| Arcade Fire – No Cars Go Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| just seems to me to be about that escape from reality, be it dreams or any other sort of mental vacation from the real world, even death/afterlife. based off their last album, the whole "mom, dad, no go" part maybes alludes to the fact that parents are tied into the real world juxtaposed with children being able to live in a fantasy reality with no responsibilities. | |
| Arcade Fire – Keep the Car Running Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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definitely this album's version of Rebellion (Lies). this and Neon Bible are my favorite songs on the cd. i haven't read too deeply into the lyrics yet but on the surface it sort of reads like someone metaphorically trying to flee death. |
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| Thursday – Running From The Rain Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Hmmm... as for that big interpretation of the lyrics I wrote a while ago, and realizing Geoff Rickly's own personal beliefs, I guess you could replace the "1st person God narrative" with "1st person Geoff Rickly narrative" It's more like a letter to his dead friends telling him he was there with them, as a friend, in their hearts, the moment they died. So, yeah, I guess that could work. | |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Caterwaul Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| o what a badass song | |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Worlds Apart Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| in fact, i don't think George W. Bush comes into the song once, metaphorically or literally. | |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Worlds Apart Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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yes! drummer 362! you are spot on! thanks for making my day. and for amelia, i think in the song, Jesus fucking H Christ represents none other than Jesus Christ. It's not an ignorance is bliss comment they are making in that spot. It's saying that they feel vindicated from any wrongdoings they commit because they throw money into an offering plate in the name of the Lord. |
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| Yo La Tengo – Deeper Into Movies Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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still just finally listening to Yo La Tengo for the first time in my life. yes, i regret it, but hey, better late than never. So far, this song is BY FAR the best song I've heard by them. and it's cool, because i bought the albums on iTunes at like 5am because i was restless and couldn't sleep. and hey, wouldya look at that? the lyrics. haha awesome band so far, amazing song. |
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| Saves the Day – Bones Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| there's a riff later in the song, sounds real ataris like, wow, a band i haven't mentioned in a long time. but regardless, this song is awesome, my favorite on the cd. | |
| Talking Heads – (Nothing But) Flowers Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Hard to tell if he is sarcastic or not. But if it's not sarcastic, I completely agree with DevastatorJr.'s take on it. We all dream and think how we are destroying the world and ruining it all, I believe the same exact thing, but the truth of the matter is, if one day everyone collectively decided to get rid of all the things so common in our times now, we'd be completely lost. No quick meals to make, no cars to get places quicker, no videogames or television to pass the time. No ice cream. No things we've grown up recognizing and appreciating. But maybe, if it's somewhat tongue-in-cheek, it's telling us, we should start recognizing and appreciating the non-synthetic things in this world, and start realizing that what we have is just a bunch of things to pass the time quicker and keep us from realizing the beauty in the natural world. | |
| Thursday – Running From The Rain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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well, wow. ummmmmmm that whole ending changes my theory. gnogjpdhfnhhgdfhg' shdjdhjgf |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Chicago Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| well, since apparently myopinionisafact\'s opinion is indeed a fact, i guess it\'s like i\'m arguing against Galileo in his scientific discoveries, which he claimed that all of his statements were the sole, right argument. however, first of all, i have looked hard and long to try to defend his stance on this song being about abortion, but that is so far-fetched it\'s like saying since man starts with m, and so does makeup, that all men are made from makeup. sure, you could argue that, but it\'s far-fetched and miniscule. personally, i see this song about getting away from the hubbub and nonsense of society and taking an introspective journey a la road trips. seeing things as an objective observer, you notice what you\'ve done wrong, as sufjan repeats over and over, as well as recognizing the beauty in things most often taken for granted by all of us. but hey, the letter A appears a couple times, so it could be about Abortion. | |
| Taking Back Sunday – Miami Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Or maybe I'm giving Taking Back Sunday a little too much credit... | |
| Taking Back Sunday – Miami Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I like your interpretation of it, Clayne. Rereading, it makes a lot more sense. My interpretation seemed without an overall meaning, just trying to point out metaphors. Perhaps he is talking about rejecting "conformist" views of how we must worship God, but at the same time, not going as far as being nihilistic in his views. | |
| Thursday – Running From The Rain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Of course, I am no more right than anyone else is. And the phrase you took, "until I came and took them away" shows the ambiguity of words. It can go either way, and words can be interpreted universally. I don't know the story of his friend dying, but if that is true, then it's translatable into mine, just putting more significance behind each time i say "the people" or "kids." And perhaps he is using this personal event, which through immense questioning, came up with allegorical lyrics. I mean, hey, I'm not Geoff Rickly's mind, I have no idea what his intentions were with his words. That said, your interpretation of the storm actually being the train makes perfect sense too. It's cool to find different meanings to the same words. |
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| Thursday – Running From The Rain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ok, this is going to be a long one. But having just heard this song, and listening to it over and over, I have really fell in love with it. And, this being songmeanings.net, meanings are personal to each person. And though some may not see my position, I always love reading what other people believe a song might be about, and I hope others enjoy it all the same. Here goes... There was a sound Split all the heavens apart In on the northern view Out on the southern spark 3rd person, describing the scene unfolding. The sound refers to the death of a person, or persons in this case, on the world below. The heavens opened up at that moment to take them in. The next two lines describe the location as Geoff Rickly sees fit. Oh I'll be with you running from the rain When it reaches the end of the line See myself reflected on the broken glass As the gates come crashing down There is blood on the tracks tonight And rust inside our veins We will make it in time before the storm Running behind me 1st person, Geoff Rickly speaking as God. The rain/storm refers to either Hell, or our fear of Death, which in some respects could equate to the same thing. He is speaking to the people who are going to die. He is reassuring that He will be there, running with them, until they can go no further. He is telling them God there with them, they can see God in the crashing of the vehicles with their bodies. He personifies himself within them as well, saying there is rust inside “our” veins. He then goes to say the storm is running behind him, which makes me believe it is Hell we are referring to, that God is always in front of Hell, and He will take these people before they go to Hell. There were some younger kids who followed the tracks that day It was a passing afternoon that came and took them away So we forgot our names lying in the tall grass under the billboard dreams Once again, back to 3rd person. Unfolding the scene again, since this story is disjointed in its delivery. I suppose the cause of their deaths is a collision with a train and a car. The final line is once again describing the scene as Rickly sees it, though there is a presence of his God narrative, and having us understand God was with him at that point, where we become nameless and formless in the transient world, as evidenced by the “billboard dreams” which I take to be false dominions of Hope in our world. Basically, the last line means the standards by which we exist in the world is by names, which we lose in Death, though as this song dictates, it is ephemeral. It's running on. It's running out. It's running on. It's running out Away, away, away. Running from the rain. Away, away, away. Running from the rain. . Unobjective 3rd or 1st person, take it as it is. The demons of Death are following, but they are losing steam to the pace of God in taking the souls of those doomed on the tracks. The second repeat goes to describe the kids, trying to escape Death as we know it, seeing it as an end, a metaphorical grammatical period, with nothing beyond. I need to get them out It's the right time to crash, is it not? You were all counting down, running on Running from the rain On the rearview mirror can you take it away? You got that car you brought on me Keep running knowing that you were coming back Running from the rain Finally, back to Rickly’s 1st person God narrative. He is saying He has to take the kids, Death has caught them, and the unfortunate, by worldly standards, event of a crash involving Death must occur in order for God to save the kids. Then, in an instant, the narrative is now spoken to the recently dead kids, explaining their circumstances. Counting down the days to live, yet running on, trying to escape their own deaths. He explains that they look back, trying to figure out ways they could have prevented it, but God is telling them Fate brought them there, they actually had reached that place, where train met car, with God waiting. And lastly, he tells them they were running from Death only to, inevitably, meet Death. If my thoughts hold well, this song could be about our understanding of Death as we know it. An ending, one to be avoiding at all costs. But this is an attempt to show that our Death was carefully designed by God, to reach us at a time when the entire dimension of Hell has caught up to a person, and that God must take the person then, in order to keep them under the peaceful rule of Good, rather than Evil. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – My Blue Heaven Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ok, in terms of what I posted. I'm going to try to disseminate the lyrics to fit my point. See what people think about my take on the lyrics in terms of how I view them... "Two sides twist and then collide You're coming off the guard, I'm coming through (Am I coming through?) A torturous condition to a spin cycled submission You know sometimes it just feels better to give in (Sometimes it just feels better to give in)" Basically, speaking about the darkness of the world, how it's this cycle that nobody understands and it burns us to not understand why this all happens. "Am I coming through?" is him asking to himself, wondering if he has finally reached the point of knowing. It's a tough approach, and this is why he says it feels better to give in, to completely ignore the idea of our origin. "And it's all too familiar and it happens all the time. All the cards begin to stack up, Twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime But it's you I can't deny." He's talking about just at the point where he is about to give in to his distrust in a God, he begins to understand, I view cards stacking up as a good thing, in that he starts to figure it all out. And thus, he ends with himself saying he cannot deny God. "Though he rises from the sheets above the patient boy, well and a jealous man (Am I coming...) But double standardized suspicion is remedied, Oh My Blue Heaven Sometimes it just feels better to give in (Sometimes it just feels better to give in)" The God inside him is rising out of his own body, personifying himself as a victim now, because he is still reluctant to accept God. Double standardized suspicion really describes an agnostic belief: No proof God exists, but no proof that he doesn't. My Blue Heaven is the sky above us, beautiful, and almost existentialist in the way he is saying, in that it's the only Heaven we know, and it's only space, we know God doesn't sit there, which is why he once again repeats he could just give in, but then again that chorus comes in with him retracing his steps and saying once again he can't deny God. "We swing and we sway as this tiny voice in my head starts to sing, "You're safe, child, you are safe" (You're safe, child, you are safe) You're safe, child, you are safe." If you've already started to see how I am viewing this lyrics, this part comes easy. The God within him is speaking to him and comforting him as he is going back and forth in his mind(Swinging and swaying), since accepting God is no easy task, the God within him will come at times to comfort him. "Am I coming through?" Him almost now certain he is realizing he has discovered God. "Is this all too familiar? Does it happen all the time? I'm just asking you to hear me; Could you please just once just hear me? More than anything, you wanted to be right So it's you, you, it's you I can't deny.. (You I can't deny) It's you I can't deny." Still, as he makes it to the end, he still has hesitance and uncertainty. He questions if this happening is truly real, and wants God to answer him, to tell him what is true. Of course, his repition of the inner voice telling him he is safe shows us many times God has come into him to tell him everything is working as it should. And thus, he finally gives in, saying he has accepted God's word as the right one, since he's had all the reminders. And thus, at the end, he says once and for all that he accepts God. Hey, to each his own. Personally, I enjoy viewing the song this way, and take no offense if people like it or not, and I have no problem with the other dissemination of the song as being about a girl. I just love the fact that words can have so many meanings, and can be personalised to every person who reads them. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Miami Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Again, like some of the other songs on this album, I feel like it is dealing with God. Perhaps someone close to him found God and he is having trouble dealing with his own beliefs. And for a real big stretch... Miami being a metaphor for sin? He knows he's been living a life of sin, and therefore doesn't want to be tortured for the things he did once, and that's his fear in accepting God in his life?? I'm sure I'll be torn apart for that one. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Divine Intervention Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| PS. Weakest song on this album, by far. The little bells at the end? How cheesy can this get? | |
| Taking Back Sunday – Divine Intervention Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I hear "flavors" as well. | |
| Taking Back Sunday – Twenty-Twenty Surgery Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Using money to make up for the flaws inherent in all of us. In this case, the metaphor is eye surgery to regain perfect vision. Perhaps? That's my take. Giving Adam Lazarra the benefit of the doubt, maybe his lyrics suck, but I saw that metaphor. | |
| Taking Back Sunday – My Blue Heaven Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Could it not be about faith? Denying it until a melting point where he understands the concept of Faith? I mean, maybe in the last verse he is talking to God, asking him if he hears himself giving in? I'm not a Christian or anything, so I'd hate to blamed for trying to insert some Christian message into it. But I'm just inserting a message about God. It could be a song that's on a larger scale than just some girl. | |
| M83 – Teen Angst Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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best. song. ever. written. "Before the Dawn Heals Us" is comparable to "Funeral" and "Low Level Owl" in terms of how important their music, vision, and messages are to people. |
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| M83 – Moonchild Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i feel like this whole album is a story... largely about our Fall from Grace. and this song sets it up beautifully... the beauty of our creation and then the disturbing aftermath of how we lost what we used to have, we are spending our lives searching for the voice inside all of us that we seem to have lost. | |
| Matt Costa – Sweet Rose Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| oh man... i love this song. seriously | |
| Sigur Rós – Glósóli Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| a human being wrote this song? it seems like some sort of message from god. after listening to it over a zillion times, i do not understand how this is just a song. it is the greatest piece of human accomplishment ever created. i feel like my life is almost complete after knowing a song of this caliber has been written. | |
| Taking Back Sunday – Up Against (Blackout) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| it sounded like it had potential, but it flopped. tbs just can't make a hook anymore. | |
| Taking Back Sunday – MakeDamnSure Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| good god, tbs has taken a nose dive. all these songs are awful. i feel like a bad person if i don't buy a tbs album, because i always thought i was gonna be a devoted fan since their demos, but i just can't appreciate this music, it sounds like they are playing confused, as if they are just making stuff on the spot. poor tbs. | |
| The Pale Pacific – Sucker Punch Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| tight song | |
| Arcade Fire – Une Annee Sans Lumiere Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this band is going to change the world, if they have not begun already. the lyrics of this album have blown my mind over and over again. it's like a trip through the most exciting, happiest, and most distant moments in one's life. |
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| Rise Against – Like The Angel Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i love reading lyrics of punk rock bands because it's always some fight about the genre. anyone who fights about that likes penis. there, it's settled. unless you're a girl, then you're just ugly. this band is awesome, but i will have to admit that they'd suck if they had a different singer. |
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| Thursday – Where The Circle Ends Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| no matter what thursday does, where thursday goes, i will always have intense respect for them, solely for this song, as well as the War All The Time music video | |
| Emery – Listening To Freddy Mercury Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| and Miss Anie, the connection I believe in is just the fact that the singer/songwriter is a Christian man who listens to a gay singer and passes no judgment on his preference -- backing up the whole message the song is trying to deliver in that we are all human, and there is no other God than the one that looks down on all of us regardless of ones religion | |
| Emery – Listening To Freddy Mercury Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this song is genius. i only like a couple songs by this band, but this is definitely my favorite because of the message, and the whole carnival breakdown in the middle haha | |
| Funeral for a Friend – Streetcar Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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he just doesn't want to sound like a bitch, so he says it has no girl thing about it. but we all know he totally got dumped and he's sad about it. good song regardless... one of their best. rookie of the year will always be number 1 though |
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| Broken Social Scene – Major Label Debut Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| if you listen to the normal (slow) version of this song, you can clearly here it is "I'm all hooked up." I used to think it said "I'm all coked up" when I would listen to the Fast version. Can't be "fucked" because you never hear the "fuh", but a "huh." I can hear "I'm on the town" as well, but I don't think whoever was singing in this song mumbles his words that much... unless that was the intention. Who knows? Living the big city life can many times coincide with drug usage (esp. cocaine). Therefore, all of these could fit in. Which, in that case, leads me to believe this song is about drug consumption (maybe addiction, but I don't see any metaphors alluding to dependence, just usage). However, I suck at interpreting lyrics... and I could be completely off. I'm really just basing it on "I'm all hooked up" and "I'm just coming coming here to come down." Of course, there could always be symbolism behind that. Words can be translated, interpreted and understood as many ways as there are people who read them. | |
| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| frou frou/imogen heap is the mainstream bjork. god this song is good | |
| Alexisonfire – It Was Fear Of Myself That Made Me Odd Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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it goes beyond these transitory elements. this song is about the mind. it is about the idea that the world, the universe, and everything is a product of one's own thoughts and the mind has ultimate control over these things. he breathes as the world, he creates the waves, he creates all these things simply because he has a mind. unfortunately, these sort of thoughts are taboo in a western capitalist culture, and subjectivism brings the belief that because you think outside the box in terms of the ideas-of-reality, then you are odd and you are afraid of yourself. the mind is a powerful thing. |
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| Tim McGraw – Live Like You Were Dying Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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IT STOPPED HIM ON A DIME, NOT IN HIS TRACKS AND THE BULL WAS NAMED FU MANCHU gosh! |
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| I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business – Whispering Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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wow. wow... wow........... this song is one of the most amazing things i have ever heard. the lyrics, eh, they are ok when read. but they sound so much more powerful when they are in this song. unfortunately, the rest of the cd isn't nearly as good, and i only listen to this song. but how amazing this song is... |
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| Jimmy Eat World – 23 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| brilliant.fucking brilliant. | |
| Jimmy Eat World – The World You Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this song is so amazing. absolutely TERRIFIC MANN | |
| Jimmy Eat World – Drugs Or Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| definitely about people hooked up on anti-depressants. they are disgusting pills, nobody should take them. | |
| Thursday – Understanding In A Car Crash Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| wow. just listened to this song again for the first time in a year. WHAT A FUCKING CLASSIC!!!!! | |
| Dashboard Confessional – Several Ways To Die Trying Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this is definitely the best DC song there is | |
| George W. Bush – Protector Of The Rich Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this is retarded. i really hate people who find it cliche to be anti-conservative. go listen to punk rock or something and stop wasting your time waiting for the people you hate (rich conservatives) to provide for you because you're too lazy to work hard. | |
| The Wallflowers – Angel On My Bike Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i totally forgot how this is my favorite song of all time | |
| The Wallflowers – One Headlight Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I FKING LOVE THIS SONG soooo classic, it reminds me of 8 years ago |
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| Days Away – Stay The Same Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| such a good song | |
| The Get Up Kids – Don't Hate Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| best lyrics ever. doesn't matter what their original purpose is, lyrics are meant to have tons of meanings | |
| Brand New – Play Crack the Sky Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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hoyden, that is absolutely the most ridiculous interpretation of the song i have ever heard of. but i can't say you're wrong -- the beauty of poetry is that it can be interpreted in a million different ways. i guess you're incredibly creative. |
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