| Placebo – Kitsch Object Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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For me, this song is about that sort of fan that is a little bit.. obsessive. The one's who take every word Brian says like the bible, latching on to him like a moss, because they feel he is the only one who understands them, who speaks for them, and who can ultimately help them. Brian, however, is not fond of these people much. "With poetic/artistic liscence" His references to this could be his way of trying to tell the fans that his work is sometimes more creative rather than autobiographical. His songs aren't necessarily based on actual events/periods in his life, or at least not to a full extent, so people should stop thinking he's great for having been through what they have been through or whatever. He doesn't want to take responsibility for anyone trying to live their life like he sings about; he is an artist, not an analyst. "If your luck is dying, go and plant a tree" Here, he is telling these fans to solve their problems another, more productive way. They shouldn't cling to his every word like above, but solve their own problems. The lines about sneaking backstage are clearly about when the fans go a bit too far. These are followed by lines taken from Peeping Tom (Weightless, bare, faithless, scared), which is a song about stalking. Get the hint yet? Ironically though, in this song he is advising people not to follow his advice... But that's Brian Molko for you! |
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| Stars – Elevator Love Letter Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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whether he's 'hard' for her, or 'hot' for her, these two people need each other. She doesn't know anything about this guy as she's been so wrapped up in her work, staying at the office all night long, and somewhere along the line, she's built up these protective barriers for herself that have turned her 'hard' and made her not know 'how to love'. The man... perhaps he will just take her home, sleep with her and leave in the morning, as the last fewlines of his stanza suggest. But that is his own self-protective behaviour. He doesn't want to do it, as he likes this woman ("her heels so high, my hopes so low"), but has become somewhat resigned to th fact, because he himself doesn't 'know how to love' I think the whole point of this song is looking at these two people's lives, and how even though they barely know each other (if at all), if they could just let the other one in, then maybe they could learn to love. If he would just 'Spend a lazy sunday in my arms', then perhaps they would be perfect for each other. But they probably won't because that's the way life is, and that is the nature of many Stars songs. |
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| Feist – Lovertits (Peaches cover) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| isn't this by peaches?? | |
| Le Tigre – Deceptacon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Let me hear you depoliticize my rhyme" It's quite clearly speaking about those people who jumpon the latest bandwagon. The people who hear Deceptacon and think 'wow yeah this is great let's dance to it.... it's crazy man, I love Le Tigre!'. But they don't get it... LT may make songs that are great to dance to, but there's so much more to them. When all three of them are such brilliant campaigners for feminism, gay rights and various other causes, it must be a complete insult when all people care about is one fecking song with a good dance beat. Of course, like the song if you want, but do them some justice and actually read up about this band, listen to a few other tracks, because all they want to do is get a message of equality through and no one's taking them seriously. |
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| Le Tigre – Cry For Everything Bad That's Ever Happened Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love this. Like tiny spirits said, is is quite clearly a song for you to cry for everything bad that's happened. Whatever it might be. You don't need to wait for a song with lyrics that you can relate to, because this can reach out and touch everyone. It's like a friend who will hold you while you cry, but without you having to explain why you're crying, because sometimes it's just nice not to. But what's more, it's about keeping on living. We can have that song to listen to when we need to, sob our heartsout to it, and then at the end we pick up along with the music itself and it passes, and you can go back t normal. Genius. | |
| Sleater-Kinney – Lions And Tigers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| No wonder this hasn't got any comments... it's the weirdest S-K song ever. Does not sound like them at all. Did she write this for her kid? 'Cause it sounds like some sort of jingle you'd get at the start of a children's show. Decent song, I guess.... but not your usual s-k stuff! | |
| Sleater-Kinney – Banned From The End Of The World Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Remember all the craziness going on at the turn of the millenium? There's just all this panic about the world supposedly ending, everything going tits-up, people getting drunk beyond belief, partying like mad. It was just crazy. That's what this song means to me. | |
| Sleater-Kinney – Let's Call It Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The joys of sex. Raw and passionate. From the lyrics to the guitars to the voice... it's all just wonderful, wonderfull sex. Ace. | |
| Sleater-Kinney – A Real Man Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yeah deffo agreeing with the pressure put on girls to have sex, although to me it seems like it's actually other girls who are putting the pressure on., rather than guys, but I guess it could be either. I think it's odd though that people who can put this much hate in to a song can write 'Let's Call it Love' |
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| Catatonia – International Velvet Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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hahaha true paradise of Rhyl?!"? I hope that's irony. (p.s. love wales... but rhyl?????! haha) |
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| Hard-Fi – Cash Machine Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Erm, I really hope there's no one stupid enough out there to think that last verse about the pregnant girlfriend is ok. That really pissed me off... having such a horrible line sang so matter-of-factly in a pop-song. Coward. | |
| Fergie – London Bridge Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm not normally a patriotic Brit... I really couldn't care less what country I'm from most of the time... But in this song/video... she seems to be rather shitting on our culture. Thank you, Fergie, for making one of our proudest pieces of architecture in to a sexual innuendo (and a really crap one too seeing as no one can actually seem to agree on it's exact deffinition). Thank you Fergie for wearing our flag on your buttocks as you sing this. Thank you, Fergie for performing a pole dance around our guards (who of course join in with the dance moves later on. As they do in real life...). In fact the only interesting thing I can get out of this song/video is the poignant invasion of our country, morals and traditions by some skanky American 'Ho' and her entourage of 'freaks' (which reminds me, wtf has that dancer of hers got on her head??? It looks like a turd.) Still... it's annoyingly catchy and I couldn't help but hum along to it in the car earlier. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Doth I Protest Too Much Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Samysamo's on the right lines with the Hamlet thing. To put it in layman's terms... say like if like a girl like went around telling people she hated some guy, like, and that she didn't like fancy him, like loaadz, then perhaps she like, does, like, like him. Ja? So in this song Alanis is trying to convice herself and/or other people that she's ok with the way this guy is behaving. But in doing so to such extremes, it seems evident that she's 'protesting too much' and she does in fact feel all of the things she's denying in the song. |
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| Regina Spektor – Pavlov's Daughter Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Like myimaginaryband said, Pavlov was the behaviourist who famously investigated Classical Conditioning. This is a bit of a kerazy song, so the best connection I can think of between the stanzas is this: Perhaos we've all been classically conditioned to things in the world, without even realising it. RS imagines that although the experiment was nothing to do with Pavlov's daughter, she may have also begun to salivate at the sound of a bell. And she doesn't notice, or stop it or anything she just 'lays there drooling on her pillow'. But the narrator doesn't want to just accept things for what they are, to just accept that Pavlov's daughter's been conditioned to behave a certain way and the lines "If I hear another song about angels if I see another feather on the dumb-box I'm gonna go to Babylon and get me some whiskey" express this. "yes I'm putting the boulder to my ear and I still can't hear" This describes how she's just not buying it. She's tried doing what they've told her to do, but it's not working. The Lucille bit... well she's watching/listening to this guy. His routine life of taking out the garbage, flushing his toilet, loving his girlfriend, 'loving himself too'. It's almost as if to say, is this all we've become? |
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| Mando Diao – Ringing Bells Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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What? the first to comment?!?! Beautiful song, although I always though the lyric was 'Can it be the new thing money does?'... it just makes more sense to me...? |
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| Metric – Hustle Rose Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I thought this was about a prostitute for ages, but seeing some of your comments, I'm thinking it might not be. But whoever the exact person is, I think it's about a woman/girl who is at a low in her life. She's going out, all dolled up in fishnets etc to clubs/street corners (lol) to find a man to give her money for sex (whether it's as blatant as that, or more subtley as the man buys her drinks all night under the pretence they'll sleep together). Alongside this, we have snippets from the man's point of view, which I think serve to help make this a very interesting song. Instead of being this 'John', we see him as more of a real person, not too dissimilar in character to Hustle Rose. Things aren't going too well for him either, and he wants to feel alive. He has the money and she has the goods. The whole feel of this song seems to be that the world's gone 'cold'. We've all got these dreams of love, and too many people don't keep these 'dreams tight' and end up searching for love in sex (I'm reminded of a Panic! at the Disco line here actually - 'Praying for love in a lapdance, and paying in naiiveity'). ^The lines about the wallet? Well, money gets you what you think you want. And all too often our wallets do seem to be 'lit up', almost flashing at us, and we're sucked in to spending more and more money. |
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| Metric – Glass Ceiling Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think that the glass ceiling used in CatCF that _Lovedrug_ reffered to, is probably just the metaphor being used in a different situation. So while in both this song and CatCF, there is a 'glass ceiling' that needs to be broken through, I doubt Metric are drawing their inspiration from the films/books. To me this speaks strongly of feminism in today's world, of how there's still a struggle for equality, and of how, sadly, we all seem to have given up. I particularly like how she is really drawing on the metaphor - the imagery she creates of the glass shattering in to all these pieces before she ends up on the floor. A current concern for a lot of modern feminists is that because so many people have abandoned the fight, when a woman does finally break through the glass ceiling, she often ends up suffering a lot for it. I love the repeated line at the end, how it reminds us that every time we're 'on our knees', we're being opressed. |
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| Tegan and Sara – Not Tonight Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yeah... in noticed that too 'spill the ink', which kinda sucked a little for me. T&S are fab, they're such brilliant song writers, but then to find the same line in two songs seemed a bit... stingey... I dunno... maybe it's got some important lyrical reason behind it... like the subject of this song is the same as that in terrible storm, perhaps. But still... :( Great song, as long as I ignore that line. p.s. I squealed when it came on Gray's Anatomy! |
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| Tegan and Sara – And Darling (This Thing That Breaks My Heart) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's just called 'And Darling' on my album. But 'Don't Confess' has '(this thing that breaks my heart)' after that, which is odd seeing as it doens't belong to that song. I don't know whether it's deliberate, or just a mistake. But I'm just gonna stick to what my copy says. But yes... absolutely beautiful song. Truely. |
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| Tegan and Sara – Don't Confess Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Chelsei... I'm pretty sure these people are aware of that fact. However, 'Don't Confess (This Thing That Breaks My Heart)' is actually the name of the song. As it says on the back of the album. Hmm... maybe it doesn't say that on your copy, but it certainly does on mine. I don't know why, because I know that the bracketed bit is a line in And Darling. But oh well. I'm not going to go around telling Tegan and Sara they're wrong. |
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| Katie Melua – Just Like Heaven Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Eurgh. I really hate this cover. Her voice just sounds so pansy-ish on it. What I was really irked about though was why she had to change all the 'she's to 'he's. It doesn't flow so well. I don't know why she couldn't leave it like that unless she's scared of being called a leasbien or something, which wouldn't really happen any way, being as she didn't even write this. Hmm.. I have a lot of anger lol. |
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| M.I.A. – 10 Dollar Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Never saw 'Chinna Girl' in such a sympathetic light as most of you seem to. To me, she's not a prostitute or a hard-done-by, meerly a man-eater who uses her good looks to get her things, from basic essentials, to a ticket out of Sri Lanka. | |
| Le Tigre – Phanta Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I interpret it as being about war and violence, in particular that which stems from ignorance. Their description of 'Day Two' always reminds me of those stories you here about innocent civillians getting shot in war zones when they're mistaken (or in some cases 'mistaken') for enemies. It's got that whole feel of being scared of something you don't know much about ('Radar's going off'). 'Text reads "Big Danger" // But this just looks tired', makes me think Le Tigre are perhaps hinting at the effects of authority influence, and how sometimes people can end up changing their minds or actions because of an authority figure or propaganda. They think 'Now here's alright' because this supposed threat has been killed. 'Day 3' seems to talk about the aftermath of the previous day. Now that they've killed this 'Big Danger', they've realised that it was actually harmless. 'Control killed a phantom // From inside their heads' could describe how what they thought they were killing wasn't actually real, but instead just a 'phantom' they'd conjoured up 'inside their heads'. Now 'nowhere's alright' because even the innocent are getting attacked. Just a theory, mind. But it seems to strike upon the same note as 'Bang Bang!', about how quickly people can jump to (wrong) conclusions, and the damage that does in today's society where everyone owns a gun and there's a constant war. |
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