| Kevin Devine – For Eugene Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This song is about Eugene Contrubis, a retired police clerk, who drowned during Hurricane Sandy. He tried to wait out the storm, but his house flooded. Before he died, he called his sister and left a voicemail saying "The water's coming in." Father Cap refers to Father Capodanno Boulevard, which was severely damaged during the storm. | |
| Jack's Mannequin – Caves Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I was surprised with the amount of activity on this song, that no one has come up with the same conclusion for the last half as I did. The first half is quite obvious, and I agree with what everyone has said about it. He's talking about the battle with cancer, the ups and the downs, the side effects of medication and eventually, about being saved by his sister's blood marrow and recovering. But after that, I think he continues to talk about struggling, not about hope or inspiration. The line that makes this most obvious is "I fought a war to walk a gang plank into a life I left behind." I've never had cancer, so I can't speak from personal experience, but its not at all hard to imagine that surviving cancer would be almost as difficult as fighting the cancer. He was on so much medication during the fight that his body will likely never be the same. He also likely had to completely put the rest of his life on hold so he could focus entirely on fighting the cancer. The people closest to him might have stuck around for that process, but others probably would have lost patience and disappeared from his life. He's also repeatedly saying "doors got locked, there's no one here but me." I think going through any event that makes you confront your own mortality and then trying to relate to other people who have not been through that would be incredibly difficult. Just hearing people complain about their mundane problems when you know that any day you could die would be impossible. I'm sure going through that would basically, again, put an end to many relationships, or "lock the door" on those relationships, leaving him alone, as the only person that really understands what he went through. I can hear the struggle in the music as well. Right after he say's "the walls fell and there I lay saved" you hear the joyous piano line. It almost sounds like Ode to Joy, and I'm sure that when he first got the news that the cancer was gone, that's how he must have felt. But then the music changes. You start to hear sounds of the music rewinding as if he is now traveling back in time. He's trying to get back to life the way it was before the cancer and slowly realizing that he can never go back. He may have survived the cancer, but it still stole many years of his life that he can never get back. |
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| Thrice – Moving Mountains Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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My interpretation is basically the opposite of what most people are saying, and if you're particularly religious, it may offend you, but read with an open mind. I feel like this would be the one blues song God could sing. If you look at every verse, except the last, they are all things that only God could do (winning arguments with angels, moving mountains, knowing all mysteries, etc.) However, God may be a very lonely being. If you believe there is a God like what monotheistic religions present, then he is the ONLY God, meaning the only being like himself. So for God to actually relate to another being enough to feel the love that we may feel towards other people would be impossible. So basically, Dustin is taking on the perspective of God, and saying "I can do all these great, miraculous things that no human could ever do, but at the same time, I have no idea what it means to relate to and love another being." I don't, however, see how the last verse could fit with this interpretation. The last verse is obviously from the perspective of a human, but I still don't believe the rest of the verses are. I also know that Dustin is a very religious man, and what I'm saying could be seen as blasphemous, but it doesn't have to be seen that way. Dustin has an amazing talent for taking on the perspective of someone/something else (Moths to Flame - the disciple Peter; Daedalus - Daedalus; Silver Wings - Air; many many others), so to imagine Dustin trying to take on the perspective of God isn't too far of a stretch for me. |
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| Brand New – Bought a Bride Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I see a lot of separate meanings in different parts of this song but i can't seem to connect them the first two lines make me think of the controversy of war. On one side there's the "hippies" and "tree huggers" who want peace. to them, trees are meant to make a forest. On the other side there's blood hungry power freaks who wanna kill anything when they get a chance. to them, trees are meant to make bows or weapons. If you can understand these two opposing forces, then that's all you need to know about life. next, he talks about the little red house. to me, he's basically just saying that he's an atheist. He has no savior sitting in his house because he has no God or anything to believe in. then he goes onto the anatomy metaphore, and this could mean a lot of different things. The one metaphor i'm thinking that i haven't noticed anyone pointing out is that he's explaining how the Earth is like a living thing, and we are just the tiny little molecules of oxygen circulating around in it. the main chorus part seems to be pretty obvious, about some girl getting sick of being at home and feeling lonely so she runs off and marries some rich guy. "where are all the seedlings we grew for violins?" reminded me a lot of having children. It reminded me of those parents who have kids and just try to push talent and their own dreams onto them. They might force them to take violin lessons for hours a day or something like that. So they only see their children as seedlings for violins. I have no idea what he's talking about with the prosthetic limbs thing. when he says "should've been a soldier, i could've fought and died" i think he's just kind of wishing he would've died young (die young and save yourself). That's about all I can get from it and can't really see anyway to connect it, but maybe someone else can. |
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| Damien Rice – I Remember Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| this song is about a man that cheated on his wife/girlfriend and the perspectives of both of them. it starts off with the woman who is remembering the first time she met the man and how much she loves him but ends with the line "nothing is taking me down, except you, my love" to express how hurt she is by what he's done. then the man sings his perspective. he says "i hope my sanity covers the cost to remove the stain of my love" meaning he hopes the fact that he is normally sane and faithful is enough to help the woman get over the fact that he cheated on her. (the "stain" of love refers both to the sexual side, i.e. cum stain, and the emotional side-he uses the word stain, suggesting that the pain of it can never be removed) he goes on to say that god will forgive him for what he has done but he can never forgive himself. in the chorus-type part of the male part he's saying "i wanna hear what you're gonna say about me, ... if you're gonna live without me, ...what you want" he means he wants her to go ahead and tell him how horrible he is and that she should leave him and then tell him what she wants from him to make things right. Damien Rice is always so amazing at capturing the true emotions of all situations. In this song, the woman who has been wronged, seems very calm, almost happy, but mostly nostalgic. This may not make sense to some of you but if you have ever been cheated on or hurt by someone you love, you might recognize that feeling of calmness before you explode. It's as if the person who cheated is hurt more by the act than the person being cheated on. They can't bare to live with the guilt of what they've done. | |
| Damien Rice – Eskimo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| To me, it definitely seems like he's talking about his dog. My guess is that he has a husky or some similar looking dog with thick fur around its neck, that makes it look like an Eskimo. Every time I listen to this song, it makes me think of my dog. It seems like my dog knows when I'm upset before any one else does, and he always tries to cheer me up when I'm crying. Ever since I was young, I've had a dog, and they're amazing for comfort when you're in a difficult situation. You can vent to them and they'll never hold it against you. | |
| Incubus – A Certain Shade of Green Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Also, I think you people with the weed theory are thinking too deeply into this. I understand that Incubus' lyrics often are extremely deep, but can't you accept the fact that they're gonna write some simple, straightforward stuff every once in a while? yea, brandon obviously smokes weed, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But that doesn't mean every song he writes is about that. And about the whole 2012 thing. It is referring to the end of the world, but I really don't think it's about the whole changing consciousness thing. I think he's basically just saying "you're gonna sit around til the world comes to an end and accomplish nothing in your life" | |
| Incubus – A Certain Shade of Green Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The first time I listened to this song, I thought it was referring to money, like basically asking if your only motivation is money and saying you won't do anything unless you get paid for it. But then I listened to it more closely and heard all the other traffic allusions and realized that it is saying what all of you are saying. When the light is green, just go; don't sit around thinking and daydreaming or you'll miss your chance. | |
| Thursday – Jet Black New Year Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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anyone who thinks it's about anything other than the story of the boy who fell out of the window, just read the lyrics of the bridge. Ten seconds left until midnight Nine chances to drown ourselves in black hair dye Eight faces turned away from the shock Seven windows and six of them were locked Five stories falling forever and ever Three cheers to the mirror Now there are two of us Can we have one last dance? most of it is obvious, but the end of it took a while to make sense to me. he's saying three cheers to the mirror because he's locked in the bathroom. now there are two of us means himself and the person in the mirror, whom it sounds like he was seeing as the little boy. can we have one last dance? he's saying one last dance before the boy dies.this song is tragically beautiful. i'm not gonna lie. i cried a little bit when i read the story and i cry a lot of the times i listen to the song. |
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| Thursday – Autobiography of a Nation Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i think this song is talking about the literal way we killed the native americans that were here first but it's also referring to how we continue to figuratively kill them because we don't have enough respect to learn the history of the people and the customs that were here before us | |
| Thursday – Where The Circle Ends Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i agree with thursdaylvr.. but to help add to the last part when he's talking about the "vanishing alphabet", i think it has something to do with ancient history. like heiroglyphics and stuff. basically, every civilization before us, has wrote down what they did, and in that was their mistakes. but instead of taking that, and learning from it, we continue to make the same mistakes over and over. so he's talking about specific individuals living a life of monotenous mistakes, as well as mankind as a whole, repeating their fucked up history. |
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| Thursday – In Transmission Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This sunlight cutting through the open fields. Can't be communicated by radio waves. And through this flashlight keyhole memory. Receive a thousand signals and can't respond. I think the "open fields" is signifying a lot of distance between him and his gf and how there's no way to express how much the distance sucks. the part about the memory is saying how after you haven't seen some one for a long time, the memory of them fades and gets smaller til it's just the size of a keyhole. and the last part is saying how maybe after they've broken up, he can sense something.. maybe that something's wrong, in a kind of telepathich way but since they're broken up he can't call and do anything about it. ??does that make sense at all? |
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| Thursday – Streaks In The Sky Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i think it's about his hometown, new brunswick. geoff writes a lot of songs about that place. but i think this one's talking about how he was so glad to get out of the town but he still kept coming back. i know from experience that it can be hard to leave a small town. it kinda sucks u in. anyways, i think he maybe had a gf or someone close to him that made him come back. "Sitting here. Waiting a year. Hoping for something to change your mind and in this time I'll see that this is all we have." he's waiting for the chick to decide to come with him because their relationship is all they have here and he's going to leave which will ruin that. "Before I leave I'm opening that door in my house. To face the ones I've left behind. Portrait of a man who stayed. His face is folded up and grayed. But there's something in his eyes that tells me this is the life for me." he's talking to someone, maybe his dad, about how he's leaving, and even though that person is sad that he'll be gone, geoff can tell from looking in their eyes that the life he has now (being in a band and all that stuff) is what's right for him. |
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| Thursday – Tomorrow I'll Be You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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that's the sound of music from another room the piano player hangs from piano wire but the player piano carries on. i agree with the first interpretation but to extend that.. to me, this line is talking about how he's thinking about how some people deal with their problems. for example, some people chose to kill themselves (hang from piano wire) but after they do that, all the problems of life still continue (the player piano carries on) we burn like the paper hearts of dead presidents. a lot of people spend their time focusing on accomplishing a lot in their life so that they will be remembered even after they're dead. but u shouldn't live ur life that way because then u won't be happy now. so this is saying that even though people in the past accomplished a lot by becoming president, it means nothing because now presidents only symbolize money, which could easily just be burned. |
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| Thursday – Division St. Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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my favorite line is "to dance between the scissor's blades without getting cut" to me it's talking about how geoff played with death everytime he went to division st., either by being around people that were trippin out on crazy drugs and doing stupid shit, or by doing the stupid shit himself. But somehow he lived through all of it, even though some of his closest friends might not have. |
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| Thursday – Asleep in the Chapel Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i think it means that it's stupid to tell everyone your beliefs because what you believe as far as religion should be a very personal thing. and when ever you actually tell someone your beliefs or write them down, it's set in stone, and if you change that, people will look at you like you're doing something wrong. so people continue to say they believe in something even if they don't because they don't want to go against their religion. because of this, most of the religions that are found in today's world are false, because people continued to pass down their beliefs even when they knew they weren't true (baptise our kids in gasoline is talking about how even when one of our rituals becomes completely blatantly rediculous, such as baptizing someone in gas, we continue to do it anyways) i dunno if that makes much sense, but yea... |
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| Matchbook Romance – Goody, Like Two Shoes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| that does make a lot of sense too | |
| Matchbook Romance – Goody, Like Two Shoes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think this song is about a guy that got a chick pregnant when they were teenagers and the girl's family is very well known and respected (goody two shoes) so they made her get an abortion and she eventually acted like it never happened and moved on to marry some one else without ever telling anyone about it... it sounds kinda crazy so i'll explain it line by line. They're all asleep... this time is ours. - This whole part is where they're sneaking out of her house to go fuck. There are reasons for what I did... it was innocent you know. - The parents either caught them or found out because she's pregnant so the guy is explaining that he really loves her. Cause a lot of guys will fuck a girl just for to prove that they can (vile attempt or accomplishment) but he's saying that's not what it was about. The ladada's kinda remind me of being in love too so maybe that's also part of it. Now the next verse... A nurse something for the pain, something to make this guilt go away. - He's probably talking to the nurse about the pain that she'll go through and maybe also thinking of the emotional pain an abortion could cause him as well as the guilt. You're forgetting us, you're forgetting everything - by this time she's already had the abortion and she's trying to forget that it ever happened. This is goodbye, this is always - he's saying goodbye forever, either to her or the baby. The whole chorus is basically talking about covering up what they did. (covering up our tracks, living in secrets) We can learn to love life (love the baby) or learn to love pain (deal with the abortion) If you still hear my voice, give me a sign let me know - he's been trying to talk her out of it and now she's just ignoring him. but wait... any of this - now, it's in the future and she's marrying someone else (who's that dress for) and this guy doesn't even know about the abortion (toast to innocence) don't wait up for me... playing dead right in front of me - i'm not totally sure about this part. maybe he's talking about the baby as the ghost and she's playing dead because the part that he loved in her is dead. my heartbeat was louder than the sound of my steps to your door - he's going to see her after a really long time and he's nervous about it. you're cold... knows a miracle - he's talking about how now she's basically evil because of what she did but he still loves her anyway i won't ask for anything.. that's all i ask - he just wants to know why she did it and then he'll leave her alone I'm really not sure how i came up with this. for some reason i was thinking of abortions while listening to this and the whole idea just seemed to fit with each line. I really think the background music plays part of it too... like between the verse and the chorus you can hear whispering in the background which makes me think of people spreading rumors about the abortion...and in the bridge type part, to me it sounds like carnival music except kind of sinister.. since a lot of people have their first dates at a carnival maybe he's thinking back to their first date but it seems evil because of what she's become..... wow, that was long... sorry if this makes completely no sense to any one else |
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