“Let me take the fall
Let me take the blame
Let me carry you from hell
To home again.”
But as it goes on, it gets…darker:
"Let me keep you from
Experience you need
Let me bind you with my selfishness
And greed
Let me stifle you
Let me have control
Let me smother
Every aspect of your soul."
BTW, is anyone else a little leery of visiting some of the “all lyrics” sites that folks post here? I remember I used to hunt for lyrics on some of these sites until I started getting the feeling (from the page layouts, popups, and so forth) that they were making quiet little assaults on my computer. Nowadays I try to find lyrics on the artist’s own site or else a fansite whenever possible, and won’t go near those “get all your lyrics here!” compendiums. Maybe I’m overly paranoid, but better safe than sorry.
The Old Main Drag by the Pogues is disturbing and tragic. Young wanderer in the big city ends up in the worst area with the sleaziest people, trading sex for money or drugs, being beaten by the police, watching his life slowly circle the drain…
And now Im lying here I’ve had too much booze
I’ve been shat on, and spat on, and raped and abused
I know that I’m dying and I wish I could beg
For some money to take me from the old main drag
“Timothy” by The Buoys. It’s about three people trapped in a mine, told from the point of view of one of those trapped. They were out of food and running out of time. The narrator says that he blacked out, but when he awoke and got rescued, he says his stomach was as full is it could be, and nobody ever got around to finding Timothy.
Alright, that does it. I demand to know how folks come up with these 133+ fucking song interpretation $x!11z.
I only read the lyrics to mean that the man fell to his knees in dispair. How did you come up with praying over the corpses.
And Prison Sex is described right in the song title. How did you all come up with child abuse? Isn’t it about young adults entering the prison system and being raped by the more seasoned inmates?
I have always been in awe of folks that could ‘interpret’ stuff. I can sit and listen to Sister Wendy interpret art all day. Amazing stuff.
Not to speak for Markxxx but it’s a song about an unbalanced woman who plans to kill . . .someone (Sunny cam home with a list of names") and ends up burning down her house, with, I presume her huband still in it. The song doesn’t explicitly say that part, but that how I always think of it. Plus the music is quite haunting. Definitely a favorite of mine.
Sigh. I am starting to annoy myself in that way that I do when I keep making my husband explain movies to me over and over.
But, I want to know how RealityChuck read that as him kneeling to pray over the corpses. I took it to mean he shot them and then sank to his knees in dispair.
I can get behind that interpretation. He seems to call the .45 his “friend” throughout the song, and refers to it as being by his side, so he’s not really talking about the couple in that last chorus. Inadvertently praying next to the bodies, sure.
Huh. That’s certainly disturbing.
I’ve always heard it as a hopeful song about a woman who’s getting her life back together after some ordeals and trials. I guess incinerating her (presumably)abusive husband is one way to get on with it.
I think it could more easily be interpreted as a song about a man who has a tendency to sleep with women and lead them on because he gets caught up in an idealized notion of them, but in the harsh glare of day he realizes he doesn’t really love them. The song addresses the guilt he feels as a result of a specific incident, wherein he rather bluntly acknowledges that he has a problem with objectifying women.
This interpretation is reinforced by the ending lines,
I read that as, ‘‘I know I told you I’d come visit you this Spring, but I’m really not that into you. Sorry.’’
And it fits the overall relationship angst of the album much better than a song about rape.
Though I will admit certain lines in the song do trigger that line of thought, I’m not even a little bit creeped out by the song’s meaning. I think it’s just very honest.
