| Bright Eyes – Ship in a Bottle Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Enlightened, wise guy, meets a naive girl. Falls madly for the girl, for who she is in her naive state. He loves her, so he is slowly peeling away her shell, her ideas about love, her ideas about him and the world. He doesn't break it, but peels it away peice by peice, so when the curtain is unraveled, she can see what he's meaning in a soft and more painless way. Love that's in your head, yeah, he wants to be everything she dreams of, really, but in the end he's just giving her what she needs, despite what she wants. He meets her in the middle. Love isn't innocence, nor is it ignorance, nor is it captivated only by the young. Most people don't realize that they're not 30, 40, or 50 years old, but as a life form we're about 37 million years old, life has continued on for that long. And it keeps going, it's a continual evolution. Internal life knowledge, the stuff you learn from birth and death, in the death of your innocence, doesn't strip away love. It only helps you better understand it, but you have to strongly beleive in love, and contunue to love. Because with love, all the secrets come untold, and you don't grow old. Well you do, but you don't, you stay young, but love keeps you young in a sense. When he says young, he's talking about the girls want of being young, but in reality, it's her he's focusing the "we would have to grow old" because he's with her. Love is ageless, wisdom is ageless. Just don't break yourself needlessly, try to love yourself to begin with if you can. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – An Ode to No One (Fuck You) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| You know what's funny. When one idiot says something negative about a song/band/songwriter, and then the next 15 replies are a mix of hatred towards that person. Who cares in the first place? Great music will be great music to those who love it. | |
| Radiohead – Let Down Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the lines One day I am gonna grow wings/a chemical reaction/hysterical and useless Really portray the hoplessness this song tries to throw across. He's talking about how fucked up life can be, how let down and smashed someone can be, and then talking about their escape--their salvation from it all--growing wings and flying away as hysterical and useless. This is a beautiful song. Someone is sitting, very depressed, and looking out through a tube into the world, a fish eye lense, out of their depression and singing this song. It's bleak and beautiful. Make of it what you will. It's sad, not something to wallow in, but something to understand. A peice of life. Radiohead is great. |
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| Sublime – Same In The End Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| just his state of mind thrown across in a song. I don't think it's about people who aren't really what they say they are, it's just him explaining himself. | |
| Tool – Swamp Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| tearsstaindred, I don't think it's a love song. Giving up on someone and going to "I hope it sucks you down" is a bit of a step. Not that it doesn't happen, I just don't think it's a love song. | |
| Belle & Sebastian – If You Find Yourself Caught in Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think the last verse where he talks about not blowing the inhabitans away is talking about his own perosnal fears about falling in love. He's afraid to "wage war" on the opposite sex, afraid of what pain may be caused and whatever negativity that may come after. I like the message in the beginning of the song alot more. | |
| Kelly Clarkson – Where Is Your Heart Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Love can take alot of effort, that's why these lines "And I've always dreamed/That love would be effortless/Like a petal/fallin' to the ground/A dreamer followin' his dream" are pretty childish. The whole cry in the song is asking another person to love them, to move their world, and expecting it to take the other person no effort. It's extremely hypocritical, love is as much of a verb as it is a feeling in your heart, you have to act on what you feel, cultivate what you feel, and give the other person in reality the love they deserve. It takes alot of work. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The thing you have to see in the smashing pumpkins is that they do have a mocking view to alot of things, and alot of these things still stay serious except with a darker tint sometimes. Take a song like "Bodies", it's talking about love but it's also talking about it in a negative way, but that doesn't mean he's not touching upon the subject of love in the song, just because there is also a negative tint to it. This song I think is talking about love, yes, in a mocking way to some degree but it's can still be talking about love, not neccessarily meaningless sex. The lyrics are in past tense: "When I lost my mind, I knew I was in for a long ride down...", meaning he's writing the song about something in his past, or thinking of love in a past tense and not neccessarily in the new and fresh atmosphere that it can often pop up in, but this song can also be thought of in the present tense, taking from past experiences. There is alot of emptiness and bitterness in this song, and I think it stems from the fact that he had a bit of a negative experience and hence the song surrounds that. Love has a dark and light side, and this song kind of tints it in the darker side. |
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| Neil Young – Cocaine Eyes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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He could also be talking about himself in third person in those verses Also, the rest of the song in in first person, so I think it's more about his own personal coke addiction |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Porcelina of the Vast Oceans Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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No, Billy has done some drugs in the past. He was also doing alot of acid during the time of Gish. During one interview he mentioned that he was kind of doing the "Doors" thing, as the whole band would often go to shows hopped up on acid. Alot of the pumpkins songs have drug referances, some very clear ones, so it's very untrue to say that Billy was always clean. Hey, the truth is that many rock stars have in fact use drugs. Chamberlin, I know, has done alot of heroin in the past, he really was addicted to it strongly and was even kicked out of the band for overdosing with their touring keyboardist who died. I've also read Billy calling D'arcy a "mean spirited drug addict" in one of his rants on the band and why it broke up. With that being said Billy Corgan is a great muscian and song-writer, and for the most part I think he's prety clean now. Porcelina to me does have a mild drug theme to it, kind of psychedelic, but I don't think the song has to be about that. Overall I think it's kind of a spiritual song about love and life, and how to take this world. "And in my mind I'm everyone I know, without a care in this whole world, without a care in this life, it's what you take that makes it right." Kind of a song of consciousness. Maybe a song about drifting into sleep, a dreamlike state. There could be a few diffirent themes in this song. |
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