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| Dashboard Confessional – The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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i'm reading through all of these entries. and i have to say...i think that chris wrote this song as he was feeling at the time, but i don't think he would object to people taking something from it. a song means something when you apply it to you, and your own life. i also think that the person in the song may be fake. but there's nothing wrong with trying to please other people, in my eyes. she wants to be strong for everyone else, because if they saw her weaknesses...they might think less of her. it's hard being trapped inside yourself, you just want to be able to trust someone, anyone. but once you finally have the courage to trust someone, you know that it's real. you that it's real because you've waited for it for so long. and trusting that one person can ease the pain...and that one person can teach you to be yourself. this song is beautiful, and very relatable. |
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| Tori Amos – Winter Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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this is by far my favorite tori amos song. she starts out in the song as a young girl who adores her father, and he tells her that she needs to be her own person and follow her dreams. she tells him that she "always want him near" and he gently tells her that "things change." he predicts what happens in the second verse. she grows up and gets wrapped up in her life, trying to make her father proud of her. but she soon forgets about the dreams they shared and starts living for herself. she loses the vision of the "crystal palace" and only sees herself. this takes its toll and she then remembers the words of her father. "grey hair" symbolizes her father's age...and the dreams that they shared are still on the shelf, untouched and unlived. she talks to him and discovers that while he wanted her to be proud of him...it was what he wanted from him all these years. it is my belief that the father dies. the "white horses" symbolize heavenly angels, and in the first part of the song, they are still in bed, sleeping...waiting. then at the end, they've "gone ahead." this plainly means that they've taken him with them. this is a lamentation on the wasted years that occured. things did change, so fast...and they lost themselves in their search for the other's approval. in the first chorus, the father says "when you gonna love you as much as i do" and in the second chorus, the daughter says this. this leans toward the idea that they were both wrapped up in their own life at one point. and lastly, in her grief, tori states at the end "never change" in reflection of the wasted years. (i realize all of this information is jumbled up, however, i feel i have a few valid points). |
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| Jimmy Eat World – For Me This Is Heaven Lyrics
| 24 years ago
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"The first star I see may not be a star." That line suggests to me that the author thought he was in love, but his love wasn't meant to be. "If I can't let myself be happy now, then when..." It sounds like the girl is unsure of herself, and is just having fun, but the author became so attached to her. He loved her...and she loved the IDEA of love. He is unsure of how he feels about love at this point, because he was hurt. "Can you still feel the butterflies? Can you still hear the last goodnight?" These questions are asked of his last love, wondering if she still cares. It could also be that when love is over, you soon forget the feelings you felt during it. His "angel" just might be the love that he hasn't found yet. I don't think this song is directed toward one love. I think the author is tired of being stepped on by love, and "losing yourself in your courage." He speaks of the wonderful feelings you feel during a said love, only to find later that they seem shameful and foolish. He is lamenting on his past. His hope, dim as it is, is what pulls him through it. |
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