| Straylight Run – The Tension and the Terror Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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hmm..... it's not about cheating or breaking up. it's about butterflies in your stomach when you're complete consumed in teenage love. it's about those forever long seconds of right before you kiss someone, and about how it feels so scandalous "whether we're supposed to or not, we still will". I don't see all this dark tension that's been mentioned!!!! if Straylight Run wanted to write a dark song with shadowy secrets of a complicated relationship they wouldn't have made it the happy-pop-radio friendly song that it is. the "ways he's devistated" are because of the thought of her never leaving his mind, haunting him with that burning highschool lustful crush. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – You Know How I Do Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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woa I just wanted to say something about the song.. I guess this is now just an arguement about petty pop culture after 150 posts. |
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| Straylight Run – It's For the Best Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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so true striker8844, I must confess that I also feel the choke of a tear at the sound of this song. It's just a cutting song -sober and sad, though not without hope. Romes let me give you a prop for your comment... you said everything that I was gonna say. and I think yours interpretation is pretty much what Straylight Run was trying to convey (not that others can't interpret the song differently if it means something different to them). to me this song is about growing up with faith in God and truth, and how cold, harsh, and hopeless "logic" can bring you down to the pavement if you let it. But like I said, I don't think this song is hopeless. I see it as a struggle –trying to live with purpose even while you know you're in a self-inflicted peril. The line “waiting for something that will never come” -I take it as saying he can’t wait for life to piece itself back together while he drinks and wastes time (“holding ourselves back”). It’s about taking responsibility for your life/actions instead of waiting for life to fix itself (“something that will never come”). From what he says in other songs on the album (about morality being reduced to opinion, and about sin and vice), I just can’t conclude that he’s “left his faith in God behind.” I think it’s something that he knows is true (at least to a certain degree) but has a lot of inner turmoil concerning the conflicting ways he often lives and what he believes (as we all do). This is probably one of my favorite songs I’ve heard this year. |
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