| Duncan Sheik – On A High Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I feel this song is really best described in 2 parts. In the first part, he's telling us to seize life. How this is our life, and we just need to live it. There might be "so many reasons to be down", but it doesn't matter, cuz in the end we're all going to be fine. It's all how you look at life and he's on a high just from living. He says there's no conspiracy of happiness, we can just be happy without needing a reason. But then at the very end he kinda puts a bitter twist to what he says in the beginning. It's like he's tried so hard to convince everyone that he's happy all the time, but it backfired and now he feels trapped b/c he can't admit that he has negative feelings to anyone. That's why he says "and I lied and I lied and I wish you hadn't seen it 'cause I'm trapped inside my conspiracy of happiness" Personally I feel that we should find a happy medium. We shouldn't dwell on all the reasons to be sad, and we should live our lives to the fullest, but at the same time, we shouldn't be so delusional as to ignore all the bad things in life. Really catchy song. |
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| Duncan Sheik – Little Hands Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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He's in love with this girl but she's always been with someone else so he's waited patiently, all the while being a good friend to her only to have her say that she doesn't think of him as more than a friend. I love the lines "her indifference fills the room" and "Oh well, can't blame a guy for trying" and anything when he's singing from her point of view. But does anyone know what he's talking about in the first verse? What sweet perversion? Why's it on the telephone line? If they're on the telephone, then how are there too many ppl? |
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| Duncan Sheik – Home Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is pretty sappy and the lyrics aren't really all that great-they're not all that subtle and the rhyming scheme is fairly pathetic-but I LOVE how he says when he's with the girl he loves, it's not this all-encompasing passion or anything, he just feels like he's home. It so much sweeter, and more genuine somehow, than any other declaration of love he could make. It more than makes up for the other flaws of this song. Plus I love Duncan Sheik. | |
| Duncan Sheik – Barely Breathing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song, while not the greatest piece of songwriting, is such a classic that everytime I hear I have to restrain myself from bursting into song and singing along with Duncan. The lyrics so perfectly describe that feeling that comes at the end of a relationship when things get drawn out and everything feels suffocating. I definitely agree that Duncan's probably talking about a girlfriend who cheated on him but it's pretty much the same feeling no matter how the relationship ends. I once had a girlfriend who would casually hurt me all the time but was so completely oblivious to it that she never understood why I was upset. Everytime I tried to talk about it she would just start crying and we would make up and I always felt like I'd gotten sucked back into the relationship aka "the blackhole". It just kept happening over and over until her tears and pain just didn't mean anything to me. That's what he's talking about when he says "I only taste the saline when i kiss away your tears" The tears aren't anything but salt. |
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| Ben Folds Five – Sports And Wine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I def agree with Eamon in that Ben's not talking about the typical jock/party guy. I feel like he's refering to guys who put on a huge act to impress girls, whether they go the super-macho route or the sensitive-poet route. | |
| Ben Folds Five – Uncle Walter Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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is it bad that this song reminds me of my grandma... am I a terrible person?? |
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