| Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[sweety555:8043] Like. Interesting experience to read your thoughts on this song. Here are mine. http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/9197/?&specific_com=73016314251#comments |
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| Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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The song may keep you sane. Medicine not to forget. Recommend it to any neurological sufferers you know. If they can work it out, or hear what it means otherwise it could make things worse for me rather than easier. |
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| Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[TheCoolSideofthePillow:8042] The point is you don't know. Easily it's suggested the girl called them birth marks to others. "She couldn't quite explain it". It's ambiguous, intentionally, like most of the song. Why would someone have to explain birth marks, if they're really birth marks? People know birth marks, real birth marks, just happen. There's no need to explain birth marks. It's actually what some social workers use to investigate children with marks - if they say they are birth marks but somehow feel they still have to offer an explanation, it may suggest something else is going on. The logic is that children accept birth marks. It's supposed to be really ambiguous. The girl could have a really rare condition or just really rare birth circumstances. But how likely is that - very, very unlikely indeed. Yet, it could still be true and the real explanation. Things happen. We don't know. |
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| Crash Test Dummies – Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Meaning: The meaning, I suggest, is all of what I've broken into a list (the list is not different, separate meanings but the one meaning, all points together) 1. There is. 2. Think it's any good? 3. You know something / some things. 4. You don't know others. 5. We're you right in what you knew, in what you think you knew, what you thought you knew in point 3? 6. "It's you" - just what you are conscious of which is outside of you is enough by its very being to be a challenge to you in some ways perhaps, serious ways. 7. Is your consciousness right? 8. Is that even possible? How can your very, basic consciousness be right or wrong? What can it mean? What is this thing consciousness? 9. Is it possible to work out what it is? Minute element by element? Perhaps you've got all the tie in the world - what else would you do? Watch soap operas non-stop? 10. Back to there is. Even though it's kind of you, it is anyway, whatever it is. It really is or rather there really is. There really is is a better description of things. There really is. So the song is a piece of existential genius imo. What are the basics the essentials of this life this thing we're in which holds us whether we want it to or not? You, consciousness interpretation, thoughts, character and what's outside of you - whatever it can mean. But, whatever it can mean - IT MUST MEAN SOMETHING. You might respond to this thinking, "Deep" or nonsense. But the song meaning really is simply manages to create an illumination of the simplicity of what life is before anything else social or institutional appears in meaning. This song is showing what is, what comes first. Whether you believe in religion, schisms, strange or perhaps supernatural body marks, God or gods, other things which attatch to peoples' lives to give them meaning. Simply this comes first - you, your consciousness and changing, developing identity partly from what you experience, for no man is an island, and what is outside of you - which can NOT totally be meaningless. But you know only what you know, think what you think - what it's meaning really is should never perhaps be assumed to be grasped or even graspable by you. Mmm mmm mmm mmm. |
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| Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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| Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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You think Mr Yorke thinks the Karma police should arrest those people? They want something, just like I really want a good supper tonight, but I may not have the honest power to go after or the means to achieve what I want. Attaining such an ability is seen as a way of truth and light and self development and improvement. Many commend others for seeking what they want - it in itself is a real, crucial Christian benchmark for example, "Seek and ye will find, Knock and the door will be opened", is given as the attitude God suggests to you. To scorn this is to scorn the human spirit of life and individuality in the self and in God. Perhaps Mr Yorke means that what they want is naughty - from the old English word nought - meaning worth nothing, to the person or anyone else, in true, mature, considered terms. Perhaps he means the people seeking what they want, want what is worth nothing, or harma, or corrupts, degrades, cripples or destroys. |
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| Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Yes, it's good, but I think you've missed the most important point, probably, in the ambivalent ending. Personally I would say it is not so ambivalent , but ends in a completely different way to how the post interpretation suggests. And that the possibility of ambivalence is there as a trap which, it is known, can be missed, but by the full, important, real meaning of the song, ought to be seen, properly. I suggest you consider the opening stanzas and whole song quite like the fatalism of Greek tragedy - it just is. This means reckoning that the phrases of the early part don't differ in character, in one sense, from the phrases towards the end of the song. The first stanzas, I agree with what you say here. There are hateful persons in a group, or one person who represents a group, but who can't contain their hate and will something bad to happen to people who the narrator is simply annoyed by or jealous of. Their is irony is the paradox that it is the narrator who doesn't understand the uniqueness of those who don't fit in, but he is willing harm to those whom make him feel uncomfortable, but pretending it is karma they deserve. The people don't fit in to the mind of the narrator (but more importantly, it seems, his group - all those who are 'with' him - those who do whatever is required, whenever required, to 'fit in'). The thing here is to wonder if the narrator knows what he is stating is wrong. Is he just vexed and deceiving himself, or are these lines of the song just the usual lines used, his typical tools for his typical achievements? When you realise he is in a group of like minded beings, you can't really conclude they don't know what it means to think and act how they do. Are they like minded, using the 'us' term simply because they are consistently and honestly people who make genuine mistakes about people and life, people who don't intend to harm? Is it a support group for the thought and act equivalent of tourrettes disease sufferers? No, that's ridiculoua, so it becomes clear this song has a very serious message. What's more about realising that the opening stanzas are just words - typically deployed tools of hate, of making the world an oppositional place of falseness, a demonic thing - is then to assess what is meant later? This is the suggestion of ambivalence. The suggestion that someone (in a group of those who hate and fit in together and who call their anti-marshalls against those who don't fit in, lying, pretending that they are wreaking bad karma against themselves) has seen the light and realised his wrongness can be taken. But, if you look at the song as dead words, with soul dead, demonic people who intend to live by whatever demonic 'pleasure' fix takes them, the later stanzas can be seen as exactly the same as the earlier ones - simply words to choose, tools to use as appropriate at any time for a desired effect. Whether these be for to slither out of punishment and avoid a clear, certain kind of recorded, public reputation, or just to speak at certain times to create a false image, trying on the form of the 'honest jacket' for looks and character sustenance, they are simply like meaningless scrabble letters to choose. The point of the song, then, is to illuminate this context which uses the possibility of ambivalence, in the possibility of honesty. It's a context which the bad man will pick up and use, words to be employes, without doubt, maybe often. It is the context when the bad man of the bad group, the Illuminati president perhaps, or the girl living subtly, unknown, protecting the status and potency of the criminal damage ring - feigns the natural human being. Perhaps "Karma Police" was intended to also highlight the possibility of eventual redemption, in eventual epiphany, within the ambivalence in the latter part of the song. I think, with a further u turn, it suggests a future where one or any one of the 'us' group, the demonic social controllers, a Mafia who rule really breathes truth in his or her lungs once more, in a distant future. |
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| College – A Real Hero Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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While the postmodern context of the film "Drive" may twist the meaning of the lyrics for its own, arty benefit a lot, I still find it a bit hard to believe that people took the song meaning completely at face value, with no sardonic subtext. OK, it is a tribute to a pilot who made a fine job. But isn't it also a critique of society, saying that, while, yes there are people who act heroically (whatever it means, maybe the song writers don't think they fully know) this prevalent attitude in society is also rather absurd, in the way it is clung on to? "Your pursuits are called outstanding You're emotionally complex" Come on, it's not straight down the line here. "Water warmer than His head so cool In that tight bind knew what to do" To me this is the epitomé of intended ambivalence, a kind of paradox of reality where oppositional meanings are very strong in their own rights. |
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