| The White Stripes – Blue Orchid Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[pooperscooper:33511] That would make a lot of sense of the line "How dare you How old are you now, anyway?" |
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| The Black Angels – Empire Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This will be the story of four people. "Oh, the empires calling, trying to hear his voice" the empire, reprisenting police, are calling to a man to put down a weapon, or to calm himself. They're also trying to hear his words. "While he’s preaching to the choir, And that choir is death and noise." He's yelling back at the police to kill him, wanting to die. This is exaggerated by the last line by representing the cops with death and noise - his death and the noise of shooting. "And he closes up his fist, and he sees if they exist." The closing of his fist reprisents his agressiveness toward the officers to provoke the attack - to see if they exist. "Angels with broken wings, Melodic harmonies she sings." A girl screems as she falls to her death. "She brings you white daffodils, You place them on your windowsill." The whtie daffodil is the flower of riches. So her death brings more wealth to someone, likely through the fact that no longer have to spend their money on her. She jumped out a window, as the flower was placed on a windowsill. "Then you open up your fist, and you see if they exist." That someone opens their hand in sadness, such as covering their face, as they note her death. "Well you sit in dark forests, You’ve been there for quite a while." The person sits in his darkness or depression, alone for a while. "And when they come to take you, You just sit and smile." This could be another suidice by cop in a calmer tone. They, being the empire, taking that persons life, as he's happy about it. "You say, “'Hey, you take this. I’m gonna see if you exist.'” This could mean that he used words to prevoke the cops, such as saying he has a weapon. The thing he tells them to take is his life. "Oh it’s time to leave here, and I still have my knife," and it’s pressed up against my body, Tonights gonna be the night." the person's goign to kill themself with a knife. "And I cut my own wrist, just to see if I exist." They slit their wrist. And that was the story of four people, and how they killed themse |
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| Pink Floyd – See Emily Play Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Morvit:3086] The Beatles actually might have copied Pink Floyd in the whole psych' era. Pink floyd was always like this when they started, and the Beatles were just the typical boy band of the time at that point. The story goes that the Beatles heard Syd's Floyd in the studio one day (the Beatles still weren't in their psych' period yet,) and that birthed that style in the Beatles. | |
| The Black Angels – Snake In The Grass Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song, told in the second person, is almost play-like in how it moves through events. What will be described is, as the song titles, a snake in the grass Someday, but not today, we will move away to a place that's nice and safe. Someday, but not today. -This is him (our main character) making a promise of safety to her (the love interest) in a time of despair and uncertainty caused by what will later be described in the song.- Someone, is your King, and you look up to them, yeah, divine in their way, -He is describing a love interest in her life, not himself directly, but someone left unknown to us. This could be him, or a love interest completely detached from our main character. This leaves two interpretations, neither more important than the other, but both important. This is where the song get's complicated and allows for separate meanings, although they branch back to the same conclusion. Firstly, he could very-well be describing her love for himself being divine in the way that he makes her feel safe. This divinity could be anything, however, leaving broad sweeping statements to rattle the imagination and leaving no certainty. So, in the simplest sense, he could be describing someone with the intent of keeping the person out of mind. Creating a sense of spite toward the person as being kept undescribed, and jealousy as she looks to them as her king. - and you say, yeah you say... You better believe her! She gave you plenty warning! - Here she goes on to say something, but her line gets abruptly cut off by what we'll describe as an entity, one warning of horrors to come. the entities words come in with a build up to a louder tone and at a slightly more rapid pace than the previous part of the verse. This creates a sense of urgency well met with the substance of the line, stating that she gave him warning that he should have believed. Floating on a moat. Yeah, you digging the moat, -Following the abrupt, short lived crisis, the love interest is described as floating on a moat. This creates the image of a dead body floating on a moat. The imagery is meant to foreshadow a later event. A moat being made to protect you, and you, digging the moat, have created it for your protection. Of course, him speaking directly to her, he's foreseeing that what she has built to protect her, she will lay dead in.- and you say. Yeah, you say, "Oh now, bring me joy. Lead me with your army. You take our children with your bloodstained hands." You better believe her! -And so she speaks, asking him to protect and be with her, and placing the weight of the burden of her life on him, describing it as innocent. "Oh now bring me joy. Lead and protect me. If I die, innocent as a child, you have not done so, and your hands are stained by blood." And you are reminded but the entity once again. "You'd better believe her."- Alright, alright, you got my love, and that's fine. -As the entity dictates for him to do, he believes her and caves to her desire of dependency. He promises her his love - to bring her joy. This falls back to the earlier line where she describes an unknown love interest. If she is indeed describing him, than she does so get what she wants from love unreturned, but if not, and he describes another, she has gained love unrewarded. - All night, all night, I swear to the highest high, I will keep it mine. -He promises to stay with her - to lead her with his army.- A promise with a catch, I'm sleeping with a smile, and you're safe, but just today. You better believe me! -He notes the catch to this promise, the variable that changes the outcome, her. She is the danger, and as she he sleeps, she's safe, and he brings her joy and leads her with his army as promised. - One night, when she goes blind, find her where she sleeps, wake her from her dreams, "Shh, it's ok." She gave you plenty warning! -But one night, she goes doesn't wake to see, and as he tried to wake her, and cries and pleads that it's okay, and realizes that, as the entity had stated, she gave him plenty of warning, and now his hands are stained by blood.- And so she dies, and he is left in shock, and defeated, as if she, or merely the situation flew to him from a known hiding place and bit with fury and pain, like a snake in the grass. |
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| alt-J – Pusher Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think this song is about loneliness. "If you're willing to wait for the love of your life, please wait by the line." This is a pretext to a line later on. Setting aside waiting by the line until it comes up again, the first part of this sentence is displaying a waiting for your true love. "And you know dispersive prisms rainbow." But we know it's a pipe dream, we know the reality that there is no Mrs. Perfect who'll come to them, and we know that he twists that reality making it softer and less convincing. Think of the dark side of the moon, think of the white line as that reality we know, think of how the white line is softened and made nicer by the protective prism. Think of how it rainbows. "But my native optimism isn't broken by the light." Although we know that the light isn't as soft and kind as it is rainbowed, but he's still optimistic. He still has hope. "The idea of life without company fell suddenly. It crashed through the ceiling on me, and pinned me to the pine." Then reality came crushing down. It fell hard and pushed him to the pine or his pining. "And layer upon layer of hope and doubt will crush bones to oil in time." As he waits for the love of his life, what he feels is crushing. "Are you a pusher or are you a puller?" He wonders if the love of his life will push him to be better or pull him along. "I pull the weight towards me." He takes in the weight of a relationship, pulling everything towards him. "And I lack the zest of a lemon, looking forward unless I have a woman pushing me" He establishes that he's depressed stating that he lacks the energy to go on through life with out someone with him. "A canopy of red-billed quelea passed over the blue." The red-billed quelea are the most common bird in the world. This is a rephrasing of the "plenty of fish in the sea" idea - the birds representing women. "A five hour flock - not one dives down to tell you the truth." As they pass, not one will dive down to give him any attention. "As night falls, a quelea crawls and whispers on his last wings, 'So abundant are we, left alone I shall be.' But a waited phone never rings." This brings us back to the line "please wait by the line" The line representing the waited phone. A quelea, in this case him, is below the "canopy of red-billed quelea," and is left alone crawling as he dies or "whispers on his last wings" He says that people are abundant, but he is left alone waiting by the line that never rings - waiting for the love of his life who never comes. "We could hold hands for fifteen minutes in the sauna. We could hold hands for a pool length under water." He's pining for the love of his love - wanting something romantic. "I can push and pull her." Placing plainly his want for someone - for the love of his life. "If you're willing to wait for the love of your life, please wait by the line." The song ends with him waiting everlastingly longer. It's about waiting for someone to love you, expecting a true love to come along and just be the right person. He waits by the line of abundant quelea to dive down to be with him, but alone he shall be as a waited phone never rings. So he's alone, and that's the overall meaning of the song. |
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| alt-J – Breezeblocks Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The song's a giant metaphor. "She may contain the urge to run away, but hold her down with soggy cloths and breeze-blocks" It's about the weight our main character (we'll simply call him "him") feels he puts on her. "Cetirizine, your fever's gripped me again. Never kisses — all you ever send are full stops." He's saying that he loves her (as in the fever of love) but is also calling her his medicine in the sense of she always stops the love. He explains this plainly with the "Never kisses" line. "Do you know where the wild things go? They go along to take your honey" This is obviously the fear of someone taking her away. "Break down, now weep. Build up breakfast, now let's eat, my love" I think this is more personal rather than pointing out her reaction, though it could be interpreted the other way. As the song reaches this point, he explains his fears, his actions, and his feelings toward the person herself. And the feelings and thoughts are frightful and discouraging. He's constantly haunted by the thought that someone else may come along and take away this person who doesn't even love him the same way, so he feels as though he's doing nothing but weighing her down and being a burden. In other words, he's the breeze-block. "Muscle to muscle and toe to toe, The fear has gripped me but here I go. My heart sinks as I jump up. Your hand grips hand as my eyes shut" This represents a break up that ends in them staying together. "Muscle to muscle" could describe them laying together or literally fighting. "toe to toe" shows us that there is a fight, even if only verbal. "My heart sinks as I jump up." this is him deciding to end the relationship for her sake (as described by his heart sinking). "Your hand grips hand and my eyes shut." this is her stopping him and him. His eyes shutting represents his willingness to ignore the fighting for the sake of keeping her. "Do you know where the wild things go? They go along to take your honey.Break down, now sleep. Build up breakfast, now let's eat, My love" This reiterates his fear of her leaving, but following the fight in the sense of their sleeping after he closes his eyes. It's meant to give deeper meaning to the fighting. "She bruises, coughs, she splutters pistol shots" This is re-describing the fighting. In the chorus, it's described in a very analytically way in the sense that it simply says that it happens. This is more emotional in the effect it has on him. "she splutters pistol shots" seems like the most appropriate place to start, despite it being at the end. The pistol shots are the harsh words and actions she "splutters" at him. They cause "bruises." I don't know what's up with the coughing though. It could describe simply her actually coughing. "Hold her down with soggy clothes and breeze-blocks" This acts as a reminder to himself that he's a weight on her life. It holds an ever-presence in this song. "She's morphine, queen of my vaccine — My love" So again, he describes her as his medicine, but in a different sense; context is important. Following the fighting, as they calm down and sleep together, he thinks of her as a vaccine to his sadness and the fighting. After another chorus (fight) he reiterates "She may contain the urge to run away But hold her down with soggy clothes and breeze-blocks," describing himself, again, as a weight on her life, as a burden. "Germolene, disinfect the scene, my love." He follows the fighting by describing her as the only thing to fix or "disinfect" it and asking her to do it. Note that this time she doesn't fix it, she's only asked. "But please don't go, I love you so, my lovely" She's leaving. A little more musical stuff to talk about here. As this fight ends, the song is at it's quietest, opening by continuing with only one instrument from the chorus. The instrument is getting quieter and lower in tone until it fades. The scene is at a calm, depressed, low tone feeling as though it's tired, as he begs for her to stay with him. As it ends, and she's leaving, the song breaks out into the fullest, and most eventful the instrumental has been, giving a feeling of rapid, distraught begging. As if he's losing his mind at the thought of her leaving. "Please don't go, please don't go. I love you so, I love you so." The pleading. "Please break my heart." Deep down he wants her to go, to be free of him, to be happy, and he recognizes how much he hates it. "Please don't go. I'll eat you whole. I love you so." "Please don't go. I love you so. I love you so, I love you so." At this point, there are two lyrical moments happening at the same time. They're fighting with each other. The song get's slightly louder as it continues, and neither takes gravity over the other. It continues with the pleading in a loving way, saying simply that he loves her, and needs to be with her, then, the thought that he'll "eat [her] whole" starts taking over, describing his nature to hold her down and his want to keep her no matter what. In the end, "Please don't go. I'll eat you whole. I love you so" takes over, being the only lyric left from the fight of emotion. The idea that he's "eat [her] whole" to stay with her is the winning idea. Then this pleading cuts out abruptly leaving a soothing rhythm. This could mean that it simply continues in that she comes back "hand to hand" again, soothing him (this being in the first person). Or it could mean that she was gone and it was over. The song's about a bad relationship, not necessarily abusive, but simply depressed. It's about specifically the guy in the relationship and how he feels and his battling wants. It's about him hurting the person he loves and wanting her to be done with him, but also loving her and wanting her to stay with him. It's about the end of a relationship. |
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| Milky Chance – Stolen Dance Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[A199:2543] I actually came to this conclusion the first time I heard the song. Then I heard the drug analysis and thought I was just creepy, but we're not, our's actually makes more sense. They actually say in an interview it has to do with a relationship, and I'm sure flat out saying "it's about pedophilia" wouldn't go over too well, so I'd say our conclusion is fairly safe. The drug analysis actually makes a lot of sense until the like "you've never danced like that before." The only logical way to turn with the dancing metaphor as pertaining to drugs is a seizure "never dance'd like this before" would make sense in that instance, but the drug can't really dance. "I want you by my side so that I never feel alone again." This is pretty straight forward. It's exactly as said. "They've always been so kind, but now they've brought you away from here." Like you said, he could be referring to the girls parents. When he says "they've brought you away." He could also be referring to authorities in an offhand way to hint at the parents reaction early on, as he jumps a little deeper into later on. "I hope they didn't get your mind." He's hoping that the FBI, counselors, ect don't essentially "brain wash" her into not loving him any more (as he clearly feels about it). He wants her to continue loving him. "Your heart is too strong anyway." He convinces himself that she loves him too much or "her heart is too strong" to be convinced otherwise. "We need to fetch back the time they have stolen from us" He's planning on being with her again after this is all over. "And I want you. We can bring it on the floor. You've never danced like this before" This is obviously a metaphor for sex. They start 'dancing on the floor" in a way she "[hasn't] danced ... before" The fact that she hasn't "danced like [that] before" sets up that she's young enough not to have had sex before, and defining it as dancing sets up both an innocents within her and a deceit within him. "We don’t talk about it." This furthers the deceit and creates a sense of dread and plainly being careful about having sex with her. "Dancin' on. Do the boogie all night long. Stoned in paradise. Shouldn't talk about it." He now sets a time for their "dancing": night time. Furthering the sexual innuendo. Then comes the like about being stoned. This could mean to things, it could refer to weed, or it could refer to the punishment of stoning as to further the dread aspect of it. I prefer the ladder. It creates a sort of oxymoron that works very well in the setting of the song. He creates the evil aspect of it, showing it as something to be punished, then follows it by stating he's in paradise. "Coldest winter for me. No sun is shining anymore. The only thing I feel is pain." This sets up the emotional aspect. It's meant to make you feel for him, as strange as that may sound. It does it's job well considering, however. These lines hold no mention of the legality aspect of the relationship and strictly pertain to the feeling that anyone who loses anyone they love suddenly and tragically would feel. You could totally forget her age in this moment if you weren't thinking about it and really feel that emotion. He's counting on people not paying enough attention, and that's the best he could do. It's a great use of forgetfulness. "Caused by absence of you." Then he brings us back with a subtle reminder of who we're talking about. "Suspense is controlling my mind. I cannot find the way out of here." And so we're given setting. A setting of custody. He's been arrested, imprisoned, and is awaiting trial, which is creating "suspense" and "is controlling [his] mind." It's a desperate setting of which he "cannot find the way out." "I want you by my side. So that I never feel alone again." This is probably the saddest line of the song for me. Yes, I actually feel bad for the main character here; we're meant to. It's written in a way that victimizes him. I don't know what the writer is going through, but he wrote it like this. An entire aspect of the song is not unintentional. Why is this line so sad? It's the opening line given context. An old trick perfected... You start the song being made to feel alone and needing someone, and now you know who that person is and why exactly you feel that way. And what does he do long after you've likely forgotten the line and have formed your opinion on the main character? He dumps it on you as a stark reminder that like it or not, the feeling exists. It's like saying "That feeling you felt at the opening of this song -- this is where it came from." |
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