| Jens Lekman – Black Cab Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It seems that he is introverted and has some serious issues but his friends are too casual to actually help him. They want him to be happy just so that the party could continue, but don't really think there could be anything serious going on with him. Since he's introverted, he doesn't want to talk about his worries and fears, thinking that this would only kill the party more and that his friends don't care anyway. He gets into this black cab, because he feels that he just can't go home yet, since he's too overwhelmed by his thoughts. It's like an act of courage. He wants to do something, anything to get rest from his thoughts, so he chooses the risky taxi drive to have something else to concentrate on. At the same time he knows that nothing's going to happen to him anyway and that he'll probably just drive he's night away. Maybe the reason why he doesn't want to go to home and why he went to this party in the first place was that at home he just falls into this routine anxiety. I think the line "You don't know anything So don't ask me questions" does not only refer to the taxi driver, but also to his friends. Everybody asks him these stupid superficial questions and act like they know everything, when, in fact, they haven't really bothered to try to understand, or actually talk to him. |
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| Muse – Starlight Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Far away from the memories Of the people who care if I live or die" This is the saddest part. I think that this person is giving away everything he has, just to chase something he knows he's not going to get anyway. But he can't do anything about it, because the thing he chases is somewhat like a drug to him. He needs it and he has fallen for it completely. Tragic, really. I'm not even sure if he's following somebody he deeply loves, or is it more like his muse or a metaphor for his higher ideals. "Our hopes and expectations Black holes and revelations" our hopes versus black holes - Our hopes are always very light and happy, whereas black holes symbolize this uncertainty and sinister ambience. So it feels like black holes somehow suck everything positive out of our hopes. expectations versus revelations - Usually, even when we imagine the worst case scenarios, we base our expectations on our former experiences, but since revelations can be very sudden and dramatic and can even turn our worlds upside down , they make our expectations useless. It seems like the first line refers to how people see the world and the second line to what the world really is like. It's like we create all these sweet illusions for ourselves, yet reality will always tear them down in the end. |
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