| David Bowie – Modern Love Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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The song describes the cycle of trying to turn to different things to find solace in the world. He’s desperately seeking love, tries to pick up on the paper boy, finding modern love is all about charm and shallowness and sleeping around. So that turns him to thoughts of settling down, the church, and looking to God for answers. But he finds religion is also empty and terrifies him, so he turns to partying, away from the church to a direct relationship with God and man, but no confession and no religion. But he’s still not fitting anywhere.. doesn’t find modern love works. So he’s kind of back where he started, staying in, trying to flirt with the paper boy, hoping to find something that feels real. |
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| Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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Years later.. my perspective on this song has changed. Basically, the singer is in immense pain, the “he” is someone making a weak attempt to help. He says “I see you rise” aka you’re gonna come out of this and “I’ve seen em come, I’ve seen em go, all things pass into the night” like this ain’t that bad. And the singers like “it always falls. You’re wrong. You don’t get it” And then the guy is like, “look, I’ve seen it all, I’ve suffered badly, seen the sky falling - all things pass” aka it’ll get better. The singer is like “no you’re wrong. It’s fucked. Won’t you listen to me? I’m telling you shit is baddd.” And then “Goodbye Horses, I’m flying over you” is like the singer just completely losing his/her shit.. just falling to pieces completely. Finally.. this song was perfect for Buffalo Bill. The guy had lost his marbles and become a complete sociopathic shadow of a human being. |
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| John Cale – I'm Not The Loving Kind Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| He’s a guy who feels jaded and doesn’t seem capable of staying in love. He falls for a girl, or maybe many, but the luster wears off quickly. He sees that he is the problem, and that realization makes him feel lonely and empty. At the end of a relationship, he’s like let’s not drag this out, I wish I could care but I just don’t. | |
| Meat Puppets – Go to Your Head Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think this song is about how your hopes and dreams pull at you. You try to be happy with what you have. You try to be simple and not ask for much. But the all the things that you want, mainly the desire to be loved and understood and feel important, they go to your head, you can't escape them, and when they go unfulfilled it weighs on your soul. | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Creep Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song to me is about feeling hopeless and doing messed up shit because you can't deal with the angst and pain. The truth ('what they said was real') just makes him want to resort to 'stealing', which throughout this song I think just is a way of saying self-degradation and acting out of frustration. The chorus is almost like a plea or one last hope - 'take time with a wounded handed' - time is the only thing that can heal the pain and/or to give him time to heal. It's also kind of like people treat him like shit and so in return that's how he views himself... vicious cycle. |
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| Joy Division – Disorder Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think it's simply about depression. There's parts of the song where there's a lot of activity, it's all a blur, and not joyous activity but a confusing, unfulling, and contributing to a sense of purposelessness. I love the image of a "guide" showing someone who feels depressed and disconnected coming - a guardian angel but at the same time just someone - and showing them how to experience simple pleasures. The part about "I'm watching you, I'm watching her, I take no pity from your friends" remind me of someone sitting awkwardly with a group of people at a bar, watching people but not interacting... not taking pity from the others who recognize how alone the person is feeling. Just my interpretation... |
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| Joy Division – Day of the Lords Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song is about the general agony of life, how it never stops being a fight, and how the weak are defeated by the mercilessness of the world. The references to birth, youth, are about being brought into a painful existence, and how the innocence of youth was taken by a cruel world and friends who wouldn't accept the person as he was. The bodies obtained and nights with bloodsport and pain seem to be general images of a mechanical (death in a factory sense, bodies being gathered) and savage world. The car at the edge of the road - a suicide scene. The car is undisturbed, no one has tried to break in, it's an unremarkable sight. There's no room for the weak - this person didn't have the strength to survive. Overall an extremely bleak song.. but awesome. Obviously open to interpretation... that's just mine. |
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| Joy Division – Day of the Lords Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song is about the general agony of life, how it never stops being a fight, and how the weak are defeated by the mercilessness of the world. The references to birth, youth, are about being brought into a painful existence, and how the innocence of youth was taken by a cruel world and friends who wouldn't accept the person as he was. The bodies obtained and nights with bloodsport and pain seem to be general images of a mechanical (death in a factory sense, bodies being gathered) and savage world. The car at the edge of the road - a suicide scene. The car is undisturbed, no one has tried to break in, it's an unremarkable sight. There's no room for the weak - this person didn't have the strength to survive. Overall an extremely bleak song.. but awesome. Obviously open to interpretation... that's just mine. |
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| Radiohead – Give Up the Ghost Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is an incredibly deep and beautiful song. I think the main message can be summarized, but there is so much about it that goes beyond a simple summing up. To me, the song is a spiritual/prayer about transitioning to death gently and compassionately and accepting death (giving up the ghost). It is begging "please don't hurt me" as I die in a kind of "pray the Lord my soul to keep" way. It is praying for care and compassion, to be protected and brought home ("into your arms"), whether that be as a soul or just a body decomposing back into the soil from where it came. "Gather up the lost and sold" (humanity) "into your arms" and be our keeper. |
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| Bob Dylan – Love Minus Zero/No Limit Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Just one comment. This whole "She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all". People are saying it sounds good, it's about her transcending success/failure, etc. Don't you think Dylan is making a statement about SUCKcess here? She KNOWS that success is bullshit. The notion of success is at best failure, and that is no grand achievement, in fact, it's failure. These absolutes of success and failure are bogus, and she gets that. She doesn't transcend them, she notices they are bogus. There's a big difference. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Yeah I agree it's about depression, herion, etc... but doesn't anyone think there might be a little bit of religious angst in there too, I mean "praise the dawning"... If you grew up going to church (which personally I did a little, but not too much), you still think of Sunday morning as this time for all these families and people with "normal" but maybe misguided lives to go sit in the pews, to give their prayers and have them answered. And here's this guy who's down on his luck, maybe fiending, hoping for a second chance, but seeing that he's on this other path... it's not the path of blind church-goer optimism, it's the path of facing reality and maybe getting so torn up by it that you end up with a needle in your arm. Just to juxtapose his situation with the church adds something. | |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Yeah and no denying sexual overtones and explicit references. But I don't see how that makes it "cheap". | |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's HER beehive, she's the queen bee... and half the world is probably all the guys out there. "Taking them on" is both the conflict between her and the opposite sex, and the fact that she's clearly screwing more that one guy. And this guy's taking all sorts of shit for her, comes back after she cheats, let's her take his dignity. But he says screw it cause either he truly loves her or he's just infatuated. Kind of similar to "self-esteem" by Offspring in message but a totally different delivery and essence, much more passionate and heart-wrenching. |
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| Can – Paperhouse Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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??? light shining on the land, Must go off, I don't think anything Make you feel so gone. You can make everything What you want with your head, Youre OK and be aware Anywhere with your mind. Sometimes, in my love, You start to have to weep. Too many sad-a songs, Laugh with him today. Theyre everything, You and your mind The flying paperhouse Lay back on the ????. You just cant give anymore, You just cant give anymore, You just cant give anymore. I don't, think anything Make you feel so bad. You can make everything What you want with your head. Flying paperhouse, Lands down out of the sky. Everyday my paperhouse Reaches out, comes in. |
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| Radiohead – No Surprises Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think it's like an elegy for hopes and dreams in the context of modern society. In the past, yes there was more poverty, life expectancy was shorter, but faith and magic played a larger role in people's lives. Not that those times were better, but just to juxtapose them against the world we live in today which has more financial opportunity and "ease of living", but at the same time is stale and too much to do with everyday reality. And we get a handshake, not from a human, but of carbon monoxide. In the end, we accept the no alarms and no surprises life, not so willingly, but after a struggle recognizing that this is what life has to offer and also possibly seeing that, in the end, their is joy to be gotten from human relationships and a simple, quiet life. | |
| The Smiths – That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| To me it's pretty clear. If you've never been so lonely that you've at least thought about killing yourself, then laughing about it is ok. My ex once joked when someone failed at killing themselves it was just another one of their "failures". But it's too close to home now, more than you (whoever made the joke) will ever know. Then he has a moment of clarity or peace where he thinks, "I just might die with a smile on my face"... it's rainy and the leather seats of his car are cool, it's one of those pensive alone moments, where he just feels things might turn out ok... gives him some hope to push on. And "I've seen this happen in other people's lives, now it's happening in mine" is about seeing others who have hit rock bottom... and until you've hit you don't really know how it feels or believe it could happen to you... and he is realizing that he is there, and to anyone who's ever truly been depressed, that realization is a pretty heavy one, and a tough pill to swallow. | |
| Radiohead – The Thief (Can cover) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Why must I be a thief He said to the hanging man And how come you're the only one Who's black around that always stands Why must I be a thief He asked to the hanging man And how come you're the only one Who gives with an open hand Why must I be a thief He cursed and then he cried And the hanging man put out his hand And looked beyond his eye The thief he cried on the cross To share that other's fate But the Jesus man said not now My brother not now its far too late Far too late Do what you must Take what you can Steal the pride from every heart of every angry man Every angry man Every angry man Every angry man I am the thief I am the thief And you can run And you can hide But I will get you yet, yes I will Cause of you Cause it's just your pride GOd God... God Gooddddd!!! I will get you yet cause its just your pride |
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| Nick Drake – Place To Be Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| i think its simply this: he longs for childhood and the loss of his childhood has left a hole in his heart. he hasn't coped with the realizations of adulthood and does not yet see that a similar happiness is still achievable. He wants to find himself-his place in the world, and/or a person to rescue him from his sadness that comes from the loss of his childhood. | |
| Band of Horses – The Funeral Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think the reason there are so few comments is its a pretty inscrutable lyric. I definitely agree its about facing the fragility of life, the fact that a person could go at any time, the fact that one could disappear without anyone (even oneself) even being "right" about who he really was. | |
| Clinic – Mr. Moonlight Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i love this song, but god i have no idea what the hell it means. | |
| Nirvana – Oh, Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Both versions of this song, Nirvana's COVER (not just Cobain!) and the Meat Puppets ORIGINAL are great in their own way. There is a faster live version from '85 thats sweet too. I like pxpx92 interpretation about drugs and the Descartes reference as well. I think "the results are always perfect" could also be related to how there is no good or bad in this world, there is just "is" or "being". So no matter how great or screwed up things seem, they are always perfect in the sense that they are what they are, and simply "being" is perfection in itself. Buddhism 101. I think the song could be strongly related to Buddhism in the sense of letting go of oneself and one's ego and freeing from your "self" and letting your spirit melt away into the world. The lyrics really support this. Anyway the song is genius. | |
| Thom Yorke – Black Swan Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| OK Im shocked no one thinks this is about Iraq. Not to ascribe a definite meaning to any artistic work, but Yorke has made plenty of political statements about his disgust with the war. Words like: What would grow crooked you can't make straight, buy a ticket and get on the train, cuz this is fucked up? Sounds like IRAQ to me! Anyway I wish Thom was the fuckin' president- his political views are always spot on. | |
| Radiohead – Kid A Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think its about the effect of a soulless society on individuality. Its as if our lives are "the little white lie", the fact that the reality that we live in is increasingly artificially and in that sense a lie. The whole ventriliquists reference is about how the culture feeds us our ideas, our perceptions, to the point at which we operate at the mercy of the society around us more than living an independent existence that pushes back against the limitations of society. Of course the song refers specifically to children for artistic reasons, but I think it is about the effects of a soulless culture on all of us. | |
| The Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| "Watch out, the world's behind you", man that is such an amazing lyric. Sometimes you're just sitting there and you feel the weight of everything, from all the years that have flown by too fast too make sense of anything, like life is just too incomprehensible. It's as if "the world" is sneaking up on you, like you can't escape time and you will never get a chance to figure it out, what any of it means or who you really are. I think thats how Lou was feeling when he wrote this, like this great big world was gonna get the better of him. | |
| Clinic – The Equaliser Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sounds like: "One, two, one, two, click it together. One, two, pull it apart." But who the hell knows. These nutjobs need to start putting some lyrics in their album liners. |
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| Clinic – Distortions Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Its definately "bait" and not "beat". And the main part of the video is the man transforming through his years back to his youth, his whole lifetime. The whole ultrasound thing is a metaphor for wanting to see inside yourself. NOT ABOUT ABORTION. |
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| Clinic – Distortions Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Its definately "bait" and not "beat". And the main part of the video is the man transforming through his years back to his youth, his whole lifetime. The whole ultrasound thing is a metaphor for wanting to see inside yourself. NOT ABOUT ABORTION. |
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| Clinic – Distortions Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The speaker has a desire to understand himself inside and out. Each of us goes through life being this person but never really understanding what we truly are physically, cognitively, emotionally. Plus age and changes distort our own view of ourselves. He "wants to know his body" literally and figuratively. I sort of agree with paulohony about the childlike sense, but i think he wants a pure understanding of who he is rather than to be pure. I'm not buying the whole abortion thing. The idea of a person living free of a distorted view of himself has nothing to do with that. Picturing his "baby", most likely his love, in a coffin could either be him facing death/loss or facing his own personal demons. I think its the former, but maybe a bit of both. Oh and I think the words are "I will leave cured" or even "I will live cured" rather that "live care". That makes no sense. |
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| Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| As some have written, "horses" do symbolically represent the five senses. I believe the song describes the desperation that comes with discovering reality for what it truly is; a shattered sense of idealism and an embrace of mortality, and finally the kind of sadness that comes with letting go. The person who "tells them" the truth is a sort wise man that represents what one faces when confronted by stark reality. He says, "All things pass into the night", a phrase that could allude to both death and the ephemeral nature of all things in life. For example, the things you treasured or emotions you felt as a child will pass and you will not remember them; in a way, even in life, you will lose yourself or become disconnected from what you once were. Basically, there is nothing to hold onto and the singer must accept letting go. The singer's first reaction is "I must disagree... won't you listen to me?"; a desperate plea that loss is not inevitable as the singer attempts to hold on to innocence. Next the other individual says that they have "seen there hopes and dreams lying on the ground", and beyond that "seen the sky just begin to fall", which is a more apocalyptic vision of the loss of everything (one's life, one's entire sense of reality and self, etc...). In the end, the singer accepts this, and "goodbye horses" represents a kind of enlightenment, sort of discovering of what lies beyond the senses, which is a deeper and much more harsh truth. However, this is not a happy enlightenment. In desperation the singer recognizes mortality, loss, and the total uncertainty of reality. The singer is flying over the kind of grounded sense of life and self previously held, and has moved onto an entirely new, but much scarier and insecure sense of reality. This makes me think of a kind of tortured spirit or whirling through the air. So in affect the song is a huge nervous breakdown caused by the loss of innocence. | |
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