| Guster – Happier Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I agree with a lot of the stuff people said above, but instead of just leaving a group of friends for a cooler group of friends, I think it's more about "breaking up" with one particular friend who was too needy/sensitive. The friendship itself was toxic, and the protagonist of the song just can't take it anymore. Even though the two had been friends for a really long time, they needed to break up and find new friends. Something also makes me think that the friend ditched the protagonist a lot because of the "wasted every moment of your Saturdays and your Sundays" part, like maybe the protagonist was sitting around waiting for the friend, but he/she never showed. Also, the "do what was done unto you" part makes me think that the friend was ditching the protagonist. It seems like parts of the song are directed to the speaker himself, as though justifying the break up. And the parts in parentheses are aimed at the friend, who's still sticking around even though the protagonist is moving on. | |
| Guster – Satellite Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Just reiterating... a satellite it a thing that orbits a larger body (girls are generally smaller than boys... just a thing), but they never touch. Which is why the singer is saying that this girl is his satellite because he can never actually HAVE her. Also, satellites are things that aren't natural; they're manmade. So the singer has made the image that he sees of this girl up in his mind (she is real, though), but he doesn't (and never will) know if she's the way he thinks she is because he'll never really get to know her the way he wants to. | |
| The Format – Oceans Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is definitely about a break up because Nate couldn't be who this girl wanted him to be. She thinks she's perfect and he doesn't believe in God, which is something she can't deal with. So they broke up and she moved to California. And now Nate still really wants to be with her and he's wondering why he couldn't have just been like his friends and changed who he was so that this girl would love him. He's wondering why he couldn't have just gone to church (at the receptions they drink and chat, etc.), but he was scared of them and their values. Now he can't trust anyone (the girl, God, himself) to help him make what he thinks are the right choices in life. So now he just wants to go and find her and pretend like he's a Christian (or some other religious person, I'm just assuming Christian) so she'll come back to him. | |
| The Format – If Work Permits Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think that this song is about the singer and his girlfriend cheated on him and he's very bitter and sarcastic about it. Obviously, his whole family knows and they're trying to help him get over it, but he thinks that he's just going to end up going back to the girl. And then all of a sudden, he's like, "You know, I'll have fun being single" (hence the "time on land" part because they say that sailors and captains are married to their boats and to the sea...) and he's going to find someone who really cares about him. Then he says that he's sick of her excuses and she's not as damaged from that whole telephone thing as she thinks she is because that isn't what real love is, and she would have figured that out if she hadn't cheated on him. So at the end, he's completely over it and he says that if she's lonely, too, then she can go screw herself because he doesn't give a shit. | |
| Boys Like Girls – The Great Escape (Demo) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Rather than a graduation song, it sounds to me more like a song that embodies the feeling that a person has the night before they leave for college. When they say "and make peace with an empty town" that makes me think of how everyone leaves for college at a different time due to orientation and what not... and when they say "we won't hear a word they say, they don't know us anyway, let it burn, watch it die... we are finally free tonight," that makes me think that they're saying they're going to throw away everything from high school and they're free because the next day they're going to college, a place where no one knows them. | |
| The Audition – don't be so hard Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| OMG I sooo agree about this song acoustic. It's incredible. I'm listening to it right now. :] It's on the Punk Goes Acoustic 2 album. | |
| She Wants Revenge – Tear You Apart Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Okay, so after serious srcutinization of this song, I have decided that this is what it means: The guy who is the narrarator of the song has a crush on this girl who is also his friend and is really horny and just sort of wants to get into her pants. He's looks for signs that she might want to, too, but he doesn't know (hence the "wait, nevermind"). So he tells the girl's best friend by mistake and then the best friend slips up and tells the girl. He finds out his crush knows and freaks out. so the next time he sees her, he gets nervous/scared now that she knows and throws up. So he's all shy and the girl thinks it's cute, but then she gets annoyed because he won't talk to her. So he goes outside for a cigarette, still feeling nervous, and she waves to him and he thinks it's a sign that she might want to hook up/has a crush on him too, and obsesses about her/the "signs" for the next few days. So the boy is basically in love with the girl, but is trying to tell himself he's not by saying "it's only just a crush it will go away," etc. The obsession with her is getting to a point where she's all he can think about so it's putting his life/schoolwork/etc. in danger and he just wants it all to go away. But it doesn't. Then he fantisizes about her (the chorus) and how she feels in his arms and how right it would feel to have sex with her. And the "I want to fucking tear you apart" is about sex as well as how he wishes she would just go away or that he could destroy his obsession with her so that he could get back to his life. So then he figures if he tells her then all of his agony will go away, and they talked about it and while they talked about it, she flirted with him. Then they hold hands (the sign he's been waiting for) and she tells him that she likes him too and they just sort of sit there and stare at each other for a second, both thinking about what they should do because they might break up or they might end up dating, and either would could be weird because after anything like that there's always social consequences because everyone's in everyone else's business. So then they decide, "Oh, fuck it" and make out and all of thier worries and concerns about school and other people's opinions just melt away. So while they're making out, he's thinking about how much he likes her and all of the things he wants to do to her. And them hooking up is bad because it just increases his obsession with her (and although she has a crush on him, she doesn't like him as much as he loves her, which is obvious). And that's what the song's about. There's also a possibility that the "repercussions about dating in school" and "Either way he wanted her and this was bad" could be that he's really popular or something and she's like sort of a loser (or just not popular) and it could like ruin his reputation if he liked her or whatever. And that's why he's so scared ("But the slip turns to terror"). |
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| Gavin Mikhail – Brave Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I can't believe no one's commented on this song. I love it so much! It was written during his wife's pregnancy and is about his relationship with her and how he thinks she's incredibly brave for being able to carry this extra weight with her just being herself and how he won't let her down or let anything happen to her. It's basically just about his love for her and how proud he is of her courage and how much he appreciates her support. |
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