| Jimmy Eat World – Night Drive Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Okay, here's just what I think. What I get out of this is kind of a reckless thing -- they both think, what the hell, they'll go have sex in the back of his car, because it doesn't matter anyway. "Lay back baby and we'll do this right there are blankets in the back we can use" -- She's eager, and he wants to do it right, and offers her blankets. "I'll start to car but we'll stay in park The cold can kill us before the fumes" -- This is where I kinda get the recklessness from. It's like... well it's cold out, so I'll leave the car on in park with the heat on, and besides, we'd die faster from the cold than from the fumes, if we die at all. "Now's the right time for a good song Get something to say what I can't Do you feel bad, like I feel bad? Pour us a road, we'll both drink and drive" -- Now would be a good time for a romantic song, something to enhance the mood but there won't be one. He's wondering is she's thinking what he wants to say -- which is if she feels the same way he does, a little bad, a little careless. So they'll 'pour [themselves] a road [and they'll] both drink and drive' -- which I see as a metaphor as getting the means to do something they really shouldn't. "Kiss me with your cherry lipstick Never wash you off my face Hit me, I can take your cheap shot leave you with the love we made" -- I think, emphasis on think, that he's in love with her, and wants to hold on to her, but after they have sex their relationship kind of falls apart, because they did it at the wrong time, and she wasn't ready, so they part after making love for the first time: "leave you with the love you made." "Come alive on the driver's side So close I taste your breath Your lips go dry but there's sweet inside wine must go right to your head" -- I'm not entirely sure. I think this is describing how they got to having sex -- "Come alive" as a euphemism for becoming aroused, because she's fooling around with him ("So close I can taste your breath") but she doesn't really want to have sex yet, even though she's playing. But "the wine must go right to your head" -- he loosens her up a little, whether actually with alcohol or figuratively so, I don't know. "It'd be easy if you'd get mad But three fingers point back to you We could stay here Stay out all night No one would know, Us and the moonlight" -- It would be easier for her to turn him down if she were mad at him for suggesting that they do this, but she is supposedly the one who initiated the sexual acts. The last four lines are how they could stay there forever, because no one would ever know, to state the obvious? "I set my watch by a street-side clock A needle in an echo groove You pierce my heart like a willing arm Your ticking makes my blood move" -- He's out in his car, the same on they had sex in, at a later date. "A needle in an echo groove": perhaps, an echo groove meaning something repeated, a memory of her. He wants to think about her, but it hurts. I'm not sure, but maybe the ticking is either the clock reminding him of something that happened that night, or something she did that he's remembering... maybe? "There's no way out, This fade out Be happy to get what you do Make him notice... With both fists Quitting alone will never get you dry" -- Maybe there's no way for him to escape the end of their relationship, so he should be happy to get what he did, when he did. The last three lines there, maybe what he overheard someone telling her, about him, what to do to him if he tries to get her back. "Give me everything you've got now I don't feel a single thing Drag me out into the cold rain let it hover over me" -- He feels just awful for what he's done, he doesn't give a damn about himself. He's kind of pleading with her for her to hurt him, to drag him out into the rain and give him what he deserves. He's feeling pretty damn guilty. And then the last refrain, etc., been there, done that. I get the feeling that the song skips around with time and place alot, it's not all one single continuous storyline. It makes a bit of sense more, at least, to me. I'm positive that there's more to this song than love, though. It wouldn't musically be what it is, if it were, think about it!! |
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| Eve 6 – Hey Montana Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I don't know. To me, this song is about a girl who left home and went out on her own, not necesarily to pursue dreams. The world is really harsh to her, and she's kinda depressed and abused by it. Montana to me is her father. The "no one sees the colour of your eyes..." bit is more like "no one cares, no one knows who you are, but you're really beautiful" to me, kind of saying how low things have gotten, but how high they ought to be. | |
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