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| The Cure – Shiver and Shake Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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It's my 'go to' song when someone really pisses me off. I picture myself hacking at their headstone with an axe while this song screams wildly in the background. (Decency forbids me from mentioing her name.) |
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| Radiohead – No Surprises Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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I think it\'s about that silent moment when you suddenly realise that *everything* is broken and fucked up. |
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| The Cure – Other Voices Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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Robert Smith came from a Catholic background. The reference to visiting at Christmas suggests family, probably the slightly distant family you only see at Christmas e.g. cousins. RS has talked about "lust...eating forbidden fruit" - and there are references to commiting sin in the lyrics - so I think it\'s pretty obvious what the song might be obliquely hinting at. \n\nIs it a confession? I don\'t think so. I think it\'s just a premise - maybe drawn from a vaguely half-remembered teenage dream then woven into a similarly vague fictional creation. And I think the fictional aspect is possibly loneliness - loneliness caused by not being able to taste the forbidden fruit of which you dream - a longing for intimacy rather than just pure sex. \n\nFor me the song evokes the emotional sensation of being sedated by morphine or opiated hash better than anything else I have ever heard. I love the dreamy expressionist atmosphere, the half-hidden weird sounds, the echoed effects, and of course, the slow woody bass-line. \n\n10/10. One of The Cure\'s finest achievements. |
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| Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Yellow Brick Road Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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Songs like this are like paintings. They probably have no precise meaning - except maybe for something personal to the artist. \n\nThe lines that resonate most for me - partly because of the emotionally-charged way they are sung - are "Keep on walking and don\'t look back!" \n\nOf course, these lines could tie-in with the cult theory referenced above - some cults believe in revisiting past trauma, so the song could be a riposte against that - and maybe it is, ambiguously - but I prefer the more obvious explanation, that is probably just advice to keep on moving through life, and not to waste time obsessing about the past. |
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