| Bauhaus – Hollow Hills Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Some errors in the lyrics: "earthwork" is one word: "Ancient earthwork, fort and barrow" "ill luck", not "in luck": "ill luck, disaster-- their one reward" ("in luck" doesn't even make sense: hey, you're in luck! Disaster!) |
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| Pink Floyd – Two Suns in the Sunset Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Kids these days-- can't even remember what the Cold War was like. Get off my lawn =^p Seriously, though: at the time this song was written, it wasn't being subtle about the fact it was about nuclear war. It was IN-YOUR-FACE-BLATANT about being about nuclear war. The fact that there's now actually a DEBATE on this page as to whether that's what the song is about or not just drives home how different the zeitgeist context is now than it was then. Of course, a song might mean something different to one person than what the song-writer originally intended-- there are songs that are meaningful to me for reasons that I know are entirely different than what the songwriter meant by them. But at the time the song was written-- no one would be debating RW's intentions, even without liner notes or interviews of him saying so. The Sword of Damocles was ever-present. *grouchygrumble* Kids these days. No sense of perspective. Don't know what it's like to grow up fairly certain that humankind would wipe itself out in nuclear armageddon in your own lifetime, and to just kind of set that knowledge aside and ignore it, the way Californians ignore "The Big One" or like people on the slope of an active volcano. And we had to walk to school barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways. *grouchygrumble* |
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| Metallica – Blackened Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Kids these days-- can't even remember what the Cold War was like. Get off my lawn =^p Seriously, though: at the time this song was written, it wasn't being subtle about the fact it was about nuclear war. It was IN-YOUR-FACE-BLATANT about being about nuclear war. The fact that there's now actually a DEBATE on this page as to whether that's what the song is about or not just drives home how different the zeitgeist context is now than it was then. And sure, now that the world's context has changed, you can re-interpret it to be about something else, if that's more meaningful to you. But at the time the song was written-- no one would be having this debate. The Sword of Damocles was ever-present. *grouchygrumble* Kids these days. No sense of perspective. Don't know what it's like to grow up fairly certain that humankind would wipe itself out in nuclear armageddon in your own lifetime, and to just kind of set that knowledge aside and ignore it, the way Californians ignore "The Big One" or like people on the slope of an active volcano. And we had to walk to school barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways. *grouchygrumble* |
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| Black Sabbath – Children Of The Sea Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Given the title of the song, I always wondered if "We'd glide above the ground before we learned to run" was a reference to how in our evolutionary history we swam (when you swim, you do glide above the ground) before we "learned to run" (or even have legs, for that matter). | |
| Dark Moor – The Silver Key Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Seems to be based primarily on "Dreamquest for Unknown Kadeth", with a little bit of "The Silver Key" thrown in, and a couple of references to other Lovecraft stories as well. | |
| Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| ...except that Solsbury Hill is in England-- in fact, Stonehenge is on Solsbury Hill, implying that the narrator is singing from Stonehenge. So that changes the metaphor considerably. | |
| Billy Joel – We Didn't Start the Fire Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Nope, but you're close =^). This was several years after the "New Coke" fiasco, but the like is "rock and roll cola wars"-- see my comment to the previous poster. | |
| Billy Joel – We Didn't Start the Fire Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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No, it's "Rock and Roll Cola Wars". At the time this song came out (it's the last line, so it's caught up with the song's "present",) Coke and Pepsi were each trying to up each other by getting more and more popular rock stars to hawk their products. So it seemed like every week there was a new Coke or Pepsi commercial out with yet another pop star signing the praises of one cola or the other. Basically, I take the line as being a comment on the ridiculousness of it all. |
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| Mike And The Mechanics – Silent Running Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"You would have to dig back into the latter 20th century, America, and research pop culture of the 1980's," -- ye gods, that line makes me feel old... But actually, "war gone completely hot" in pop culture pretty much meant "bombs fall. everyone dies." No one left to surrender to. If there was anything at all after the war, it was a Mad Max post-apocalyptic scenario, nothing with modern nation-states as such. So I don't think the song is about anything on the scale of a U.S./U.S.S.R. conflict. When the song came out, the vibe I got from it made me think of the various revolutions and counter-revolutions that were going on in South America at the time. But I have nothing to back that up; that's just the feeling of one person who happened to be in the zeitgeist... |
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| The Police – Wrapped Around Your Finger Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I have no idea if this is what the artist indended, but when this song came out it made me think of (and here I reveal my true geekiness) the book Lord of the Rings. The song is sung from the point of view of Sauraman the White. I doubt this is the intended meaning, but I can't help interpreting the song this way... |
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