| Joy Division – Shadowplay Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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To me the big question is: who is "you" in this song. I'd offer: the "you" is the singer himself -- more specifically, the child or innocent good person inside himself. And he's searching for that innocent, good child and trying to reconnect. He's done so many bad things and reached such a state of shame, guilt, and anger, that he feels like he's lost that person and needs to find him again. He doesn't know how, it's like moving without motion. A "shadowplay" a reference to Plato's shadow world. All we can do is act out our own death... we know no more, just like Plato's shadow people. The room without a window in the corner may be a counselor's or psychiatrist's office where he finally faced this question. The assassins are then his own self destructive thoughts and actions, he feels like they're just grouped on the floor and dancing as if to mock his ability to control them. But when they make a move to connect, i.e. carry out their threats, an amazing thing happens... nothing happens and nobody cares... "I could only stare in disbelief as the crowds all left". This is usual in therapy, you find out that the demons you think you have aren't real. The final lines "I did everything I wanted to.. I let them use you..." are then the singer lamenting that he let the good innocent child at his core be kicked around by others, and he participated willingly. |
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| Collective Soul – Where The River Flows Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is not about a relationship, at least to me. It's about a personal journey. It's speaking to someone, or more likely to some part of your own self, and saying, "Find yourself another soul to hold -- Off upon my journey I must go -- to where the River Flows." In other words... you don't get to hang onto me any more... I am going and finding out what I am all about. "The River" is the river of life, of inspiration, of truth. This song is about getting to that pure, simple, just being and living, not getting hung up in sorrow and pain. |
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