| Ray LaMontagne – Empty Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the song is about depression in a way, but it's more about the inconsistency between Ray and the girl like some have claimed. In the beginning he introduces the idea that he's a bit jealous of her outlook on life, so easy-going and careless. He laments that he spends most of his time fighting wars with meaning, and struggling to understand suffering. Then in the final verse he wonders, conversely, how she survives by being ignorant to the darker truths, because it's the hurt inside that fuels the fires inside you. I also have to agree, by the way, with the comment that the "...and I must admit you kinda bore me" lines are possibly Ray's best ever. |
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| Jason Mraz – Live High Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The first verse is a beautiful introduction into this Mraz-esque view of perception and perspective. He sees this girl as all these things, just a jumble of carbon atoms (which is basically what we all are too) and at the same time this entire world (which we also know people to be) existing amongst all these other worlds. A very cool way of looking at people as more than just other runners of the rat race. The rest seems to be the celebration of this realization that we're all worlds to ourselves, and worlds intertwining. We are so concerned with the 'why' that we don't seem to take enough time to appreciate that it simply is. I particularly like his explanation of God "peeking through the blinds" as if He were just sort of watching us casually at a pleasant enough distance. I think the second verse ties into this religion idea where it seems like Jason is describing how he sees God. I'm pretty sure he says "The call of the wild is still an order nation wide" which is to say that somewhere inside us we all still feel this communion with the world around us. We all feel, as hippie as it sounds, a connection with nature. I think he continues that kind of hippie idea into the next lines with "in the order of the primates, all our politics are too late" He's saying we have to realize that in the grander scheme of things we're grown up monkeys. Not in the literal sense of it, maybe, but we came from such humble beginnings even if you don't believe in evolution. I like how he touches on religion but never makes it the centerpiece to the song, he makes life the religion really. He preaches this attitude of living proud of who you are and what you are. There's endless possibility if you're brave enough to chase after it. |
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| Jason Mraz – Love For A Child Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Probably the best song about being a child in the middle of a divorce I've ever heard. Phenomenal. The beginning part is such a fantastic child-like description of watching your parents marriage fall apart. There's these observations like "apparently the chemicals weren't mixed properly, you hit your head and then forgot your name" as he witnessed one of his parents infidelity that really make the song personal. I really love the line "Was I too young to see this with my eyes?" because it really does change you. It's still up to you what you choose to do with it, but as Jason explains it does change a lot of things. I also love the "I'm far too old to care about that now" because eventually you just want to forget about all the blame and just be able to love your Mom and Dad without all the bulls---. It's obvious he's been there, it's like he pulled a page from my life and I'm sure it affects others the same way. Awesome work. |
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| Jason Mraz – Absolutely Zero Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think sweetbabe88 has it pretty much pegged. It's a pretty universal story, though. You find love with someone, it falls apart because your lives change, and that's really tough because you're still in love, but you just shouldn't/can't be together. I think the struggle for blame aspect of the song is probably the most important. Since it's no one's fault for bettering themselves there's really no one to blame for all the pain that comes with losing the other. Plus, since there was love in the relationship, there's that desire to see the other person have a better life conflicting with the selfish desire to have them in your own life. It's a tough personal battle and I think Mraz put forth a really great insight into it. The "so who am I to say, this situation isn't great" I think refers to their relationship (probably long distance) and their internal struggle with putting love to bed. I wonder sometimes if "this could happen to me" refers to the actual act of falling in love with someone rather than losing them. I sort of like that idea better but that might be personal preference. Anyway, a fantastic Mraz song that always puts a lump in my throat. |
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| Paul Simon – How Can You Live in the Northeast Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I find the point of the song more to be empathy. Simon first makes the point that everything is subject to questioning by someone else. Somewhere, there's someone, who thinks your way of life is absolutely nuts. It's important to remember this, especially just as this album was being written (just after 9/11/01), because we need to realize that down deep we are all made up of the same things. On the surface, though, we are all vastly different and it's just as important for us to recognize. The challenge is to empathize with each other for those differences and recognize that it makes the world that much richer. There's something to learn from every one. I particularly love the "everyone hears an inner voice" because it accentuates that idea that inside we're all the same. Just because we get a "different tongue" to speak the musings of that inner voice, doesn't mean it's any less, or more, important than anybody else's. Empathy, really is, the only hope for world peace. |
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| Paul Simon – Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think it's about the intangibles in life. For the girl, happiness is this money she's got. She wears diamonds on the souls of her shoes to get beyond the trials of ordinary life. Then there's the poor boy, who doesn't have that luxury, but doesn't have anything to lose, in more than one sense, and takes a chance with the rich girl. With her current man Paul does beautiful things with words by saying "she was physically forgotten" as in he hadn't been paying attention, at all, to the simple fact that she was a beautiful woman. He had been too busy paying attention to her diamonds. The chorus's are perfect, so open to interpretation, that it is the best definition for that feeling of love anyone could really try to write "ooh ooh" Teaspoon, sign of the wave, no idea, but you get the sense it means something cool, right? They intend to go out dancing, but wind up in the shady side of town, sleeping in a doorway, having learned what it means to have diamonds on the souls of their shoes; to truly lose these walking blues. I think Paul makes his point pretty clear, then uses some really astounding metaphors and symbolism, as well as cool wordplay, to make the listener make the connections inside, rather than having to put all parts together logically. Everyone feels the same basic thing when they hear the song: Enjoy Yourself. Because rich is something you are inside, not out. |
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| Paul Simon – 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yeah, Paul is a genius in that he is a "song" writer, he doesn't just do the lyrics or the music. The free-wheelin, care-free method of the chorus is symbolic of the real idea to the song. It seems like everybody gets the point, that it's actually very easy to leave someone, but that heart thing gets in the way and makes it complex and difficult. The verse's bring you back to that dark, depressing feeling of loss, then the chorus's are that, hard to ignore, reminder that it's really easy to leave your lover, 50 ways - easy, in fact. | |
| Pearl Jam – 4/20/02 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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So, I'm a bit confused. The version I have of this song is Eddie speaking, telling a gut wrenchingly honest story about a break-up, and a sort of realization of mortality. It's amazing, yet, those aren't the lyrics, though when I look the song up other places that's the title too. Sorry, maybe I'm crazy. |
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| Ray LaMontagne – Empty Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't see it as depressed, really. I don't think you have to depressed to ask why you have a hollow feeling inside, a missing sense of purpose. I think it's a great description of the cloud that sort of follows you, even through the best of times. The final verse, is the most poetic, undeniably. I think it comes from the voice of a man who has put his heart/soul out there to be judged/denied/hurt however you want to label it. I think the line "I've been to hell and back so many times I must admit you kinda bore me" is singly one of the best Ray lines. I see it as saying, "you're kidding yourself if you think you can manage to hurt me; this is hardly a scratch." Anyway, a beautiful song, with a lot of great meaning to be drawn from it, I think. Ray rox. |
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| Alexi Murdoch – Breathe Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| To me, the song presents a pretty cool concept. It's enough to keep your head above water, enough struggle goes into just doing that; but while you're struggling not to drown, you forget to ever enjoy the fruits of the labor. Get your head above water, work hard and support yourself, but don't forget what you're doing it for. Enjoy it from time to time. Don't forget to breathe. | |
| Rascal Flatts – What Hurts The Most Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Oh, wow, I think this has gotten sort of blown out of proportion. It's a simple enough 'I miss you' which Rascal Flatts does really well with "I'm Moving On" under their belts. I think it's just about having that relationship that goes wrong even though you tried your best to make it work. It's about how you move on from that. It's even more difficult, I think, when there's still love and a relationship falls apart. Another tear-jerker about watching someone you love slip out of your hands. | |
| Mat Kearney – In The Middle Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Um, yeah, or it's just about a girl ... It's kind of an 'I really went for it" song. He describes from an early age getting out there and going for it. He pushes hard to make sure he never ends up simply in the middle of the pack. Inspirational however you want to take it. The trick is to never let youself be just another blank face, let's keep that in mind, though. That's what the song's really about. |
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| Mat Kearney – Where we gonna go from here Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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the last verse should be: I've waited and I wait some more won't see me knockin on another door but all of this is crazy and amazing it's only one half of us that I'm saving so I'm praying, just to let it go watch from a distance, just to see you grow In the end he just wants to let go of her, because he knows she's already moved on with her life. In the beginning lines I think he says 700 places, 700 faces, one" as in, out of all the faces she was one that stood out... a nice Petty reference though probably unintentional. He loses the girl to another guy because he can't be around, he even references her father's advice for her, "Father, got the best plan, saving his daughter, for the best man," which would probably not be a struggling musician. A beautiful misbegotten love song. |
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| Mat Kearney – Renaissance Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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In the beginning he says that this is his second chance, how he means to show her that he's been reborn as something better, i.e. a renaissance. I think the car crash was when he realized how much he loved her. Things like that have a way of making you appreciate the things in your life as we all know. He hears her voice telling him that she's there for him when he's down, when he's broken, but something has to change, right now. He then returns to his sentiment of a second chance. The second verse is him realizing, too late, how he had been building these "two-faced towers for hours on a lease" and that it had taken her leaving for him to realize his mistakes. He's standing on his own now. Perhaps what she means by "heard it in the song when you call out" is that she can hear potential in his music, but she feels like he needs to do something about it, sit or get off the pot I guess. This album, then, would sort of be his renaissance, him following his dream and just going for it. Just a thought. In the end I think it's a bid for her love again, showing her that he still thinks of her, still loves her, and that he's learned from his mistakes. |
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| Mat Kearney – All I Need Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Mat says in his concerts that this song was about his two friends escaping from Hurrican Katrina. Before I knew this I always thought the song was pretty inspiring, and was afraid knowing would somehow make it lose its effect for me. The opposite became true, though. It's the greatest imagery for true love; two people who literally have nothing but each other. Mat paints the picture amazingly well using a lot of loose images. You can really empathize with those people who were suddenly faced with losing their entire lives. When all that matters is your life, and the lives close to you. He takes you step by step through the hurricane's landfall, but I particularly love the statement he makes about love. "I know I love you, if that's all we can take" because in this particular case it really is all they can take with them. When love is all you've got it becomes something concrete, something you really can hang onto, the only thing worth hanging onto in the end. |
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| Mat Kearney – What's a Boy To Do Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The whole song is about Mat's search for a handle on life. The entire song is really summed up in the last couple of lines of the first verse. At first he remembers the past, when he was a kid and faced all the things he faced. He remembers his father telling him he'd never make it through, that he'd always fail. He remembers the ridicule from his peers and the ever pressing desire just to fit in. Then, the song seems to switch gears. In the second half of the song Mat's older and he comes upon this horrific scene. You can even notice the change in how the music sounds. He's struck by how easily that could have been him. The jeering voices have quieted now for him, but he relates to this kid who's taken the other option, suicide. But, he remarks, it's not like those days when his father looked down on him. I think it's a bit sarcastic, though and he's saying that really not that much has changed. He's actually still afraid of his dad, he just doesn't have to admit it anymore. Instead of going to a friends party and landing a "holy kiss," he could've went out to the bridge. |
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| Bernard Fanning – Songbird Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| To me, this is a song about that person in everyone's life who always seems to have something wrong with them. Whether it's a medical affliction, some allergy or a bumped knee, or some fantastical emotional mountain to climb; it never ends. Nothing is ever enough, not even love. | |
| Bernard Fanning – Further Down The Road Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is probably my favorite Fanning song. To me it's about that confusion over falling in love. There's always reason to turn and run, always something or another to make you think twice. The main character realizes this and wonders if he'll ever be able to get over himself and comes to the best conclusion anyone can in this case: wait and see. Love is best taken just one day at a time, nightfall through the breaking dawn. | |
| Citizen Cope – Sideways Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Cool interpretation "youknow" being in a relationship myself I take a lot of it the same. To me, though, he's simply wary of the relationship because he's been there before. He's seen relationships fall apart, but his feelings just won't go away. It's so easy to make it a song about the loss of someone, but sometimes being in love with someone can make you feel just as desperate and helpless. It's not that the love is good or bad, just really strong. Whenever she comes around he finds himself infatuated with her like it was the first time he saw her, and it just never seems to go away. | |
| Citizen Cope – Son's Gonna Rise Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Your next chance is just another mile down the road, always. To me, that's what the song means. The duality of "son" vs. "sun" I think is important. There's a lot of beginnings about to occur in the moment on the highway. His child is about to be born, (the son's gonna rise), he's about to be a father himself (the son's gonna rise), and everybody's life is changing (the sun's gonna rise). Definetly about hope, and how we're always just a moment away from a change that will turn everything around. | |
| Tom Petty – Saving Grace Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| On an album entitled "Highway Companion" this song fits perfectly. Petty, one of the best storytellers, puts you in the passenger seat as he drives cross country. Great driving song. | |
| Tom Petty – A Face In The Crowd Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love the way Petty paints love in this song. If you think about it everyone is just another face in the crowd, until we put a name, or a life to it. After that we'll always find that face unconciously. It is quite astounding that any of us ever find one another ... yet we're always bumping into one another at the same time. | |
| David Gray – Slow Motion Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This has become one of my favorite DG songs. To me, it's about how some moments in your life seem to just defy time. Raindrops, snowflakes, and even people sometimes seem almost suspended in time. I really like the simplicity, it keeps it such a beautiful sort of sacred sentiment. "While I was watching, you did a slow dissolve" ... and you can almost see her dissapearing gradually. | |
| The Fray – Over My Head (Cable Car) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I don't know if the whole song is really a love story. The song speaks to the hectic world that turns us all into different people. To me, the character is facing a large portion of his ordinary life dissapearing for some reason, perhaps it's the girl. In the beginning of the song he remarks how he never knew that everyone was simply just waiting to take off and run away, what ever it was that spurred the reaction, he labels as the "truth." He also says that it seems like it's coming down to nothing more than just not caring at all, but he'd rather try the other way, run the opposite direction of everyone else, and see what happens and who's left when it all settles again. In the second verse he speaks directly to his group of friends about how he wishes he could just lay down and take it, whatever "it" may be. The character sees a problem with this, saying that it's just ignorance that would be getting them through, so the canyon, the division between him and these people, grows wider. Losing an argument in the cable car is just the last great straw that breaks. In the third verse it's finally falling apart, just like he knew that it would, but he's not happy just letting it "fall apart" he believes they deserve something more than that, and decides they should fight for it. Even if it turns out that it wasn't all that worthy of being fought for. It's also possible that the arguments with this group of people has torn apart his relationship with the girl mentioned in the chorus. The character would then be refusing to let it be an outside force that causes them to fall apart if that's really what will come of them. The chorus, I think, is possible evidence that the whole thing started over a girl. To me, though, the girl is just what's getting him through all this. He's got just eight seconds left in overtime, the whole of his life has gone crazy and he feels like he's got just a few moments to sort it all out and decide to win or lose, but there she is on his mind. Perhaps she's the reason everything is changing, perhaps not. Just an interpretation of the song. I have my own version, but I think literally this is what the lyrics speak to. |
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| Pete Yorn – EZ Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I just think this song is probably the best Yorn's written, maybe not technically, but emotionally. Yorn is the master of the one-liners that catch you, the lines "so this is a mistake" seem to be the most poigniant in this particular song. | |
| Pete Yorn – Just Another Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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To me the song isn't contradicting at all, because after all, isn't your baby, just another girl to someone? Wasn't she that to you at some point? I think it's just about this girl he saw for a while whom maybe he apparentaly fell for in a way, though I don't know how in love he really has to be. The song is meaningful to me in that it takes it all down to square one, he's got this memory of watching her sunbathing in the garden and it's passionate for him, but at the same time, now she's just another girl. Everything he mentions is in past tense which leads me to believe it's not really meant to be a romantic song, though the music does facilitate that. It's a great, gorgeous song however you interpret it, just my own way of looking at it. |
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| David Gray – Nos Da Cariad Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Nos Da Cariad means Goodnight Sweetheart It's the never-ending hope that tomorrow will be better than today. Go to sleep and tomorrow you will find your life again. |
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| David Gray – Ain't No Love Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is about the deadness of life sometimes in my opinion. He's making his way through days that just pass and seem to have no point other than to take time. There isn't any love or passion waking him up in the mornings telling him to go and live life to the last ounce. He remembers the days that he spends chasing some naive dream, probably recollected from long ago, and dusted off to simply give him something to believe in again, but it never lasts. He tries to pretend that tomorrow it will change and turn out alright still. The end of the song is a sort of resignation, and I think something we all find out eventually. The character starts by seeing the beauty of a tree covered in fresh rain but the slow depression coils its way around him still, even in the face of such an image. The character pulls back from himself and finally sees how insignificant it all really is now. He sees himself standing there next to that tree, hardly moving, hardly a quiver in the dirt, and realizes his own insignificance. It's not an awful realization, in my opinion, just the knowledge that no matter how much it hurts, it's still only a day passing amongst a thousand of them. The song is supposed to embody the spirit of those rainy days you spend watching out your window wondering how it all went wrong. You wonder why you still wake up daily when there's no great love in your life. What carries your soul when there's nothing around to pick it up? |
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| Damien Rice – Delicate Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I figured sing Hallelujah could easily be a favorite song i.e. Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" which is a moving song to say the least. Perhaps he's asking her why she would pretend to have that in her if she really didn't. As for the song in general: it sounds to me like a forbidden love story as well. I don't think it's outside forces that are causing it to be forbidden, though. Just their own foolish hearts. |
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| Foo Fighters – DOA Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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We're all DOA. We enter the world knowing that one fine day we're going to die. I think the song is a guy remembering the things good or bad that made it worth living. It also seems romantic like he's telling a girl all of this with the message of "live your life, cause it could be your last chance" why not have fun with it? |
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| Foo Fighters – Razor Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| suicide, pondering suicide. | |
| Jimmy Eat World – Drugs Or Me Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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To me the song is not about dealing with a significant others abuse, but about dealing with your own. The girl is leaving him (perhaps because of his drug use, but that's speculation) but he's so far into the drugs that he can't tell if it's her that's hurting him or the drugs. The first lines are speaking of his love, but they could either be the girl or the drugs, right? Throughout the song he makes references that could either be about her or drugs. It's gotten to the point now, where ... you guessed it, he can't tell her from the drugs. She can't see this other person, which is actually him, but the drugs have made him a stranger to himself. To me, he's addicted to both of them. She's begging him to stop, but since he can't tell her from the drugs, stopping one would mean stopping both |
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| Pearl Jam – Release Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Yeah, this is kind of Eddie's super inside me song. It was written in a few takes from Mike and Stone tuning their guitars. Eddie just started singing and this is essentially what came out on the first take. It is a message to his father like everyone said, but I think it really can apply to anyone who has had troubles with their father. It helped me through some very very difficult times. | |
| Pearl Jam – Off He Goes Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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It's about Eddie himself I'm fairly sure. It was mentioned in either of the books "None To Fragile" or "Five Against One" The song seems to be an introspective view of himself. As if he were meeting himself. The "shit-friend" idea mentioned before is what it sounds like to me. He's changed so much over the years, though he's still the same old Eddie when he can finally relax. He's got all this stuff going on inside of him tearing him apart, and he's sort of imagining what his old friends must think of him now. Now that they know all about him, and he's a huge star. When he returns home people get to know him again, and they realize he's the same old Eddie. The guy from the Drama club who always did something crazy. But things slowly come back and he has to take off again. He has to be big star again Eddie again. Just my thoughts, and it really is a powerful song when thought of like that for me, so that's all that really counts I guess. |
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| Pearl Jam – Deep Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I don't think there's any real heaven hell reference in this song. He's just saying an uptown girl came down to the streets. Maybe a suburbanite come to score some pot or something. This guy has sex with her, essentially rape, but I don't think it's by force. I think he does it through basically extortion. She does it because she has to. | |
| Pearl Jam – Low Light Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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To me the song is about a confused love. This couple is falling in love staring up at the clouds rolling away. And one makes the coment that "reeling" is what other people would call the feeling that they are having, then they question, "or is it just my way" It falls apart and he's really bittered by it ... "blood runs dry", but realizes "books and jealousy tell me wrong, I will feel calm," but then "poise blows by" The regrets he feels about this girl make him wear this mask to hide. The tidbit he thinks of is that he was her first love, but she'll be his last, which I think is beautifully written. So is the next part "two birds is what they'll see, getting lost upon their way." It's probably the most powerful part of the song, to imagine this gray sky and watching two brids getting seperated from each other in a storm. It's such a simple thing, yet it feels so tragic. The end is the guy getting his strength back, when he asks himself what is truly real? It's only the dream he has ... that's the only thing that is truly real. Beautiful song, no matter how you interpret it. |
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| Pearl Jam – Garden Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| It's actually "shade don't wander in here" referring to the lights of the city. It, to me, is about the ugliness of modern life. We claim to be more civilized but we just keep to ourselves more now. We don't help each other, yet Eddie says he'll raise his own flag in this garden (Eden) of stone. We have turned the garden of Eden into this bustling city. He says that in the end we'll all still be alone despite our efforts, but he won't be taken. He'll go there of his own power if he has to go. The theory is helped by the beginning of the song saying, "the defection of the soul nauseously quick," which is a common complaint about the big city ... we lose our souls. | |
| Pearl Jam – All or None Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I agree that it's about love. It's really easy to bring Bush into it if you want, and I can see the argument for it. The music, which is all important in Pearl Jam's level of maturity, seems to hint towards a more heart-felt song. I see it as an unrequited love as well, perhaps a newly unrequited love, though. Like the person he loves fell in love with him for a short time then fell apart again. Now he knows that it's all of love, or none. It's one of those situations where you either have all of it or none of it, there is no in between. | |
| David Gray – Be Mine Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| The back up singers are singing ... my body's on fire, now my heart is on fire, now my body's on fire, now my world is on fire, now my heart is on fire, am I losing my sanity ..." | |
| David Gray – Real Love Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This is a great song about realizing you are in love. Finally coming to accept that what you have is something real. He wakes up one morning and sees the dawn coming up and overflows. He finally appreciates what he has. Something inside him is telling him that it's time he went ahead and stopped being afraid. It's just the very simple, very beautiful story, of that moment of realization. |
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| David Gray – December Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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To me it's about dealing with his fathers cancer. Almost like "A Long December" by Counting Crows he's spending tons of time in hospitals. He's hugely popular now because of 'Babylon' but all that greatness is drowned out by this sadness. He's seeing his riches falling to the floor, meaningless now that his father can't share it with him. "Oh my mind, what happened, to the time?" is something we all know very well. He's thinking about all the time that seems wasted now, and how he wishes he would've spent it better with his father. At first I thought the second verse was sort of sexual, but then I thought of the mystery that is cancer. His body is destructive to itself, slowly eating itself. Thus the reference to dynamite and "killers underneath our skin" Everything is dark to him now that his father is dead. The flowers are black and even the mirrors seem blackened. Nothing shines, not even the skies. |
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| David Gray – Silver Lining Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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It sounds like he's looking back on an innocence lost. It's like advice to others coming up. Take this innocence and keep it, take that light and don't lose it. He goes through a mock childhood prayer "The only things worth living for are innocence and magic - amen" He's also posing the question as to why we all lose that and get dragged down into the darkness. To me it's advice to the coming generation to keep that innocence because everyone seems to lose it. |
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| David Gray – Babylon Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I see it a little differently but essentially the same. There's a guy who's looking back on a recently split relationship and the frustration of it all. He's broken down and can't find a way to get out of it. He can see all his mistakes but thinks he was a fool to do it at all in the first place. In the second verse, he goes out on the town gets kinda high and has a good time. Then he realizes how much he wishes she was there, and how much he really wants to be with her. He asks her to just let go of all the things that found their way into seperating the two of them. Go back to that utopia where they just lived. The next day he wakes up and chases after her to tell her. He can't find her and goes back to his house. Then he finds her there waiting for him because she has let go of all those things finally. A happy story. The guy screws up, realizes it, chases after girl, guy and girl get back together. Awesome song. |
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| David Gray – My Oh My Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| It's about being beaten. Those days when you come home and it doesn't seem like you make any difference at all in the world. You're just an outsider, cold and indifferent. He can remember a time when he was alive and everything seemed so much brighter. Now things have become thin and dim. Describes early twenties perfectly. | |
| David Gray – The Other Side Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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The song describes death of a loved one perfectly to me. That, or losing someone in general for a long period of time. Probably one of the most lyrically perfect songs in my opinion ever written. The person is trying to deal with all this loss and make sense of it, but he's just not strong enough to hold the emotions in. Then in the second verse he apologizes for his wrong and mentions that no matter what anyone does, no matter how fast we run, we'll never escape the things we've done. I've never seen it put so perfectly, though. The final verse is the best. He says that he knows it would be crazy to offer this person help because he doesn't really have a leg to stand on, but he will anyway. Yet it's not going to do any good and they both know it. The comparison of love to the dark symbol of a raven is fantastic. Then comes the final heart-felt admission that he still, after all that he's gone through, and all his years searching, doesn't know what love really is. It's a testament to how we will never really know what love is. |
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| David Gray – Freedom Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| It's easy to sell this one simply to death but I think it describes all of depression really. The whole song simply describes what it's like to grieve in a world that only feeds you more and more. I love this song, and agree, it's absolute perfection. | |
| David Gray – Coming Down Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I absolutely love this song. This man is walking the streets really late at night and sort of strung out on coke. He's remembering this girl with whom he had a fairly good relationship with. I love the images he puts into it ... "when I hold you naked, when I hear you laugh ..." and "we danced wild, we kicked off our shoes, not a cloud in the sky to confuse, but now the sky is cold ... etc. A great song about what it is to truly miss someone. | |
| David Gray – Flame Turns Blue Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I think this is one of David's better written songs. A very sad song about meeting up with an old lover who has changed a lot. He missed her so he went to her, but she's a stranger now. He's going through town and getting stabbed by all these memories of the mistakes he made. He's hoping that she's going to meet him somewhere down the road. He keeps hanging onto that hope that she'll meet him just a bit down the road. | |
| Toad the Wet Sprocket – Pray Your Gods Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I always found it to be an anti-christianity song. Asking for your blood being all the wars that are fought in God's name. Lest we forget Jesus wasn't exactly preaching a sunny future for the world. | |
| Toad the Wet Sprocket – Begin Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| the eternalness of life ... he's in a deep depression and someone shows him a flashlight held close to a wall. It's only a spot as the person is alive. When they die, though, they go everywhere. The person backs the flashlight away from the wall so that the beam of light spreads. I get the impression it's about a child showing this to him. | |
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