The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
See the late night talk show guest professional.A movie star and some kind of telectual. He's a she 'cause she's got more obsessional.'Cause whenever I get uptight know you will.See the late night talk show guest I guess you will.A movie star is some kind of telectual.
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
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Lord Huron
This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Cajun Girl
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Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Blue
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Ed Sheeran
“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
wow, awsome song. i love the structure: Light & Beautiful....then: Loud and obnoxious...then repeated throughout the whole song.
This song rocks my scottish-checkered-socks-like-a-llama-plays-the-bagpipes-on-a-hot-December-day! I think think that about wraps it up!
The first thing I thought of when I saw the title, before I even listened to the song was the scene near the start of Fight Club where Jack is laying on the couch watching TV because he can't sleep. After acually listening to it, I haven't changed my mind alot. Somehow I have a feeling that the singer wrote this song while watching TV and he realized he watched it to much, making him a TV Pro, if you will.
Craig in an interview:
Craig: “ This song is meant to sound like it’s a dream. That’s the idea behind the production and the sounds with the effects on the guitar in the verse and the way the vocal sounds. Although the music has that spacey, dreamlike sound, the words are more to do with things that exist in the real world, but I wouldn’t want to get too specific about them. It’s better for people to listen to them however they want. It’s also one of our newer songs, so hopefully it could be a pointer towards the future for us and how we might sound.”
i thing iwannagetfree is right, that would make sense. i like the lalallalalas a lot!
this song kicks ass!
i think this song is about those perfect tv pro's.
i think it's a play on words: TV meaning television & also TransVestite (he's a she) & pro meaning professional & also Prostitute AND THIS SONG FUCKING ROCKS. i can't believe how great it is & i listen to it over & over & over. i can't get over this song & how great the singing is & the tempo changes & just the entire song is freakin amazing. the whole album is fantastic, as good or better than 'highly evolved', & this is the best song along with winning days.
Isn't this supposed to be like a dream? Oh wait - someone already said that. verse one kind of leads you into a (creepy) false sense of security, and then there's that chorusy bit. But as soon as that's started its gone again, and I can't help thinking if I imagined it, cos it's back to the dreamy verse again. Like a journey - great song.
How I adore this song. Electricity storms through me each time I hear it, especially at the more lively points of the song ("ahhh ahhhhhh"...and then the vocal harmonies...and so forth). It is indescribable. And in the verses, the otherwordly quality is very capturing.