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| Radiohead – Give Up the Ghost Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I can break it down as well. "gather up the lost and sold"-animals are sold to factory farms when people do not want them and the dairy industry tears calfs away from their mothers so that her milk can be produced for human consumption, that would be the lost part. All the animals are sick and pitiful, and then he talks about the impossible, many say that veganism is impossible and many vegans think this as well before they do it. I think I have had my fill, he has had his fill of eating meat and dairy. And finally, he thinks he should give up the ghost as the animals are saying don't harm me, he is telling them to stop haunting him so he finally decides to give up eating meat so that he does not have to hear them suffer.
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| Radiohead – Give Up the Ghost Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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This song is pretty simple. Just read the lyrics. Thom Yorke became a vegan a while back and that is what this song is about. He gave up eating dead animals Think about it and read the lyrics again and it becomes very easy to understand. Maybe it is just because I am a vegan as well and I can totally relate to the realization to "give up the ghost" and stop all the suffering. I have heard him talk about being a vegan and that makes it more clear as we'll. He also allowed this song to be in a documentary directed by a vegan called "The Ghost in Our Machine". The song appropriately ends the documentary about animal suffering at fur farms and in factories. |
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| Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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To this post from Oorakhhye, how dare you mention System of a Down. They are a great band and it is not their fault that the very people that buy their records would be against what they were saying if they would only listen. If I made music to speak out against capitalism I would laugh my ass off that the people buying my albums were too retarded to understand that it is them that I am speaking against. We all know that a bunch of cocky "dude bros" listen to these bands and bang their heads because it is so "hard core". It is not the fault of the band, it is the fault of the idiots who listen to it. It is the same as all the jesus believers that listen to Tool, with songs like "Choices" and A Perfect Circle's "Judith", it is not the fault of Maynard (who writes the songs) that he is making money off of dumb shits who do not understand the meaning of the lyrics. Tears for Fears were speaking out against the materialistic capitalism of America and among others as well. However, do not blame the band, blame the douche bags who buy it and just don't get it. It is so sad that if I were to say the very things that these songs stand for, all of the people that just love it so much in this forum would be all pissed off. It is so sad that so few people understand that you should probably agree with what you are listening to because that is what music is about. Oh, and there is nothing wrong with using a variety of words in one's vocabulary, because in fact it technically does make you smarter. |
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| Radiohead – Like Spinning Plates Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I believe that this song is about this book called "Son Rise". It is about a young child with Autism that would take a plate and spin it on the floor and fixate on it and he would rock back and forth like the motion of the plate. To connect with him, his family started doing the same thing and this created a bond between them and their Autistic son. I think the beginning of the song is representing how the child was being left out of the family and everyone just thought he was weird, but in the end when they join him, it all just feels like spinning plates. |
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