| Modest Mouse – Blame It on the Tetons Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| 2 corrections, "yeah don't give her credit, cuz she knows i would have let it happen" in reference to the dog. Also, he says "blame it on the women, yeah the spider's your problem now". When was the last time a girl ever killed a spider? | |
| The Beatles – I Want You (She's So Heavy) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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the lyrics to this song are actually quite clever. This song is about obsession - that constant want or desire that keeps weighing so "heavily" on one's thoughts. Who he wrote the song about is hardly even the point, although it is nice to know what was going through his head. The simplicity of the lyrics really drive the message home. The song isn't reflective on the obsession, nor does it really bother with symbolism or rhyme. The lyrics are repetitive and thoughtless, just like any obsession. Obsessions are blinding, they force us to see the surface and prevent us from seeing the big picture, thus the lack of symbolism and thought to the lyrics. The words are as repetitive as the obsession that runs through his head. The thoughtlessness and simplicity to the lyrics of this song is exactly the point of the song. So before anybody thinks any less of the beatles for writing "brainless, thoughtless" lyrics, think about how brainless and thoughtless humans can truly be when blinded by an obsession. Whether or not the obsession is good or bad, its all blinding and instinctive in the end. |
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| Radiohead – Just Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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can't get the stink off, he's been hanging around for days. comes like a comet, suckered you but not your friends. one day he'll get to you, teach you how to be a holy cow. Our past sins will always come back to haunt us, its about guilt and karma. Guilt is something that can never be erased from our conscience, we can never get the "stink" off. It comes like a comet, as in you can let yourself forget about your past sins but this is always temporary.. it comes back like clockwork. don't get my sympathy hanging out the 15th floor. you've changed the locks 3 times, he still comes reeling through the door. and soon he'll get to you, teach you how to get to purest hell. Thom doesn't feel sympathetic towards people who put themselves in a position where they will be haunted by their sins. They can hide out (running all the way up to the 15th floor) but it will always come back. Radiohead is very much into the "what goes around comes around" mindset. Guilt is crippling, it strips us of our passion for life. The man lying down in the video doesn't want to go any further with life, he wants to isolate himself from the world. When they ask him why he's lying on the ground, he sheds light on all our past sins and suddenly everybody else cannot go on with a guilty conscience. |
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| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A version) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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On the surface this song seems to be about a relationship. Of course with radiohead it can be anything, but the title, "Motion Picture Soundtrack" implies that it is about the happy boy meets girl plotlines that play out so smoothly on the screen. The song expresses a reality to the tragic outcome of most relationships. It is the real "motion picture soundtrack" Red wine and sleeping pills Help me get back to your arms - he takes sleeping pills and drinks himself to sleep so he can dream of being in her arms again. Cheap sex and sad films Help me get where I belong - Cheap sex can never replace the void of having a relationship with the girl he loved so it just makes him feel emptier. The sad films only remind him of his depression. In his head, he is worth nothing. Being depressed is where he belongs. Stop sending letters Letters always get burned -She's sending letters trying to apologize, but he torches them to burn that bridge linking her to him from his past. She hurt him to the point where he wants nothing to do with her. It's not like the movies They fed us on little white lies -In the movies this would have had a happy ending. He would read the letter and they would fall in love all over again, but that's all a bunch of little white lies. I think you're crazy, maybe I think you're crazy, maybe -Thom questions his sanity. He calls her crazy for screwing up the relationship, but then he adds "maybe". Maybe he's the crazy one and has had dillusions this entire time. I will see you in the next life -Thom's motif of karma comes back as always. In the next life he will have the last laugh when "what goes around, comes around. |
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