| Jerry Cantrell – Keep The Light On Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Perhaps this is about a marriage gone sour and turned into a perennial grudge match? However the fact that neither will stop the fight perhaps implies they want it to work out? Did you ever know that couple where every time they try to talk things out it just becomes a blame throwing shouting match? | |
| The Smithereens – Strangers When We Meet Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is the end of a long and loving affair between a married man and a woman who has longed to have him as hers, but he can't give up his commitments. I just saw Brokeback Mountain yesterday there are a lot of parellels with this song in that movie. |
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| The Smithereens – Alone At Midnight Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| A beautiful song about a lost love - the best I have ever heard like many on this amazing album. | |
| A Perfect Circle – The Hollow Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Wow, there are lots of different ways to experience the hidden meanings of this song. I love the postings here also. Believe it or not, I am a simple man who has lived all 3 verses of this song over the last 11 years. So my posting is longer... I grew up in a sheltered environment where I was home schooled and hidden from society by my fearful mother. When she died I started school at age 13. Soon I was playing football, lifting weights and when I reached 17 girls took notice of the shy guy who could bench 357 lbs (best in the school, go me). I had never dated or even kissed a girl. Several girls had asked me out but before I could figure out how to respond I met a pretty blonde 15 year old who came on strong and took me to her bed in a few weeks. So verse one begins... --- Run, desire, run Sexual being, run him like a blade To and through the heart, no conscience, one Motive, to cater to the hollow' Her desires were like a flame. It was a rough, inexperienced, and desperate sex she took from me. I was not entirely displeased because she pleasured me as much as she hurt me. I seemed foolish to feel like I was hurt physically and emotionally, yet I was. She rubbed me raw and often denied me the gentler, slower love that I craved sexually. She'd refuse my own sexual advances or hide from them. --- 'Screamin' feed me here Fill me up again Temporarily Pacify this hungerin' Here's the chorus. Soon I discovered she had her own virginity taken from her when she was 13. He was a hick 'player' who was several years older. He talked her into it with mind games and hurt her real bad. I only now realize that is why she needed to conquer someone herself. That's one emotional way I was hurt, like him talked me into it before I could decide if I wanted her. I was conquered and burned twice by the sexual fire since it was both natural female lust and yearning to avenge her lost honor. These were the hungers she temporarily satisfied. --- 'So grow, libido, throw Dominoes of indiscretions down Fallin' all around, in cycles, in Circles, constantly consuming Conquer and devour' This verse represents my own libido that grew while she rode me. She did conquer my heart with her sex, yet out of bed she was sweet, innocent, and tender. So I married her when I was 19. However like others here have said, our now male/female lust for each other could not change that I never chose her, she conquered me. I could never let got of my regret so I subdued her innocent identity out of bed while she dominated me sexually. And so slowly over 9 years of marriage we threw 'Dominoes of indiscretions down' as we each circled in battle stance seeking to 'conquer and devour' the other sexually and emotionally. --- ''Cause it's time to bring the fire down Bridle all this indiscretion Long enough to edify And permanently fill this hollow' This verse says how after 9 years of marriage we've actually grown up, gotten over a lot of our hurts, and become best friends as we consider divorce. My decision for a divorce is the fire I must bring down on both of us after she slept with another man, a man she could be tender with in bed since she had 'edified' her hollow using me. I have to end this cycle forever. Now we're in the aftermath. It's tough because we forgive all, as we understand. We see that spark of friendship that formed from our sexual conquering and consuming of each other is perhaps the seed of a new and truer love. Will I chose her this time? I know I have to leave her though. I'm like this quip from U2's 'In God's Country' so I must depart and pursue my own arts much as Cain did. It breaks my heart but I must be alone. --- She stands a naked flame, I'll stand with the sons of Cain, Burned by the fire of love, Burned by the fire of love. |
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