| Train – Drops of Jupiter Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Finger Eleven – Paralyzer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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>I hold on so nervously< >To me and my drink< >I wish it was cooling me< >But so far, has not been good< >It's been shitty< >And I feel awkward, as I should< Obviously, this guy feels uncomfortable at this club or any club (I can sympathize). >This club has got to be< >The most pretentious thing< >Since I thought you and me< He hates the club but he's got one good reason to keep coming back. >Well I am imagining< >A dark lit place< >Or your place or my place< He wishes he could get her attention, make his move, and finish the night with a happy ending. >Well I'm not paralyzed< >But, I seem to be struck by you< This girl has his attention in a way no one else has come close to achieving. >I want to make you move< >Because you're standing still< I think this is reversed for the sake of poetic rhythm and he means to make her move in other ways... :p >If your body matches< >What your eyes can do< If her gaze is so overwhelming, he can only imagine what the rest of her body could do to him. >You'll probably move right through< >Me on my way to you< He fears that whatever move he makes will fail to get her attention. >I hold out for one more drink< >Before I think< >I'm looking too desperately< His staring might get her attention in a bad way. >But so far has not been fun< >I should just stay home< >If one thing really means one< He's starting to wonder why he bothers and why he's torturing himself by coming back. >This club will hopefully< >Be closed in three weeks< >That would be cool with me< If the club close, it will break the cycle and his obsession wouldn't be fed. >Well I'm still imagining< >A dark lit place< >Or your place or my place< Of course he still wants to get her in the sack. |
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| The Fray – How To Save A Life Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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My analysis of this song is a bit morbid... >step one, you say 'we need to talk' >he walks, you say 'sit down, it's just a talk' >he smiles politely back at you >you stare politely right on through >some sort of window to your right >as he goes left and you stay right >between the lines of fear and blame >you begin to wonder why you came This first part of the song sounds like two friends talking and the conversation leaves one of them walking away without saying a word. Possibly he told his friend to leave after a dispute. >where did i go wrong? >i lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness >and i would have stayed up with you all night >had i known how to save a life This part of the song came off as grim to me. I think his friend took his own life. He regrets that he had not done more to prevent it (He would have stayed up all night to save his friend's life if that's all it took). >let him know that you know best >'cause afterall, you do know best >try to slip passed his defense >without granting innocence >lay down a list of what is wrong >things you told him all along >pray to god he hears you >and pray to god he hears you He argued with his friend and never gave him a chance to apologize (or if his friend did apologize, he didn't accept it). He told his friends all the things he had done wrong throughout the friendship. The last half of this verse confirms my grim analysis of the second verse. He hopes his friend can hear his apology in heaven. >as he begins to raise his voice >you lower yours and grant him one last choice >drive until you lose the road >or break with the ones you've followed >he will do one of two things >he will admit to everything >or he'll say he's just not the same >and you'll begin to wonder why you came As one would expect, his friend became angered after the supposed accusation. He inadverdently gives him the choice that leads him to takes his friend to take his life. His friend took everything to be his fault and maybe felt as if there was only one way to resolve it. |
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| The Fray – Over My Head (Cable Car) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I can sympathize with you, mk. I'm still getting over a girl that I feel decieved me. This songs runs a good parallel to everything that happened with that situation. We haven't spoken to each other for months. She's made no attempt to salvage a friendship despite what she said about how important it was for us to stay friends. I'm sure at this point I've become nothing more than just another guy she slept with. I guess that's why the lines ">And suddenly I become a part of your past >I'm becoming the part that don't last >I'm losing you and its effortless" The sad thing is, I still love her and feel an emptyness since she's been gone that has yet to find anyone/anything worthy of filling the gap. I guess I feel that my interpretation of this song lies in how I felt from that event in my life. But hey, we're human. Bias is natural. |
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| The Fray – Over My Head (Cable Car) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Here's my take on the song, which may seem similar to other posts since I didn't read all of them: >I never knew >I never knew that everything was falling through >That everyone I knew was waiting on a cue >To turn and run when all I needed was the truth >But that's how it's got to be The person singing this feels as if his closest friends and people he trusted knew something he didn't and kept it from him, perhaps from feeling that they may hurt his feelings. >It's coming down to nothing more than apathy >I'd rather run the other way than stay and see >The smoke and who's still standing when it clears The only way he's been able to deal with what has happened is by staying unemotional and distancing himself. He's run this through his head and knows what the outcome will be (he's already seen the smoke clear) and he knows he won't be happy with it. >Everyone knows I'm in >Over my head I think it's pretty self-explanatory. Everybody else saw it coming (the breakup, fight, whatever it was) and that he would not know how to deal with it. He probably saw it himself. >With eight seconds left in overtime >She's on your mind Despite everything else in life that should probably be taking priority, she's the only important thing in his world. >Let's rearrange >I wish you were a stranger I could disengage >Say that we agree and then never change >Soften a bit until we all just get along >But that's disregard If this had been anyone else (not necessarily a stranger) he could just walk away with his pride intact. But this is not the case. >Find another friend and you discard >As you lose the argument in a cable car She has nothing left to say to him. She did him wrong in some way and instead of being truthful about her intentions, she found someone to support her view. >Hanging above as the canyon comes between Even though she's in the same room, she feels like she's miles away and anything he says to her never reaches her ears. >And suddenly I become a part of your past >I'm becoming the part that don't last >I'm losing you and its effortless He's become just a passing memory of things that never were. Eventually she'll forget him and treat him like he's anybody else. All his work to keep himself in her life is in vain. >Without a sound we lose sight of the ground >In the throw around >Never thought that you wanted to bring it down >I won't let it go down till we torch it ourselves The vast amounts of time spent in building this relationship is destroyed instantly by her change in her whim, but he's not willing to let go of it until he wants to. |
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| The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I remember this song playing on the radio the day that the woman I love told me that she wanted to just be friends. We had a summer fling that looked promising then it all fell apart on me. It's like this song was a warning about what was going to happen... Now she's seeing somebody else and I just had to find this song. I just can't stop playing and singing along to it. It's so appropiate to how I felt that night. |
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