Playlist of Life
So I happen to pull up one of my retro high school mix CDs from the 90s (I am not sure exactly when the 90s took over from the 80s as the new retro but I digress) and I was rocking out the songs. Halfway through the list, I realized how connected I felt with the music, how in my own element I was and how I knew every lyric.
After analyzing the words I was singing, I began to ask myself - what the hell do these lyrics even mean? I know these lyrics meant something to me at some point for them to be so profoundly engraved in my memory - but I need your help to figure out what the hell that was. Here are the songs and a particularly problematic line or two - feel free to post your interpretations:
10. Glycerine, Bush / Bush-X (if you happened to be Canadian) - Sixteen Stone - 1996
"we live in a wheel, where everyone steals but when we rise it's like strawberry fields" - was Gavin hungry for strawberries??
9. Closing Time, Semisonic, Feeling Strangely Fine -1998
"Time for you to go out to the places you will be from" - Okay. This seems like an obvious statement. What of it?
8. Yellow Ledbetter, Pearl Jam, Jeremy - 1992
- Apparently there are no lyrics to this song. Only Eddie Vedder mumbling through it.
7. Champagne Supernova, Oasis, What's the Story Morning Glory - 1995
"Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball" - Was Noel bowling the night before?
6. Resurrection, Moist, Creature - 1996
The lyrics to this disturb me but you can find them here . Why was this a good song again?
5. Push, Matchbox 20, Yourself of Someone Like You - 1997
"I wanna take you for granted, yeah I will I will" - Was this about domestic violence and why wasn't there an outrage about this - I mean I remember feminist girls singing this with me!
4. Round Here, Counting Crows, August and Everything After - 1994
"[incomprehensible] sleeping children better run like the wind" - why do the official lyrics contain and incomprehensible placeholder. Is that like a license to mumble mumble?
3. The World I Know, Collective Soul, Collective Soul - 1995
"All the words that I've been reading, Have now started the act of bleeding, Into one"
2. Lightning Crashes, Live, Throwing Copper- 1995
"the angel opens her eyespale blue colored iris,presents the circle and puts the glory out to hide, hide" - this is a great line that I belt out at the top of my lungs - I'm just not sure why
1. Superman's Dead, Our Lady Peace, Clumsy - 1997
"Doesn't any, any, any, any, anybody know... That the world's a subway, subway" - That explains why the MTA is losing money.
"Why eieieie yeah superman's dead - Eieieie yeah is it in my head" - Yes it is in my head. But Whyieieie?
Grr...of the Day
I really like the look of worn jeans with little rips. They give the jeans character and I think they symbolize a wash and wear personality. I was doing the laundry today and I realized that I had no more jeans left as they all needed to be washed. Luckily, I was able to find an old tattered pair of jeans which I thought would be perfect for a laudry excursion. As I was putting clothes into the dryer, I dropped a sock and bent down to pick it up - to the tune of "rrrrrrrrip". Apparently, my tattered pair of jeans had decided to tear straight through the butt cheeks. I ran into the bathroom and put on a pair of soggy un-ripped jeans. Argh.
After analyzing the words I was singing, I began to ask myself - what the hell do these lyrics even mean? I know these lyrics meant something to me at some point for them to be so profoundly engraved in my memory - but I need your help to figure out what the hell that was. Here are the songs and a particularly problematic line or two - feel free to post your interpretations:
10. Glycerine, Bush / Bush-X (if you happened to be Canadian) - Sixteen Stone - 1996
"we live in a wheel, where everyone steals but when we rise it's like strawberry fields" - was Gavin hungry for strawberries??
9. Closing Time, Semisonic, Feeling Strangely Fine -1998
"Time for you to go out to the places you will be from" - Okay. This seems like an obvious statement. What of it?
8. Yellow Ledbetter, Pearl Jam, Jeremy - 1992
- Apparently there are no lyrics to this song. Only Eddie Vedder mumbling through it.
7. Champagne Supernova, Oasis, What's the Story Morning Glory - 1995
"Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball" - Was Noel bowling the night before?
6. Resurrection, Moist, Creature - 1996
The lyrics to this disturb me but you can find them here . Why was this a good song again?
5. Push, Matchbox 20, Yourself of Someone Like You - 1997
"I wanna take you for granted, yeah I will I will" - Was this about domestic violence and why wasn't there an outrage about this - I mean I remember feminist girls singing this with me!
4. Round Here, Counting Crows, August and Everything After - 1994
"[incomprehensible] sleeping children better run like the wind" - why do the official lyrics contain and incomprehensible placeholder. Is that like a license to mumble mumble?
3. The World I Know, Collective Soul, Collective Soul - 1995
"All the words that I've been reading, Have now started the act of bleeding, Into one"
2. Lightning Crashes, Live, Throwing Copper- 1995
"the angel opens her eyespale blue colored iris,presents the circle and puts the glory out to hide, hide" - this is a great line that I belt out at the top of my lungs - I'm just not sure why
1. Superman's Dead, Our Lady Peace, Clumsy - 1997
"Doesn't any, any, any, any, anybody know... That the world's a subway, subway" - That explains why the MTA is losing money.
"Why eieieie yeah superman's dead - Eieieie yeah is it in my head" - Yes it is in my head. But Whyieieie?
Grr...of the Day
I really like the look of worn jeans with little rips. They give the jeans character and I think they symbolize a wash and wear personality. I was doing the laundry today and I realized that I had no more jeans left as they all needed to be washed. Luckily, I was able to find an old tattered pair of jeans which I thought would be perfect for a laudry excursion. As I was putting clothes into the dryer, I dropped a sock and bent down to pick it up - to the tune of "rrrrrrrrip". Apparently, my tattered pair of jeans had decided to tear straight through the butt cheeks. I ran into the bathroom and put on a pair of soggy un-ripped jeans. Argh.
posted by Megalomaniac at 5:16 PM
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