| Hercules and Love Affair – Blind Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Andy Butler said this song is about growing up being gay. The gay folklore promises young gay kids that when they grow up, move to a big liberal city or school, they will find love, peace, acceptance, a community, and pride instead of the misery ("darkness") they experience now. These are the "stars", that are getting closer. I'm pretty sure it's not "present my presence" but "present my present". The stars didn't give this "present". Instead, many gay people are still tormented and broken by their sometimes incredibly traumatizing experiences of bullying, self-loathing and not being accepted, and the gay meccas aren't all that they're cracked up to be. So, you need to look inside yourself. |
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| Radiohead – Separator Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Some lyrics are printed on the deluxe edition's newspaper. "It's like I've fallen out of bed from a long and vivid dream / The sweetest flowered fruits were hanging from trees". The dream of being in love was sweet but reality hit him hard. Most of us can probably relate... |
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| The Rasmus – Liquid Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Didn't think that this would be my first lyric interpretation, but whatever... "Go liquid" could refer to, indeed, having an orgasm. On another level, it could refer to being vulnerable or even allowing yourself to be manipulated. "Go solid" could refer to an erection, and on another level on putting your guard up. The theme of manipulation is supported by "I love to watch it when you mess around with my mind". The singer knows that her words of affection are not truly sincere, but he plays along. So we clearly have a sexual relationship going on here. In the chorus, the singer is realising that he's ultimately unhappy with the relationship: "Show me an easy way out." The second verse is about trying to rediscover yourself after such an affair, "forget the love and get back in the line with yourself". Unwisely, he's also leaving the door open for her to come back for more sex: "stay in touch if you're planning to go below", ie. give head. "I love to teach you though you already know" could refer to having more sex, or the singer trying to tell the girl all about herself and her ways, and maybe shows how the manipulation and insencerity is mutual. |
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| Peaches – Sucker Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The lyrics here are way off, seem to be for a song "Stretcher case" by a different band. This is something more like it, but I can't figure out everything she's saying. You've got a problem And you've got it good And you ??? [don't have a ???] Like you know you should It's doing no good for you Oh, no good at all I just took it away now Let's begin the fun You wrote her a letter If it makes you feel better But that doesn't matter You better believe it It's doing no good for you Oh no good at all I just took it away now Begin the fun What a sucker! I want a fucker! How 'bout another? How 'bout it baby? |
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| Goldfrapp – Deep Honey Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure the second verse starts with "You just don't love me and you [????]" It's a little bit clearer in the Somerset House live recording. Great song, in any case. Haunting. |
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| Goldfrapp – Ride A White Horse Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I just realised that "you're my leader" is a pun. Leader, dealer... Of course, this song has many levels like most Goldfrapp songs, which is why it is so great. To user drfunk: most people who do drugs aren't junkies. Imagine that. |
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| Portishead – Magic Doors Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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One reason that the lyrics are vague instead of really specific is that people could relate to them and make different interpretations, but I definitely see nothing wrong in interpreting that a woman singing about a woman in the way she does in, say, Rip, means that the song is about battling with accepting your own sexuality. Of course that's just one interpretation, and the larger themes are, indeed, self acceptance and the pressure of the society in general and such. But conversely, I think that songs dealing with self-acceptance, self-hatered and living outside of societal norms just happen to fit very well into the gay-mould (haha), because that's what many non-heterosexuals feel incredibly strongly, as the outside world manifests its heterosexuality almost constantly in very subtle yet powerful ways. Still, I personally find sad is that when someone suggests that an artist is trying to communicate the difficult feelings a gay person has, users here at songmeanings get defensive, as if liking such a song would mean that they themselves are gay, or that it's somehow improper to discuss that subject in songs. But I think this says more about the world in which we live than the people writing those comments. I remember reading in a thread there that somebody thought Morrissey's Piccadilly Palare couldn't be about gays, because "he's way too smart to write something like that". Yeah. Right. :) |
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