Results for “consequence of recklessness”

Songs

Tearz

Wu‐Tang Clan

A grim, cautionary storytelling track built around two narrated tragedies -- a child's death from a street robbery and a…

mortality street violence consequence of recklessness

See No Evil

Television

The opening track of Marquee Moon works as a manifesto of pure appetite and willful blindness, its narrator declaring immediate…

desire and impatience willful ignorance denial of consequence

B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)

OutKast

A hurricane of a rap record built on breakneck triplet flows, gospel-choir-meets-drum-and-bass production, and a title that…

consequence and commitment excess and velocity fame and reinvention

Road Head

Japanese Breakfast

A terse, cinematic vignette about a roadside sexual encounter framed as an act of desperation rather than intimacy, set against…

desire and desperation emotional numbness youth and recklessness

Matty Groves

Fairport Convention

This is the Fairport Convention electric-folk arrangement of the ancient English/Scottish ballad about adultery, betrayal, and…

class inequality adultery and its consequences honor and vengeance

Dance On a Volcano

Genesis

A driving opener built around the image of a lethal dance performed on the lip of an active volcano, where every misstep is…

risk and consequence performance under pressure mortality

Goddess on a Hiway

Mercury Rev

A driving, hypnotic song built almost entirely on repetition, tracking a headlong romance the narrator already knows is doomed.…

doomed romance velocity and recklessness impermanence

Is This It

The Strokes

The title track of The Strokes' debut is a woozy, deadpan meditation on romantic and existential exhaustion, delivered in a…

disaffection romantic dishonesty generational ennui

Blindness

The Fall

This is a plainspoken cautionary tale about romantic self-deception: a man ignores his own instincts, falls hard for a woman who…

self-deception romantic ruin pride and consequence

Didn't Cha Know

Erykah Badu

A meditation on getting lost as a form of self-discovery, built around a single wandering vamp that never resolves into a tidy…

self-forgiveness uncertainty as growth intuition over planning

All That You Have Is Your Soul

Emmylou Harris

A mother's warning becomes a hard-won personal confession, as the narrator traces her own failures to heed advice about…

inherited wisdom moral compromise self-possession versus loss of self

Big Time Sensuality

Björk

A euphoric, almost breathless meditation on giving in to a feeling too big to name, delivered as pure present-tense sensation…

surrender to the present moment intimacy without explanation courage as a precondition for pleasure

Folsom Prison Blues

Johnny Cash

A first-person prison lament in which the narrator, confined and hopeless, is tormented by the sound of a train he cannot board.…

confinement and freedom guilt and moral consequence class resentment

Light My Fire

The Doors

A direct sexual invitation dressed as a song about urgency and risk, built around a fire metaphor that doubles as both seduction…

desire and urgency risk/consequence of love carpe diem

High and Dry

Radiohead

A song of curdled affection addressed to someone chasing self-destruction and image over substance. The narrator watches a…

self-destruction and image emotional abandonment authenticity vs performance

Moment of Truth

Gang Starr

Gang Starr's title track is a meditation on accountability and betrayal dressed as street philosophy, moving from meditative…

betrayal and loyalty accountability/karma paranoia at success