| Gregory and the Hawk – A Wish Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is the perfect representation of the relationship that was between me and this guy. He had a girlfriend and I knew that but I loved him so I let him use me and pretended to be someone I wasn't because I wanted to make him happy. "And I guess it doesn't matter who I am or pretend to be, cuz it's her you'll always love and it's her I'll always envy." He would come to me for sexual stuff that his girlfriend wouldn't give him and he was just an all around asshole, but I still had feelings for him anyway because I thought that deep down he was a good guy. That part relates to the bridge because I felt like his feelings were "buried beneath the deepest rock" because he didn't show me any feeling whatsoever. I didn't know if he didn't have any feelings or he was just good at hiding them. But to get to them, I would have to "pay lots of money to help lift it with machines" by sacrificing all my emotions and risking getting hurt over and over again and not even really knowing if it would work ( "but I'm not sure you'd cooperate, not sure you'd come clean" ). All of the little references remind me of him too. The smoking cigarettes part especially because my dad died of lung cancer and this guy knew that but still continued to smoke in front of me anyway even though he knew it bothered me that he even smoked in the first place. Anyway, yeah, this song is amazing. I love playing it in my room because it makes me feel a little better about the situation I was in (and I'm not in anymore, thank God). I need to get up the nerve to play it for this guy though so he realizes how much he hurt me. I feel like I could have written this song. | |
| Regina Spektor – Braille Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| turpentine can be used to self-induce abortion, and im thinking birth control patches? | |
| Regina Spektor – Somedays Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Ok, so I may be way off here, but I think I've made sense of this song. I think it is about someone with bipolar disorder, where the person has two distinctly opposite personalities: one is extremely depressed and the other is extremely carefree and happy. The person is singing about her personalities, if that makes any sense... She wants to be happy and carefree all the time. I feel this desire to be happy all the time is represented by the tone of the music: it is happy, soothing, and carefree throughout the whole song. But the depression keeps sinking in and messing up her happiness. The first verse: "Somedays aren't yours at all They come and go as if they're someone elses days They come and leave you behind someone elses face And it's harsher than yours And colder than yours They come in all quiet sweep up and then they leave And you don't hear a single floor board creak They're so much stronger than the friends you try to keep by your side" She is describing the how the depression is making her life difficult. In this verse, the "you" she is singing to is who she feels she really is inside (the happy personality). Somedays aren't happy, and these depressed times keep coming and going. "They come and leave you behind someone else's face", meaning after she comes out of her depression, she expects everything to be ok, but it isn't because people view her as the depressed person. There is another side to her that keeps coming in and screwing up her life. When she is in a good mood, she tries to fix the damage she caused when she was depressed, but the depression is so strong that it is causing her to lose everyone that she is trying to keep close to her. The next section: "Downtown, downtown I'm not here, not anymore I've gone away Don't call me don't write" "Downtown" is the depressed personality. She doesn't want to be depressed anymore. She is in her good mood and is telling the depressed mood to leave her alone pretty much. "I'm in love with your daughter I want to have her baby I'm in love with your daughter So can I please" She is still singing to the depression. I feel like this is a metaphor. Everytime after the depression, the happiness is "born" again. She is telling the bad mood that she is in love with its daughter, the good mood. And she doesn't want the good mood to keep leading to more bad moods. Instead, she wants the good moods to "give birth" to more good moods. She is metaphorically asking the depression's permission to "marry" the good mood so she can permanently become the person she feels she truly is and wants to be all the time. It is a continuation of the section above, asking the depression to leave her happiness alone. "Downtown, downtown I'm not here Not anymore I've gone away don't call me don't write I've gone away don't call me don't write" Same meaning as before. Ending: "Somedays aren't yours at all They come and go as if they're someone elses days They come and leave you behind someone elses face And it's harsher than yours" The ending could have an optimistic or a pessimistic meaning (listener's choice): Optimistic: It is a continuation of the previous sections. She is still singing to the depression when she says, "Somedays aren't yours at all". She has beat the depression and she no longer has days where it takes over. The days that used to belong to the depression now belong to someone else (the happiness) and they leave the depression with a happy face. =) But the last line, "And it's harsher than yours" leads me to believe its more pessimistic: In that case, the depression has come back again and the ending has the same meaning as the first verse. |
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| The Hush Sound – Lighthouse Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I agree with sky liner. | |
| The Hush Sound – Sweet Tangerine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song reminds me of this guy I know, who screws up all of his relationships. He really cares about this one girl, but he messed up OVER and OVER and he's constantly wanting her back. Everytime he admits to his mistakes and says he will change, but he doesn't. And now the girl is fed up with him and won't listen to him anymore. And could the stalking part just be a metaphor? Like to show how desperate this guy has become for this particular girl. Not that he actually did those things. | |
| The Hush Sound – Wine Red Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I definitely think it is religious. The references to Adam and Eve. The apple. The lovers have lied. The part that really convinced me though, was the "Give your immortality to me." Because after Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, He took their immortality. | |
| The Hush Sound – Where We Went Wrong Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| And the "Hey come back to me" section could be like them trying to rediscover their emotional connection to each other to fix the relationship. They realize their relationship has become based on sex and they're trying to fall in love with each other again. | |
| The Hush Sound – Where We Went Wrong Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Oh, and that's not Bob singing the high part. It's Darren. Unless I'm mistaken. | |
| The Hush Sound – Where We Went Wrong Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Obviously, it's about a relationship that went wrong. I think it went wrong because they jumped into things way too fast. Possibly, their relationship became based on sex. "My body has been claimed, Soul has been shipped away." And they lost the emotional connection. I LOVE THE "HEY, COME BACK TO ME" SECTION! This is my favorite song off of Like Vines. |
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| Jewel – Only One Too Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| the perfect GET OVER HIM song. i love it. the bridge is perfect. u think i wont leave yes you're good but not so good i can't see. those lines helped me so much to get over this one guy. and yes, the song is poppy but i dont really care. all the better to dance around my room and sing it like an idiot (seriously try it sometime it makes u feel sooooo much better). anyways, i dont really think ty inspired this. but my mom thinks jewel was the "other woman" who fell in love and then now shes telling him she doesnt wanna be the "other woman" anymore. | |
| Sheryl Crow – My Favorite Mistake Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| this song is so great because everyone can relate to it. no matter what. everyone on here has already posted sumthing like "i have a favorite mistake". and everybody does. its such a great line. "ur my favorite mistake". its an oxymoron. and everybody has something that was great while it lasted, then it was over, and you realize that it probably was a mistake. but u dont care. this song is amazing. and i hope she gets past her breast cancer. | |
| Jewel – Grey Matter Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song rocks. I learned how to play it on guitar and it surprised me how easy it is to play. I love the lyrics. Jewel uses simple words and simple music to describe complex feelings. It's an oxymoron within itself. I love how she can get her point across so easily because she uses powerful analogies, metaphors, and personification. This song is especially good because of the way she shows the mixed emotions she is experiencing through the tone of her voice as well as the lyrics. The way the note goes up at the end of the line "Leave, don't go away" gives me the impression that it's a question rather than a statement. It shows that she's unsure of her feelings toward the man. While the notes steadily go down on the line "Love equals pain.", I am under the impression that this line is a statement that she is sure of. I love Jewel. This song equals awesome. | |
| Jewel – Adrian Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"Adrian came home again last summer, Things just haven't been the same around here" that he passed away which can be described as going "home" to [insert afterlife of choice here]. In response to prettythang, that is a good interpretation, but I like to think of it as a more happy thing. I think when she says he came home again the second time that he woke up from his coma. |
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| Brand New – Guernica Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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A phone call I’d rather not receive Please use my body while I sleep My lungs are fresh and yours to keep, kept clean and they will let you breathe My dad passed away of lung cancer in February of '05. This song has helped me through. Especially the verse above. I watched him die right before my eyes. I don't know how I kept on living. One morning, I got a phone call from the hospital that my dad wasn't expected to live longer than a day, so I skipped school and my mom took me to the hospital. I wasn't prepared for what I was about to see. My dad was in a hospital bed, with a breathing mask on, gasping for air every few seconds. These few lines are exactly how I felt. "My lungs are fresh and yours to keep, Kept clean and they will let you breathe." |
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