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”
Sometimes I get so sad
Sometimes you just make me mad
It's a sad and beautiful world
It's a sad and beautiful world
Sometimes I just won't go
Sometimes I can't say 'no'
It's a sad and beautiful world
It's a sad and beautiful world
Sometimes days go speeding past
Sometimes this one seems like the last
It's a sad and beautiful world
It's a sad and beautiful world
Sometimes you just make me mad
It's a sad and beautiful world
It's a sad and beautiful world
Sometimes I just won't go
Sometimes I can't say 'no'
It's a sad and beautiful world
It's a sad and beautiful world
Sometimes days go speeding past
Sometimes this one seems like the last
It's a sad and beautiful world
It's a sad and beautiful world
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Little Feat
Little Feat
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Just A Little Lovin'
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
"'Just a Little Lovin’ is a timeless country song originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1954. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives." https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-just-a-little-lovin-by-eddy-arnold/
Blue
Ed Sheeran
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.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
also a very beautiful song. I think it's about (very simple) how the world can look so beautiful and yet so sad, all at the same (confusing) time. Amazing. I think it holds a lot of truth in it. When your happy, the world seems so beautiful, but yet, there's always something terrible happening at the same time... If you think about that stuff too much you probably get really depressed (just like Mark (singer) was (is?) ) Nice to see how so few lyrics can be so beautiful and never bore you....
The song is about love and that makes the person experiencing it conflicted because he/she feels for the first time the complexity of a love that is beautiful for its purity and yet makes him/her sad because it makes him/her feel vulnerable at the same time. If one has never been the object of pure love then one can always be in control of one's emotions. Control equals safety and that sometimes passes for contentment. Love is chaos and creates conflict. It causes one to feel beautiful (especially if it's the first time one has been the object of unconditional love) and vulnerable because it exposes one to the possiblility that feelings can (and do) flow both ways. It's almost impossible to feel the love of someone and not be conflicted by that emotion.
also a very beautiful song. I think it's about (very simple) how the world can look so beautiful and yet so sad, all at the same (confusing) time. Amazing. I think it holds a lot of truth in it. When your happy, the world seems so beautiful, but yet, there's always something terrible happening at the same time... If you think about that stuff too much you probably get really depressed (just like Mark (singer) was (is?) ) Nice to see how so few lyrics can be so beautiful and never bore you....
Simple lyrics, gorgeous song.
Well, it seems that this song is maybe strongly influenced by The Velvet Underground's "Pale Blue Eyes". At least in the opening of both songs, when Red and Linkous refer to how they feel about a person, Red sings "Sometimes I feel so happy, Sometimes I feel so sad, Sometimes I feel so happy, but mostly you just make me mad..." Then Linkus grabs the spirit of Lou Red's song by singing "sometimes I get so sad sometimes you just make me mad".
Also, the rhythms are quite the same and at a slow pace, and they may talk about a sad guy who is in love with someone but their sad feelings are even bigger than that relationship.
Linkus make his song about that duality between good and bad things and how they're connected up to some point you know. They say behind every beautiful thing there has been some kind of pain as Dylan sang in Not Dark Yet.
I don't know why Linkus committed suicide, and probably the little details are less important than the whole context, in this song we can see how sadness domain his existence even back in 1995 when this precious record came out.