| Within Temptation – The Cross Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I can certainly see the religious interpretations fitting in here..idk, though, to me it seems more about a problem in a personal relationship. Sometimes people can be deeply unhappy inside but they put a face up around others, even their friends...but at the same time, maybe they want somebody to see through that face and see just how much they are hurting. That's what this song seems about to me; she's hurting inside and really needs help. But the other person won't help her, they can't or they choose not to see through her mask. They refuse to face the fact that she's not perfect, she's not happy, that something's wrong. This person isn't supportive of her, they aren't there for her in her time of need, but some part of her is still calling out to them hoping they'll finally take notice and step in, although she doesn't know why she's clinging to that hope. | |
| Within Temptation – All I Need Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think this song is about being on the brink of a relationship, perhaps. She's been hurt over and over in the past until she shouldn't really trust anything anymore, but she does, she keeps trusting and hoping. She's begging him to be real, to love her and give her a reason to believe in love. She's hoping that just this once things will come out right and history won't repeat itself. She's begging him not to hurt/betray her like so many others before him have. | |
| Within Temptation – All I Need Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think this song is about being on the brink of a relationship, perhaps. She's been hurt over and over in the past until she shouldn't really trust anything anymore, but she does, she keeps trusting and hoping. She's begging him to be real, to love her and give her a reason to believe in love. She's hoping that just this once things will come out right and history won't repeat itself. She's begging him not to hurt/betray her like so many others before him have. | |
| Evanescence – Missing Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Personally, this song is about friendship, but I think it can be about any kind of relationship. Like, you know, sometimes there is some one (or several someones) who is SO important to you, like your entire world, but you feel like there's no room in their heart for YOU...which makes you feel stupid and sad and used. To me that's what this song is about. Feeling like you are so unimportant that if something were ever to happen to you that special person or persons would barely look up, that's how little they would notice, that's how little it would matter to them. It's the feeling of just wanting to be loved...putting love out there and hoping it will be returned and then being hit with the sad realization that it isn't. It's the realization that this important bond which you thought you shared is all a lie. | |
| Vanessa Carlton – White Houses Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this is one of those songs that means something a little different to anyone. Me, personally, it reminds me about some experiences I had in Junior Year of HS, but that's clearly not what it's actually about. I think the most important part of the song comes in the last few lines. Maybe you were all faster than me We gave each other up so easily And silly little wounds we'll never mend I feel so far from where I've been So I go, and I will not be back again I'm gone as the day is fading On white houses. I lie, put my injuries all in the dust In my heart it's the five of us In white houses. It's really a song about friendship when you come down to it. One minute this group of people are your best friends in the entire world, the next minute drama, etc. comes between you, or your lives just take you in different directions, but gradually you give each other up. There's all these silly little leftover issues that will never be resolved and suddenly that past where you were all close seems forever ago. So you, like everyone else, walk away, knowing that you will never return to what you had. "The day is fading," the sun is setting on those happy times you had and they will never be back again. Things always look better in hindsight, so you walk away maybe bothered by those "silly little wounds" but after time you throw them "in the dust." Those little wounds will keep you apart forever but they won't taint your memories. In your heart, it will always be you and your friends, like it was at the very beginning, and you'll keep those memories in your heart, because times like these never just evaporate from your life. Yes, this song is definitely about sex, about losing your virginity, all that good stuff. But this is the message, here. At least to me. |
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| Vanessa Carlton – Ordinary Day Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song, to me, has always been about meeting someone who changes your life. It reminds me of my bf. I met him 4 years ago, and he was just "that guy who sat across from me on the bus", but even then, he made me want to live more. I could open up to him and be myself, and he encouraged me and supported me in that more than my other friends ever had. I felt like I'd known him forever, like he knew me better than anyone. September 2002, it was just a day, just an ordinary day in highschool; he was just an ordinary guy. But I fell for him without even meaning to and now we're so much more. But 4 years ago I would never have believed it. I guess what I get out of this song is that the smallest and simplest and most insignificant things in life can turn out to be the most meaningful of all. | |
| Vanessa Carlton – The Wreckage Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I don't know, if she says the song isn't about suicide then I guess it isnt..but that's what it always seemed to mean to me. You know, sometimes if you're really depressed you'll think things you don't really mean...It seemed to me to be about suicide by car crash...driving down the highway, maybe going a little too fast watching the other cars go by, secretly wondering what would happen if she lets go of the wheel or steers it into a tree...picturing the glass shattering, flying through the windshield, hearing the sirens of ambulances and police cars that would come to the scene. It's a "secret need" so it doesn't seem like a definite plan, like 'I want to do this' so much as 'I wonder....' | |
| Linkin Park – By Myself Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"their songs are so generic that nobody can say what they mean....only ..what they mean to them. " vertisian, I agree with you, but probably not in the way you intended. Yes, LP's songs ARE vague. They are very general and they mean something different to everyone. I think it's better that way. LP is so powerful to their fans because of that, because everyone and anyone who is having trouble in their lives can relate it to their lives. To me that is MUCH more preferable than a song so blatantly focused around a band member that the fans can't relate at all. The beauty of LP is that it means something different to each of us . To me this song is about a battle to trust people. You know somehow, instinctively, that the people are making fun of you behind your back...but you can't know for sure. You're not sure if you should stand up for yourself, or if you are perhaps mistaken. You're not sure if you should sacrifice your pride or just end up hurting yourself. You're torn between choices, ripped apart by the uncertainty and the fear and the not knowing. You're just overwhelmed and you "can't hold on." You can see no win in the situation. If you sit back and let them get away with it, they've won; but if you stand up for yourself, you know you'll lose the battle. You're trapped and buried in the questions. You can't figure out why this is happening, why you're out of touch from reality. Nobody has ever taught you how to deal with this kind of confusion. You don't understand why you're "on the outside," why you're not good enough for them, why you can't be yourself. No matter how hard you try, it never matters. You're lost...you're alone...you're by yourself. |
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| Linkin Park – Somewhere I Belong Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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brokenpromises88, I agree with you! This has always seemed like my song. To me it's always been about bullying, which I had some problems with years ago. The first verse is about being shy, not being able to reach out to people and socialize properly...being afraid and unsure, and maybe finding some people who understand you. But especially when you have trouble making friends to begin with its easy to make mistakes, and you mess up and are left alone, and you know it's your fault (or maybe everyone tells you it is your fault). The second verse is about thinking that maybe you won't make it...things are so different than you imagined them You don't know how to react. People tell you to be more positive about life but you don't know how; how can you be positive when people are looking at you funny, mocking you, staring? No matter what you do you can't win, and you somehow feel again that it's all your fault. That's the circumstance of the song. Then in the chorus and bridge you have the *desire* of the song. The singer is, indeed, looking for a place to belong. You want to heal the past, get rid of old wounds...feel the friendship and happiness that to you now begins to seem like something made up, something "never real." You want to "erase all the pain" you've held onto...feel like you're close to "something real," in touch with the world....You want the same thing you've always wanted: to belong somewhere, to find a place where you aren't mocked. You know you can never know your full potential or be anything, do what you want to do and move on, unless you let go of who are you now and who you've been and what's happened. You'll never be able to trust someone until you heal yourself. But you're determined that you will...you will find your place, your "somewhere" where you belong, and heal. Idk, sorry for the length...in the most literal sense, that's what runs through my mind everytime I hear this song...I love it...I love the way Chester can take things I've felt all my life and bring them to life. |
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| Linkin Park – Crawling Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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(sorry for the length) I think the meaning of the song is pretty much implied in the music video. It is fairly well-known that Chester was sexually molested as a child, and it seems that LP at chose to portray this, if not through the song itself than through the music video. I disagree with the idea that it was the girl's boyfriend, however. The person prowling through her drawers, touching her all the time, giving her those flashes of pain, looks more like an adult. I think it is an adult in her family abusing her and this abuse makes her afraid of sexual contact with her boyfriend. But he doesn't know why she is refusing him because he doesn't know her secret. She's ashamed because she can't be a "normal" girlfriend and hurting when he walks away. Although the song may technically be about sexual abuse, I think it can be interpreted in many different ways. One of the best parts of LP's music is that it really reaches out to their fans, it is something to relate to . To me, personally, this song is my senior year of high school. I'd had thise great junior year and then all of the people that made it so wonderful graduated and I was left...alone. I felt like I could never find myself; I was always a perfect student but suddenly, unfathomably, when it mattered most, my grades went to shit. I felt completely detached from the world around me, out-of-control. I avoided my friends and hid myself, my feelings, from them and my boyfriend. I was so afraid of the future, so full of horrible feeling that I couldn't let out...."Crawling" has helped me through that a little. My problems aren't solved; but LP put my feelings into poetry, and I know I'm not alone. I absolutely loved everything about this song; the lyrics are beautiful -- "Against my will I stand beside my own reflection/ It's haunting how I can't seem to find myself again" were probably my favorite lines--the music was beautiful, the video was beautiful. Every part of this song has this...surreal feeling that gives me chills. As for "crawling in my skin," to me *that* exact feeling, chills crawling up yoru spine, a feeling crawling inside of you that you can't escape. |
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