| Slade – Run Runaway Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is what i think the song means: These two people think in similar terms. They see the world in black and white. However he is warning the person(girl?) he is talking to, to stay away from people who try to be everything. These chameleons (probably a rich boyfriend) don't have a backbone, change with the wind, and can't be trusted. You can never truly see who they are. Though this "chameleon" may be rich, money doesn't mean much when you are lying in a swing with the person you really love. This is where it gets tricky. I think this person has a crush on this girl, and he is telling himself not to beat aroudn the bush and tell her. She, liking this rich man, expects everything (including love) to fall in her lap with little waiting and work. He is trying to tell her, love is not an object you can just take when you please. Love finds you. He wants this girl to leave the chameleon. I could be totally off base, I am trying to understand the song better. I love how the artist uses black and white in contrast to a chameleon. To understand that, is to understand the song. |
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| Rufus Wainwright – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Song meaning: First verse: He is talking to a girl using biblical references about love and happiness. When he says she doesn't care for music, he is saying she doesn't care for love. Even though she doesn't care for music, he goes on to show her how the songs is played, just as he still loves her and whats her to love him. The halleluja symbolizes their relationship and love. He wants the music played in hopes to draw out the good halleluja. He compares himself to David because they are both baffled about how to please a certain person. Second verse: He uses biblical references to show betrayal and infedility. I believe he is refering to his girlfriend in this verse. She cheated on him, and broke his trust. For her betrayal of her trust "broke his throne." The David analogy is about her, and the Samson analogy is about him. "From your lips she drew the halleluja", she stole the relationship by her actions. Third verse: He is talking about being alone. "I've been here before... i know this room, walked this floor, I use to live alone before I knew you." He then compares love to war. The flag is much like that of empires showing their dominion over their conquest. He mentions that it is her flag, which means that is how she treats love. This is the first time we hear that love "is a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah." This is because in the previous verse, she broke his heart and took away their hallelujah. Fourth Verse: His soul-mate is emotionally distant now. No longer confiding in him, probably because they rarely speak now. She doesn't show him who she really is or what she is thinking. This website made an important mistake in typing the lyrics in this verse. He said, "AND remember when I moved in you." Not, "I remember." He is speaking to her (even though she may not be there), trying to remind her of their intimate connection they made together, not just "having sex" but "making love." Showing they had an emotional connection during love making. Fith verse: All he has learned from this relationship was that he needs to protect her, and maybe only in his own mind. In the end this relationship was not the joyous hallelujah you hear in church, but rather their relationship is cold and broken. This draws a parallel to the old phrase, "Better to have loved and lost, than to never have loved at all." His hallelujah may be cold and broken, but none the less it is a hallelujah. "It's not a cry you can hear at night, it's not somebody whose seen the light." The hallelujah in this song is not audible like in church, and it isn't sang out by someone who has "seen the light", refering to someone who just became born again. His hallelujah is cold and broken just like their relationship. You can't hear something that is broken. And the reason you can't hear it is because "from your lips she drew the hallelujah" in the second verse. Ok, those are my thoughts. Please give critiques, because I know it is not perfect. |
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| Hank Williams Jr. – All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I have finished college and I am getting older, and I have been doing a lot of thinking about becoming an adult. I can relate to this song as my friends and I are getting older, the times we share together are going to change. | |
| Alan Jackson – Remember When Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I love this song. It is so sad, yet there is nothing overtly sad in it. I can see this song being played at funerals. | |
| George Jones – He Stopped Loving Her Today Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I can't believe no one has commented on what is often ranked as the #1 country song of all time! I think this song is about a guy whose wife or girlfriend left him, and he swore he would love her till he died. He kept true to his word, and died. Hense "He stopped loving her today." Sometimes I wonder if his wife died before him, rather than breaking up with him. But the last verse said she came to his funeral. |
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