| George Ezra – Cassy O Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song is about a guy who loves a girl, but can't quite figure out what he wants. He can't quite commit. His relationship stagnates as he tries to work through his own personal issues. His girl, understandably, becomes tired of his indecisiveness, and contemplates ending the relationship. "Cassy's got a new plan, gotta get herself away Well, I'd better act quick, yeah, I'd better change my ways Oh, maybe I'm wasting, maybe I'm chasing time Oh, come on, let's face it, I'm only ever lost in mine" Cassy begins to decide that she needs to leave; Ezra realizes that he's messed up and that he'd better act. He figures out that all the things that he thought was wrong with the relationship was really just his own insecurities. "Well, I got my tracing paper, so that I could trace my clock And the bastard face kept changing, and the hands, they wouldn't stop I was ripping out the battery, I received myself a shock And to add insult to injury, I could still hear tick and tock" Ezra tries to step back and look at what the problem actually is. As soon as he makes one revelation, a new conundrum surfaces (he's trying to trace the clock, but the hands keep moving). "Cassy's got a new plan, gotta give herself a break And I try, I try, I try, for heaven's sake Well, I traveled to Australia And I traveled there by train This something might sound strange to you But on the way I gained a day" Ezra does some in depth self analysis; he takes a trip either physically or metaphorically, and things begin to come clear. The impossible train ride is an analogy for his disbelief that he finally begins to make progress in understanding his seemingly insurmountable relationship problems (of which he alone is the progenitor). By "gained a day", he means things have become clear, and his state of emotional stagnation has regressed back to the halcyon days of his relationship, when everything was jovial and full of possibility. "And I wrote to tell my family And I wrote to tell my friends I arrived home, it was lost again and this torture never ends" For all his efforts and discovery, he returns to reality to face the issue and realizes very little has actually changed. "Inspector, fix me, my Cassy O's burnt out We're losing memories that I can't replace She says she's tired of me running in circles She says it's time that we took a break" Increasingly dissatisfied with his situation, he begs anyone or anything for help. His girl is done, and she can't put up with it. He realizes that they are currently, and have been for a while, failing to develop new and meaningful experiences. With this failure, their relationship suffers. She's tired of his inability to commit. Or something along those lines. |
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| Mt Eden – Oh That I Had Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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These lyrics are meant to be a metaphor for depression. “Oh that I had, the wing of a dove, to rest on me” The individual desires escape from their situation, but is unable to attain it. “This is not new to me As I sit in this boat” But the depression is ingrained in their being, as the “boat” refers to the vessel that is their mind and body. “But I'm so cold my bones, will freeze And there's nought through the haze” The depression permeates them so deeply that it is felt in the core of their being, and there’s no end in sight. “I've been waiting so long But my hour has gone, away” The individual has long awaited a reprieve from gloom that surrounds them, and they’re afraid their time is up – the onset of suicidal thought, perhaps. "Oh that I had, the wing of a dove, to rest on me This is not new to me As I sit in this boat But I'm so cold my bones, will freeze And there's nought through the haze I've been waiting so long But my hour has gone, away" “To fly back with, a branch in its beak, to rescue me.” An implied distinction between spirit and physical being; they realize they are still salvageable on some level. They understand that the limitations of their physical being – emotional, chemical, psychological—are the cage that stifles their emotional recovery. If the physical, tangible body could just retrieve some branch (a sign of hope from the shore that is the salvation from their depression, as they drift upon an ocean of grief) and deliver it to their spirit, they could be free. "Oh that I had, the wing of a dove, to rest on me This is not new to me As I sit in this boat But I'm so cold my bones, will freeze Oh that [4x] Oh that I had, the wing of a dove, to rest on me This is not new to me As I sit in this boat But I'm so cold my bones, will freeze And there's nought through the haze I've been waiting so long But my hour has gone, away" “He navigates, when I've lost my way He reminds me, to lift my eyes” An appeal to some savior, likely God as portrayed through Christianity or Catholicism, for emotional relief. The individual sees this religion as one of the few glints of light, or “branches” of hope that they can use to uplift them from their sorrow. "Oh that I had, the wing of a dove, to rest on me" A excerpt from Psalm 55:6. The lyrics have a religious overtone, but the primary message is that of how unyielding a deep depression may be, and how impossible it may seem to overcome it. |
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