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Silversun Pickups – Well Thought Out Twinkles Lyrics 12 years ago
I read a post about suicide, but, yes, it can fit into that category as well, because it has the same metaphorical basis. Darkness, conservatism, and suicide are often times known for their negative terms--sarcastic portrayals of today's world. Tie conservatism and suicide together, and you will find a mass of individuals who reach their own 'apocalyptic eyes.' An interpretation can be wrong directly, but can be right through symbolism if you search through it all the way. That is another reason direct interpretation is not always the most accurate way to go in deciphering the meaning within a track.

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Silversun Pickups – Well Thought Out Twinkles Lyrics 12 years ago
I think this song is a sarcastic portrayal on the worldly problems both literally and metaphorically.
First of all, the term 'well thought out twinkles' is brighter in context, but is definitely dark if you think about the 'darker twinkles' in relation to the signs passing through time. How they are figments of unexpected signs happening all at once, a reason I would like to know more about the religious background behind this track. I think of the stars dying with various signs, even though they are not dying when they are signifying their own death--they are, just not there yet. Twinkling into their own death, tinkering with storms and tsunamis until those who laugh start to detest this world. Join in the last faction for peace, because, in actuality, there will be no more peace when signs twinkle their way into the stars' death. The world is a signal marred by conservatism, fascism, prejudices, nepotism, and other atrocities that veil human nature--another part sarcastically displayed under 'well thought out twinkles.' We are not actually 'twinkling,' because our actions seem like spawn absorbed into the devil himself (if one chooses to believe). I hear something strangely sarcastic, scientific, intuitive, although idealism-based and anti-evolutionary theory. I could be wrong though. The 'light' is for everybody, because the anxiety thrusts into various people's mindsets when there is nothing left to follow, for the 'death' is too early to follow with anything useful.
This is my interpretation on the song 'Well-Thought Out Twinkles' even if it is wrong from the band's perspective.

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Fever Ray – Stranger Than Kindness (Nick Cave cover) Lyrics 12 years ago
Well, the maybe 'come' into the map that is desired is BURNED within the darkness that is a desire for another person.


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The Shins – Phantom Limb Lyrics 12 years ago
I typed that kind of fast, so if there are any typos such as: who feel as if you, I meant 'they' and other words.

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The Shins – Phantom Limb Lyrics 12 years ago
a contradiction
plays throughout one part.
goes throughout one group and another
that is like mystical repression
the public education system norm

to be pressed against their goals
in their own round of trials
they know they hide it
so they can keep hope for future references without being forced in the now
as girl no more than a male
and how individual treatment goes above the main nation body

but we don't care, we only go through specific parts without whole
a success fake and a real flier
we go through linear (failed) processes
without connecting systems to the individual: the 'phantom' and 'fly'

failed tries again
just part of the main embodiment
rapport with friend, we're going to reach our similar selves
more relax and white noise-nostalgia
stolen stuff for not succeeding--stealing reality suppressing what happens within

we find Nemarca's stuff
the eye of success to feed
nostalgia for her predecessors (parents)
foreign objections with plastic feelings
but it's all good for the nostalgia-that-teaches
real or fake--it is the teacher for the individual

they tap EVERYBODY's heads OUR's in ordering commands
to walk the stead with the foals of contradictions
it's not worth it for the steads in relationship
they won't memorize what isn't needed (in reference to hiding their goals and round of trials)
too far in comparison to the 'normal climb'
they step over with precise amounts of ambiguity and hope
they have no connection--the 'Monday Heads' in relationship to the foals

boredom with logic
to be unreal in our own personal steads
not worth it for our personal status and charisma
don't want to memorize so we don't
we create crime and it's 'too far above' those petty ideals
stepping over
without a relationship with our selves.......for being in the end...

Now: I feel this song is about being repressed into a specific educational system. Without a definition for yourself, you are part of the 'Monday Heads' who feel as if you should go hide from yourself while suppressing those idealistic values in order to find nostalgia and an 'almost-plate' of happiness on Sunday. This will do without the educational systems forcing beliefs down your throat in order to gain status for yourself at least by committing crimes to have people feel sorry for you. They won't, however, and it will come down to the end without the connection. There is a slight connection with the foals in their stead being kind of leery in relation to Nemarca. They will follow in their footsteps as the ones who want to be in the right stead in relation (again, I know) to the students.

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Lykke Li – Everybody But Me Lyrics 12 years ago
A feeling of being closed in. I feel that due to these lyrics she doesn't want to be glued to these stereotypical crimes. She'd rather not be part of the creepy minds and within her own so she is sad to be antisocial but she feels she doesn't fit in with these people.

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Lykke Li – Tonight Lyrics 12 years ago
Personally, I feel that this song is about the thrill and the calmness of walking a line with the person you are deeply in love with. However, deep within, she realizes the people who would know about this secret relationship so she wants him to hold her both literally and metaphorically and dry her eyes so she won't know of all of these turmoils she had with past friendships. Maybe she lost a friend due to a relationship-related problem, but this wouldn't encounter her as a person today except for the fact that she wanted to be with him--she was looking for her friend as she said in the song and found you...instead of her. Maybe the friend is him but that is besides the point. It's about the thrills and fervor of love that create their deep entanglement more meaningful than the tears she cries---

As for the tears, I also get a feeling of crying for him as if she was sad, but her mind is tripped out by the fact that the tears are representations of those feelings so he tries to wipe them away to protect her so she will not drown in those tears and only in him. If she cries, it will be for him to protect her throughout the darkness. I think it is more of a protection song than a self-tumultuous song. It really isn't a raucous song. It isn't vehement in the need for others to leave--and to find friendship, but more in the fact that she wants to share deeper emotions with him.

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IAMX – The Stupid, The Proud Lyrics 12 years ago
This song is about the conformity in which are minds bite off of. We are the killers of reason and our beliefs in religion is what 'blows our houses down.' The war-like phrases are what make us forget that 'God is dead' throughout their statements of intensity. With that said, there are many dark nights that elude us just like the Kind who eludes his own need to be intelligent. Just like the president that shouldn't dictate to the point of squandering over other people's beliefs. Just to the point that the president is in a way similar to "God' because there is an unorthodox way to control the civilians or control THE children. The children of sexism, destruction, religion and other terrible, terrible ideas. We are all repressed children be it by the belief in our imaginative deity or the president--a solidified human being who will most likely lack morals. (quite often times that is the case.) We will not want to change the way our society is but instead keep it in charge of past similarity in order to keep it set. We will oppose all natural changes and behave and charge the hands of humanity via war, despite, hatred, and all other old concepts that bite us today.

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Portishead – Nylon Smile Lyrics 12 years ago
I just read a couple of comments above (from writing this since the box is below) and realized something. If this person has a husband who she feels cold about then maybe that is what he wants her to change so she can feel remorse for any further situations. It's quite possible that she will feel a sense of sanity after the guilt and therefore find herself outwardly manifested as true happiness instead of pretense that is a white line and blob of nylon-related despair upon her smiling lips--that only smile sarcastically.
She may be singing from a past view in a way to make these ideas coexist, however, if she is speaking from the point of her life she sung this song, then it's quite possible that the character (who may be her) is feeling a sense of sadness and remorse for the inability to change her coldness to make her husband be more faithful as a human reaction similar to karma. (If she believes in that) 'I never had the chance to explain exactly what I meant' may be a feeling of guilt that she has today if this is a past, but regardless of it being past or present, she definitely is feeling a sense of coldness that she cannot explain and therefore cannot let go of the prime reason she still (from the past) feelings of guilt. She sings like that guilt is what is within her today--her smile coated in deep sarcastic whiteness (under symbolic interpretation and representation) She cares within a coldness.

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Marina and the Diamonds – Hollywood Lyrics 13 years ago
Even if not patriotic, it still cumulates a great number of points that I recognize as insightful considering the explosive indignities America consumes.

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Marina and the Diamonds – Hollywood Lyrics 13 years ago
Patriotic much. Yes, and this is what makes this song a massive hit. Too many segments of America have become infatuated with Hollywood scum, in love with pop culture and its endless sheen. This is what takes away the mental and emotional appearance and spotlights sugar on those who aren't even nice to their friends. Backstabbing like it's an ecstasy-inducing crime, lighting cigarettes like unhealthiness is near-fashion, and stating words that pertain to endless gossip-- tickling the minds of those who are fickle and sad.

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Marina and the Diamonds – Simplify Lyrics 13 years ago
Related -- simplify.

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Marina and the Diamonds – I Am Not a Robot Lyrics 13 years ago
Sort of like cheering the partner, friend, lover on: come on, sing. Be who you were meant to be in this life because it will pay off. Do not satisfy the devilish seed that the 'robot' within encapsulates. Ignore your wish to be like the rest of them because there is a person out there who will pick up on your eccentricities and date the idea of you.

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Marina and the Diamonds – Obsessions Lyrics 13 years ago
Everything that pertains to 'obsessions' is obvious, well, almost. The most obvious layering of this song is the segment about 'holding you' and 'cigarettes' which stands for obsessing; an obsession over a strange matter that ties you to the partner in a sort of mystifying-cult fashion. Therefor, the meaning is unhealthy as it is ecstasy inducing, and the deeper subliminal meanings is what ties each of their heads together attached to the particle of gateway drugs. However, this time, it isn't a fashion that is actually stemmed from the drug itself. It's involvement. A leadership to hell through the celestial knitting of the two. They are getting drunk off of each other, until broken bones perpetuate.

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Marina and the Diamonds – Shampain Lyrics 13 years ago
I think the song has an ironic meaning towards its personal skin.

She is a sad, sad girl who made a commitment for her goals, and fell in the hands of drinking, because she fell down. Even though she is sad within, the drinking is what makes her feel celestial.

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Marina and the Diamonds – Seventeen Lyrics 13 years ago
I honestly feel this is about controlling forces in any way possible. Being controlled and embarrassed for personal taste and opinion, by using words freely, and then, going downhill. Everything spins into cascading vertigo after you falter at the opinion of an upper class guy, wondering why you had the downfall to begin with. You had a confidence level that popped like a thousand inflating bubbles. This is when you realized you were only seventeen, and thus, had no real meaning behind the mask that was portrayed above your 'classless skin.'

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Marina and the Diamonds – Mowgli's Road Lyrics 13 years ago
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Marina and the Diamonds – Mowgli's Road Lyrics 13 years ago
To me, this song is about being controlled by the concept of money and becoming deluded--like blood to the mind. Money becomes a disease and stops you from figuring out who you are because you're too focused on the media, and so you portray who you really aren't by saying yes to everything. You don't have a mind of your own anymore because you're way too focused on insignificant objection, when you could be digging into the core of your personal reflection and image. Rather than playing out a roll to be who you are, you use those things against you and state how you don't know who you are at the time being.

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Slipknot – Before I Forget Lyrics 13 years ago
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I think this song is about evolution of you...the dark metaphors...

Stapled Shut
Inside and outside world
And I'm sealed in tight
Bizarre but right at home
I'm claustrophobic
Closing in
And I'm catastrophic
Not again

or darkness, but not now...not anymore. Because you're smeared in the tenacity, even though obscene....to
have others catch the sordid dusts...of you...because you're not giving up.

I'm smeared across the page and doused in gasoline
I wear you like a stain, yet I'm the one who's obscene
Catch me up on all your sordid little insurrections
I've got no time to lose
I'm just caught up in all the cattle

you're also evolving into a star: with your own 'luck'
which is why you have no time to lose...

Fray the strings... Throw the shapes... Hold your breath... Listen!

I am a world before I am a man
I was a creature before I could stand
I will remember before I forget
Before I forget that!

you were just a baby before an adult...
with confidence finally found after you realized that you were more than just a person.
you will remember..

I'm ripped across the ditch and settled in the dirt
And I wear you like a stitch, yet I'm the one who's hurt
Pay attention to your twisted little indiscretions
I've got no right to win
I'm just caught up in all the battles

this is the downfall to when you are depressed...which is measured with

My end, it justifies my means
All I ever do is delay
My every attempt to evade
The end of the road and my end
It justifies my means
All I ever do is delay
My every attempt to evade
The end of the road!

'My end.'
This is like the symbolism with the dark metaphors and why you should disobey their existence..but not all the way. you should disobey the fact that they hurt you...so you can move on. because if you consider darkness death than death will consume you some day.

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Slipknot – Before I Forget Lyrics 13 years ago

My end, it justifies my means
All I ever do is delay
My every attempt to evade
The end of the road and my end
It justifies my means
All I ever do is delay
My every attempt to evade
The end of the road!

all of the dark metaphors seem to tie in with this, because you have to evade every speck of darkness..especially when the end is near. This could be the problems of light and what happens when you refuse to face the simple truth. This is why I believe there is symbolism in this song. The symbolism seems to be wrought in metaphorical term, to express every figment of your being. How NOT to disobey yourself, because the end could be tomorrow.



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