| Passion Pit – Sleepyhead Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The title "Sleepyhead" appears to me a description of someone who appears, quite literally, very sleepy: this person is suffering from an injury or terminal illness. He/she enters a coma, and is kept on life support against their wishes. The first verse concerning fire is, to me, the sufferer describing the pain of the affliction, which seems to have a manifestation in the eyes ("brims"). At one point, the sufferer was "one inch from the edge of this bed," i.e., very close to death, but the speaker drags him/her back into this world as "a sleepyhead"--in a coma. "They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst" No one ever knows what to say when someone dies, especially when that death is untimely. Bursting may mean some kind of heart failure or other literal bursting. "With all their lions and all their might and all their thirst" People who are fighting for the sufferer to be kept on life support, thirsting for the him/her to one day wake up, involve doctors, lawyers, and clergy to fight with their scientific, legal, and holy might against the disease, and against people (the speaker) who better knew the sufferer's true wishes. "They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin" Friends and family crowd the bedroom of the afflicted -- the person is still alive, being prayed for. You don't usually crowd in the room of someone who's already dead. It is at this point that the grim possibility that death really is here becomes apparent through the thin thoughts of denial. "Against the walls, against your rules, against your skin" People are literally pressed against the walls of the room and against the skin of their comatose loved one. They are there against the sufferer's wishes (rules), because if the sufferer had had it their way, the plug would have already been pulled and these people wouldn't be here. "My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors of your eyes" The speaker stays loyal and by the sufferer's side. Again, the eyes make an appearance. "But go in disguise like a sleepyhead" The sufferer peacefully transitions from their comatose state into death, never shedding their outward "disguise" of simply being asleep. |
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| Bitter:Sweet – Love Revolution Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think you're right, definitely sex. I think there is another dimension of the speaker/subject making amends with a former lover. Not necessarily getting back together after a rocky past and "living in harmony", but definitely letting bygones be bygones and having some... fun. | |
| Halou – Before There Was Color Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Seems to me that this song is about becoming complacent with a new situation, be it a relationship, or something else. The line "and you thought that these times were just ordinary" brings it home and snaps the title into sharp focus. It's not uncommon for children to think that old television shows were filmed in a time before there was color. In the same way, the subject of the song naively believes that their complacency is something ordinary: uncomfortable, but to be expected, and not fought against. |
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