| Alkaline Trio – Fuck You Aurora Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I can see why people have come up with the car crash theory, but there are problems with it: Use of the present tense. He keeps refering to girl in the present tense, with lines like "You have to be the cutest gravedigger I've ever seen" and "all your lonely nights in the city of lights are much like". He's blaming himself. Unless he was in some way culpable for the accident (and it seems unlikely to me that he was the driver of a car in which a fatal accident occured, without anybody knowing about it) this doesn't make sense. He talks about how both of them are feeling. "My, my what a mess we've made of our precious little lives these days. It appears a big fucking tornado has twisted us up recently. " That doesn't sound like he's addressing a dead person. The person he's talking to still has a life, and the tornado/storm metaphor doesn't work as a car crash. For one he's applying it to both of them, plus it's a bit of an understatement to write that someone who's been killed in a car crash has been affected by a storm. It make much more sense if he's talking about emotions. People are focusing too much on the reference to a car, and the 'you took my only friend'. There are more possible explainations for this than a car crash, and the car crash theory really only applies to those two lines, it doesn't make any sense in the context of the rest of the song. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Some great lines in this song. My two favourites are 'Everything's in order in a black hole' and 'clinging to not getting sentimental'. Both are acerbic and and sad. I think people are overestimating the age of the woman. She's probably late 20's/ early 30's. Remember; she does have a sexlife. It's 'gentlemen', plural. Also, the line 'clinging to not getting sentimental' suggests trying to stay emotional detached from a relationship, suggesting she's not married. Have this song's lyrics been published as text? If the line was written as two separate clauses 'clinging to; not getting sentimental' it would suggest that situation where you're in bed with someone- physically clinging- trying to persuade yourself not to become too emotionally invested. In my head I've always interpreted the line that way, perhaps because 'clinging to' creates the image of a physical act, even if it's 'clinging' metaphorically. Also, she's in a 'very common crisis'. It's a crisis, it's urgent. It's a recent occurrence, or perhaps a gradual decline that she's recently realised. Either way, this isn't an old woman, she's only just noticed that things have changed. I love how upbeat this song sounds, while the subject-matter is so pessimistic and glum. It reminds me of 'Like a Rolling Stone', with a male speaker directing cruel jibes towards a woman, set to catchy, uplifting, music. It creates a sense of schadenfreude which says as much about the speaker as the person to whom the words are directed. The lyrics leave a space for us to wonder where the bitterness came from, a whole unspoken, bitterly broken relationship is suggested. |
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| Pixies – Dig For Fire Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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There are so many interpretations on this site from people who don't really bother refering to the lyrics, instead they just give their own thoughts based on almost nothing and try to pass it off as meaningful. To show you what I mean, here are a few totally wrong and made up meanings for this song: 1) It's about grave diggers and the fire they are digging for is hell. The old man is someone who didn't have faith when he was alive so he must suffer for eternity. 2) It's about getting old, and how we are all returned to the earth when we die. The "fire" is the centre of the earth, and people just spend their whole life getting closer to rejoining it. 3) It's about how some things are more important than money. The "fire" is passion and love, that's what these people are working at, rather than "the mother load" which is cash. That's what these wise old people care about and FB wants to be like them. I mean, these interpretations actually make a bit of sense if you're selective enough, but I've just pulled them out of my ass- it's very easy to do. Don't beleive every stupid theory you read on here. |
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| The Jam – Down In The Tube Station At Midnight Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Does anyone else think that the man dies and is looking back at the inncodent from after death? Here's why i think so: He's clearly travelling home at dinner time "She'll be lining up the cutlery". Yet he is still in the tube station at midnight. Can you think of a reason why he should still be there about 6 hours later? He is talking in the past tense about lying, concious, on the ground "I glanced back on my life". This suggests that time has elaspsed since the end of the attack. Yet there is no talk of him recovering. The many hints that this attack could be fatal: "Jesus Saves", "My life swam around me" and "drowned me". This would be overly-dramatic if it was just a case of a man getting beat up. The word "midnight": What is midnight? Its the end of a day/ start of a new one. This may be a metaphor for the end of a life. Its midnight for a reason, I'm guessin that is it. Finally, and this is speculative and I may very well be wrong in this assumption, but is the London underground not shut at midnight? In Glasgow, where I live, the subway and inner-city train network shut at 1130pm. If he is still in the station at midnight he must be dead. There's no way they'd lock him in, so the only explaination is that its a crime-scene and his body has not yet been moved. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Shakedown 1979 Cool kids never have the time On a live wire right up off the street You and I should meet This suggests the typical longing for connection felt by most suburban teenagers. Notice that the speaker seems to speaking only to himself; “Cool kids never have the time”. The next 2 lines are that yearning for a specific friend (perhaps a girl) “on a live wire right up off the street” A telephone wire perhaps? It also seems to point towards that desire all teenage boys have, they want to be “live wires”- dangerous, outgoing and generally interesting. Junebug skipping like a stone With the headlights pointed at the dawn We were sure we'd never see an end To it all I’ve read that Junebug was a song Billy was fond of when he was young, the “skipping like a stone” also creates the image of carefree times by the sea. Notice also that the speaker now appears to be older than in verse 1. He has access to a car, and refers now to “we” rather than “I”; he now has friends he was longing for. The “headlights pointed at the dawn” creates the sense of looking to the future. In the next line however, the speaker is now reflecting on the past, no longer speaking as a teenager. There’s real sorrow in the last 2 lines of this verse. And I don't even care To shake these zipper blues And we don't know Just where our bones will rest to dust I guess forgotten and absorbed Into the earth below Again we are back to the voice of the teenager. “zipper blues” may be sexual frustration. I think he is saying that, although this is the source of a lot of paint for teenagers, it doesn’t even occur to him that this will change. “we don’t know…where our bones will rest” paints the picture of a young person who still has no idea where his life will go. As we see later in the song, it suggests that he doubts that he will even be in his current city/town later in life. Double cross the vacant and the bored They're not sure just what we have in store Morphine city slippin dues Down to see The first line is a reference to how teenagers are often quite ruthless in how they pursue a good time. The “vacant and bored” are peers who they don’t want to spend time with because they are seen as dull. This is perhaps a nod to the voice in the first verse longing for “cool kids”. Is he now one of those cool kids he used to idolise? The idea of morphine could be that of using drugs to suppress pain, I’m guessing it’s a metaphor for teenagers’ drinking/smoking pot. Morphine is also very similar to heroin, is the speaker now loosing innocence and being exposed to the destructive behaviour in the city? That we don't even care As restless as we are We feel the pull In the land of a thousand guilts And poured cement Lamented and assured To the lights and towns below Faster than the speed of sound Faster than we thought we'd go Beneath the sound of hope The first two lines represent that teenage dichotomy of emotion- you are both carefree and incredibly caught up in yourself, so at the time your problems seem real, but as you get older they seem insignificant. Feeling the pull of “the land of a thousand guilts and poured cement” seems to be corgan’s gothic phase- very melodramatic language coupled with the desire to head for the big city and make something of yourself, in this case, musically. The part of the verse about speed refers to the speed at which time passes “faster than we thought we’d go”. As if he has been taken by surprise by how quickly “we” have aged. Is “beneath the sound of hope” the idea that there’s nothing that can be done about it? The line “lights and towns below” has a personal meaning for me, as, when I was walking home from school there was a railway bridge, which by a strange illusion made it look like my neighbourhood was hovering above the neighbourhood I was walking through. Sitting in my home I often reminisce about my old school, which is in a particularly beautiful part of the city- I feel drawn to “the town below” the railway bridge and my childhood. Justine never knew the rules Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls No apologies ever need be made I know you better than you fake it Notice the speaker is now alone again, and like at the end of the previous verse is now looking back at the past. This is particularly warm verse; he is saying to his friend “no matter how you change, you will always be the same person to me”. Anyone older than 16 will have friends from their childhood who have changed, but no matter how much they try to transform their image, these friends always retain the essence of the person you first knew them as. The street heats the urgency of sound As you can see there's no one around I’ve always thought he sings “street heats the urgency up now” in this line, but either way I think it means this: He is walking down the street where he grew up, probably in a metaphorical sense, this brings back the “urgency” teenagers feel in their lives- everything is about now, not latter. He soon realises, to his disappointment, that the people that made this place special are no longer there. This brings the dreadful realisation that memories cannot be relived, because the people who created them have moved on. I think this song is particularly poignant because of the tone of the last line of each verse- always tinged with sadness. Yet the song as a whole is not depressing- it displays the range of emotions you’d expect from a review of the past. However, I think its fair to say that regret is the overriding sense that this song evokes. I realise that this is a song, and the music is just as important as the lyrics, but I can’t really talk about music using text alone. |
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