| Nirvana – Rape Me Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Kurt has said in more than one interview that this song should be taken at face value. If you read Kurt's journals he was actually a feminist. This song is about rape culture and the way rape is normalized in our society through that. It's basically the conclusion to a trilogy that started with "About a Girl" and continued with "Polly". |
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| Pink Floyd – Keep Talking Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Waters wrote the lyrics for Comfortably Numb. Gilmour wrote the music. | |
| Emilie Autumn – Thank God I'm Pretty Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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As a member of Suicide Girls and someone who naively used to use this very compliment: It is *meant* to be a compliment most of the time, but it really isn't the greatest compliment because what they are saying is that you're the kind of "pretty" found in magazines, which means they're basically saying you're pretty much good for not much more than their jacking-off material. Of course, most who make the compliment don't actually *mean* that, but it is essentially what the compliment implies. |
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| Pink Floyd – Careful with That Axe, Eugene Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is my favorite Floyd number. I've been working on collecting every version, including its performances under different names. I've always associated it with more of a freak horror than human killer horror... Eugene, to me, was always a monster... human (at one point), but somehow horribly, disgustingly, nightmarishly disfigured. I got that because I always saw Roger's scream as physical instead of symbolic... that is the only sound the creature could utter. And the whole song is about the creature tracking and killing someone hiding in its house. The build-up is the creature walking towards a closed door with an axe, "careful with that axe, Eugene" is opening the door and finding the hidden person, the scream is the murder (a combination of the monster's yell with the scream of the person being murdered) and then the killer closing the closet after committing the murder and walking away. Of course, the monster is insane, so the whispered nonsense is the creature thinking to itself or maybe trying, and failing, to speak... Or maybe I just watch too many horror movies... :D |
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| Pink Floyd – Jugband Blues Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I read somewhere that this song was Syd's self-diagnosis of Schizophrenia. Any clarification on that? |
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| Led Zeppelin – Black Dog (Acoustic verson) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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For everyone who calls this a fake... it's not. The guitar is Jimmy style, and the voice is too Plant to be faked. The style is, if not Zep, then at least very early Page & Plant (from Bron-Y-Aur Cottage during the sessions for LZ III, perhaps?). I don't know if this is true or not, but from what I've heard, Zeppelin experimented with an acoustic version of Black Dog to pop up during the acoustic sets in their tours, much like what tehy did with Dancing Days in a couple shows in '77, only it didn't work out. Again, I don't know if it's true, but it's what I've heard. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Kashmir Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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To Ereinion, Shangri-La is a mythical, non-existant place. It represents Utopia. It can also be called the Garden of Eden. It is a peaceful and beautiful place. This mythical place was actually wonderfully featured in the amazing movie "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow." Also, any song can be about drugs. A song can't be "to beautiful to be about drugs." There is a wonderful song by a band that not many know anymore (unfortunatey) called Emerson, Lake, and Palmer (ELP). They played keyboard and synth rock, like Yes. They have an absolutely amazing song called Pirates (the lyrics of which I posted on this site under ELP; it's a song I recommend heavily, so download it). The most popular interpretation of the song is that it's about an acid trip. But it is a very melodic, and beautiful song. I believe Kashmir is about many different things, and one of them is the calm, peacefull state of the high on some (though not all) drugs. The only interpretation I am getting sick of the Tolkian one. I know Led Zeppelin was obsessed with Tolkien and the tales of Middle Earth. But can't they have at least a few songs that don't have to do with Middle Earth? Is that possible, or are we that desperate to attach a solid meaning to their music? |
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| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I apologize, FenixDown. The Battle of Evermore does seem to be about LOTR, so forgive me for the mistake. But neither 'Stairway to Heaven' nor 'Misty Mountain Hop' have anything to do with LOTR, and I'm still curious as to how you can think that. | |
| The Vapors – Turning Japanese Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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He's either a loner or a jail-bird masterbating to either a (possibly nude) pic of his (ex-) girlfreind or a picture from a (possible) porn magazine. 'Nuff said. Thank G-d I haven't heard anyone say that this song is about taking pistucres. Here' what I mean. I read this in a book somewhere (and wrote a letter to the author, and he wrote me back... I'll tell you what he said in a minute, but I ain't mentioning names): It's about how this guy, who isn't Japanese, enjoys taking a lot of pictures, just like the Japanese. I wrote the author telling him the meaning the band themselves said it was about, he wrote me back saying "that was a publicity stunt, and there is no song in the world that is truly that perverted." I told him about 'Longview' by Green Day, 'Anything Goes' by Guns N' Roses, 'My Sharona' by Varuca Salt, and 'She's My Cherry Pie' by Poison. I never heard back from him. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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FenixDown, You just keep dreaming, there. The "Battle of Evermore" not the "Misty Mountain Hop" have nothing to do with LOTR either. They have a lot of songs about history (for instance: "Immigrant Song"). If you really believe that, please elucidate how. There has to be other reasons you think this song has to do with LOTR then because of the songs before and after it. So let's here them, line-by-line. Oh... I know someone who died because of acid, BTW (and I am talking about the drug). And... LOTR means "Lord of the Rings." |
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| Guns N' Roses – Anything Goes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The song is a very descriptive story about a guy havin' sex with some chick. | |
| The Beatles – Yellow Submarine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Funny... childish... ingenious... and yet another song about getting high on LSD... or whatever. I love this song. | |
| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Wow! I'm new and learnin' a lot here. I heard a very interesting interpretation of this song, but before I post it, I need to say something. Every one I've talked to has said that although this is a masterpiece of a song (which I definitely agree with), it is highly overplayed. And posters here have said that they hear the song so much it's annoying (of course, not in those exact words). The things is, I was first introduced to this song by a friend of mine. That was two years ago. For a year, the only way I heard of this song was when people talked about it (which was rare, because they were more interested in Eminem, Outkast, and Linkin Park). It was only this year that i finally downloaded the song and heard it for only a second time (in two years). Since then, I've heard the radio play it once (and that was 96 Rock, for all those Americans from Georgia and whatever other states get it). The only way I can listen to the song now is when I put my burnt mix (a gift from a friend of about 6 or 7 different versions of the song, all taken off MP3). From my experience, this song is hardly played at all. So anyways, back to the interesting theory I heard. What I heard is that this song was basically about dropping and over-dosing on Acid. The same friend who first got me into Led Zeppelin(through this song) told me this. Jimmy and his girlfriend loved to drop Acid. This song is about how Jimmy's girlfriend died because of too much of the shit. And some of the lyrics ("If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now") are just "fond memories." However, I live by a saying I've taken from one of AC/DC's best songs (done with the better lead singer, Bon Scott): "Don't need reason, don't need rhyme..." (Highway to Hell) To me, this is just a masterpiece, and it, just like all rock songs, does not need reason (or meaning, or rhyme), too be good. Its a great song... PERIOD. |
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