| Copeland – Love Affair Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think it's about a girl who feels that she has no control over her heart. She's crying in her bed (the "awkward spill" that "fell past the cheekbone") and staring at the light thinking about how you can't choose who you love. She's questioning why she can't choose ("let me love who I want", "let me run where I want") The love was unexpected which explains the robbery image and in the end the person broke her heart. And the saddest part about it all is that she can't help but wonder if the breakup was her fault (the questions of being too weak and too young). This person blindsided her and she was swept away into this relationship and she was blindsided again when it ended. |
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| Copeland – Love Affair Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think it's about a girl who feels that she has no control over her heart. She's crying in her bed (the "awkward spill" that "fell past the cheekbone") and staring at the light thinking about how you can't choose who you love. She's questioning why she can't choose ("let me love who I want", "let me run where I want") The love was unexpected which explains the robbery image and in the end the person broke her heart. And the saddest part about it all is that she can't help but wonder if the breakup was her fault (the questions of being too weak and too young). This person blindsided her and she was swept away into this relationship and she was blindsided again when it ended. |
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| The Tower and The Fool – Breach Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I talked with Chris about this song since it's my favorite of theirs and he told me that it was about a flood that happened in Providence a few years back, but I always like to think it's about love gone sour. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Soul Meets Body Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think this song is all about living life openly and honestly. "I want to live where soul meets body And let the sun wrap its arms around me and Bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing And feel Feel what its like to be new" The narrator desires to become the most pure version of themselves where who they think they are and who they actually are comes together. The image of the sun wrapping around them is them showing the world exactly who they are. They wash their mask away and go back to when they were like that. Like a newborn. "Cause in my head there's a Greyhound station Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations So they may have a chance of finding a place where they're Far more suited than here" Because right now, they aren't a good person for any number of reasons. Their thoughts are the manifestations of that pure version, but because they don't quite measure up, they feel dishonest speaking those thoughts. So they hide who they are. I also think about people posting stuff anonymously online. Many of these thoughts are brilliant, but the person wants them out into the world without taking the credit for them. Because they are so afraid. "I cannot guess what you'll discover We turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovels But I know our filthy hands can wash one another's And not one speck will remain" The narrator hardly knows themselves anymore and therefore doesn't know what someone else would find if they tried to figure them out. But they are both digging for the truth anyways and if what they find is filthy, the act of their honesty is cleansing in itself. "I do believe its true That there are roads left in both of our shoes But if the silence takes you Then I hope it takes me too So brown eyes I'll hold you near Cause you're the only song I want to hear A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere Where soul meets body" There is so much left to discover. Many people feel trapped and pigeon-holed, but this is not the end. The silence is a softer way of describing death. If this person that helped the narrator to become clean dies, they don't want to face the world alone. So they hold that person (with brown eyes) near because hearing their voice makes them know that they are still there, still alive, and they still see them in the place where they became pure. |
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| Mumford & Sons – White Blank Page Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think this song is about the battle between a person's desire for worldly things and their religious beliefs in the context of a man falling in love with a woman. I think this because I used to struggle with the same thing for a very long time. The first verse talks about giving the woman his heart while he gives his body and confessing love while confessing folly. Is he strong enough to give this woman everything he has? He trusts her enough to show her the things that makes him strong (his body and love), but can he trust her with the things that make him vulnerable (his heart and his mistakes)? The last part of this verse brings in the question of religion and morality. He struggles with this as he struggles with his relationship with God. If he is honest about his feelings for this woman, will that make him clean in front of God? Or does the fact that he has given himself to this woman make him impure? God knows his heart and folly. If he gives it to the woman, where does that leave him with God? "Tell me now where was my fault in loving you with my whole heart." I think the chorus is directed at both God and the woman. First the woman. He has been open with her, but things still did not turn out how he had hoped they would. Maybe it was too much for her. Then God. He was honest with God and loved God with all he had, but it wasn't enough. He isn't pure enough. "A white blank page and a swelling rage, rage. You did not think when you sent me to the brink, the brink. You desired my attention but denied my affections, my affections." He is angry with both God and the woman. He has nothing to hide anymore. He was open and honest and feels betrayed. He was almost in love with this woman, but she turned him down. She may not have known how deeply she was affecting him, and when he told her, she couldn't accept his affection. He battled with his religious beliefs to the point of misery. The love he gave to God was not enough. Once again, he uses the chorus to address them both. His love is both too much and not enough. "Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life." He repeats this line, once again addressing God and the woman. I always see 'truth' as Truth as in God. If he finds a woman that will lead him to God, he will love her and stay with her forever. His battle between his humanity and religion will be over. It also gives me imagery of Christ finding his disciples. His bridge to God is also in Christ, and he will follow Christ his entire life. |
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| Regina Spektor – Laughing With Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Does anyone know the saying, "If you want to make God laugh, tell God your plans"? Well the entire song reminds me of that saying. Every bad scenario she presents is something for which we'd never plan, and maybe, even if it's cruel, God is laughing at us. I grew up in a Christian tradition that claimed that God could "make a way out of no way" and the second part of the chorus definitely sounds as is Regina is completely against that idea. I definitely don't believe it anymore, either. To me, it's a huge slap in the face to the Word of Faith/Prosperity Gospel believers. She really sounds critical of religion. The song is actually very cynical. | |
| Bright Eyes – I've Been Eating (For You) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The reason I see it that way is because I kind of know where he's coming from. Sometimes there are things that you can't do yourself, and the only reason to keep going and do those things is to do them because of someone else. I have a problem that I've been battling for years. It's not an eating disorder, but it's really destructive. Every time I want to give it up, I end up falling back into the same old routine. But I'm also in love with a boy, and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't approve. So every time I want to give in, I think about him, and most of the time I don't. He's really the only reason I don't give in. The times I do, it's because I'm hurting because of him. He kept his appetite that night because of her, but he slips up. His appetite has been gone for quite a while, but he thinks about her and he doesn't give in most of the time. |
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| Bright Eyes – I've Been Eating (For You) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I know someone posted what he said it was about, but this is what I think. The girl uses him. Maybe for sex, maybe not. It's clear she has, but maybe not all the time. Whatever it is, the onesidedness of their relationship has turned them to hating one another, even though he's really cared about her. Cared enough to write poems and such. At the time when he was inspired by her, she was worthwhile, but then she ended up in "relationships" that were meaningless and only about the guys scoring. Because he joked about her being a slut, she calls him an asshole. Yet he still really cares about her, and he knows they aren't right, so he wishes he didn't. But because he does, he hopes she finds someone who'll treat her right. As for the last few lines, I am on the side of those who believe this is about an actual eating disorder, not just a zest for life. She obviously still needs him if she keeps using him, so we can see she cares when she worries about him eating. He's been battling most likely anorexia for quite some time (since his appetite has been gone half his life and he's worried about eating, whereas people suffering from bulimia do eat but purge). He has only been eating for her. It's against all he feels to eat, but because it worries her, he eats. |
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| Nickel Creek – Helena Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree a bit with duckandcover23. He is an unfortunate lost cause even though he doesn't want to be. This starts towards the end of his and Helena's fling, and he's asking her to wait on him. She's realizing it's not going anywhere and doesn't want to waste anymore time. He didn't intentionally fall for her, he "let down his guard", and she got him anyways. Because she "was playing for keeps", she actually makes him fall for her. He's asking for his heart back because he knows that his girl would sense a difference if he's really longing to be with Helena and she's not around. She won his heart, and he loses because he can't be with her without hurting his first girl. He wants her to "leave him in her debts", basically have something to collect later after he and his girl's time has finally passed without her as a reason. He doesn't want her to have any part in his confusion with his original girl. And when they do break up, he plans to go back to Helena. The lyrics should be YOU'LL look so sweet waiting for me. And this part is self-explanatory. He's just daydreaming Helena waiting in love as ever until his current relationship fades due not to him but to the other girl. This really shows how sad the guy is. He doesn't know how to deal with his feelings at all. He actually loves Helena, but what he has with his current girl is so good that she isn't reason enough for him to leave or he just doesn't want the breakup to be on him. This is not the first instance that shows he doesn't like the blame cast on himself. That was shown when he didn't intentionally fall for Helena and says it's her fault. He's also attempting to sweet-talk her into waiting by calling her sweet and saying she has his heart. But Helena feels bad for the other girl. The guy just doesn't get it and pushes Helena farther away until it's too late. She leaves with his heart. He doesn't really understand why. He had such a *convincing* argument for why she should wait. He turns to bitterness in order to not feel heartbroken by telling her that he'll just forget about her even though it's obvious he won't. He attempts to break her down and make her feel guilty by saying that she can say whatever she wants because he's such a charming and good-looking guy that he can get any woman he wanted anyways. Helena, because she has his heart and can actually figure out what he feels, sees how pathetic he is (not the bad pathetic, the sad pathetic), but he tells her he doesn't need her sympathy and tries to convince himself that he'll be alright even though he won't. |
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| Fall Out Boy – The (After) Life of the Party Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"I'm a stitch away from making it And a scar away from falling apart, apart" This could have some highly nostalgic meaning, but it seems much more straightforward to me. Everyone in Hollywood is getting plastic surgery to erase their imperfections. One more operation and this person could be big. We're so used to our celebrities being perfect. One scar in Hollywood, and it could be over. |
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| The Pussycat Dolls – Right Now Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's "Let me have that wild embrace" not "Let me have that while you grace." | |
| Regina Spektor – Daniel Cowman Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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In this song, time is all messed up. It flows back and forth between the present and the past. I think Daniel did receive his death sentence at 4:15, and that's when he stopped existing, instead of actually dying at that time because he can't do whatever he wants. He can't fly like it's commonly said of spirits because he's still technically alive. This is linked to Heroin Boy's sentence in the next verse who, upon receiving the sentence, comes in and also starts singing "I don't exist." I do believe that they both died by drowning themselves. When HB takes a bath, no one *believes* it will do any harm, but it does. The way she leaves the final "drowning" hanging makes me think this. So Daniel is going to control his fate, too, and cause "the premature ejaculation of his death sentence." |
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| Regina Spektor – Consequence of Sounds Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The key phrase here is the title, which I believe a lot of you have ignored. The consequence of sounds. The power of words and their consequences. It's a warning about what you choose to say. For some reason, Regina doesn't believe her words are very effective (maybe because you love her or hate her and she doesn't have a humongous fan base...). Then she goes into the kids on the street corner who choose to spout mess about the injustices in their life (the "shot" part makes me think of 50 Cent...) instead of the injustices that matter (what people in the 60s were screaming about). Yet keeping shut about the issues that matter is killing us. The next section is about some place where they have overcome the current problem, yet another one is just around the bend. The "weather report" is something that tries to let the people know what's going on, yet we ignore the true issues for those superficial things that don't matter, like the traffic (How many times have you watched the news for the traffic instead of actual news?). Then we hear what we want to hear from people who realize that what they are telling us isn't the truth. But we continue to listen because we can't handle the truth. The next two lines are difficult, though. But the last line is the clincher. "Prophets are silent." Two lines above, she says "silence is harder." The prophets are speaking the truth, but no one's listening, so they rot away. The repeated verse has a different feel to it, now. She knows that her words are powerful, but still doesn't speak. Maybe she is a prophet. |
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| Regina Spektor – Prisoners Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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So, after reading the comments, I got a few meanings from this song. I think listenrepeat is right on the ball with one of them. The first line supports virginity as a life sentence, which, if the HCA stuff is true, would make sense. The next three lines remind me of orgasm. And, sorry, but the lyrics are "a thousand bucks," which would support that they could go to a prostitute with the money and fix it all. Then there's the bit about the priests, which I think listenrepeat really gets. I always thought is sounded sexual when she said "and oh I do swallow," but I never made the connection. As for the other meanings, the "tattooing the stones with cusses like cavemen, your momma was here," just reminds me of how people mark on walls and stones to leave their mark, in this case, they write "your momma was here." The most obvious thing to me, though, is the religious overtones. If anyone has read the imprisonment story of Paul and Silas in the Bible, the very beginning is so very similar. And in the middle section where it says, "and to rise from the mud and start over and over with the people all dead," it makes me think of the Deluge. |
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| Regina Spektor – On the Radio Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| She wrote it about a friend who died. | |
| Nickel Creek – Sabra Girl Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think I got it. Maybe. I'm unsure why it's Sabra, either. But the narrator lead a lonely life, but somehow, he (just using it to simplify and it is the dominate term) crosses paths with the Sabra girl. It's love/lust at first sight ("clouding my view"). The day was rainy and they had a deep talk, a life-defining one, it seems ("forever my debt"), but he knows from the start that she won't be there long. So she left early one morning (maybe back to Israel?), but they keep in touch through letters. I'm not sure about anyone else, but I definitely read letters the way I want them to mean, and that's what he did. He purposely read them as if they meant more, though she'd warned him already that nothing could come of it. With each letter, he becomes more convinced that there is something more between them and decides to go to her, but when he does, she tells him she only wants to be friends. He's forced to repair his broken heart again, and realize that he just had hopes of love again. They will never be more than friends, it seems. But time will cure his broken heart. | |
| Teddy Geiger – Love is a Marathon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is one of my favorite Teddy songs ever. Yes, adilah, it's slow, but I think it really helps to bring the point of it all back home. I had listened to this song a bunch following Love Monkey and when I first got the cd because it was so beautiful. I'm talking to a guy who is on the recovery end of this song. He was exactly like the person in this song, but now he wants more. He wants a relationship. Just from talking to me and through my various internet profiles, he knows that I refuse to be just an "adrenaline rush" or a "thrill," and he's actually trying to see my soul. He's taking off his shoes for once, for me. We'll see how far this road goes. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – A Lack of Color Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I want to talk about the 7:03 thing as well. I thought it was a 703, implying area code, for a long time. Yes, it probably does have a double meaning for the area code. But I think there's something else in it. I don't know if anyone else does this, but when I'm really anxious to call someone, I try to make it a random time instead of on a variable of 5 (10, 15...). It seems much more spontaneous then though I'd planned out the time I'd call. And again, "this is fact not fiction for the first time in years" is such a powerful line. I can't say how many movies I've seen and books I've read of love stories like this. For the first time in years, he has one. That's so balla. |
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| Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes – The Calendar, the Energy (If This is You Then Woe is Me) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"expose the souls they're not afraid to show." WOW that is such a powerful line. i couldn't do it. that takes so much bravery. |
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| Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes – The Thief Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| i think this is a song about his relationship with God. they've broken up. i also think the title is accurate. this may be a stretch, but theif has multiple meanings. A less well known one is an imperfection in the wick of a candle. the wick holds the flame or light. since God is sometimes refered to as light, i think matt is saying he's an imperfect Christian. he's so lost that he doesn't know if God will come back to him again. He has to make more effort now. | |
| Teddy Geiger – Gentlemen Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love this song. I got a bit of meaning from it when I went to my friends' high school graduation last night. Having graduated a few years back myself, I could both see them through my own experience and through the eyes of parents, teachers, and guardians. As I watched them, realizing it may be the last time I'll ever see them all together, I wondered if I'd done all I could to ensure their "deliverance from everything they should not do" even though life is "so unpredictable," and knowing the ones I was there for will be scattered in different states next year, I have done all that I can. Try it in this light. It gives the song much more meaning than thinking it's about him being gay. | |
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