| The Fray – Over My Head (Cable Car) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I really think this song is about finding out your girlfriend's cheating on you (specifically, being the LAST person to find out about it) and all the sinking feelings associated with that. Could be that I was going through that and that's how my mind read the lyrics, but a lot of the lines correspond to a situation like that. 'I never knew that everything was falling through That everyone I knew was waiting on a cue To turn and run when all I needed was the truth' He never expected that she was unhappy in the relationship (never knew...), but all of his friends/her friends knew she was cheating and were 'ready to turn and run' once their relationship hit a brick wall. 'Smoke and whose still standing when it clears' could be that he'd rather not know which of his friends knew all along but wouldn't tell him. It would hurt to know that they were whispering about his private life this whole time. 'Over my head' just means that he's so in love with her that losing her is going to hurt. Bad. '8 seconds left' could mean that they haven't officially broken up left, so he figures in the last '8 seconds' of their relationship he may be able to salvage it. I have to agree with the others about 'wish you were a stranger I could disengage', beautiful line, really speaks for itself. He just wishes he never got to see how beautiful she was because then it wouldn't hurt to lose her. I also think 'Find another friend and you discard' means that she's trying to justify her cheating and avoid guilt by finding any one of her friends who agrees with her reasoning of why it was ok and 'discarding' that guilt. Yea enough of that, there's my interpretation |
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| Say Anything – Yellow Cat (Slash) Red Cat Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song clearly has to do with life after the initial stimulation of growing up and learning. After one 'settles down' the routine kind of kicks in, and most don't do anything to stop themselves from living the same day over and over. I think the 'cat invasion' kind of describes his utter boredom as he's reduced to describing an ordinary cat fight as some kind of international war. The line 'just to prove to one or both of them a cat is just a cat' is important too - he feels superior to the two animals yet their lives have more purpose and direction than his own, which is a life of constant repitition and no conflict. |
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