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Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
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.
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
Head > Heels
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Head > Heels” is a track that aims to capture what it feels like to experience romance that exceeds expectations. Ed Sheeran dedicates his album outro to a lover who has blessed him with a unique experience that he seeks to describe through the song’s nuanced lyrics.
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“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.
i love this song. its so simple but the music to it is amazing. and it is very true
the break down when the lyrics aren't going is fucking amazing. you can feel the emotion from the music and rarely does that happen.. at least from me. where solely the music affects me. even though its pretty much redundant.. it's amazing. you don't even get slightly annoyed as to the fact that they're repeating the same words over and over again. and i love how its not clean cut and starts off as recorded from like a venue before a show. the fact that it's girl/guy voices too just adds something to it. it's really amazing.
I agree with both of you. This song is amazing,and it's funny how it doesn't get annoying after the 100th time they say it...but it probably would if they didn't change the part or tone. To be honest, this is the only The Sleeping song I've really liked. Whoah, look at the pattern we've all made. Look at the dates of each of our comments
and for the meaning of the line "if your heart was broken you would be dead" I think it's a metaphor saying that when people say they're heart broken, they don't know what they're talking about because they don't know what true love is.
it's like, doug broke up with a dumb bitch and she kept saying "he broke my heart" and doug was like "you dumb bitch, i'm not a murderer." cause its true. any doctor will tell you that you die when your heart breaks. doug probably just "bruised" her heart.
i like how it sounds like children speaking the lyrics, then by the breakdown, theyre all yelling them
I absolutely hated this song when I first heard it.
I listened to it a few months later and I fell in love with it. One of my top 5 The Sleeping songs.
I love seeing this song performed live. It was what made me fall in love with the Sleeping the first time I saw them. Hearing this track sends me back to the night that I first saw them live.