| Tori Amos – Virginia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i agree with you Kageroo, give or take some minor details. | |
| Elliott Smith – Bottle Up and Explode Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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the part that is public, that goes on, and the part that is personal, depressed, can't go on,; the part that is "exposed," and then the part that is repressed until it explodes. |
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| Elliott Smith – Bottle Up and Explode Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i agree this seems to be about himself, as if there are two of him that he is addressing in here. there is the one who is "overexposed," for the sake of being able to "get up and go," to exist, the public side of himself. the persona he puts on to get through life. keep the "troublemaker" "below," keep that side inside, put him away. but that's the side that's the true he who will come to surface, as you bottle him up, but that will only cause him to explode later on. and when he makes his appearance, elliott, talking to himself says, you look at him like you've never known him, you're looking at that part of yourself as if that's not you, as if its never been you, those feelings, those thoughts, those actions, but they are, "i know for a fact that you have," afterall, the "last time you cried, who'd you think was inside?" what part of you was it that was crying, he was coming through, you can't deny that part of yourself. "thinking that you were about to come over but im tired now waiting for you, you never show.." this seems to be about the struggle to accept himself, he's waiting for that within himself that will finally show up, the he who can put himself back together, the true him that answers for all that he is repressing. "i can make it outside," i'll get through becoming you" i'll get through this process of becoming this person, i can push past, outside of this enprisonment i've done to myself. |
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| Elliott Smith – Can't Make a Sound Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"i have become a silent movie"- speech is futile, i have nothing to say, "the hero killed the clown" perhaps this is about a woman he cared for who moved onto another, the other man is viewed as the hero, he is the clown, the one fumbling for her affections, failing. "nobody knows what he's doing" "still hanging around" yes what is the clown still doing here, what is he still trying for, he has been taken from the picture, eliminated, what is he still hanging around for> this can be also for why is he still trying at life, he should give it up. the "slow motion moves me, the monologue means nothing to me" the emptiness of living, mechanical actions, useless, meaningless words, experiencing the pain of life as if it is dragged out, slow motion, never ending. "bored in a role but he can't stop, standing up to sit back down" - tired of himself and the way he is, the part he plays in the world, the part he plays in his life, feels like there is an inability to overcome certain things about himself, then the back and forth motion of it all- standing up only to sit back down- making progress only to regress back to the previous state. ( this can be applied to addiction, or relationships). and "lose the one thing found" lose the one thing between standing up and sitting back down that was gained, lose the one thing that he finally thought he cou=ld hold onto (in himself,the world, or another person). "spinning the world like a toy top till there's a ghost in every town" - to me this is the way he perhaps travels the world physically or mentally trying to find something of meaning, instead everything exposed bare, spinning the world like a toy top, as if carelessly, like a child playing with a toy, as if he has given up already internally and all this search these attempts are again empty actions, and turn up already what he knew they would- nothing, for eventually whatever had meaning, whatever seemed alive to him remains in the end as nothing but the ghost of that thing. (ghost of a relationship, experience, the ghost of a feeling, the remains that haunt him, because they are a cold, inpalpable memory). "why should you want any other when you're a world within a world" - to me this is as if he should believe this, he wants to, and yet its not possible to. believing this would make him happier perhaps, it would lessen the need of another, of someone else, if he is so abundant, if his internal world is so full, why should he ever have to look to another to fulfill anything within him, to make up for any empty spaces? i see this last line as yes a bit sarcastic, ironic, sad. if only that idea were true. if only. maybe it would spare all the pain. but even then there is this thought behind it that feels lonely. and this is the irony. |
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| Tori Amos – Caught A Lite Sneeze Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| exactly, pretty hate machine- trent reznor | |
| Tori Amos – Cruel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| as i see it, this is about a man, ex-lover , who is apparently adored by many, "even the rain bows down.." or has this attitude that is of superiority: " no cigarettes only peeled havanas for you." personally, does this speak subtly of her relationship with trent reznor? "celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain" elluding to nin? and while i've read that the relationship was not confirmed, the song "precious things" - contains a lyric "nine inch nails" that in context is not a direct reference, but... come on? | |
| Elliott Smith – A Fond Farewell Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| devastating decline: drugs and suicide are "shallow things"??? what an insensitive, ignorant statement to make. | |
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