| Oasis – Don't Look Back in Anger Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Does anyone else see any Beatles references here? The "revolution from my bed" part as well as the "don't put your faith in a rock and roll band" part | |
| The Decemberists – Of Angels and Angles Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I really don't think this song is about suicide, and I do think it is about how we gradually age and "drown" together. But for the most part, I actually think the song is about how it's the small things about people that make us fall in love or remind us we're in love. "There are angels in your angles." There are beautiful, amazing things in the small parts of you. There's a tough word on your crossword There's a bed bug nipping a finger There's a swallow, there's a calm Here's a hand to lay on your open palm today He's just describing a moment in time where he fell in love, a simple, insignificant moment, because there are angels in your angles. As for the drowning, at everyone is dying, but at least they're dying together. |
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| Twenty One Pilots – Lane Boy Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I think this song is about how a lot of people in the rap industry have responded critically to 21p's music, saying they should "stay in their lane" and not rap because they weren't "raised in the hood." Tyler counters that just because he wasn't raised in the hood doesn't mean he hasn't had other terrible experiences that rap and hip hop got him through, and that many rappers songs on the radio now are "heartless" and their songs are "flawless." | |
| Twenty One Pilots – Guns For Hands Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think this song is about how a lot of 21p's fanbase are "troubled" kids and how it keeps Tyler up at night thinking about how his some of his fans will harm themselves because they have "guns for hands" | |
| The Format – The Compromise Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Crazy to go back and read the lyrics to a song about mocking the music industry when today Nate is at the very top. you, you think its cool to be crazy i say "you want risks? take risks." there's no point in taking chances Here, Nate is talking about how taking risks is frowned upon in the music industry because they might not pay off. The Format broke off from their first label because of creative differences. and me, i wouldn't call it a sophomore slump no i'd say im one step closer to bein' just where i want to be Many people say bands have "sophomore slumps" where there second album isn't as good as their first. Nate is saying that's just musical progression. The "partner" in the song is a record label. You have to do this whole convoluted dance just to get a freaking contract and often they're really bad at compromise. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Girls/Girls/Boys Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think the song is from the point of view of a man in love with a bisexual woman, and that bisexual woman is in love with another woman. Brendon's wife, Sarah, is bisexual and he said that when he first met her she was with "someone else" but he never specified as to the gender of that other person. This song is probably about Brendon pining for Sarah when she was with a woman. But the song is supportive of Sarah's bisexuality, like he wants her to feel comfortable coming out. He says he "doesn't want to be her boyfriend," but he is still falling for her. I think he wants to support her as she struggles with being comfortable being bisexual. | |
| The Format – If Work Permits Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song maybe the best break up song ever because it so non blaming. The sailors are all a metaphor for people looking for love, and it is such a well written comparison. But the thing that gets me everytime about this song is the lyric: "sometimes, when sailors are sailing they think twice, about where they're anchoring and I think, I could make better use of my time on land " Sometimes it's just that simple. Sometimes there is no grand existential crisis or feelings of hatred, sometimes people just "think twice" about anchoring, and it's nothing more. And there's nothing wrong about where they're anchoring, they just weren't ready to settle down. The last verse shows why the person was hesitant to anchor: due to a traumatic childhood event, their perception of love was forever warped. Beautiful song. So many people turn to hatred after a bad breakup, but this song just empathizes with the dumper, and accepts what happened. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Binary Sea Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think this song returns to a lot of old Death Cab themes, particularly those of their album The Photo Album, which basically tried to musically emulate a photo album. The songs were really just a collection of different moments, and they would usually begin by describing in detail the situation and then going in and analyzing it. One song off the Photo Album is called "Information Travels Faster," and it was about how alienating new technology was to Gibbard and how the days seemed to be slower despite the technology. One lyric off of "The New Year" has a similar meaning; "I wish the world were flat like the old days, then I could travel just by holding a map. No airplanes or speedtrains or freeways. There'd be no distance that could hold us back." Even though technology advances, people seem farther apart. Oh Atlas could not understand The world was so much smaller than The one he used to hold before But the weight it brought him to the floor This repeats the theme about how the world seems to be larger the more interconnected we are. This extended metaphor about the photo harkens back to their songs "The Photobooth" and "No Room in Frame." In Photobooth, Gibbard refers to the printout he is given. And this is all that's left: Scraping paper to document. In Binary Sea, he says: For if there is no document We cannot build our monument So look into the lens and I'll Make sure this moment never dies This all explains the metaphor in "No Room in Frame," how not being allowed to be part of someone's "document" is so upsetting. Binary Sea in the end is about trying to swim in a "binary sea" of an ever-changing world and about preserving memories. I really think that this is what Death Cab is all about: documenting moments and making monuments to them and trying to communicate in a world that makes connecting so easy and so hard at the same time. Amazing lyrics and really rewarding for Death Cab fans who know their older stuff, easily my favorite song off the album. |
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| fun. – One Foot Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I'm standing in Brooklyn just waiting for something to happen I can’t help but love thinking that everyone doesn’t get it To my left there’s a window Where did I go? My reflection just planted two rows of coal And bad ideas, but ideas nonetheless, and so I'm not really sure what this part is about. He feels directionless I think, and feels like he has no ideas of value. I happened to stumble upon a chapel last night And I can’t help but back up when I think of what happens inside Nate feels alienated by religion and how it functions and its views. I got friends locked in boxes, that's no way to live What you're callin' a sin isn’t up to them After all, (after all) I thought we were all your children, I think this part is about how religion forces lgbtqa+ people to stay closeted. I also think the "boxes" he's referring to may be confessionals. Confessing their sins there keeps them afraid of being who they really are. But I will die for my own sins thanks a lot We’ll rise up ourselves thanks for nothing at all, So up off the ground up our forefathers are nothing but dust now This lyric is about how the religion of those who came before us shouldn't define our belief system. If someone wants to die for themselves, let them, because they feel it's more empowering and they don't need anything from religion. . Maybe I should learn to shut my mouth I am over twenty-five and I can’t make a name for myself some nights I break down and cry I’m lucky that my father’s still alive he’s been fighting all his life And if this is all I’ve ever known then may his soul live on forever in my song I know Nate's dad has some sort of illness that he's been fighting for a really long time. I think this how Nate's dad is going to live in his music, and not his prayers. That music is just as effective a religion as anything else. The chorus is just about taking progress and struggle one day at a time, and that hopefully the world will be a better place when we die. I certainly don't think that this song is anti-christian, but I think this song is a criticism of the way people have used religion to bully people into living in fear, keeping them from being who they really want to be. |
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| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Okay, so I think this song can also be interpreted to being straight up about religion as well as a dysfunctional relationship. It compares one's relationship to religion to a romantic relationship and vice versa, and it also talks about love facing religious adversity, and could be about being gay. In the first verse, he's talking about how religion is losing it's relevance. "My lover's got humor/She's the giggle at a funeral." And that we all should've "worshipped her sooner" because according to Christianity, we're all sinners. Then, he gets sarcastic, saying that "if the heavens ever did speak/She's the last true mouth piece," implying that maybe the heavens don't speak at all. The part about each Sunday getting more bleak is pretty straightforward, stating that Christianity can breed hate. The part about being told they were "born sick" could be a reference to how the church views homosexuality. The "worship in the bedroom" part draws a comparison between private prayer and sex. "The only heaven I'll be sent to/Is when I'm alone with you" says pretty bluntly that love is what truly brings salvation. The chorus talks about how he feels like he has to unquestionably worship his religion like a dog, and that if he really confesses his "sins" (being gay), he will literally be offered "deathless death" as he could face violence from extremists. In the next verse, he talks about how he's called a "pagan" because of his "good times," and that the only way to keep "the goddess on my side" is to give a sacrifice, and keeping with the metaphor at hand, he means love. Then talks about draining the ocean (the opposite of a flood, so opposing a part of the religion) to get something shiny (parts of the bible that condemn homosexuality), so people drain all the important parts of the bible and ignore them just so they pick and choose what they want to value, and then the "something meaty for the main course" is love between two members of the same gender. The part about the high horse is about how people use religion as some righteous moral code, but if you look in the stable, there's not much there, and lots of people are loosing their faith, and that the only way to attain is to sacrifice love. The bridge talks about having sex, and that it's just two people and nothing more, and that that's the only thing that makes him feel human and clean, not religion. Amazing song. |
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| The Format – If Work Permits Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I think this song is about getting over someone, and that someone had a scary perception of love (the section of the kid being abused) and they "they think twice about where they're anchoring" because they're not sure if new love will end up like that experience as a kid. | |
| Arcade Fire – In the Backseat Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I think this song is about losing a family member and suddenly having to make huge decisions for your family. "The backseat" is a metaphor for being in a place where you don't have to make the decisions. The part where she talks about "Alice died" and "My family tree's/Losing all its leaves" shows that the singers family is dying, and they're "crashing towards the driver's seat" because they were thrust into a position of responsibility they weren't ready for. The singer says "I've been learning to drive/My whole life" is about how your elders are always teaching you how to live life, how to drive the car when you're eventually in the drivers seat, but that nothing can really prepare you when "crash towards the driver's seat." | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – The New Year Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is mostly about the lies people tell themselves in times where you're obligated to be happy, like the New Year. The first two lines "So this is the new year/and I don't feel any different" sums a lot of the song up. The perception that things change and start over and get better after the New Year is a false perception. "The clanking of crystal/Explosions of in the distance" I believe is talking about fireworks, but the "explosions of in the distance" could also be about the horrible events to come. The part where Gibbard talks about resolutions, and calls them "self asssigned penance/for problems with easy solutions" is about how everything everyone wants to solve with their resolutions is so easy to solve but instead we have to condemn ourselves to these BS resolutions that we're never going to follow through on. "So everybody put your best suit or dress on/Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once" is about how people are pretending that things are going to get better but they're all sort of fake. At the same time, it doesn't sound like they're being condemned for their fakeness, in fact, it sounds as though the singer is joining in. The song is more a sad acknowledgement of the way we have to celebrate as opposed to a cynical barrage on people's happiness. The next stanza is a musing about how the singer wants closeness with people and that modern advances meant to bring people together just make them feel farther apart. This is very similar to what Gibbard talks about in the album's title song "Transatlanticism." |
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