| Florence + the Machine – Dog Days Are Over Lyrics | 4 months ago |
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Happiness is not always a welcome visitor. For those who live long in misery and hardship, it can be treated with suspicion as it a herald of the unknown. When you are in the depths, there is a predictability to your situation. There is familiarity and surety in continued wretchedness; security in knowing that things will not change, they will remain grim, and hard and despondent. One can be prepared for that and be resigned to it, however deplorable that situation remains for that person. Acceptance saves you from the mustering and expending of precious energy on a continued and most likely futile struggle. However, things are changing for the subject of the song. "Happiness hit her Like a train on a track Coming towards her Stuck, still no turning back" For what is most likely the first time, in a long time, happiness has burst inexorably and explosively into their life. Now, that person had so much more potentially to deal with: in managing an unfamiliar, intense emotion, which brought with it questions. Perhaps they may be thinking: How long will this last? Do I deserve it? Will it be taken away from me? What do I do or have to give, to keep it? Such a lot to deal with. And questions with no ready, easy, predictable answers. When faced with fear of the unknown and the vulnerability it places them in, some people may flee from it (back where they know best)…… In this case, maybe physically ‘hiding’ from the source of their new-found happiness, being unfaithful with others in an attempt to sabotage or ‘kill’ the happiness, or seeking escape from her emotions through getting drunk. "She hid around corners And she hid under beds She killed it with kisses And from it she fled With every bubble She sank with her drink And washed it away down The kitchen sink" But nothing has changed, despite their efforts. What was thought killed is still there, those flushed away feelings, returned. The dog days are over! and with it, the safety of that dark, long inhabited space. "The dog days are over The dog days are done The horses are coming So you better run" The happiness visited upon them is grand and beautiful but also terrible in the damage it could wreak. It is an energy wild and powerful, loud and unpredictable. It is not enough to hide or stick one’s head in the sand. One has to learn to run! "Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father Run for your children, for your sisters and brothers Leave all your love and your longing behind You can't carry it with you if you want to survive" Run for all that is important! Run to avoid snags and entanglement that will overwhelm you. Leave what is holding you back, behind. Those encumbrances that will slow you down. "The dog days are over The dog days are done Can you hear the horses? 'Cause here are they come" This is your chance. There is a new, exciting and wonderful dawn. The dark is banished and over. But you must learn to live in the light, as it rushes toward you, likened to a stampede of horses. "And I never wanted anything from you Except everything You had and what was left after that too, oh" And as an echo from that dark, they hear what they have known. The manipulation of a person who claimed they were not demanding, yet wanted the entirety of the song’s subject for themselves. There was dread within that statement but also the lure of perhaps returning to a place where even in a perverse way, one is wanted, needed. "Happiness hit her Like a bullet in the back Struck from a great height By someone who should know better than that" "The dog days are over The dog days are done Can you hear the horses? 'Cause here they come" Happiness was not going away. It’s source, was a person who offered something more and different than the song’s subject had known, and they did not care in how they gifted it, with such intensity and weight. Given their knowledge of our dear subject’s past (how else should they have known better), they should have known to be delicate, warming but less brilliant in what they gave. But regardless, the dog days are over. And ultimately, this is a song about new beginnings, the end of tyranny and the potential for a brave and wonderful new epoch. Blink. Get used to the light then run with the horses. Keep up with happiness and its riches and challenges for if you can stay the course, it will be magnificent! "The horses are coming So you better run Here they come!" |
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| Lilly Wood & The Prick – Prayer in C Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Sorry, Vegard8197 but I think ladypetrichor is right on this one. To me, it makes much more sense for someone to blame God for the mess occurring and for not helping humanity than to aim their words toward the rich, whom nobody expects help from. People are always asking God for help (in the form of prayer) and blame God when things go wrong. This song is a reflection of that. | |
| Motörhead – Stand Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| All you need to remember when the going gets tough. It reminds me what's important in life and how I want to live it. One word can classify this song..... inspirational. | |
| Goldfrapp – Utopia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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What a beautiful but to me, sinister song. It may well be about genetic engineering, etc, but from the first, I've always imagined another interpretation.... I imagine that this song is being sung by a woman, who, for whatever reason, was kidnapped long ago as a child, taken to a laboratory along with other children and experimented upon. The scientists' work concerned fusing a human's brain into a transglobal network (internet) that taps into all connected systems be they computer, telecommunications, surveilance or otherwise. To handle and disseminate this mass of information, the human brain was chosen as the interface between the network and the enduser (the scientists and whoever they are working for - I imagine some Big Brother (fascist) type state organisation). They were successful in making her part of the system. However, in order to cut out distractions and limit insight into what she was, she has been made to lose most of her sense of self and been told/modified to believe that she is not supposed to feel or sense anything outside the world of her intended function, thus this vagueness over what she sees, feels and remembers (as indicated by the lyrics in the first part of the song). Her function is to propogate Utopia through her job as the Fascist's eyes and ears to the world. However, there is one aspect from her previous life that they have failed to erradicate and that was her love for her childhood pet dog. She remembers the joy, love and togetherness of their relationship and so she speaks of her desire to bring that into her present, for her not to be alone but have again in some sense, that companionship and love she remembers, eternally. Perhaps the saddest lines are the last ones, where she indicates that she does actually know what she is and what was done to her. I get such a feeling of resignation and powerlessness from those lines. As I listen to the song, I visualise her, the screen filled with her sleeping face, as if dreaming. Then as the song progresses, the camera pans out and by the latter part of the song, you see that she is in fact immobile, in a perspex box, wires trailing from her head and machinery all around her manned by scientists as they continue their work, oblivious of her thoughts and feelings. It is ironic to me how the song sings of Utopia yet the for the subject and for the world, living in a fascist, Big Brother-type state it is in fact a Distopia....... |
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| The Beloved – Dream On Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Dream-like in sound, in voice and in lyric. I can settle into this song like a cushion and feel its softness envelope me. It's almost hypnotic...... The song's lyrics, however, disturb me. As a fan of science fiction, the lyrics evoke in me the fantasy that this song is nothing more than an advert for a firm that specialises in virutal reality. The lyrics entice the listener to enter a "dreamlike" state where everyrthing is possible and available to experience. The song says to me "leave the hard reality of life behind, join with the experience we can give you, that of VR, where anything you wish for can be realised: that sets your pulse racing, is heaven embracing. VR will consume you whole, divorcing you from your past and providing for you, a new, positive sunshiny tomorrow for always". The chorus is a mantra "Don't stop dreaming, dream on....." that coaxes, teases the listener into giving themselves over to buying into a new reality, VR. It's the hookline in an advert that lingers in the brain after it's finished. Further, I imagine people buying into the firm's VR service. Opening their minds into corporate machines that construct this new, worry-free reality for them - just for as long as they can pay for it. Like alcohol or drugs, VR is mind altering but has a longer life than any ilicit substance. I can see rish people paying and those less fortunate and broke, slowly selling parts (to the company) of a body they will never use again, when they can stay in a reality they prefer. Watch this space for technology to catch up....... will this dream ever become a reality? | |
| Leonard Nimoy – The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| If you've not the patience to sit down and read The Hobbit or wait for Peter Jackson to get off his jacksy and make a film of it, Leonard basically sums up the whole story in a matter of minutes with this catchy ditty. About as far away from Spock as Mr Nimory could get! | |
| Eurythmics – This City Never Sleeps Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| As above states, just about sums things up. Personal meaning though: apart from being one of the sexiest songs ever (rhythmical, soft, sensual - and no, I came to this conclusion well before 9.5 weeks highjacked it for their own ends). The words suggested to me the general isolation of us all in this universe. We are surrounded by people and sound and stimulus, even to the point of intrusiveness. But in reality, none of these things pierces the skin of our soul and we don't really know anyone or anything well at all, only the sound of ourselves. It's a very sad song. | |
| Paul Weller – You Do Something To Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Funny how there are some songs that you listen to for years without paying them much attention and then something happens in your life that brings the song suddenly and sharply into focus. This is one such song for me. There was a period in my life wen I was absolutely besotted by a woman I'd met. It was as if she'd just flicked a switch on (deep) inside me I knew nothing about which drew up a huge reservoir of feeling toward her. However, my love for her was never recipricated but she kept me hanging on with hope because she (as I found out later) liked the thought of being loved by me but not my love itself. "She'd do something wonderful, then chase it all away" just to string me along, mixing me up in the process as to her real intentions. I would have done absolutely anything for her (even dance through the fire) and the fact that she couldn't let herself feel the same way for me as I felt for her was driving me wild with pain and anxiety. This song encapsulated my entire mood and situation. As the song played and I mouthed the words, I would imagine myself directing them at her, to try and make her understand the depth of my feeling, desparation and agony. There may be other explanations for meanings of this song but this personal one of mine had only one and I'm glad to say that the meaning has faded and that I have other, happier songs to sing now that mean more to me and my present circumstances :-) | |
| Dubstar – Stars Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| A song that evokes such specific thoughts. To me, the song is of the end of the world. I imagine that nuclear war has started and the singer in the verses is saying "is it to much to ask to have a little more time to do the things I wanted to do with my life". But of course, she knows in her heart that it is too late and that everything she has known will be destroyed as the bombs fall. So, she says to her companion, let's go outside and watch it happen..... Wait for the end. When I listen to her sing, I can really put myself in that situation, where it's all coming to a stop and there's nothing to do except be frustrated at what might have been and done, and wait for the inevitable. Read "The Forge of God" by Greg Bear, or watch "Miracle Mile" and you'll capture the sentiment the song conveys exactly. A beautiful and sad song. | |
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