| Eagles – Take It To The Limit Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I've argued with the boyfriend about this cuz it's him, lol. Two people exist in this song, the speaker "i" and the woman who he refers to as "you." The words "but" and "so" are really important to interpret the meaning of "take it to the limit" because that phrase could mean running away from something or going down in glory. The contrast of "but" with his running around and his broken dreams shows that the running has not gotten him what he really wants. "SO" in other words, "therefore" he'll try going full throttle down the road again. The road is a metaphor for love/relationship (or whatever emotional risk you'd like to substitute although the song is about lost potential love). Yes, he's spent his time making money, and his love "making time," in other words, getting loveless sex which he regrets. It's time to go full throttle with love, take it to the limit because he's ready to get to the finish line or crash and burn. All he needs is that sign... | |
| Jackson Browne – In The Shape Of A Heart Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| bax has it kinda right...people think of love in terms of the shape of a heart, a perfect shape of two mirrored halves joining together. However, what love actually is can be fist-shaped, disfiguring, and sometimes hollow. This song is about unrealistic expectations of love and relationships. She wore that pendant as her ideal of their relationship while the house represents its reality. The house was still standing, but there was too much damage: "Far too many to repair in the time that we were there." Before they could mend the relationship from one battle, others cropped up and nothing got resolved. She lost her idealization (ruby pendant) of love in the reality (the hole in the wall) of the pressure of dysfunctional relating. It's said that Browne wrote this about Daryl Hannah, and given his past hurt, it's likely that he refused to allow emotional intimacy its full rein. | |
| Jackson Browne – Call It a Loan Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yes, the song's about what her love cost HIM, not that he lost her love. There's nothing indicating that he's lost her. He's fearful, yes, of parting with the feeling that's caught him by surprise--two men (the man inside), one steals the love, the other hides. He was betting he was getting her love for free, that he could remain aloof to love for her. He awakes one morning, still, afraid to wake her, dealing with his own realization that he loves her when he really wasn't planning on that happening. He's fearful she will see him for who he may really be, or not be, but he does not want her to see his love for her written all over his face. He is fearful of this heart transaction, and wants to have her love on loan only, to be able to keep his own heart in order to protect it from hurt. I think the most telling stanza includes "can we call it a loan/Till I'm paid in full for the seeds I've sown" which indicates he feels undeserving of love based on his past withholding of it in other relationships. He used women in the past, and now he's fallen in love unexpectedly, and feeling the feeling that will be hard to part with, he wants to grow to be worthy of the full trade. His heart's not worthy, not equal, but he's willing to grow toward worthiness. | |
| Jackson Browne – These Days Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I'd like to know if there is concrete proof that this song was written at 16. Many artists DO LIE about stuff, lol. The point of view is from a man who knows loss and failure, several, in fact, to the extent that he is unwilling to be hurt again. That's not a 16 yo pov even for a profound artist. The most interesting part aside from its very direct and profound expression of pain in the first four stanzas is the very last stanza which expresses extreme caution (counting out the quarter tones to ten) and a high degree of observation (sitting on cornerstones to see both ways). In the song he mentions that he fails to live out the life he makes in song; he projects as an artist more than he is willing to give as a man. Absolutely heartbreaking to realize how hopelessly fearful a person exists. But he allows that things might improve, perhaps when he forgets his failures. Maybe then he can risk love again. I'd say the lyrics were written some time after a major breakup. They clearly describe a man with emotional baggage. | |
| The Moody Blues – Departure Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| To begin with, the lyrics posted here should read "To find THE LOST CHORD" at the end. Even if this song's lyrics arose from an acid trip, that only ever affects word choice, lol. The imagery is still reflective of HOPE: a deeply-rooted oak tree, a flower persisting to bloom through an airport tarmac, flying to the sun without burning/losing wings. Each of those imagery examples represent PERSISTENT HOPE. As in "hope springs anew" with the living things, and the naive hope even in the face of adversity as Icarus flies to the sun with man-made wings, all these images are ones of HOPE. However, the purpose of HOPE is to fulfill that need mentioned in the second line which is LOVE. Without HOPE, people don't struggle to find LOVE after that first bad break-up, but the "chord" (that's ironically "lost" from the entry) is "lost" unless it's vibrating inside. Metaphysical theory stipulates that people who feel as though they share "connections" actual share energy "chords" and we also use the image of chords to describe LOVE as in our heartstrings sing when we meet that person with whom we share a connection. Physical science also supports geological "attuned" spots that have predictable physical events that support the human chord theory. People need HOPE to find LOVE and eventually the LOST CHORD. For the more pessimistic, LOVE does not have to be romantic love. It could also apply to love of humanity or passion for something of substance in life. | |
| Dire Straits – Romeo And Juliet Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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IS IT POSSIBLE THAT EVERYONE WHO'S CONTRIBUTED HAS NEVER ACTUALLY READ THE PLAY ROMEO & JULIET BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE??? Prepare for English 101: the play's Chorus says Romeo and Juliet are a PAIR OF STAR-CROSSED LOVERS, meaning, whether Shakespeare believes in it or not, these two lovers WILL SUFFER at fate's determination to be in love yet be denied that love. Whether it's not astrologically or reincarnationally possible doesn't matter, but both apply. The lyrics blend this "story for all time" through all time with references to the Renaissance and modern day pairs. It's still happening, people! How many of you who responded to this song, have, in your own experience, a past love with whom things simply could not work out? Um, that's the point of this song. There's a divine "flaw" or "design" that causes us to recognize those we've known in the past if we accept that possibility in the existence of humanity, and those same people are denied to us though we are very pulled to them. "Star-crossed." And here's why it doesn't matter whether the actual lyric line contains Orion, because IT WORKS FOR EITHER: "And all I do is kiss you, through the bars of [a rhyme/Orion]" IS A METAPHOR. Renaissance Romeo is banished, imprisoned, apart from Juliet; Tony is trapped (jailed, maybe?) from Maria; and the mapping of stars in a person's birth is sort of a trap one cannot escape from especially if you are (un)lucky enough to find one of those people you were in love with but cannot be happy with "this time." "Juliet, I'd do the stars with you, anytime" but Romeo doesn't even care if he's CURRENTLY denied his Juliet again since he's found her here and now, loved her for a brief time in the present, because TRUE LOVE TRANSCENDS bodies, time, distance... "Ah Juliet, when we made love you used to cry You said I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die [and again, into the next life]/ There's a place for us, you know the movie song/When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?" Romeo realizes he's met his transcendental love, his star-crossed love, but she doesn't really understand. At the end, Romeo still loves her, knows he will go on loving her... And if you doubt me, pick up the original author of this ballad...and a copy of Cliff's Notes. |
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| Bob Dylan – Things Have Changed Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| A guy I was pretty close with "sent" this to me after a fight (could be permanent, here, I don't know). I think, he just got tired of "considering life." I think Dylan is literal in his chorus: "People are crazy and times are strange" because the 70's drug culture was just that...completely unpredictable behavior. But I think he's expressing his feeling of being trapped in that culture: "I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range; I used to care, but things have changed" and his subsequent "checking out" of reality. Now, why my guy chose this song to express his own feelings of sadness or loss or anger...well, the last lines, lol. "I hurt easy, I just don't show it; you can hurt someone and not even know it...I'm in love with a woman who don't even appeal to me." Dylan has said in that same verse that he's gonna get low down and gonna fly high: he's going to "lay low," withdraw emotionally, in other words, then fly high, stay stoned. Damn, I just don't like Dylan, lol. It's my guy's favorite, too. | |
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