| Marillion – King Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Whilst I think all the previous comments attributing this to Kurt Cobain or Elvis are probably pretty accurate in terms of their fame, overall I think this song is about the effect that fame has on your life and how you need to be pretty tough to handle the destruction it ultimately brings about. I think to a certain extent it also hints at how we can all feel we're blundering through life, never the person people think we should be. I think it's more about fame, but it's still something we plebs can identify with. |
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| Regina Spektor – You've Got Time Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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My own personal take on this song is that it could just as easily reflect the thoughts and feelings of someone with depression, feeling trapped in their day to day life. They regret what they've made of their life ("stay awake, in the dark, count mistakes") and they can't move beyond past events. They stay up all night making mental lists of their own failures and attempting to engage with their feelings of misery, "searching the ground for a bitter song", instead of going to sleep and sorting things out. The rest of the world moves on without them, "the sun is out, the day is new, and everyone is waiting, waiting on you" and they find themselves stranded and isolated, clinging to their own regrets. "Taking steps is easy, standing still is hard" is them looking out at others; for them it seems so easy, so why can't I get up and make things happen? "You've got time" they mockingly tell themselves. Life is moving on and they're just stuck in their brutal routine. They don't have time. |
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| Grandaddy – Chartsengrafs Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| A similar spin is that the person has worked towards a career, sacrificing the simple enjoyable life for the serious life of the 9-5 but found once he's got there that he's lost the ability to go back to that simple enjoyment he had before. As a result his out of work hours are spent feeling bored, alienated and thoroughly disconnected from his old life and everyone still living it. | |
| Depeche Mode – Stripped Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Whilst I believe others on here have probably penned better explanations for what this song is truly about; I believe it can also - if applied to the current era - be seen as a cry of frustration against the rise of pervasive social networks, smartphones and the breakdown of social contact as our ancestors knew it. Everyone is apparently hiding behind a screen broadcasting their thoughts and feelings to anyone who'll listen, and it's so hard to get someone to speak just for you. "Let me hear you make decisions without your television" again could so easily be about the online world we've buried ourselves in. To be without your phone is almost to be naked now. I hear this song and wish people would put their phone down for five seconds and actually talk to me, it may not be what the authors intended but that's what I hear |
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| Blue Öyster Cult – Me262 Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| My only gripe with this otherwise amazing track is that Messerschmitt 262s did not fire R4M rockets from their "snout". Rockets were wing mounted, with the nose of the plane being fitted with Rheinmetall-Borsig MK 108 30mm cannon (although admittedly there were a quartet of these). | |
| Pink Floyd – High Hopes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I'm in my late twenties which is of course young by any measure; but I don't think it takes long for that "what I had 5, 10, 20 years ago was better" to kick in. This song just makes me miss the simplicity of youth, when all I had to worry about was who to avoid on the playground. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Radioactive Toy Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Having watched "Threads" recently (worth a watch if you're not from Sheffield) and being a huge fan of the "Fallout" series this evokes some powerful and desolate images of a world beyond the edge of decay. I love how certain lines start so positively e.g. "taste the water from a stream...", which immediately conjures images of crystal clear water over smooth pebbles halfway up a mountain; then "of running death". Thanks Steven. Trés cheerful. Cheerful no, poignant yes. I love it. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Go With The Flow Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| The words "I want something good to die for, to make it beautiful to live" are incredible. I wait for that verse every time I listen to this song. | |
| Queens of the Stone Age – Everybody Knows That You Are Insane Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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For me this song has a lot to do with mental illness and particularly mania and the impact it has on those around you. How none of them can really see the real you, it's just this facade. He sounds fed up singing it, as if he's telling the person "yes we know, you're insane, we all know, now stop it"; whereas for the person experiencing it it's a complete loss of self and a descent into madness. The latter verse, but I feel nothing, am I better yet? This is pure antidepressants / antipsychotics. You're left numb and devoid of feeling; which is "better". I'm probably stating the obvious here but this is my take on it. I listen to this when I'm feeling insane. |
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| Radiohead – Pyramid Song Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I hadn't noticed the disconnection from the oxygen supply at the end; very well spotted! | |
| Radiohead – Pyramid Song Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"Studies show today that the pyramids can create a vortex and can open portals into other dimensions". Citation needed. |
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