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By biting, Future is mostly inferring he gives his girl oral sex.
Future compares the biting of the pussy of his girl to Mike Tyson when he bit both of Evander Holyfield’s ears during their rematch in 1997, Tyson was disqualified after the fight.
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Lennon would apparently spend his time when not on tour sleeping often under the influence of drugs, and would often have to be woken by McCartney for songwriting sessions, this line is most likely directed to McCartney who just wants to get his grind on.
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Although this song has often been interpretated as John Lennon being in an immobilising drug euphoria however, Lennon himself claimed that he was simply talking about the joys of staying in bed.
But underneath my mind
And on and on, I tell myself
It's this I can't disguise Portishead – We Carry On
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The singer contemplates life and the choices we make. Are you gonna stay stuck where you are and forever regret or are you gonna shake things up and do what keeps you alive?
She only feels alive with this person…perhaps the choice is to stay where she is numb or go to the person who makes her feel alive.
It's choking up my mind
I'm reaching out, I can't believe
The faith, it can't decide Portishead – We Carry On
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This song was originally called Peaches, which makes sense. The fruits represent the vital and sensuous taste of life that makes a mockery of the daily grind through which we force ourselves to carry on.
This could refer to the grind of life in general, or maybe the going-through-the-motions of a romance gone stale and inert
In any case, the cost of carrying on may well be self-deception; the heart knows the truth, and bleeds because of it.
I've said enough
Don't you know life turns me?
Always wants me
I can hardly pray Portishead – Plastic
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All she can do is affirm that she is alive, a person with thoughts and feelings, flesh and blood.
This expresses a brooding resentment for the denial of self, as if the person knows this simply can’t go on, but is helpless and without recourse.
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Unfortunately, their relationship is pretty dire. There appears to be no empathy or communication.
A show that you create
All by yourself
I am nowhere
You never noticed
You were so sure Portishead – Plastic
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Gibbons feels like Pinocchio in her relationship: a lifeless, plastic marionette on her lover’s stage. Just as Pinocchio prayed to be a real boy, she wants to be treated with equality and respect.
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A nylon smile is not an authentic smile; it is a pretense, slipped on like some piece of lingerie designed only to please one’s partner.
I never had the chance to explain exactly what I meant Portishead – Nylon Smile
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Contrary to what she desired in the first chorus, the speaker doesn’t wish to be satisfied with her sadness, she longs to care enough to change it, and she can’t explain what she means because she’s under the impression that she’s neglected and isolated.
