| Winston Audio – Nothing to Hide Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| So...am I crazy or is this song about him going to hide a dead girl? | |
| Massive Attack – Protection Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Man, this song just owns. I agree, I really hear a girl singing to a boy about herself in the third person. Maybe she's in love with the guy, but maybe there's just a bond that supersedes mere friendship but doesn't quite fit as romantic love - maybe it's the kind of thing that COULD be romantic love in a different context, but isn't now and maybe doesn't ever need to be. By the way, it's: "You've got a baby of your own When your baby's GONE, she'll be the one To catch you when you fall" The implication being, it's not literally a BABY she's referring to, but a romantic attachment. It really doesn't make a lot of sense that she's referring to an actual baby, if you think about it in context with that whole verse. When your infant's grown, she'll catch you when you fall? What?? In other words, the guy has himself a girl (a colloquial "baby"), but the singer knows he's just going to end up getting hurt, and will therefore get his back when he needs it. It also is again implying what could be a romantic thing, or just a "mere" uber-friendship. |
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| Pearl Jam – Footsteps Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think the fact that the song is part of the Mamasan Trilogy and is about the killer waiting on death row has been pretty well covered. I don't buy the idea that it's also about some other girl, but I did want to add a little twist on the "footsteps in the hall" lyrics. I've always taken "footsteps in the hall" to refer to two different things, specifically two different sets of footsteps in two different halls. First, you have the immediate footsteps, that of the jailers coming to take the man to his death. But you also have him referring to the memory of his mother's footsteps in the hall, walking towards his room, long ago. Sometimes, if something bad happens, you don't just remember that experience; you remember the sequence of events that lead up to it, with the enormous ramifications each of those little events can end up having. And I think the sound of those footsteps might be the kind of thing, the kind of little meaningless detail, that for whatever weird reason someone in that position might remember. In fact, those footsteps, just before the terrible thing happened (in Alive), are really the last memory the guy might have of his mother, unsullied, as she was when he was young, compared to the perversion that was about to happen. Right before she entered his room was the last time things were as they should be. So in a way, there's a commonality there, between these two sets of footsteps. Both of them are a harbinger. The jailer's footsteps, in the present, are bringing physical death. But his mother's footsteps, from the past, brought a different kind of death - a kind of mental or emotional death. |
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