| Yellowcard – Lights and Sounds Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Wow, I'm actually kind of surprised, maybe a little concerned that no one seems to interpret this song anywhere near the same way I do. This song gives me chills I'd seriously love to write a fan fiction for it... I imagine the protagonist is a deranged individual; who used to be normal. For some reason or another he has wound up in a position of power over someone for whom his resentment has festered for a long while. Someone who hurt him, and upon whom he has be longing to exact his just(or at least he thinks so) revenge. His moment has arrived. I thinking of him being almost maybe like Jigsaw, from the Saw movies. He has created his victim's elaborate and cruel surroundings. I generally imagine it as some sort of complicated an inescapable maze, filled with various torments and perils. I also can't help being a little reminded of GLADoS in portal. He is like...the voice of a setting he's in control of--that she's trapped in.(I'm arbitrarily assigning 'he' and 'she' to the characters to reduce confusion.) "Hello you, how was the rest?" "Hello you," "you", just "you", I love how it's said with such distain. It almost gives me chills. "You made it through but never the less I got you, out on a wire..." I imagine she has been advancing through his maze. She's just made it past the previous test, maybe even with a little time to catch her breath. But never the less he's still the one in control here. "you be love, and I'll be a liar." This line I imagine he's referencing how she hurt him. Referencing the nature of the relationship that ultimately lead to their original falling out. I kind of imagine her excuse for hurting him was love. Either because she loved him, or loved someone else...But I usually imagine it as a sort of world-love. A for-the-greater-good sort of thing...I imagine that she claimed was she did was driven by goodness, by compassion. But he thinks she was a liar. So here he facetious invites her to "be love" and carry persist in her self righteous ways as he lies and confuses her, on her way through the maze(perhaps as he feels she's done to him albeit in a less literal sense). "Tell it all and fill up the air But make it loud ‘cause nobody’s there Nobody’s there Nobody's there (yeah)" He mockingly encourages her to persist in her apologies, confessions, and pleas. And assures her, that there is no one within earshot who can help her. "Stop, turn, take a look around At all the lights and sounds Let ‘em bring you in" He instructs her to observe the surreal nature of her environment. To grasp the true gravity of her situation. "Slow, burn, let it all fade out And pull the curtain down" Here I think he references specific aspects of his Kafka-esque creation, and assures her of her doom. Invites her to give up and let it end. "wonder where you've been." He tauntingly tells her to try to figure out the strange surroundings she's been lost in. "Make it new but stay in the linesJust let go But keep it inside" I think these lines are her own words and actions thrown back in her face. It seems to me that he regards her as a hypocrite. "Smile big, for everyone Even when you know what they’ve done They gave you the end but not where to start Not how to build, how to tear it apart" I think he's still throwing her own words and actions back at her-- Perhaps he still had to try to respect her, look her in the eyes, even after knowing a hurtful or truth about her. Maybe he secretly loved her but couldn't help picturing her with her new lover. Or maybe they were both idealists and she did something horribly contrary to their cause. I also get the impression that she was a negative sort of person. Pointed out things that were wrong, but not right. Her focus was a pessimistic and fatalistic one. Maybe they were both trying to save the world. Her attitude was "the world his fucked" and his was "here's how we could fix it, and their disagreement over it tore apart their...Collaborative research? friendship? Romance? "I’ve got a way to work this out I’ve got a way and you know how" I love how he starts off sounding unsure as if still trying to convince himself. And gradually gets louder, more self assured, until he's actually screaming it. And he sounds psychotic throughout. He tells her that he has to kill her, and that she knows he has to do it. Perhaps he once told her he had a way to work things out and she dismissed his ideas. Now, he's in control. He knows the solution. And so does she. And that's what he's going to do. "You've earned everything you've found" Here he assures her that she deserves this-deserves everything shes encountered in his death maze. "And painted faces frown" I think is a reference to her hypocrisy, and his jadedness to her disapproval. "I'll say I knew you when...." She's a liar. A hypocrite. He claims to not truly know her. He'll only catch a breif glimpse of the real her, as he watches her die. ^-^; It's a dark interpretation I know, but it's the story that unfolds in my head every time I hear this song anyway. I almost wonder if there aren't other people who interpret it this way but are just too afraid to say so... |
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