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Frank believes she’ll take her pot talents and her cooking abilities to feed her future children and lover. He promises her that they will one day settle down and start a family. This is supported by the following lines.

Whippin' = converting cocaine to crack.

This also could be an allusion to how much she has learned from him. Although he may dislike using her like this for moral reasons, he also recognizes that teaching her these things could lead her to open another operation under a different crime group, or family as they are called in the mob.

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This is a person who is rejected by society who doesn’t consider him/her normal. But if he/she dies no one will see the likes again. Either way they meet their imminent demise.

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This is a quote from the book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

God’s original prototype, too weird to live, too rare to die.”

The music video for Ocean’s Pyramids is highly reminiscent (intentionally or otherwise) of the novel as well. The book is a roman à clef, rooted in autobiographical incidents. It was adapted into a film in 1998.

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Frank is saying that this place is not in fact paradise because it’s domesticated- the use of domesticated adds to the theme of ignorance in this song, so on the surface while seeing all of the palm trees and pools in this neighborhood it may seem perfect, it lacks something deeper that one would find in paradise.

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“Untitled (How Does It Feel)” became notorious for its sexually charged video featuring a series of lingering shots of D'Angelo’s nude body that split the difference between mass voyeurism and personal intimacy.

However, the rapturous intensity in his lushly multi-tracked vocal performance still holds more weight than any pin-up shot could—swooping and diving, gliding smoothly over the sway of the beat only to punctuate it with a sharp hitch or an extension of his deceptively delicate falsetto into an intense wail. The musical backing only adds to that euphoria, with gospel-soul pianos direct from Aretha’s Muscle Shoals sessions intertwined with pre-Dirty Mind (but still dirty-minded) Prince guitars.

“Untitled (How Does It Feel)” was released as the third single from Voodoo and peaked at #2 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

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The world has clearly fallen into some sort of dystopia deserted, 2-D longs to be taken back to somewhere is alive

The environmental, post-apocalyptic edge of the song is further emphasised by the fact that the image given to the song inside the booklet of the Demon Days album depicts a dark, garbage-laden landscape with a small hand sticking out amongst it.

Additionally, Damon Albarn’s use of archaic language in the song’s title is notable and intentional.

The ‘O’ in ‘O Green World’ is a poetic apostrophe, a figure of speech traditionally used in a lot of pre- 20th century poetry when addressing a person, abstract idea or thing which is absent.
In this circumstance, the thing of absence is the ‘green world’, the natural environment, which is abandoning humanity now as a result of our
actions against it (deforestation, pollution etc.).

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The aforementioned building, we discover, is a woman’s apartment, yet her identity is kept veiled, leaving the listener to keep guessing. We’re four lines into the song and we don’t know either of the character’s names.

The “bloodstains” line further adds to the track’s ambiguity. Perhaps he has already struck her and caused her to bleed, or maybe the blood is from one of his previous victims.

The “bloodstains” could also imply that the criminal might have cut themselves when they came in through the window and it was their blood. This also explains how they knew he came in through the window.

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This song may refer to a particular nation or people, but most likely it refers to people in general who submit themselves too freely. The song continues to describe the people’s capitulation in several lines, most notably in these words.

The song’s meaning is for the listener to decide and there are many different ideas; however, it pertains to a people’s readiness to support a leader without fully realizing the possible outcomes. People tend to idolize their favorite artists and celebrities featured on neon signs of the marquee.

An alternative interpretation is one of the neon sign in the dream being the Television medium personified (or deified). This would explain the people talking without speaking and hearing without listening lyrics – as one who is observing people watching television as an unnatural phenomenon would have a hard time reconciling the observed conversation without any active participation by the viewer.

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“Wish You Were Here” is addressed to Syd Barrett, an original member of Pink Floyd whose mental dysfunction led to his departure from the band. He was replaced by David Gilmour. Barrett wrote most of Floyd’s debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” is also a tribute to him, and the Wall is viewed by some as his biography.

Just because Syd chose a different path and thinks he knows what he’s doing doesn’t make it true or right. This track attempts to convince Barrett that he is wrong; that things aren’t as fixed as he thinks they are.

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“Nothing happens to shatter the perfect surface,” The Guardian said in a review of Beach House’s fourth album, Bloom. It wasn’t meant as a compliment. But that bright, mirror-like surface is what makes “Myth” one of the Baltimore dream-pop band’s most powerful songs to date and places it among the purest versions of the enveloping sound they’ve refined for almost a decade.

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Taken from the acclaimed Sound of Silver, LCD Soundsystem’s second single is a restless raver that has the inadvertent ring of a Killers track recorded while the band holidayed in Ibiza. You would have to feel for the keyboard player too – the song is built upon a metronomic one note line played at an incessant 140 bpm for the duration, which at four minutes would require an impressive level of stamina. The songs displays a level of repetition that Krautrock pioneers Can and Neu! would be proud of.

Murphy treats us to his usual observational wit with lyrics such as “it comes apart the way it does in bad films”. The song acts as a comment on friendship’s highs and lows, to a soundtrack that is New Order doing Kraut-funk by way of the New York club scene. Monotonous but fun.

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