Songs and their meanings

[Bryd0]

Most songs have a meaning to them, so this is the thread to discuss each song and what messages they're trying to convey, or a reference to a major event.

I know of one, which is Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays" where it was written right after Bob Geldof read a telex report about the Cleveland Elementary School shooting. The origin of the song's title came from the perpetrator's own words (who was Brenda Ann Spencer) where she said "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day" out of no remorse and full explanation of her actions. Below is what Bob explained about how he wrote the song (courtesy of Wikipedia):

I was doing a radio interview in Atlanta with Fingers and there was a telex machine beside me. I read it as it came out. Not liking Mondays as a reason for doing somebody in is a bit strange. I was thinking about it on the way back to the hotel and I just said 'Silicon chip inside her head had switched to overload'. I wrote that down. And the journalists interviewing her said, 'Tell me why?' It was such a senseless act. It was the perfect senseless act and this was the perfect senseless reason for doing it. So perhaps I wrote the perfect senseless song to illustrate it. It wasn't an attempt to exploit tragedy.

 

[JetWing34]

I know of one, which is Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays" where it was written right after Bob Geldof read a telex report about the Cleveland Elementary School shooting.

Is he referring to a day of the week or black people?

 

[Bryd0]

The former It wasn't him that originally said that, the shooter did. Unless she didn't like black people...

 

[GBattaglia]

The Mind Electric

https://www.uglounge.com/showthread.php?tid=4635&pid=71789#pid71789


You can skip to 2:48 to arrive to the "beginning" of the song being played forward. Love the song, and the fact of how hard it is to fully understand the lyrics contribute to this. My "analysis" thus far:


A person has committed a crime to which he pleas insanity:

Father your honor may I explain
My brain has claimed its glory over me
I've a good heart albeit insane

The view that everything is just a bunch of chemicals in the human mind and all is meaningless:

Nuns commence incanting [axon -- dendrite] as the lightning strikes mine temples thus
Electrifying mine chambers wholly scorching out thine sovereignty

NOTE: I'm really not positive of this one. This is where the lyrics are rather cryptic and the "meaning" is harder to find.

The person is still having a hard time coming to terms with the crime he is committed, or more likely; the view of those around him regarding the crime he committed.

I beg of thee have mercy on me
I was just a boy you see
I plead of thee have sympathy for me

A person of higher power (possibly who is in charge of the insane asylum) looking down on others.

See how the serfs work the ground [see how they fall]
And they give it all they've got
And they give it all they've got
And you give it all you've got 'til you're down

NOTE: Once again, rather cryptic in the grand scheme of the song. Not positive on this.

The view that we are all at the mercy of our brain (it and chemicals can drive us into insanity)

See how the brain plays around
And you fall inside a hole you couldn't see

The person is coming to terms with the crime or the view of those around him regarding it. He feels it wasn't of his nature to do such a thing; he is now begging for someone to help him understand his actions and why he felt compelled to do so.

Someone help me
Understand what's going on inside my mind
Doctor I can't tell if I'm not me

Everything within the human mind is looked at as chemicals and electric signals once again:

When it grows bright the particles start to
Marvel having made it through the night
Never they ponder whether electric
Calming if you look at it right!

 

[DrLeftover]

Oh, gee....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN3E9Yyd1HA

 

[DrLeftover]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfkpu6749w

 

[DrLeftover]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ttDUGM-1mU