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| Ice Cube – Go To Church Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The basic idea behind the chorus is that people should know that the rap game is dangerous, and that if they can't handle it they should go to church where they can feel safe.
Also, this part of the song is dissing 50 Cent:
"We can get it crackin if it get to clickin clackin
Look at Mr. Jackson, nigga with no reaction
If you scared, go to church, we gon' hit you where it hurts
That don't work, we'll put you in the dirt
Cause a whole lot of rappers make a whole lot of noise (hey)
Lyrics full of steroids, niggaz paranoid (hey)
And when you get that blowup, it make you throw up
When you realize your favorite rapper ain't got no nuts" |
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| Kris Kristofferson – The Pilgrim: Chapter 33 (Hang In, Hopper) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Kris wrote this song about Johnny Cash, his good friend and fellow Highwayman. It talks about Johnny's contradictory stance as being full of the gospel while also being indulgent, doing drugs, and having an obvious dark side to him. I don't think this was meant to be like a diss, because Kris and Johnny were friends and it's not too harsh. But it's definitely about Mr. Cash. |
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| Jay-Z – All I Need Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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"Mickey and Mallory" are the names of the two main characters of Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers." |
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| John Lennon – God Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I always thought the line "Yoko and me" took away from the song, as it drifts from the overall point of self-reliance and makes the song more difficult to relate to for the listener. I picked up "John Lennon: Acoustic" the other night, and the demo recording included in that compilation doesn't include that line. My guess is that Yoko got indignant and accused him of not believing in her, which is why he added the line. |
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| Tori Amos – Strange Little Girl (The Stranglers cover) Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is a cover of a song by The Stranglers. The girl in Amos' cover is supposed to be a grown-up Hailie Jade Mathers, the daughter of Eminem. It comes right after her cover of Eminem's "'97 Bonnie and Clyde" on the album, and represents the adult Hailie Jade that may have been had the events of the previous song actually happened. |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I'm pretty certain that this song was influenced by the Beatles song "Baby, You're a Rich Man." I know that Manson is a big fan of Lennon/McCartney, and the two songs share some of the same basic themes in their lyrics. Also, most notably, the first line of "Baby, You're a Rich Man" is " How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?" |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Every Day Is Exactly the Same Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is about the routines we're put through in life. To me right now, it makes me think of high school. We all go to our assigned class, wait for the bell to ring, go to the next, wait for the bell to ring, etc. It's amazing how one ring of a bell can command thousands of students to all stand at once, and to go exactly where they've been told, where they go every day... Like Pavlov's dogs... *sigh* I know if I get an office job, it is just going to be the same thing. "I just do what I've been told, I really don't want them to come around, oh no" especially makes me think of bosses at an office, most likely bosses which are quite inferior to you. Eight of 'em, "Office Space" style. This idea of continuing to be trapped into doing something I hate, like I am in high school now, is what made me decide to go ahead and major in Theater this fall. I'll likely be poor and have absolutely no job security, but I'll have a shot at being one of the rare, happy people living in America. |
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| Mindless Self Indulgence – Backmask (With Backwards Text) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's making fun of all of the fuss conservative Christians have made over the years about messages on records which will tell you to kill yourself if you play them backwards, and the people said it was subliminally telling the kids to do that when played forwards.. I don't believe any rock artists actually ever recorded messages like this before the idea was spread around by the conservatives, either. This song ironically switches it, with the actual song telling you to kill yourself, where if you play it backwards it gives you so-called "wholesome" messages. |
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| Mindless Self Indulgence – Clarissa Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It is "another Teenage Bitch." That's another reference to Melissa Joan Hart, who, along with playing Clarissa in "Clarissa Explains it All," played Sabrina in "Sabrina the Teenage Witch." A teenage witch, a teenage bitch, see the similarities? Yeah, the song is anti-Melissa Joan Hart.
Also, Ferguson was the name of Clarissa's little brother in the show. They're singing about underage siblings having incestual sex. Haha, man, only MSI. |
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| The Postal Service – Such Great Heights Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is a song about how when you are with your lover, the world seems so beautiful, but, when they're away, reality returns, and you want nothing more than for your loved one to come back. |
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| The Postal Service – Nothing Better Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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When I first heard this song, listening through Give Up, I remember how happy and sweet Ben's lyrics were on the short simple chorus. "Tell me am I right to think that there could be nothing better, than making you my bride and slowly growing old together." Then, when the woman said no, it was such a harsh return to reality, especially flying high on the wings of "Such Great Heights" and "Sleeping In." It's a sad song, reminding me of mistakes I've made with my girlfriend, and the damage that it's dealt. |
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| The Postal Service – Sleeping In Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Great point, Revelation.
A lot of you are saying that there is sarcasm in his voice, but I definitely don't think that's true. It almost hurts my feelings to see a song this pure handled this way. This song is about understanding the world for what it truly is, and still being able to see it optimistically. The part about the man who shot John F. Kennedy is so beautiful to me... and the second verse, referring to when there was more love in the world, also, just beautiful... actually, the whole song is simply beautiful. I love this song. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Heresy Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I don't think this song is about today's society or whatever, I think it's fairly straightforward. It's an attack on Christianity. I find it interesting that Pretty Hate Machine was full of religious pondering, and wishing to be able to be close to a God, (such as "Hey God, why are you doing this to me?" and "I want so much to believe." in Terrible Lie) where in the Downward Spiral, there was a sense of complete rejection and anger towards the idea of God. It shows a deep inner evolution, where his feeling of abandonment grew stronger and lead him from sadness to anger. I'm not sure, but I'd guess that Trent was raised as a Christian and was once a very firm believer. Maybe I just feel that way because I relate to it, though. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Ringfinger Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think this song is about wanting to make love with a woman who won't allow you to. Trent is willing to do anything that the woman wants, to completely change himself, if she'll only sleep with him. He has become what she wants him to be, and she still will not sleep with him. ("Still you lead me and I follow
Anything you ask you know I'll do.") He is obsessed with being with her in this way, and, restin256, while I'd never related the end of the song to masturbation, it makes perfect snse. However, I'd guess that the "song repeating in his head" is not actually a song, but a metaphor of the fantasies of sleeping with her that are running through his head. |
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| Nirvana – Floyd the Barber Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Exactly, FellOnBlackDays. Stop acting like this song is so deep. It's about exactly what it seems to be on the surface; Kurt gets raped by the cast of the Andy Griffith show. It came from Kurt's warped sense of humor. Haven't you ever seen Nirvana interview footage? Or read some of his published journals? Kurt was always making jokes. Yes, he was a severely depressed human being. That doesn't mean he always acted sad. He, like tons of people, used humor to cope. This song is about the pure folks of Mayberry raping Kurt, which is what people call irony, and he meant it to be funny. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – The Hand That Feeds Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Okay, while you all have your fun discussing whether the song is good or not, (which it is,) I'm going to get to the, you know, actual point of this website, interpreting the meaning. I take this song to be about the ultra-Christian types who live their faith. "You're keeping in step in the line, Got your chin held high and you feel just fine, Because you do what you're told, But inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's cold." These Christians do everything their supposed too, and act all happy, but deep inside they know they don't really feel anything.
I mean, to me, the second verse makes it pretty obvious:
"What if this whole crusade's a charade?
And behind it all there's a price to be paid,
For the blood on which we dine, (communion is the metaphorical drinking of Christ's blood)
Justified in the Name of the Holy and the Divine (God/Jesus)"
Trent, an atheist, urges the audience to 'get up off (their) knees.' To live for today, not for thousand-year-old scriptures. It's a good song. I love it, and can't wait for With Teeth. |
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| Mindless Self Indulgence – Harry Truman Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I believe this song is meant to be racist. The verses are made up of black stereotypes, and the chorus' "Every single day I've got the white man working for me" line might refer to affirmative action giving minorities an unfair advantage in the workforce. Also, Harry Truman strongly supported civil rights and affirmative action, which would relate him to this idea. |
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| Weezer – I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's not about bisexuality. Not even one little bit. Rivers wrote this for a concept album he planned on making called "Songs From the Black Hole." This was to be sung by one of the female characters in that album's storyline. You don't have to take my word for it, the whole thing is on Weezer's website in the info section. |
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| CKY – Santa's Coming Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Darkness_5555 was closer, but it's actually "My wife's a fucking slut!"
Mrs. Claus, being a slut. Heh. |
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| Rob Halford – The One You Love To Hate Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Though they're back together now, it seems to me like these lyrics could be an attack on Judas Priest. Seeing as how Bruce Dickinson is featured, it may also work against Iron Maiden. A lot of the lines seem to work for this, most notably "Your only future is your past," which would imply that Priest would never be big again with Tim Owens, only remembered for their great days with him. |
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| David Bowie – I'm Afraid of Americans Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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No, Tada, it doesn't mean cocaine at all. Coke is associated as an American symbol, like apple pie. It's implying, with the other lines in that stanza and simply the average-Joe-American sounding name of "Johnny," that this is any American. |
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