| Tori Amos – My Posse Can Do Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Reminds me more and more of the 2008 presidential race. | |
| Jack Off Jill – Covet Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'd agree with CrimsonPain. Perhaps it is a totally destructive relationship, but that's what makes it sexy for each of them. 'Break me you covetous creaure'... for some reason, there's a kind of power in that line, like she's refusing to be scared of the one who is trying to harm or hurt her, instead she's going to go with it and give him a taste of his own medicine. I like it. | |
| Jack Off Jill – Rabiteen Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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'He said that he would go his own way Wrapped up my leg and down my spine He said that he would be the fairest Drenched in blood and turpentine' What do you think that means? It's my favourite part of the whole song. |
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| Jack Off Jill – Surgery Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Oh my god, this is so similar to a situation with a boy I adored. We never did hook up, though I was crazy about him, even whilst I watched him basically manipulate and control every girlfriend he had. He started out giving me a lot of amazing attention and then switched to belittling and insulting me constantly. I was so infatuated I reckoned it was something I had done, and if only I could change I would be good enough for him. How stupid... | |
| Jack Off Jill – Confederate Fag Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| 'Confederate fag' is clearly a pun on Confederate FLAG, often seen as a symbol of oppression and racism. This song seems to be about child abuse and a mother ignoring it. | |
| Nellie McKay – Mother Of Pearl Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| LOVE this song. It's brilliant how she starts off with that line and then follows through and you realise it's sarcasm. She's amazing. | |
| Nellie McKay – It’s A Pose Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I love this song! It's a great anthem against those privileged, patriarchal, warmongering 'dictators' like Bush, Cheney, etc. I listen to this when I want a lift, or when I've just seen John Mccain on TV ;P There are plenty of tyrants and criminals in the world who had high-class upbringings with elite education and got PHDs - not all terrorists look like terrorists. Most of them are white, male, upperclassfolk. Very current, but also harking back to the 70s, somehow. | |
| Jack Off Jill – French Kiss The Elderly Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| To me this is clearly about old people in a home, being thought of as worthless and ugly. So tragic, and the only song I know about that topic. | |
| Vienna Teng – Blue Caravan Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Could be a real caravan, or a metaphor. Could be literally blue or emotionally blue. Could be all of those things! Maybe the blue caravan represents something claustrophobic and also comforting, calming and restricting at the same time. I also think the 'valley of light' might refer to a sky full of stars - or even a lake/ocean with the reflection of stars. This song has a great significance to me. Plenty of times I've been preoccupied and comforted by what you might call imaginary love and lust - either truly imaginary or because the person I thought was one thing turned out to be someone else. |
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| Madonna – 4 Minutes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Isn't the theme of this a kind of rip-off of the Mark Owen song 'four minute warning', which is also about the world ending in four minutes? | |
| Sia – Buttons Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| To me it's about OCD... counting things, pushing imaginary buttons... such good lyrics. Reminds me of a girl I know. | |
| Björk – Cocoon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Definitely about sex. It's pretty clear to me that it can't be about anything else. Check out the live version from the Johnny Vaughn show - it's beautiful! | |
| Ani DiFranco – Untouchable Face Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This ABSOLUTELY reminds me of my first proper obsession. I knew he was a pretty bad piece of work in some ways but I couldn't help it, I was obsessed and awed. I wasn't with him, he had another girl, but he flirted with me so heavily that in my naivete I reckoned I would just wait for that fateful day he and his girl split and then I'd have him. But when he did split with her, he grabbed another girl almost immediately, and cheated on her with the ex, and that's when my infatuation ended. The rose-coloured glasses were off, and I realise now what an idiot I was to wait! 'Untouchable face' is a wonderful way of describing him, because I got so close, and yet so far. 'I see you and i'm so perplexed what was i thinking?' |
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| Ani DiFranco – Rush Hour Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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'I looked for you and I don't know why, I said I was wearing black so you could see me against the sky Take your big leather boots and your buckles and your chains Put them on a downtown train' I think she's talking about the faces they wear. He wears a mask of toughness, as indicated by the 'big leather boots and buckles and chains' and she sees through it, and sees it's pretentious. He said 'change the channel, I've got problems of my own I'm so sick of hearing about drugs And AIDS and people without homes' I said 'well, I'd like to sympathise with that But if you don't understand then how can you act?' Reminds me of my parents! Lol. Excellent verse. Sometimes people accuse me of being too liberal or whatever, but I'd rather be too much than not at all. |
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| Ani DiFranco – The Whole Night Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I can relate to this song. A woman once asked me out, and I wasn't attracted to her so I said no. But I was curious and a little sad I couldn't say yes to her... it's only when you start looking that you see how complex relations are - all around me are ambiguous relationships, and even in myself... there's not exactly some straight line between 'staight' and 'gay'. Sometimes I think that if one of my very close female friends suggested we go a bit further, I'd definitely consider it. Not because I necessarily desire them, but because I'd love them enough to want to do that for them if it would help somehow, make us more open or whatever. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Manhole Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Totally reminds me of Casinova! | |
| Ani DiFranco – Coming Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This makes me think of New Orleans and Katrina, and I was surprised to find it was written a long time before that! But more generally, it seems to be about government and the way the common people (us) are so far removed from them, and their lifestyles are almost dreamlike in comparison. It's from the POV of the normal people, who have to deal with it, while 'he' doesn't. I first heard it live from one of those Def poetry slams, and the thing I love about how she did it there was the way she tells this story, this perspective, free from that generic anger you hear so much of in anarchist/anti-government songs and poems. It was so calm and human. And it feels like it's about the powerless side of this perspective, be it liberal or whatever you want to call it. There's so much about the powerful side, 'the people will rise up', but this is unusual because it feels like it's about how it feels when your efforts to change things seem to be going nowhere, but there's this subculture of hope anyway. It's such a very bittersweet poem. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Studying Stones Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I love this song so much. It means a lot to me with my relationship with my mother and other people. When I was younger, I always thought I had to keep things hidden from her and everyone else because if I showed my real self I couldn't survive. I thought if I ignored my feelings, they'd go away, and this is what the line means for me: 'When all forbidden fruit has fallen and rotted, that's when I'm gonna come down.' | |
| Jade Redd – The Tower Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Beautiful song. To me, it speaks very clearly of the kind of woman some men desire... she is 'pure' and completely submissive and yet enticing at the same time. She can be taken again and again and yet remain this 'pure' person, who exists only to please him and be an object of desire and beauty. I get the sense that this is about a real woman who is idealised by a man who imagines her as the perfect woman from his fantasies. And the lines, 'no escaping, no denying, there's no exit', portrays how, once you've crossed that line into thinking of someone in that way, you can't go back. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Little Plastic Castle Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is a typical day for me... this song makes me feel good about the way people stare at me and my friend for our clothes and hair, etc. | |
| Cyndi Lauper – Sally's Pigeons Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is indeed about a girl she used to know who died of an unsafe abortion. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Grand Canyon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I love this song! I heard it for the first time last night, and I cried as well... I love that part, 'why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists, in respect of those who fought for this?' So very true. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Parameters Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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pixidrizzl is right, it was about a real incident where Ani had an intruder. I LOVE the last line, 'With his clipboard and his pistol, in your hallway.' It's a different scenario - you've just had an intruder and you invite someone in with a gun, because they're a police officer. It's ironic. |
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| Ani DiFranco – You Had Time Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is so important to me. It makes me think of leaving my childhood, the place I grew up and going to university and feeling like I have to try and be all the things I'm expected to be. Not that I've got pushy parents, I mean that I have to be myself and stand up for myself, and that's what my Mum emphasised to me... and it's hard to know how to be yourself whilst being your parent's child at the same time, knowwhutimean? :P But to me it's also very much about a friend I have who I've fallen out with. The lines You are a chinashop and I am a bull You are really good food and I am full It doesn't mean you don't love someone or appreciate them... you might just need time on your own. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Millennium Theater Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This has been my anthem for the last couple of days... US politics affect us in the UK differently, but still in a big way. Britain and America are so closely allied through politics & media that it's hard for the influence not to spread. Anyway, Millennium Theater, or Millennium Theatre, as we spell it over here, has been a great relief of a song at a time when I feel so tired of the war, so tired of the way the world is because we sip our coffee and listen to Ipods while the world is in a crisis situation. Even the leaders. Or maybe *especially* the leaders, and it's so ironic when those people who need to be the most vigilant are the most neglectful. | |
| Angtoria – Deity of Disgust Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It makes me think of how a person, probably a girl, is welcomed for her innocence, but rejected when she develops her sexuality. The situation where privacy isn't respected, sexuality isn't allowed to be whole and sacred... like these parents taking their daughters to 'purity balls' - they are obsessed with their little girls' 'virginity' and disgusted by the idea of her being free sexually, and so when she grows older, the sexuality drives a wedge between parent and child. This is ironic, since sexuality is personal and private and it's really not something that should ever play a part in a parent-child relationship. She has 'strayed' and feels his disgust and betrayal. | |
| Angtoria – The Addiction Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Speaks to me very clearly of when I was infatuated with someone who would like to play with me... they would get me worked up, telling me how amazing I was, then ignore me and drop me. I love songs which talk of cruelty and obsession at the same time, and this is one that does it perfectly. 'Your heart's as black as the night'...So true! So bittersweet. | |
| Angtoria – Original Sin (The Devils Waiting in the Wing) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it's about the division of male and female, from the beginning. And the use of religion to justify that, even today. Sarah Deva says that it's about Adam being responsible for original sin, not Eve, and it's interesting how the voices of the woman and man are subverted from the original tale: it's the male who talks of not being able to resist, not the female. It's about men screwing you over, but playing the victim - so many men claim that they got carried away with a woman because, being male, they couldn't control their lust, or that they had to beat and rape someone because their male ego was hurt by her feministic refusal to submit and let him be 'the masculine one'. It's so wonderfully angry... I play it whenever I hear some idiot tell me if only women were sweet, meek and mild like they 'used to be' there would be no domestic violence, etc. |
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| Tori Amos – Barons of Suburbia Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is a very important song to me! We're all in a war of sorts, every day, to think that war is just something happening 'out there' is an illusion. I certainly know some carnivorous vegetarians - that's about moral ambiguity. And 'I will let your darkness invade me' - I do try to see things from other perspectives, even if those perspectives intimidate me at first. It is essential to let the darkness invade you, or you'll never really understand. That's the mistake made by so many fundamentalists who are obsessed with 'purity'. What is purity? To me it's the flipside of blank, numb, unfulfilled. 'You could maybe turn this white light into navy' - you could maybe turn the black and white into shades of grey. That's what this song is about, for me, seeing the complexity in decisions, in morality, instead of just having an idea of 'this is totally right and this is totally wrong.' But I do agree it's about feminism. 'It was a slight miscalculation that our friends would be waiting on the other side of the bridge.' - we've fought so hard for it, and yet so many women, supposedly allies, are demonising feminism. Certain solutions which were once potions are now a poison, i.e. they are now the problems. 'You always liked your wafer sweet in the middle' - about communion, of course. This person wants the sweetness, they want pleasure and fulfillment, and it's not going to come from just eating this dry wafer in a dry ceremony. It has to come from within. |
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| Tori Amos – For Mark Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song was completely improvised, on the spot, during an interview. Tori just sang what came to mind and then named it the first thing she thought of. | |
| Tori Amos – Father's Son Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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daneypops, that is an amazing analogy! I had an alternative idea, though... I thought, either the cartoons were the 'offensive' ones of the prophet Muhammad, which caused so much anger to some of the muslim community, thereby just perpetuating this divide within society - or they're political cartoons, which are always rife in times of war, and do provide solace to pissed off people. I definitely think it's about Iraq, or just war in general, and yes, the 'father's son' is probably Bush... but also, it seems to me to be about patriarchy - it's handed down, father to son, not really mother/daughter. Tori doesn't tend to comment on father/son relationships, she's more about mother/daughter, and she is very positive about that side of it. But the male (?) narrator is talking to a female: 'Steady girl on your feet'. To me that sounds like something patronising, something you might say to someone who you think is getting much too self-righteous and angry about something. 'You and your wonderings' - again, condescending... like saying 'what are you like?' 'If you keep my flesh firm, I'll ready those sacraments.' - I think this is saying, if you keep ME safe, I'll be willing to keep doing this in your name. It's about selfishness and naivete. |
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| The Bastard Fairies – Habitual Inmate Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Clearly about OCD. | |
| Nightwish – Crownless Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Also, 'Iron sharpens iron, a truth that once was' - this makes me think of all the things we are told, and then fifty years later, we are told the opposite is true. Racism was the vogue in the 50s, it is now tabboo to be openly racist. We used to be told smoking was good for you, now we're told it is not. The list goes on... | |
| Nightwish – Crownless Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Reminds me of many, many rulers: Mao, Hitler, Bush... particularly Bush. All these wanted to somehow 'fix history' in place according to their values. Bush has made many statements about the USA being the greatest country and the country that will eventually secure world peace. But no superpower lasts forever, the USA is already falling from its pedestal, just as the UK has lost most of its once-massive empire. Mao thought the same about China, Hitler thought the same about Germany. However, even on a personal level, it reminds me of a tendency I have to place people I know on a pedestall. I idolise and idealise people and yet become disillusioned quickly... 'One fleeting moment, and it is all gone.' |
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| Nightwish – Creek Mary's Blood Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Absolutely beautiful song about Native Americans. I'm British, and I sometimes think it's easier to see the hypocrisy in the USA from where I'm standing, on the outside. I hate the way that there's such a one-sided 'patriotism' which glorifies people like Columbus and the killing of 'indians'. I'm not saying that people should be all humble and take responsibility for what their ancestors did, it's not their fault they were both there, and I am absolutely against blaming a people because of their heritage. But still, I think Columbus day should not be about celebrating the 'discovery' of america, it should be about remembering the native americans, learning the reality of that 'discovery' and that they are an essential, inseparable part of american history. |
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| Nightwish – Sleepwalker Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is such a beautiful song, it means a whole lot to me. I seriously love to sleep, and I feel as if sleep connects us all, dead or alive. I really value that, it keeps me alive. Anyway, it expresses how I feel about my dreams and the people in them - I have a whole harem, lol. ;P | |
| Tarja Turunen – Poison Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Great cover! 'I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my name' So true, lol |
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| Tarja Turunen – My Little Phoenix Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think this might be about surviving abuse. It's a wonderful, soaring anthem about persistence through pain, and really a great one to listen to when you're feeling down. | |
| Tarja Turunen – Our Great Divide Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This reminds me of my friend. She suffers from depression, and we used to be very close, and now we are not because of the depression. I feel annoyed with it sometimes, and then guilty that I feel annoyed, but I just don't know if she cares anymore. It's impossible to see things through her eyes. This song really, really speaks to me. | |
| Tarja Turunen – Damned And Divine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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To me this is about a woman's struggle with temptation against religious (or social) stigma. 'Damned and divine' to me says she resists but is miserable as a result of it. I think she is talking to 'god' or an idea of god. She fears hell and that's the only reason she asks for forgiveness, but she doesn't really believe it, and at heart she is agnostic or an atheist. 'It won't help if you wait for me. I'm a slave to the dark. I know I'm not a saint, you see. The dawn is when it starts.' She begins to feel guilty the morning after she has 'sinned'. 'Feel the shadow of my oblivion hoping mercy would show her face' Fear of damnation, hoping to be forgiven for atheistic tendencies or thoughts. 'What will follow if tomorrow's blind? My eternal night.' This seems ambivalent. 'eternal night' could mean 'hell' or it could mean eternal ignorance if she doesn't 'wake up' to the truth, whatever that is. |
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| Angtoria – Child That Walks In The Path Of A Man Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is just how I feel about a person who just cut me off without an explanation, after saying we were soulmates. It makes me feel like a fool, just like the title, a child that walks the path of a man. | |
| Nightwish – Two For Tragedy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it's possible this song is about abortion or miscarriage. She's mourning that life, but also acknowledges that in his death, he's free. Tuomas often writes about feeling lost and desolate, and longing to die or return to a state of unconsciousness, such as with the song Nemo. It could be that he's commenting on a possible positive side to losing your child when they're still so young or even unborn - they will never have to feel that way. --'Sleep Eden Sleep My fallen son Slumber in peace Cease the pain' -- She wants to preserve the good and the innocence, without the pain of consciousness. 'Eden' could mean innocence. ---'Life's just in vain For us to gain Nothing but all the same' --- Speaks for itself, really. We're all going to die anyway, that is the destiny of everything and everyone, and life is superficial at the end of it. --- 'No healing hand For your disease Drinking scorn like water Cascading with my tears' --- She has no choice, but they share the pain. Especially if this song is about abortion, it could be saying that even though she's made that choice, it doesn't mean she doesn't love her child (Perhaps the scorn is toward her), she feels as if she couldn't do anything else. --- 'Beneath the candle bed Two saddened angels - in heaven, in death Now let us lie Sad we lived, sad we die Even in your pride I never blamed you' --- She's not blaming her child. ---'A mother's love Is a sacrifice' --- Again, perhaps she did it out of compassion because she didn't want him to suffer, or if it was a miscarriage, she is saying the sadness of loss is the risk we take when we love. That's my interpretation of it. As well as the fact that it's called 'two for tragedy', which is a clear subversion of the magpie song: One for sorrow Two for mirth Three for a wedding Four for a birth |
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