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| Biffy Clyro – There's No Such Thing as a Jaggy Snake Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Taking this in the context of other Biffy songs, it seems that Simon has his own ideas about what he wants to do and what he wants to write in his songs, but at times he is criticised for doing so. The song seems quite defiant - and I wonder if the snake is like his conscience having a go at him because of beliefs that he has been brought up with? The reference to the forked tongue may hint at the hypocrisy of the Christian church. Just a few ideas! The song "God and Satan" on Biffy's new album kind of backs up this idea of inner conflict I feel. Anyway, I do love this song and it was awesome played live in Manchester on 7 Nov! |
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| The Cure – From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I love this song. The lyrics are so poetic, as are so many of the Cure's lyrics. And it describes the anguish of a doomed love affair so well - that longing for fulfillment, the lies that they use to try and persuade themselves it is right ..."We'll be here forever and we'll never say goodbye..." (yeah, I've heard that one before...) but it will all end in heart break because they know they are "Looking for something forever gone..." Love can be wonderful beyond words but "Only love can break your heart," (Neil Young, of course) and nothing hurts quite like heartbreak. |
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| The Cure – Apart Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song speaks simply and powerfully about the way communication breaks down between two people who were in loving but are drifting apart - they each wish the other to do something or say something they desperately want to hear, but they don't tell each other what that thing is...they just wait and hope it happens, but it never does. The almost telepathic communication of young intense love has gone, and they haven't learnt to bridge the gap. After 21 years of marriage, I can feel it happening all the time, the silences, the expectations that come to nought, the hope of love returning slowly dying... |
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| The Cure – Open Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Yeah I've felt just like this, many many times - except not done the drugs - but my slip of heaven was just excessive alcohol to try and numb my pain and stuff down that emptiness that was trying to scream out of my mouth...twenty years later in the grip of depression I still feel the same about the false smiles - trying to say I'm okay and carry on - sick of antidepressants and the side-effects, self-harming to get by, and "the way the rain comes down hard...that's the way I feel inside..." |
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| Alien Ant Farm – Death Day Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It's a very sinister song, more so because it sounds like it is a cheery song, judging by the music and the way the chorus resolves in a major key. You could easliy sing along with it then a chill runs through you as you realise what the lyrics are! The guy was consumed with jealousy and imagines killing his girl, even though he loves her still...that's what I think anyway! |
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| The Cure – Homesick Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is one of those wonderful understated songs by the Cure - a few lines which say so much and spark off the imagination. You can almost imagine the scene - a dusk filled with foreboding, the sunset streaking the sky with red as clouds roll in, and the tormented soul pacing the streets trying to work out what he should do...sometimes you just don't want to go home...things there are too uncomfortable; maybe it feels like a prison, maybe it tempts you into self-destructive behaviour, maybe you just need the courage not to go back there again...you are sick of home (hence "the homesick") |
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| The Cure – The Same Deep Water as You Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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A powerfully emotive song. I think the suicide pact is the most likely meaning. I wonder if "the shallow drowned lose less than we" is a reflection of shallowness in people - perhaps the deeper the personality, the deeper the water needed to take away that life? Perhaps drowning in deep water also implies deeper commitment. |
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