| Black Tambourine – Throw Aggi Off The Bridge Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Minor corrections: Believe the line in section 3 is "Maybe you're singing those songs for her." And the last line is "We both know it's got to be DONE." Great song, great band, wish some of the rest of their songs were up... |
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| TV on the Radio – Shout Me Out Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Really beautiful song, one of my faves on dear science (or any of the albums). The lyrics seem a little impressionistic, but my interpretation is: The parts in which he is speaking to another person, the verses, I know the season's evolved to freeze . . . and from "I know your reason is stalled And your freedoms dissolved In your passion dear . . . " to the end seem to be directed towards someone who is choked/frozen with their own emotions, either from coming out of a bad relationship or other negative circumstances in her life. She's living in a confused/disappointed, emotionally "grey" state. But the singer cares about this person (either romantically or not), and is inviting her to move on with her life, open back up to the world, and (once she has) "shout him out"--he wants to reconnect with this person in a positive way again. And in the final verse, this other person seems to be moving towards that--she has "unthawed" and is capable of loving and being a happy person again. The first and third verses, in which the singer seems to be discussing his own state of mind are still a little ambiguous to me, though the impression I get is one of just general waiting around and malaise: Storm, cast me out So I can feel it in another way I won't talk about things are happening, he wants to have vivid experiences, but they still seem unimportant. Warm passenger's high If I could feel it for another day It might run me dry "passenger" makes me feel like he feels as if he's along for the ride rather than making his own progress, and this feeling of spinning his wheels (possibly waiting for the aforementioned other person to come around), is "running him dry"--wearing him out. So IMO, this song is about someone waiting for a good friend or desired lover to come out of an emotional funk and rejoin the world of the living (and the singer). thoughts? |
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| R.E.M. – Talk About The Passion Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Although I did think a little bit about a Christian undertone to this song, my major interpretation of it agrees more closely with what has been said was Stips's stated meaning of being about hunger and hopelessness. "Not everyone can carry the weight of the world" to me is more of a statement regarding the idea that it becomes unbearable to be a loving, caring person with the constant suffering that is all around us (the weight of the sadness), rather than about a messianic idea of trying to lift the world on your shoulders and save it. "Empty prayer, empty mouths" I think is mostly his way of creating this image of the hungry (both literal and metaphoric hunger), hopeless people, wailing to the heavens, etc, for help but going unanswered, and the passion/his "combien reaction" is his desire to help, and feeling of inability to do so. So to me, this song gives just a very strong feeling of seeing the pain and suffering in the world, and wanting so badly to help to see things change, but being just simply overwhelmed by it. |
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