Just happened to us with - "Pumped Up Kicks"
Big Al 1992 said:
Just happened to us with - "Pumped Up Kicks"
I honestly only picked up bits and pieces of what he was saying in the lyrics and never gave it much thought, but I recently read an article about it (up to them intentionally using very formulaic arrangement in the music itself) and then reading the lyrics, it was a bit of a slap in the face to the whole industry that they put on heavy radio rotation for a long time that no one seemed to acknowledge.bigboykin said:
Not dark, but certainly much more cynical... I had never given a single thought to the lyrics in Blue's Traveler's Hook until recently even though I've probably heard it 100's of times since the 90's, and holy crap that's exactly what the song is about!
Bottlehead90 said:
Ring Around the Rosie
I found out the back story after childhood
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Since the 20th century, the rhyme has often been associated with the Great Plague which happened in England in 1665, or with earlier outbreaks of the Black Death in England. Interpreters of the rhyme before the Second World War make no mention of this; by 1951, however, it seems to have become well established as an explanation for the form of the rhyme that had become standard in the United Kingdom.
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The origins and meanings of the game have long been unknown and subject to speculation. In 1898, A Dictionary of British Folklore contained the belief that an explanation of the game was of pagan origin, based on the Sheffield Glossary comparison of Jacob Grimm's Deutsche Mythologie. The theory states that it is in reference to Pagan myths and cited a passage which states, "Gifted children of fortune have the power to laugh roses, as Freyja wept gold." Believing the first instance to be indicative of Pagan beings of light.
Copacabana, same thing. Very peppy song about a love triangle murder and a woman gone insane.tx1c said:
Mack the Knife
The song is just so lively.
investorAg83 said:Big Al 1992 said:
Just happened to us with - "Pumped Up Kicks"
Better run, better run...faster than my bullets. Always seemed clear.
IF you actually pay attention to the lyrics, yeah.investorAg83 said:Big Al 1992 said:
Just happened to us with - "Pumped Up Kicks"
Better run, better run...faster than my bullets. Always seemed clear.
That song sounds like a happy modern-day Beach Boys.MooreTrucker said:IF you actually pay attention to the lyrics, yeah.investorAg83 said:Big Al 1992 said:
Just happened to us with - "Pumped Up Kicks"
Better run, better run...faster than my bullets. Always seemed clear.
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Late night, brakes lock, hear the tires squeal
Red light, can't stop, so I spin the wheel
My world goes black before I
Feel an angel lift me up
And I open bloodshot eyes
Into fluorescent white
They flip the siren, hit the lights
Close the doors, and I am gone
Now I lay here owing my life
To a stranger, and I realize
That empty words are not enough
I'm left here with the question of just
What have I to show except
The promises I never kept?
I lie here shaking on this bed
Under the weight of my regrets
And I hope, that I will never let you down
And I know, that this can be more than just
Flashing lights and sounds
Look around and you'll see that at times
It feels like no one really cares
It gets me down, but I'm still gonna try to do
What's right, I know that there's a
Difference between sleight of hand
And giving everything you have
There's a line drawn in the sand
I'm working up the will to cross it
And I hope, that I will never let you down
And I know, that this can be more than just
Flashing lights and sounds
Rhetoric can't raise the dead, I'm sick of always
Talking, when there's no change
Rhetoric can't raise the dead, I'm sick of empty words
Let's lead, and not follow
Late night, brakes lock, hear the tires squeal
Red light, can't stop, so I spin the wheel
My world goes black before I
Feel an angel steal me from the
Greedy jaws of death and chance
And pull me in with steady hands
They've given me a second chance
The artist in the ambulance
And I hope, that I will never let you down
And I know, that this can be more than just
Flashing lights and sounds
Can we pick you off the ground?
More than flashing lights and sounds
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This song is directly inspired by a passage out of the book "Burn Collector" by Al Burian. In the liner notes of Vheissu, Dustin tells how Riley brought him the book and this passage struck them. It's about dealing with the feeling of the helplessness of an artist in the hands of an ambulance driver. A fictional situation used to draw a picture of regret, shame and realization.
Here's an excerpt from "Burn Collector":
"The question of the artist versus the ambulance driver, I've come to realize, isn't a simple question of how to live. It's a question, too, of how to promote living, how to stave off dying. The ambulance driver does it by simply entering the fray, plucking the wounded off the pavement and trying to sew them up. This is a noble thing. It's this nobility which makes the artist look bad, because how do you pluck the wounded off the pavement abstractly? How do you pluck yourself off the pavement? In order to live, in order justify living, we can't just fill the space of our lives with empty amusement, with pointless light and sound and words- we're going to have to try harder now.'
Duncan Idaho said:investorAg83 said:Big Al 1992 said:
Just happened to us with - "Pumped Up Kicks"
Better run, better run...faster than my bullets. Always seemed clear.
Yeah op has to be trolling... Which is weird because this is a great topic for a thread.
This. I just learned this within the last several months and was absolutely floored to hear this.JRC0811 said:
The M*A*S*H theme song - Suicide is Painless
OneNightW said:
Toadies: Possum Kingdom