song lines with idiomatic expressions
Hello everybody,
I've got a lot of questions concerning some idiom- they're all song lines and I have difficulties to understand them, because they can't be found in a dictionary. I would be very grateful if you could explain me the meaning, since I'm dying to understand them.
1) I've become a pattern (after that it says 'saying things to say them, doing things to do them writng things to stay unchanged' - I think this relates to the line with the pattern)
In another song the same singer wrote the line ' when you realise it's a pattern and not a phase it's what you've become and it's what you will stay' .
2) There's a song called Quicksilver moments, what does that actually mean?
3) please don't be insulted by the backhand cult of pharmacy - here I wonder what a backhand cult is.
4) but it's a trick on your ego a two-step off tempo
5) to keep plugging away on my own wasted time
6) do you know how scared I am of the bottom dropping out
7) I've broken your heart for the first and only time one day I'll feel this way too, on the receiving end of heavy-handed logic
Thanks in advance,
Kid A
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1) I've become a pattern (after that it says 'saying things to say them, doing things to do them writng things to stay unchanged' - I think this relates to the line with the pattern)
In another song the same singer wrote the line ' when you realise it's a pattern and not a phase it's what you've become and it's what you will stay' .
pattern means, to repeat. In the song,the singer is saying his/her actions in life are being repeated over and over again; there's no change in the pattern. It's not a phase (i.e., one stage in the process of change and development). The singer is doing the same things over and over again. S/he is not changing/developing/evolving. The singer's life is stagnant/dull/motionless, in a never-ending repeated cycle of the same old same old.
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2) There's a song called Quicksilver moments, what does that actually mean?
Quicksilver means, liable to sudden unpredictable change.
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3) please don't be insulted by the backhand cult of pharmacy - here I wonder what a backhand cult is.
:?: I don't know either. Sorry.
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4) but it's a trick on your ego a two-step off tempo
a two-step is a dance step. off tempo means, not with the beat. I don't know what it means in relation to the lyrics, though. Sorry.
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5) to keep plugging away on my own wasted time
means, working steadily at something with no end or future in sight.
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6) do you know how scared I am of the bottom dropping out
the bottom dropping out refers to losing one's footing. If, say, you are in a bus and the bottom of the bus drops out, you'll drop and possibly get injured/hurt or even die from the fall.
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7) I've broken your heart for the first and only time. One day I'll feel this way too, on the receiving end of heavy-handed logic
heavy-handed means, over-bearing, oppressive; logic refers to the chain of reasoning: Because I broke your heart and someone will break mine. That reasoning is heavy-handed (i.e., too much to bear/carry);it's oppressive (i.e., cruel).
All the best, 8)
