| Sublime – Badfish Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[lightningdirector:2021] jFor sure dude. Surfs up! Bradley was an Israelite. | |
| Sublime – Fighting Blindly Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I believe the lyrics are supposed to be "or is it just the way we're taught to think" | |
| Sublime – Garden Grove Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Like Badfish, this song is a ballad he has written to try and seduce a lover into making love with him. That is why he says in the last line "All these things I do, they're waiting for you." This is a tongue-and-cheek, semi-sarcastic attempt at humor to brush off the list of things he lists which depresses him. He says, these are the things which make up my life and it is all waiting for you to join me. He is saying he is waiting for a true love, a love of his life to give him company for eternity. He is also being very cynical in this song and expressing his discontent with the outside world. He's saying "this ain't no funky reggae party, $5 at the door." What he means is that his shows are for free. He does not charge any money to see his shows. He is underscoring the importance of freedom. His shows are not funky reggae parties that cost you an arm and a leg. When he says "it gets so real sometimes" he means that his life is intense and the feelings and intellect which he has are strong. When he says "who wrote my rhyme" he means, what is this person, this creator occupying his consciousness that gives him the inspiration for his incredible genius musical and metaphoric ability. This line "who wrote my rhyme" and the amount of awe he has is similar to a line from another of his songs "I have a hidden place inside my mind where I keep hidden inspiration you won't find." Bradley in this sense is acknowledging that he is one with God and he knows he has been given a special talents which others have not. "I've got the microwave" could have been a reference to the Dire Straits song "money for nothing" which has the line "we've got your installed microwave ovens." In this line, Bradley is saying he has these material items of consumerism which society idolizes. He understands the shallowness of materialism but is offering up that he has obtained this material wealth, though that has not satisfied him and he still waits for that true satisfaction, when his eternal lover, or soul-mate, will ultimately join him. He says he has the deuce deuce referencing to the violate, gangster like culture of the time which he had to take part in to survive, living in so cal. In the next stanza, he is saying that he has found so much love and adoration for the world that it sometimes makes him feel as if his spirit is floating above the ground and overcoming even the force of gravity. Yet he tinges this with insults to his rivals, saying "you're a fool" in the common battle rap, dis style of artists that he took inspiration from such as those of the early gangster rap era. He says all that he sees he steals. He goes on to talk about common things which disgruntle him and his dissatisfaction with the arrogance of police, and the annoying position in life of having to awake everyday to the sound of an annoying alarm. He feels his life was meant for something better than the way society has engineered our culture. Many of this problems still exist with us today. This obsession with the shortcomings of society is the reason why this artist was unable to cope, ultimately. Yet at the end of the song he is still saying "I am waiting for you." So in the end, this song is simply another love ballad and nothing more. |
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| Bad Religion – Beyond Electric Dreams Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Whoever gave this a negative one is a loser and doesn't know anything. I'm the one who figured out the meaning of this song and exposed the truth for the world to see! | |
| Sublime – Badfish Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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With the utmost respect for Bradley because he was a very inspirational person I would like to do my best to set the record straight on this song. This song is primarily about love and/or being in a relationship. It also has references to surfing, drinking, and smoking. Thank you to all the people who pointed out that because this song was written early in his career it is not about heroine. In saying "when you grab ahold of me you tell me that I'll never be set free" in the first line he is talking about a lover holding him in their embrace. It could also have a double meaning referring primarily to alcoholism. "But I'm a parasite, creep and crawl I step into the night." By being a parasite he is saying that he wants love from his lover but he may not be perfectly faithful in return. He takes love without giving perfect devotion back. He will step into the night meaning at night he is going to go around the town, go to bars and have fun. He will not necessarely be a faithful lover so he is a parasite. "Two pints of booze" and "are you a bad fish too?" means he has two pints and is ready to drink with someone who wants to make love. Fish means someone who drinks. Later on people may have misinterpreted this song as being about heroine so they started using "bad fish" to refer to someone who gets somebody else hooked on heroine. But Bradley invented the term "bad fish" and he was talking about drinking and being a "whore." People often use the term "drink like a fish." He says "bad" fish because of the parasitic nature of his love. "Ain't got no money to spend" means he's broke because of always spending his money on alcohol and cannabis. "I hope the night will never end" refers to how he likes to party and have fun all night. It also refers to making love all night. "Lord knows I'm weak, won't somebody get me off of this reef" means that he believes in God and he knows his lifestyle is destructive. He is praying for divine intervention essentially. "Baby you're a big blue whale" is referring to Blue Whales because they are endangered and Bradley was an environmentalist in this song. But he is also talking about his lover, likening them to a beautiful creature of the Ocean. Perhaps his lover might have been a little on the chubby side because he wanted to get with anyone just so he could have satisfcation, but I cannot say for sure that big blue whale definitely refers to fat girls, although it is a possibility. "Grab the reef when all duck diving fails" is a double entrende. The reef is referring to coral reef that one could grab onto underneath a wave. It's almost like Brad wants to grab the choral reef so he can have an anchor point - something to ground him and stop him from being buffetted around by outside forces. He needs that one thing to hold onto so he knows he will be ok. Duck diving as people have pointed out is a technique used in surfing to get out to where the waves break. But reef also means reefer and he is saying whenever surfing isn't working out he has cannabis to ground him and put him at peace. Duck diving in this sense could also refer to his attempts to get laid, and when it doesn't work, he can always grab his reefer and get high instead, and think about his loneliness. The way he uses this double entrende and alludes to the beauty of nature is simply brilliant and unparalleled. "I swim but I wish I never heard, the water's too polluted now with germs" is another double meaning. He's talking about the Ocean and how sad it is that mankind is polluting it. But by "swim" he also refers to his sexual escapades and how he likes to make love to many women but he knows there is a risk of getting an STD, or germs. "I dive deep when it's ten feet overhead" is again a metaphor between surfing and love-making. "Grab the reef underneath my bed" is referring to where he keeps his cannabis and also referencing his bed, where the love-making happens. "AIn't God no quarrels with God" means that he understands the nature of God and he has received enlightenment from where he sees it. "Ain't got no time to get old" means that he wants to lead a wreckless lifestyle. He wants to have fun and doesn't ever want to grow old. Hopefully this will set the record straight so people realize, this song is a ballad he has written to try and seduce a lover into making love with him but is also a metaphor to his other means of escape which is drinking, smoking, and surfing, which keeps him distracted from being a real man or a potential husband, so he can remain forever young yet he knows this lifestyle is leading nowhere so he is crying out to God for divine intervention at the same time. |
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| Bad Religion – Beyond Electric Dreams Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Thanks everyone, you've all had some great things to say about this song and maybe now I'll be one of the last ones to comment on it. When I first heard this song it struck something very deep inside me and now I think I've figured it out. This song is about people who have, since time immemorial, ascended sacred mountain tops to seek for meaning and understanding within themselves and the universe. Some of them, like Moses and Nikola Tesla were able to receive true enlightenment, and move "beyond electric dreams." This is the conversation of impassive planets that they were able somehow to intercept. When it says "nobody can tell you where it is but I can point to a sign," "it" might be a reference to the definition of the Universe. The sign could be constellations in the stars where humans of old sat on mountain tops and saw images in them, that conveyed stories about life on earth. Or the sign could be a cross or some other symbol that people have used to seek understanding. It could be a well known logo in advertising like the master card logo. Or, when it talks about a frozen definition and "dimension undefined" it could actually be referring to the undefined number in mathematics, the number 1/0. Anyways, the roof of the world is on top of the mountain and the "apparent design" is what the guy on the mountain is trying to figure out. The mountain is "beyond electric dreams" which are the "inarticulate passion plays" of the power brokers on earth who control the distribution of electricity, which is the basic cosmic energy we are dealing with. When the thinker is coming down the mountain he is entering back into this world, back into the eons of the human reign. But he has brought with him now the conversation of impassive planets which he has now intercepted - knowledge. Specifically, it's talking about how Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with the knowledge or instructions of how to build the Ark of The Covenant. The Ark of The Covenant was a free energy device that could harness lightning, or electricity, and move people beyond Electric Dreams. So Moses was bringing with him the knowledge that God gave him on the mountain but if you call it science then it is the conversation of planets - the laws of physics. Either way, the song is equating science and religion in a way. The next stanza is basically saying how deep thinking can give you an underlying moral code or "probity" of the universe by which to live by (abide). This is what people like Moses and Nikola Tesla were doing in order to come up with their inventions. The attitude of altitude is another reference to the mountain but has a double meaning referring to a "high state of mind." The flaming creosote refers to the burning bush which Moses saw, which some people think was a form of St. Elmo's fire. The word "theophany" means the appearance of the divine, or actually seeing God. The crystalline geometry of night refers to the stars which Moses was looking at while up on the mountain. Also, besides being inspired by the stars he was also inspired by the birds which flew so freely up there. He is saying he feels himself as only a small piece of the Universe. The Synagogue of granite is the mountain. The mountain is serving as a temple. "Red splattered" may be a reference to the blood spilled for wars over oil and energy, or over religious arguments, or it could just be referring to a red kind of granite. So basically, the whole song is about how Moses climbed up Mt. Sinai to receive divine inspiration and the result is that he brought down with him instructions on how to build the Ark of The Covenant and move mankind beyond Electric Dreams. The writer of the song is saying, let us continue this pursuit. Let us go where the raptor goes to the mountain in a cosmic glow (referring to the St. Elmo's fire) and touch upon immortal themes. This song is actually very similar to the subject matter of "the generator" and it has to be one of the ultimate best songs ever written!!! Of course, the song is written so that it can be interpreted by the listener. But it's clearly a story about Moses receiving the instructions for the Ark as well. Hope you all enjoyed my review of this song and if you want to learn more about the phenomenon of free energy or zero-point-energy just google it! There are many ancient technologies that are being rediscovered today and this song may be a roadmap of how we get to the future. Peace |
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| The Offspring – Cool To Hate Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I agree with what some people said above. The song is sarcastic but not necessarily critical. Sometimes I look at it in an optimistic, figurative way where it's telling you not to hate, but sometimes (like today because I'm angry) I look at it literally and think to myself "I really do hate everything!" I think you're supposed to identify with it in that way when you are angry and it makes you feel better because you know there are other people who hate things too. | |
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