| Silversun Pickups – Little Lover's So Polite Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Hmmm... Not exactly obvious stuff here, but I guess that's to be expected from Silversun Pickups! To me, the song sounds like its the parents of a young person, in my mind its a girl but it could be either, aand the daughter has a boyfriend who she's always going on and on about, but the parents don't get why he's so great. Every time the boy meets the parents he seems nice enough, but there's no "light show" to explain why the daughter is so in love. The parent thing explains why its "little" lover, cause they still see the daughter and her boyfriend as kids... They want something more impressive for their child, something more than just politeness, and they think the relationship won't turn out right ("steep decline") and they want to bring the girl to her senses any way they can ("smelling salts and faulty means")... The bones collide bit I also see as being about sex. ITs the parents asking each other if their daughter is having sex, and whether it was she or her boyfriend who started it, and WHY the girl wants to sleep with this guy. Then the bit that Nikki sings is the girl trying to defend the boy, saying he's shy, and he always ends up closing up around new people ("it's always the same way") and she's frustrated that they don't see the real him that she knows. Then she tells her parents that if they give it time they'll get to know the boy and see how great he is ("blue"(a cold colour, his cold exterior)"turns soft in time") and they'll be able to see past his "everyday disguise". Phewph. Sorry if none of that made sense! |
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| The Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Oh come on, people, if you can be bothered to register on a website about Song MEANINGs, surely you can be bothered to look past the blatantly obvious surface interpretation (in this case oral sex) and find something a little more MEANINGful than that? I think 42 steps's interpretation is really interesting, since I've never thought about the song as coming from the girl's perspective, but that all does make a lot of sense when you listen to it again, especially the repetition of "just like honey" as the girl trying to carry on taking the crap every day. Personally I've always seen it as a man who's lost a woman and then sees her "taking on half the world"- ie the male gender- trying to find a new guy. He sees (and "listen"s) to her as she uses all her sweetnesss and all her tricks to seduce someone, and then her "dripping honey" makes him fall for her all over again. He hates admitting he was wrong ("walking back to you is the hardest thing that I could do") by going back to her, but he's under her spell so he'll do anything and be anything (I see "plastic toy" as his willingness to become a mere object, so she can do what she wants with him) to get her back. For me, the repeated bit at the end is partly his obsession with the woman, partly him trying NOT to remember the reasons they broke up in the first place- trying to convince himself that she's so sweet, things couldn't go wrong again. And by the way, before I get the same kind of kind, considerate (ahem) reply that others have already received, I'm not saying this IS what the song is written about or what everyone should hear... its just my interpretation. :) |
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