by sherbert lemon on 02-25-2007 @ 09:02:13 PM i think the we can work it over and over and over means yeah sure we can solve things, but cant we always solve things? they just go tits up again at some point and we have to spend all this time and energy sorting it out, over and over again and I'm SICK OF IT! so, no it's not a positive bit of the song. I love the way she is sticking her foot down and saying assertively, right thats it! ENOUGH! don't mess me around saying its in my head, it's for real, no matter how we argue back and forth around the point (walk about). I'm liking this song at the mo, cos it's exactly how i feel. sick to the back teeth. its a positive song because its about a person who gets really down about things but instead of letting life trample over her she is getting angry, and anger is always the first step to recovery. however the 'time to halt' bit does sound suicidal and I'm sure that recovering isnt what she wants to do, because then it will just happen, over and over and over and over and... I feel this way about two things right now, my boyfriend, who i love very much but who i can't cope with the stress of worrying about all the time and my university coarse with the horrible snobby people we get here and my struggling all the way through the coarse, i should have given up a long time ago, every time i pick myself up and reapply myself i get knocked down again, over and over and over. Now i'm thinking maybe its time to throw it all away.

by sherbert lemon on 02-25-2007 @ 06:43:17 AM This song is about ME! a couple of weeks ago my long term, long distance boyfriend broke up with me and I was devestated. I felt like it was impossible that he could just not love me anymore. not because im so great or because he's so constant but because of the nature of love. I simply could not accept the situation as reality. I really felt that we needed to talk so that I could be sure of how he really felt but he refused to speak to me. I ended up leaving a message on his answer phone, feeling like i was queing up in what i then thought of as 'the waiting line'. He was the one i loved but he was also my best friend and I wanted him to say anything to me, to tell me to get lost, or to ignore our situation and just make small talk so that we could get on with 'just being friends'. I was desperate for some sort of communication because it was one thing to dump me but to not want me in his life at all? I was sure that he still loved me and refused to believe otherwise, no matter what practical advice my friends and family gave me to the probability of the contrary. From all of the texts i had sent him to try and persuade him to talk to me I knew he must know how devestated I was and how silly i felt the situation had become, enstranged from reality - i couldnt understand how he could be so cruel to me. couldnt he hear- 'I'm not myself?' this song captures everything that i wanted to say to him exactly, it is exactly what was going through my head at that time. our love was 'love on a line' because it was long distance and based on train lines and phone lines. I felt like i couldnt go on without him, because my life had become a paradox and my brain couldnt cope with the contradictions within what i was being forced to accept as reality. part of me wanted to be practical and say, look, hes a man, and he's flawed, there's plenty more flawed men out there and you dont actually need him, you could have a great time being single. I wanted to concentrate on being friends, then i could build up my independance, esteem and successes - if it was meant, than at some point it'd happen. But it 'all came back to him' i couldnt help but feel. as it turned out i trusted my gut feeling and got on a train and went to talk to him about it and i was right, he did still want me and love me, so we managed to sort things out. i just thought, what an idiot, if only he'd TALKED to me, we wouldnt have gone through all this grief! then i came across this song, and loved it!

by sherbert lemon on 02-24-2007 @ 02:16:10 PM Nope sorry its definately violins, it doesnt sound like violence at all and violins fits much better anyway, im glad that someone looked on imogen heaps own website to clarify it VIOLINS VIOLINS! lol i really liked Maaatt's reading of the song, i think he is correct in his reading and the song can be applied to any situation and relationship - the message of living and getting on with life in a practical way is obviously the most important aspect of this song. HOWEVER, i think that the song is evidently about a long relationship where the women discovers that years ago down the line the man has cheated on her and that he has been immaturely keeping it secret and letting it become a dark cload in the background of thier relationship. obviously affecting his enjoyment of life and making him suffer guilt. she says that truth should be confronted and dealt with so that they can move on and move on they must. she is much more mature about it and realises that it doesnt really matter at all, she forgive him - because it was so long ago and shit happens - we move on. This song makes me think of Toni Morrison's novel, Jazz which i am writing about at the moment. In the book the husband cheats on his wife with a much younger girl, because thier marraige has gone very stale, even though he still loves his wife, the girl dumps him and he ends up shooting her, even though he loves her, the wife mutilates the body of the girl at the funeral but later she comes to realise that she has to make do with what she has, their relationship becomes mended by their shared grief - over the death of the girl, who was both mother and daughter substitute for them. read it its good, very relavent to this song too.

hmm - i usually hate these 'alian abduction' theories, seems like every is so determined to turn any slightly ambiguous song into an abduction! drives me wild. but i think that it might actually work with this song, especially if that is what frou frou says it is about! surely if anyone knows, they do? But its evidently a positive event to the singer. maybe its not so much about alien abduction per say, but about the notion of there being 'something other' than what is, something that can believed in, a better way of life, contrary to popular opinion - everyone calls her crazy. and its certainly been made to sound like its about a secret sexual affair, frou frou must have been aware that they were putting a sexual spin on it. so i propose that it is using an alien narrative to talk about general faith and escape, the courage to believe in the reality of 'crazy' dreams - and more specifically in the context of a secret sexual affair. Is that too subtle and complicated and clever to be true? by sherbert lemon on 02-25-2007 @ 06:15:48 AM or is it that subtle compexity which is the genuis of frou frou?

my experience of this song has moved on since i last posted, so I thought I'd post again - im on page 7 for reference's sake.- my long term boyfriend broke up with me a couple of weeks ago and I was really devestated. I listened to Hide and Seek alot whilst i was feeling sad. Although it did really speak to me, and I listened to it because it fitted with the break up theme so well, I felt MORE then that it might be about something else - perhaps the 9/11 thing... not really sure why that was...however, jumping on the train to the city where he lives in order to sort things out with him, the line 'trains and sewing machines' really jumped out at me, as i was catching trains in order to mend - (in other words i was using a sewing machine). ...we did get back together and the night before i left to come back home we ended up singing the song together, i started and he joined in. I know that we were both stunned by what had happened between us, it all seemed to happen so quickly and it left us behind- the song really captured that for us.

by sherbert lemon on 01-15-2007 @ 02:47:17 PM Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek When I first heard this song I immediately thought of relationships, I too first heard it in the Last Kiss and I went to see the film with my boyfriend so I think my interpretation was biased. most of the explanations people offered on this webpage appealed to me. I think that we should see what imogen said about the song - people reported her talking about betrayal and of the response of president bush to farenhite 9/11. also its seems likely that she wrote it thinking about her parents divorce. I think that this song was written with more than one meaning in mind and so multiple interpretations are intended. what do all these theories have in common? well most of them are concerned with loss, berwilderment, betrayal, sorrow and anger. The song is about grief and alienation of some sort. I think the important meaning of the song is not in the event but in the emotion that that even creates. this is what makes the song so powerful and it makes any interpretation of events unimportant. But the various interpretations people have given have enriched and deepened my listening of the song, so thanks for all of the ideas! What i get from this song is a deep sense of futility, the objects talked about are both so insignifcant and yet so important. The overall effect is of depression, when you are both swamped with emotion yet somehow detatched and numb from any feelings. The cause of this is less important but i think the imagery does well to capture the mood. Another thought is that this song could well be about one thing and a metaphor for another thing, but from what imogen says i think she had more than one thing in mind when the song was written anyway. I love this song, i love sad songs. i wasnt sure about it at first, i thought the effect was a bit tacky but it grows on me with every listening. i think i love it because i begin to understand what she is saying with the music and the way that she has done it, even if i dont understand the story, the music speaks to that part of our soul that words alone cannot reach, the place of pure feeling and experience. we love what we understand with our souls and we love what confuses our minds. by sherbert lemon on 01-15-2007 @ 05:48:49 PM yet - theres also a calmness to this song, for me it doesnt feel completely sad, there is the pain of happy memories or a happy past lurking there. Its the way that one smiles between tears remembering something better, perhaps. times when i have cried and cried and then suddenly i come out on the other side and feel so calm again, in shock perhaps, numb perhaps but its not an entirely bad feeling, its as though the storm has passes and something has survived. by sherbert lemon on 01-15-2007 @ 06:28:47 PM Tom Mcrae -Precious Cargo to me this song is about a father and his very young daughter and i think it is about infanticide. something has gone very wrong and he doesnt want to face the future and he doesnt want to leave her to face it alone either. he loves her yet he feels he has to kill her to preserve her from a worse fate. the song is so gentle and so painful, i really love it. by sherbert lemon on 01-16-2007 @ 09:27:28 AM Aqualung -Strange and Beautiful yes, I got the midsummer nights dream reference too. My boyfriend introduced me to this song, he really liked it and I like it alot too. But i've had some creepy guys trying to stalk me and hitting on me etc and so the stalker side of it freaks me out a bit. I decided that I thought it was probably about date rape drugs. and that put us both off the song. even now when i look at the lyrics and i think it probably wasnt intended that way, i can't get that side of it out of my head. still quite like it tho... by sherbert lemon on 01-16-2007 @ 09:42:04 AM there's definately something a bit twisted about it anyway... but in the assumption of this songs innocence. we liked it because this is kind of how our relationship was, we were good friends and i had quite alot of men chasing me to various degrees and was in various relationships, my boyfriend liked me but never said and i never thought of him as anything but a friend. but one day it suddenly occured to me to see him differently and although i dismissed my feelings, six months later we got together. makes me think of the night before we got together when i woke up in the morning and he handed me a cup of tea. lol. that was it for me - we havent looked back. by sherbert lemon on 01-20-2007 @ 07:07:15 AM Dido - Mary's in India hmm, midnight angel's interpretation is interesting but i dont think intended by the song writer. this song reminds me of nicolas evan's the loop. where the girl's long term boyfriend goes to Africa or somewhere to do charity work and gets really passionate about it so he stays for longer, he stops writing to her and a long time later writes to tell her he has met and married someone else. I think that something similar has happened here, Mary has gone away and discovered a life she prefers to danny, perhaps she already knew she was leaving him for good when she made the plans to go. The singer has known both of them for years and has been a close friend of the couples but has always harboured slight feelings for danny she did not admit to. when mary leaves these feelings come to the fore as she is left to look after danny and comfort him. it makes sense that best friends turn to each other in the absence of one they loved. i dont think they are betraying mary, she betrayed them and she's not going to come back. i like this song because it brings out the maternal in me - lol. by sherbert lemon on 01-21-2007 @ 11:27:31 AM Ben Fold's Five -Smoke it's funny, now i look more closely at the lyrics it seems quite like a bitter break up, but in my mind this song was always about starting afresh. To me this song was about how the couple had got in a real state, keeping records of past blames and hurts and he's burning the metaphorical diary saying, lets leave the past behind, forget all the hurts as though they never happened and live afresh and new. for me it was about letting go of resentments and grudges. their relationship was going to rise out of the ashes like a pheonix, transformed and was never going to be the same again, they never again would hold grudges and records against each other but would live in the present. this song makes me think of a friend who had a really tough time for years, she kept a diary and one day she took all her diary books and burned them all so that she could start to move forwards, i keep a diary too so i can really emphasis with it. to me its about release and is a positive song. maybe it is just a bitter breakup and was intended that way but i prefer to think of it my own way. by sherbert lemon on 02-01-2007 @ 09:19:37 AM Snow Patrol - Run my feelings about this song change depending on my situation but i checked up the lyrics today because it came into my head from nowhere last night. My boyfriend and I are in a long distance relationship, he phones most nights and its always difficult when he puts down the phone 'now we really have to go.' my depression makes me feel a failure alot of the time and i often believe that he is the only thing that i ever got right. it makes me think of goodbyes at the train station. we have never been together together, right from the start we were seperated so that makes me think of the line 'i know we'll make it anywhere away from here.' i believe that when we are finally together we will be very happy but in the mean time its really hard and i get very insecure which is difficult for him because hes always having to look after me so im constantly afraid that my paranoia and sadness is driving him away. when he says 'light up light up' it makes me think of how the only reason their is a problem for us is because i worry, so i create my own problems by not 'lightening up'. so many times i have tried to push him away, trying to get him to break up with me, im not sure why i do it, i think its the fear that i cant live up to his expectations of me, the pressure to be better than i think i am is hard to bear. but no matter the texts i send to him hes always solid and he doesnt worry because he knows im just going off on one again. there are times when i havent heard from him and i think we have split up and its all my fault - i cant hear his voice but he is still there beside me, taking care of me.running for our lives - this makes me think of a song by no doubt called running - check it out its one of my fave songs - when you hear it you will understand why it speaks to my condition. my boyfriend and i are running for the future because the present is too hard for us, if we look to the future and run for it we might make it through and thus 'save our lives''getting out of our little heads' makes me think of my own desperation, all these voices doubts and fears in my mind getting in the way, i cant get myself to shut up.i think this song is about how it seems the only thing we can do is split up until i have learnt to cope with loving him, but even though we split up we are still there with each other still loving each other and hopefully it will just be for a few days and then we can run to the future together. we have not split up by the way we are still together but so many times i lie awake at night thinking that it is the end. last night i flipped again and was in tears for hours, i tried to split up with him again but he never replied to my texts so i didnt know the outcome.this morning this song came into my head out of nowhere, i phoned him and as usual he was a rock, unpreturbed and just telling me how much he loved me.this song is about endurance and hope.