Stone Temple Pilots: Plush
http://www.nutz.org/olga/main/s/stone_temple_pilots/plush.tab
My guess: His girlfriend is having her “visitor” so he has to wait a day for a little nookie.
sly! Welcome back! No time to interpret your song right now, but I’ll go ahead and add a couple of my own: “Inside Out” by Eve 6 and “Superman” by 3 Doors Down. I like both songs, but what the hell are they talking about? Granted, I suck at lyric interpretation.
…and I don’t care who says what, during the first chorus of “Every Breath You Take” it sounds like he’s saying “I’m a pool hall ace”. The second time around sounds like he says “How my poor heart achs” but not the first.
Anyway, is he singing about stalking or what? “I’ll be watching you…”
“Every Breath You Take” certainly sounds like it’s about stalking to me. There’s too much watching going on.
Hey, Sting acknowledged (way back in '83) that Every Breath You Take really amused him because it had become sort of a ‘prom night’ song when what he was really writing about was obsession and danger.
Too creepy for me.
The Eve 6 song seems to be about a guy who knows that this girl is no good for him, but he’s going to hook up with her one more time before he runs.
“I will swallow my pride, I will choke on the rinds
But the lack thereof leaves me empty inside.
I will swallow my doubt, turn it inside out,
Find nothing but faith in nothing.
Wanna put my tender heart in a blender,
Watch it spin around to a beautiful oblivion.
Rendevouz, then I’m through with you.”
Sorry, can’t help you with Plush, but what the hell about the Red Hot Chili Peppers song Otherside?
Chorus:
How long how long will I slide
Separate my side I don’t
I don’t believe it’s bad
Slit my throat, it’s all I ever
I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up it brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
I’ve got to take it on the otherside
Centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I marry the sea
Stranger things could never change my mind
I’ve got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on
Chorus
Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray’s full and I’m spillin’ my guts
She wants to know am I still a slut
I’ve got to take it on the otherside
Scarlet starlet and she’s in my bed
A candidate for my soul mate bled
Push the trigger and pull the thread
I’ve got to take it on the otherside
Take it on the otherside
Take it on
Take it on
Chorus
Turn me on take me for a hard ride
Burn me out leave me on the otherside
I yell and tell it that
It’s not my friend
I tear it down I tear it down
And then it’s born again
Chorus
How long I don’t believe it’s bad
Slit my throat
It’s all I ever
Kind of in the vein of Everybreath you Take":
The Beatles
Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown)
A poignant, bitter sweet love song. I remember somebody or other writting about that heartbreaking final image of the lover alone staring into the fire in the fireplace:
I once had a girl
or should I say she once had me.
She showed me her room
Isn’t is good
Norwegian wood?
She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around and I noticed there wasn’t a chair
I sat on the rug biding my time
drinking her wine.
We talked until two
And then she said"it’s time for bed’
She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh
I told her I didn’t and crawled off to sleep in the bath
And when I awoke
I was alone
this bird had flown
So I lit a fire
Isn’t it good
Norwegain Wood?
Romantic? Am I crazy or is this a song about a guy who goes back to a girls apartment hoping to get laid, finds out she’d a pretentions hippy chick with no furniture (but possible a trust fund judging by the woodwork)puts up with her blathering until two, only to find out he’s not getting any and has to sleep in the bath tub. Then, next morning, she’s left and,pissed off, horny, and achey from a night in the bathtub, he sets fire to her apartment.
Do the lyric really bear another interpetation? And moreover
A) I would still like mine better
B) From what I know of John Lennon’s sense of humor, I’m betting on mine.
betenoir, that was what I always heard “Norwegian Wood” is about.
For some more clarifications on a few Beatles’ songs:
“I Am the Walrus” is about Paul McCartney. (And supposedly also Eric Burdon, the lead singer of the Animals.)
“Come Together” is about John Lennon.
“Helter Skelter” is a reminesce about a favourite carnival ride of Paul McCartney’s.
“Julia” is a song about John’s mother.
As we’ve all learned by now, RHCP lyrics are about as logical as Dave Matthews’ Band lyrics. Otherside and Californication make little sense. (I understand the basic idea of the latter song, but some of the lyrics may have well have come from The Jabberwocky.
Norweigon Wood (THis Bird Has Flown) is John Lennon trying to tell his wife Cynthia, without really telling her, that he cheats on her on a regular basis. The particular girl in the song was a prostitute. Now the “So, I lit a fire, isn’t good, Norweigon Wood” could be an obscure drug referance. He wrote this about the same time he really got into pot. But, I’m not sure. I think Paul McCartney once said that it really was about burning the place down. Either way, Cynthia, either didn’t get the hint, or chose to ignore it. She stayed with him for another year or two.
No, it’s not. From all that I gather from my extensive library of books and web sites, most of “I Am the Walrus” came from a school yard chant all the boys sang in Liverpool. Especially the third verse. The second verse, is, to quote George Harrison, “About fucking” And the first verse is just random, crazy thoughts that Lennon had in the morning.
That’s not right either. John Lennon wrote it for Timothy Leary (The Acid Guru) when Tim decided he wanted to run for Pres of the USA. HOwever, Leary gut busted on some drug-related charges (Big surprise) and therefore, scrapped the campaign. That’s actually the secong song insprired by Leary. “Tomorrow Never Knows” was partially inspired by Leary as well.
Close enough.
In “Julia” he actually seems to be saying good bye to Julia, (she had actually died about 14 years before the song was wrote) Especially poignant is the line “Ocean Child calls me”. “Yoko” means “Ocean Child”
Well, I have a Beatles sourcebook right here that has a quote from John Lennon that goes something like this…
“Yeah, that eggman part in ‘I Am the Walrus’, it’s about Eric Burdon.”
Why? Because Eric Burdon’s particular fetish was to crack raw eggs on the bodies of girls he was making love to.
You’re probably right about “Come Together”, but I KNOW have a Beatles dictionary around here that claims it was about John Lennon.
And the lyrics “walrus gumboot” and “ono sideboard/sideball” sound more…umm…relevant to John Lennon.
Are you seriously going to make me dig through all of my guidebooks and encyclopedias? Seriously? Because I have a lot more than one.
And like I said, verse two is about fucking. “Man you’ve been a naughty girl you let your knickers down” Doesn’t that all make sense?
And I KNOW I have a lot more than one that claims differently. Besides that, I can take any lyrics out of context and say “That sounds a lot like it could apply to {fill in the blank}”
Hell, if you listen to it right, the whole song completely ties in to the whole Paul is Dead. No matter what small tidbits Lennon through in there, he was writing a campaign song for Leary.
3 Doors Down, KRYPTONITE
Without calling my sister to have her ask their bass player (he used to be a regular at the club she bartends for), my guess at this song is that there’s a girl involved and the guy took drugs at some point. That’s the best I can do…
Red Hot Chili Peppers, OTHERSIDE
If this song is actually about anything (after all, it’s a RHCP song) I’d say it’s about how the narrator broke up with his chick, and in the midst of his sadness/guilt/etc he goes out and drinks and smokes and has sex with random girl. Just a guess. I personally could never figure out what he was actually saying in most of it, even after spending two or three hours at work listening to it on repeat in my headphones when there were no customers.
Metallica, BATTERY
What is this about? I know it’s a heavy metal song therefore doesn’t really need to make sense, but usually Metallica does have meaning. Maybe I’m just not getting the lyrics, but I’m lost on this one.
Leann Rimes, I NEED YOU
This isn’t a meaning question at all, just an observation. The first two lines of the chorus are as follows:
Heaven’s Gate – wasn’t that the cult that believed the Hale-Bopp comet was coming to take them away so they put on their Nikes, laid down under their nice purple table cloths, and killed themselves? I know the writer of the song didn’t mean it that way, but I still think of that every time I hear it. It implies to me that Leann needs her lover (or God; I’m not sure, it was recorded for a Jesus movie) like she needs suicide. Nice idea.