| Grandaddy – He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Davey Jones got it. This song is a reflection on "2,000 Man" by The Rolling Stones. The Stones' song illustrates "2,000 Man" as a man so into elements of the future, technology, and his career that he loses site of humanity and the tangible things that keep us grounded on this planet - our family, our children, etc. It ends with thought of 2,000 Man having two options to continue his life... live self-absorbed in his career and technology, or "come down crashing" after recognizing and owning up to the neglect, and heartbreak he caused. Read these lyrics, then read Grandaddy's lyrics again, and maybe a little about the band. Grandaddy picks up with 2000 Man returning to earth after all his fuck ups, and still feeling lost, disconnected, and misunderstood. From there, the interpretation of Grandaddy's purpose behind the song is arguable. I tend to think while the Stones provided perspective for the listener that 2000 Man could not see, Grandaddy's style is a more introspective. It shows 2,000 man trying to reground himself, and how he feels like his intentions weren't received, feeling used and betrayed by his peers and society's expectations. A major theme to the Sophtware Slump is technology's effect on modern society. It was released in 2000, and this is the opening track for the concept album. Good stuff. |
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| The Rolling Stones – 2,000 Man Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I would agree with Pirtyfool22 on this one. It suggests how new technology throughout the "space race" era and onward will fuel the business world. It suggests the dehumanization of our culture through our obsession for novel achievement, and self-improvements... as well as predicting the abstraction of individual identity that can see now in today's corporate environment: super-specialized jobs, cubicles and office plants, name tags and badges, etc. 2000 Man is engulfed in his career, he forgets his family, his wife, and kids. And they don't understand him. Also note, the word "sun" shown here is just a phonetic play-on-words -- the actual lyric is "son". Like this: "Oh daddy, proud of your planet / Oh mommy, proud of your son" For those interested in contemporary perspective, check out the song "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot" by Grandaddy. It is a direct response to 2000 Man, written by an artist who's career in the 21st century lies within the software industry, and how he relates to 2000 man. III |
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| Band of Horses – The Great Salt Lake Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i spend too much time listening to lyrics and studying music i have a heart for... but i can honestly say, i do the best i can to understand songs as they are intended, not the way i first hear or wish it to flow. this song has taken me months, but i think i have it almost entirely correct. it's not what i thought i'd heard for a long time, but give it a chance... think on it, and think on it some more and listen some more... i stand by the idea that the context is a camping/backpacking trip into Coyote Gulch in Utah, near the Great Salt Lake... then its metaphoric meaning... a person either with another's company, or alone and self-reflective... i feel like it's this person promising to guide his company, who is a total life wreck - the busted up boat, needing an overhaul, and falling apart - and he offers to steer the lake... guide them... we all want one, as in one person to rescue us, protect us, be there for us through our hard times... a Christ-role reference if you will. i'll leave some notes after the lyrics for you to consider when you listen... and if you have ideas i might have missed, email me or contact me on here... -III ----------------------------------------------------------- back of the boat was painted "Wrecking Ball" there was country music playing but he don't like it at all and red fire poppin' on the rained down wood it was a whiskey bottle spillin' in a lake that's made of salt and look out back, well there's a note on the door it saying, "every body listen, we'll be the next overhaul" now if you find yourself falling apart then i'm sure i could steer all the great salt lake falling apart then i'm sure i could steer all the great salt lake and your old man was but a whising machine it's time that you'd spend now he's getting old billy the red found a watering hole its a place to lay sail o'er the heads of Coyote now if you find yourself falling apart then i'm sure i could steer all the great salt lake following home we want one following home we all want one if ever beat down we know who we are they know we all want one if ever beat down we know who we are they know we all want one ---------------------------------------------------------- * there's a ton of reverb and layered vocal tracks on this tune, but if you listen carefully (pull the lowest portion of bass back, and up the EQ in his vocal range) you can hear it all.. 1. "and red fire poppin'..." - breathed lightly as "an" 2. "was a whiskey bottle spillin' / in a lake that's made of salt" -- the two lines are sang swiftly as if speaking at a natural pace... ex. "wuhza whiskey", and "at's made" or "it's made" -- but contextually when you put it in the big picture, you will see it fits. 3. "and look out back, well..." -- again, tune the EQ right... "an look", "it" is also present but soft... and the word is definately "overhaul" sang like "oh-ver-hall". mainly just look at the big picture and remember the song is sang loosely, with pronunciation often soft, and some small works almost entirely left out... "it's time that you'd / now (THAT) he's getting old" etc. |
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| Castanets – Three Days, Four Nights Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i am not entirely sure of the lyrics, but i know these above are incorrect... listen closer... correct mine where they arent exact. ****** there are three days, and four nights to go and I won’t be with you anymore four nights like this to go and/in the trees, like a freeway with that wind a devil howling, silent again and the chill of that sheet on your skin we ain’t free my love we are not our masters the wind outside blows faster drowned in the distance for instance listen as I cross these miles try to tell you “I love you” the walk we take in the rain today your feet in your boots on the mud of the graves the way we refuse to be saved the way we refuse to be saved the way we refuse to be saved |
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| Neil Young – Harvest Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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not sure how much any of you folks like The Shins... but an amazing new eclectic band, with a brilliant lyricist/songwriter, James Mercer. he's done a cover of "harvest" at a couple live shows of his 10-10-2004 is one of them... its an excellent rendition... the way he sings the last verse is: "will i see you give more than i can take? will we only harvest some? and as days fly past, will we lose our grasp, or fuse it in the sun?" he also sings "sad face" instead of "black face"... whats your take on the second verse? i feel like ive got a solid idea about the song, but not sure entirely about that verse and how it fits. |
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| Neil Young – Harvest Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i'll say up front, im just as unsure as anyone else, but i been giving a lot of thought on this piece. first, im not sure the above lyrics are entirely correct, but even with the slightly different words ive considered, the general message feels the same to me... just as Reido and NeilYoungMan mentioned above, only more specific i think... I read it as a man's perspective on his family: wife and child specifically... the marraige is teeter-tottering between hanging on ("will we lose our grasp, or fuse it in the sun?") and divorce ("a change of plan"). i see their child referenced as a kid sleeping in bed ("did she wake you up to tell you")... "she" being the mom, it would read something like, 'did mom wake you up to tell you things arent doing so good'... and his reply ("dream up, dream up, let me fill your cup with the promise of a man")... meaning something like 'dont worry, it will be ok'... the most melancholy feeling in this song stems from how the father is comforting his child (promising to stick it out, maybe more to himself than her) despite the feeling that the love between he and his wife is fleeting... because even if he "olny harvest[s] some", his child's love is enough for him to stay. *shrugs* that's my take on it... |
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