| U2 – New Year's Day Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This song is the ultimate revolutionary love war chant. It says, in a world gone mad, we can stand for sanity by finding each other. It's incredible stuff. | |
| U2 – New Year's Day Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| No matter what the lyrics say, it all sounds like a poem to a far-away lover to me. It's the ponderings of a person outraged by the senseless violence of the world around him, and his belief, despite it all, that his love for another (if requited) will conquer the war he sees in himself. There's a distance between the author and his lover, and what makes the song exciting is that the author believes he may bridge that gap "tonight." It's such a song of personal empowerment, when you think about it. | |
| U2 – The Fly Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I'm glad to hear that this song makes someone else deliriously happy too. There's something about the guitar solo that will stop me dead in my tracks, no matter what I'm doing. The whole thing is about how the author is just bursting to tell someone about all of life's paradoxes. If you think about it, that's not why the average person would use a payphone--and that's Bono's unique way of telling us that he's inconsequential in the greater workings of things. It's his frustration with not being able to be a bigger part of the great dynamicism of the world around him, and how, when it comes down to it, he's at a loss to even put to words what he feels. These two lines really inspire me: It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest It's no secret that ambition bites the nails of success |
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| Dashboard Confessional – Vindicated Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| To me this song is incredible. The author is having this revelation that he may be able to undo the wrong he has done. And he's just discovering this as he's singing (I am wrong/I am right, I swear I'm right/Swear I knew it all along). He's saying, "I goofed, but I'm not a hopeless fool." His hope, his whole meaning in life, dangles so tenuously as he makes up his mind that he's going to champion his cause. | |
| Jack Johnson – Flake Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song IS about something negative happening in a relationship. As Jackgrrrrl mentioned, it's about a flake, and her inability to commit to giving the author a straight answer. He's beginning to better understand that she's trying to protect his feelings by saying "maybe," but at the same time he's becoming increasingly frustrated by how their poor communication impacts the relationship, and how silly he is for being "lazy" and not addressing things directly himself. He's taking this passive approach wherein he believes in letting her be a free spirit (I know she usually has some other ties And I wouldn't want to break 'em, nah, I wouldn't want to break 'em). He doesn't want to try to own her, and he understands that she had a life before him...but that doesn't mean he's not a little perturbed that she's so complicated. It sounds as though he'd like her to put forth a little more effort when he sings, "Maybe she'll help me to untie this," since he's "so tired of trying." I think he's trying to say that she doesn't understand the consequences of her actions, and that she's going to be in for a rude awakening when he stops lying and causes her to have to change everything she's thinking about him. All the same, he doesn't want to lose her, and he's thinking man, this could really get goofy if she doesn't decide what she wants and make the decision to work at it. What's so great about this song is that it's so lighthearted and reflective. Jack knows that no matter what happens with his relationship the waves will continue to hit the surf and the sun will still shine. |
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