| Sunset Rubdown – Swimming Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Best explanation of this song ever. Seriously, thank you. It sums up the emotions I feel when I listen to this song perfectly. :) | |
| Mindless Self Indulgence – What Do They Know? Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure it's: My *dignity* never returned Recieved like a big fat jerk I been silly, but not absurd *Criminal* that's what I heard Fits in a lot better with the theme of the song, losing dignity and criminality. |
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| Janelle Monáe – Wondaland Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'll be your secret santa, *do you mind?* And I think the second part goes Take her back to Wondaland She thinks she left her underpants But I might be wrong. |
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| Meat Puppets – Comin' Down Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| That was his wife, the dead girl. | |
| Sleigh Bells – A/B Machines Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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You got that from "Got my A machines on the table, Got my B machines in the drawer"? lol. |
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| Sunset Rubdown – Us Ones in Between Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Just to comment again because I love it so much, the song, to me, discusses the dichotomy and ambiguity of the human experience. The potential for beginnings and ends, and how love and consciousness fits into the equation. The beginning (creation) end (death/destruction) lines I think most people pick up on easily. Love part sticks out to me because of the lines "Mother me, Before you eat me". And 'consciousness' from "I wonder if they stop To think about the taste" and also from "Taught myself to hate", but that's a weaker connection. To me, it's about how this all mixes together, what life, beginnings and ends mean, and how beings respond to their experiences of living and make decisions. Just my interpretation of what the song means to me, not claiming I have a better or more holistic interpretation than yours. |
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| Sunset Rubdown – Us Ones in Between Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this is such a beautiful song. And the way people are interpreting it in different ways makes it all the more beautiful. The one thing I disagree with is a political theme, especially if you're suggesting it includes specifics. It's so easy to attach political meanings to songs that discuss the human experience (in my opinion that's the main theme here), and I think that's just a bad start to getting to the core of songs, to apply political/ideological dogma to a song. I am a bit biased though, because if it actually was a political song, I'd be pretty disappointed, and I'd probably think less of Sunset Rubdown.. Because I think they're way above writing about politics and their songs are too meaningful to me to have political themes in them. Like someone said in the comments, this is a piece of poetry. |
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| The Fiery Furnaces – Evergreen Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me, this song is about having hope and faith in something generally considered small and insignificant. Like a hemlock shoot to keep you at your best :) But that's just me. |
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| Modest Mouse – Trailer Trash Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think you guys are taking the lines to literally.. The line, "I hope I can pass high school means nothing." reflects to me the difficulty children of poor families have in school. There are many reasons why children of working class parents do significantly worse than middle class students, and I think this song reflects them very well. "Short love with a long divorce, And a couple of kids, of course" - Working class families have higher divorce rates, have more children, and marry more often than middle and upper class families, which are covered in the segment in this song ending with "They don't mean anything", because, to a working class family, an additional child or another divorce just doesn't have that much of an effect, where as, in a middle or upper class family, a divorce is financially devastating, and an additional child will add up to hundreds of thousands of extra dollars (assuming they are paying for their college, an assuming a "trailer trash" parent would not have the funds to do so) This next line: "Taking heartache with hard work, Goddamn I am such a jerk, I can't do anything" reflects how societies view poor families as a complete failure, and how members of the working class internalize the negative views and end up thinking they are worthless pieces of "Trailer Trash" "And I shout that you're all fakes And you should have seen the look on your face And I guess that's what it takes When comparing your bellyaches" - I think this set of lines is a response to the Rich/middle class people, who he, the "Trailer Trash", is calling fake, because society assumes that "anyone can make it," and the middle class is part of a higher class because THEY worked harder than their working counter part, when those born into the working class have many more barriers to success than those born into the middle class. Anyways, to me, its a song with very meaningful lyrics, but I've probably imposed a lot of personal bias in my description, as I have taken my courses in sociology especially focusing on Class. |
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| Meat Puppets – Blanket of Weeds Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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*Correction* It's "Vines break the stone" hence the 'Blanket of Weeds' theme, Virus makes zero sense... And another minor correct it's "Signs stand alone and theY don't point for anyone" |
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| Jack Off Jill – My Cat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's either about MM or Twiggy. When first hearing it I thought Manson for the same reasons, but I've heard a few people say its Twiggy because (a) Twiggy plays the guitar and (b) She dated Twiggy | |
| The Police – Born In The 50's Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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And all the blatant segregation, racism, and sexism. That was pretty fun... for white men. I hate people who look at old 50's propaganda films and says "I wish life like that, all cheery and happy and everyone was nice to each other." Total crock of shit. |
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| Pink Floyd – Point Me at the Sky Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I love it when people post "interpretations" that just restate the god damn lyrics. What the fuck man! Does anyone really question that "isn't it sad we're insane" = "we're all lunatics"? Really? I mean, except for people who can't read. And you're a dumb shit anyways. If anything, the lines about being "stout" is a commentary about OVERPOPULATION you stupid shit. Try again next time, moron. |
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| Pink Floyd – It Would Be So Nice Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The funny thing is the band hated this song. That's why its so unavailable, they thought it was awful and too pop-y. | |
| Minor Threat – Guilty of Being White Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Racism is NOT the same as prejudice. Racism is a systematic advantage one receives from being of a certain race. For blacks in America, there is certainly no advantage to being black, but there are obvious advantages to be white. Anti-white PREJUDICE can be a problem, but in America, Anti-white RACISM is pretty much impossible. |
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| Minor Threat – Guilty of Being White Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This is a pretty naive song.. | |
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