| Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Even if it were about consent — which it pretty obviously isn't — think about what he's saying for a moment: "I. Hate. These. Blurred. Lines." Work it out and get back to me when you're done. |
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| Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Well posted, Lynne. DMDxFLOW, please explain how you're so certain that it 'IS' about rape. I've read the lyrics a few times and there's literally nothing there beyond "I know you want it" (rapey in some contexts, but quite obviously not rapey here). People are so thick(e) that they latch onto the "blurred lines" phrase and automatically assume it's about consent. Um, sorry? Why would a song promoting rape include the lyrics "I hate these blurred lines"? Let's work this one out slowly, guys: what would someone who hated blurred lines of consent want? Could it be... clearly-defined lines? That is, YES or NO? The irony is that it's not even about consent at all. It's mostly just about some wanker who thinks that he's god's gift to women. Not a great mentality, granted, but conflating it with rape is drawing a long bow. |
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| Barclay James Harvest – Ra Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| One of my favourite prog songs. Seems like a bit of fey mysticism at first glance, but I think there's more going on here; note the lines about burning ground, drying rivers and "God of old, now broken and defaced". An early piece of apocalyptic environmentalism? Given their songs about animal cruelty ("Spirit on the Water") and pessimistic anti-war songs ("For No One), it doesn't seem so far-fetched. Whatever the case, it's a magnificent, pretty epic piece of music. | |
| The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Not sure exactly what Morrissey's intention was, but I do note the irony of one of those stupid 'weight loss' ads appearing at the top of the page. Some people aren't ok with some girls being bigger than others. |
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| Gareth Liddiard – The Radicalisation of D Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I guess by 'exaggeration' I was referring to what seems at times slightly less-than-subtle portrayal of grotesqueness, but that's a very subjective statement on my part. It certainly doesn't detract from the song in any way. I haven't read that interview (just loading it up now), but at his album launch Liddiard claimed that the song wasn't 'about' David Hicks at all. Even if Hicks was a major inspiration for the song, it's clear that his story is only being incorporated in a very general sense: for example, the references to the disinterested, abusive and cancer-struck father clash heavily with memories of media images of Terry Hicks protesting on his son's behalf on New York City streets. At best, Hicks is a launchpad for a more general statement, and that's probably how it should be. I've wondered about 'Cliff'. I've listened to this song probably over a dozen times now and I feel like I discover new things every time I listen to it. What I think 'Cliff' is supposed to represent is this happy, successful fulfilment of the 'American Dream'. He's a doctor ("in obstetrics") of African-American descent ("his roots here are in slavery") with all the modern symbols of material wealth and 'happiness' ("...a beautiful wife; he's insured for his life"). It seems he's mainly used to provide a contrast with the rest of us, bludgeoned by advertising, meaningless wars and depression medication. But apart from that, I don't think this particular stanza really needs any further analysis, it speaks for itself. What I like most about the stanza is not just that it is brilliant in its own right (which it is), but more that it kind of comes out of the blue and yet ties the whole song together. This diversion is a pretty radical technique by Gareth when it comes to the genre of narrative song, and it works beautifully. We have no idea what happens to 'D' - does he kill himself? Does he recover? - while this new character from another country is brought in out of nowhere, and we go off that way until brought back to the September 11 attacks. I like to think that 'D' is one of the people responsible, even though we have no idea what happens between his suicide attempt and the attack. We kind of know all we need to know. |
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| Gareth Liddiard – The Radicalisation of D Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Ostensibly about David Hicks, the song appears to be only loosely based on the life of the Australian terror suspect. Liddiard seems to be questioning what might lead a white, working-class Australian to work for Al-Qaeda, and in this 16-minute opus provides a compelling and powerful argument. Although the imagery is at times seems a little exaggerated, Liddiard's basic argument lies in the essential truth of causality: genetics aside, we are the products of our experiences, interpersonal relationships and upbringings. Thus, small events from the protagonist's childhood are listed; less a catalogue of cataclysmic events than a visceral portrayal of abuse and societal rejection. However fantastical this opening stanza is, the ensuing events seem more or less plausible. This is not to say that all or even many abused children will end up radicalised; but the well-argued point is that such an outcome could feasibly eventuate, and that is what Liddiard establishes. The fifth and final major stanza is perhaps the high point of the song. Here, 'D', and indeed the entire country that the song is set in, disappear from the lyrics. Instead, they are replaced by a general comment on the state of Western society in the 21st century; a world of empty advertising, wars of oppression and depression medication. The chilling finale, a reference to the September 11 terrorist attacks, brings us back not just to 'D', but everybody involved in the strike and, indeed, us. Far from justifying those actions, Liddiard simply tries to find some rational explanation for it all. Do we live in a world where such atrocities can take place? - this is the question Liddiard poses, but it is entirely rhetorical. Our world, of course, is tailor-made for them. |
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| The Human League – Don't You Want Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Is it just me, or are these lyrics really creepy? So much implicit threat: "But don't forget it's me who put you where you are now And I can put you back down, too" "You'd better change it back Or we will both be sorry" |
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| Fergie – Fergalicious Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The very fact that half the people on here say it's a good song is the reason why she gets away with it. They serve up the crap, and you eat it. I'm just waiting for some 'artist' to write a song about someting truly disturbing or moronic, but with a 'good beat' so everyone loves it anyway. Oh hang, on, why wait? Fergie, 50 Cent and friends have been around for years now. |
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| Barclay James Harvest – For No One Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| One of the more intelligent anti-war songs of the period, perhaps. | |
| Barclay James Harvest – Suicide? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is a pretty much unheard of prog rock band, but I've often wondered if these kind of bands were, in a way, precursors of the dark music of the late 70s/early 80s (Joy Division, The Cure etc). Certainly the latter took the mantle of the thinking man's alternative music. As for this song, I think it's kind of sad, and I like the kind of ambiguous ending - does it take a push to make someone actually kill themselves, in the end? Or is there some deeper meaning to this song? |
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| Barclay James Harvest – In Memory Of The Martyrs Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Apaprently this song is about the people who were shot crossing from East Germany to West Germany during the cold war era. | |
| The Cure – Pornography Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I haven't noticed that... are you sure you're not referring to the reversed voices (apparently a debate on pornography between Germaine Greer and Monty Python's Graham Chapman) at the beginning and end of the song? | |
| The Cure – Shiver and Shake Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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That's what Robert Smith has said in a few interviews, but somehow I doubt it. For one thing, Lol was still a member of the band at this stage. Would he have really played on a song that was basically attacking him? Also, Robert Smith seems to have been really negative towards Tolhurst in interviews since the court case (understandably). I wonder if that is an example of this? Perhaps there's a few different interpretations of the song... whenever I listen to it, I can't help but feel it's about self-loathing... but, really that's just a possible interpretation of the song. |
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| The Cure – Push Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I've never read anything about Robert Smith being transsexual (and the story about him wearing a dress was something he did when he was 11 as a dare), but I dunno. It actually seems like the most logical interpretation from the lyrics. | |
| The Cure – Foxy Lady (Jimi Hendrix cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yeah, track 7 on the Three Imaginary Boys album... shares two interesting positions within Cure trivia... only song not sung by Robert Smith (Michael Dempsey was the bass guitarist at the time), and also the only cover on a cure album. This song is not considered one of The Cure's best... 'Never Enough', the 2005 biography, referred to the song as an atrocity, pretty much, and apparently Robert Smith hates it with a passion and never even wanted it on the album in the first place. Personally, I kinda like it... |
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| The Cure – Dressing Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's probably about drugs (what wasn't at this point for the cure, hehe), but there might be a different interpretation there. Is 'dressing up' an analogy for not wanting to confront who you are, instead pretending to be someone different? Yeah ok, it's about drugs... |
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| The Cure – Disintegration Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I really don't know what a lot of the lyrics mean in this song, but I think the line about 'the eye of the needle' might be a reference to the Bible, where Jesus tells his disciples that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter heaven. Which probably means that it's easier to do even that than for him to 'ever feel whole again'. But, who knows. Actually, I think the person who suggested that it is about suicide might have something. There's this repeated line: "As bit by bit it starts the need To just let go My party piece" Is his 'party piece' his suicide? Then there's this verse, which really backs up this idea: "But I never said I would stay to the end So I leave you with babies and hoping for frequency Screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy Screaming me over and over and over I leave you with photographs Pictures of trickery Stains on the carpet and Stains on the scenery Songs about happiness murmured in dreams When we both us knew How the ending would be..." What are the stains on the carpet and scenery, if not blood? Yeah, I thought of semen as well, you dirty minded people ;) But blood seems far more likely. If it is just a break-up song, this verse seems way too personal: "Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces I'll pull out my heart And I'll feed it to anyone Crying for sympathy Crocodiles cry for the love of the crowd And the three cheers from everyone Dropping through sky Through the glass of the roof Through the roof of your mouth Through the mouth of your eye Through the eye of the needle It's easier for me to get closer to heaven Than ever feel whole again" That just sounds like utter self-hatred to me. Finally, "I never said I would stay to the end I knew I would leave you with babies and everything Screaming like this in the hole of sincerity Screaming me over and over and over I leave you with photographs Pictures of trickery Stains on the carpet and Stains on the memory Songs about happiness murmured in dreams When we both of us knew How the end always is" I never said I would stay to the end? The end of a relationship, or life in general? Admittedly, the very last line doesn't do my theory too many favours. Why would suicide be "how the end always is"? Is he talking about death in general... who knows? I reckon, though, this is a good interpretation of the song. |
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| The Cure – So What Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| shows Robert Smith DOES have a sense of humour :) | |
| The Cure – Meathook Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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no, the butcher man was a 'lady' so it's a metaphor for a girl putting his heart on a 'meathook'. I mean I could be wrong, but it seems pretty straightforward. |
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| The Cure – Numb Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| They're not bad lyrics, but geez I'm glad The Cure got back on track with Bloodflowers. | |
| The Cure – Gone! Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Easily the highlight of the Wild Mood Swings album. Kind of odd lyrics for The Cure, but it's a good song all the same. | |
| The Cure – Round & Round & Round Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well I guess this is kind of about the band itself, right? I reckon Watching Me Fall and 39 from Bloodflowers are far superior (they're a bit more personal, I suppose, but also less self-referential, which helps.) |
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| The Cure – Jupiter Crash Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Beautiful lyrics, but the song doesn't really do them justice. The Cure are a great band, but I don't think Wild Mood Swings was their highlight. |
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| The Cure – Mint Car Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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So I guess this song is kind of the other side of the coin to Siamese Twins? :P Except this time Robbie's actually in love, which makes all the difference I suppose. |
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| The Cure – Us or Them Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I thought this was a political song when I first heard it, but now I'm not so sure. It seems a little deeper than that. Perhaps more a general comment on society, and the way we align ourselves along political, cultural and racial lines. Or perhaps unbridled misanthropy? I like the comment above comparing this to Imagine :D might have something there! |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Angel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Not a bad song, I just don't know how it got to be credited as a NIN song when it clearly isn't. Maybe this band (Vinyl Sun) put it on limewire under NIN as a ploy to get someone to listen to their music! hehe, after all I doubt I'm the only one who hasn't heard of the bastards before. |
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| Limp Bizkit – Hot Dog Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Hang on... Fred Durst 'ripped' on Trent Reznor? Isn't that like the Teletubbies making a parody of a Kubrick film? Apparently Reznor called Durst a 'moron' in an interview... I think that might be being a bit generous. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Zero-Sum Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is a really good song, especially the chorus. While YZ had its high points and low points, I thought that there were a number of songs which were a little lyrically weak. No such problem in this song. "all we are worth is just zeroes and ones" |
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| Linkin Park – What I've Done Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's a fairly good song, but it seems like LP are suffering from something of an identity crisis. While the lyrics are still fairly consistent with their old stuff, the music comes dangerously close to pop-rock. Then again, I wasn't a big fan of the Jay-Z thing, and Fort Minor wasn't too great, and this sort of thing seems to have gone in a completely different direction to all that. I guess I'll probably buy the album, but by changing their rather distinctive sound Linkin Park risk losing their identity. |
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| Hooters – All You Zombies Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's a great song, but the last verse always makes me laugh... Noah and his family were supposed to be around centuries before the Israelites even came into being. Splitting hairs perhaps, but the singer makes such a big point about it lol. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – In This Twilight Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Great song. I hope that the rest of the album will be as good as this... wasn't so sure about Survivalism. As for what it means.... god, who knows :P Someone else work it out... |
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| Nine Inch Nails – The Great Collapse Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| nah I think you'll find it is a remix. Most of the songs on Things Falling Apart are, and besides, not only are the lyrics the same as the Wretched, they're basically sung the same anyway. | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this is song is worthy of a line by line explanation. I've heard some good ones and some crap ideas as well, but this is my two cents worth :P Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind elation -- maybe something about American paranoia about Communists and stuff? Little girls from Sweden dream of silver screen quotations -- compares how young girls everywhere dream of getting into showbiz, and maybe at the same time saying that this is as much a problem as the imaginary "psychic spies". And if you want these kind of dreams its Californication -- That these "little girls from sweden" have had their minds fornicated with by Hollywood etc. It’s the edge of the world and all of western civilization -- pretty basic really, just where Hollywood is geographically. The sun may rise in the east at least it settles in a final location -- Once again, you don't get any further west than california, well not exactly but you know :P maybe the songwriter's view that Hollywood is meant to exist, despite everything that's wrong with it. It’s understood that Hollywood sells Californication -- If californication is understood to be Hollywood's influence across the world etc, then this is pretty self-explanatory Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging -- one of my favourite lines, I think it refers to the fact that celebrities are always trying to make themselves look young by plastic surgery etc. Celebrity skin is this your chin or is it war your waging -- a rather sarcastic line obviously, once again about plastic surgery. First born unicorn hard core soft porn -- I'm stumped with the unicorn bit, I have to admit. The hard core soft porn bit is referencing the fact that Hollywood produces so much pornography and everything about Hollywood in general seems to be related, with the fakeness and all that. Dream of Californication, dream of Cailfornication Marry me girl be my fairy to my world be my very own constellation -- well a constellation is a group of stars, so maybe it's like a director marrying a potential star actress, and her going along with it as a route to the fame she wants to attain. A teenage bride with a baby inside getting high on information -- how young she is, and yet her innocent mind is getting polluted by the trashiness of Hollywood, and she's lost her virginity and is expecting a baby And buy me a star on the boulevard it’s Californication -- not being up on all the hollywood cliches, but don't famous people literally get their name written on "stars" on the boulevard? If so, this person just wants to be famous, and would pay money for it they want it so much. Space may be the final frontier but it’s made in a Hollywood basement -- special effects etc, makes the spectacular scenes of star wars and all that seem somewhat fake and phony. Cobain can you hear the spheres singing songs off station to station -- at least two if not three pop culture references here, which fit with the mood of the song. I know Kurt Cobain and I've heard the other references are to David Bowie and something else. Is Kiedis suggesting that if Cobain were alive today he'd be 'rolling in his grave' or something to that effect? Was Cobain even dead yet? :P I don't know... And Alderaan’s not far away it’s Californication -- no it's nothing to do with Buzz Aldran you silly people lol, just another star wars reference. Born and raised by those who praise control of population everybody’s been there and I don’t mean on vacation -- well I guess the 60s generation really pushed abortion rights and all that, and I guess that's a big thing in Hollywood, having everything just the way you want it, which adds up to the whole plastic thing... and maybe he's trying to say we've all wanted that ability at some point? Long shot I know but it is a difficult line to figure out. Destruction leads to a very rough road but it also breeds creation -- maybe suggesting that the destruction of hollywood and the lifestyle might be a good thing. And earthquakes are to a girl’s guitar they're just another good vibration -- well once again saying a big earthquake near hollywood might be really really good :) And tidal waves couldn’t save the world from Californication -- and yet the destruction of Hollywood would not destroy the things that are behind it, and the so-called californication would continue Pay your sugeon very well to break the signs of aging -- explained earlier Sicker than the rest there is no test but this is what you’re craving -- that as much as californication is wrong, people still want it? And maybe still a reference to the verse above it, plastic surgery. So my conclusion is that this song is about Hollywood and the culture around it, not unlike Team America's view of actors and all that. I think the lyrics are very true too. But that Firstborn unicorn bit bugs me cos I have no idea what it means. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – The Big Come Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think the title is perfect for the song, and not nessecarily referencing drugs. He could mean a metaphorical comedown, basically from feelings of optimism and happiness and hitting the ground with a bang (eg facing reality, feeling depressed). | |
| The Ataris – Your Boyfriend Sucks Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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GOOOOOOOOP..... I believe true love has little to do with physical attraction at all. Things like physical attraction may be what attracts you to the person in the first place, and it can encourage lust or what you think is love, but in the end true love is loving the person for who they are, not what they look like. Especially from girls' point of view, its common knowledge that while males think with their eyes, females don't so much. Anyway don't get the idea that your idiotic post actually deserved an intelligent response okay? ;) |
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| The Ataris – Your Boyfriend Sucks Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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oh my god those last two verses someone just plagiarised me ;) nice to know so many other people share the same feelings. But why does it happen like that? |
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| Pop Will Eat Itself – Not Now James, We're Busy... Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| lol, who is James Brown? | |
| Bob Rivers – What if God Smoked Cannabis? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| what a hilarious song, lol... helps that I hated the original so much ;) for some reason I thought this was Weird Al though :P | |
| Hed PE – Bartender Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| wtf? bitches? show girls some respect :P as for the song, it's pretty catchy, lyrics are alright but not great. | |
| The Smiths – How Soon Is Now? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It is an excellent song, and certainly one that I relate to personally. I think a lot of people would feel the same... it is basically the classic song about loneliness for those who just want to be loved, and are trying to do the right thing but nobody's interested in them. | |
| Vinyl Sun – Angel Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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AHA I KNEW this wasn't a Nine Inch Nails song I still like it though :) |
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| Chester Bennington – System Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I thought this was by Grey Daze, what movie is it from? | |
| Grey Daze – The Down Syndrome Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Probably the best Grey Daze song I've heard... I hope some of these songs get released commercially some day, I'd buy the CD. | |
| Grey Daze – shE shiNes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I find it funny that obviously nobody's heard of Grey Daze, and yet this is one quality band. I'd as soon listen to She Shines, System or The Down Syndrome as anything by Metallica or Korn. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – March of the Pigs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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hmm a few comments... people who whinge about the cops, well what the hell are you doing that makes the cops bother you... if trent wrote this song about cops that would make him a whiny dumb-arse. And whatever you think of him, he's not. Admittedly I can't help but agree a little about the sex idea, there are a lot of graphic references to sex in TDS, so it's a possibility. Also wanting the system to come down isn't a bad guess. But I think the most obvious one is as he says himself, that the song is about the media and fans... why do you think in the live DVD he starts the song off by screaming "you fucking pigs" and then says before Piggy "Hey pigs" quite clearly addressing the crowd. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – March of the Pigs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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hmm a few comments... people who whinge about the cops, well what the hell are you doing that makes the cops bother you... if trent wrote this song about cops that would make him a whiny dumb-arse. And whatever you think of him, he's not. Admittedly I can't help but agree a little about the sex idea, there are a lot of graphic references to sex in TDS, so it's a possibility. Also wanting the system to come down isn't a bad guess. But I think the most obvious one is as he says himself, that the song is about the media and fans... why do you think in the live DVD he starts the song off by screaming "you fucking pigs" and then says before Piggy "Hey pigs" quite clearly addressing the crowd. |
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| The Black Eyed Peas – My Humps Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song proves more than anything that any song with a decent beat can make it to no.1, no matter how idiotic the lyrics are. Let's face it, the Black Eyed Peas never really had much credibility anyhow, now they have none whatsoever. | |
| New Order – Sub-Culture Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| lol I dunno what this song is about :) | |
| Hilary Duff – Where Did I Go Right? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| yuck | |
| Three Days Grace – Take Me Under Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| oh ok I thought this song was about someone who wanted to have sex but wasn't getting it :) | |
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