| Bauhaus – Hollow Hills Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Oberon is king of the faeries in Shakespeare (he existed before that, but that is the best known early work featuring him). Earthen mounds are also known as faerie forts. A barrow is a raised grave. Yuletide before being adopted by Christianity was a pagan winter festival. In folklore that was when elves, faeries, and spirits conducted the Wild Hunt. People that viewed the Wild Hunt could be pulled into the underworld or faerie realm, thus the warning of not venturing there during that time.. | |
| Bauhaus – The Passion Of Lovers Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I've wondered if the singer's perspective is as a ghost/spirit. He's watching the woman from underneath, maybe from the grave? Another lyric, she dips and wails and slips her banshee smile is a reference to keening and wailing, which is what banshees (Irish spirits, usually from mothers that died in childbirth) do to foretell the death of a family member, but also something Irish women did to mourn the death of a family member. The lyrics that are enigmatic are the ones about little foxes going into hiding/lying low (the meaning of going to ground) and seeking cracked pleasures. |
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| Bauhaus – Swing The Heartache Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I'm guessing most of this is ideas taken from the cartoon movie The Devil and Daniel Mouse, which influenced several Bauhaus songs. Dan and Jan are folk singers and the devil overhears Jan lamenting about not being a better singer and makes an offer to make Jan famous. She sells her soul but regrets it later when the devil comes to collect. She wants to be a better singer as well as the title Swing the Heartache are almost certainly references to that movie. Bauhaus actually lifts the part where she sells her soul for the song Party of the First Part which came out around the same time (on the Peel Sessions and some versions of The Sky's Gone Out). |
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| The Replacements – Swingin' Party Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[paul839025:19484] Expanding on this a bit - wearing a lampshade means you are the life of the party. The drunk meaning dates to the 1920s, but before that it was a common gag in silent film. Basically, he is saying bring a lampshade so we can all be the life of the party. There's obviously more joking going on here because "somewhere there's a party, here it's never ending can't remember when it started," so he's saying it while already at a party and the party has gone on for some time. | |
| Ladytron – Season of Illusions Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I agree - I think this a Deep Blue are related and talk about a workaholic that badly needs holiday time they don't take. When else do you keep the phone away (and yes, that is the lyric, not the printed one). She's telling him(?) to relax, do nothing, take the day off, do something useless like learning New Speak instead of "scheming" which is done all week. The last lyric to me suggests someone that is pulling frequent all-nighters and needs a day off because he can't pull off something impossible like Houdini. | |
| Ladytron – Burning Up Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It sounds more like he (for sake of argument, he, could be she) left her, and she is furious. Long marches and setting yourself on fire are forms of protest, and protests are done because you're angry about someone/thing. Cheating gravity suggests to me he swept her off her feet, and the burning space between them suggests he dumped her abruptly and she is really mad. You would think they both would have a long way to fall, but she specifically calls out that he has a long way to fall, suggesting she will be mad for a long time. As for the last lyric (so many things worth burning for), I'm not so sure - it could mean it was worth it and that she would get back together in a heartbeat, or it could mean he was a waste of time and there are many other things worth being mad about. Maybe both. |
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| Ladytron – Tomorrow Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I believe the context at the start of the song is the tomorrow the song is about, but not necessarily drunk or even a one night stand . She already woke up and they (we said...) agreed to break up unless the weather was freezing (as in, whatever higher power you believe in sends it as a sign). The window of the car is cracked open, so it is not freezing and so she is further justifying leaving the guy she doesn't really have feelings for anymore. I actually find this as one of their better lyrics, though still a bit repetitive. Catching the "crack in the window" meaning was an epiphany - I love subtle lyrics like that. |
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| Bauhaus – Party Of The First Part Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| yep, The Devil and Daniel Mouse, and the lyric is Can't we wait for Dan (referring to Daniel), not Dad. In the cartoon Dan and Jan are folk singers. It is also B.L. Zebubb and Weez, as I recall, but that is more obvious in the credits. I haven't watched it in a while, but it is included in the Rock and Rule DVD and Blu Ray (I think). | |
| The Replacements – Jungle Rock Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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seen this elsewhere, possibly because this is a cover of Hank Mizell, but the lyric varies quite a bit after While I moved a little closer to get a better view. It was a chimp and a monkey doing the Susie Q A gator and a hippo was a doin' the bop And a big python just a makin' me hop Fox grabbed the rabbit and they did the bunny hug |
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| The Replacements – Satellite Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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corrected lines with -> A boy I couldn't name, I knew well ->Newscast [man or end] is still a render useless to my cause You're nowhere to be found on the airwaves Couldn't find you any place on my screen ->Need to spy on a communist love affair ->Nothing along the moon Nothing I want to see but your face this lyric is awesome, too bad it is mostly unintelligible (once I caught communist it all fell together) - a communist love affair refers to sputnik (first satellite) and the moon is also a satellite |
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| The Replacements – Satellite Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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corrected lines with -> A boy I couldn't name, I knew well ->Newscast [man or end] is still a render useless to my cause You're nowhere to be found on the airwaves Couldn't find you any place on my screen ->Need to spy on a communist love affair ->Nothing along the moon Nothing I want to see but your face this lyric is awesome, too bad it is mostly unintelligible (once I caught communist it all fell together) - a communist love affair refers to sputnik (first satellite) and the moon is also a satellite |
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| The Replacements – I Will Dare Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Pretty sure it's wrong - I have bacon and cigarettes as well (from when I transcribed the lyrics for my band to cover it in the 1990s). Also it is very clearly Bacon and cigarettes in John Doe's (of X fame) cover (look it up on YouTube). | |
| Bauhaus – She's In Parties Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| According to a fan I met long ago from England, Loonatik and Drinks actually is a reference to two DJs in a London(?) club where Bauhaus used to play. From the reference, they may have done lighting as well. | |
| Bauhaus – She's In Parties Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| According to a fan I met long ago from England, Loonatik and Drinks actually is a reference to two DJs in a London(?) club where Bauhaus used to play. From the reference, they may have done lighting as well. | |
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