| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Bring It On Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[jabe05:38217] About that video, I can only say I never thought I'd see sarcastic twerking, but here we are. | |
| Seabound – Poisonous Friend Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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As posted by Frank Spinath at seabound.de: The lyrics are based on a dream I had a while ago. I was dreaming that a poisonous snake was living in my house. We had a weird "relationship" as the snake would preferably move on my naked skin (that is, under my clothes), moving fast and without restraint. It was a frightening sensation but at the same time it felt special. I felt special. The fear outweighed the positive emotions though, and I started phantasizing about life-threatening situations involving close company... More and more, the scene blended into another situation: A relationship or an affair with dangerous layers underneath the surface. A "snake" is the perfect metaphor for an untrustworthy individual and I remembered a scene from "Natural Born Killers" when an Native American tells the story of a woman who finds a frozen snake in the winter woods and nurses it back to life, only to be bitten by the snake when summer comes. Dying, the woman asks the snake: "Why did you do this? – After all, I saved your life". But the snake replies "You knew that I was a snake, when you picked me up, bitch". I thought it was a nice fable. It's easy to be mistaken about the nature of things. Can this happen in relationships? I do think so, and I am pretty sure that many people have their own "Poisonous Friend". Torn between approach and withdrawal. Lyrically, the contrast between the good and the bad in the "Poisonous Friend" is expressed through a link between the words "care" and "scare". These terms are so similar in the English language that they almost provoked this play on words. Back to the initial (fearful) situation: Somebody is in your house and has access to your most private environment. Like in old suspense movies, where there are secret doors through which traitors or seedy people enter your refuge. Penetrating... "Poisonous Friend" has a strong sexual undertone. A snake on bare skin is something some of you might find stimulating or at least interesting. Like an anxious (sexual) expectation of what might happen with a partner you can't predict. Danger and lust. Almost biblical, I guess. If Eve had only listened... The lyrics provide yet another twist: "And I wonder how it feels to annihilate a friend" can be interpreted in two different ways. Of course, the main character wonders what the snake might feel if she eventually killed him. But he also considers becoming a murderer himself. Maybe he should kill her. Or maybe he dreams of teaming up with her to become the "lethal couple" in a "Bonny and Clyde" fashion – even if it only was to save himself and direct the action towards the outer world. |
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| Seabound – Torn Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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As posted by Frank Spinath at seabound.de: TORN is all about suicide, through and through, every word - every single letter. Like a microscopic scene, a tiny stone in a huge mosaic, still reflecting the overall pattern, self-similar. We are bound to witness the final moments of our narrator. Together we are taking a bath, we observe. Lots of foam, he is toying around, forming shapes with his limbs, we smile. Warmth, at last. Further props? Candles, wine, downers, a blade, a phone. He is alone and we know that there is no happy-end to this scene today... We imagine the moment when his life fades away, when colours fade, sounds fade. A final image on his retina, a carbon copy lacking colour, a sad silhouette. WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING SAD? You won't see the cut - he does it underwater. But... Prepare to see the water turn red. Prepare to see his face go pale. Prepare to see him wait. Desperate - until he passes out. IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL FIND ME... Oh, he left a loophole... How clever. Are you waiting? Are you growing dazed? Are you losing hope? SHE will not burst through the door. SHE will not call. SHE is not thinking of you right now. SHE won't even move. SHE NEVER DID. |
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| Seabound – Rome on Fire Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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As posted by Frank Spinath at seabound.de: "Rome On Fire" was written in a hospital. I needed surgery after I tore a ligament, and it was a quite distressing time: 10 days and NOTHING to do. I had just returned from a trip around the world, so the contrast was pronounced: White walls, the clock wouldn't move, time stood still. This is reflected in the beginning of the first verse. Gradually, I started to think about the past. Not as if this was an unusual thought for me: I used to cling to the past, glorifying what had been (lost), at least treasuring the good things and covering most of the bad. But this time the process went deeper... I started to feel that I had actually changed so drastically over time that I had become someone else. At that very moment I had an image in my mind of a curious child, happy, and without the burden of responsibility. A child with so much trust, curiousity, and a self-centered view that his world would NEVER stop turning that it hurt intensely to witness the contrast to my present situation. Who had I become? How was I supposed to feel about myself? I started to grow a very deep suspicion that something had gone wrong... That's what the rest of the first verse is about. In a way, the chorus is a dialog between the two persons who are reflecting my past and present self. We tried to strengthen this sensation though the use of different vocal effects for the different parts. It is definitely about self-reflection. It's kind of strange to imagine parts of you arguing with each other inside your mind but I didn't think it was too weird. You don't necessarily have to be diagnosed as a multiple personality to compartmentalize. Writing these words, I can sense the disturbance I felt when I wrote the lyrics once again. Can you become a totally different person? Completely lose faith? Or gain a certain quality you never had? Can these persons, in extreme, hate one another? I think it is possible. Check out old photographs and remember how pure you were and who you wanted to become... I love the image of footsteps in the sand which signal that something went wrong. First of all, there is the close proximity to the sea which is a perfect stage for the "play of your life". However, the "footprints" image was inspired by a religious story I read a while ago: A religious man who has gone through very bad times in his life is arguing with God. In this conversation the man is referring to his life which is reflected in footsteps in the sand. Along the way the footprints of two persons are visible: the man's very own and the footprints God left accompanying him. Suddenly, the man notices that when times got really rough in his life there's only one pair of footprints in the sand, and he becomes angry with God saying: "See, you promised me to be with me all my life - but in times of trouble you abandoned me", and he points at the single pair of footprints he sees. God gives him the following answer: "You know that I love you and that I have promised to be with you all your life. You see - in those times when things got rough and really you needed my company, I carried you." |
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| Seabound – Exorcize Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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As posted by Frank Spinath at seabound.de: "Slow motion movement..." The first three words characterize the setting and the basic emotional tone of the song: Movements are delayed, sluggish and heavy. Still the scene is imbued with "clarity". It is sunny and clear, but cold. The picture that springs into my mind when I think of this track is a rugged coast, plain ground, and brightness. Day and night merge, and the stars- which I would always prefer to the sun with regard to beauty - are covered by thick layers of ice. This is the first omen that this story will not have a happy ending... The title "Avalost" reflects a combination of the word "lost" and the name of the peninsula "Avalon" in Newfoundland. Initially, the track was even titled "New Found Land"; which I considered to be a nice album title for a while until we decided to go for "No Sleep Demon" instead. The narrator has arrived at the coast after a long nightly journey, and he is watching the icebergs moving by. The scene is determined by the sublimity of those gigantic ice formations and by quietness. At the same time the claritiy of the ice evokes painful memories. What is the narrator doing in this place? Here's where "Avalost" becomes a modern version of Edgar A. Poe's "The Raven". In this poem Poe describes, how a melancholic young man, who has lost the woman of his dreams, is visited one evening by a raven who alights in his chamber uttering just one sound that gives the impression as if the raven said "Nevermore". The young man is tempted to consider the raven to be some kind of prophet and begins to ask questions which the raven always answers in the same way. A fatal inclination forces the narrator in Poe's poem deeper and deeper into a spiral of self-destructive questions, until he finally asks the raven "Will I see my beloved ever again?" The raven answers "Nevermore", and the narrator breaks down. I have always been moved by movie scenes in which two main characters who have been separated for a long and painful time, independently decide to visit a meaningful place, hoping that they might find their "lost love" there. Movies like "Indecent Proposal" or "Great Expectations" include scenes of this kind. However, it is my opinion that this would never work in reality. This disillusioning understanding became another central motive in "Avalost". That's why I have the narrator travel to New Found Land, to search for the love of his life and not find her. The agonizing part of it - and this is the real parallel to Poe's Raven - is that the narrator knows what is going to happen... He knows, that she will not be there, because he isn't naive enough to hope that she will leave for New Found Land at the same time. Thus, he remains alone in this place, where the memory of the time when they were together returns so painfully. The second verse is a flashback and informs the listener of the special relation between the lovers that once existed: The magic bond, the desire at their first encounters which were so full of erotic tension that the two of them could hardly stand it. All these memories return in slow motion sealing his wish to die. She won't come, this is not a movie. Reality is ice. Clarity is physical pain, but naivity is defeated. This man will be gone, and the icebergs will sing before they fade away themselves. |
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| Seabound – Floating Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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As Frank Spinath posted at seabound.de: The lyrics are a blend of many personal things and they mean a lot to me. Part of them is inspired by virtual trips into my past. This can be a very emotional experience as I allow myself to re-live all the details I remember. At the time when I wrote Floating, I felt that I had changed for the worse and I had the strong wish to go back. Part of the lyrics are inspired by the Chinese Yue Lann Festival. For one long lunar month during the Hungry Ghost Festival, ghosts are said to roam the earth. I was fascinated by the idea that there might be a time when all members of the underworld are fully active in the world of the living. Chinese tradition categorizes these spirits: ancestors, who are usually benevolent, and ghosts, who are quite the opposite. A third source for the lyrics to "Floating" was Stephen King's "IT" in which a malevolent clown lures children into the underworld. The line "We are (all) floating here" is from that book. |
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| James Bay – Pink Lemonade Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| It's caring about someone enough to push them away when you realize you're not right for each other, no matter how much it hurts or how much you both may want it to work. IMO Delta Spirit's very similar track "California" captured the bittersweet ache of that better. | |
| I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness – The Ghost Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| This could be a metaphor for someone who had a catastrophic loss of someone important to them, whether by death or breakup. The fire is the event that culminated in this loss, the people rushing for the door are the fair-weather friends who fled the drama of it all, the burned-out building is the remains of the relationship that was, and the ghost is, ironically, the living person left behind in that wreckage of a relationship that's still very real and dear and present to them, even as that other person and their mutual friends are all already long departed. | |
| Keane – Somewhere Only We Know Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| "Saudade" is more like a wistful or melancholic longing for something you can never reach, which may not even exist in the first place -- like an imagined past that never was, or an alternate present or future that never will be; it's the shape of "something missing" that can never be filled. | |
| Fields Of The Nephilim – Love Under Will Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Pretty sure this is about the "Red Rite" described by Chaos Magick author Peter J. Carroll, wherein an aged/ailing mage takes a healthy young lover, conceives a child with her, provides for support of the mother and child's material and educational needs (both mundane and esoteric), and before the child is born performs a death ritual with the intent of reincarnating into his own child to continue the Great Work. | |
| The Fixx – Less Cities More Moving People Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Seems to be post-apocalyptic, cities reduced to rubble and the remnants of humanity wandering the countryside, having left their old lives and beliefs behind but still determined to survive and, perhaps in due course, rebuild civilization anew. | |
| Dan Fogelberg – Same Old Lang Syne Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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| Dan Fogelberg – Same Old Lang Syne Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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| Neuroticfish – Why Don't You Hate Me? Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| When every immature breakup we've ever had always meant suddenly becoming our ex's enemy, our first mature breakup where it doesn't have to be anyone's "fault" that things aren't working out can come as a disorienting shock. We're prepared to be loathed, even loathing ourselves for being unable to avert the breakup and the heartache of it... and then the expected animosity doesn't appear. "Let's be friends" turns out to be just that; we've lost a lover yet ultimately have still gained a fond friend instead of yet another new enemy. "What has happened here? Why don't you hate me? After all, that's what I deserve for breaking your heart... er, isn't it?" | |
| Poisonblack – The Glow Of The Flames Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Seems like poetically extolling the delirious pleasures of giving head to a natural red-haired woman replete with "burning bush". | |
| Project Pitchfork – Timekiller Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| He's taunting and rebuking a delusional and obsessive yet frivolous drama-queen lover, perhaps one with a personality disorder (I'm getting a whiff of Borderline here in particular). The amorous times they'd had together were deliriously all-consuming, but now he's recognized her fickle madness for what it is and telling her he's had enough; the amazing sex isn't worth the tradeoff for his peace of mind anymore. For all her desperation to keep him forever, her tenuous grasp of actuality always winds up making her relationships unstable, and he's been little more than a way for her to avoid dealing with the realities of her life by escaping into a dramatic and unrealistic romantic fantasy. | |
| Poe – Control Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[Lilandra:21904] Just to add to your excellent interpretation, there's a subtle point that's easy to miss in this stanza: Well this is beginning to feel good Watching your squirm in your shoes A small bead of sweat on your brow And a growl in your belly you're scared to let loose While it represents the former victim triumphing against their abuser's conditioning, it also chillingly hints at the common potential for victims to "turn the tables" and become abusers themselves, or the Drama Triangle where the roles of Victim, Abuser, and Rescuer can all switch around at different points in the drama cycle or in reaction to circumstances. |
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| Squirrel Nut Zippers – Hell Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[rikdad:18460] Just found your analysis and wanted to concur; the lyrics are intentionally clumsy and corny (out of character for SNZ) to reflect that old-time religion's portrayal of Hell as clumsy and corny. They're having fun with those archaic tent revival show fire'n'brimstone tropes while stylistically keeping tongue in cheek to satirize it and dispel any notion that they really mean any of it -- perhaps even as a commentary on Christian popular commercial music in general, where the "message" so often seems ham-handed or jarringly shoehorned in. | |
| Dan Hartman – I Can Dream About You Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| That "sense of longing, something deeper" and the "strong feelings he's trying to hold back" may have something to do with Hartman having been a closeted gay man who kept his HIV status a secret right up until his death due to AIDS -- a context which makes this and many if his other songs extra heartbreaking and poignant. | |
| Type O Negative – Love You To Death Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned the clever double-entendre of "love you to death" -- in one sense, it can refer to what the French call "le petit mort" (the little death) as a euphemism for orgasm, and in another sense it can refer to "'til death do us part", the customary wedding vow of life-long devotion, so it's both generously carnal and sweetly romantic at the same time. | |
| The Sisters of Mercy – More Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| These are lyrics to a Trace Adkins song by the same title, not sure how they wound up here. o_O | |
| Morrissey – The Last Of The Famous International Playboys Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I just happened to hear this song the night John Hinckley, Jr. was released from a mental asylum, 35 years after he shot President Reagan to impress Jodie Foster, just as the final verse of this song describes. Combine that with references to the Krays and the play "xpixiex" mentioned here, and it seems clear this song is about someone who sought to gain notoriety from heinous public acts -- maybe Hinckley himself, or maybe just someone inspired by him, the Krays, and the sadly many other names since theirs that got splashed across International news media for their similarly infamous acts -- under the delusion they'd be seen as mysterious, alluring heroes. |
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| Jesus Jones – The Devil You Know Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| The title and chorus reference the aphorism, "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't," which refers to people's tendency to stick with what's familiar and routine to them, no matter how bad or unsatisfying, rather than risking a change towards the unfamiliar and whatever unknown, new "devils" that could bring. "The devil you know is the only one" means that there's nothing to fear in risking the unknown if your life already seems bad enough that it may as well be ruled by a devil, however familiar and predictable his ways; there is no worse devil than the one you've already been dealing with for too long. | |
| Seabound – Poisonous Friend Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Simply put, it's about a house spider, probably one he recognizes as venomous such as a black widow. She watches him from her web and, for all he knows, may even crawl across his bare body while he sleeps. In turn, he watches her hunt with some fascination yet revulsion, resisting the urge to destroy her for his own safety. | |
| Seabound – The Promise Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This seems to be about an established couple secure in their relationship who have started exploring swinging or polyamory. The song's narrator seems to have some prior experience in this and is aroused by the idea of his partner sharing pleasure with others -- not in a cuckold sense, but rather being aroused by his lover's arousal regardless of who it's with (i.e. compersion). His lover is new to this and started out rather nervous and uncertain, but after a few encounters is starting to gain self confidence and revel in it, supported by his assurance that it is not a threat to their primary relationship. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Further On (Up the Road) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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To me this song is about the human condition itself, more than any particular character or story. We are conceived and then born into this heavy, material world of shadows amongst the light, immersed in the constant potential for danger and violence, whether we suffer it or perpetrate it or both. The one thing we are given is a path to take, the choice whether to keep surviving and putting one foot in front of the other, or not. Some make their way with violence or greed or both, whether trying to get ahead or just get by, and their ways are in evidence all along the way, but it doesn't really change the road they must travel along with everyone else; you might just as well pass the time singing, taking it easy, enjoying yourself any way you can find along the way. Regardless, we never get to wherever the road leads; we're born on the road and we die on the road. Some say they know where it goes, some have doubts or don't care. Aside from inspiration to keep on going, it ultimately doesn't matter whether a destination really exists or not, if we're never gonna get there anyway. You don't have to know where the road goes in order for it to get you there, not like there's any other road to travel anyway. No matter how well and long we keep walking, eventually our walk comes to an end; we're already dead from the moment we're born. These clothes and shoes we're wearing belong to the inevitably deceased. Those who have walked before us, we will someday find dead and cold, just as those who walk behind us will someday find us dead and cold. We'll only cross paths with them again if there's another life after this one. Until then, every new day you wake up is another good day you get to spend on the road. |
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