| Fifth Harmony – Worth It (feat. Kid Ink) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| A woman with an overinflated ego vastly overestimates her value as a person. | |
| Kenny Rogers – The Long Arm of the Law Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| A man on a power trip is willing to ruin people's lives to feed his own god complex. The story of a young man being hunted and pursued for committing no federal crimes because the judge in his town has a personal vendetta against him, and while the story appears to end on a high note, it should be remembered that Billy is still being unlawfully sentenced. A perfect example of corruption and why an official should not be involved with any case in which he has a personal stake. | |
| Randy Travis – Three Wooden Crosses Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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A lovely song about how a group of people are tragically killed out of negligence, but it's okay because a prostitute survives and takes her survival to be an act of god. So while the woman is forever traumatized from the experience and turns to religion to cope, a person of learning who shares their passion for knowledge with others is killed, the world loses somebody whose work contributes to feeding hundreds or thousands. But the prostitute raises another preacher so apparently the incident had a positive result. |
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| Poets Of The Fall – Dreaming Wide Awake Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song reminds me of a novel I read once - The Things they've Carried by Tim O'Brien - and I've drawn the two together a bit. I particularly remember the final paragraph when thinking of this song. In the last chapter of the book, the narrator describes his first experience with death, and with keeping the memory of his loved one alive. Particularly, he dreams about the dead girl, and when he dreams it's as though she never died. " And then it becomes 1990. I'm forty-three years old, and a writer now, still dreaming Linda alive in exactly the same way. She was nine years old. I loved her and then she died. And yet right here, in the spell of memory and imagination, I can still see her as if through ice, as if I'm gazing into some other world, a place where there are no brain tumors and no funeral homes, where there are no bodies at all. I can see Kiowa, too, and Ted Lavender and Curt Lemon, and sometimes I can even see Timmy skating with Linda under the yellow floodlights. I'm young and happy. I'll never die. I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the air and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story. " |
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| Poets Of The Fall – Carnival of Rust Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'd like to look at the video and what symbolism it offers in relation to the song. I know this isn't "music video meanings", but here are my observations. Let's begin with the woman. She wears a gas mask, so we never see her face. We don't see her expressions or emotions, we only know her through her body language. Let's look at it. She begins by regarding the fortune teller (singer), but she recoils at the intensity of his excitement. Afterward, she ignores him, possibly right up to the end. The woman moves on to the violinists. She gives them her coin, and simply moves on. The man at the stand, she pays, and gives him her last nickel, and plays his game. As a reward, she receives a child doll, and then she makes her way out, pausing only to look back on the fortune teller once she's out of his reach. Then there's the carnies - and I'm only going to touch on the three ones with which the woman interacts. The fortune teller, the man in the booth, his face peeling - I'm not sure, but maybe even as the video goes on, it continues to decay. The narrator of this song, and the character whom I feel is the actual protagonist of this video. He sings with a passion. The woman is put off by him, but he continues to sing to her. The violinists. They take her coin, but don't react to her. They're not interested in who gives them their money, they're both too focused on each other - and the art they are creating to pay her any mind, even to thank her for her patronage. The game host. He's lively, excitable, enthusiastic to play this game with the woman. He gives her a doll - perhaps even symbolizing an actual child - but in the end, he's only there for one thing: the game. As she walks away, he waves goodbye to her as gleefully as he welcomed her, and indifferently drops her coin in with the rest. And ash the woman leaves, the Fortune Teller sings to her, begging her not to leave. He thrashes about, trying to escape her container, desperately trying to reach her before his time is up. My hypothesis is that this song is about a man that cannot let go of a past romance. Even as the subject of his affection is disconcerted by his love, he tries to hold on to her, offering his affections to her as she continues to ignore him, and goes elsewhere in search of the love she wants. She has one-night stands (perhaps the two violinists), and bears a child that is completely indifferent to her. At last she gives up on searching, but even then this man is begging for her love, and only when he too gives up, only when the Fortune Teller grows quiet and still, does she turn around and realize that perhaps she had missed the chance that had been staring her in the face for so long. |
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