| of Montreal – She's a Rejecter Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| ...I don't see why he couldn't just hand Dottie a five-spot and be like "Do me a favour and punch that chick." | |
| of Montreal – We Will Commit Wolf Murder Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Okay, I will attempt to provide a veritable blow-by-blow analysis of this song's lyrical content in another post, operating under the assumption that Kevin is in fact afflicted with some form of psychosis, or psychotic disorder. Accepting the above supposition as true (for the sake of argument), one preemptive point can be made now - wolves seem to play an integral role in the, shall we say, esoteric cosmology of Kevin's psychoses: for instance, in addition to this song's title, wolves appear in the artwork for "False Priest," and in a line from "And I've Seen A Bloody Shadow" which recounts having to hide from a digital wolf. If there is causality between these wolf references, the implicit nature of the wolves is then (hypothetically) that they are invading (perhaps resurgent) hyperspatial and/or pandimensional entities - they an "anti-human army" which has already gained the support of our human systems (they are embraced by both government and organised religion), has dispatched spies (both scouts and deep-cover operatives) for reconnaissance purposes, and ultimately seeks to usurp humanity's position as the dominant species on earth via transubstantiation of form. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Pug Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It's about a wrinkly dog that Billy likes to cuddle with when he's angry. | |
| Scarling – Baby Dracula Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I always saw it as a song from the perspective of a girl with a guy friend who likes her romantically, but she doesn't feel the same, and so he becomes upset. At first she accommodates him, and tries to make him feel better, but he just keeps acting like an infant and it's draining her. Finally she just tells him that the best thing to do would be to shut up and let it go, causing him to end the friendship altogether. The last part is like her explaining that he's always going to be alone as long as he has that attitude. |
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| Radiohead – Climbing Up the Walls Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| About paranoia and that nagging feeling that you're about to have your skull crushed. | |
| Blackfield – My Gift of Silence Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I thought it was "Just wanna be over you (over you see), safe in love." Also, incredibly depressing track. Amazing, but depressing. |
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| Blackfield – Some Day Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Also in "Cloudy Now," and now another use of "fuck" in the title track of "The Incident." | |
| Dredg – Light Switch Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I heard it as "the morning fog sends birds away." | |
| Velvet Acid Christ – There is no God Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The sample at the beginning says "My biggest fear is that this is not the work of the devil, because there can be no devil if there is no God! ...and if there was any God, he would never allow such suffering." | |
| Blackfield – Once Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It's obviously about frogs. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Wet Ribbon/Collapse Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Transcribed them to the best of my ability. "Imogen Slaughter" seems a bit hopeless, though. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Last Chance To Evacuate Planet Earth Before It Is Recycled Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Trains, this song, Shesmovedon, and Summer by Blackfield, written by SW. I'm probably forgetting a few. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Drawing the Line Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The chorus feels like something off of Stupid Dream, to me. | |
| Rasputina – Girls' School Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Melora should write a musical. | |
| Rasputina – Signs of the Zodiac Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| "LEECHES? YOU KNOW HOW I HATE THEM!" | |
| Radiohead – Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| There's never been a statement more true than the one which comprises the chorus here. | |
| Pain of Salvation – Beyond The Pale Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Daniel's actually pretty open about the fact that Remedy Lane is autobiographical. | |
| Pain of Salvation – Beyond The Pale Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think he just meant that he remembers starting to have sexual desires at age eight. | |
| Mew – Saliva Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I wonder what makes her saliva so strange. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Mellotron Scratch Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Interesting fact: the mellotron uses taped sound samples, with one magnetic audio tape assigned to each key. Each tape is eight seconds in length, and plays when you press its respective key. It makes a really strange scratching noise when something's wrong with the tape. Otherwise, it sounds like whatever is recorded on them. So "the scratching of a mellotron" doesn't really refer to the sound; it refers to any blatant sign that something's not working properly. That's what's upsetting her. Also, interestingly, the character of David works in sound design, and probably uses the mellotron in his work. Meaning that the evidence of malfunction/dysfunction may have something to do with his job... perhaps, very literally, a mellotron with a worn-out or caught tape. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Russia On Ice Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The title of this song always made me think of like, a post-apocalyptic Russia in a state of nuclear winter, the landscape completely glassed over. Then I finally got this album and listened to it and went "Ooooooooooooh. Vodka." |
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| Porcupine Tree – The Rest Will Flow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Yeah, he did it on purpose. So when the album is viewed as a whole, this track becomes really ironic and somewhat tragic. | |
| Mew – 156 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The "Half the World is Watching Me" version kicks the shit out of the "Frengers" version. Ever notice how on Frengers it sounds exactly like Jonas is saying "from by butt," while on HTWIWM, he's really distinctly saying "from my boat?" I think he did that purposefully out of spite for having to re-record it. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Shallow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's from the main character's perspective, before meeting Elizabeth. He's probably just been rejected by some girl ("Don't use your gender to drive a stake right through my soul"), and he becomes really upset before he finally decides that she's just shallow, and tells himself to calm down ("Bite your tongue, ignore the splinter"). The lyrics of the verses are like him saying "How can she do this to me? Doesn't she know or care how lonely I am?" |
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| Porcupine Tree – Open Car Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Its meaning is very simple, really: Earlier on, a guy named David met a girl named Elizabeth in a train station. They connected, and for the first time since early childhood, David felt as if he belonged. They're together for a while and then, as this song describes, they have sex/spend the night together and suddenly Elizabeth begins to act cold and distant. Things become complicated. Cue "So-Called Friend." |
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| Porcupine Tree – Halo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's "God in THE hole," like the phrase "ace in the hole," meaning a secret weapon or any kind of hidden asset which can be played as a last-ditch effort to assure success. | |
| Velvet Acid Christ – Eva Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's about Neon Genesis: Evangelion. Bryan is a big anime fan. |
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| Velvet Acid Christ – Fun With Drugs Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Yeah, Bryan (the one constant member of VAC) did a large amount of drugs throughout the early nineties. He reformed sometime right before this album was released. By the time of "Hex Angel," he was straight-edge. Still is. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Anesthetize Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I can't decide if it's surprising how well these three parts work together, or surprising how well they work separately. | |
| Mew – Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| ...I've been thinking that the "nice way to wake up with you" is to be shot down, and perhaps killed. The pilot blacks out and imagines himself waking up next to the one he misses. | |
| Mew – 156 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I go to an art college, and this song was stuck in my head one day while I was working with charcoal and a huge pad, so I wrote "156" at the top of the pad. This prompted someone to ask "What's 'One-Five-Six?'" and I replied, "I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with elephants." They looked rather confused for a second and then went back to their own work. |
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| Camera Obscura – Tears for Affairs Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Isn't it "I had to whisper goodbye?" | |
| Porcupine Tree – The Rest Will Flow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about illusions of security, and it's about dependency as well. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Stop Swimming Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| What is the thing Steven Wilson is singing after the second verse? It sounds kind of like "He is suffering/he'll softly land." | |
| Mew – Eight Flew Over, One Was Destroyed Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| From some reason, to me, a lot of mew songs seem to deal with war, and when I first heard this, I got the impression that he was a pilot in an air force, and was able to sustain himself throughout the battles by thinking of his love back home. In that sense, it would kind of fit lyrically with the songs from Glass-Handed Kites. | |
| ohGr – Cracker Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Discernible part of rant: I'm sitting on the back porch so you can make my topic nothing. It's all relevant. What? You want a seat on the back of my porch to talk and wave a gun, come touch my property, rape my bitch, rape my property as if you made a hitch. I wake up and I feel like shit. It's all right, it's all right. |
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| Wumpscut – Soylent Green Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! IT'S PEOPLE! | |
| Porcupine Tree – Blackest Eyes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| My interpretation is that, while it is from the perspective of a potential killer, it's about entering a relationship and feeling obligated to tell the other that there are certain things wrong with you. Perhaps he considered raping her once and thus feels compelled to tell her that he has massive psychological problems. | |
| Blackfield – Christenings Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think it's pretty clearly "Brothers of the devil's own." | |
| Blackfield – Pain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's about loving someone and due to whatever circumstances, never seeing them again. Pretty simple actually. Except the second verse has a bit about rejecting any comfort that is offered to you... |
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| Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| lol, Mr. Clean's comment. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Strip The Soul Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Push the camera deeper" always makes me think of a colonoscopy... but enough of that. I personally think that in terms of the concept of the album, this song is about moments of regret the character (an up-and-coming serial killer) has. It's partially a conversation between him and the voices in his head, and him trying to convince himself either that he's done nothing wrong, that it wasn't his fault, or that what he's doing is an OK thing to do. During the chorus, for example, it starts out with him reassuring himself that there's a reason for his actions ("This machine is there to please") and then quickly, he hears a command from another side of himself to keep acting how he's acting ("Strip the soul, fill the hole") He tries to think of why, and what he's doing exactly ("A fire to feed, a belt to bleed") when another, harsher command comes ("Kill them all"). The line "Do you want a western home in the rubble?" is a thought he's toying with that he's actually doing what's best; he's destroying the old to usher in the new, hence building a house on top of the rubble. The first verse is tricky: "This is my home, this is my own, we don't like no strangers" This is him saying that he has every right to be doing what he's doing. "Raise the kids good, beat the kids good and tie them up" A thought/command from the darker parts of his mind. 'Spread it wide, my wife, my life, push the camera deeper" - this has several interpretations on my part, actually. It's either a command to raise the stakes ("spread it wide" meaning widen your range and "push the camera deeper" meaning dig deeper into the dark parts of your mind, find new ways to kill and shock) paired with him assuring himself that he still has control ("My wife my life"), or simply a "power through sex" metaphor such as the one which was explored in depth on the nine Inch Nails album "The Downward Spiral." "I can use, I abuse, my muse, I made them all." - this is more reassurance that the character still has a life of his own and can essentially do whatever he wants with it. The second verse starts with his thoughts becoming more frantic as he actually tries to convince himself he hasn't hurt anyone ("They are not gone they are not gone they are only sleeping") but then realizes he actually has killed, several times ("In graves, in ways, in clay underneath the floor"). The third line is his realization that he's slowing going completely crazy, and the last line is the complete takeover of the darkside/secondary personality/voices/whatever is driving him to kill. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Trains Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Huh. Here's a little story about me. First of all, I live by some train tracks. In the summer time, a few years ago, I met a girl who I spent a lot of time with, and who ended up being my first real 'love'. We had a lot of good times together, but I knew, in the long run, we'd never really be able to be together, and I'd probably never see her again. Needless to say, I was simultaneous more happy and more sad during that summer than any other time in my life. My cousin always used to come over and spend the night during the summer, and he came over for a few days one week after a week where I'd spent every day with that girl and told her everything I was thinking and all that. So my cousin and I stayed up all night talking about girls and various things like some sort of cheesy scene in a coming-of-age movie from the 80s. The following night, when we actually tried to sleep, I was woken up around midnight by the sound of that freaking train rolling through. So here I am, three years later thinking that always the summers are slipping away. I need to find me a way for making them stay. |
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