Every Breath You Take” is, to this day, still perceived to be a love song. However, the lyrics are actually spoken from a character with sinister intent. During the time#Sting#wrote this song, he had just divorced his first wife, Frances Tomelty. While his intention may have been to write a sweet, emotional love song from the beginning, he was soon realizing that he was entering into a dark place that fought for control and surveillance.
In a similar vein, is Peter Gabrielle's "Digging in the Dirt". Was never sure if this was supposed to be directed at a woman, but it's a song about driving someone out to the forest and then digging their grave. Partway through the song he asks for compassion, which I assume is from the woman he's also about to kill? The "Digging in the Dirt" seems to have a double meaning of literally digging a grave but also digging up old feelings in order to deal with them.
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[Pre-Chorus]
Don't talk back, just drive the car
Shut your mouth, I know what you are
Don't say nothing keep your hands on the wheel
Don't turn around, this is for real
[Chorus]
Digging in the dirt Stay with me, I need support
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
Open up the places I got hurt
I'm digging in the dirt
Stay with me, I need support
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
Open up the places I got hurt
Is this mainly a borderline creepy pedophile thread? If so, sorry for the divergence
I always found the 4th line in this one verse from Africa to be an odd choice, certainly in terms of prosody
The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless, longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
Through your eyes I see
A smile you bring to me
To your joy, I tether
Not a lot, just forever
Intertwined, sewn together
Like the rock bears the weather
Not a lot, just forever
Is it just me or are some Christmas songs a little weird from the perspectives they portray?
Why do quite a few of them seem like laments sung in a forcefully happy way?
If you've ever worked retail and had Christmas songs on repeat for several weeks straight, the lamenting mood of many of those songs becomes all consuming. Many are going for some kind of peaceful serenity, I guess?
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Oh tonight I will retire
To the arms of my lover
The sweetest kiss she will give
As I lay down beside her
What will she think
When she awakes
Just to find I have left here
Oh tonight I will retire
To these hands with revolver
And I don't fear death
I will commit
Like an old friend I've known forever
So come on in, take me on
No I won't stay here no longer
And if I should taste fire
Save me not, I deserve to die
And oh tonight I will retire
To loving arms of my savior
And we will walk through his gates
To the skies of Heaven
And no more tears will I cry
Are my sins, are they forgiven
Pedro The Lion - Bad Things to Such Good People
Spoiler!
Quote:
My jail shoes on
The well kept cemetery lawn
Both of them weeping
Their one good son now was gone
The irony
To see my dad down on his knees
Crying out to Jesus
But Lord I've always done what's right
And all the while
The good Lord smiled
And looked the other way
When we were kids
I did my best to make them proud
It just wasn't in me
I could not fly straight to save my life
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - I Need You
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Quote:
When you're feeling like a lover
Nothing really matters anymore
I saw you standing there in the supermarket
With your red dressing falling
And your eyes are to the ground
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters when the world you love is gone
Stealing me, baby
I need you
In my heart, I need you
Cause nothing really matters
I'm standing in the doorway
You're walking 'round my place in your red dress, hair hanging down
With your eyes on one, we love the ones we can
Cause nothing really matters when you're standing, standing
I need you, need you
Cause nothing really matters
We follow the line of the palms of our hands
You're standing in the supermarket, nothing, holding hands
In your red dress, falling, falling in, falling in
A long black car is waiting around
I will miss you when you're gone
I'll miss you when you're gone away forever
Cause nothing really matters
I thought I knew better, so much better
And I need you
I need you
Cause nothing really matters
On the night we wrecked like a train
Purring cars and pouring rain
Never felt right about, never again
Cause nothing really matters
Nothing really matters anymore, not even today
No matter how hard I try
When you're standing in the aisle, and no, baby
Nothing, nothing, nothing
I need, I need, I need you
I need you
I need you
Just breathe, just breathe
I need you
I'm more confused by "holy infant, so tender and mild". They're gonna eat the baby Jesus????
...and "don we now our gay apparel"? Are leather pants a yuletide thing?
Nah, rainbow clothing. I think I see pics depicting wise men wearing that type of thing in some pics
At least the carols are all sorta surrounding one story. Many of the other christmas songs kinda go off in different directions.
People singing songs from the perspective of someone who is a child wanting front teeth, seeing mommy kissing santa claus, getting nuttin for christmas... Frosty, Rudolph etc.
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
Exp:
Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult. I always felt it was a song about suicide and a woman taking her own life/
Love of two is one
Here, but now they're gone
Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn't go on
And the door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew and then disappeared
The curtains flew and then he appeared
Come on, baby
(And she had no fear) And she ran to him
(Then they started to fly) They looked backward and said goodbye
(She had become like they are) She had taken his hand
(She had become like they are) Come on, baby
(Don't fear the Reaper)
Prison Sex by Tool. It's not all casual statutory rape like half the songs in this thread and maybe a little deeper than troutman was going for with the thread topic, but I love it. I love how the title suggests it's about prison rape, which I think was just to make it more palatable to release on a mainstream label. Really it's obviously about the cycle of sexual abuse. Is it rapey? Is it incestuous and rapey? I don't know, but it's a heavy fkn hitter:
[Verse 1]
It took so long to remember just what happened
I was so young and vestal then, you know it hurt me
But I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive
Even the signs seemed to tell me otherwise
Got my hands bound, and my head down
And my eyes closed, my throat's wide open
[Verse 2]
I do unto others what has been done to me
Do unto others what has been done to you
I'm treading water, I need to sleep a while
My lamb and martyr, you look so precious
Won't you, won't you come a bit closer
Close enough so I can smell you
[Verse 3]
I need you to feel this
I can't stand to burn too long
Release in sodomy
For one sweet moment I'm whole
[Verse 4]
I do unto you now what has been to me
I do unto you now what has been done
You're breathing so I guess you're still alive
Even the signs seem to tell me otherwise
Won't you, won't you come a bit closer
Close enough so I can smell you
[Verse 5]
I need you to feel this
I need this to make me whole
Release in sodomy
[Verse 6]
And your witness that blood and flesh can be trusted
I am your witness that blood and flesh can be trusted
Only this one holy medium brings me peace of mind
[Verse 7]
Got your hands bound, and your head down
And your eyes closed, you look so precious now
[Verse 8]
I have found some kind of temporary sanity in this
####, blood, and cum on my hands
I've come round full circle
[Verse 9]
My lamb and martyr, this will be over soon
You look so precious
You look so precious
You look so precious
You look so precious
You look so precious now
You look so precious
Regarding “Don’t Fear the Reaper”, according to Wikipedia:
The song is about the inevitability of death and the foolishness of fearing it. The singer and lead guitarist, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, wrote it while thinking about what would happen if he died at a young age. He used Romeo and Juliet as an example of a couple who wanted to be together in the afterlife.He guessed that "40,000 men and women" died each day, and the figure was used several times in the lyrics, but it is about 100,000 too low.
Lyrics such as "Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity" led many listeners to interpret the song to be about a murder–suicide pact.Dharma said he was appalled that some listeners interpreted the song as encouraging suicide. He instead meant the lyrics as a plea not to fear death, as opposed to actively bringing it about, and said it was "a love song where the love transcends the actual physical existence of the partners".
