| Band of Horses – Is There a Ghost Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think that this song relates to the break up or loss of a relationship (through death, a fight, an actual break up, or whatever). The "when I lived alone" part of the first line refers to before he was in the relationship, when he was a singular being, not part of a 'we' or 'us', and the "I could sleep" part refers to being uncomplicated, carefree, things are going well. The reason that he can no longer sleep is down to the fact that he is haunted by thoughts and memories relating to the relationship and subsequent break up. Particularly by memories triggered by things in or around his house, the house that he shared with the person who is now gone. When he was with them, it was a home, but now they're gone, it's just a house, a shell. I think that the lyrics are so simple and repetitive to reflect the way that in that state of mind, a grieving person turns the same thoughts over and over in their mind, trying to find an answer. |
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| Lou Reed – Fly Into The Sun Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is about transcendence, not necessarily from this life to a higher plane, but maybe just from a tough situation to being happy again. The song has a positive melody and an upbeat feel and the things Lou talks about escaping are all pretty negative, misery, worldly pain, the earth weeping and man burning in his tomb, and make me think that he's saying that if you're gonna carry on in a painful existence, what's wrong with facing one last hardship if it can potentially offer salvation? |
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| Crowbar – Fall Back to Zero Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is about rebirth or new beginnings. The way I interpret this song is along the lines of every time we end up back at square one, it’s an opportunity to start again, afresh, learning from our mistakes. The first pair of lines really point at this. “You can’t hold me down” indicates to me that while some experiences may make you falter, as long as you believe in yourself, you can be strong enough to be cope with anything life throws at you. The next pair of lines makes me think of a teaching or text, or an inspirational figure or hero who has encouraged this belief in learning from his mistakes and that this inspiration is where we can draw the above mentioned strength from. “Take all my sorrow — leave all my love” makes me think of the healing process of getting over something, where you can organise and process your feelings and thoughts. When something ends, it’s an opportunity to cleanse your thoughts and feelings. The last pair of lines reiterates the ‘learn from your mistakes’ idea and that we should welcome all experience, not just positive ones. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Nobody's Baby Now Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me this song is about a guy whose girl has left him and he can't quite grasp that it's over. The first verse is about him trying to come to terms with what went wrong, trying to understand why she left him, or maybe how she could have left him. I get the impression that he drove her away. I always imagine him to be plagued by demons, in my mind its always self loathing or something like that, he can’t truly love her like she loves him till he stops hating himself and being so self destructive. I think that she tried to cope with this because she loved him and thought he could be saved, but eventually she’d had enough and had to leave him. The narrator’s difficulty in accepting her leaving him is down to how many ‘second chances’ she’s given him. How, no matter what he does, they’re still together, but this time, they’re not. The second verse is how much a part of him she is, why he finds it so hard without her. The line “but there are some things love won't allow” alludes to him doing something that pushed her over the edge of what she could cope with, making her decide to leave him. I’m pushed towards this theory by the line “I was her cruel-hearted man” because it makes me think of someone being selfish in a relationship, not appreciating what the other person needs out of the relationship. Maybe he never truly realised until now how much he needed her and is a little remorseful at having let it slip by, realising more and more just how much she meant to him. The title and chorus, “she’s nobody’s baby now” refers to the pet names we give to loved ones, how those people become our baby’s and honey’s, etc, becoming so familiar and intimate to us, knowing them so well, but when everything’s over, they go back to being just Alice, Jane, Sally, whoever. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Still in Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree that the narrator is dead, and I think, like jabe05 said, it was a suicide. I get the impression that he killed himself at home, and that's why the cops are in the house, investigating. Maybe she found him? She's numb and doesn't know how to feel or what to do, so she's acting automatically, being a good host, with the coffee, trying to answer the questions. I think that the narrator killed himself to, in his own eyes, unburden her. That’s what I get from the “You might think I'm crazy…but I'm still in love with you” line. She can’t help thinking that he left her because he doesn’t love her anymore, but he’s trying to say it was out of love that he did this. The whole section on hiding her memories and mementos is, in my mind, the narrator telling her to move on, to forget about him, do what she has to “Stuff them in a cardboard box. Or throw them into the street below” to get on with her life, but if she really needs him, all she has to do is remember the happy times “Call me up, baby, and I'll answer your call. Call me up but remember I am no use to you at all” and he’ll be with her in spirit at least. The last verse where she’s standing at the top of the stairs makes me think she has accepted it, either his death or his gesture, I’m not sure, and as a result of this, he lets himself move on “I fall to sleep in the summer rain” has changed from speaking to the sleepy summer rain. |
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| At the Drive-In – Give It A Name Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I love this song so much, its not just an underrated song, but the whole album isnt given the credit its due! I personally think that its about breaking up, which I think has been ascertained. I think the lyric "and i will always wear your ring you know the one that turned my finger green" is about jelousy, how he got jelous or possessive after tokens of affection were exchanged or they got engaged. Thats all for now |
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