| Belle & Sebastian – Electronic Renaissance Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I can't help but always hear "unemployed in the 1990s" | |
| Pavement – Spit On A Stranger Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I guess Elusine and Bernlin2000 are on to something here. "It has a nice ring when you laugh at the low life opinions" anyone? |
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| Pulp – Party Hard Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I never got why people might think that "being bored of partying" is less of a deep topic than a love story. The disgust with his own hedonism seems pretty relevant and interesting to me, at least more so than "damn, i can't get that girl" | |
| Tom Waits – Cemetery Polka Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Magnificent! I love how so many characters in Tom Waits' songs have glass eyes or wooden legs. | |
| Katy Perry – Ur So Gay Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I feel offended by this song and by the fact that she probably doesn't even understand why this could be taken as offensive. | |
| Funeral Mist – Holy Poison Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is Satan worship. The Latin parts mean: "We praise you we worship you" "For only you (are) holy, you (are) the only Lord" "We praise / worship / uplift you, We pray" "We give you thanks for your great glory." |
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| David Bowie – Oh! You Pretty Things Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~alper/Bowie_and_fascism.htm This is interesting. |
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| David Bowie – Quicksand Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Hunky Dory" is his Nietzschean album. The concept of Overman or Superman ("Ãœbermensch") aims at overcoming the obsolete concept of "Man" which only holds us back from becoming Overmen, some kind of a more noble, free, more creative Man that has outgrown the puniness and limitations of mankind. In this context, the line "Don't believe in yourself" could as well be meant as an optimistic imperative: Don't believe in what you are right now, believe in your potential to overcome all those limitations and to become much more than what you are now. I think this makes sense in the concept of the whole album: Changes: the act of becoming, not being. Oh! You Pretty Things: the "Ãœbermensch" is yet to come, Homo Sapiens is old, weak, weary etc. and now it's time to make way for something better. Life on Mars?: he's fed up with mankind which keeps repeating itself, feeling trapped, sick of man's mediocrity. Those are of course only elements within the songs, go figure yourself what you believe them to mean. For Nietzsche the "self" can also be a trap, a prison that keeps us from evolving. What we "are" is not some kind of God given identity, but something that has its origins in the course of history with all the laws of the monotheistic religions that have been forced upon us so many times that they have become a part of our identity that has to be overcome. |
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