| The Dead Milkmen – Stuart Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows this song is about what the queers are doing TO THE SOIL. |
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| Buffalo Springfield – For What It's Worth Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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As others have said, this song is actually about hippies protesting a curfew at their favorite night-clubbing spot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_What_It%27s_Worth_%28Buffalo_Springfield_song%29 However, FWIW was written broadly so that it resonates with the spirit of protest everywhere. It quickly became an antiwar anthem. Today the song can be heard at Occupy rallies, and its lyrics still fit perfectly. |
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| The Smiths – Barbarism Begins at Home Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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(the first part x2) A crack on the head is just what you get. Why, because of who you are. And a crack on the head is just what you get. Why, because of what you are. A crack on the head because of those things you said, things you said, the things you did. (the first part again, then "no no no no"...) |
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| They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse in Your Soul Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| Book of Love – Boy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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If the meaning of this song isn't obvious to you, then you probably should join a monastery. If you want to play with that girl's toys, you better let her come play with you. |
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| Shriekback – Nemesis Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Shriekback's music often refers to scientific theories, especially regarding paleontology (Coelocanth, the Naked Apes album, etc). Nemesis the song was written as a direct response to the Nemesis hypothesis, which was first proposed in 1984 and entered popular culture in early 1985. See http://tinyurl.com/bigblacknemesis Nemesis is the name of a hypothetical red or brown dwarf star in a highly stretched, perpendicular orbit around our Sun. Most of the time it is so distant and dim that it has thus far gone undetected. However, every 26 million years it supposedly comes hurtling much closer (well outside the orbits of Pluto & friends, but in terms of stars that's really close). This surge of gravity would knock thousands of dormant comets towards the inner solar system, and some of those comets would smash into the Earth, causing mass extinctions (like the dinosaurs, hence the lyric about "the breath of reptiles"). The song is saying that our current civilization may feel great and powerful, but if Nemesis returned we would all die anyways. |
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