| Curve – Coast Is Clear Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Definitely recalling feeling abandoned by her father and the nightmares that brought her as a child. I believe the father and love reference is an absence of love. and how her current relationship is just as distant or absent and makes her feel the same but it's not enough to swallow those pills (sleeping pills? suicide?). Being abandoned by some man will never be enough to make her take her own life but she will continue on in sickness (emotional sickness, that is). | |
| Curve – Chinese Burn Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It's about a typical, trifling, girl who thinks she's posh but has as much substance or nerve as a wet tissue. Friends are only friends when it's convenient. She's petty and a backstabber but ultimately will pay the price. And from the sound of it, probably at the hands of Toni. What's weird is the video for this song. It's her and Dean waiting to make an ersatz drug deal with shady characters. Except the deal isn't over drugs, they're scoring a synthesizer. The deal goes bad and they are killed presumably shot and left for dead in the sewer tunnel.. |
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| Curve – Recovery Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I would listen to this song almost studying its composition and structure all the time. I love it. The looped sample over the post-chorus section of her phased vocal swoop fading into the guitar squelch was great. And her distorted distant filtered screaming during the bridge was fierce and the wait it just cuts out into the soft build-up into the chorus. Brilliant. It was my fave song from the Pink Girl Era. The Come Clean version was a little more layered but somehow sounded a bit too polished. I did like the frenetic feedback guitar solo in that version though. obviously the "you" in that song was addiction. |
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| Curve – Galaxy Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I agree with your three points. good ones. i also thinks it about the music business in general, too. | |
| Curve – Galaxy Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Brilliant song with a fantastic blow-out the speakers riff and bass line. It is clearly about being surrounded in pool of liars, druggies, users, and people who would tell you what you want to hear as soon as stab you in the back. I always got the distinct impression it was her addressing that whole horrible commercial corporate ordeal her and Dean went through with State of Play. So it's basically about drug-sniffing entertainment lawyers, PR consultants, business managers, and agents. |
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| Curve – Arms Out Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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A fantastic song. The ep version is good but I love the rawness on the Peel Radio Sessions disc. The rhythm is a bit different too. Yeah, he's ass who has abused her trust and let her down but she is waiting and hoping she can still forgive him. It's kinda her saying the ball is in your court and time is running out. |
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| Curve – Already Yours Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| That is actually my favorite line in the song. I love her 4-part swooping harmony she sings over it too. | |
| Curve – Fait Accompli Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It is definitely about dependence, perhaps chemical and definitely emotional. Chemical dependence makes sense since Toni Halliday who wrote the lyrics has been frank about her addiction and recovery. I believe it is also about that life making you dependent on the tedious vapid party people you become surrounded by because of it. From another emotional standpoint, it can refer to a romantic relationship that insinuates itself into your life to the point where you lose your own identity. Then that person eventually becomes "the bore (or boor, depending on her meaning) you drag around like a ball and chain. I believe she changes her narrative voice throughout the song talking in third person in some places and first person address at others: "I've come to crush your bones...mess with your head... coz it'll make you feel good" has two meanings. 1. It can be seen as the narrative from the drugs point of view, as if they were personified. 2. It is her not so subtle but playfully dark warning to anyone who would try to tie themselves to her fate through a romantic relationship. Kinda like, be careful you might get what you wish for. |
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| Curve – Die Like a Dog Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Great song!!! But those lyrics are completely wrong! I know, I've heard Curve perform it live twice when I went to see them on tour and the lyrics were printed on their website curve.co.uk for years (never with the album though). The real lyrics are as follows (as printed on the curve.co.uk official Curve website along with the mp3 download of of Die Like a Dog from the Cherry EP and from the compilation disc Pubic Fruit): Die Like A Dog Curled up in a ball I will take the fall Curled up when I fall I will play ball Out here in the hall I have seen it all Out there when you call I won't play ball Peace in a world free from religion Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven Peace in a world free from religion Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven I like to see the satellites around me I like to see the satellites around me Peace in a world free from religion Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven Peace in a world free from religion Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven I'm just trying not to die like a dog End up alone wheezing from the smog I'm just trying not to die in vain Gonna make my mark stake my claim Peace in a world free from religion Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven Peace in a world free from religion Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven Peace in a world free from religion Peace in a world where everyone gets heaven Peace in a world, peace in a world, peace in a world Free from religion I listen to my eyes click there colourful confession while the language of aggression is on everybody's lips. ------ I absolutely love the ending line of this song and how it ends with that feedback squeal. Such an awesome bassline too. |
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| Curve – Die Like a Dog Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I believe it has multiple meanings. The first is her comparing her personal romantic relationship to actual war and the effects on her emotionally (alienation and desolation). The second is a more general literal meaning: a wish for violence and petty hatred and aggression to end. She blames major violent wars on religion (probably the IRA conflict in the UK and the wars in the Middle East, Palestine/Israeli conflict inspired her). It is really the only Curve song that is overtly political as far as I know. |
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| Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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A perfect example of the type of woman this song is about is Mata Hari. Look her up. From Wikipedia: The idea of an exotic dancer working as a lethal double agent using her powers of seduction to extract military secrets from her many lovers made Mata Hari an enduring archetype of the femme fatale. She'll expose you [your secrets and weaknesses], when she snows you [snow doesn't mean cocaine here. In modern slang it means when she plays you, fools you with her charm] Off your feet [NOT Hope you're pleased (that lyric above is wrong), because she doesn't care; she'll play you and charm you off your feet and into bed where you and your secrets are vulnerable] with the crumbs she throws you [with the little attention she pays you] She's ferocious and she knows just What it takes to make a pro blush [she could make a hooker blush and can get what she wants] All the boys think she's a spy [just like WWI spy Mata Hari who Greta Garbo coincidentally played in the 1931 movie Mata Hari] she's got Bette Davis eyes [the kind that can charm you with the bat of the lashes or stare through like ice] Also, "Greta Garbo stand-off sighs" is a reference to Garbo's most famous movie line from Grand Hotel where she breathily says, "I want to be alone" and the fact Garbo was completely stand-offish with the public and press in her real life. |
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| Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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While many people want to see a hidden drug meaning in the song, it's not there and a far stretch. It is about a calculating woman who uses sex as a weapon. And the song was not written by two men as a couple commenters said, it was written in 1974 by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon, both females, and originally recorded as a light jazz song by DeShannon on her 1975 album. It is an homage to the femme fatale. "She's precocious": As in outrageously brash and often used to describe a female sexually back in the day. Sexually precocious meant experienced and promiscuous. "Tease you, unease, all the better just to please you.": To get want she wants. "Make a pro blush": In the 70s and 80s calling a woman a Pro implied she was a sexual pro, meaning professional, as in the wold's oldest profession. Carnes is basically saying "She could make a hooker blush." Interesting fact, DeShannon's original lyric was "make a crow blush" which was a dated backwoods expression. It basically meant the same thing but without the sexual connotation. Carnes changed it in her recording. "Pure as New York snow" has nothing to do with cocaine or meth. It is irony. New York snow, unlike in the country, is trampled on until it becomes sludge. Meaning, she is not pure at all. |
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