| Nelly Furtado – All Good Things Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i appreciate the entries by shsam and royalfowey... it does sound like dandy to me, no matter how hard i try to hear daily or deadly. I get what has been said about cycles but at the same time its not about things coming around again, it is specifically about the death of all things. the fact that all things pass just makes them more precious, think about the difference between fake flowers and real flowers. The beauty is in the bitter sweetness of the brevity. That is why paganists celebrate both death and life, sex and blood, darkness and light, good and evil. It is what makes us human. It is what brings a balance and a beauty. All of the greatest of art has an element of pain and regret as well as a great longing for something more pure, greater, higher. We are always striving for something beautiful, whole and lasting. a bit like the full moon in this song. We are the dogs barking futilely at the moon, dogs are often used as imagery when you want to make the object appear driven and hopeful yet also lowely helpless and futile. hence the saying 'you are barking up the wrong tree' I like the sense in this song that there is a kind of release in death, a kind of strange tragic beauty, that we are all waiting for it in a sense. as said by others, we are always looking to the future, hoping to improve things, yet in the end we all end up in the same place having frittled our life away on dreams. but its the only way we can live. It is who we are. I love this song, it is everything that i think and feel about the world, and at a time when I feel like it might be time to move on, and i'm feeling sad about what I have to leave behind. things become more beautiful when you know that you wont have them for much longer. | |
| James Blunt – Shine On Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| hmm also - did anyone else notice that the introduction sounds like 'stand by me'? i wonder if this was intentional - if so it could have some relavence to the meaning, why would a song about a split up have 'stand by me' undertones? unless the protagonist is in denial about the end of the relationship, or the split up is forced by society rather than in the hearts of the individuals, or else perhaps it is pathos... | |
| James Blunt – Shine On Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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im not sure what this song is supposed to be about but it makes me think of a young couple I read about in the news recently, who stole millions from friends and aquaintences, partly through credit card fraud. They then splashed their money about a lot and amongst other things went on long holidays, photos of which they posted up on facebook much to the disbelief of the victims who knew them, and amazement of the police who promptly arrested them. the song makes me think of them because it seems that their relationship is coming to an end but not necessarily because there is no longer any affinity between the couple, the singer speaks of how everyone else feels they have been sold out by them, but they dont care because they have been having a great time, rising above everyone else and not playing by their rules (or gods) they have been living at the expense of those around them. without any sense of responsibility or obligation. i think that this is a very negative reading of a song which is probably supposed to be uplifting and positive, i think you are meant to be on the side of the couple, if it is a couple... so i dont for a single moment suggest this is the correct reading, besides which i think the song was probably written long before this news story! but to me it really seems to fit... |
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| Matchbox Twenty – 3 A.M. Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I could never quite understand this song, now I have read what people have said about it, makes sense that it is about someone (his mum) who has seen pain and death and gone beyond that and so is a bit mixed up, and his having to deal with her erratic behaviour. It is about how life is so quick to leave us, how a future can suddenly seem impermenant, she seems to have reacted to its impermenance by becoming erratic and almost irresponsible, like nothing matters because it is all going to be taken away again so soon, and even though she has survived it doesnt mean that they wont still all die some time in the future, so nothing really makes sense or matters any more, there is no permenance but in our ultimate isolation and loss, we have nothing and we have everything, because it is irrelavent what we have or what we lose, it all ends anyway. but before i read these explanations it made me think about myself and my boyfriend. I'm pretty mixed up and erratic in my behaviour, getting depressed and flippant about life in that way, anxiety or whatever. This song sounds like it is written from my boyfriends point of view observing me. there is a lonliness even when you are with those that you love, when something isnt right with your mental health - it makes us both alone in our love. |
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| Limp Bizkit – Behind Blue Eyes (The Who cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think i prefer the richer thicker textures of limp bizkits version, it lends the song more warmth and kind of more 'ug' factor which somehow i feel it needs. although i like the way that the guitar is played in the who's and the bits that limp bizkit left out were also good bits that i missed. so cant really decide between the two - maybe a cross would have been best. think ill check out that irish version now! |
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| Limp Bizkit – Behind Blue Eyes (The Who cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I really like this song - i think its interesting what was said about the peadophilia... but im not sure that that is what it is about and i hope it isnt because i really like this song and i think it would put me off. I really like the who's original version and i agree that the spell out thing is a bit random. but i do like his voice and i think that this is one of the best covers, there is something very primal about limp bizkit. i only discoverd this song today - i heard thier cover first and then checked out other versions. Normally im not that keen on limp bizkit but some of their songs i really like - including this one - maybe no suprise then that it is a cover... |
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| Mika – Relax, Take It Easy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| upbeat as this song first strikes you, by tying it to the words of the woman at the end I feel it takes on a darker note. To me the flippancy hides darker currents of fear and pain. Mika's music is a kalidoscope of primary colours. It seems simple and happy and full of energy but i wonder if the meaning behind the lyrics doesnt hold a more sinister note, as though the ecstatic joy is a brave face? To me this song may well be about lovers - or people that love platonically. It is about fidelity, facing the dark times together and in veiw of Lebanon I would say that the dark times are experienced as externally threatening forces rather than something integral with the relationship. There is death in this song and fear and a desperation, it is desperately upbeat, desperately aspiring to the impossible, the ability to relax in such a situation and environment. The characters are mutually urging each other, attempting to comfort and reassure each other, despite their own, shared, inner terror. This song is about being strong and putting on a brave light hearted face for your loved ones, those you are trying to protect, appearing happy and confident to give heart to others.when in reality it is an emotion far from which any of you are actually experiencing. I believe there is a false brightness to this song. | |
| Mika – Relax, Take It Easy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| isnt it - took a RIDE to the end of line where no-one ever goes. ended up on a broken train with nobody I know. But the pain and the longings the same when your dying. Now i'm lost and im screaming for help (alone?) | |
| Blur – Parklife Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Is this the penny lane equivalent do you think? | |
| Frou Frou – Maddening Shroud Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i think the we can work it over and over and over means yeah sure we can solve things, but cant we always solve things? they just go tits up again at some point and we have to spend all this time and energy sorting it out, over and over again and I'm SICK OF IT! so, no it's not a positive bit of the song. I love the way she is sticking her foot down and saying assertively, right thats it! ENOUGH! don't mess me around saying its in my head, it's for real, no matter how we argue back and forth around the point (walk about). I'm liking this song at the mo, cos it's exactly how i feel. sick to the back teeth. its a positive song because its about a person who gets really down about things but instead of letting life trample over her she is getting angry, and anger is always the first step to recovery. however the 'time to halt' bit does sound suicidal and I'm sure that recovering isnt what she wants to do, because then it will just happen, over and over and over and over and... I feel this way about two things right now, my boyfriend, who i love very much but who i can't cope with the stress of worrying about all the time and my university coarse with the horrible snobby people we get here and my struggling all the way through the coarse, i should have given up a long time ago, every time i pick myself up and reapply myself i get knocked down again, over and over and over. Now i'm thinking maybe its time to throw it all away. |
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| Frou Frou – Maddening Shroud Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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THESE LYRICS ARE REALLY WRONG 'Sometimes i like to get away from this maddening shroud - sometimes i'll have you know its all insane maybe its time for me to pack it in maybe its time for me to jack it in maybe its time for me to halt I've got a good mind to throw it all away, throw it all away, throw it all away, I've got a good mind to throw it all away after all what is it worth? sometimes i like to get away from this saddening crowd- sometimes i feel my life's in vain maybe its time for me to pack it in maybe its time for me to jack it in maybe its time for me to halt I've got a good mind etc....after all what is it worth? somedays my strength walks out, somedays i can't go on It is for real - we can walk about we can work it over and over and over and over and over and... I've got a good mind to throw it all away etc...after all what is it worth? repeat. |
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| Frou Frou – Hear Me Out Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is about ME! a couple of weeks ago my long term, long distance boyfriend broke up with me and I was devestated. I felt like it was impossible that he could just not love me anymore. not because im so great or because he's so constant but because of the nature of love. I simply could not accept the situation as reality. I really felt that we needed to talk so that I could be sure of how he really felt but he refused to speak to me. I ended up leaving a message on his answer phone, feeling like i was queing up in what i then thought of as 'the waiting line'. He was the one i loved but he was also my best friend and I wanted him to say anything to me, to tell me to get lost, or to ignore our situation and just make small talk so that we could get on with 'just being friends'. I was desperate for some sort of communication because it was one thing to dump me but to not want me in his life at all? I was sure that he still loved me and refused to believe otherwise, no matter what practical advice my friends and family gave me to the probability of the contrary. From all of the texts i had sent him to try and persuade him to talk to me I knew he must know how devestated I was and how silly i felt the situation had become, enstranged from reality - i couldnt understand how he could be so cruel to me. couldnt he hear- 'I'm not myself?' this song captures everything that i wanted to say to him exactly, it is exactly what was going through my head at that time. our love was 'love on a line' because it was long distance and based on train lines and phone lines. I felt like i couldnt go on without him, because my life had become a paradox and my brain couldnt cope with the contradictions within what i was being forced to accept as reality. part of me wanted to be practical and say, look, hes a man, and he's flawed, there's plenty more flawed men out there and you dont actually need him, you could have a great time being single. I wanted to concentrate on being friends, then i could build up my independance, esteem and successes - if it was meant, than at some point it'd happen. But it 'all came back to him' i couldnt help but feel. as it turned out i trusted my gut feeling and got on a train and went to talk to him about it and i was right, he did still want me and love me, so we managed to sort things out. i just thought, what an idiot, if only he'd TALKED to me, we wouldnt have gone through all this grief! then i came across this song, and loved it! |
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| Frou Frou – Shh Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| or is it that subtle compexity which is the genuis of frou frou? | |
| Frou Frou – Shh Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| hmm - i usually hate these 'alian abduction' theories, seems like every is so determined to turn any slightly ambiguous song into an abduction! drives me wild. but i think that it might actually work with this song, especially if that is what frou frou says it is about! surely if anyone knows, they do? But its evidently a positive event to the singer. maybe its not so much about alien abduction per say, but about the notion of there being 'something other' than what is, something that can believed in, a better way of life, contrary to popular opinion - everyone calls her crazy. and its certainly been made to sound like its about a secret sexual affair, frou frou must have been aware that they were putting a sexual spin on it. so i propose that it is using an alien narrative to talk about general faith and escape, the courage to believe in the reality of 'crazy' dreams - and more specifically in the context of a secret sexual affair. Is that too subtle and complicated and clever to be true? | |
| Imogen Heap – Speeding Cars Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Nope sorry its definately violins, it doesnt sound like violence at all and violins fits much better anyway, im glad that someone looked on imogen heaps own website to clarify it VIOLINS VIOLINS! lol i really liked Maaatt's reading of the song, i think he is correct in his reading and the song can be applied to any situation and relationship - the message of living and getting on with life in a practical way is obviously the most important aspect of this song. HOWEVER, i think that the song is evidently about a long relationship where the women discovers that years ago down the line the man has cheated on her and that he has been immaturely keeping it secret and letting it become a dark cload in the background of thier relationship. obviously affecting his enjoyment of life and making him suffer guilt. she says that truth should be confronted and dealt with so that they can move on and move on they must. she is much more mature about it and realises that it doesnt really matter at all, she forgive him - because it was so long ago and shit happens - we move on. This song makes me think of Toni Morrison's novel, Jazz which i am writing about at the moment. In the book the husband cheats on his wife with a much younger girl, because thier marraige has gone very stale, even though he still loves his wife, the girl dumps him and he ends up shooting her, even though he loves her, the wife mutilates the body of the girl at the funeral but later she comes to realise that she has to make do with what she has, their relationship becomes mended by their shared grief - over the death of the girl, who was both mother and daughter substitute for them. read it its good, very relavent to this song too. |
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| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| my experience of this song has moved on since i last posted, so I thought I'd post again - im on page 7 for reference's sake.- my long term boyfriend broke up with me a couple of weeks ago and I was really devestated. I listened to Hide and Seek alot whilst i was feeling sad. Although it did really speak to me, and I listened to it because it fitted with the break up theme so well, I felt MORE then that it might be about something else - perhaps the 9/11 thing... not really sure why that was...however, jumping on the train to the city where he lives in order to sort things out with him, the line 'trains and sewing machines' really jumped out at me, as i was catching trains in order to mend - (in other words i was using a sewing machine). ...we did get back together and the night before i left to come back home we ended up singing the song together, i started and he joined in. I know that we were both stunned by what had happened between us, it all seemed to happen so quickly and it left us behind- the song really captured that for us. | |
| Snow Patrol – Run Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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my feelings about this song change depending on my situation but i checked up the lyrics today because it came into my head from nowhere last night. My boyfriend and I are in a long distance relationship, he phones most nights and its always difficult when he puts down the phone 'now we really have to go.' my depression makes me feel a failure alot of the time and i often believe that he is the only thing that i ever got right. it makes me think of goodbyes at the train station. we have never been together together, right from the start we were seperated so that makes me think of the line 'i know we'll make it anywhere away from here.' i believe that when we are finally together we will be very happy but in the mean time its really hard and i get very insecure which is difficult for him because hes always having to look after me so im constantly afraid that my paranoia and sadness is driving him away. when he says 'light up light up' it makes me think of how the only reason their is a problem for us is because i worry, so i create my own problems by not 'lightening up'. so many times i have tried to push him away, trying to get him to break up with me, im not sure why i do it, i think its the fear that i cant live up to his expectations of me, the pressure to be better than i think i am is hard to bear. but no matter the texts i send to him hes always solid and he doesnt worry because he knows im just going off on one again. there are times when i havent heard from him and i think we have split up and its all my fault - i cant hear his voice but he is still there beside me, taking care of me. running for our lives - this makes me think of a song by no doubt called running - check it out its one of my fave songs - when you hear it you will understand why it speaks to my condition. my boyfriend and i are running for the future because the present is too hard for us, if we look to the future and run for it we might make it through and thus 'save our lives' 'getting out of our little heads' makes me think of my own desperation, all these voices doubts and fears in my mind getting in the way, i cant get myself to shut up. i think this song is about how it seems the only thing we can do is split up until i have learnt to cope with loving him, but even though we split up we are still there with each other still loving each other and hopefully it will just be for a few days and then we can run to the future together. we have not split up by the way we are still together but so many times i lie awake at night thinking that it is the end. last night i flipped again and was in tears for hours, i tried to split up with him again but he never replied to my texts so i didnt know the outcome.this morning this song came into my head out of nowhere, i phoned him and as usual he was a rock, unpreturbed and just telling me how much he loved me. this song is about endurance and hope. |
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| Ben Folds Five – Smoke Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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| Ben Folds Five – Smoke Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| it's funny, now i look more closely at the lyrics it seems quite like a bitter break up, but in my mind this song was always about starting afresh. To me this song was about how the couple had got in a real state, keeping records of past blames and hurts and he's burning the metaphorical diary saying, lets leave the past behind, forget all the hurts as though they never happened and live afresh and new. for me it was about letting go of resentments and grudges. their relationship was going to rise out of the ashes like a pheonix, transformed and was never going to be the same again, they never again would hold grudges and records against each other but would live in the present. this song makes me think of a friend who had a really tough time for years, she kept a diary and one day she took all her diary books and burned them all so that she could start to move forwards, i keep a diary too so i can really emphasis with it. to me its about release and is a positive song. maybe it is just a bitter breakup and was intended that way but i prefer to think of it my own way. | |
| Dido – Mary's In India Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| there's alot of words missed out or simply wrong in those lyrics by the way... it's annoying me too. | |
| Dido – Mary's In India Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| hmm, midnight angel's interpretation is interesting but i dont think intended by the song writer. this song reminds me of nicolas evan's the loop. where the girl's long term boyfriend goes to Africa or somewhere to do charity work and gets really passionate about it so he stays for longer, he stops writing to her and a long time later writes to tell her he has met and married someone else. I think that something similar has happened here, Mary has gone away and discovered a life she prefers to danny, perhaps she already knew she was leaving him for good when she made the plans to go. The singer has known both of them for years and has been a close friend of the couples but has always harboured slight feelings for danny she did not admit to. when mary leaves these feelings come to the fore as she is left to look after danny and comfort him. it makes sense that best friends turn to each other in the absence of one they loved. i dont think they are betraying mary, she betrayed them and she's not going to come back. i like this song because it brings out the maternal in me - lol. | |
| Aqualung – Strange And Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| there's definately something a bit twisted about it anyway... but in the assumption of this songs innocence. we liked it because this is kind of how our relationship was, we were good friends and i had quite alot of men chasing me to various degrees and was in various relationships, my boyfriend liked me but never said and i never thought of him as anything but a friend. but one day it suddenly occured to me to see him differently and although i dismissed my feelings, six months later we got together. makes me think of the night before we got together when i woke up in the morning and he handed me a cup of tea. lol. that was it for me - we havent looked back. | |
| Aqualung – Strange And Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| yes, I got the midsummer nights dream reference too. My boyfriend introduced me to this song, he really liked it and I like it alot too. But i've had some creepy guys trying to stalk me and hitting on me etc and so the stalker side of it freaks me out a bit. I decided that I thought it was probably about date rape drugs. and that put us both off the song. even now when i look at the lyrics and i think it probably wasnt intended that way, i can't get that side of it out of my head. still quite like it tho... | |
| Elton John – Tiny Dancer Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| funny but i agree with toast. I have absolutely no idea why, just looking at the lyrics but i had an idea that she had died too no ideas how or why etc. i don't really think that was the intention behind the lyrics as i can't find any evidence in them, so ill go along with the groupie and putting lots of women and perhaps mainly one specific woman into one person. he's dreaming about her some of the time and thinking about different impression moments of her, i suppose that sense of nostalgia along with the gentleness is what made me think of death. its happy tho i think as well as sad, because she was wonderful and carefree. | |
| Tom McRae – Precious Cargo Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| to me this song is about a father and his very young daughter and i think it is about infanticide. something has gone very wrong and he doesnt want to face the future and he doesnt want to leave her to face it alone either. he loves her yet he feels he has to kill her to preserve her from a worse fate. the song is so gentle and so painful, i really love it. | |
| The Beautiful South – You Can Call Me Leisure Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I thought maybe this one was about someone whos sister has nearly died, i thought in a coma because of the east and west thing and the fact that she is only a 'version' of death, she is merely 'resting' I think that she burnt herself out and lost control of her life and maybe attempted suicide. He has given her blood and is reflecting on the feeling of guilt he has for not paying more attention to her life. but im not sure about the last line, the last stanza sounds like she has died but im not sure and i dont know why he talks about 'getting his own back' i dont think that is a vengeful claim, but im not sure what he means by it. | |
| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| yet - theres also a calmness to this song, for me it doesnt feel completely sad, there is the pain of happy memories or a happy past lurking there. Its the way that one smiles between tears remembering something better, perhaps. times when i have cried and cried and then suddenly i come out on the other side and feel so calm again, in shock perhaps, numb perhaps but its not an entirely bad feeling, its as though the storm has passes and something has survived. | |
| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| When I first heard this song I immediately thought of relationships, I too first heard it in the Last Kiss and I went to see the film with my boyfriend so I think my interpretation was biased. most of the explanations people offered on this webpage appealed to me. I think that we should see what imogen said about the song - people reported her talking about betrayal and of the response of president bush to farenhite 9/11. also its seems likely that she wrote it thinking about her parents divorce. I think that this song was written with more than one meaning in mind and so multiple interpretations are intended. what do all these theories have in common? well most of them are concerned with loss, berwilderment, betrayal, sorrow and anger. The song is about grief and alienation of some sort. I think the important meaning of the song is not in the event but in the emotion that that even creates. this is what makes the song so powerful and it makes any interpretation of events unimportant. But the various interpretations people have given have enriched and deepened my listening of the song, so thanks for all of the ideas! What i get from this song is a deep sense of futility, the objects talked about are both so insignifcant and yet so important. The overall effect is of depression, when you are both swamped with emotion yet somehow detatched and numb from any feelings. The cause of this is less important but i think the imagery does well to capture the mood. Another thought is that this song could well be about one thing and a metaphor for another thing, but from what imogen says i think she had more than one thing in mind when the song was written anyway. I love this song, i love sad songs. i wasnt sure about it at first, i thought the effect was a bit tacky but it grows on me with every listening. i think i love it because i begin to understand what she is saying with the music and the way that she has done it, even if i dont understand the story, the music speaks to that part of our soul that words alone cannot reach, the place of pure feeling and experience. we love what we understand with our souls and we love what confuses our minds. | |
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