| Nick Drake – From The Morning Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Yes I agree. The album is a masterpiece and this song my saviour. It brought me to tears too. I think maybe when he says 'go play the game that you learnt from the morning' could be associated with childhood. The happiness every little game brought, the blissful happiness that comes from early life, from the morning. Then he tells us to take that through our days and out nights. Maybe days representing the middle of your life and night representing the end of your life. Telling us to just play that happy game that we learnt at the start of our life, at the start of the day. The game of loving everything, nature and animal, and merely playing the game that life is but with happiness. The game we all learnt from the morning... thats just a thought | |
| Radical Face – Welcome Home Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| and in the video at the end he cuts out paper eyes and sticks them on his... escapism.. so he can't see the real world | |
| Radical Face – Welcome Home Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song, I believe, is about home with everything it has to offer and heal or even damage. In the first verse I think that's how he feels at that time. Maybe there was something in his childhood he missed out on. He's obviously missing out on sleep because of something so he has no escape from this world. No escape from reality so "I choke on sun"... Sun is an enlightening thing.. something that shows whats in the darkness. And the fact he uses the word 'choke' obviously means he cannot handle the fact that his bliss is being shattered. The least he could do would be to dream but he can't even sleep. "And the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done" That line is so beautiful. The backs of his eyes, maybe being his mind but it could also just be his eyes, are humming with the things he's missed out on and not seen. And maybe his eyes are humming because he's so tired from not sleeping and having to live with the fact that he didn't do the things he wanted to. It the second verse I think he's returned to his home. His home that he grew up in. He sees sheets on the clothesline and compares them to ghosts.. maybe ghosts of the past that maybe make the sheets very nostalgic. Or maybe they're representing the bad things that may have happened in this home. And the fact that they're swaying over dead grass doesn't make this line seem all that positive either. But then he goes on to say "was never much but we made the most" saying obviously that 'No our house wasn't much and lots of bad things happened here but we lived there and we made the most and I love it for it is my home and that's why I've returned'.. Basically no home is perfect but, as the old saying goes, 'There's no place like home'. And then comes those two eternally reassuring words 'Welcome home'.. all these ghosts of the past are welcoming him home because he needs the innocence of childhood and the sanctuary of home to heal him. The third verse is quite hard to understand I think. These ships that he describes leaving his chest are maybe elements of the heart he is letting voyage away from him because they've let him down in the past. He's losing a part of him because of his heart breaks. "Some have names but some do not" is a hard line to figure out. Maybe some have a clear meaning like maybe one is called 'Being able to trust'... maybe that's leaving him. But the fact that most don't have a name makes it obvious that he doesn't know what parts of him are leaving but he knows that a lot of things are. and maybe in order for him to get them back he needs to go back to the people that truly know him (Parents) so they can help him find what he's lost and go back to his innocence, back when no real heart breaks occurred so he can start a whole new slate. "If you find one, please let me know what piece I've lost" I just explained that line I think. The fourth verse is obviously about healing. The scars on his back are from those backstabbing people in his life and the hurts that he may have caused himself because of these backstabbers.. self punishing you might say. He says he doesn't need them anymore because he doesn't because like I've already said, he's starting a new slate. He's talking to his home or his parents in this verse. "You can throw them out or keep them in your mason jars" he's giving his home the option of keeping them just as long as they're still not on his back. Because he knows that the past is the past and to get rid of them fully would be quite unhealthy. He would remember mason jars being in the kitchen, remember them when his mother or father cooked so he thinks they are a safe and harmless place to keep his scars.. they won't get out. Then he says 'I've come home'.. three self reassuring words telling himself this time that he is home for he has been healed which is the reason why he came home in the first place. Now the fifth verse is a bloody hard one to figure out. To me it's either he's left his home and everything that made him return home is coming back or he's at home but someone's left it and he can't handle it. I'm not sure but I think I'll go with the first one. Well he's left his home because it healed him like he wanted it to. But because he was away from the real world and the only nightmares were something he would think about (because what bad things would attack him at home?) now that he's in the real world again where he's choking on sun, on reality that he so obviously can't handle, he's begging reality to not come through that door. And maybe he's asking his home or his parents to come and save the day again. "please don't let them in". Now the next line he could either be talking to all the people that ever left him, to his parents or himself "You were never supposed to leave"... someone wasn't meant to leave him (parents, home, friends, girlfriends) or he wasn't meant to leave his home. But if he is actually saying that to himself then he has gone too far and craves so much for escapism it's not healthy. But he knows it isn't and that's why his "head's splitting at the seams".. everything that sewed his head together before and are actually the thread (his home and his parents) are leaving him again and he doesn't understand why he needs his home so much. And that's why he says "I don't know if I can"... replying to the line "You were never supposed to leave".. basically saying because you can't handle reality maybe now, in fact, you can't leave your home. "Here, beneath my lungs, I feel your thumbs press into my skin again" the final line, I think it refers to his home. He feels the hands of his home near his lungs helping him breath, pressing into his skin telling him he can return again.. but he knows that but he may think it's dangerous to return because he doesn't know if he'll leave it.. for he is an escapist. Escaping from reality and all the harshness it brings searching for that innocence and safety his childhood and his old childhood home brought him so long ago. This song is about an escapist. Hahaha I'm sorry if I bored you.. you probably didn't even read it :).. haha But I love this song and when I'm passionate about it I become a bit of a loser. |
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| Yeasayer – O.N.E. Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Wow yeah definitely.... that's exactly the situation I'm in except for the getting hurt part... but the whole denying of feelings hurts in itself I guess. But yeah, that's a perfect meaning for this song. I love love love this song too! | |
| Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Now this song is of great importance to me. I have been in love with someone for a year and a half and he loved me...I broke up with him because we were so far apart and I wanted my youth. Now, Jeff of course loved this person and we gather this when he says 'you gave me more to live for, more than you'll ever know' Now they obviously reached a hiccup (like mine and this guy's distance for instance) because he says 'Why can't we overcome this wall?' But then he goes on to say maybe it's because he didn't know her at all. And that in itself will prevent any relationship from going any further. He wants her to kiss him because he wants to see if the passion is still there. But he doesn't want her to kiss her just for his sake..to make him happy...but because she wants to, which is obvious. He tells us that in black and white. What's making him angry is that if she does kiss him 'out of consolation' not only will it fool him but it will also make him carry on the relationship. But because he's not sure he wants to be in it..he'll only end it later which will 'only make her cry'. This bit is probably my favourite part of this song. in this verse he is explaining basically, she didn't show how upset she was and she didn't even try to get him back. She didn't scream to the heavens with heart-break, she didn't 'rush to the phone to call'. But it's there he realises she didn't know him either and that's why she didn't try either to overcome the wall or get him back either. Which is pretty heart-breaking for him because he feels she didn't even love him. But she did she just also didn't see the point in carrying on with someone she doesn't know.Then the last verse is just about him now knowing for sure that 'it's over'. He's looking into her eyes and he knows she doesn't know him and he doesn't know her. And the memories they've had are showing him something wasn't quite right. My favourite song. I thank Jeff for it because it got me through a hard time. | |
| MGMT – Kids Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm new to this and I don't quite know what I'm doing.. This song is about life I reckon. In the first verse it's obviously about childhood and how happy everyone is around you until you start getting fussy. "Making momma so proud, But your voice was too loud, We like to watch you laughing" And then he goes on to say how there's just no point in a young person to have to think about consequences in life. Then in the chorus it's kind of giving life advice, telling us to control ourselves and to not be greedy (which of course is a huge problem at this time). The whole 'family of trees' part completely bewilders me but just a guess, I reckon it's about how everything has darkness...like there are the nice forests but then there are those scary, dark ones. Now the second verse..christ that's a hard one. What I'm thinking is that maybe why the water is giving him shivers even though its warm could be because he has realised he is grown up and things are more complicated and you can't just have a paddle in water anymore. Then saying a baby is born is obviously the ultimate situation to almost force us to grow up. So maybe this shiver is because he knows there's something so overwhelming that has arrived into his life to force him to move form his childhood. Thats why all his memories are fading become something is forcing him to grow up. Then he's telling us about decisions. As everyone grows up, decisions get harder and harder. You make them by yourself. You can't just simply buy them and, if they're wrong, simply return them. He thought that everything would be easier like decisions, relationships, money etc. etc. And he wouldn't get hurt in the process of the decisions or indeed the outcome of them. Well that's my explanation of Kids. Great song! |
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