| Serena Ryder – Hiding Place Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I love this version of this song. I only just heard it and I was used to the newer version on the 'Is It OK' album. The newer version has some different lyrics, but this version (the live version I believe) is really very good. It's beautiful in it's simplicity. | |
| Doc Walker – Driving With The Brakes On Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Exactly what I think. Though it seems like he had no say in the decision at all. Also I think that he feels the relationship is over because of this situation, but feels like a jerk about wanting to leave her during this time. |
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| Toby Keith – Should've Been A Cowboy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yep. The first verse refers to the characters Marshal Matt Dillon and Kitty Russell of the show Gunsmoke. Also, the chorus references Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, both American country performers from waaaaay back in the day. |
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| Damien Rice – Rootless Tree Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Sometimes there are just no other words that will fit a certain emotion. It seems to me that Damien started out trying to put into poetry what he was feeling. To write a nice abstract folk song to express himself. And this is what happened. Nothing too abstract to say about this song, it's pretty self explanatory. I think we've all been there at one time or another. I know what he says with this song is something that's crossed my mind a time or two. |
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| Damien Rice – 9 Crimes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song blew me away when I first heard it and it still catches me off guard. There are a ton of comments here, so I can't peruse them all, but from what I did read there are a lot of people questioning the title '9 Crimes'. There are comments that lend explanations, but I thought I'd comment on that as well, bringing those ideas together along with my own thoughts. Considering the nature of the album '9', I think the title of this song, and the fact that this is the first track, is meant to set the stage for the major concept of the album as a whole. The entire album is about wronging done (by both parties) to both parties in a relationship. It's about the fact that you can be completely in love with someone who, in the end, is not all that compatible with you. Going along with this idea, the number nine in many philosophies deals with completeness. Therefore, the song(s) are about the crimes committed in the pursuit of the speaker's sense of self. On a more involved scale, the number 9 could be significant as the number of times the act itself has been committed. |
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| Damien Rice – Amie Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I like Damien's lyrics because they are so difficult to define most of the time. There's a lot that could be said about this song. For me, there's something a little off about this song. Something that doesn't quite feel right. As though Amie was a friend that the speaker fell in love with, not because he wanted to, but because he couldn't help it; I don't think he felt that his feelings were reciprocated. Or there were reasons why there couldn't be a romantic relationship between the two. The speaker says all the things he wants Amie to do/say. He invites her into himself ('come sit on my wall' I think refers to this), and asks her to tell him 'the story of O' in a manner that made him feel that she believed things could be different. He's asking to be lied to for his own comfort. That's what makes this song seem so sad to me. |
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| Damien Rice – Cold Water Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is actually how I've always felt about this song. How sometimes people find faith in that lowest moment - the moment when they know they're going to die. They may have spent their lives without faith in anything but in those final moments they believe. I am not necessarily a religious person, but I am spiritual, and for me that's what this song represents. | |
| Jann Arden – You Don't Know Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Thank you for pointing out that the singer's gender and sexuality doesn't have anything to do with the songs they sing. I am so sick and tired of people debating over such issues. The truth is, it doesn't matter. I also love that Jann kept the lyrics the same as the original version of the song, and I love this cover. |
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| Jann Arden – Wishing That Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is an example of why I like Jann's writing. It's about being in a relationship with someone and knowing that they don't love you the way you love them. They don't even have to say they don't. And yet your stupid heart hangs on, wishing and hoping. |
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| Jann Arden – Gasoline Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Jann's songs tend to have a lot to do with faith. Not necessarily religious faith, but faith none the less. This song drips of desperation to me. It seems more like a statement about how someone does destructive things to themselves or to others because they feel (on some level) that they are undeserving. The speaker here knows what she should do is open herself to the possibility that she is worthy and deserving - this is evident from the first verse. In fact she makes it sound easy. And yet she goes on to talk about lust, sin, and guilt, and that these things are burning her to ruin. Further on she makes a broad statement about never living up to expectations of others (again subtly discounting her own expectations as meaningless) and thereby cutting yourself off (the bird breaks his own wings, and the heart cuts her own strings). She does not open herself up, instead she allows the darkness to prevail, and allows herself to burn. I think the message here is that without faith in yourself, change cannot occur. We are our own worst enemies. I have always liked this song. |
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| Finger Eleven – I'll Keep Your Memory Vague Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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There are many ways that someone can leave another. Death is only one of them. To me this song was never about death, but I took this song personally, so my view of it is a bit biased. I think this song is about unrequited feelings that one friend has for another. Unfortunately in many cases, the friendship becomes too hard when one person feels something the other doesn't. In these cases it's often easier to put some distance between you. It's sort of saying: "Yes you broke my heart, but that's okay. Don't feel guilty, it's no one fault. But I can't pretend I don't feel that way, and we're better off apart." It's still hard to do just that when that person was an integral part of your life. When they've permeated every aspect of you. They are everywhere. That's why despite 'keeping your memory vague' those memories 'become too clear'. |
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| Metric – Gold Guns Girls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree. And I love this song. People are never satisfied. With anything. All the money in the world, all the power in the world (I'm pretty sure that's what the guns/weapons symbolize), none of it is ever enough. People always want for more. Even in other people. Men and women alike get surgeries everyday to change themselves to appear more 'attractive' to others. If they weren't made to feel inadequate in the first place they wouldn't feel the need to 'better' themselves. |
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| Metric – Help, I'm Alive Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think on a larger level this song keeps with the theme of the album. This album was self-produced by Metric - they broke from their label to produce what they wanted to produce. I think this song describes wonderfully what it's like - the fear and anxiety - to strike out on your own, to do your own thing. I think the 'you' that is being referred to is, well, us. The fans. If we remain faithful to the band, despite the obvious change and growth that their music has gone through, then they have no regrets. My interpretation of the track 'Sick Muse' (which is where the Fantasy idea comes from) says all I need to say about the theme of the album: about them wanting to write their songs from the heart instead of to follow a trend or fill a slot. They had to be 'hard' and 'tough' to move on, to change, and write the songs they wanted to write - showing their 'soft' and 'tender' side. 'If my life's still mine, what shouldn't I do?' Why should they have to spend their lives following someone else's directives. They want their music to be their own, and it should be. |
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| Metric – Sick Muse Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm sorry if this sounds somewhat trite, I do agree with what people have said on here, I just have an extended explanation. In the first verse, the speaker addresses Cupid and says he 'stuck me with a sickness' and tells him to 'pull your little arrows out'. Cupid is (in Roman mythology) the god of love and beauty. Therefore she's implying that the 'sickness' is love, and that she wants that feeling removed. She then says she must live her life 'the one I gotta lead, all the blondes of fantasies'. As if she has no other choice but to be the blonde of fantasy, caste into a mold she cannot escape. Perhaps even a hint of bitterness or sadness of an inner conviction that she feels she cannot really ever live up to the 'fantasy', or perhaps that she doesn't want to live up to it. Continuing the analogy as if she were still talking to Cupid, the pre-chorus says: "And we looked at them eleven ways You said, 'look at me', and looked away" As though to say that she (and presumably the band) looked at a problem many ways and couldn't figure out the answer, all the while Cupid teased them with the answer they wanted and couldn't have. The following couplet makes the 'problem' simple: Cupid has the song(s) she (and the band) wants, and no matter how she tries to write something else, she will continue to write harmony to the song that Cupid plays. Which, in simpler terms, means that the song within her that she wanted to write was not the song she was supposed to write (probably for the record label) and no matter how she tried, she couldn't get away from herself. There's a note of frustration at trying to write something other than what's in her heart, and the fact is with the line 'I'll write you harmony in C', she is saying that she gave in to her impulse and wrote what she felt like. Thereby going against the label's wishes. The chorus is like a battle of her mind. In one line she argues that everybody wants to fall in love. Love is the language of the world. It's something everyone relates to. That's why there will always be love songs. On the other hand, and in the answering line, everybody wants to be the lead. Everyone likes to be on the top, at the fore-front. Every performer wants to be heard and popularity and distribution are important factors to that, which unfortunately comes back to money. The next verse, the speaker again tries to oust Cupid from her life and her mind. She warns him that 'money is a sick muse', and although part of her knows that it's wrong (with the line "I'm with stupid") money continues to be an influence on her. Money and the lust for it often promote inorganic processes. So instead of allowing a song to be written, the song is forced for deadlines or to follow a trend. Yet money is still a driving force for so many artists. The thought clearly disgusts her, but she still attempts to push Cupid and his arrows out of head and heart. The remainder of the song is reiteration of the inner struggle of the speaker between what she feels is right and what she feels she must do in order to be heard. The fact that Metric broke away from their label and released 'Fantasies' on it's own attests to the decision that they made. No mistake that the album was named through this song. It seems that's what this album meant for them. I think they've done an amazing job with this album, and I think it's more popular than they expected it to be. This is my second favourite song from the album, the first being 'Collect Call'. Cheers. |
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| Shinedown – Second Chance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I sort of read everyone's comments here and while I agree with most people, and do believe that lyrics should allow you to figure out what they mean to YOU, there is something that I would like to add. I've always felt that the reference to Halley's Comet is a direct metaphor for opportunity. The comet is a rare astrological event that you would be unlikely to see more than once in a lifetime. And much like that event, some opportunities are once in a lifetime and must be taken as they come. Personifying the comet and having 'her' urge him (the speaker) to reach for the stars just like the proverbial 'man in the moon' was a very good way to integrate the metaphor into the song and the situation. The speaker dreamed of something specific and needed to walk out on everything he owned and loved in order to chase that dream. The song, for me, does an excellent job of relaying that message. We all take the hand we're dealt in life, but that doesn't mean that you can't ask for more cards. |
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| Serena Ryder – Weak In The Knees Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The version of this song on the "is it o.k." album are a bit different. There's actually other lyrics during the 'ooooh for you' bit between the second and third chorus. I'd rather not resubmit the lyrics as they are pretty much identical otherwise, but the block goes like this: "How could I be such a fool to think That there was anything that your love could bring To my life, to my eyes Would I wanna see that I wanted your love to belong to me" |
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| Beyoncé – If I Were a Boy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Thank you. I don't know why people find it so difficult to understand what is really being said with this song. You shouldn't need the video to understand that the speaker is NOT proclaiming that they WANT to be a man. It's all in the song lyrics and intonation. Listen. |
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