| Weezer – Across The Sea Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song creeps me out, but I love it. I agree with the masturbation theory. The song starts out slowly with him looking at the letter and thinking about the girl that sent it. He begins fantasizing about her. Licking the envelope . . . wanting to touch her . . . thinking about her touching herself (masturbating to him like he is to her --- I have your letter, you have my song) The end of the song is the orgasm. You can feel the intensity. A million screams stands out. Throughout the song you can feel the rising sensations to the impending climax. The way his thoughts change from innocence to fantasy to guilt to anger . . . Maybe he wrote this song for the Japanese fan to mastubate to . . . the way he uses her letter? |
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| Counting Crows – Carriage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I always thought he was refering to his vulnerabilities when he sang, " Another world of chocolate bars and baseball cards," as if he was referring to childhood innocence as a part of him (and he is literally inside of her). The song contrasts the idea of this vulnerability with the line about slipping inside of someone's eyes or someones mouth. Not anyone in particular, but just someone. This takes away the intimacy of the moment that was suggested earlier. The miscarrage idea makes complete sense when I read the lyrics with that in my mind. In a way, this act of sex is meaningless, but in another way it is meaningful because of the ability to create "another pair of lips and eyes." I like the contrast. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Front Row Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I really like this song. Everytime I listen to it new lines seem to stick out and grab my attention. I like the part: "we said let's name thirty good reasons why we shouldn't be together i started by saying things like 'you smoke' 'you live in new jersey (too far)' you started saying things like 'you belong to the world' all of which could have been easily refuted but the conversation was hypothetical I am totally short of breath for you why can't you shut your stuff off...... " The relationship is so negative that they're trying to come up with reasons to break up. He speaks abstractly and says she belongs to the world . . . she's famous perhaps, or she travels all the time and isn't there for him in a physical sense. She says he lives in NJ and smokes . . . things that can be changed. Then, she relizes that all of this brainstorming isn't going to change anything because she is so into him . . . an emotional-mental bond rather than physical . . . she asks why he can't shut his stuff off . . . probably referring to the way his mind works and how she loves that despite the fact that the relationship isn't working. i also like the line: "You laughed a wicked laugh and said 'come here, yet me clip your wings" She recognizes that being with him is causing her to lose her spirit and freedom. In a way it seems like she admires him so much that she neglects her own thoughts and opinions . . . she's infatuated and it's taking away part of who she is. Perhaps this goes back to his reason for why they should break up . . . "you belong to the world" He wants to ground her and prevent her from traveling and doing what she wants to do. He wants to clip her wings and keep her to himself . . . like a pet bird. The very thing she likes most about him (his mind and freedom) is what he wants to supress in her. |
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| The White Stripes – A Martyr for My Love for You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I also think that he's singing about a younger girl . . . He makes sure to mention her age in the very first line of the song: 16. There has to be a reason that the age of the girl is so important to this song. This girl seems innocent and young in some ways . . . the zoo, the ruby shoes and not being able to walk right, the giggle, the phone (a very teenage-ish mode of communication) . . . but at the same time he fears her calling him stupid and cowardly. He's very self-concious . . . possibly because he is now an adult and his "love" for this girl is throwing him back into the teenage world, where he no longer belongs. He doesn't know how to act as a teenager because he no longer is one, but talking to this girl is causing him to yearn for the teenage life once again. That is why he mentions these teenage-ish traits with a sense of admiration: "Little teenage dream" He knows he can't have this relationship because she is still too young, but he thinks about some day . . . they could "build a home" and maybe share a life together. He knows she is too young right now and he doesn't want to destroy her teenage world "Right now the best thing is for me to leave you alone" He actually does care about her, but he knows that it is wrong to introduce these adult issues into her life right now. That is why he is a martyr for his love for her. He is willing to suffer for awhile in order to hold up the ideal of the potential someday --- when their love will be more acceptable and appropriate. |
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| The Dresden Dolls – Modern Moonlight Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The song is about technology . . . computers and internet mostly. We communicate online and miss out on life. People think they are communicating, but it's not the same as one-on-one, in person talking. We create false personas when we talk online . . . people talk to strangers and cover up their flaws. They lose who they are. "cos stripped of your equipment you’ll be forced to face yourself…" I like the last line of the song: "when the war is over you can read the paper" It shows how much the times are changing because of the internet. People get their news online now. The internet is used to such an extreme that people don't sit down in the morning with a cup of coffee and the morning paper anymore. Instead they log on to a computer for their news. The part about selling souls to the highest bidder reminds me of people selling everything on ebay . . . I've seen human souls up for sale there before. |
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