This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
There's a man on the roof
Ignoring the fireworks
The city walks by unmoved
Their laughter looks like tears
On top of a skyscraper
With a foundation of fears
Hopes deferred and dreams
He thinks can't come true
The city keeps hurting him
He crawls to it for medicine
All the answers are here
He's asking the wrong questions
On top of a skyscraper
With a foundation of fears
Empty works and dreams
He thinks can't come true
For what can he do?
What has he to offer to You?
Your Majesty, he's jumping
He's jumping
He's falling
Into Your arms
Ignoring the fireworks
The city walks by unmoved
Their laughter looks like tears
On top of a skyscraper
With a foundation of fears
Hopes deferred and dreams
He thinks can't come true
The city keeps hurting him
He crawls to it for medicine
All the answers are here
He's asking the wrong questions
On top of a skyscraper
With a foundation of fears
Empty works and dreams
He thinks can't come true
For what can he do?
What has he to offer to You?
Your Majesty, he's jumping
He's jumping
He's falling
Into Your arms
Lyrics submitted by jsparisinflames
Skydive Lyrics as written by Vincenzo Petti Ernesto Manozzi
Lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
No Surprises
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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.
Punchline
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Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
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“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
Seems pretty clearly to be about someone wanting to commit suicide. He can't seem to acheive what he hopes for, he keeps getting hurt by people, and can't get answers to his questions. So he's jumping off a skyscraper to escape it all.
What seems a bit odd to me is that the writer seems to be putting this in a positive light. Its as if the writer is pleading to God to "catch" this jumping person because he's doing it for good reasons, if that makes sense - he's doing it because he feels he "doesnt have anything to offer you", and because his good hopes and dreams are being "deferred". It doesnt seem like a sad song, given the topic. Anyway, that's just the impression I get.
Well, OnDistantShores, I believe you are correct in it's about suicide.
But maybe not the way you think. Have you ever been in love with God, but put your trust in friends or your abilities? God has a funny way of telling us that our trust should be in Him. Most of the time, thigns will go wrong in those relationships, or things we put our trust in fail. We end up in a "broken" state, where we feel like we have nothing to offer, and we really don't understand why everything went wrong or why it continues to go wrong. Then God comes and tells us to follow Him, and we have a choice to make: Commit "suicide" to ourselves and our other ways we have been trusting outside of God and fall into His arms (because we are tired of fighting and being hurt), or continuing fighting and being hurt until we get to that point again and are forced to decide again. It's a positive song, because it's a great feeling to release your pain, anger, bitterness, wounds, etc. and just fall into God's arms. Just make that choice to fall into Him, and let Him be your safety, the one in whom you trust.
Nothing revolutionary to state, but it seems the guy has been trying to live on his own, by his own strength. He has been going through life, trying to do things his own way, and nothing is working. Or everything seems to be great on the outside, but he is empty. Anyhow, the guy is at the end of his rope. Which is where the falling into God's arms comes in. The man can no longer go on by his own strength, trying to live his own way. It is in this broken state that God can start to mold and use this man.