| The Clean – Anything Could Happen Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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went to a doctor said I looked so hard and with a smile on his face pointed me to a junkyard look for an answer in empty doorways talked to a dancer said it's out on the highways well c'mon doctor won't you gimmie a shot I'm feelin cold boy feelin hot doctor said no boy you've gotta learn first I'll shoot up and then it's your turn -well- (chorus) anything could happen and it could be right now but the choice is yours to make it worth while anything could happen and it could be right now but the choice is yours so make it worthwhile begged for consolation and I got none I haven't the motivation to get myself a gun looked for an end-to in empty doorways I talked to a dancer said it's out on the highways well here I am in the big city I got no heart and I got no pity can't you see I'm on the run can't you see I'm not having any fun -no- [Chorus] |
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| Arcade Fire – Wake Up Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Purely going by the lyrics, this is what the song turns out to mean. It looks like he contradicts himself at the end, but I think that it's meant to be a twist... At first he talks about empty promises being told to him as a child, so that he doesn't have to cry. Blind hope, faith. Something filled his heart up with "nothing." This makes me think he's talking about religion, since most of that stuff is just imaginary, passed down. "Nothing", so to speak. "Now that I'm older, I can see that it's a lie." I think he wants people to be more aware of their own faults so that they can prosper into future. I say future, because it seems like he's talking about how the last few generations soiled everything. The next verse is self-explanatory. He sympathizes with what is happening to new children being born, but then goes on to compare humans to "little (isolated) gods causing rainstorms, turning everything good to rust." Which is at least partially true. Even in places where people are prosperous, the human or social conditions can be absolutely terrible, nullifying everything that is good. The next verse: the master of his own personal rainstorm, he knows where he is going to go when he dies--to Hell. The twist is that he is still religious, he just lost faith in mankind, and is ready to go to Hell. |
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