| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I like your interpretation. It fits, and it beats mine... I thought it was about heroin . I think 50% of all songs are about drugs, 45% are about sex and relationships, and the other 5% are about random events . | |
| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[Diog:46298] ??????? Why do you capitalize words which aren't proper nouns , right in the middle of a sentence... Your interpretation took much work to come up with ... Do you honestly think that Hozier would have penned something so complicated to grasp the meaning of? Everyone over thinks this song.. but at least they're thinking . |
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| Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[PussycatAvenger:46253] I think the song is ambiguous because there used to be .. |
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| Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| My mom used to think that this song was about a woman watching police drag a lake while she's filing her nails.. I think the song is ambiguous, be sure there used to be an old TV show called "The Detectives", so, it could also mean she's watching the TV the whole time while he's watching her. The scenes described in the song "beat him until the teardrops start" could be a scene on the TV show.. It's anybody's guess... | |
| OneRepublic – Counting Stars Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[xemkis:46195] I DONT THINK THE WORLD IS SOLD ON JUST DOING WHAT WE'RE TOLD Wow, alot of rebels here ... ???? |
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| OneRepublic – Counting Stars Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[ChancesAre:46194] Oh, well I think everything that kills me and drowns me is about getting high and getting drunk.... WOO HOO |
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| OneRepublic – Counting Stars Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Significant Other - Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars Me - You mean we're broke?? OMG we're broke ?? What a nice way to tell me.. We've lost our place too ??! No more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars huh?? I LIKED COUNTING DOLLARS, AND THEY WEREN'T DOLLARS THEY WERE BENJAMINS!! WE'LL BE COUNTIN STARS HUH?? GLAMORIZE LIVING OUTSIDE IN A TENT More to come ... |
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| OneRepublic – Counting Stars Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[siren7000:46193] Aww |
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| High Highs – Open Season Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I take this song to mean that a cetrain female he knows is unstable, running around, rootless, getting high with anybody and everybody, and turning dates with people she calls "friends".. Telling her to get on her knees in the fire, refers to asking for help in the form of some prayer to take her away from all the hot mess of drugs, homelessness, tricking... Be humble and start having a direction, something to believe in The way she perceives herself is all in her mind,. She can change the way she sees herself in order to leave that life behind . In reference to looking at the trees, they are standing tall and strong, and they shed their leaves, always changing, leaving the old behind and starting anew.. leaves they have shed off refers to her situation, let it go, let it leave you like a leaf on a tree.. That's my take of the song |
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| Hooverphonic – 2Wicky Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I don't have any insight on this song, but I will share my observances; in the background, there are Latin words being said, and they sound, for all the world, satanic..... This song was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. I don't picture them penning a song brimming with innuendo and metaphors, .... their style of writing is straight forward and non-pretentious. Other songs by B&D 1.Close To You, 2.Look Of Love, 3.This Guy's In Love With You 4. Walk On By..... |
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| Gotye – Smoke & Mirrors Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[DrakeMan:43246] Aw hell no |
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| Gotye – Smoke & Mirrors Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I think this song could be about his disillusionment with God. He is so resentful of Him, he doesn't use the word Father to refer to God. He uses the word "Mother" maybe like mother f----r, or maybe not to give God the respect of Father, so it"s Mother,Idk. This song is tricky. | |
| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I think they might be flushed out. I noticed the year of last post for many was 2005-2012. | |
| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I think you and I are possibly a handful of altruistic followers of Song Meanings? I just realized all these nonsensical versions of song meanings are mocking the followers and the site itself. I love to decipher song meanings. Thee people are trolls. They make sarcastic, sardonic comments everywhere they go. These people must be the YahooAnswers castaways. It really is not funny to diminish someone else's oasis. I know I'm not wrong. I believe my senses. | |
| Nicki Minaj – Starships Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[ILUVU:36797] It is entitled "Starships". Starships are meant to fly, she loves to get high. |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[PussycatAvenger:36796] The artist's lame meaning? He who denies it supplies it. Those meanings are tongue in cheek, facetious. |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Most everyone here is inserting their own life experiences or the plot from a movie or TV show, or believing the literal explanations of others. Feel the music. Leave yourself behind, and hang on every word in the song. Try to put together a cohesive mental picture with lyrics. Do you think a hooker would date someone with eyes burning, shaking, signs of AIDS? She's trying to stay alive to work another day, plus it doesn't have any synchronicity. |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[HitTheDeck:36795] What other creative interpretations surrounding mental health do you have? Interesting |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[bastion:36794] I don't want to be judgmental but I have to say no way here. |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I can't see you mama but I can hardly wait ooh to touch and to feel you mama oh I just can't keep away in the heat and the steam of the city oh its got me running and I just can't brake so say you'll help me mama cos its getting so hard - oh This is him thinking about that heavenly cheva and the initial euphoria when you get the vein.. He can't quit. The city is a jungle and he's ripping and runnin. He is in the thick of it. Now I can't keep you mama but I know you're always there you listen, you teach me mama and I know inside you care so get down, down here beside me oh you ain't going nowhere no I won't hurt you mama but its getting so hard - oh He knows he will eventually, inevitably, be sick. He can't keep her, the well feeling and nirvana he derives from using. You listen you teach me mama /how to be on the streets hustling getting your shit how to be a junkie. Maneuvering, surviving, hardening your heart. Get down here beside me/people lose the strength in their legs and they fall to the floor or ground when they get their shot. I've never known anyone who can stand after doing it. You just collapse. Can't you see me here mama mama mama mama please can't you feel my heart can't you feel my heart can't you feel my heart oh now listen to me mama mama mama you're taking away my last chance don't take it away can't you feel my heart I think he's trying to kick, but the cheva is calling to him. His last chance could mean he thinks about quitting right before he's sick and now he is physically dependant on it again. Every junkie has that moment of clarity where they want to quit.. Can't you feel my heart? I think this could mean he's sick of the life, he is wanting OUT. He's wearing down, he's serious but also hooked. It's hot, too hot for me mama but I can hardly wait my eyes they're burning mama and I can feel my body shake don't stop, don't stop me mama oh make the pain, make it go away - hey no I won't hurt you mama but its getting so hard - oh He is dope sick now. Now he'll do damn near anything to get his lady love back in his veins. I won't hurt you mama/no more thoughts of quitting, no straddling the fence, it's all about the tar now BUT how long can he live this life? He's so gonna die out there. He's willing to do whatever to get it, but it's a tireless loop of one step up, two steps back. Now I can't see you mama but I know you're always there you taunt, you tease me mama but I never never can keep away it's the heat and the steam of the city oh got me running and I just can't brake so stay don't leave me mama cos its getting so hard - oh It's everywhere, someone's got something somewhere, but he can't access it. He sees people on a nod, and he knows what time it is, but he's not nodding with them. Heroin is everywhere in the city except in his veins. How unbearable!! Frustration, exasperation, condemnation for all those who have and won't kick down. It's hell on earth to be a heroin addict. |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[Unborn:36793] S Ok. What other songs do you have interpretations of? |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[phileaux:36792] Yeah, that's plausible. |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[dee73:36791] They totally fabricated that story. Doesn't it sound ridiculous? Trust your instincts. |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[BarnabyHughes:36790] That's cute. |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I think it's about a heroin addict, and he is saying Don't take it away Can't you feel my heart? Your heart beats faster when the legs are gone, legs being the length of your heroin ride. Most music has undercurrents of addiction, drug usage, self- destruction, and hatred, I think. Having adverse life experiences really helps you to understand subtleties and innuendos of music. Anyway, heroin replaces every single role of everyone in your life. It becomes mother, father, brother, sister, lover, and cousin too. It is wearing off, and he's gonna be sick soon, and have to go through the labyrinth of city scenes and burned out schemes, and nobody is in a rush to do that. |
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| Genesis – Mama Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[sandman71:36789] YES! Great minds think alike. |
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| Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| What he said is most likely true but it doesn't apply everywhere. | |
| Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[Aenima21:36788] Never believe what the artist(s) says. They lie. They are told to by their press agents and PR firms, and probably their record companies too. What they say never makes sense. It's bull ????. We the public have to decipher the real meanings; that's why these sites draw so many people to them. We love to figure shiite out, and solve problems. |
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| Billy Joel – Only The Good Die Young Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[TheSameDamnGuy:36787] He is also of a bygone era where Mass was spoken in Latin in the Catholic church in New York City. People were orthodox in the day; my mom's generation. Everything was done in ritualistic fashion. |
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| Billy Joel – Only The Good Die Young Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[serenity12310:36786] There are many false Christians, and he is spot on about that. It shouldn't be the basis for a major life decision of rejecting God based on the apathy of some. |
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| Billy Joel – Only The Good Die Young Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[ExSinner:36785] By the way, Joel is an atheist. He believes in money only |
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| Billy Joel – Only The Good Die Young Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[ExSinner:36784] He also has no regard or respect for her traditions, rites of passage, and her chastity. Go find a woman who has carnal knowledge, and stop being Machiavellian, you imp Billy Joel!???? |
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| Billy Joel – Only The Good Die Young Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[luckytumble:36783] Really? |
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| Billy Joel – Only The Good Die Young Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[ExSinner:36782] He also has no regard or respect for her traditions, rites of passage, and her chastity. Go find a woman who has carnal knowledge, and stop being Machiavellian, you imp Billy Joel!???? |
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| Billy Joel – Only The Good Die Young Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[PussycatAvenger:36781] Christie Brinkley said he was as an asshole, and non-communicative. "Just because someone pours their heart out into a song doesn't mean they are good communicators at home". I'll never forget that statement bcuz it's true. Musicians make for silent partners. Artists in general are sullen, withholding, left of center people.I've never met a healthy minded artist. All tortured souls. |
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| Billy Joel – Only The Good Die Young Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Billy Joel is an atheist. He pokes fun and mocks Christianity with the 'rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints' line. He doesn't believe in any form of spirituality or religion or afterlife I guess. This song is his raspberry to religion and I don't listen to it anymore. He's got a real smug look on his face now, real repugnant. | |
| Gotye – Smoke & Mirrors Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| The person that came to my mind when I first heard Smoke & Mirrors was Shirley McLaine playing Doris Mann (Debbie Reynolds) in Postcards From The Edge. "I did not lift my skirt, it twirled up!!" | |
| Gotye – Smoke & Mirrors Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[yolandawhi:36780] The song is very acidic and full of venom. Don't think she would speak to herself like that. |
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| Gotye – Smoke & Mirrors Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| How do you delete duplicate posts? | |
| Gotye – Smoke & Mirrors Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[bear72:36779] Just because a TV show used a song, doesn't mean there's any relativity between the two. The producers like the harmonies and the melody, so they use it as the theme song or whatever. Many times the two have nothing in common and it ruins the experience for both. Example; Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield came out in '69, but will forever be known as the Exorcist theme, which came out in '73, or 74. The song is creepy, but I don't think Mike Oldfield intended for his song to be linked to The Exorcist, one of the scariest movies in history. "Don't Fear The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult was used in The Stand, but DFTR is about suicide. The Stand was about a virus wiping out the world, and good and evil facing off. No suicides, only viral disease and murder |
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| Gotye – Smoke & Mirrors Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[bear72:36778] Just because a TV show used a song, doesn't mean there's any relativity between the two. The producers like the harmonies and the melody, so they use it as the theme song or whatever. Many times the two have nothing in common and it ruins the experience for both. Example; Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield came out in '69, but will forever be known as the Exorcist theme, which came out in '73, or 74. The song is creepy, but I don't think Mike Oldfield intended for his song to be linked to The Exorcist, one of the scariest movies in history. "Don't Fear The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult was used in The Stand, but DFTR is about suicide. The Stand was about a virus wiping out the world, and good and evil facing off. No suicides, only viral disease. A |
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| Gotye – Smoke & Mirrors Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I was thinking it is the bitter, pent up emotions that he can finally, as an adult, feel confident enough to let out, and let her, his mother, have it. What he wanted to say to her, but never could until now because he wanted the words to be just right, as he has no intention of seeing her again. His mom was probably a narcissistic, selfish woman who gave little comfort to him growing up. Now is his time. I could be wrong. Mother is a metaphor for alot of things. |
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| Gotye – Smoke & Mirrors Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[standros:36777] I like your interpretation. It's solid, and some we like feel that God is a woman, or that there is a co-creator for females. |
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| Gotye – Smoke & Mirrors Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I don't even have a clue yet, but I'm working on it | |
| Peter Gabriel – Digging In The Dirt Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Everybody here, including me, is wrong and right because music is interpretive. | |
| Peter Gabriel – Digging In The Dirt Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[reshpeck:36776] You deserve the Pulitzer Prize for that post. |
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| Peter Gabriel – Digging In The Dirt Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[Aleemay:36775] He was devastated by their breakup. They were starting to entertain thoughts of marriage. I think he went back to his ex wife after this. I know what you are. You don't give a shit about anybody else's feelings but your own. You're a sell-out too, Rosanna. You can be bought. Go back to what's his name from Toto. |
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| R.E.M. – The One I Love Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[PussycatAvenger:36774] A prop can be the device you use for your method of delivery |
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| R.E.M. – The One I Love Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I think the song is about meth. "One" doesn't have to be a person. The best meth gives you a feeling of warmth through your body, and it is called "Fire". He gave it up for whatever reasons, family, career, (two of the best reasons,) and he is being totally disclosing by saying 'the one he loved'. Who doesn't love their drug of choice? |
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