| David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Ghostworld. Selling your soul to run the rat race, the world for the World, confusing inner | |
| David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Everyone is searching for their reflection, DUH | |
| KoЯn – Get Up! (feat. Skrillex) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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the narrator is humanity seeing how radically broken it is, its hopeless situation and deep inside the species, something stirs and starts to come alive Can't wait to see in a whole new way, and in the middle of all the agony is the eye of the storm, a calm that can't be touched, peace through pain is the most radical kind, a sacred surrender and the world burns on so the narrator holds tighter not to lose the little it thinks it has haunted by the past, dragged down by the self importance it has to drop to make it to the other side - and still, the ole ways hold tighter than ever, ordering to keep moving, keep going, don't slow down, don't stop, keep fighting the inevitable |
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| Radiohead – Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| fuckin A | |
| Radiohead – Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| fuckin A | |
| Radiohead – Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Radiohead really plug into this apocalypse | |
| Radiohead – Where I End and You Begin. (The Sky Is Falling In.) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| yes... like suicide sing-alongs, like the house band playing as the ship goes under. its the soundtrack to the collapse of our civilization and if you get to close it will drag you down with it. I've had that feeling for awhile | |
| Low – (That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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its amazing how cold and desolate this sounds, like a dreary wnter night. i live in this song |
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| Low – Canada Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Seems to be a kind of joke on the cliche of Canada being this more enlightened cousin country to the uncouth Americans, a last bastion where the narrator's wicked ways won't be readily tolerated. Oh no, not in Canada you won't- they're better than that! | |
| Annie Lennox – Into the West Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The soft crossing into death bathed in a hazy autumnal glow, a loving hand holding ours' gently all the way like a caring parent, soon to be back home again at last like slowly waking from a vivid dream... ...This one makes me cry like a lil girl sometimes too :( The grand curtain call at the end of LOTR, with all the stately character illustrations was just beautiful.Even the villains seemed somehow dignified. Such an appropriate note to end on, like a storybook closing. |
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| Radiohead – My Iron Lung Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This one seems to me to be a general kind of kiss-off to the MTV generation that made something like 'Creep' into a hit (which as much as i like it has as much depth as a cardboard box), RH refusing to blow the very kids that initally brought them into the spotlight. We all get the iron lung metaphor, but what i like is how smart-ass it is, ruthlessly diagnosing the potential listeners as terminal, too-cool-for-school cynics & pop muzak morons, this sense of 'if you think its bad now just wait till later. If you're the future than I shiver' (Suck your teenage thumb/toilet trained & dumb/When the pwoer goes out we'll just hum/ has got to be one of the funniest few lines i've heard in a song, so thom yorke gutter snipe perfect & true). Then by the end, after the narrator's gotten his licks in he turns completely around, in essence sorta saying hey, its ok if you're scared, it doesn't make you uncool or weak, ITS OK. You all think you're so cool & hip but you're actually frightened little kids- and thats ok. You've got every reason to be (their next four albums will obsess over these reasons relentlessly)Let's rock out anyway. The contrast of the derision & flippancy of beforehand makes this last couple lyrics seem even more compassionate & unexpected. Really shows the Radiohead love/hate relationship with their audience that makes them so worthwhile. I don't think you could say much worthwhile as a popular band in this society without hating your listeners a bit. If you have any kind of insight you know what you're feeding. Its gotta be Radiohead's plain heaviest song too. sorry about the double post |
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| Radiohead – My Iron Lung Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This one seems to me to be a general kind of kiss-off to the MTV generation that made something like 'Creep' into a hit (which as much as like it has as much depth as a cardboard box), RH refusing to blow the very kids that initally brought them to the spot light. We all get the iron lung metappor, but what i like is how smart-ass it all is, ruthlessly diagnosing the potential listeners as terminal, too-cool -for-school cynics & more than a lil fucked in the head, this sense of 'if you think its bad now just wait till later. If you're the future than I shiver' (Suck your teenage thumb, toilet trained & dumb has got to be one of the funniest lines ive ever heard in a song, so thom yorke gutter snipe perfect & true). Then by the end, after the narrator's gotten his licks in he turns completely around, in essence sorta saying hey, its ok if you're scared, it doesn't make you uncool or weak, ITS OK. You all think you're so cool & hip but you're actually frightened little kids- and thats ok. You've got every reason to be. The contrast of the derision & flippancy of beforehand makes this last couple lyrics seem even more compassionate & unexpected. Really shows that Radiohead love/hate relationship with their audience that makes them so worthwhile. I don't think you could say much worthwhile as a popular band in this society without hating your listeners a bit. If you have any kind of insight you know what you're feeding. |
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| Radiohead – Codex Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Tree of Life? | |
| Radiohead – Codex Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Ok re-thought it and I have to agree now with what many other people have said here. Its the Radiohead standard- the agony of modern life, the crushing burden of getting up every day & doing the same thing as the same person, which has pushed the narrator to the breaking pt.; he's got nothing left and here by tranquil secluded riverside by twilight is seeking to wash it all away, just let it all go if only for a precious moment, be innocent & free like the water, just be. A kind of death but def not the vulgar suicide sing-along type of No Surprises or How To Disappear Completely. The peace has been found in the moment of the thing (judging by the utterly gorgeous night-time ambience) by letting go of his identity. i love Radiohead, i wish more bands would go to these places |
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| Radiohead – Codex Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Funny how so many RH songs seem to make people think of suicicde | |
| Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| *civilization | |
| Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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hell yea, i knew Neitzsche would come up :P |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Revenge of the maladjusted, the freakish, the 'ugly', the poor, the have-nots? A song/vid reveling in beatiful ugliness which really blurs the line between pretty & repulsive, he seems to be mocking the ridiculous divide between weak/strong, ugly/beautiful. One defines & 'justifies' the other afterall, its duality & the only one making arbitrary distinctions are the apes, man.We're all still worm chow in the end, right? You complete me, like the Joker said, another beatiful ugly like Manson, the same kinda laughing at the monkies who don't get it but soon will when the lights go out & were forced to eat each other? Or something. Something wicked this way comes. ...I wonder if Manson feels vindicated now at all. He doesnt have to be striking out against specific christians either, the entire foundation of Western civliation is based on Christianity, its in our bones wether we like it or not. |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Capitalism has accentuated these differences and drove the polarization between rich/beautiful and poor/ugly to a ridiculous degree, and now at the terminal point of our dying(Amerikan?)society, fascism will re-emerge and both sides will finally at long last duke it out ? The rot will become so overpowering that it'll be finally forced to materialize into something solid that everyone can see, acknowledge and be forced to deal with, like cancer |
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| Radiohead – No Surprises Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The lingering state of walking death of Western society, too proud to admit its in agony, taking the down the world with it if need be before admitting its wrong. i love Radiohead |
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| Radiohead – No Surprises Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Remember Radiohead got their first hit with a Nirvana grunge like song and Yorke even looked like Cobain for awhile with the longish blonde hair. Yea, both bands that definately come from a place of severe depression & sadness, just in a different way. | |
| Hole – Miss World Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| normally i think Courtney Love is the worst kind of attention whore, but i like alot of her songs. My sister used to play this alot along with Violet; got stuck in my head for days | |
| Hole – Miss World Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| you want misognyistic go live in the middle east | |
| Hole – Miss World Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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misogynistic? you wish. degrading to women & men, its not a one way street in this society |
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| The Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| and the music video has the band rocking out on top of a river- yea totally femme. | |
| The Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| i mean that reading certainly makes sense from a gay viewpoint anyway. | |
| The Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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well isee the nazi thing, not in the specifics but as in a general 'the System against the Other' way, wanting to co opt it and make it behave, make it hate its way not love it. Like the narrator has found a way out of the madness, away from the wind up people with emptiness in their eyes and dust in their hearts & this scares and threatens the bejesus out of the System; there can only be binary this or that but the narrator is saying perk up, you don't even need to choose my love, don't even play their game/rat race or something |
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| Pink Floyd – Eclipse Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The Sun represents the concious waking mind, the moon is the subconcious 'darkside'. Everything in the cosmos IS perfectly in tune,its WE who are all screwed up. Since the lunar is in opposition to the solar, humanity's mind torn into two seperate poles (duality: light/dark, male/female/,good/evil) we will forever be subject to time, decay and death. The world is ruled by symbols & signs, not words & rules- Confuscious was right. Learn to read the symbols surrounding you & EVERTYHING will begin to make sense. Seek & and you shall find |
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| Pink Floyd – Eclipse Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| EXACTLY- duality. The moon is our subconcious the sun is our concious, since they are split we are in hell, the Matrix, Maya, Kali Yuga, whatever you wanna call it. | |
| Pink Floyd – Eclipse Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The Sun represents the concious waking mind, the moon is the subconcious 'darkside'. Everything in the cosmos IS perfectly in tune,its who are all screwed up. Since the lunar is in opposition to the solar, humanity's mind is torn into two seperate poles (duality: light/dark, male/female/,good/evil) we will forever be subject to time, decay and death. | |
| Pink Floyd – Eclipse Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| the sun symbolizes the concious waking mind, if its covered by the moon ie subconcious mind, we have no true free will since both poles of the whole are in opposition (duality, male/female, good/evil,light/dark) & are thus subject to the wheel of life- time, decay,madness, suffering, death- over and over and over and over again | |
| Radiohead – Electioneering Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| 1984 isnt fiction, its a blueprint, the same as Brave New World, dividing the world into three trading blocks & having *absolute* control over the human mind, the NWO, THE mother of all 'conspiracy theories'. This is where Yorke's famous paranoia comes from & RH whole anti-modern life bent, tracking how the real world continues to mirror those so called fictional books & everyone calling you crazy for seeing whats really going on | |
| Radiohead – Electioneering Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| of course its 1984 related, the entire system is about eventual global centralized contron ie world goverment & the Orwellian state, of which the IMF is essential facet. How it goes is the US & so called free world calls out some middle east shit hole on its democracy record than invades to set up its banking system which can then hold that country in its grip by controlling debt & mining its resources. Forget that crap about human rights, its all about power, money and control | |
| Radiohead – Electioneering Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Ha 'cattleprods and the IMF'. They knew about the fascist banking system long before the rest of us idiots. | |
| Imperative Reaction – Collapse Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is one helluva song.Hard and pounding, laying out the bad news (good news?) with blunt force, shooting down the meaningless buzzwords that have been pounded into our thick skulls from day 1 (endless growth, limitless progress, blah blah blah), even as we deny and try to sink deeper into our media slumber & material shit free-for-all. Songs like this that point out the bleeding obvious make me giddy inside, a lil less alone, the kind of stuff id play in supermarkets and public spaces, not any of the easy listening, top 40 crap. Just 24/7, round-the-clock writing on the wall |
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| Radiohead – Kinetic Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm reminded of the end of Ok Computer- 'Idiot slow down, sloooooooooow down!' This is like that, the never ending appetite for speed, a faster pace, more, more & more. The pace of the rat race increases every year til life seems to be flashing by on fast forward, a blur of conflicting & contradictory data and if you dare slow down even for even a moment you'll lose your footing and crash (Don't fall asleep at the wheel); it becomes like an addiction, not feeding the hunger makes you plain lazy,a bum refusing to contribute or pay his own way. So you better keep moving.Keep moving. The strange electronic noises we hear, processed wails of some sort, are like the blurs of stationary forms as our narrator zooms by in his mad race to some unforseeable goal, so fast they become like ghosts. You ever seen one of those pictures of cars speeding by, their bodies elongating into strange mutant shapes? Like that maybe, solid but see-thru, there & not. Gotta keep moving.... |
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| A Silver Mt. Zion – Teddy Roosevelt's Guns Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| anti-semitism? | |
| Radiohead – Codex Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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And here it is WITHOUT spelling mistakes I dunno guys, to me it sounds pretty striaghtfoward for a Radiohead song. A dusk dip in a secluded lake, shrugging off the doubts & aches of the day & just....letting the clear virgin water envelop you completely So gorgeous & soothing, its only song I like off this new album. No one gets hurt/ you've done nothing wrong -makes me feel like crying |
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| Radiohead – Codex Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| thats Codex Alimentarius, the word 'codex' isn't specifically a NWO thing | |
| Pink Floyd – Vera Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The Wall is probably overrated, full with filler and all that- but damn thats some atmospheric filler. Vera is only one mintue long, another stop gap before a bigger number, but it always hits me so hard. That part in the end where Water's voice cracks ('Does anybody else is hEre, feel the way i do?') just breaks your heart. | |
| Radiohead – Codex Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I dunno guys, to me it sounds pretty striaghtfoward for a Radiohead song. A dusk dip in at secluded a lake, shrugging off the doubts & aches of the day & just....letting the clear virgin water envelop you completely So gorgeous & soothing, its only song I like off this new album. No one gets hurt/ you've done nothing wrong -makes me feel like crying |
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| Pink Floyd – Pigs on the Wing (Part 2) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Ugh. Sorry about the triple post. Dunno what happened there | |
| Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Thats the thing with Radiohead- their songs sound like someone losing their minds and loving every minute | |
| Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I remember this one being on Big Shiny Tunes 3 and being one of the only songs I didn't like because it sounded sooo downbeat. Now I don't like super-upbeat songs much. Just that intro- so tired sounding. Music vid just re-inforces this perception; Thom Yorke never looked more beaten down & exhausted & english The narrator of the song is obviousdly a self flagellater, trying to be perfect and falling far short, the ambitous over-achieving yuppie scum derided earlier in OK Computer, maybe. Outside the perfect front, inside just frustration. He's chained to himself. Karma's a bitch |
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| David Bowie – Quicksand Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Kinda attention whoring, this song i mean. He's got better lyrics that integrate the esoterica better. Who the hell is David Bowie really. Maybe, like Paul, he's dead too. |
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| David Bowie – Quicksand Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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So I wonder....is name checking the occult a quick way to media immortality? |
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| Radiohead – The Amazing Sounds of Orgy Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Yea thats the point.Radiohead are Oxford boys,upper crust, they've had a privaleged vantage point to oversee whats been coming for at least a decade or more. I mean, where else do you think the paranoid, apoclayptic vibe of their stuff comes from? Has anyone ever seen 'Meeting People is Easy'? The band film where it shows them uncomfortably dealing with new found fame? As i remember, theres a very brief snippet where frustrated THom is sitting down trying to explain economics to an uninterested interviewer. He's basically laying out our current predicament to a T and yet at the time it was taken as just more adorable eccentricty from an overly cerebral rock band (this had to be '97, '98). Seeing that part of movie really makes something like Kid A make more sense. Radiohead miserbalism has never been a pose, more like a cause |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Perhaps Yorke & co. feel like thats their role: prophet(s) of doom in the MTV age,playing great music as the ship goes slowly down, shouting useless red alerts at the top of their lungs to an oblivious, party-hardy audience who just wanna dance dance dance & pay the stinkin bill later. The louder they shout, the harder the bovine audience dances....idioteque makes brilliant sense as a title really. In the best paranoid sense, it often feels like alot of Yorke's narrators have that unique type of isolation, the lonely neurotic who can see the tell-tale patterns when everyone else sees random chaos. They see the world collapsing & everyone else sees business as usual? Dunno, this band makes me think alot And 'the first of the children'? I take that in a sacrifical sense, you know, first born offerings....to whom? a global nuclear bonfire perhaps? The neon gods of our modern age? Kid A and his hordes of mutant-clone test tubers? The possibilites are endless.... |
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| Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Well i know the lyrics support a more down-to-Earth reading of being another dig at monolithic Muzak Inc. that Water's luved so much, but damn- i always take it to mean whole lot more. The sound of the thing is too....EPIC to be about that one lone subject & considering Water's lyrical obsessions with what a shit hole society is & what assholes we all really are, 'MAchine' seems to me a delightfully depressed, super-paranoid cry in the dark about the world swallowing you whole,pre-fab people moving to a hypnotic beat, molecular machines without a ghost's hope of self-determination: i.e. all in all just, you're just another brick in the wall. All those super dated but still damn effective synth sounds, the slow plodding pace of the piece- it makes you feel like you truly are surrounded by nothing but souless machinery, processing your bones & grinding you down to paste to further lubricate this nefarious enterprise called civilization; no choice in the matter,no say, even your DREAMS are smilucra provided by the mainframe (hows that for a horror movie image?) the listener's whole life expressed in no more than ones & zero's on some techy's screen; We are the Borg, resistance is futile. And the soul crushing solitude of it all of course, feeling like your the only who can actually see this soul-sucking matrix, the shining happy people laughing at the beginning of the song stand in sharp contrast to anything proceeding them.... Its like the sound of being on a conveyer belt maybe, recieving a touch-up so you can re-join that party-hardy throng with a similar shit-eating grin plastered to your face.....'Worries-What, me?' This as close a sing-along to Brave New World that i can think of. I love it but i dont listen to it that often compared to other PF songs. Too exhausting |
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| Radiohead – Go Slowly Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I sort of saw it as the narrator finally finding a 'way out' of this hellscape of a world...maybe... | |
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