| Simon and Garfunkel – America Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I guess I'm decades late, but I have that yearning to go "look for America" too. To drive off in my car with just what I need to get by on in it, and drive aimlessly around the country exploring random places and writing and taking photographs and living "free" as I learn what life is really about. It's idealistic for sure, but I still wonder if it's possible. | |
| Otis Redding – (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I love this song. It seems sad to me, but also kind of comforting and peaceful and beautiful at the same time. When I visited the ocean in Maine this past summer, I walked along the water singing this song repeatedly in my head, and so now it has those added connections for me. It's eerie and special in another way, since Otis Redding died soon after recording it. Even though the whistling was meant just as a fill until he came up with the last verse, I really like it as a part of the song. |
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| Tegan and Sara – Fix You Up Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I like how the beginning starts with singing right away in a way that's catchy and draws you in. | |
| Rufus Wainwright – The Maker Makes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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To me, the person singing (Jack or Ennis or a representation of anyone who can't have what they want because it's seen as wrong) is being sarcastic. He feels that every time he tries to be just a little bit closer to happiness, his maker makes it a little harder for him to reach what he yearns for. Like the phrase of taking one step forward and two steps back. He even feels like God is taunting him, creating smiles on others to contrast more sharply with the pain he carries around with him. He has been taught over and over that these feelings he has are wrong, that his love comes from the devil and that God will hate him for what he cannot help but feel. The last verse, to me, states the irony of the whole mentality: Oh Lord, how I know, Oh Lord, how I see, that only can the maker make a happy man of me He obviously is not happy and has not 'seen the light' about how to live. If you look at the song from Ennis' perspective, which probably makes the most sense to do, he winds up in a little trailer with only memories and the two shirts intertwined in his closet to comfort him. This is what his Maker has brought him in teaching him the "right ways" to be a good man. It is a painful sad song, and I think it captures the overriding emotions of the movie very well. |
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| Dido – Sand In My Shoes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| As Rachondaloose quoted, those lines are my favorite. I can really relate to the returning to "reality" theme of the song. Not so much to the love theme. | |
| Dido – My Life Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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And I'm tired and bored of waiting for you Something about that line has made it repeat in my head over and over in the past. |
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| Dido – Life For Rent Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It's just a thought, only a thought..... a thought that resonates in my mind everytime I listen to the song or sing it in my head. "I've always thought that I would love to live by the sea To travel the world alone and live more simply I have no idea what's happened to that dream Cos there's really nothing left here to stop me" That's what I feel like and imagine myself thinking in the future if I don't get past renting. |
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| The Goo Goo Dolls – Acoustic #3 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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(first comment on this site) I agree with what blondieelockz said about the theme being about following societal expectations while sacrificing your own dreams and happiness. I feel, like others who have posted, that I can relate to this idea, one that cycles through my brain over and over all the time, but yet I don't actively go and change things. I see people around me living in the same sort of way, like my mother, which is who I think of when I hear that line. |
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