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”
Since I'm putting down
All of the true things around, but I like it
Handed down the crown
Given the jewels and the answers of May
The thought of being ousted
Comes and goes
Comes and goes
When I think about it, the wind blows
Hate it, hate it, hate it
Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it
Run me out of town
Somewhere a move might intended a gown in
Pissed out all the vowels
Always the blues and a delicate smile
Missed all of the sideways
Gull and noun
Gull and noun
Chills and petty Band-Aids wrapped around
Hate it, hate it, hate it
Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it
Good grief
Good grief
Since I'm putting down
All of the true things around, but I like it
Handed down the crown
Given the jewels and the answers of May
The thought of being ousted
Comes and goes
Comes and goes
When I think about it the wind blows
Hate it, hate it, hate it
Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it
All of the true things around, but I like it
Handed down the crown
Given the jewels and the answers of May
The thought of being ousted
Comes and goes
Comes and goes
When I think about it, the wind blows
Hate it, hate it, hate it
Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it
Run me out of town
Somewhere a move might intended a gown in
Pissed out all the vowels
Always the blues and a delicate smile
Missed all of the sideways
Gull and noun
Gull and noun
Chills and petty Band-Aids wrapped around
Hate it, hate it, hate it
Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it
Good grief
Good grief
Since I'm putting down
All of the true things around, but I like it
Handed down the crown
Given the jewels and the answers of May
The thought of being ousted
Comes and goes
Comes and goes
When I think about it the wind blows
Hate it, hate it, hate it
Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
No Surprises
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American Town
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Plastic Bag
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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.
The song is called Good Grief, and it seems that it is in response to Kurt Cobain's suicide. It is widely known that Dave reported having a difficult time after Kurt's death and wrote and recorded this album in that aftermath.
"Since I'm putting down all of the true things around, but I like it"
He's in a negative mood, talking shit even about the good things in life, but it feels good to him because he's in such a negative state.
"I handed down the crown, given the jewels and the answers of may"
I think that this means that he WAS handed down the crown. Now that Kurt is gone, he and Krist are the ones who have the responsibility for carrying on the legacy of Nirvana. Given the jewels, as in he had just fallen into Nirvana before Nevermind, and all of a sudden he's the one who has these riches but feels like he doesn't deserve it. The "answers of May" could refer to the aftermath of Kurt's April suicide.
"The thought of being ousted comes and goes"
He feels like he's a fraud and that his music career won't survive now that Nirvana is over. The next big band will "oust" him from the industry.
"Run me out of town"
He's sick of dealing with all the publicity himself and just wants to leave.
"Pissed at all the bowels, always the blues and a delicate smile"
Fed up with all the shit, but he has to put on a smile for the camera and for other people despite feeling down.
"Petty band-aids"
The things that are supposed to make you feel better, the advice that people give - they're just bandages on the wound of losing a friend.
I think the rest of the lyrics are a frustrated attempt to complete the song with nonsense words, either because he was fed up with not finishing it or perhaps partly in homage to Kurt, who would rhyme seemingly nonsense words in Nirvana songs. I'm surprised that this meaning hasn't been proposed before.