| Land of Talk – Sea Foam Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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To me, there are some subtle differences in the verses. Here's my take: Don't drink when you're tired, just watch those gems catch everything like the light. Oh what we become, we never move. Just lost and loose like the light. Hey (hey) as she keeps you and she feeds you you wonder how we could ever get back. Why would we? Stay inside. Stay inside scared and locked, we'll never come out. Don't drink when you're tired, watch those gems catch everything like the light. Oh what we become, we never move; just lost and loose like the light... right... as she keeps you she leaves you. I wonder how we could ever get back. What were we supposed to do? Stay inside scared and locked, we'll never come out? We never make any money why would we try, oooh, bear us away on a wing, on the wind. Why? As she keeps you she leaves you now how we could ever get back WHY WOULD WE? Supposed to stay inside, scared and locked, we'll never come out. We'll never come out. We'll never come out. ------------- I hear a song about a man and a woman getting together, getting married, and settling into a simple little comfortable life. They make enough money to be comfortable, but everything has been lost in that pursuit of comfort (the gems catch everything like the light). As they fall into their domestic roles (she keeps you, she feeds you) they lose the passion in their relationship (we never move; as she keeps you she leaves you) and the man wonders how they could ever get it back. But why would they abandon this comfort for the pain and struggle of passion? They feel they're suppose to stay inside, scared, locked in and never going out -- both literally (never going out) and figuratively (never leaving the comfortable confines of the roles they've defined for one another). |
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| Asher Roth – Lark On My Go-Kart Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Lyric corrections: Teddy Ruxpin Take off your blue tooth now dot com We can make out while my friend babysits And I'm not sure about this, but I thin it's "Take a sip from my simpson and split" but who knows what "simpson" is. OJ maybe? |
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| Land of Talk – Troubled Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Here's my take on the French and its translation. It's only subtly different from hidfire777's, so props to them and their French 4 friend. :) Troubled heart folded and doubled right over, mon coeur, si fort, [ my heart, so strong ] perdu tout pouvoir. [ stripped of all its power ] Avec moi, avec toi, avec coeur, [ With me, with you, with heart ] avec un et c'est pris. [ with one and it's taken ] Nos têtes, nos langues, [ Our heads, our tongues, ] nos oreilles étaient toujours remplies, [ our ears were always filled ] mais les histores et chansons de la perte d'innocence [ but the histories and songs of the loss of innocence ] m'ont tellement hanté [ so greatly haunted me ] que j'ai remis mes mains dans mes poches [ that i kept my hands in my pockets ] et ma langue dans ma propre tête. [ and my words in my own head. ] |
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| Land of Talk – Speak to Me Bones Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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In the second verse, the lyrics are pretty clearly: "Light hits, breaks MY face apart..." and "I love anyone but me, SO I TIP IT SUBTLY, AND it's all in who you see, endless sea..." and at the end it's: "stoney eyes never stop bleeding, if YOU saw what we saw, snakes out sex stealing, what about the DRAW..." --- I believe the "So I tip it subtly" part is referring, as others have said, to how women tend to adore another woman's looks but subtly tip the scales by which they judge another when judging themselves. I.e. a woman looks at another woman and thinks "she's beautiful," but then looka in the mirror, sees the same characteristics she just appreciated and thinks negatively about herself. This song, to me, is about the darker side of attraction--how men and women both are routinely fostering a predatory sexual mindset, with men and women both constantly objectifying women. Elizabeth has said as much in this interview: http://www.qromag.com/interviews/interviews/elizabeth_powell_of_land_of_talk_:_q&a,_part_ii/ |
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| Land of Talk – Got a Call Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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My personal lyric corrections with (my personal interpretations in parentheses). In general, I agree with serendipitousencounter, and this song speaks volumes to me at this point in my life... Got a call the one I'd been waiting for in the middle of the night. Said I know what you do and know its the same to you can't keep down a girl who loves music. (She gets the call from her ex, the one she'd always hoped would want to come back to her, even after she had given up wanting to be with him. She finds herself saying to him that she's not interested in catching up, she knows what he does these days, and she isn't still down about him, she's found refuge in her true love, music.) In the darkness dance to the dialtone as I sing myself to sleep. The most beauty I've seen lives in a dream where we laugh and want to live for the little things. (She's hung up on him, let him dance to the dialtone as she sings, undoubtedly dancing herself to her own song. Perhaps she is singing of what they could have been--our relationships are often one thing in our dreams and another in reality. The most beautiful thought she ever had was of the two of them living a way they never could: laughing together and living with appreciation for the little things, not the stresses that tore them apart.) Not even if I could get you back, I don't try You weren't all that good, but I loved you like you were mine Here's the only thing, I keep it like a secret: although it always rains, a billion hearts stop bleeding. (She's found she's not interested in having him back. Things never did become what she dreamed they could be, in spite of her deep love. But here's the thing, and she holds it close as a sacred though: although the pain never quite recedes, billions have been heartbroken and yet they all do stop hurting as badly as in the beginning, when the yearning for what once was is strongest.) Play solo(?), and no one knows how to fill, and I party all the time. Yeah I know how to kill, but I hate how it feels that everyone's in love with someone else. (Her therapeutic outpouring of music, which took his place in her life, has improved remarkably and now she knows how to kill an audience. But she hates how it feels to see all the people coming to her shows together, leaving together and in love, while she knows she's going back home with only the music to accompany her.) And even if I could get you back, I don't try You weren't all that good, but I loved you like you were mine Here's the only thing, I keep it like a secret: although it always rains, a billion hearts stop bleeding. |
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| Foreigner – Jukebox Hero Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The song's the story of a Jukebox Hero. He's standing outside, couldn't get a ticket but wanted to experience the show so badly he stands in the rain to listen from outside. The very next day he buys a beat-up six string guitar from a pawn shop, and the kid can feel his destiny in his hands when he holds it. So he started rockin (mateo - there's where it says he actually plays the guitar). Much later in his life, when he's made it big, he thought he PASSED his own shadow (not "cast") on his way in the backstage door - another kid, from the middle of nowhere, standing in the rain to hear some real rock. He flashes back to that fateful day in the rain in which he realized what he wanted to do with his day. And now he needs to keep rocking to stay on top and keep his dream (which he is now living) alive. |
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