| Emilie Autumn – Shalott Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I don't think the poem is about abuse toward women at all. I think it's about a woman who remained confined to a tower without any real understanding off why...but she's bitter about it. She gets to watch people live their lives through a reflection in a mirror rather than go out and experience it with them (I love that Emilie captured this facet of the story) When she dies, it's not so much that she commits suicide or a guy she loves but rather she finally sees something more important to her than her fear of what would happen to her were she to leave. She decided, the first real decision she ever got to make in her life, that she would rather suffer the consequences of the curse by going out and trying to be a part of the world she had spent so much time simply watching. It was better to die trying to live than to live without experiencing life. |
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| The Band Perry – If I Die Young Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I find the idea that this song being about Suicide completely ridiculous. People read too far into it. There are a lot of references to 'The Lady of Shallot' in the music video so I can't help but think that the song was in fact written in reference to that poem. The poem 'The Lady of Shallot' (read it by the way. It's utterly beautiful) is about a woman who is in a tower. She's not sure why she's there. All she knows is that if she leaves (or even looks out the window directly) she's going to die. She makes the comment 'I am half sick of shadows' which is to say that the only way that she can see the outside world is the reflection in the mirror she uses to look outside. Well, one day Lancelot rides by her tower and for whatever reason, she decides that she loves this man. He's never seen her before. She just loves him and that's enough for her to make the first real decision of her life. Long story short, she decides that her love for him was more important than her fear of an uncertain curse. It was better to take the chance of dying young than to live forever without really experiencing life. I think this song falls along those lines. |
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| Green Day – She Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think it's just about a girl that really needs some one to just sit there and let her talk. To listen to her. At least that's the meaning I'm getting from "Scream at me until my ears bleed. I'm taking heed just for you." She's expected to sit and listen. She's expected to be a 'good girl'. Everyone has all of these exciting plans for her and she feels like she's lost her voice. The narrator may not even be a boyfriend. He could just as easily be a friend or an older brother. He's offering to let her just get it all out, to express her anger, fear, and frustration on him because he knows she desperately needs it. I think I would have loved to have had someone like that when growing up. |
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| Suzanne Vega – The Queen And The Soldier Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I like to look at it as more of a story than a metaphor. What we have is a girl, expected to have the wisdom and experience of a woman twice her age. She will never get to experience the joys of being a child..of being a young woman. She will never be able to follow her heart. She wages wars and whether she wants to or not, they weigh heavily on her soul. She hides her pain and her guilt for having to put these people through this but doesn't see any other way. Were she to stop to ask for help, that would show weakness...so she moves forward without any real idea what direction she is going in. To cope, she puts on a mask of arrogance thus using it to displace what she has done from herself, else it would inwardly destroy her (Hence the part about closing like a fan). She continues to wear her crown to remind her of the weight of her decisions. Then here you have this soldier who is tired of fighting and never quite sure why. He seems to honestly care about her as a young woman, not a queen. Perhaps he knows how burdened her heart is with all that she does...or maybe he thinks she isn't aware of all of the pain she is causing. Unable to continue fighting these wars...for either the pain they cause or possibly the burden they put on her heart, he confronts her. The part: "Tell me how hungry are you? How weak you must feel As you are living here alone, and you are never revealed But I won't march again on your battlefield" Reveals a lot about him. How much does she really want all of this fighting? And how helpless she must feel. The cycle of the fighting going on and her powerless to ever do anything about it. He mentions that she is never revealed. They fight for "The Queen" but no one down there knows the girl who sits on "The Queen's" throne is. He then tells her he won't march on her battlefield again but I can't but wonder if it is because he -does- know how much the fighting hurts her...that maybe it would ease her pain a little if he stopped fighting for her..that she would know that there would be one less man out there dying in her name. "And she wanted more than she ever could say But she knew how it frightened her, and she turned away And would not look at his face again." I think maybe she really didn't want any of this. I think she wanted to be a young woman who would experience the joy of love, of growing up, of not having the weight of the world on such tiny shoulders. It frightened her because she didn't know how to deal with these feelings. She had no one to turn to before and now there was this man who spoke kindly to her...one of the nameless men from the battlefield. He now had a face. He now had a gentle voice...and she was ashamed. She couldn't bring herself to look at him. He was a real person to her now. When it says: And he said, "I want to live as an honest man To get all I deserve and to give all I can And to love a young woman who I don't understand Your highness, your ways are very strange." I think that he's offering her what she desperately wants more than anything: The privilege of being a young bride. To get married. To be -loved- as a young woman and not a queen. In the next part: But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break And she stood there, ashamed of the way her heart ached She is seriously considering it as he's offering her everything she could ever want. He's offering to take her away from here. To love her...and she's tempted to go. But to do so would leave her people in a war that she had started...it would leave her kingdom without someone looking over it. It would leave her burden to someone else that didn't ask for it. She was ashamed of herself for even thinking about going with him...no matter how much her heart yearns for it. In a moment of weakness, she tells him yes and to wait for her outside. But as she's inside, she hesitates realizing what she was about to do and knows that as long as he was living, there was a good chance she would betray her kingdom to follow her heart. And the soldier was killed, still waiting for her word And while the queen went on strangling in the solitude she preferred The battle continued on The ending is tragic for both characters. The soldier is waiting outside for a woman who is not coming thinking that he is going to bring home his bride. Thinking that he can bring an end to her pain. The Queen destroys the one person in all the world that would ever care about her as a woman and though she will continue on in her solitude..her loneliness, she would continue to bear the burden of her actions. I feel sorry for the both of them really. The Soldier does seem like he was a wonderful man though. It pains me to see him killed just for trying to love someone. |
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| The Offspring – Fix You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| When I say a relationship, it doesn't necessarily have to be a romantic one. | |
| Blink-182 – A New Hope Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I agree. It's a simple song about a Star Wars geek and his love for Princess Leia (who is awesome >.>) | |
| Blink-182 – A New Hope Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I agree. It's a simple song about a Star Wars geek and his love for Princess Leia (who is awesome >.>) | |
| The Offspring – Trust In You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| it sounds to me like the vocals is refering to a person who has done everything they can to help him but due to his pride, he's always brushed them off (rudely I add)...but the person (who I do not believe is God, I must say) keeps trying anyways. The song is about him finally swallowing his pride and accepting help from the one person who has always been there for him. (I dunno. I kinda get the impression it's an older sibling or a parent...maybe a girlfriend) | |
| The Offspring – Dammit, I Changed Again Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think it's about teenagers. Particular the "Start a fight, can't defend" as their beliefs and personal views are changing so rapidly they have no real defense for what they believe because they're still trying to figure it out themselves. | |
| The Offspring – A Lot Like Me Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I get a different interpretation from the song. It sounds to me like a serious fall from grace. To me it sounds like someone who had always believed a certain truth and had been okay with bringing other people down in the name of it. However they come across someone who starts picking out what's wrong with this truth and once the main character realizes what's going on, they start to realize who the true evil is and what they had become. Just a different view. |
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| The Offspring – Fix You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't know...I think it could be about him being in a relationship with a girl that's begun to suffer from depression...and as much as he wants to help her, in the end he feels like he's hurting her more than anything. Furthermore, he wishes that she could just make him into someone that can help her. | |
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