| Radiohead – Paperbag Writer Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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People who suffer panic attacks suffer from a lack of oxygen during the attack. They are frequently advised to hold a paper bag over their mouth which increases the body's uptake of oxygen. So, this is a song about someone suffering a panic attack, or at least over-reacting to something minor. |
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| Madness – House Of Fun Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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A slight correction to the above comments: the inspiration for the song is a scene in the film Summer of '42. In the film a yuoung boy falls for an older woman. He has to go to the chemist to buy condoms, but it's a small town where everyone knowns everyone else (Joe the chemist, Mrs Clay another customer). In his embarassment he tries to ask for what he wants in round-about terms, and eventually leaves with something other than what he went in for. It's a great scene in a great film, and if you ever see it you'll realise that the song fits it perfectly. |
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| Madness – House Of Fun Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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A slight correction to the above comments: the inspiration for the song is a scene in the film Summer of '42. In the film a yuoung boy falls for an older woman. He has to go to the chemist to buy condoms, but it's a small town where everyone knowns everyone else (Joe the chemist, Mrs Clay another customer). In his embarassment he tries to ask for what he wants in round-about terms, and eventually leaves with something other than what he went in for. It's a great scene in a great film, and if you ever see it you'll realise that the song fits it perfectly. |
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| Madness – House Of Fun Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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A slight correction to the above comments: the inspiration for the song is a scene in the film Summer of '42. In the film a yuoung boy falls for an older woman. He has to go to the chemist to buy condoms, but it's a small town where everyone knowns everyone else (Joe the chemist, Mrs Clay another customer). In his embarassment he tries to ask for what he wants in round-about terms, and eventually leaves with something other than what he went in for. It's a great scene in a great film, and if you ever see it you'll realise that the song fits it perfectly. |
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| XTC – Love On A Farmboy's Wages Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"People think that I'm no good Painting pictures carving wood Be a rich man if I could But the only job I do well is here on the farm On the farm And it's breaking my back" I love this verse and the vitriol he uses when he sings the last line. At frst glance this is a song about the simple joys of working on the land, but this man really wishes he didn't have to toil so hard for such little reward. |
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| Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip – The Magician's Assistant Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Wow, what a blistering song about suicide and the effects it has on those around the 'victim'. | |
| R.E.M. – Diminished Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is a song about someone who's just committed a dreadful, dreadful mistake, and moments afterwards, realises what he has done. He is debating with himself how he can explain his actions away, how he can escape the punishment which he knows surely must follow. | |
| R.E.M. – Walk Unafraid Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is about how he was born a brave fearless child, but as he's grown up he has acquired the fears and self doubts of adulthood. He feels the pressure all men feel to be brave and strong and wishes he could just expose his sensitive, fearful side of his personality. He just wants to be appreciated for who he is. | |
| R.E.M. – Why Not Smile? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Something which breaks your fall is somthing which makes it softer. If the thing which breaks your fall is concrete, imagine how much harder you fall would have been without it? Simply a genius lyric. |
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| R.E.M. – You're In The Air Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's amazing that the tow best love songs ever written can be found on the same album (the other being At My Most Beautiful). It took me a long time to work out this was a love song but when you get it it's so obvious, It's about a man who feel like a useless stumbling idiot next to his amazing girlfriend who he feels can achieve anything. Its' about how he feels like a bumbling idiot next to her. And about how grateful he is to have her. |
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| Radiohead – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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For me, I'm with the people who link this song with suicide: "In the deepest ocean The bottom of the sea" He's deep in depression "Your eyes They turn me" The voices telling him to kill himself "Why should I stay here? Why should I stay?" Why not end it all? "I follow to the edge of the earth And fall off" What could be more like faling off the edge of the earth than dying? "Everybody leaves" Everybody dies "If they get the chance And this is my chance" He believes everyone wants out "I get eaten by the worms And weird fishes Picked over by the worms And weird fishes Weird fishes Weird fishes" I think this refers to life picking at him constantly. "Yeah I I'll hit the bottom Hit the bottom and escape Escape And I I'll hit the bottom Hit the bottom Hit the bottom and escape Escape" He hits the bottom of his depression and 'escapes' by killing himself. |
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| Radiohead – Bones Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I feel the people who are putting a physical interpretation on this song are being far too literal. If you have ever suffered severe depression you will know that it not only affects you mentally, but physically too. You get tired, your limbs feel lifeless, like you don't have the energy to move them. You feel broken. You can literally feel the depression in your bones. "Now I can't climb the stairs" refers to the struggle to climb out of the depression. "Pieces missing everywhere/Prozac painkillers" is obviously the anti-depressants which numb the pain but leave you emotionally lifeless. And "And I used to fly like Peter Pan/All the children flew when I touched their hands" refers to the times before the depression when (at least looking back) it felt like anything and everything was possible. |
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