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Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance Lyrics 16 years ago
Thank you very much. Judging from the comments following mine, I thought everyone found it naïve. I don't dig for deeper meanings in songs; I generally go by the feeling the song gives off.
When I originally wrote the comment, there wasn't a video, but even after I watched it, I stuck to my first impressions of the song. :>

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The Fray – Say When Lyrics 16 years ago
I think it's about a boy who loves his friend, but she's in an abusive relationship.

I see you there, don't know where you come from
Unaware of a stare from someone
Don't appear to care that I saw you and I want you

What's your name 'cause I have to know it
You let me in and begin to show it
[love at first sight and they become friends]

We're terrified 'cause we're heading straight for it, might get it
[they both like each other, but she's too dedicated to her boyfriend]

You been the song playing on the background
All along but you're turning up now
And everyone is rising to meet you, to greet you
[she used to be a wallflower, but is slowly "budding" and has become popular? it also could be that he's known her all along, but never noticed his feelings, i'm not sure.]

Turn around and you're walking toward me
I'm breaking down and you're breathing slowly
You say the word and I will be your man, your man
[he's having a hard time dealing with loving her but not being able to show it, but she's calm as can be]

Say when and my own two hands
Will comfort you tonight, tonight
Say when and my own two arms
Will carry you tonight, tonight

We're coming close and then even closer
We bring it in but we go no further
We're separate, two ghosts in one mirror, no nearer
[their relationship can't go any further than it is now]

Later on if it turns to chaos
Hurricane coming all around us
See the crack, pull it back from the window, you stay low
[she fights with her boyfriend]

Say when and my own two hands
Will comfort you tonight, tonight
Say when and my own two arms
Will carry you tonight, tonight

Come across you lost and broken
You're coming to but you're slow in waking
You start to shake, you still haven't spoken, what happened
[he comes to comfort her after the blowout]

They're coming back and you just don't know when
You want to cry but there's nothing coming
They're gonna push until you give in or say when
[the "they" is him specifically]

Now we're here, and it turns to chaos
Hurricane, coming all around us
Double crack throws you back from the window, you stay low
[her boyfriend comes back to see her friend there and it just escalates]

It all began with a man & country
Every plan turns another century
Around again, another nation fallen

Maybe God can be on both sides
Of the gun, never understood why
Some of us never get it so good, so good
[symbolic for the war between the couple]

Some of this was here before us
All of this will go after us
It never stops until we give in
[about the cycle of abuse possibly?]

Say when and my own two hands
Will comfort you tonight, tonight
Say when and my own two arms
Will carry you tonight, tonight

Say when and my own two hands
Will comfort you tonight, tonight

i'm probably reading way too much into it, but that's just what i get out of it.

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Josiah Leming – Deconstructing Lyrics 17 years ago
"arms cannot consent" should be "arms cannot contend"
"enough the love" -> "another love"
"my lungs" -> "my veins"
"this touch a sin" -> "is such a sin"

Everything else seems to be good though. :>

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Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance Lyrics 17 years ago
I think it's about a girl daydreaming.
It's been raining for days and she's bored, so her mind starts to wander. Making her morning coffee/tea, she dazes off, only to be snapped into reality with a cloud of steam to her face.

"And she fights for her life
as she puts on her coat
And she fights for her life on the train"
refers to an action sequence in her daydreams

"Nobody knows"
no one knows she's off in her own world while they're living out of the mundane.

She's playing a "winter melody" on her cello when she hears someone at the gate.. "Perhaps a letter with a dove
Perhaps a stranger she could love."

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John Legend – Heaven Lyrics 19 years ago
I'm absolutely in love with this song. It's perpetually on repeat.
However, I thought the video was atrocious! Everything seemed so thrown together and irrelevant to the song.

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The Vandals – Fourteen Lyrics 19 years ago
This song is hilarious. While I may be another "I'm, like, totally, like, in the, like same situation" (albeit I'm not fourteen) I can't help but laugh at this song comedic sounding approach to an older man dating an underage girl.

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Gatsbys American Dream – Counterfeit Language Lyrics 20 years ago
Hmm, to me, this song is describing The Jungle Book. I know that sounds a bit obvious because of the jungle/tigers part, but hear me out. XD;

"you've seen this kid before
he sits fists clenched"
"when the truth has been realized"
Seems to be talking about Mowgli when he's told that he has to go back to the village with his people,

"when he looks inward he sees disgust
disgust for a jungle that is alive
a hand-me down false hope is hard to swallow"
Describes when he finally realizes that the jungle that has been his home for so many years is "abandoning" him...

"so what now adapt and fit in to this system
no, no, learn the language of this tribe
walk among them and in time"
Pretty self-explanatory..

Just a guess, I'm probably wrong, but most of this artist's songs are literary references, so I thought I'd give it a shot. :3

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Panic! at the Disco – There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet Lyrics 20 years ago
I'm thinking that this song is about a couple that had a bad break- up and they see each other at a party with disastrous results. She's surprised to see that he's done a complete 360 in character and he's bitter, trying to make her jealous with his new-found confidence..etc. etc. XD;

A shot in the dark. This song is near impossible to decode.

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