| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is pretty obviously about cocaine. I also think it's not really just about use cocaine considering, as mackka pointed out, Nick Cave doesn't really write songs that are just about how much drugs suck. I think that the biblical referencing with the names relates to a loss of faith due to the drug use, and the isolation mackka pointed out is literal isolation due to friends dying, paranoia from the drug, and spiritual isolation from losing God. The loss of faith motif is continued when the cry for help, "oh my Lord", changes to "save yourself! help yourself!", meaning that God cannot help you until you help yourself, ie kick the drugs. Which is really over-analyzing things I think, because really this is just what happens when Nick Cave, a complex writer fascinated by religion, writes a song about how much drug use sucks. |
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| Modest Mouse – Spitting Venom Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is a difficult song to transcribe and you've done a pretty good job but I think I've found a few mistakes: "You were talkin' soda pop, you talk it quite a lot" "My ears were pressing firmly right against your mouth to hear." "I don't know who kept track, I didn't know there was a score" "Well we walked real stiff and I can't incite his venom, You hit me with yours and said, 'you're gonna tell me now'*" "If the damned gave you a roadmap then you'd know just where to go" *really not sure about the line in quotes there, but I know it's not 'pull yourself together' Honestly, for all those corrections you did an excellent job- corrected what I had on a few points. |
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| The Flaming Lips – She Don't Use Jelly Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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If you've seen Fearless Freaks then you know, as Greyshoes points out, that the song is not about masturbation, or sex for that matter. You also know then that when they wrote She Don't Use Jelly they were poor- really, really poor. That's all this song is about- being really poor. A girl who can't afford actual food to use on her toast, so she uses vasoline, a guy who has to recycle magazines as tissues, and a girl who likes to color her hair but can't afford anything else "that ya buy at the store-" she uses tangerines. The song is all about crazy shit people do when they're reallly poor. |
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