| The Mountain Goats – Dance Music Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| @[sugarkang:49155] oh god I think you're right. You make the song even darker than I thought. I thought "let me down gently" was just the police coming to gently inform him his loved one has died. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Dance Music Lyrics | 5 months ago |
| @[raindog:49153] I'm in love with your comment. So concise and poetic! | |
| The Mountain Goats – Dance Music Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[IsoldeGS:29469] I agree with this comment. I didn't see it before saying something similar. | |
| The Mountain Goats – Dance Music Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I don't think "cul-de-sacs" means dead end, as there's multiples. In context, it's used more like "dark places". I have a strong sense that "special secret sickness" is a mental illness like depression or addiction, and that he will only find out about the death of his girlfriend when he is questioned by the police. He is not afraid of the police, only of the bad news they bring about her. | |
| Amy Winehouse – Some Unholy War [Down Tempo] Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I like this version the best, as it has such a thick atmosphere to it. It feels primordial, a story taking place on an epic scale transcending the ages. | |
| Amy Winehouse – Love is a Losing Game [Original Demo] Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| The first time I heard this version, I had fallen asleep on the couch. I woke up in the (now completely dark) room to this. With no sight or sound but Amy's powerful yet vulnerable voice and almost whimsical strumming, it was surreal and gorgeous. It happened again with the same track the next day. Out of any playlist, this track always pricks up my ears. The studio version just sounds tacky after becoming familiar with this version. I love it. | |
| Tool – Jimmy Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| oops, seems songmeanings doesn't like this link. You'll need to add a colon after the first http. | |
| Tool – Jimmy Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Almost a decade later, I stop by to find my post I forgot all about is upvoted, so I feel obliged to provide citations for my info (in part out of personal desire to avoid reading like a numeracy conspiracy theorist). Scroll/search for 18 jun 03 at the following archive of Tool's official site to find notice of Judith's death along with her photo. Retrospectively, it appears the words in the image were straight from Maynard, as "Pillar of faith" later became a lyric. Scroll/search a little further on the same page and you'll find a "Happy Birthday Maynard" on 17 Apr 03! http://web.archive.org/web/20030801074636/http://www.toolband.com/index_frames.html Hope we're all still here to enjoy Tool for another decade. 5th album or world ending; which is likelier? =) |
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| Amy Winehouse – Wake Up Alone Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think this is Amy's deepest and most metaphoric song. Ostensibly, it's a love song; that much is obvious. But there's undeniably more going on. The key to interpreting it is undoubtedly in understanding its liquid theme. (Incidentally, some sites have "seas in my guts" in place of "seizing my guts", and "floods" in place of "floats", but even without this, there's no less than 9 liquid references throughout the chorus and second verse). These references are undoubtedly sexual. The chorus in particular is much more climactic and flowing than the meandering first verse. But here's why I think it may be a clever metaphor for alcohol as her alternate lover: - First, there's the "it's ok in the day / while I'm busy at least I'm not drinking" theme of the first verse. - "but when the sun sets..." - "he floods me with dread". At this point, "dread" does not fit at all with the literal meaning of her purportedly pleasurable wet dream. If she's feeling dread in his company, it can not be the same "he" she was pining for all day. This is more like a guilty indulgence. - "The dark covers me and I can not run now. My blood running cold I stand before him". This part is the strongest allusion. The "blood running cold" idiom literally means she's fearful. It is absolutely the polar opposite to sexual arousal, for which one known idiom is "blood running warm". She is fearful while approaching "him". She is inevitably surrendering to the escape she's been resisting all day. "He" appears at night when she can not busy herself to escape, and this is a deeply negative thing to her. In struggling to infer whether the liquid theme is about sex or alcoholism, the answer came to me: the two go hand in hand. Addicts use in order to escape their troubles, and Amy was obviously troubled in love. To escape her heavy heart, she drowns herself in this dizzying "sex" with alcohol each night. Alcohol is her alternative lover, but it is meaningless. She wakes up alone. |
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| Deftones – Passenger Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Who sang what (and correction to djelliott916 in earlier comment): [Chino:] Here I lay [Maynard:] Still and breatheless [Chino:] Just like always [Maynard:] Still I want some more [Chino:] Mirrors sideways [Maynard:] Who cares what's behind [Chino:] Just like always [Maynard:] Still your passenger [Maynard:] Chrome buttons, buckles and leather surfaces These and other lucky witnesses [Chino:] Now to calm me [Maynard:] this time won't you please [Chino:] Drive faster! [Maynard:] Roll the window down this cool night air is curious Let the whole world look in, who cares who sees anything I'm your passenger, I'm your passenger [Chino:] Drop these down then put them on me Nice cool seats there to cushion your knees [Passenger Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/] Now to calm me [Maynard:] Take me around again [Chino:] Don't pull over [Maynard:] This time won't you please [Chino:] Drive faster! [Maynard:] Roll the window down this cool night air is curious Let the whole world look in, who cares who sees, what tonight Roll these misty windows down to catch my breath and then Go and go and don't just drive me home and back again [Chino:] Here I lay just like always, [Maynard:] Don't let me go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go Take me to the edge |
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| Angus and Julia Stone – Big Jet Plane Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I agree somewhat with LyricallyParable. By the sound of the language "hello mister, please to meet ya" It sounds like he has met someone while travelling in a third world country, and wants to bring her back to Australia, as hinted with "in a big jet plane" and "away from harm". | |
| Blackfield – Once Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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But what does it mean by "I could go anytime"? A lot of it is past tense. The past tense seems to be positive whereas the present/future tense is neutral. For example: Past tense: Gave me her "perfect" hips Once she would hold me/told me that I'm holy (once, as in "once upon a time") She was my only , only true love. Present/future tense: I want you to know that I could go anytime (i.e. leave the relationship). I slow down in love (not sure of context here - good or bad?) She'll be so quiet and she won't laugh at my jokes (i.e. there is no intellectual connection). The best explanation for me is he is not committed to his current (perhaps purely physical) relationship, because he is thinking about his past "only true love". |
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| Björk – Sweet Intuition Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The version on the Army of Me single (sometimes called "Sweet Sweet Intuition" is much better. You can identify it by its length of ~4:44. Can anyone translate the Icelandic? |
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| Muse – Take a Bow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Hi everyone, I just read all the previous comments, and I also personally believe it's about current events of the UK/US government. To everyone that doubts this and/or Muse being political altogether, I think you're correct too. Most good art is intentionally left open to the interpretation of the listener. My point is that I don't believe they specifically wanted it _not_ to be about current events, or they would have been less ambiguous. The lyrics just match it too well. For example: * "Now freedoms concealing itself". The new fear in society is allowing the governments to pass laws which remove our freedoms in the name of protecting us. I believe this is where the "corruption" references come from too, although it's debatable whether it's the result of corruption, or whether terrorism has simpily succeeded to put us in a weakend state of fear and panic. * "Feed the hate of the country you love". I believe this is about fighting fire with fire or retaliating. It's just a process of escalation, not a solution. Also they chose to say "country" and not "world", so it's not necessarily about a fictional apocalypse. Thanks for reading :) |
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| Tool – Jimmy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Finally, 10 years later, some clarification from the band! If you listen to A Perfect Circle's "Judith" and more importantly, Tool's new "10,000 days (Wings for Marie Part 2)", most is explained. His mothers name was Judith Marie Keenan. in Judith, Maynard sings 'fuck your god, he's the one that left you broken down and paralyzed'. In 10,000 days, he sings '10,000 days in the fire is long enough, you're going home', 'Judith Marie, unconditional one'. Judith Marie suffered for 10,000 days, perhaps from a stroke that left her paralyzed? She died on 18 June 2003. Maynard was born on 17 April 1964, so he was 39.2. 10,000 days is 27.4 years. 39.2 - 27.4 = 11.8. He was 11 years old when it happened. Like Jimmy, the track 10,000 days also refers to "holding the light" and the light leading you home. In this track, the light is her gift of guidance and faith in him. Home is heaven. Therefore I think Jimmy is about Maynard losing his mother as he knew her. He was young and depended on her. "The face of your own stability". He talks to/of himself (jimmy, eleven) in third person as he is no longer the innocent child he was prior to this event. Half way through the song, "So glad that I have found you" is Jimmy realising that he himself is lost, not her. The person he knew is still with him in the form of the gift of guidance (the light or "loaded memory") she has instilled in him, and he goes on to use it to lead a successful life. "I am wide awake and headed home". There's an ongoing theme in Tool about pain being necessary to advance, and life being that step (best example is Parabol). "Heading home" means living his life, moving forward towards the afterlife. "as soon as pain allows" means as soon as he has learned the lessons of life. "So we can reunite, and both move on together". Maybe the song is about them reuniting back to the state of happy memories, when they become "one" in the afterlife. There's also an ongoing theme of collective consciousness through much of Tools work. Anyway, my main point being that Tool's new work surely confirms "he" is mjk and "she" is jmk. |
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