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| Butthole Surfers – Who Was In My Room Last Night? Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I guess I've always sort of taken the song on the surface level because I always kinda assumed it was about someone who got seriously fucked (on alcohol, weed, LSD, doesn't really matter) only to wake up next morning and have vague memories of something sexual happening but A) not sure who it was with and B) not entirely sure it was consensual. Basically, an ode to all those mornings of waking up and thinking "What the FUCK did I do last night?" |
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| The Rolling Stones – Jumpin Jack Flash Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think the real origin of the song is probably an amalgamation of everything that has been said here. The gardener story is really a nice little story for the fans and the history books, but it is mostly a starting point; the song isn't about the gardener, just started to be about him.
While I don't think that the song is about Jesus (Mick Jagger is rarely ever this subtle when he's getting "religious"), I could see the whole song having a strangely dark spiritual aspect. The end of the song more or less kills Jack, which would send him to some afterlife after a life on this earth of nothing but hardships. Of course, the other side of it could be that in his death he's become a demon of sorts, enjoying messing with people now. The fact that the song's title is a slang term for heroin isn't an accident, but I do buy into it being about some sort of epic character. |
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| Green Day – Know Your Enemy Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I don't think that the song is about any particular political situation (Iraq, anti-Bushism, et al.) but more about the general need for noncompliance in the face of anyone believing that you're going to just fall in line and do what you're told. I think the most powerful line is "Revolt against the honor to obey." In other words, don't simply comply with whatever you're being told as being the truth, question and take the fight to the system and principalities that oppress you. Lyrically, reminds me more of Warning (secretly the best Green Day album) than American Idiot. |
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| At the Drive-In – Fahrenheit Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"King Creole" is a reference to the Elvis film of the same name, I'm assuming, and refers to the common held belief that Elvis merely took the black culture he absorbed and took advantage of it. In other words, taking something genuine and making it mass market. This song serves as a cry for something genuine and honest. (And for the record, I really think they're off base about Elvis, but that's neither here nor there...) |
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| Muse – Soldier's Poem Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Interesting comparison to Elvis. It also has a very hymn-like quality to it.
Anyway, a really beautiful song. Nothing really to add to the above comments, other than how chilling it is to hear the perspective of the soldier who questions if he should lay his life down for people who don't even appreciate his effort. I don't think this is about the situation in Iraq so much; it could be any war, and any jaded soldier who questions if his actions will actually better the world, or just allow those back home to sleep better. |
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| Muse – Starlight Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think that there is a lot of dualism in the album's titular line:
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Basically, hopes are equated with black holes, that more or less suck everything into them to an unknown fate. Meanwhile, our expectations are put into contrast with revelations: what we want the world to be, and what it revealed to be. This song is about someone who is grasping on to last bit of hope, most likely a person, while everything around him seems to be falling apart. He has to focus on starlight, because otherwise how hopeless his situation is would be too much to bear.
Granted, eventually black holes eat stars as well...or become black holes themselves. Its a really beautiful song, but at the bottom of it all the symbolism leads to a really dark place. |
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| Cobra Starship – Being From Jersey Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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A brilliant opening to one of the most suprisingly complex albums in recent memory. A CD who's entire point is simply to prove that Saporta can be fun and have a few winks. The lines "and can you hear me now/ That I'm dumbing myself down," sums it up perfectly: he's doesn't want to be forever labeled as simply a cliche, and so to break out of the Midtown mode he's made a meta-aware pop record, opening it with an intentionally unaffecting "somber" song in the style of so many sappy emo bands. |
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| Amy Winehouse – Rehab Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The song's meaning is deliciously straight-forward: she isn't going to rehab because the problem isn't her drinking, it everything that drives her to drink. Going to rehab won't fix anything, and listening to soul records and drinking are her ways with coping with how she's screwed up. So in turn, going to rehab won't change anything: as long as she's messing up in this, that or the other, she'll still be drinking and listening to Ray Charles records; rehab is a waste of everyone's time, in her eyes.
I don't see the song as an overall rejection of the institution of rehabilitation facilities, but rather a rejection of her being an alcoholic. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Calm Like a Bomb Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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There are a lot of specific conversation on the injustice in the so-called justice department, from racial prejudice to the questionable morality of the death penalty as well. RATM seems to be here questioning what the purpose of such a system is, especially when it comes to jailing revolutionaries. |
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| Pixies – Silver Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The scary thing about this song is sometimes I have a hard time telling Kim from Frank. |
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| Pixies – Dead Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Absolutely love this and all of Frank's biblical songs.
One question I have: any idea what the line "you're suffocating you need a good shed" means? |
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| Imogen Heap – Sweet Religion Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think that on some level the song is pretty basic: she's singing about fearing all the things we all fear (death, pain, meaningless) and is seeking God/Religion for answers. The song is pretty vague on how Imogen Heap actually feels on these matters, which is certainly interesting. The final verse seems to be realizing that God is in everything, and thus is inescapable, even in seeming opposites. |
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| Modest Mouse – Satin in a Coffin Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Interesting comments by everyone. I think the song really hits upon the point that only do we all die, but that we all will be forgotten. "Are you here right now or are there/ Probably fossils under your meat?" is a prime example of this, saying that in the end, hundreds of thousands of years from now we'll all be forgotten, and remembered as little more than fossils. In the end, it is our own lives that pre-determine our deaths (once we're alive, the only thing we CAN do is eventually die, where as non-organic material can stay the same practically for forever.) |
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| Wilco – I'm the Man Who Loves You Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think the first verse is the most clear, about someone who is trying to express how much he loves someone and always will because that's exactly who is. He's THE man who loves her (or him, really.)
The second verse is a little more complicated, but is basically him admitting his faults and how he'll freak out, accuse (the 'stones to throw' line, which is a clear biblical reference,) and eventually walk away but always come back, because again that's exactly who he is, and he can't help but love this person.
On an interested sidenote, what do people make of the chorus of this song appearing in I'm Trying to Break Your Heart? Is this a prelude to that song's disfunctional relationship? |
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| Wilco – I'm the Man Who Loves You Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think the first verse is the most clear, about someone who is trying to express how much he loves someone and always will because that's exactly who is. He's THE man who loves her (or him, really.)
The second verse is a little more complicated, but is basically him admitting his faults and how he'll freak out, accuse (the 'stones to throw' line, which is a clear biblical reference,) and eventually walk away but always come back, because again that's exactly who he is, and he can't help but love this person.
On an interested sidenote, what do people make of the chorus of this song appearing in I'm Trying to Break Your Heart? Is this a prelude to that song's disfunctional relationship? |
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