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The Smiths – I Want the One I Can't Have Lyrics	2 years ago
@[jefepapichulo:39896] Best comment yet. I\'ve been trying for years, too. Despite breaking down that little interval (at 2:04) and playing it thousands of goddamn times, I can\'t possibly do it like JFM.

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The Smiths – I Want the One I Can't Have Lyrics

2 years ago

One of my favorite Smiths diddies. Totally under-appreciated. I think the double entendre of "sometimes swallows nails" as well as the use of the male pronoun for the intended makes it clear that he is talking about another man, but I think that there is a level of cynicism that operates for any type of attraction. \n\nBasically, I think that the intended is perhaps one of those people who has physically matured far past their mental maturity. This reference (metality and biology) is one of Moz\'s ways of intellectually hiding an insult in flowery prose. So he\'s talking to someone he wants, but doesn\'t feel he can get. I\'ve always seen the "double bed and stalwart lover" as being symbolic of mediocrity: The average and somewhat boring life that the he expects the intended to fall into. I think he is in a way condemning this person for what he expects them to do. \n\nAnd yes, the last line is probably just a reference to what he actually wants from this person: sex. In short, I think it\'s one of those self effacing Morrissey songs where he is musing about his own desire, despite his intellectually-driven ego, to get laid. To me, it is a song about young lust, not love.\n\nAs far as the music, I hold it up there with "This Charming Man" as being one of the greatest examples of Marr\'s absolutely distinct style that says "The Smiths" so well. Love the run at the refrain (2:04). It\'s probably my favorite lick I\'ve ever heard.

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Fuel – Shimmer Lyrics	2 years ago
@[trieyeopen:38683] That’s a very eloquent assessment, and it’s entirely possible, but I have a feeling it’s a song about a girl he used to f*ck.

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Cocteau Twins – Pur Lyrics

4 years ago

I think obviously it was written in the period right after the birth of her daughter, and probably with Robin Guthrie and her in mind, But like most of their songs, the meaning is pretty open ended. To me, it is a song about something we've all felt, which is when somebody is so damn mad at you for what you've done, and you are trying desperately to make them see that it is okay to be mad, and that I still love you despite your expression of frustration. Not really an apology, just a validation of the fact that sometimes people get really angry. And that's okay. And in classic form, the chorus is a Cocteau Twin. Is it, "Reach and you won't lose me" or "Rage and you won't lose me"? We've all been pissed and maybe stepped over the line (a bit... hopefully not too much), and to have someone tell you that that is okay is pretty amazing.

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The Stone Roses – (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister Lyrics

4 years ago

I'm fairly certain that this song was not on an album that NME and several other publications ranked among "albums of the decade" because it was about a girl who sold cotton candy at a fair. It takes some context to appreciate a metaphor, and not everyone will see it the same way, but to me, it perfectly fits a brief relationship I had with a particularly memorable girl many years ago who was just like cotton candy, and subsequently attracted a lot of "sticky-fingered boys", though she was deeply depressed and not capable of returning the love in a way that made me comfortable (hence my hands were stuck to my jeans). And for this respect that I had for her at that time, we are still friends a couple of decades later. Blah, blah, blah... read into it what you like. But I definitely do not think Ian Brown wrote a song about a girl who sold cotton candy at a fair. I'm also fairly certain that the wisdom about rolling stones and moss has very little to do with whether smooth stones that roll downhill actually develop lichen during their roll.

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Bad Religion – Stranger Than Fiction Lyrics

5 years ago

Yep. The song is full of very literary metaphors. One of those examples of Gurwit'z intellectuality (Y'all know he has a Ph.D. from Cornell in applied sciences and a full professorship?) "Caringosity killed the Kerouac Cat" is indeed a mashup of "caring" and "curiosity" but the word "cat" is a beat reference to a "cool guy". Get it? Me too, kinda... I get when those two things started to define his writing, he was no longer "cool". For everyone who wants to know about angels and devils on matches, it is a reference to a debate that raged in the middle ages over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but in modern times, it is a coloqialism for, "a metaphor for wasting time debating topics of no practical value, or question whose answers hold no intellectual consequence, while more urgent concerns accumulate." Credit to wikipedia for that. My favorite line is the somewhat perplexed, "I wanna know why Hemingway cracked!" I don't know why. It just seems to sum up the tone of the song perfectly.

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The Smiths – I Want the One I Can't Have Lyrics	8 years ago
"The One I Can't Have" is a reference to the talent that I don't possess to play this goddamn song on the guitar, though I might really "Want" it. (Especially that snappy little interval run at the end of the first chorus (refrain?).

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Morrissey – Now My Heart Is Full Lyrics

11 years ago

Like all great and ambiguous songs, the meaning might change for you a number of times throughout life. Right now for me, it's a message to all those you love who are too concerned with their own selfish minutia to notice how desperate and over-taxed you are by their life drama and/or demands. It's what you say right before you split the whole program and leave them to fend for themselves with a parting word of advice and a deft but vague excuse...

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Editors – Papillon Lyrics

12 years ago

Amazing song. I agree about the "love through adversity" thing. I think it's a pretty simple statement made poignant through some really colorful images... To me, the persona seems to be saying that though often this life can seem a bit like French Guiana to he and his "partner", through their enduring love and devotion, they can find pleasure through the escape together. "It kicks like a sleep twitch" is the central metaphor of the song; a sleep twitch scares the shit out of you in the instant before you realize that it was really nothing. Just be content with what you have with another person you love, escape the oppressive monotony, and ignore your crazy impulses, because if you try to go it alone, you'll choke on the un-breathable air (another French Guiana reference) alone and afraid and lost...

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Joy Division – Disorder Lyrics

12 years ago

By all accounts, Ian didn't have epilepsy when he wrote the songs on "Unknown Pleasures". As the story goes, or as told by those who knew him, he had his first fit sometime after the album came out, and while they were writing "Closer" (The onset was evidently quite acute and quite severe.) Ironically, "She's Lost Control" was written after Ian watched a girl have a seizure in a shop, and for some reason, it effected him, but he didn't know why, or not yet. You can read about this in the book by his wife "Touching From a Distance" and his band mates talk about it in detail in a BBC documentary called (I think) "Joy Division: The Documentary". Don't know what the song is about, though. Whatever you want it to be, I guess...

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