| Embrace (UK) – Retread Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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An old friend of mine at my last school (4 years ago now) was being bullied, and I felt as hard as I tried I couldn't stop her from feeling hurt, mainly because she was too naive and paranoid herself. I also thought I was in love with her, which also ate me up cos I knew she wasn't right for me and people would hate me for taking advantage of her. The lyric 'I feel so insecure, I cant save something I feel so much for' has always struck me. Shaun |
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| Embrace (US) – Past Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Which Embrace is this? Not the English one, I don't think.. Shaun |
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| Embrace (UK) – The Way I Do Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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My favourite by them. I have been known to sing this on top of a car whilst being videotaped... Some think this is Rik proposing to his then-girlfriend (now wife), but whatever it is it's unlike any ballad they've ever done. This really struck me when I felt a lot of my friends didn't seem to care or have time for me like they used to. And maybe begging that question to them? Shaun |
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| Embrace (UK) – I Had A Time Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Looking back on a circumstance (ie something that really meant something to you, could be anything like your school years, leaving a job or something much deeper like someone's death). And not focusing on how it ended not quite in the way you'd hoped, or that maybe you didn't achieve what you should have. Just remembering the good times and the success. Shaun |
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| Embrace (UK) – Free Ride Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I love songs with such a cryptic meaning. It's not even about wanting love - it's about selfishness in my opinion. Or maybe because you feel underconfident and don't know how to make someone love you. Shaun |
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| Embrace (UK) – Drawn From Memory Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Seems to me about clinging to the past, and not moving on when you know deep down that doing so is only hurting you but you're too afraid to move on. Shaun |
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| Embrace (UK) – Fireworks Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is about losing something you once had, assumably a feeling, or a sense of love or pride. 'Now the fireworks in me are all gone' - I'm not good enough anymore. Shaun |
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| Embrace (UK) – Dry Kids Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It's my worst Embrace song, personally. I can not understand how something as bland as this can be among their most popular b-sides and the title track to their forthcoming b-sides collection. The lyrics (as Danny does) encorporates a lot of expressions and metaphors - but I'm guessing that it has a lot to do with kind of a 'love-hate' relationship in the way that siblings constantly try to get the better of each other. Although (again as Danny does) I think he's elaborating that and explaining the depth of these afore-mentioned feelings. Just my opinions, hope it answers your question. Shaun |
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| Embrace (UK) – Come Back To What You Know Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Indeed it is. I've never actually had a serious relationship, let alone got back with one. But remember when, after a fight with a friend and not talking to him for months, we finally were forced into the situation where we had to go home from college together on a train. We started talking, and eventually acknowledged the fact that we were getting on and didn't feel opressed by each other anymore, just refreshed that we could talk again. I got home and put this on my CD player. The rest as they say, is history. Shaun |
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| Embrace (US) – Building Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I am ashamed to say, provided this is the Yorkshire Embrace and not the American band, that I have never heard this song before in my life. Shaun |
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| Embrace (UK) – Ashes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It was documented, on the official review of the Out of Nothing comeback, that the album was in many senses 'about itself'.. This could be the main emphasis, it is the opening track on the album, as well as what they usually play first at gigs. Possibly it wasn't intended to be hugely deep and meaningful - maybe simply as a great pop song that many a few years ago couldn't expect them to have written. But regardless of that, it has a very definite and powerful meaning. Doubtedly their most complex, but I guess that's the beauty of it. It's great to sing also - if I get to the final of my karaoke competition I shall be singing this. Sorry to continually bring that up. Btw BradleyB - are you on the Embrace msgboard? Shaun |
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| Embrace (UK) – All You Good Good People Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'd disagree with both of you personally, in the early years was compared regularly to Oasis - with the gigantic buzz they created. I would however agree with the symbolisation of the video being on the electric chair (that incidentally is only the American release). As a sufferer of Asperger's Syndrome, not to mention a teenager I have always confided in it very well. People make the assumption that nearly all of McNamara's lyrics refer to the end of a relationship, but I argue that this in particular is much deeper than that. The lyric 'All You Good Good People - listen to me', as well as 'I will make you glad if I am leaving first and crying' strongly suggests to me that it is possibly about feeling opressed as a child. At the school I was at I felt as if classmates and teachers tried to be better than me a lot of the time and it made me feel rather inadequate. A feeling a lot of people would share. Incidentally also, it was the song I was about to sing at karaoke before I was barred from my local in Bristol for swearing. And the song really struck me then - feeling as if it was my fault when I knew it wasn't. That's what the song boils down to, methinks. Shaun |
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