| Gorillaz – Doncamatic (All Played Out) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I didn't like this song. At all. I understand that one of the main points of Gorillaz is to parody current pop, but this is edging further away from parody and closer to actually embracing mainstream pop sounds and thoughts. Don't get me wrong: The song isn't bad. It's quality, the synthetic brass stuff towards the beginning is creative, and Daley's vocals are good. But it focuses so little on Gorillaz's contributions that I feel like Daley could have just done the song on his own, without attaching himself to the Gorillaz name. I also accept that a band will evolve over time. All of them do. I respect that. But this isn't evolution of sound. Gorillaz has always gotten my attention by changing their sound, while still sounding very different from the rest of mainstream pop. But this could be any other song on the radio. It's maddening. |
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| Hole – Pacific Coast Highway Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Kurt undertones. I like that. :D For my part, I'd say the song is about how he was someone she loved, but he left. All he really left was the gun. The last thing he touched. "Miles and miles of regret" sounds like all the the things she wished she had done or said. This song reeks of remorse and the bereaved. |
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| Hole – Letter To God Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This is difficult to say. If you check the Wikipedia article, it says that Courtney wrote maybe one line of it and the rest was a woman named Linda something. | |
| Hole – Someone Else's Bed Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think she's trying to evaluate why she's in love with someone when he's cheating on her. The person barely knows her: "Do you even know why I am suffering?" | |
| Hole – For Once In Your Life Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Merciful GOD, I love this song. I think its about begging someone to stay. The singer has been hurt, hurt other people in the process of dealing with it, but now that she's finally clean, she realizes that she's hurt quite a few people in dealing with herself. So now she's begging them to come back. | |
| Blaqk Audio – The Fear Of Being Found Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I love this song. It makes me think of a couple making up after a long breakup. The singer has missed the other person, and they're sitting down (to drinks?) just like they used to. Towards the end, on the "Shall we? Nothing's different," he's trying to coax the other person into bed, assuring them that nothing has changed between them. It's a sweet song. | |
| Blaqk Audio – The Love Letter Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I always get the feeling of someone becoming something that the other person is disgusted with, but the singer doesn't want them to see him that way, so he asks them to "avert their eyes." Some kind of bomber or something that he didn't used to be but now that he's "draped it in cold and in clarity," he finds himself able to enjoy how he's become. Even so, the singer understands that the subject of the song might find what the singer is doing repulsive, so he begs them to "Please hide your eyes." | |
| Blaqk Audio – Wake Up, Open the Door and Escape to the Sea Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I've always thought that this song sounded like a breakup in winter. I can just see two people, bundled in black wool coats with about a foot of snow on the ground, and one person tells the other its over. "God tell me how we ever got this cold." | |
| Rilo Kiley – Does He Love You? Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Oh God, this song. I wrote a short story about this song once. Basically, a woman spends the day chit-chatting with her old friend, talking about how she's getting married and what a shock it is considering how her friend used to be. That is, flawed if she's not free. But the narrator doesn't seem to mind, because her friend seems happy. Meanwhile, the narrator is seeing a "married man" who's going to come live with her in California. Later, that night, the narrator picks up the phone to hear that her friend hadn't really loved her husband until she realized he was going to leave her for someone in California. The narrator, putting two and two together, tells her friend not to worry because she needs her freedom and that the husband will never leave her. I've always thought it was interesting to try and place which of the three people you'd rather be in the scenario. If you're the friend, you get what you want in the end in the sense that your husband will stay with you, but you suffer the most emotional stress. If you're the husband, you get the prideful feeling that you will always have company, but at the same time, you don't get to pick whose company you have. If you're the narrator, then you know the entire story by the end (whereas the friend and husband are still probably confused) and you have the most control of the situation, but you also suffer the most loss because you remain alone at the end of the story. |
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| Rilo Kiley – Xmas Cake Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Oh my GOD, this song horrifies me! I've seriously burst into tears because of this song. When I take off my make-up, I look old and defeated I'm not so dangerous Cry into my Christmas cake Staring holes into me all night You should just give up Because our love's become Selling secrets to the Russians They don't need The cold war is on between you and me The woman in the story is getting older. She's not the sassy, young kid she used to be. "Old and defeated." Her own age is staring her in the face, encouraging her to give up. Even the person she wants to be seeing won't love her properly, so they're trading secrets back and forth to screw the other one over. The cold war is on has a double meaning, I think. On one hand, its alluding to the historical Cold War, a war when we didn't use weapons, only words and policy. On the other, the word "frigid" comes to mind. Cold war, who can be less passionate in order to make the other one give up? 25 years old and a bachelor's degree Your parents helped out with graduation fees The loans were never enough The credit cards are calling your bluff Hold your hand, cut them up, move away Or you'll be paying them off until your kids grow up And do the same A bit of exposition on the character. She's 25, the "Chirstmas Cake" age where she has to find a husband and fast. She has a degree, so one would think that would be an easy task, but she's having financial trouble. The credit cards that she needed to buy things are hounding her down, so she has to cut them up and run away from debt collectors, unless she wants to be paying them off until her kids go to college as well. There's no more running water Wrapping presents in the dark Move into your car Change where you park Too bad that job caroling department stores fell through But the new year is right in front of you Cry into your Christmas cake Don't know what else to do Don't know what else to do Aaaand here's where I start bawling. Her life is turning into a larger mess. She can't afford water, electricity or a home. She doesn't have a job. She's still getting older. Despair is all that's in front of her. I fear I'm going deaf I've got some sense left Give up some more to be with you Because what good is seeing if love's not looking back at you? And what good is feeling if my hands aren't touching you? Ohhh, this verse. Double meanings abound! Sense versus cents. If we look at it from a "sense," point of view then she's gotten old enough to the point of losing her hearing, but she'd give up all of her senses to be with the one she loves because she sees no point in being able to see or touch if her love isn't with her. On the "cents" side, she has just a little money left. Not even dollar amounts. She'd give it up for him though but, like the electricity she might have had for her lights and heat, she doesn't have him. And another angel came down He was wearing only a cloud He said, "Sew up the bad that you've done Tomorrow, Christmas day comes" This angel, I feel, doesn't really represent another chance so much as the chances she's missed. "Sew up the bad that you've done" isn't really telling her to fix her mistakes so much as be resigned to them. "Tomorrow, Christmas day comes" indicates the imminent aging of the subject in question. She has no choice. Cry into your Christmas cake Don't know what else to do Cry into your Christmas cake Don't know what else to do The new year's right in front of you In short, this song means "You're getting older and, if you focus on education, you can't get love. But if you focused on your love, then you can't get a job. You will die impoverished and alone." AAAAAAHHHHHH |
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| Blur – Stereotypes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Sounds like this woman subverting stereotypes imposed on her. She's a widow and she runs a B&B, so she must be just this sweet, wholesome lady. Just kidding, she's seducing people, having it off with them in public, making amateur erotic videos and not caring. | |
| Blur – I'm Just a Killer for Your Love Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This sounds like a psychopath trying to seduce a perfectly normal woman. He's obviously off his rocker, but he loves this girl. So he'll kill for her. Just a killer for her love. | |
| Blur – Coffee & TV Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I once heard an interpretation saying that the guy didn't want to have to deal with life in general. He just wanted to sit around with his girlfriend and watch TV all day. Sounds about right to me. He's been "floored" by regular society, hurt by people went he tried to escape the country. So if he can't go "outwards" for freedom, he'll go "inwards." So he'll just stay inside, but he still wants his girl around, so she needs to stay with him to keep him sheltered. | |
| Blur – Out of Time Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think he might be in love with a workaholic in this song. She's been "so busy lately" that she can't just chill with him. He wants her to "feel the sunshine" on her face, forget about her computer and all the work she has to do. | |
| Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think there might be a bit more to it than that, in addition to what you're saying. The idea of the song is kind of sad, that the guy would be second best when all he really wants in life is this girl. But he seems happy. "'Cause you are my medicine when you're close to me." It seems like, even though he's disappointed that he's not first in her life, the guy is still happy because she's close to him. | |
| Gorillaz – To Binge Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Waiting by the mailbox, by the train Passing by the hills 'til I hear the name Looking for a saw to cut the chains in half and all I want Is someone to rely on this Thunder comes a roaring down Someone to rely on this Lighting comes a-staring in again In this situation, I think that the woman is waiting for some news of the man. She wants to cut her losses and move on, but she can't bring herself to do it because she loves him. But, at the same time, she knows that he's bad for her because she can't rely on him for whatever reason (drugs? immaturity?) I'll wait to be forgiven, maybe I never will My star has left me to take the bitter pill That shattered feeling well the cause of its a lesson learned Just don't know if I can roll into the sea again Just don't know if I can do it all again, she said, 'it's true' On the other side of the song, the guy knows that he's screwed something up with this girl. He understands that she's trying to move on for her own good and he's feeling it, but he can't bear to just move away from her as well. Went into my room and I locked the door Watched the colored animals cross the floor But I look on from a distance and I'm listening to the whispers And oh it ain't the same when you've fallen outta feeling And you're rolling in and caught again Now the girl is getting a little more unhinged by the situation. She has to lock herself up to make sense of what's happening to her relationship, but all she can hear are "the whispers" of what people are telling her to do. She feels like she's losing the man, but at the same time, she can't bring herself back to him because she's "fallen out of feeling." I'm caught again in the mystery You're by my side, but are you still with me? The answers somewhere deep in it I'm sorry that you're feeling it But I just have to tell you that I love you so much these days Have to tell you that I love you so much these days, it's true The man may have her back with him, but she's not fully emotionally invested in the relationship because of what's happened to them in the past. He wants things to be like they were again and he knows that they can't be. He can see that "the answer's somewhere deep in it" and he doesn't want her to be "feeling it." It being the repercussions of his actions. All he can do is tell her he loves her and wait for time to patch things up. My heart is an economy, due to this autonomy Rolling in and caught again Because it's free again, the man's heart (and possibly the woman's) are divided between a lot of different areas. Sort of the same sentiment as Blur's Out of Time. "And you've been so busy lately/That you haven't found the time..." They could move on, but at the same time, they don't want to lose the other. Their hearts are divided due to their freedom. |
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| Gorillaz – To Binge Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Think you might be onto something here. |
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