance" and "rational responses"). "Anything can happen" and we have to live our life to make things happen - not wait for destiny to take a hand. Several commenters here seem overly focused on the biological idea of "conception". One can conceive ideas as well as offspring. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Piano Lessons Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| I always took the "value packs of 10 (in five varieties)" to be reference to the music industry putting together albums full of 10 or so songs (whether or not they have any cohesiveness) and force-fitting them into a few (5?) genres: Pop, R&B, Jazz, Country, Classical. Taking the art and forcing it into a "marketable" format ("value-packs"). | |
| The Decemberists – E. Watson Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Check out "Killing Mr. Watson" by Peter Matthiessen if you're interested in the story. | |
| The Cardigans – Little Black Cloud Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I think it is about someone with a terminal illness who wants to live in the moment. The illness is the "little black cloud". "I'm not done yet!" | |
| Alanis Morissette – Thank U Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[raysug:5477] Steven Wilson covered this on his single "Cover Version" and changed that line to: "How 'bout changing a line 'cause it don't make sense?" |
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| Steven Wilson – Abandoner Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[CharlieBroon:5390] First word of fourth stanza should be "The", not "Your": "The rope you used to tie yourself" |
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| Steven Wilson – Harmony Korine Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Rain, come down and fall forever Drain the dirt into the wasteland Pray for sound to quiet the howling Feel no shame to break Feel afraid to wait forever Kneel to fade the day's corrosion Crawl, depart towards perdition Grey, the part that moves within you Pretty sure the last word in the first line of the chorus is "break" rather than "brave" per listening to the live version. Same thing for "that moves" rather than "the bruise". |
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| Steven Wilson – Significant Other Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[BitterBosh:5267] This looks right except for the word after "stealing my" (?). It could be "heart" or it could even be "mind". | |
| Steven Wilson – No Twilight Within The Courts Of The Sun Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Draggin' the lake Find the owner of the voice Zip in the bag I drove both across the noise Examine the hairline His archives in the strands You're telling me something That puts the weakness in my hands I see what I suppose I breathe what I dispose Black wheels getting yellow in the sand I steal every idea that I can (? - something voices) a shadow in the lake (Spend corrosion?) she blows this hand grenade I have an aversion to dying in a car I reach corrosion - a suitcase in the dark I'm pretty certain about the next to last line ("I have an aversion to dying in a car"), but the two lines before that are still a complete blank. As to what it means: no idea at all. |
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| Steven Wilson – Venemo Para Las Hadas Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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The fourth line is "Check the pulse and breathing" VERY clear from the live versions and then obvious when you're listening to the album track. |
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| Steven Wilson – Abandoner Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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After listening to a live version and to the two remixes here is what I get. There is only one line I really can't hear properly The other half is somewhere else A plague in the dark whines like dogs I am restless - I am lost Time freezes up flawless eyes. Your rope you used to tie yourself dreams enter planes, scattered remains I reach for you, but not your touch Snow starts to glide. I confide It is definitely a "plague" in the dark - not a "play" and it is definitely "yourself" and not "your soul". I'm 95% sure it is "time freezes up" and not "all". The line that starts with "I reach for you..." is the one I can't figure out. I sounds like "benied" - like "denied" with a "b". There aren't enough syllables for "belying". It could be (and in my mind likely is): "but not" |
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| Rush – Tom Sawyer Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Hmmm....no. Not a song about drugs. These guys have written some songs about drugs (A Passage to Bangkok and possibly The Enemy Within), but drugs are not their subject matter. I'm sure they've taken their share of drugs, but I've never heard a hint that they were into LSD or other hardcore drugs. | |
| Rush – Tom Sawyer Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Except Pye Dubois wrote the lyrics for this (as he did for Between Sun and Moon) | |
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