| Whitey – Individuals Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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If there's one song in the world that's philosophically punk, this is it. The lyrics feel awfully vague, but based on the title, I think I can grab some sense out of it: The "fashionable people" are people who are not individuals. Their sense of self is derived from suggestions recommended to them by those in higher positions than them: mostly figures in popular culture. "To watch themselves for themselves" likely refers to the fact that those who are not individuals watch media such as television, movies, etc with characters who are stereotypes, flat characters who also have been influenced by popular culture, and these non individuals do it for themselves, selfishly. They watch people just like them because they want it. I think the rest of the lyrics are virtually self-explainable. |
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| Cosmo Jarvis – Love This Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This is a very rambling, askew song about a doubtful person contemplating garrulously about what they would ask their God if He appeared in the sky. "So many lines I've had to cross Don't want to belong to a club with such a lenient boss Get your ass down here reprimand me for my sins How can I know reason if no reason's why I've been" This is presumably about the fact that although there is a Bible written with all the rules that "God" has written, none of these rules are being enforced by God- only the Churches. "How come every man aint good? If it happened overnight would you retire if you could? If I believe in heaven I deny myself a death Dying keeps my conscious of the way I waste my breath" Again, these are a bit rambling. But this one stays a bit on the topic of the afterlife. "How come every man aint good?" references the ability of an all-powerful god to prevent the existence of bad men. The last two lines here are simple, and self-explanatory. Life is finite, and it doesn't restart in Paradise. He doesn't really believe in a heaven because believing in heaven is also fooling yourself, so when you're wasting your life watching television, you have an excuse. |
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| The Magnetic Fields – Meaningless Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Just a note that I don't think that the whole "Meaningless" theme of the song is sarcastic, but rather a sort of ironic articulation based on a materialist/naturalist (philosophy involving the lack of supernatural existence) perspective. It was meaningless, just like when fireflies fluoresce, just like everything. But just because there is no "meaning" to anything in the grand scheme of things does not mean we can't interpret it that way. At least, that's just my interpretation of this song- it's a bit personal, but also is about the way we think about certain words like "meaning" on different levels. | |
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