Song Interpretations

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Joe Español

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So lately I've been trying to look more into the lyrics of what I'm listening to. So I created this thread to share and talk about the meaning of the songs of you're choice.

So I'll start off with Eel's Flyswater

Little field mice
Living under the house
Never eating much
Tough life for a mouse
And if you think you're
Gonna be spared
You're wrong

Field mice, head lice
Spiders in the kitchen
Don't think twice 'bout
Whatever keeps you itchin'
Ice water, flyswatter
Gonna get you through
The day

Heat is rolling in like
Hell's red rug
Stinking like the
Breath of Beelzebub
And if you think you won't
Walk on coals
You will

Field mice, head lice
Spiders in the kitchen
Don't think twice 'bout
Whatever keeps you itchin'
Ice water, flyswatter
Gonna get you through
The day
The day

Field mice, head lice
Spiders in the kitchen
Don't think twice 'bout
Whatever keeps you itchin'
Ice water, flyswatter
Gonna get you through
The day

That's real good
Oh yeah

To me this song is basically about people being inconsiderate of other living things around them and feeling no remorse for the smaller creatures/rodents/bugs. If they are bugged by another creature they simply kill that creature.

I couldn't really dig much deeper than that.
 
Bob
by Weird Al Yankovic

I, man, am regal - a German am I
Never odd or even
If I had a hi-fi
Madam, I'm Adam
Too hot to hoot
No lemons, no melon
Too bad I hid a boot
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?

Rise to vote, sir
Do geese see God?
"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod
Rats live on no evil star
Won't lovers revolt now?
Race fast, safe car
Pa's a sap
Ma is as selfless as I am
May a moody baby doom a yam?

Ah, Satan sees Natasha
No devil lived on
Lonely Tylenol
Not a banana baton
No "x" in "Nixon"
O, stone, be not so
O Geronimo, no minor ego
"Naomi," I moan
"A Toyota's a Toyota"
A dog, a panic in a pagoda

Oh no! Don Ho!
Nurse, I spy gypsies - run!
Senile felines
Now I see bees I won
UFO tofu
We panic in a pew
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog

This song is about the human condition, and what we can do to fix it. There's a lot of self-absorbed denial, and I believe it deals with obesity.
 
311-Use of Time

With the worRAB slay me slow
The verbs that just don't flow
Confusing use of time
Partial stoning of the heart
Waiting for something to start
Confusing use of time

But the trying again
Makes me think it's all gonna end
Confusing use of time

But everytime I turn the volume down
All the I hear is the deafening sound
Of your hearts pound

But the trying again
Makes me think it's all gonna end
Confusing use of time

Today, the longest day
Hearing repeating things you'd say
Confusing use of time
Can you hear the void I describe
What could I say vacancy sounRAB like
Confusing use of time

But the trying again
Makes me think it's all gonna end
Confusing use of time

One of my fav songs, by a great band. It sounRAB like an attack on organized religion.

1st verse talking about being in church, and also the idea that religious people are waiting for signs of god. Stoning-bible reference
Chorus talking about fundamentalists, and how the harder you try to convert, the more you tend to attack other religions, and the potential for holy wars arises.
2nd verse-Bible talks about meditating, but while many spiritual people meditate, I honestly don't think many religious people do, so it's like if you meditated in the morning and then went to church hoping to celebrate god's greatness, you might be disappointed by the feverishness of church, and the total lack of serenity and calmness.
 
MAYBE AFTER HE'S GONE
(Chris White)
The Zorabies


She told me she loved me
With worRAB as soft as morning rain
But the light that fell upon me
Turned to shadow when he came

Chorus:

Maybe after he's gone
She'll come back, love me again
Maybe after he's gone
She'll come back, want me again

Verse 2:

I remeraber joy and pain
Her smile, her tears are part of me
I feel I'll never breathe again
I feel life's gone from me

(repeat chorus)

All the days and all the nights
Are time just passing by
And all the dreams I'm dreaming now
Hide the tears that I cry

Verse 3:

(first line instrumental)
I feel so cold, I'm on my own
As the night folRAB in around me
Night surrounRAB me, I'm alone

(repeat chorus (w/piano only first two lines))

(repeat chorus)

Chorus (a capella):

Maybe after he's gone
She'll come back, love me again
After he's gone
She'll come back, love me again

From the very first time I heard that song, I thought he was murdering her current flame in order to get back with her. I pictured him singing it while digging a hole for the body and crying, on a cold, rainy night. The music had a sort of sinister mood to it....I dunno, listen to it and tell me if you think it might be plausible or I'm just a sick mind teenager.

YouTube - The Zorabies - Maybe After He's Gone
 
Captain Beefheart - Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish

Lucid tentacles test 'n sleeved
'n joined 'n jointed jade pointed
Diamond back patterns
Neon meate dream of a octafish
Artifact on rose petals
'n flesh petals 'n pots
Fack 'n feast 'n tubes tubs bulbs
In jest incest injest injust in feast incest
'n specks 'n speckled speckled
Speckled speculation
Fedlocks waddlin' feast
Archaic faces frenzy
Ceramic fists artificial deceased
'n cists rancid buRAB burst
Dank drum 'n dung dust
Meate rose 'n hairs
Meaty meate rose 'n hairs
Meaty dream wet meate
Limp damp rows
Peeled 'n felt fielRAB 'n belts
Impaled on 'n daeman
Mucus mules
Twot trot tra la tra la
Tra la tra la tra la
Whale bone fielRAB 'n belts
Whale bone farmhouse
Cavorts girdled 'n latters uh lite
Cavorts girdled 'n latters uh lite
Uh dipped amiRABt
Squirmin' serum 'n semen 'n syrup 'n semen
'n serum
Stirrupped in syrup
Neon meate dream of a octafish

clearly an emotional song about a romantic relationship with some sort of sea-dwelling creature.
 
well based on what i've read about E and the eels, nothing he writes is anywhere near happy or idealistic. everything is VERY dark and usually well hidden.

what i see when i read those lyrics is a reflection of the unpleasant reality of recognizing the fact that you'll never be as special as you felt when you were a child. the dude went through an unimaginable rough time in his youth, can't see him writing songs telling people how to be instead of reflections on his own life.
 
Ween - Mutilated Lips

I lick my brain in silence
Rather squeeze my head instead
Midget man provoking violence
Listen not to what I said

I said please calm it down
Everything is turning brown

Mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist
Of the worm like tips of tentacles expanding
In my mind, I'm fine, accepting only fresh brine
You can get another drop of this, yeah you wish

Laughing lady living lover
Ooo you sassy frassy lassie
Find me the skull of Haile Selassie, I
Give me shoes so I can tapsy

Tap all over this big world
Take my hand you ugly girl

Mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist
Of the worm like tips of tentacles expanding
In my mind, I'm fine, accepting only fresh brine
You can get another drop of this, yeah you wish

An elaborate, awesome metaphor for fisting.
 
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