| Alien Ant Farm – These Days Lyrics | 3 months ago |
| I understand that the song is about someone who finds a colleague at work with whom he or she can work really good together and he or she asks whether they want to work together in the next project. | |
| PJ Harvey – This Is Love Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[patreznor:46443] – I also think it is about being in love with someone despite being a monogamous relationship with someone else (who she doesn't want to leave as I understand it). | |
| Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[Tibbits:45417] – This is more plausible than the interpretation asserting that this song were about drug use. | |
| Firehose – Me & You, Remembering Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[Sylvereestarr:44343] – You're right. I meant to write: "when he recorded a song with Ciccone Youth where they covered a Madonna song." | |
| Neil Young – Sugar Mountain Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| For all the Germans here: No it\'s not about Mark Zuckerberg, although "Sugar Mountain" translates "Zuckerberg" in German. | |
| Faith No More – Crack Hitler Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I noticed similarities between the bass/drum pattern in the first part of "Crack Hitler" and the bass/drum pattern in "Heritage" from Bill Laswell\'s band Material. (However there are different versions of this Material song and the bass cannot be heard on all of them. I am referring to the version on "Temporary Music".) \n\nHowever, I guess that arrangement is something you\'d come with very easily during a jam session, so I don\'t want to imply that i Billy Gould stole that bassline from Bill Laswell. | |
| Faith No More – Crack Hitler Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| In the lyrics above it says "(Hey)", but I used to understand "Hail!". Maybe it should be similar to "Hail", but then they refrained from using this word because it is too risky to be misunderstood as glorifying the ideology behind it.\n\nBy the way, I noticed that the drum rythm during this part (e.g. from 2:05 to 2:22 min) is a common drumming pattern that soldiers use for marches during military parades. | |
| Jane's Addiction – Mountain Song Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| What does "Coming down the mountain" mean? I have noticed this phrase in two other rock songs ("Comin\' down" by the Meat Puppets and "Mountain Song" by Mucky Pup) and it seams to be used in a metaphorical way in all of these songs. | |
| Faith No More – The Cowboy Song Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[Raymiles:38087] – I think it needs to be analysed a bit more than that. My understanding is that the narrator wishes somebody else to go to hell by committing suicide. The question is: Why is it called "Cowboy Song"? Is the person described in the song a cowboy? My understanding is that the narrator had a bad encounter with a person who resembles her or his idea of a "cowboy". Maybe they had an argument or fight about the free-thinking spirit of the (proably very young*) narrator who feels intimidated by the "cowboy". Therefore the narrator fantasized that the "cowboy" realizes what a bully he is and then (the "cowboy") decides to jump of the roof of a skyscraper. Assuming that the lyrics are written by Patton, he must have been 19 or 20 when he wrote the song. There is a demo of this song with these lyrics from 1988 on YT. |
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| Helmet – Unsung Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[Fremont:37205] – That's an interesting interpretation. I always thought that this song mocks egomaniacs who seek attention to satisfy their ego. | |
| Faith No More – Das Schützenfest Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Too bad that the correct lyrics have been reverted to the wrong lyrics! | |
| Horace Andy – Spying Glass Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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The lyrics are just copied from the Massive Attack version. However, the orginal version by Horace Andy has different lyrics in a different order: I finally detour I finally die I finally detour You live in the city You mind your own business What you see you don't see But some people they always see They never mind their own business You move to the country You live in the hills You think you're far from the wicked When you're checking them in your spying glass They want to know all your business You live in the city You stay by yourself You evade bad company Still some people they brand you, yeah Just because you are rasta You live in the city You stay by yourself You evade all wickedness Still some people they brand you, yeah Just because you are rasta I finally detour I finally die I finally detour Yet some people they brand you, yeah Just because you are rasta I finally die I finally detour You live in the city You stay by yourself You evade all wickedness Still some people they brand you, yeah That's just because you are rasta You move to the country You live in the hills You evade all wickedness When you're checking them in your spying glass They want to know rasta business I finally detour I finally die I finally detour Yet some people they brand you, yeah Just because you are rasta You live in the city You mind your own business What you see you don't see Yet some people they always see They never mind their own business |
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| Horace Andy – Spying Glass Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| The hook is missing: "I finally detour/I finally die". | |
| Firehose – In Memory Of Elizabeth Cotton Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Is the song title inspired by "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" by The Allman Brothers Band? | |
| Firehose – Me & You, Remembering Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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This song seems to be about that meeting you have with an old friend with whome you don't have much to talk about except for talk about the old days . In this case, it might be alluding to a Sonic Youth and the time when he recorded that Ciccone Youth song which is a cover of a Madonna song. |
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| Massive Attack – A Prayer for England Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[MisterBungle:35519] – However, if that were true, why does the title refer spefically to England? This problem doesn't just affect this part of UK respectively the world. Plus, within England, it didn't just concern the Catholic Church. | |
| Faith No More – Das Schützenfest Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[bohne:35460] The chorus actually goes like this: Oh (Bavarian) girl, days were passing by like the flow of Hefeweizen beer, nights smelled like shit, but never will I forget the Schützenfest. |
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| Faith No More – Last Cup Of Sorrow Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[rageblynd:35449] And as it is about dealing with a bad situation, it sort of continues the topic addressed in A Small Victory which is about dealing with the pain that you "just cant win every game" (quote by Patton himself). | |
| Faith No More – The Cowboy Song Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Given that the songs name refers to a cowboy, I initially assumed the song expresses the narrator's adolescent wish that somebody else should go to hell (by killing himself) and that this somebody is an archaic obnoxious character, like a prole, redneck or a macho. | |
| Massive Attack – Spying Glass Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Isn't he also singing something like "I finally detour / I finally die" as some sort of chorus? | |
| Faith No More – Epic Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Apostolis:33940] – You mean it's about an SF icecream brand. | |
| Faith No More – Superhero Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| The description of the Superhero reminds me of a motivational coach who promises success with his motivation method. | |
| Faith No More – Epic Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[mowi:33939] – There is a character in Adam's Family whose name is Cousin Itt. | |
| Faith No More – Epic Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| The lyrics remind me of a so-called MacGuffin which is "an object, device, or event [in a film] that is necessary to the plot and the motivation of the characters, but insignificant, unimportant, or irrelevant in itself" according to Wikipedia. | |
| Faith No More – The Morning After Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[sueb:33938] – I second that. The film title is even mentioned in the lyrics. | |
| Faith No More – Das Schützenfest Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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In an interview with the German Gitarre und Bass magazine, Billy Gould said that the lyrics were written by a German friend called Wolfgang. So, I understand that it was handwritten and Mike Patton couldn't read all words properly. That is why some words like "ute-ut" and "Superlochwel" don't make any sense in German. One can only guess what they mean. Whereas the other words can be understood more or less very well. 1. "Sie tanzt ute-ut": It could mean "um den Hut" (she dances "around the hat") or even "Sie tanzt ufftata", which would be the onomatopoeia/echoism of the rythm sound of Polka and Bavarian brass music. 2. "Oh Mädchen, tat mir ans Superlochwel ihren BH": "gab mir als Souvenir ihren BH" (gave me her bra as souvenir) or "gab mir als Spuckbeutel ihren BH" (gave me her bra as sickness bag). |
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