| Seabear – Midori Green Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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here's an interpretation: sleep took him to the valley; the valley becomes a place only existing during sleep, a deep ravine of unlimited possibility. broken bones, roasting hens; a twisted, primitive image, like something you'd see on the ground of a cave, at the bottom of this darkness. this shows that this deep ravine does have a bottom, and it's harsh, with bones taking the shape of a smile, a grimace. swim into the valley; that's his plea for help, someone to rescue him from the numb intermediate of his dreams. drink up all my stones; the stones are leftover memories, dreams, caught in this intermediate with him that have sunk to the bottom, dark stones that now sit in the gorge with the smiling bones, and he needs help to get them. suspended in air, he has no weight, and can not reach that bottom to reclaim what he's lost. let's find some place good; he's looking, trying to escape the endless. there is joy in a finite universe, there is conviction and assurance, and there's no telling where you'll go when floating in sleep above a ravine. sleep comes to carry us; it now has them both, they are both in the valley, together. they did not escape, but in essence, could his escape be paralleled with another's entrance? perhaps now that he is not alone, that is an escape in and of itself. to have someone to sleep with at night, someone to share with, sharing that permeates deeper than sheets and into a presence that we won't ever see. with things that are so short and sweet, as this, they can often be entirely up to individual interpretation. it's so poetic. |
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| Tilly and the Wall – A Perfect Fit Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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you know what this song means to me? this song has spent a good while in my music library and i never realized how much it meant to me until i found myself discussing with her the biggest inadequacy i've ever felt in my entire life. and you know, that little noose is always at the back of my mind, urging for that suicide attempt, but this song speaks of a friend trying to prevent that. someone so caring that their friend's inner struggle with discovering themself and who they really are simply brings them to tears because they can't understand how much they're really loved. my life's been caught up in drugs and alcohol and promiscuous relations with people who have done nothing but treat me like dirt and i've finally found myself debating how i treat myself and how i let my life be lived. i've been losing my respect for myself and i've been beginning to feel like i'm losing the respect of everyone around me because i can't control myself and i'm developing into a person that i don't want to be. i found myself that night in the car talking to her repeating to myself "i just don't know," and i eventually fell right in sync with this song playing through my stereo on a mix cd i made about a month before. right above me, discussing the major downward spiral, you've hit the nail on the head my dear. "they want you to believe them and they'd love to see you hanging." i, i, i, i just don't know/ |
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| Damien Rice – Volcano Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i think the first stanza implies the he does not want this other person to devote their entire lives to him, to "hold yourself like that; you'll hurt your knees." and that all he really needed from them was a kiss, and some form of sexual relief. and i think when he starts comparing what they feel for each other, it is apparent that the other person is so much more devoted than he and it goes back to an old favorite quote of mine by derrick brown: "the one who loves the most is at the mercy of the one who loves the least." i think when he mentions how he asked for the sea, and he is given miles and miles of mountains, he is comparing it to how he asks for this huge expanse, a distance and just to be let alone because he is not capable of sharing his heart then, but he is being given this huge, devotional task of miles and miles of mountains. it plays again, where the under-appreciated lover puts everything out of their way to deliver the miles and miles of mountains, when all they are asked of is sea. the view point then switches as our other lover is figuring this out, and realizing that their love is being dragged around and abused, and that their tremendous efforts are not appreciated. i think it also plays into the way that the meaning of "what i am to you is not real" can be equally amibiguous, providing meaning from either viewpoint, along with the meaning of "you gave me miles and miles of mountains," which here i think represents the same vast expanse that this one lover was forced to cope with. our main lover, has discovered, at the end, that he cannot take the life away from this other, young lover. and that he does not want to harm them. he tries to convince them that they do not need him, and that he will never be able to follow through with his love and that it will simply hang heavy in the air between them for as long as it takes before one of them cuts it apart. i love this song. |
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| Okkervil River – Song of Our So-Called Friend Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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it's so simple. but so heavy at the same time. it makes you appreciate what a powerful song can accomplish. |
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| Damien Rice – Silent Night Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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this song absolutely kills me. i think it represents two people falling away from each other. one has grown weary of the other, grown tired of waiting for a love that will never be requited, and it is for this that she hates him. and i believe that the other individual has great passion within his heart for this other person, and cares deeply, but cannot love them. and that is what is meant by "you found some love for me thinking i'd go." it means that he tried to love her so that she could leave. he wanted her to go because it would be too difficult for them to stay together when they both care so much for eachother. "don't keep me from crying to sleep," is her plea for him to stop pushing her away. he is only trying to protect her from getting hurt in the end, so he pushes her away. and she understands this but is willing to stay with him despite. she does not want him to save her, to keep her from crying to sleep, because she would rather cry every night for him. in the next line, "i should be stronger than weeping alone," she wants to be a stronger person, and when she says, "you should be weaker than sending me home," she wants him to stop pushing so hard, and give in a little to what her love has to offer. she wants him to let someone love him because he is so torn on his own. she knows he is troubled as much as she, and simply says, "i cannot stop you fighting to sleep," and in a final plea, wishes him to sleep in heavenly peace. i absolutely love it, and that's how i perceive the meaning. |
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| John Wilkes Kissing Booth – Avalon By Braille Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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this is a fantastic jwkb song. it's so chilling, like all their music. "asking god to give it back." |
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| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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my first impression was that "maps" was a name. it's a literal way to take it. and it's...not a very...name-y name. but, that's what made sense in my head. |
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| The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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if i ran through every single detail of my life right now, this song would fit it perfectly. i'm not going to do that, because i'd be here forever. but, i'll try to give a vague summary of what i think of the song. "i'd give up forever to touch you because i know that you feel me somehow." to me means, that someone is willing to throw away everything they've ever known, just for a touch, and that somehow, they can tell the other person feels the same way. "you're the closest to heaven that i'll ever be, and i don't want to go home right now." means, that this person could just sit with other said person forever, feeling simply perfect the entire time. "and all i can taste is this moment, and all i can breathe is your life." means that this one person is so enthralled in the other that they are occupying all of their senses. "cause sooner or later it's over, i just don't want to miss you tonight." to me shows how, what they are doing together is going to have to stop soon, maybe because it's not supposed to happen, or it's being kept a secret for some reason, but they are going to enjoy the night that they have. "and i don't want the world to see me, because i don't think that they'd understand" means, that this person can't tell and show anyone how much they love this other person because no one would be able to understand what's truly involved in the situation. "when everything's made to be broken, i just want you to know who i am." means to me, that the person realizes that it's going to be ending soon, and that even if they can never be together, that they just need to know that they love them. "and you can't fight the tears that aren't coming, or the moment of truth in your lies." means, that they can't seem to cry for each other, because they know what they share, and even though they can't live like that, they can always be themselves with eachother and not worry about the lies they live behind. "when everything seems like the movies, you bleed just to know you're alive." means that when things turn out just as planned, though not as you may have wanted, that you'll always know what happened, and everything you shared, and that the painful memory that you'll relive is only a reminder of how great it used to be. wow. that took a while. sorry. --alex. |
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