| The Allman Brothers Band – It's Not My Cross To Bear Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I believe this about himself trying to swear off his depressed self. | |
| Bob Dylan – Positively 4th Street Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I believe the person he's accusing in the song is really just himself when he's depressed. It's not self loathing, it's more like swearing off this version of himself that is self loathing. Confronting his darker side and telling it to leave. | |
| Metallica – Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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This song is somewhat dated today as the sanitariums have mostly all closed. But in the 80's and before, America had public funded mental institutions that held most of what is now the homeless population within the US. Unfortunately these typically weren't great places, and didn't truly concentrate on the well being of the patients. They were mostly just a way to get the undesirable out of sight. There is a lot of art out there about it as well as this song. One flew over the cuckoo's nest comes to mind immediately. This song is about a patient in that environment. It's from the patients point of view. While they don't fit in to the general mold of civilization's idea of sanity, they themselves don't feel insane untill they are repeatedly told they are. They are trapped inside this institution, and fed pills to subdue them to the point of being bound. There feels like there is no escape, and no way to be themself any more. So this patient is looking in the mirror and deciding to kill themself to escape. The patient is at their end, and only desires freedom. This seems the only way to get it. |
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| Guns N' Roses – Coma Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| This is clearly about drug addiction, and the suicide it causes. Over dosing. The exit from society you partake in with your addiction. Your loved ones trying to save you from it. Ultimately you having to save yourself from yourself. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I think this song is about blindly following your most basic emotions without giving any thought to it in the moment. You give up all control of your life to your most basic urges like you were aimlessly drifting down a river with the current. Like a gambler who just throws money down and is left to the mercy of randomly dealt cards. It doesn't work out for the narrator, and he is left lonely to reflect on his life choices. | |
| David Bowie – Space Oddity Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[jmsn2393:38662] This is a very good interpretation. I can't deny it. The way you put it is also a pretty damn good example of exactly what you interpreted from the song meaning.... I was really thinking this was a song about a drug overdose, but I have to admit that I think you're right. It's about alienation from others. |
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| Violent Femmes – Good Feeling Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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It's hard for me to believe that Gordon Gano wrote this as an eighteen yearold, but that's the case here, and with pretty much the entire first album. These lyrics read as a masterpiece. Giving you enough clues to relate to, but not enough to know positively the artists exact situation. It's obvious enough that it's about a fleeting moment of pleasure. That whatever it was has left him feeling empty in it's void. He feels heavy, and in need of rest. He still continues to try and keep this moment in his life however. He's pleading with it to stay. I'm not sure he knew he was writing this song about addiction, but he was. Regardless of whatever the addiction was. It is clearly something that he allowed to take over his mind, and now he is chasing it. The good feeling is leaving, and he knows the other one (not good feeling) all to well. He doesn't feel good without whatever this is. It's not necessarily drugs, but Gordon was writing about dealing with some sort of addiction whether he knew it or not. |
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| Buzzcocks – Why Can't I Touch It? Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[robnat:38437] sorry, existentialism, not externalism. | |
| Buzzcocks – Why Can't I Touch It? Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| It's addressing the idea of externalism, and how one's reality is effected by the senses. How something can feel so real and understood, but not all of your senses necessarily line up on this. Also it's never stated that he can actually taste, see, smell, hear, or feel it. It's just that it feels, or seems that way to him. With this in mind he is never able to actually grasp it because he's not even sure if it's real. | |
| Everything But the Girl – My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| He is completely engulfed with himself until the the tears come. Then he needs this person to get him out of this funk. It plays like a love ballad, but notice that he isn't saying anything positive, or love like he'll do for this love interest. He's just completely obsessed with getting to her, and what she will make him feel. | |
| Faith No More – The Real Thing Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I believe this is simply about a time frame in ones life that everything is connecting. The person feels like everything is right in this time. It's going against the grain of their day to day life, or what they perceive their life to be, and have been. So they're struggling to hold on to the feeling because their life up to this point has been a complete different idea. Eventually the person fades back to the way things were before this feeling of a moment of clarity, and it will leave them, but they will always remember what it was like for that time. This can easily be described as manic, which means it can easily be described as drugs. I personally don't think Patton cared either way. It's a moment. How you got to that moment is completely irrelevant. |
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| Matthew Wilder – Break My Stride Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| It's about people with a fear of abandonment in an endless cycle of relationships running away from each other because someone introduced them to the habit. The singer was initially abandoned by someone who had to run away from him out of fear of "being held down". Now he is doing the same thing to his next relationship. And so the cycle starts. | |
| John Mellencamp – Authority Song Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[robnat:38284] And they always feel the world is against them. Everything is a fight. | |
| John Mellencamp – Authority Song Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| It's not about fighting the government. It's about young rebellion. Fighting the status quo, or the establishment. When society in general says do this, you don't, and then you just keep doing it into adulthood. I think we all know this person in some capacity. The one who constantly gets kicked out of every bar, causes a scene everywhere they go, can't compromise, and just goes on forever with their antics. It's both noble and pathetic at the same time. They get off on it a bit. Come out grinnin with a black eye. | |
| John Mellencamp – Authority Song Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[kfe2:38283] John Mellencamp himself is quoted as saying I thought of it as the new I fought the law. | |
| The Doors – The End Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| It's a drunken attempt at explaining ego death. | |
| Billy Joel – My Life Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I think it's important to remember that this song is written by someone who feels freed from the burdens of the commoner's everyday life, but trying to relate to how the commoner wants to be free from the burdens of everyday life. He's writing an escape for you to feel. A bit of freedom, and venting for you to feel. | |
| Billy Joe Shaver – Live Forever Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| It's a song about your legend living on after your death through your loved ones memories and stories. | |
| The Replacements – Unsatisfied Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Whether by intention or not, this song gets at the root and cause of addiction. Nothing satisfies you in life. It's a drag. You're just stuck in it. Nothing is explained in the song beyond that. No decision is stated on what to do about your dissatisfaction. |
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| Sublime – What I Got Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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This is about starting your day after a day of heavy hardcore drug use... You're going to have to either admit you're not doing things right, or you're going to have to find a reason why it's okay. Sure things are extreme, but I'm still able to take care of my dog.... Anyways I still love everyone. I haven't slipped into that "after school special" version of what my life will become. I still feel love. I can explain this off and then Its still okay to do more. |
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| Grateful Dead – Eyes Of The World Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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The song is about losing yourself. You're stuck in a rut of sorts. You're totally in yourself. Nothing can penetrate you, but your heart (love) still reaches out. Right outside this lazy summer home THE VACATION HAS GONE ON TOO LONG You ain't got time to call your soul a critic no YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO JUDGE ANYMORE Right outside the lazy gate of winter's summer home THE VACATION HAS LASTED AT LEAST 6 MONTHS. Wondering where the nut-thatch winters Wings a mile long just carried the bird away WHERE HAS TIME GONE Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world YOU ARE THE ONLY WITNESS TO YOUR LIFE The heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own YOUR BODY IS YOUR OWN ISLAND Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings YOU WAKE NOW TO ONLY YOUSELF AND THOUGHTS But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenings and songs of it's own (NOTICE THE USE OF THE WORD "BUT" TO START THE SENTANCE) THE HEART HAS PLANS OF IT'S OWN There comes a redeemer, and he slowly too fades away A REDEEMER HAS COME TO HELP YOU, AND EVEN HE IS KEPT OUT And there follows his wagon behind him that's loaded with clay THE REDEEMER IS FOLLOWED BY HIS WAGON LOADED WITH EARTH And the seeds that were silent all burst into bloom, and decay EARTH IS FULL OF LIFE, BLOOMS ALL AROUND YOU, AND DIES And night comes so quiet, it's close on the heels of the day FADE TO DARK Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world The heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenings and songs of it's own Sometimes we live no particular way but our own SOMETIMES YOU ARE COMPLETELY ALONE And sometimes we visit your country and live in your home SOMETIMES YOU NEED COMPANY Sometimes we ride on your horses, sometimes we walk alone SOMETIMES WE WANT HELP, SOMETIMES WE DON'T Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs of our own SOMETIMES WE INTERPRET THINGS OUR OWN WAY.......... Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world The heart has it's beaches, it's homeland and thoughts of it's own Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings But the heart has it's seasons, it's evenings and songs of it's own The song is about losing yourself. You're stuck in a rut of sorts. You're totally in yourself. Nothing can penetrate you, but your heart still reaches out. |
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| Paul McCartney – Band on the Run Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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It's about the strict drug laws at the time. All these bands were turned into criminals because they'd rather smoke up than drink. This is according to Paul McCartney. I certainly read more into the song myself, but this is what he says. Of course he did turn it into a story, so there's a bit more to it. McCartney wrote this song in response to drug laws that criminalized him and his friends (including fellow "bands on the run" Eagles and Byrds). "We're not criminals," he explained. "We just would rather do this than hit the booze - which had been a traditional way to do it. We felt that this was a better move." |
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| Blaze Foley – Clay Pigeons Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[surferbeto:34270] I believe the pigeon reference is a bit self deprecating. It's saying he has healed himself, and become a free flying bird, but now he's going to ruin that by feeding it clay. Now he's going to repeat the process again. | |
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