| Owl City – Hello Seattle Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| SEATTLE REPRESENT. <3 | |
| K'naan – Fatima Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I just found out what he sings after "She spoke Arabic and Swahili, / She'd say..." It's "Upendo, Anta Habibi." "Upendo" is Swahili for "love" and "Anta Habibi" is Arabic for "you are my love/dearest friend." So sweet. |
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| K'naan – Fatima Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is so beautiful. K'naan's voice is so soft - especially compared to the stronger, rougher style he uses in other songs such as "Voices in My Head" - and the effect is just so heartbreaking. With the rage and grief behind the story, K'naan is really strong to be able to sing about it so gently; he almost sounds like a curious child. What an amazing artist! |
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| The Beatles – In My Life Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| the first time i heard this song, i felt like the lyrics were the very definition of love. while there's many friends, lovers, and memories you'll always treasure, this one person outweighs them all.. that's seems so powerful to me, that you'd exchange everything for this one person :) | |
| Rocky Votolato – White Daisy Passing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yes! This song also makes me think of that poem.. Especially the verse "So dawn goes down to day" and the lyric "I'm going down to sleep on the bottom of the ocean / because I couldn't let go when the water hit the setting sun" - those lines always make me think of trying to hold on to a sunset over the ocean, diving into the water and trying to catch the rays... | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Soul Meets Body Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me, one the place where “Soul Meets Body” is here on earth. It’s somewhere where “the sun wrap[s] its arms around” us, and where we can “bathe [our] skin in water cool and cleaning” – all very earthy imagery. Also the dirt on their hands, the roads left in their shoes, and the brown eyes make me think of the earth more than some magical otherworldly place that humans might look forward to finding after death. (If I think about the song like this, the lines “But if the silence takes you / Then I hope it takes me too” seem to be about death, and by calling death “silence,” Gibbard seems to imply that there’s nothing in death; it’s just that – silence.) With that interpretation, I think that the meaning of the song would be to encourage listeners to really embrace life to the point that soul and body (the emotional/spiritual and the physical) merge. But I think that could only be achieved when there are “roads left in... our shoes” – when we experience the world. It seems like kind of a “journey over destination” concept; whichever place we reach is of little importance compared to the roads that take us there. Another place where soul and body could meet (and this seems to correspond more directly to the music video) is in music itself, in “A melody softly soaring through [the] atmosphere.” Really, music can fill your soul, influencing you emotionally, and it can make your body react to those emotions, making you dance, cry, laugh, etc., etc.; music sort of makes the soul flow through the body. (I’m not really sure though, if soul and body meet in music, is “the silence” still death? That seems reasonable since music and the world are kind of combined (melody in the atmosphere)... what do you think?) Then of course, that place might be love; a place you find through a person who washes your hands with their filthy ones, and whose hands you wash with yours in return. I really like the image of “filthy hands… wash[ing] one another” – it’s like cleansing another’s life with your own (again, the dirt makes me think of the roads, or, essentially, life itself). I think this is such a beautiful song – it’s inspiring but also bittersweet, and just the words and the melody send your thoughts all over the place :) Are there other places where soul meets body for you? |
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