| Joy Division – Shadowplay Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I agree that it's perhaps about stardom and musical success. Fame is something he's searching for...waiting for...but he only finds through that creative process, the actual work is produced in silence and solitude. Then when he starts to rise, he can only realize his days up high are numbered and he sees the assassins lined up to to take it all away. Finally he's reflecting and realizing what has happened, and starting over again. It could be about drugs or love or any addiction really, but I think just generally it's about wanting, getting, losing, and wanting all over again. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Your Heart Is an Empty Room Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Burn it down Till the embers smoke on the ground And start new when your heart is an empty room With walls of the deepest blue Home's face, how it ages when you're a way The spring blooms Then you find the love that's true But you don't know what now to do Cause the chase is all you know And she stopped running months ago And all you see Is where else you could be When you're at home And out on the street Are so many possibilities To not be alone Flames and smoke Climbed out of every window And disappeared With everything that you held dear But you shed not a single tear For the things that you didn't need Cause you knew you were finally free And all you see Is where else you could be When you're at home And out on the street Are so many possibilities To not be alone And all you see Is where else you could be When you're at home And out on the street Are so many possibilities To not be alone And there on the street Are so many possibilities To not be alone It's not literal at all...the 'burn it down' is a metaphor for ending the relationship. The whole thing is about ending a love that was once held dear, maybe not for the right reasons, but ending it nonetheless, and looking to a future. |
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| The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This might be a reach, but it sounds like the singer is talking to a loved one who's been irreparably injured in an accident with a drunk driver, and the loved one is writing out their will in a rush as the singer falls into despair over the impending death. As he talks about 'the bars that send the autos swerving into the loneliest evening' he means that the bars are what caused this, as in a drunk driver. And what's buried underneath, well, people that have died. Without that whole 'detox' idea the 'keeping me dry' isn't nearly as clever, but it could be metaphorical. I don't know, it just makes more sense to me since the last demands seems like last will and testament and I feel like the visitation and the gaudy apartment complex sounds more like a hospital. | |
| Britney Spears – Breathe On Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Guess what, kiddies, Britney added a subtext right under your noses. I kept wondering about that line 'monogamy is the way to go, just put your lips together and blow' and I realized that she is talking about infidelity. The reason they must only breathe and not touch. Cause then it's not technically cheating. Way to be slick and ahem..get off on a technicality, pun intended. |
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