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Phosphorescent – Song For Zula Lyrics 13 years ago
I love this song - I think it's quite sad though. I think it's about the destructive nature of love 'it makes a fiery ring', 'I know love as a caging being Just a killer, come to call from some awful dream'. He feels trapped by it, referring to it as cage or ring, which moulds him into something that he isn't - 'I saw love disfigure me, Into something I am not recognising', 'I could kill you with my bear hands if I was free'. He then goes on to describe being in love as making a person weak - 'fading being Just as fickle as a feather in a string', 'You will not see me fall, or see me struggle to stand To be acknowledged by some touch from his gnarled hand ','I lay my face to the soil, and all my teeth to the sand'. However I think he finds his way out of this love and finds that he is stronger outside of it - hence the last line of the song, 'And we race out on the desert plains all night
See honey, I am not some broken thing
I do not lay here in the dark waiting for thee
No my heart is gold and my feet are light
And I am racing out on the desert plains all night' - he can run with or without him.

Anyway this is what I think it's about - and it's absolutely stunning.

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Darwin Deez – Radar Detector Lyrics 15 years ago
I absolutely love this song. I think it's about, like many people have said, two people who have met and really like each other and they are just messing about doing the random things that newly formed couples do. Radar detector I think is a metaphor for someone whose perhaps just walked into a person's life just at the right time...he's the radar (driving around) and she has detected him.
Did I mention that 'I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SONG'!!!

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The Twang – Cloudy Room Lyrics 16 years ago
Love this ong!! I agree with the interpretation above. It's just about having a great night out really. Thsi will be me at Fresher's week 2010 - just without the alcohol :P.

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The Twang – Twit Twoo Lyrics 16 years ago
First comment...I can't believe it!! I love this song. I think it's about two peope who should be togeher bure aren't and one person in the realtionship is holding out for the other in the hop that they'll get together someday 'I'll send a message through the stars tonight
For me and you...'

I think that the 'me and you' in this line should actually be 'Twit Twoo'
'It's an open invitation, little balcony and a view
And all the birds they keep on whistling for me and you'

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The Twang – Encouraging Sign Lyrics 16 years ago
I absolutely love this song and this band. I agree with you, worldtraveller001, It's about falling in love. I wish a guy could feel this way about me :P (fingers crossed :D)

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The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition Lyrics 16 years ago
The song of my life. I love it, i love it, i love it!!!! I go nuts every time I here it!

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Just Jack – Embers Lyrics 16 years ago
I honestly cannot believe that nobody has left a comment yet...I'm in complete and utter shock. This song is probably one of the best songs of 2009 along with Walking on a dream by Empires of the sun and Sleepyhead by Passion Pit.

I think the meaning of this song is pretty self-explanatory; we all come from the same thing (we are all embers from the same fire.) the video also emphasises this point by showing a time line from the beginning of man 'till today. I reckon the 'through of the devilish things we do' part of the song is refering to the evil that man has created and the 'petty decisions we think will make a difference' part of the song refers to the fact that man wants to make a lasting change but really we, as well as our decisions, are so tiny that we blow away like dust just like 'embers'. Our ideaa don't make a difference because it has already happened before hence the repetitiveness of the song.

Another Great Just Jack track.

PS i think the lyrics are slightly wrong: I think it's 'The fact and the figures they overwhelm and stifle everything...' instead of 'The overwhelming stifling' as this doesn't make much sense.

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Sigur Rós – Sæglópur Lyrics 17 years ago
I think I'm going to cry....I don't think anyone understands how much I love ths song.

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Sigur Rós – Hoppípolla Lyrics 17 years ago
When I hear this song all I picture, in terms of its meaning, is two lovers standing, oblivious to all the negativity that they are surrounded by - all they know is that as long as they have each other they can get through anything and everything life throws at them. This song is full of so much positivity and hope and everytime I hear it I'm filled with optimism and I burst into tears. I'll definately be walking down the aisle to this song...

"Brosandi
Hendumst I hringi
Holdumst I hendur....."

I think I'm gonna cry....

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The Feeling – Kettle's On Lyrics 17 years ago
I love this song, my favourite by them by far it makes me cry....love it, love it, love it!!!

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Just Jack – Disco Friends Lyrics 17 years ago
I think this song's about a woman from a very wealthy background and has the opportunity to become 'a stylist, Or maybe something in the music biz,' that she wants to be but instead she spends all her time and wastes her life away by 'Throwing kisses in the powder room, Slowly sucking on a cigarette...hiding out in disco land'.

An absolutely great song from a remarkable artist.

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Just Jack – No Time Lyrics 17 years ago
I absolutely love this song - just jack is like one of the few artists out there that can write a song that is meaningful but you can really dance to - plus his british even better - I can't wait for his new stuff!!

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Sigur Rós – Untitled 1 Lyrics 17 years ago
As I'm commenting on here I'm actually listen to the song on my MP3. Along with many of the commenters on here I feel that the song not actually having a proper name allows the listeners to actually come with their own meanings:

Is wierd because I think that I'm the only one on here who associates this song with death or losing someone you love (perhaps because of a break up) - I can think that every Sigur Ros song that I've ever heard can be linked to love - I agree with Lizzybelle about what can be heard when you listen to the song:

"You sat along the fire...you're saw the light, you're saw...
You sat along the fire....you're so in love, you're so...
You've suffered long,
You're so alone, you're so...
You sigh 'so long',
You sigh 'so long'
You shone (you shone...you sigh)

You sat along the fire
You saw the light...you saw
You sat along the fire
You're so in love...you're so...
You suffered long...
You're so alone, you're so...
You sigh 'so long'
You sigh 'so long'
You shone.

Can be interpreted as; The first part is sung in the past tense as if the person is reflecting on what happened. A woman is in love with someone was oblivious to the fact that things weren't working out 'you sat along the fire - you saw the light' - The man (an assumption) 'saw the light' calling him out of the relationship. 'You suffered so long' - the woman now knows that the 'man' has suffered so long by being in a relationship he knows wouldn't work but was only in this relationship in order not to break the woman's heart. 'You sigh so long' - the man put up with the woman for so long.

- You shine no more...you're not here...
You hear no more, you're not here..
You sigh no more...and you're not here"
- She's now talking in the present tense, the man has now left this relationship; 'you shine no more you're not here', and the woman feels alone and unable to come to terms that she may have known that the relationship wasn't meant to work.

Well this is just my interpretation but this song's simply breath-taking.

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Sigur Rós – Gong Lyrics 17 years ago
This song gives me the sort of feeling you feel when someone you love so much has either lied or has been caught doing something that breaks your heart e.g cheating. When the drums kick in, it's like you are trying to break free from this person's sronghold because you have fallen so deeply and madly in love with them - You also get the image of smashing everything around, as a way of expressing you're anger (during this part of the song, it sound like 'you lied!' is being sung over and over and over again).

I love this song and I'm deeply in love with sigur ros. I must get the album.

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Alphabeat – Fascination Lyrics 17 years ago
I absolutely love this song. I just go mad when it come on. I recently heard the remix and I love, love, love it! But I have no idea what it's about...

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Lupe Fiasco – Paris, Tokyo Lyrics 17 years ago
This is a great song. Lupe Fiasco is unlike many rappers today, who only base their songs on parts of the female anatomy, money and having sex. This is a song that has meaning and I'm sure many people can relate to it. It has such a great song to chill out to as well. Go Lupe!!!

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The Chemical Brothers – Star Guitar Lyrics 17 years ago
This is a great song. I heard this song a long time ago but I never realised that it was the Chemical brothers until very recently and I had to download it straight away. It really does feel as though you are on a train/tube journey when you listen to it. I absolutely love it!!!!!

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Friendly Fires – Paris Lyrics 18 years ago
I absolutely adore this song. I agree ChichSquared about the meaning. It such an up lifting song and there aren't many songs that sound like this.

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Shayne Ward – Breathless Lyrics 18 years ago
I absolutely love this song...although I know I'm pretty quite young this will definitely be the song I'll be playing at my wedding. Shayne Ward is just getting better and better. Love it.

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Pet Shop Boys – Numb Lyrics 18 years ago
I absolutely love this song. It's pretty self-explanitory.

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Sugababes – Change Lyrics 18 years ago
I this song os just ab fab. Sugababes totally rock!!! The video is amazing.

The song is about not having control over what the future has in store for you. You think that you've planned out everything but then when one sudden 'change' happens everything goes wrong. The 'change' that happens in this song is when your partner leaves you, you become totally messed up, your life becomes messed up and you just don't know what to do. You are searching for answers but they don't matter because nothing will be the same again. But what you know is that you have to get through it.

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Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love Lyrics 18 years ago
Love this song but I think it's being olayed too many times and that's the problem; it can get a bit annoying after a while.

The first verse is really confusing but I think she is talking about how she felt before she met this man that she loves. She had been 'closed up from love', given up on love because she was always got hurt. But then after a period of time she got 'frozen', she hadn't been in love for such a long time that she didn't know what it felt like anymore. so when this man came along she fell in love with him instantly, byb unfreezing her heart.

But everyone else thinks that hw is a bad influence on her therefore, they shouldn't be together so that she doesn't get heartbroken 'the goal is to keep me from falling'. She tries 'hard not to hear but they talk so loud', But when she eventually gives in and listens to these people, she knows that they are telling the truth but she loves him so much 'But nothing’s greater than the rush that comes with your embrace and in this world of loneliness I see your face', by 'closing' her 'vein' trying to stop loving him, staying away from etc. they don't realise is that her 'heart' has become 'crippled', it is being destroyed inside. But then he comes and cuts her 'open' everytime, finds a way for her to love him, go to him etc. Therefore she keeps 'bleeding love', a metaphor. she eventually gives in and loves him again although people have been talling her that she shouldn't but she's in love with him so she doesn't 'care what they say'.

In the final verse she says:

And it’s draining all of me
Oh they find it hard to believe
I’ll be wearing these scars
For everyone to see

'Draining all of me' is another metaphor as she is 'bleeding love', is becoming more confused and stressed out as she is sort of torn between the people who don't want to see her get hurt and the man whom she loves so much, but knows that he is a bad influence on her. But decides to follow her heart and carry on 'wearing these scars' that she gets when he lets her down so she has to close her 'vein' and then when he.cuts her 'open' again and keeps 'bleeding love' because she loves him so much.

I know it's a long analysis but it's a great meaningful song

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Scouting for Girls – Elvis Ain't Dead Lyrics 18 years ago
I definitely agree with the above meanings and I totally love this song. I also agree with urecutewhenuscream, scouting for the girls are pretty straight to the point with their lyrical meanings, which is what is what makes them really good but at the same time it's not cheesy.

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Scouting for Girls – It's Not About You Lyrics 18 years ago
I absolutley love this song. It's sort of a sad but meaningful song but at the same time it has a sort of upbeat tune if you know what I mean.

I agree that the song is about unrequited love. It's about a girl who knows that this man loves her but she strings him along knowing deep down that she doesn't have any feelings for him at all. So when she tries to break up with him she uses the typical excuse 'it's not about you, it's not about you, it's me'.

He tries to make himself feel better throughout the song by trying to convince himself that she was a difficult person to love, hence, 'I guess we've got nothing to say'/'I don't know how to love you more' but realises at the end that he cannot live with out her 'oh don't you leave me here alone'.

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Sugababes – About You Now Lyrics 18 years ago
I love this song it's so catchy...they are just the best girlband ever...it's a great dance track. The lyrics are pretty much self explanatory; making the wrong decision about someone you really like but now you know how you feel about the person and want a second chance to have a go at things.

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Natasha Bedingfield – I Wanna Have Your Babies Lyrics 18 years ago
It's just the ultimate line to make a man run half a mile (hence the video). But I love the song, it's catchy and the video's great. It's basically what you think when you think you've found that perfect someone...you just wonna have their babies.

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Natasha Bedingfield – Say It Again Lyrics 18 years ago
I'm loving this song at the moment...she's just a great singer/songwriter...all her songs really do touch me.

What I don't understand about the song though, is why she's saying "say it again". Can anyone help?

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Luciano Pavarotti – Nessun Dorma Lyrics 18 years ago
Speechless when ever I hear this song......it's so breathtaking....RIP sir.

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Shayne Ward – If That's Okay with You Lyrics 18 years ago
Isn't this song such a feel good song. I love it so much and the tune is great but i think that it would have been best if it we had a summer this year and he released it then as it does sound very summerish...either way it is a great song. I love the fact that he asks whether it's okay with her, which is so romantic...Shayne Ward for number one!!!!

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Shayne Ward – No U Hang Up Lyrics 18 years ago
I seriously cannot believe that no one has even bothered to leave a comment yet. This is song is so great, I love it. (I cannot wait for it to come out) as well as 'if that's okay with you'. It seems as though he has taken a long break and returned with great material. You go Shayne!!! I hope you get to number one.

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David Gray – Please Forgive Me Lyrics 18 years ago
I absolutely adore this song. The tune really compliments the song well and it's such a feel good tune. It's basically about man who loves his girlfriend so much it makes him act a little strange and he doesn't know he is doing it.

I think the line 'please forgive me if i act a little strange for I know not what I do' means: I love you so much that you love and everything you do makes me do such strange things and I have no idea that I'm doing it. So 'please for me'. And then in the song he says the usual things she does that makes him act abnormal such as:

'All my words are falling short
And there's so much I want to say' - He is so in love with her that he cannot finish of a sentence.

'Like a stone I fall into your eyes
Deep into some mystery' - When he is with her he gets lost inside her as though he is the stone and she is the ocean/sea/river.

'Feels like lightning running through my veins
Everytime I look at you' - he loves her so much that everytime he looks at her he has some sort of strange feeling as if 'lightning' is runnig through his veins.

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The Feeling – Helicopter Lyrics 18 years ago
I think this song is about an unrequited love and the person feels as though he can make himself feel much better and feel less pain if they bought themselves something expensive to take their mind of it.

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MC Solaar – La Belle et Le Bad Boy Lyrics 19 years ago
From the first time i heard this song, i fell in love with it but the problem was that i couldn't find the song and i didn't know who sang it. i don't understand that much french but now i've read the lyrics here - this song is very touching. And the lyrics - a work of art. i agree with madrigal it does provoke a thought of bonnie and clyde into my head - it may be a french version of them. By the way the tune is great and i love the song.
Les sous ensembles dans les grands ensembles s'assemblent
[Small ensembles in big ensembles assemble]
Is very confusing. Maybe it means something like something inside these two different characters just seem to click and they fell in love.
What i don't get is ....
Le contexte est plus fort que le concept
[The Context is stronger than the concept]
It's very confusing.

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Milky – Just The Way You Are Lyrics 19 years ago
It's a great feel good and summery tune. It's basically about expressing what she likes about her man and that she wounldn't want him changing for the world, she loves him just the way he is.

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Moby – Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? Lyrics 19 years ago
I love this song. It's so emotional. I think the first part 'why does my heart feel so bad?' is about how you feel after a break up. and the 'these open doors' part i think is about the options you have left infront of you - whether to forget about the relationship and move on or sit there and dwell on what could have been and why it ended.
But i love this song it's one of my favourites.

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Lionel Richie – I Call It Love Lyrics 19 years ago
I first heard this song when i went to germany a few days ago, it sounded great then i herad it on the x-factor and it sounded even better. i was suprised that it is by lionel Richie. i love the lyrics. it explains a little bit about how a feel about a boy at the moment.

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Aerosmith – I Don't Want To Miss A Thing Lyrics 19 years ago
i don't really know much about aerosmith and i don't think i would like their music but this song is sooooooo sweet and romantic. i love it so much, and it's so good because it's played in armageddon which makes it even better. it's so emotion, it expresses the true meaning of love.

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Chantal Kreviazuk – Leaving On A Jet Plane Lyrics 19 years ago
i love this song, i was watching armageddon tonight (i cried my eyes out) and i really like it plus i had been searching for it since i heard it on the BA advert a few months ago. thank god i've found it. i think the song is about moving away from/leaving someone (your lover) forever or parting through death. i'm gonna download this song now.

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The Feeling – Never Be Lonely Lyrics 19 years ago
i can also relate to this song becaus eit's now i'm feeling and the moment and how i've been feeling lately.
people in love will 'never be lonely' - but i will. uuuuhhh.

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Radiohead – High and Dry Lyrics 19 years ago
I think this song is about a man who carries on cheating on his girlfriend no realising he would have to face the consequences:

'Two jumps in a week
I bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy?':
You've had two girls in a week and you think what you are doing is very clever.

'Flying on your motorcycle,
Watching all the ground beneath you drop':
cheating on your girlfriend by going out with so many other women has made you become so immune to guilt.

'You'd kill yourself for recognition,
Kill yourself to never ever stop'
you'd do anything to out with so many girls at once, you'd do anything to make sure you never stop being a 'player'.

'You broke another mirror,
You're turning into something you are not':
another person has found out about your affairs and now you have to apologise to you're girlfriend again which you don't usually do.

'Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry': you've now become prone to guilt your wrong doing as left you in a difficult situation.

'Drying up in conversation,
You will be the one who cannot talk':
you don't know what to say to your girlfriend anymore to make her stay with you and just like your girlfriend (when you were cheating) you will be suffering in silence.

'All your insides fall to pieces,
You just sit there wishing you could still make love':
you're in so much pain your gilfriend has left, you wish she could come back so you could love her like before.

'They're the ones who'll hate you
When you think you've got the world all sussed out':
the people who know the bad you were doing before were the ones who grassed on you when you thought what you were doing was okay and you had nothing to worry about like your girlfriend finding out.

'They're the ones who'll spit at you,
You will be the one screaming out':
those people are the ones who will get the satisfaction because they knew what was coming because you didn't alter your ways and you'll be the one regretting that you didn't listen when you were warned.

'It's the best thing that you ever had,
The best thing that you ever, ever had
It's the best thing that you ever had,
The best thing you ever had has gone away':
Your girlfriend was the best thing you ever had and now she's gone away.

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Jamie Cullum – High & Dry Lyrics 19 years ago
I think this song is about a man who carries on cheating on his girlfriend no realising he would have to face the consequences:

'Two jumps in a week
I bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy?':
You've had two girls in a week and you think what you are doing is very clever.

'Flying on your motorcycle,
Watching all the ground beneath you drop':
cheating on your girlfriend by going out with so many other women has made you become so immune to guilt.

'You'd kill yourself for recognition,
Kill yourself to never ever stop'
you'd do anything to out with so many girls at once, you'd do anything to make sure you never stop being a 'player'.

'You broke another mirror,
You're turning into something you are not':
another person has found out about your affairs and now you have to apologise to you're girlfriend again which you don't usually do.

'Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry': you've now become prone to guilt your wrong doing as left you in a difficult situation.

'Drying up in conversation,
You will be the one who cannot talk':
you don't know what to say to your girlfriend anymore to make her stay with you and just like your girlfriend (when you were cheating) you will be suffering in silence.

'All your insides fall to pieces,
You just sit there wishing you could still make love':
you're in so much pain your gilfriend has left, you wish she could come back so you could love her like before.

'They're the ones who'll hate you
When you think you've got the world all sussed out':
the people who know the bad you were doing before were the ones who grassed on you when you thought what you were doing was okay and you had nothing to worry about like your girlfriend finding out.

'They're the ones who'll spit at you,
You will be the one screaming out':
those people are the ones who will get the satisfaction because they knew what was coming because you didn't alter your ways and you'll be the one regretting that you didn't listen when you were warned.

'It's the best thing that you ever had,
The best thing that you ever, ever had
It's the best thing that you ever had,
The best thing you ever had has gone away':
Your girlfriend was the best thing you ever had and now she's gone away.

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The Feeling – Never Be Lonely Lyrics 19 years ago
i love the end when he repeats never be lonely it sounds so good.

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Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars Lyrics 19 years ago
this song is sooo beautiful that sometimes i want to cry when i hear it. i think this song is about, like what many people on here have said, falling in love and forgetting about everything else in the world like all the negativity people have about your relationship.

'We'll do it all, everything, on our own. We don't need anything, or anyone.' means - basically what it says and that because they've only got each other their is no need for them to worry about anyone else.

'If I lay here, if I just lay here. Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.' means - would the partner lie with this person and forget about all the bad things around them and what people say and concentrate on the love they have for each other.

'I don't quite know how to say how I feel. Those three words, are said too much, they're not enough.' means - this person does not know how to say how they feel to the people that say so much bad things about them. but although this person says the three words 'i love you' so much they feel like it has not been said enough and maybe if they escape to this 'world of their own' the love that they have for each other would be able to express how this person feels.

'Forget what we're told, before we get too old. Show me a garden that's bursting into life.' means - forget all the negative things that we are told in this world, like we cannot be together, before time runs out (before we get too old) and show me the beautiful and positive things in life. (this is where he uses a metaphor - 'a garden bursting into life'.)

'Let's waste time, chasing cars, around our heads.' means - let's enter our own world in our minds and pretend that everthing is perfectly fine.

'All that I am, all that I ever was. Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see' means - all this person needs is this partner because they feel like they are who they are with this person and no one else.

'I don't know where, confused about how as well. just know that these things will never change for us at all.' means - this person doesn't know where and how they will get into this 'world of their own' but they know that if they come back to reality everything negative that people say will never change and will never stop being said.

i repeat this song is soooo beautiful.

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Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars Lyrics 19 years ago
this song is sooo beautiful that sometimes i want to cry when i hear it. i think this song is about, like what many people on here have said, falling in love and forgetting about everything else in the world like all the negativity people have about your relationship.

'We'll do it all, everything, on our own. We don't need anything, or anyone.' means - basically what it says and that because they've only got each other their is no need for them to worry about anyone else.

'If I lay here, if I just lay here. Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.' means - would the partner lie with this person and forget about all the bad things around them and what people say and concentrate on the love they have for each other.

'I don't quite know how to say how I feel. Those three words, are said too much, they're not enough.' means - this person does not know how to say how they feel to the people that say so much bad things about them. but although this person says the three words 'i love you' so much they feel like it has not been said enough and maybe if they escape to this 'world of their own' the love that they have for each other would be able to express how this person feels.

'Forget what we're told, before we get too old. Show me a garden that's bursting into life.' means - forget all the negative things that we are told in this world, like we cannot be together, before time runs out (before we get too old) and show me the beautiful and positive things in life. (this is where he uses a metaphor - 'a garden bursting into life'.)

'Let's waste time, chasing cars, around our heads.' means - let's enter our own world in our minds and pretend that everthing is perfectly fine.

'All that I am, all that I ever was. Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see' means - all this person needs is this partner because they feel like they are who they are with this person and no one else.

'I don't know where, confused about how as well. just know that these things will never change for us at all.' means - this person doesn't know where and how they will get into this 'world of their own' but they know that if they come back to reality everything negative that people say will never change and will never stop being said.

i repeat this song is soooo beautiful.

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Akon – Pot of Gold Lyrics 19 years ago
the tune sounds really good

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Studio B – C'mon get it on Lyrics 19 years ago
This song is the best

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Studio B – I See Girls Lyrics 19 years ago
This song is good. It is basically about a man's love for girls.

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Marvin Gaye – Let's Get It On Lyrics 20 years ago
I love this song so much, it is one of my favourite songs and it's type of song that gets you into love making. !!!LET'S GET IT ON!!!

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The Corrs – Heart Like A Wheel Lyrics 20 years ago
This song is sooo sad and calm. It could make me cry. It one of the best brake up songs i have heard and is the only one of the corrs songs that i have paid real attention to and liked.

I think this song is about a woman who really loves a man who has cheated on her or did something really bad to heart her 'What I can't understand...Why it had to happen to me '. she is now describing her pain/her broken heart 'Some say the heart is just like a wheel When you bend it you can't mend it' and what love can do 'it’s only love that can break a human being and turn him inside out '.

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Candi Staton – You've Got The Love Lyrics 20 years ago
i love this song so much. it makes me so happy and it also make me cry.

i think this song is about a woman who use to think that her life meant nothing and she wanted to give up. she loses he faith in everything but there is just one man who has the she needs to see her through.

it is such a good song. not good but brilliant.

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