| Metric – The Lifestyle Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I'm not necessarily what the meaning of this song is. However, the line, "I wish you were a song to play. I wish you had something to say." is really beautiful. | |
| Metric – Patriarch on a Vespa Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think the "stop trying to fix it" is talking about aging. Perhaps I'm completely off-base, however, when she says, "Until our faces all resemble dying roses" I think she's saying that the modern housewife is so intent on having the "perfect" house, family, life, ect. She tries to "fix" everything, and in the end it turns her into a dying rose. "Promiscuous makes an entrance. Her mouth is full of questions." - Love it. |
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| Metric – Poster of a Girl Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song reminds me of so many people in my life, and, sadly, a bit of me. The woman in the song never seems to fall in love. No one can satisfy that part of herself. She’s too complex, too much for them to understand. Even so, she still longs for a man, even if it is just his touch, which is why she can’t stand by herself or sleep alone. Guys fall for her, long for her, and she takes some of them home. It isn’t for love. She’s satisfying herself, her basic needs. She avoids the beginners, but if she takes one of them home, their eyes are opened to a whole new world. She knows how it’s like to be them…she used to be optimistic about love as well, but experience has taught her otherwise. Metric = love. |
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| Metric – On the Sly Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Metric is so amazing. There are no words for them. "The dirty sugar factory on the water should smell sweet." - I love that line. |
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| Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – Skeleton Key Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I really enjoyed mockingsmile's interpretation of this song. It's very accurate, I believe. However, you could also look at it from a bit different perspective. Here's my interpretation of this beautiful song: This song is about a man and a woman, obviously. “She left her man and attended to me.” - The woman leaves her man to attend to the man singing the song. “My lack of loyalty, it swallowed her up.” - And yet, he wasn’t loyal to her so she left him. “She cooked me food.” and “Don’t claim you love me, because you know that ain’t true.” – He doesn’t believe that she really loves him. He thinks she is there merely to save him, help him, use him as a project. He doesn’t trust her love. “You’re finally free to twist and turn like a skeleton key.” – Now she’s gone and free. “You’ve gotta let me know.” – He needed to know how she felt about him, truthfully. He could never be sure if it was love or if she was with him for alternative purposes. “I breed my misery and drowned it in her.” – He was a depressed person and took out his feelings and anxiety on her. “It’s clear to see you’re nothing special. You’re a skeleton key.” – He’s saying that her “love” for him wasn’t special because she’s a “skeleton key”, which is known to be something that can unlock all doors. This is a metaphor to the woman solving any man’s problems or opening any man’s doors. This is an ironic statement, because a skeleton key is something special because of its purpose and its rarity. He’s feeling as though her love for him is a love she could have for any man (she can unlock any man’s heart), but he wants to know that it is just him. Ultimately, he knows that he was and is wrong. He is aware that their love was rare and special, but he’s trying to wash away this knowledge with a stream of whiskey. |
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