| Mama Cass Elliot – Make your own kind of music Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The meaning is obvious, of course... I don't know about Lost but, to go a little further, when I first listen the lyrics of this song it made me think instantly of Ayn Rand's book The Fountainhead. It's amazing how these lyrics sum up the whole philosophy of the book. |
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| Interpol – Untitled Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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great song... one of the best of the last decade in my opinion (and Interpol made some other songs that are among the best of the last decade!) I can't even express the feeling I have when the drums appear at 0:40. Sometimes I listen only these two seconds 10 times in a raw and I keep it in my head for the whole day... The bass and guitars are perfect, the structure of the song is so brilliant... And the lyrics are so minimalist! It's reduced to one line which is the core of the song. To me, it's just about a man taking care of his lover. Surprising her by his presence and his support, especially when she's down... beautiful! |
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| Grinderman – Grinderman Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I don't know if there is a meaning but the rythmic sound of this song is CRAZY!!!!! So haunting!!!! And the guitar at the end makes it even clearer and deeper... It makes me focus on everything at the same time. And you're right, it's like an everlasting movement that always comes back at the same point. A static movement! Maybe it's life, we're always moving and evolving in appearance, but deep inside, the core remains the same. It's like time and nature, the sun and the universe. A universal movement in which each movement of each element changes everything constantly both at a local scale and at a global scale. But in the end, it's still the same. It's a static circle made of moving circles... looks like a grinder, right? | |
| Grinderman – Go Tell the Women Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Fucking great song! Brilliant lyrics! I guess he's just sayin to the women: we're tired of fighting for bullshit and things of no importance. We think about abstract crazy things and you get on our nerves with bullshit! |
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| The Killers – Jenny Was a Friend of Mine Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| What a bass line! | |
| The Killers – Everything Will Be Alright Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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definitely their best song... So trippy! Is there anybody like me who thinks Hot Fuss is one of the greatest album of the decade and their two other albums suck? I don't wanna be insulting but I had great expectations about The Killers cause I was so found of Hot Fuss but I was so disappointed about what they did after that. I tried so hard to listen the second and third albums and just never could! Anyone agrees or disagrees? |
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| Silver Apples – Lovefingers Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| In my opision, that's their best song. The beat and bass line are so minimalist and grooving and the noises (maybe a guitar or the synth) are so hypnotic. If somebody had told me this had been recorded in 2005 I would have believed him. | |
| Silver Apples – Oscillations Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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they were so ahead of their times that they had to stop in 1970... Incredible! I imagine what Simeone Coxe thought when he first listen to electronic music of the 70s, 80s and 90s and to some other stuffs very similar to what he had done 20 or 30 years before. "Damn! I created this and nobody knows my songs!" |
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| Silver Apples – Program Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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woah! this guys sampled a radio in 1968! respect!!! Great psychedelic lyrics! Mind is the only truth I've found The flame is its own reflection haha! |
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| Silver Apples – You and I Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Great song about what should be important in life and what society considers as important. "we don't have time" "there ain't no room" it denounces modernity: lack of time and lack of room because we are always trying to gain time but we don't TAKE the time to do the best things in life (what he calls little things which in fact are the great things). I just love it. |
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| Silver Apples – I Have Known Love Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This band is incredible and this song is so beautiful. The lyrics are both naive "i never heard the warning voice/i never knew i had a choice", innocent and dreamlike. | |
| Joy Division – New Dawn Fades Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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First of all, that's my favorite Joy Division song. Everything is perfect: the bass line, the drums, the guitar solos and the arpeggio when Ian sings. The break between the two verses is so pure and natural. This song goes so fluent... Ian's voice rising at the end of the song and of course, great lyrics. To me, this is why the word masterpiece exists. As for the meaning, in my opinion, it's only about suicide after a break-up. Nothing more. Maybe I'm "down to earth" on it... On the first verse, he calmly looks at his relationship with his wife and realizes that it's all wrong. He realizes that they can't match with each other. I think it's all about differences between people and when people love each other, they don't care about their differences and moreover, they dig the differences of their lover that enrich them. And when it's over, one has the impression that the person whom he loved has changed. "a change of speed, a change of style..." He thought they could match and he still loves her, so he plans to commit suicide and he has already told her so. What is really powerful and poignant is how aware and lucid he is about his situation and his decision. His situation is so directionless that he knows he can go away with no regrets. And at the same time, he's been too far with her, so he knows there is only one solution. "a loaded gun won't set you free - so you say" So powerful... Second verse: an angry voice and one who cried is also beautiful. It shows how different they are and how, now, they can't deal with it. Now, the final lines are really deep. "Cant's seem to feel it anymore". He once loves a girl but now he does not feel it anymore. He wish he could feel it because he does not want anything else in his life. But she is too distant from him now. So he says one last time "it was me..." He talks about him in the past which means I don't exist anymore. She was hoping for something more from him but he tells her "that's me, I can't offer more than me!" Just my interpretation on it... it's just that i've experienced in real life that a ot of break-ups happen because of differences between people and one of the two lovers reproaching the other not being this or that and the other "takes the blame" (while there's no blame, there is just a mistake, it was the wrong person, that's it!) and when they finally break up, the one who took the blame has to say "hey, that's me, that's how I am, if you're not good with it, don't blame me. If you look for smthg more, it's not my mistake". So basically, the problem is that Ian Curtis was suicidal. A random man would have a two months depression and would say "life goes on". Sad song created by a sad genius. |
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| Joy Division – Exercise One Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The original version of this song (of 3:10) is one of the most psychedelic songs ever. The guitar drives me crazy, the bass line seem to escape and go on a very swinging way but it's always returning to its starting point, like a circle. The drums are so repetitive and uses silence like a sound. And it lasts half of the song... It's just great! | |
| Joy Division – Day of the Lords Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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brokenmach1ne is quite right on it. The first stanza can be seen is a very dark interpretation of birth... obvious with "the start of it all". "There's no room for the weak" is a very deep and sharp line that can be interpretated in many different ways. For those who think it's about WWII or Hitler's youth, it could refer to Hitler's theory of "lebensraum". He thought the Aryen had the right to expend because as a "superior race" they had a right for a larger "living room" (lebensraum means exactly living room). And so, from a Hitlerian point of view, there was literally "no room for the weak". Horrible times. (that's not my opinion, I'm only talking about this strange theory...) But the line can be interpretated in a less restrictive way. So sad, so depressive, so disturbing... |
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| Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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So, according to wikipedia :) Brel said in an interview that this song was not about heartbreak but was about the cowardice of men. Wikipedia is not always true but I can easily understand why Brel would say this. Men always cling to women and to love and feelings even when it's over. That's very coward. It means that men don't accept reality and fight lost battles instead of trying to fall in love with another person who would be, at last, the "good one"... So, maybe he is half serious and half ironic. It's a kind of self-derision and mockery of all men who once tried to reconquer a lover who was gone. (damn, I'm in! ;) He talks about "Ne me quitte pas" in a song called "le cheval" where he basically says that he regretted to have written it. |
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| Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| yeah great song and good comment! One of my friends told me this song sucks because nobody should humiliate himself like this and be as low as the shadow of a dog. I think he's quite right and I've never really liked the last verse. But the first 4 verses are wonderful... And I also think it's a kind of catharsis. When he wrote this, he probably knew he was never going to see her again! | |
| Jacques Brel – Ces gens-là Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'll try a translation: Those people First, First, there’s the firstborn Who’s like a melon Who’s got a big nose Who no longer knows his name, Mister Because he drinks Or because he’s drunk Who doesn’t do anything But who can’t hold more Who is completely done for But who pretends to be the king Who gets drunk every night With some bad wine But who we find in the morning Sleeping in the church Stiff as a ledge White as an Easter candle And who mumbles And whose eye is divagating I must say, Mister That among those people We don’t think, Mister We don’t think, we pray And here comes the other Carrots in his hair Who’s never seen a comb Who’s a nasty piece of work (?) (well, a nasty man) And who would give his shirt To some poor happy fellows Who married “the” Denise A girl from the city Well… from another city And that’s not over yet Who’s doin’ his small business With his small hat With his small coat With his small car Who’d love to look good But who’s not good at all Don’t play the rich men If you don’t have a penny I must say, Mister That among those people We don’t live, Mister We don’t live, we cheat And then, come the others The mother, who never says a word Or who talks nonsense And from the evening to the morning Under his apostle face And into his wooden framework There’s the father’s moustache Who died from a slide And who watches his herd Gobbling up the cold soup And it’s doin’ slurrrrp And it’s doin’ slurrrrp And then comes the elderly Who never stops to thrill And they’re waiting for her to die Because she got the money And they don’t listen to What her poor hands tell I must say, Mister That among those people We don’t talk Mister We don’t talk, we count And then, and then And then, there is Frida Who’s nice like a sun And who loves me the same That I love Frida And we often tell each other That we’ll have a house With lots of windows With hardly no walls And that we’ll live in here And that it’ll be fine And if it’s not sure At least, it’s “maybe” Because they don’t want Because they don’t want The others, they say something like She’s too good for me That I’m just good for Strangling cats I’ve never killed any cat Or maybe a long time ago Or I forgot Or he smelt so bad Well, they don’t want Well… they don’t want Sometimes when we see each other Pretending it’s unintentional With her wet eyes She says she’ll go She says she’ll follow me So for a moment For a moment only So I believe her, Mister For a moment For a moment only Because among those people, Mister We don’t go Mister We don’t go But it’s late, Mister I’ve gotta go home. Great song. |
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| Jacques Brel – Avec Élégance Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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yeah good translation... Except on second verse: it would be "Reading in the eyes of the charming that fifty years old is the province" (the opposite of what you wrote). Province in french means the opposite of Paris. Paris in French means fashionable and hype. So he feels in the eyes of the charming that he's no longer fashionable, no longer attractive. Great way to express this feeling. This song is so deeply sad but it has this grandeur... with grace ! |
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| Gregory Isaacs – Never Be Ungrateful Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| beautiful song... | |
| Ini Kamoze – World-A-Music Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Actually, he's not saying "out in the street they call it murder" but "merther". Merther means the sensation of being high while listening to reggae dub... Great vibes! So high! |
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| Gang Starr – Moment of Truth Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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best hip-hop lyrics ever!!!!!!!!!!!! best hip-hop song ever!!!!!!! best hip-hop band ever!!!!!! I especially like when he says "Cultivate, multiply, motivate or else we'll die You know I be the master of the who, what , where, and why" RIP |
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| Interpol – Next Exit Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Great song! so powerful... it's definitely about a new start with his girlfriend. They are stuck in the routine, they are becoming strangers because of that. He knows that their relationship is close to its end, but he still loves her and he still believes there won't be an end. So he wanna leave with her in another place, find some adventure to break routine. |
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| Interpol – Next Exit Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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definitely a driving song... First time I've heard it, I pictured me driving in my car, by night on a ring around a big city! And I drove around the Amsterdam ring with four friends with this song very loud in the car, completely high... that was a perfect moment! |
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| Arcade Fire – My Body Is a Cage Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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what a nice song to end a great album! i think it's about inhibitions - that includes social, mental and moral inhibitions. Can't explain clearly but I feel it's about the opposition between our instinctive animal nature and culture. Body represents nature (in philosophy as well) and mind represents culture. So, he feels that intellectual and rational culture has taken control above his animal nature because of the evolution of society. I may go too far on it, but it's what I feel (kind of nietzschean interpretation)... Have you ever wanted to dance with a girl who's standing right next to you but you finally don't go just because of shyness and fear? Fear of what? of being ashamed. Ashamed of what? of showing animal attraction. Why do some people are ashamed of that, and others aren't? Because of education. For 2000 years, religious (and then democratic) moral makes people reject their animal side. After 2000 years of this education passed down from one generation to another, some people have this moral so deep in them that their animal side is locked in a cage. It creates inhibition. It's very hard to go through inhibition even when one knows it's in the mind. just my take on it! I'm not an english speaker so I may not be clear. |
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| Jedi Mind Tricks – I Who Have Nothing Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Fuckin great song! My favorite of JMT though they've done plenty of nice tunes... "Before my return to dust I become one with science and mathematic and the rising of the sun" "To live alone one must be an animal or a God" these are great lines too! |
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| The Besnard Lakes – And You Lied To Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I thought it was about a break-up because of the line "you aren't even who you said you are". The narrator reproaching his girlfriend to have lied to him about her personnality. But I'm not sure. Great song though! |
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| Supertramp – The Logical Song Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Of course, it is Roger Hodgson's point ot view in both cases! | |
| Supertramp – The Logical Song Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think both Roger Waters and Roger Hodgson went to school as a matter of fact... And you went to school as well... and so do I... and what is expresses in this song is what every human (non vegetables, practical, logical people) should think about life and adulthood. What's the point of comparing him to Roger Waters? He can be compared to so much more: to everybody! |
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| Supertramp – The Logical Song Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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nothing more to say! as you said, it's very straight forward. It's about the loss of innocence that brings disenchantement and about conformity in adult society. In the chorus, he denounces the absurdity of conformity. Best lyrics ever on this theme! |
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| Pink Floyd – [The Wall Concept] Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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First of all, songs, albums and pieces of art are free to interpretation. But most of the time, they deal with one theme (or more) and deliver one message (and sometimes more). My interpretation of The Wall: It is not about BARRETT but it IS about WATERS. Well, it's not ABOUT WATERS, IT IS WATERS! The Wall is an autobiography. A brilliant autobiography. The movie is clear: Pink (WATERS) builds a Wall (a mental and social wall) to protect himself from society and its troubles (human relationship, love story and break-up, order, conformity, success, fame, stupid fans, fear of death, fear of war, loss of a father... everything that fills up life). At the end, he becomes aware of his own alienation (STOP) and decides to judge himself (THE TRIAL) in order to free himself from his own wall. "Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fear I sentence you to be exposed before your peers Tear down the wall!" He accepts to reveal his deepest fears, he accepts himself. This is great. It deals with stability of mind. Everybody builds his/her own wall to have protection against violence in life. All we experience forms our identity - how we walk, talk, eat, think, sleep, move, laugh, kiss, love, get angry, listen, look... Everybody has a unique perception of things and a unique way to do things and that is because of our experiences. Our mind creates defensive mecanisms that WATERS summerized as The Wall. But some people go too far and lock themselves in their own brain (depression, paranoia, schizophrenia and other mental illness, one can put a reference to Syd BARRETT at this point and maybe WATERS thought of him when he wrote some lines, but it's not the main point). Pink (WATERS) IS NOT INSANE because he succeeds in breaking down the wall. This is why The Wall is a fucking great album! It is UNIVERSAL and deals with self-identity and the relations with the others. Great philosophical theme. There is a lot more to say about this but it's not in the album nor in the movie which basically tells the psychic story of Pink/WATERS. The conclusion is "accept yourself". The metaphor of the Wall and the Trial are brilliant. Second thing: WATERS is incredibly billiant because he matches this first theme with fascism, doing a mix between 1984 and WWII propaganda and he adapts it to a rock band playing in front of a big crowd. Doing this, he deals with power (psychological and social power) and with the control of the minds. The band in the movie is a brick in the wall for all the fans. Fans love a band or an actor or a singer because it brings a reference, an ideal, a protection. Furthermore, he shows that one can easily manipulate a crowd and that a crowd has no intelligence and no will (it's the first idea of the album. The story about Waters spitting to a fan and being irritated because people who attended their shows were there to see famous people). A crowd is dumb. Here we can refer to "Psychology of crowds", a book written by Gustave Le Bon (a french sociologist) in 1895 which is prophetic about what happened with totalitarism. So, The Wall album + movie is a masterpiece. I don't think there is another possible "interpretation" about that. One can dig deeper but it's still on the same themes. Of course, the album alone and the songs can be interpreted in very different ways... one is free to think whatever he wants! Sorry for my english, I'm not a native english speaker. Sorry if it's too long... Last thing: for those who thinks it's not about WATERS: HENRY DAVID THOREAU says in WALDEN smthg like "oneself can only talk about himself" (I don't know the exact quote as I read it in french as "On ne parle jamais que de soi"). I believe it's widely true. Writers write about themselves even when they create fictive characters because it's their words, theirs visions of the world, of society, of people. Pink is a fictive character who contains all the WATERS' neurosis! |
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| Pink Floyd – [The Wall Concept] Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It is not about BARRETT but it IS about WATERS. Well, it's not ABOUT WATERS, IT IS WATERS! The Wall is an autobiography. A brilliant autobiography. The movie is clear: Pink (WATERS) builds a Wall (a mental and social wall) to protect himself from society and its troubles (human relationship, love story and break-up, order, conformity, success, fame, stupid fans, fear of death, fear of war, loss of a father... everything that fills up life). At the end, he becomes aware of his own alienation (STOP) and decides to judge himself in order to free himself from his own wall. It deals with stability of mind. Everybody builds his/her own wall to have protection against violence in life. All we experience forms our identity - how we walk, talk, eat, think, sleep, move, laugh, kiss, love, get angry, listen, look... Everybody has a unique perception of things and a unique way to do things and that is because of our experiences. Our mind creates defensive mecanisms that WATERS summerized as The Wall. But some people go too far and lock themselves in their own brain (paranoia, schizophrenia and other mental illness). Pink (WATERS) is not insane because he succeeds in breaking down the wall. This is why The Wall is a fucking great album! It is UNIVERSAL and deals with self-identity and the relations with the others. Great philosophical theme. There is a lot more to say about this but it's not in the album nor in the movie which basically tells the psychic story of Pink/WATERS. Second thing: WATERS is incredibly billiant because he matches this first theme with fascism, doing a mix between 1984 and WWII propaganda and he adapts it to a rock band playing in front of a big crowd. Doing this, he deals with power (psychological and social power) and with the control of the minds. The band in the movie is a brick in the wall for all the fans. Fans love a band or an actor or a singer because it brings a reference, an ideal, a protection. Furthermore, he shows that one can easily manipulate a crowd and that a crowd has no intelligence and no will (it's the first idea of the album. The story about Waters spitting to a fan and being irritated because people who attended their shows were there to see famous people). A crowd is dumb. Here we can refer to "Psychology of crowds", a book written by Gustave Le Bon (a french sociologist) in 1895 which is prophetic about what happened with totalitarism. So, The Wall album + movie is a masterpiece. I don't think there is another possible "interpretation" about that. One can dig deeper but it's still on the same themes. Of course, the album alone and the songs can be interpreted in very different ways... one is free to think whatever he wants! Sorry for my english, I'm not a native english speaker. Sorry if it's too long... Last thing: for those who thinks it's not about WATERS: HENRY DAVID THOREAU says in WALDEN smthg like "oneself can only talk about himself" (I don't know the exact quote as I read it in french as "On ne parle jamais que de soi"). I believe it's widely true. Writers write about themselves even when they create fictive characters because it's their words, theirs visions of the world, of society, of people. Pink is a fictive character who contains all the WATERS' neurosis! |
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| Pink Floyd – The Great Gig in the Sky Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm not sure of this... First time I watched it I was sober and just wanted to know if people were all morons. But I saw that things go so well together. So, I think it was unintentional but I love the idea of synchronising a great movie with a great album because I see other details, I feel new things about music and pictures, no matter if I'm high or not! And you're right, it doesn't MAKE SENSE (it's not the same theme, nor the same ideas) but it gives strange sensations. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Great Gig in the Sky Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Yeah she thought she fucked that up... They asked her to think about death, to have feelings of death and then to sing vocals. Well, that's what I've read somewhere. So it is definitely about death. "Dark side of Oz" is... mysterious ! They have always said it's unintentional but on this song, it's incredible how the music and clair's voice illustrate the movie ! When you watch it, it's as crystal clear as a video clip for the song... And the film move from black and white to colour just as the album turn to B-Side... Strange... |
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| Pink Floyd – Summer '68 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Listen to "Summer 68" with very good headphones, it will blow your mind! Piano starts on the left then move to the right (or the contrary, I don't remember), guitar comes to the left, then to the right, voices and bass are in the middle and then, "How do you feel" all in one, all the music is moving towards the middle... It's beautiful. |
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| Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - V) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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yes and "painter" does not anly mean artist. Syd Barrett was a painter too. Shine on, Atom Heart Mother, Echoes and Dark side are why Pink Floyd will never be equal by any other band. Simply the best! |
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| Pink Floyd – Paint Box Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Only 10 comments on this song!!? In my opinion, this song is on their top five or ten best songs! The bass line, the guitar, the synthesizer and the voices are incredible! Early Pink Floyd is so sweet, psychedelic and sarcastic at the same time! |
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| Pink Floyd – On the Run Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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yes with good headphones, it's just incredible! And if you continue till the end of Time introduction, it's 5 or 6 minutes of pure psychedelic instrumental. Crazy! I think on the run is about hurrying. Hurrying is stressing but people in modern life always seem to be in a hurry. So, it's a way to insanity. On a technocal standpoint, they make creepy electronic sounds 30 years before common people... they are Pink Floyd! |
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| Pink Floyd – Let There Be More Light Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think you can't compose a song like this being sober... So the lyrics may not be on LSD, but the music IS, for sure! It talks about lots of things and about nothing at the same time. I mean, listen to the couplets: the first takes five or six lines to conclude "something will be done" Oh, yes, something will be done, somewhere by someone, at some point! It's totally vague, it's nothing. Second verse: "now is the time to be aware". They take a very long time to say that. But to say what? Be aware? of aliens? maybe... Third verse: something in my eye, something in the sky, wainting there for me. It's the more precise and they steal repeat twice "something" which is a very vague word. What the hell is something? Aliens? Spaceship? Lucy in the Sky? Fourth verse: did you ever know? no never will they, I say. It's still very unprecise. In comparison, the choruses are very precise with names and references "carter's father", "Mildenhall", "Rhull", "Hereword, the Wake", "Lucy in the sky"... So, I think it's a brilliant song about the aliens coming down and the verses show our ignorance and suppositions about whenever they come, wherever they appear, whoever they are, whatever they do! |
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| Pink Floyd – Flaming Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is my favourite Syd Barrett's song. I especially love the lines "Yippi, you can't see me but i can you" and "no fair, you can't hear me but I can you". I'm not a native speaker so I might be wrong but "i can you" doesn't mean anything from a grammatical point of view, right? He should've said "i can SEE you", right? Tell me if I'm wrong... but I think that makes much more sense like Syd wrote it, it's direct, no verb, just I can you. Looks like a child talking. LSD? not LSD? I don't know, everything is possible on LSD, but a trippy song like this with the title "Flaming" could also be on strong marijuana. Drug influence for sure and knowing Syd Barrett, it's certainly LSD! |
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| Pink Floyd – Echoes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Not bad RJ! "no one flies around the sun" can be a reference to the myth of Icarus and Daedalus. Icarus dies because he flies too close to the sun. The myth means than Men always want to go further and to do impossible things. If the song says "no one flies around the sun", maybe it means "we're good, we don't need any more". Not sure. Just a thought. Is it God? People, don't be too rigid or close-minded. "you" (at the end "call to you across the sky") can stand for God but God can be lots of things. I don't like to say God, I would say "a divinity" or "the greatest thing in the Universe". You can replace it by Nature, by Love, by the Sun (don"t forget that many religions praised the Sun as the Creator of all Gods, like Râ in Antique Egypt, Aztecs, Incas, Mayas and much more). To me, it stands for Sun, the Universe, Creation, Life, Everything as opposed to Nothingness. It's the opposite of nihilism. So I think RJ is right but things stay open: you can replace "you" with whatever you praise to and if you don't praise, then put "reason" of life or awareness, or lucidity or something that indicates you that you are alive and that is the most perfect feeling ever! |
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| Pink Floyd – Echoes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Yep, great way to see it. I think these moments when time stops are perfectio or perfect awareness. Someone sees, feels and is aware of everything around him and there is a sort of mental transmission between the mind and the elements. At this moment, you are the elements! "I am you and what I see is me"... what a line! I don't understand why the musical break is so anxious compared to the very positive and floating lyrics, though... |
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| Pink Floyd – Cymbaline Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Yes a nightmare but a nightmare on drugs... Or maybe, the person takes drug after awaking from the nightmare. "and it's high time, cymbaline" is an obvious reference to drug effects. As for "Cymbaline", I've always thought it was about feeling the noise of cymbals very loud but very clear in your head... | |
| Pink Floyd – Corporal Clegg Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think it's an anti-militarist song. The music, the sounds, the lyrics, the brass band are very close to some surrealistic or post-WWI paintings and poems against war. It's very provocative because the tone and the words ar way far from the tragic of war. "His boots were very clean" criticizes the obsession of order and cleanliness in the army (but also in the upper class society - "Her Majesty the Queen"). "are they really sad for me" and "will they laugh at me" introduces the ideas of The Wall. I think it's one their greatest songs! Musically perfect and great anti-war lyrics! |
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| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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vagelier and panzercat - you're right. I thought there was something deeper than the movie scene, but obviously not! About the doctor who does not care about the patient himself but just wants to shoot him up, it makes me think of a Burroughs quote: " Remember, these pharmaceutical companies have a vested interest in illness". The Wall delivers the same kind of message: beware of people or companies or systems that want your own GOOD! There is always a hidden interest! Do they criticize the way doctors "ease the pain" but never erase the pain? And why? Because they have no interest with erasing the pain! I know that I might seem paranoid... but there is some true about it and it's even worse with political systems and parties (as it is shows in the movie). And it's a very special "high song" because, to me, it describes a good bad trip! I'm bad but I'm comfortably numb and I know things will be alright... |
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| Pink Floyd – Breathe Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Yeah maybe it's pure coinsidental... probably because when two masterpieces of music and cinema meet, it ends up with something good. But you should try it one time. Even sober, things match sometimes. On Breathe, look at the thin man balancing from left to right and listen to the guitar of Gilmour. It's perfect! But I do believe it was not on purpose! Anyway, great song, great album and great movie! |
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| Pink Floyd – Brain Damage Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| To Jeff - Yeah Syd Barrett was the founder of Pink Floyd. He wrote almost all the songs of their first album (The Piper at the gates of down) and some of their second album. Listen to "Flaming", it's pure genious! | |
| Pink Floyd – Brain Damage Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"brain damage" >> of course "rearrange me till i'm sane" is about a "doctor" or you can say "society" who tries to change a person who is called a "lunatic". Madness is a very relative thing. Your "lobotomy" thing (and the whole song) makes me think of "A Clockwork Orange". The part when he agrees to experience new methods to clean up his mind. "there's someone in my head but it's not me" is definitely the best line of the song. I've heard somewhere the song was about Syd Barrett... yes, probably but i just think it's about Brain damage and how the mind and the brain can be fucked up either by madness or drugs or depression or just being different from "standard people". |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Yes I think it's the idea but it's not only about drug addiction. It can be any kind of addiction and first of all: habits and routine. We are all addicted to something. "How long will I slide" is something we've all experienced when we know there's something to change but we don't have the strength or the courage to change it. It can last one week, one month or years and years. For me "the otherside" stands fot what he wants to be and it echoes "separate my side". He needs to feel one side, his real side or his ideal side but in the same time, he's good with sliding (we are always good when sliding - be it a "drug slide" or not). So it's a constant fight. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Death of a Martian Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I didn't know it was about Flea's dog. It's sad. Anyway, it's my fav song of the album and maybe my fav RHCP song ever. The way he recites the poem at the end... it's like an incantation, so powerful, so aerian, so magical! I love a lot of songs of Red Hot Chili Peppers but last saturday, I listened to it very loud during a party when I was very high, and I had feelings and sensations I've never had before. The poem makes me think of Burroughs prose. Any of you reads Burroughs? Same kind of theme: pets, space, love and death. Same kind of images and sounds. This is spontaneous subconscious writing. But I'm disappointed to learn that AK didn't write it himself! |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tear Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Most beautiful and emotive RHCP song! guitar solo is perfect and the music rises until the trumpets come, it's just makin me feel irie! I think it's just about life and death. Life is beautiful even if there are lots of bad times. He realizes it's time to see life in a positive way. Last tear of sorrow, first tear of joy. Like when you desperate and you suddenly come back to life. Like a redemption. Tears of sorrow become tears of joy. Baudelaire wrote a lot of poems with dark and depressive images and feelings but in the end, he's almost always celebrating life, celebrating everything in life, good and bad times (every rise and fall). I've read Les Fleurs du Mal de Baudelaire (I'm french) and the message I remember is: even in Hell I'd choose life rather than death. I feel the same about this song. |
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