| Story of the Year – Take Me Back Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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To me this song is about what's happening in the world now. 'Do you still remember back when days....' - Do you still remeber when you were back at school? Your world was sheltered, you had nothing to worry about because the next day you would do the same as the last. 'There was the day when this world went to war and...' The world has waded unthinkingly into war, for example the 'War on Terror' and the fellow singing the song has gone along. What's the diference betwee wasting Nazis in 'Saving Private Ryan' and fighting insurgents in Afghanistan, no real difference between real life and the movies. Now after having experienced it the protagonist reaises the difference between fact and fiction, he is over it and has had a gut-full, and whished to be taken back to when he was not afraid, safe in his sheltered world. 'Running blind into the light...' Running blindly into the light of a better world through the war mentioned earlier, maybe we should have thought about it, but too late, he's fighting and it's wasting him away. |
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| Nerina Pallot – Everybody's Gone To War Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yeh well war's bad, it's a real kick in the pants, but that line 'Don't tell me it's a worthy cause/No cause could be so worthy' is an even bigger kick in the balls to the people over there isn't it? Think about it, you're telling them that they're wasting thier time and lives for nothing, an unworthy cause. There are some things worth dying and killing for, not shitty little trivialities, but real things like principals ie. freedom, not in the George Bush Earth President style but freedom from fear and oppression. I'll be damned if I'm expected to do whatever some skirt wearing (genuine) terorist wants because he's tryna use fear as a weapon or some shitty country who thinks they can wave nukes at the world and expect them to do whatever. Nuts to them, time to send them all to hell! | |
| Evermore – Light Surrounding You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I started listening to this song when I was reading a book about the Australian Light Horse's charge at the Nek on Gallipoli, lots of blokes getting killed, dying in thier mates arms, running knowingly to their deaths into machinegun bullets with their mates. So that explains my different interpretation of this song (different because it doesn't involve some for of wrecked relationship). I relate it to the guys who were waiting for their turn to charge and die, or dying in their mates arms. I think of a bloke turning to his mate and sort of comforting him, as in "this is really shit that we're all gunna die, but we're all gunna go out together so lets not be afraid". It's like they know they're gunna die (see the light surrounding you - like an aura) but don't be affraid of dying because it's all gunna be over for us soon and we'll be with eachother again in the next life. Told you it was different. |
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| Blink-182 – Not Now Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Now while all you morbid heartbroken losers seem to think that every song is like your crappy relationships which broke up (yes, they must have been crappy or they'd still be going wouldn't they? think about it before you whinge at me), I take a somewhat different approach. When I first heard this song I was reading a book about the charge at the Nek by the Australian Light Horse on Gallipoli, there's a lot about blokes dying in their mates arms, and when I heard the lyrics (except the one last kiss bit) thats what I thought of. Like some young bloke is shot and dying in a foreing land, he knows he's dying and he's scared shitless, as you would be, but he gradually adjusts until he understands that this is how it's meant to be and he's waiting for the end. He's talking to his mates around him, asking them to stay until he's gone so he doesn't die alone. I'm going into the army, and I figure that if I'm gunna get shot and die, thats how it'd want it to be, give me a bit of time to adjust to the fact that it's curtains. Well thats my view, albeit somewhat different. |
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| The Farm – All Together Now Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think a big part of the meaning of this song is in the first verse. "Remember boy that your forefather's died Lost in millions for a country's pride But they never mention the trenches of Belgium When they stopped fighting and they were one" It sounds almost like a school lesson, the boys are being taught about the 'glory' of war and what their forefathers died for, but no-one ever tells them of the futility of the conflict, as in how alike the men are. Next year I'm becoming an officer in the army and it wans't until I heard this song that I really thought about the pointlessness and waste of war, I always considered it somewhat of an adventure. |
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