| Suede – Positivity Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is wonderful, but kind of funny in its ambiguity. Do you realize that if you read it one way, it sounds like lavish praise and adoration laid on a lovely girl? Maybe someone you're in love with, or infatuated with ("the morning is for you, the birds sing for you, the cars crash for you, the world spins for you..."). Very whimsical and romantic in that sense. But then from another angle, it sounds like a sarcastic jab at the self-absorbed life of someone with a messiah complex or some wannabe starlet. The references to money, diamonds, credit cards, 'Dynasty' (the show), going where the creeps all prey (clubs?) all seem to point in that direction. I'd like to know what you think about the lyrics. |
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| Beth Orton – Concrete Sky Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is full of errors, I'm going to submit the lyrics to my favorite Beth Orton song. | |
| The Gentle Waves – Partner In Crime Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Wow. This song is VERY heavy. Not in that heavy-metal sense, but if just sounds like a rock-opera, in a sense. It could be about a person (woman, in this case) whose worst fear of dying alone is coming true, much to her resigned horror. She's looking fate in the face and wistfully smiling, because she's knows its a one-way trip and there's nothing she can do to stop or change it. |
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| The Gentle Waves – Evensong Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Sounds like a girl who's pouting because a guy won't commit. LOL. | |
| The Gentle Waves – Pretty Things Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Isobel Campbell always has a way of making the corniest and over-used themes sound so poetic and pretty. I'm sure her cotton-candy voice only helps her in that area. ;-) This song might be about 'inner beauty'. I imagine a timid, and cute-yet-slightly bookish girl thinking about this as she looks at her schoolgirl crush from across the room. He is, of course oblivious. lol... She wonders, "Do you like pretty things?" Of course, we all do. But then she questions the listeners about the true value of beauty: as corny as it is, true beauty comes from within. A heartfelt and sincere SMILE can make almost ANYONE look beautiful. Superficial, cosmetic beauty, in contrast, rarely lasts a long time: "And time did you know - pretty things always go? A smile can never go away." "Castles melt in the sand" also alludes to ephemeral beauty that doesn't really last. I've personally known girls who I've had an inexplicable attraction to - their faces weren't those of models or conventionally "hot" girls. But now that I've gotten a few years older and can appreciate the human qualities of people a bit more, I realize that it truly WAS their inner beauty peeking out through their SMILES. They were okay with who they were. Comfortable with themselves, and it showed in the way they carried themselves. That is true beauty that lasts a lifetime. Maybe this is Ms. Campbell's commentary about what true beauty is. Maybe it's a message to her female fans out there who struggle with themselves. She believes that there is beauty inside all of you. ;-) |
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| The Gentle Waves – Solace for Pain Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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To me, this sounds like a song about depression, and looking to something greater than yourself for guidance and above all, comfort. The line "If I were to put the big light out, surely there would be an end?" probably alludes to suicide. I don't mean to get all morbid of 'goth' here, but it's about facing an especially rough spot in your life, and momentarily wondering if taking that way out would erase all the suffering. Hopefully you all love Life more than that, but we've all had those moments! ;-) For those of you that are religious this will automatically allude to God, but I think it could also include an individual you look upto as a mentor, or simply a mysterious, benevolent force in this universe that smiles upon you and guides you through rough patches. =) |
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| The Gentle Waves – Falling From Grace Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Me too. Listening to this takes me back in time... ironically, to when I wasn't even born. Isobel Campbell's stylings and the instrumental arrangement hark back to the days of 60s 'easy listening/lounge' chanteuses. And yet the mystically melancholy element in Campbell's voice just adds that bit of gravitas which is necessary for a great song (otherwise, its' just bubblegum crap). As for the lyrics, it's fairly straightforward to me. On a more general level it's about the hardships, heartbreaks, and uncertainties of love. This song is wonderful because we can all relate to that. But if you get down to the details, you realize that it's about getting used - probably for cheap emotional or sexual gratification by another person. Maybe he or she saw you as a fling or someone to lean on in a lonely moment, while you were genuinely in love. That always hurts a bit. "You make me satisfied You only want to ride But that's alright by me We happen to be free For what tomorrow brings No peace and broken wings It may have been so good But now it's understood 'Twas just a night" The second verse then expands onto the eternal predicament which is Love and human emotions... "Love... Destroys the best of us Then leaves the rest of us Thinking perhaps we'll die Yet still we stay alive Lost in a hollow frame With lonely tears remain Not knowing our life's worth Dragging around the earth How false the light" But the beauty of this song is that it leaves the listener with hope. She's always 'looking for the sun'... hopefully alludes to the fact that there's a future for every one of us - even us victims of love and angels that have had our wings bruised. Smile, for there's sunshine to draw from. Look up, soak in the warmth, and with time and courage, get up... "I'm always looking for the sun I'm always looking for the sun I'm always looking for the sun I'm only looking for the sun to shine" |
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