| Foo Fighters – My Hero Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Dave had expressly refuted that this song is about Kurt Cobain but it makes so much sense that it would be a song about the guy who got him into music not being able to handle the fame. Kurt (questionably) committed suicide and this song seems to be almost resentful as someone who saw him as a hero and later learned that not only is he normal like me but he couldn’t even deal with the normal day to day problems… | |
| Eagles – Desperado Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I was reading through all of these interpretations, and I think I am going to take a stab at it, because I feel like this song is (sadly) my life verbatim. Although obviously mentions a woman, I do not feel this song is solely about a relationship. I think this is more about a man who is terrified of love and affection. Scared to let anyone close because he has been hurt before once or many times. He thinks that he is happier in this world of isolation that he has created for himself that he ever could be in the "real" world. Some people also say this song is about addiction, and it may be, but bad decisions and self isolation don't have to be the result of an addiction. First off he mentions "You've been out ridin' fences for so long now" which I take to mean that this is obviously a choice he has made to isolate himself. In the old west, people would leave their homes for sometimes weeks at a time to "ride fences" to check and make sure their lands were safe. The singer then mentions that he knows the man has his reasons for being the way he is. He doesn't dispute whether or not the man's feelings or valid, only that his choices are hurting him. I think the queen of diamonds/queen of hearts thing is pretty self explanatory but it could also simply be a reference to the fact that money cannot buy happiness in any capacity. "It seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table..." confirms this in my mind, because according to the singer, the man doesn't seem to appreciate all that he does have because he is always looking for better and more than what he has already. Then he tells the man that he isn't getting any younger (as in he is wasting the time that he does have, which makes me think this is an older man talking to a son/grandson/good friend). He references the pain and hunger of the loneliness the man feels, and then says "Freedom? That's just some people talking...) as if to tell the man that he cannot justify shutting everyone out of his life by calling it freedom, because all he is doing is creating another cage for himself where he is more miserable that what he is trying to hide from. He points out that he still has a "prison," just one that he created while trying to avoid another prison. Then he begins to reason with the man, and try to force an introspective by asking him how can he possibly be happy in a situation like this. Cold is usually a metaphor for loneliness, hence the cold feet in wintertime. The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine, to me, means that life is not happening like it is supposed to normally, because of the isolation that he has chosen to keep himself in. Everything runs together because there is no change from day to day, which, in my opinion, is what the next line is about (not drugs). "You're losing all your highs and lows, ain't it funny how the feelin goes away." To me, this perfectly references the general apathy that sets in when a person does this to themselves. When you don't have the ups and downs that come with an every day normal life, you begin to stop caring, and eventually you stop feeling anything. Nothing matters anymore, good or bad. This is a very easy pit to fall into and a very hard one to climb out of. Just like the singer is trying to convince this guy that he needs change...once the point of apathy is reached, it is required for someone else to point these things out to you because you are just coasting through life with no feelings. Then he tells him to come down from the fences. He tells him that although it is raining, there is a rainbow above him (to point out that life is not as bad as he feels it is), Then and I think this is one of the key words of the entire song, from which I base my interpretation. He says "You better LET somebody love you, before it's too late." To me this is just his attempt to show the man, with his choice of words, that this man has brought this all on himself. There are people out there who want to love him. He is not a bad guy. He is just so afraid of opening himself up again that he doesn't want to risk it. I think this entire song is great because the singer can empathize with the man with whom he is talking. He tells him that he cannot be happy trying to live an isolated life just to try to spare the pain of every day life. Things happen, both good and bad, and hiding from them isn't going to remove pain from your life, just give you more pain, and nobody to be there for you when you hurt. I dunno, I just figured I would take a stab at it. |
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