| Sara Bareilles – Stay Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Stay is a song that has a very powerful message: Sometimes it’s only tonight that matters. Not the consequences. Not the ramifications or even the meaning. Sometimes this type of moment between two people defies all logic and is more than needed, it’s necessary, because what has transpired is bigger than just love at first sight. It’s a reconnection of souls. It’s a moment that yearns for a run at the airport gate, or standing outside a house raising a boom box over your head. But time is the enemy, because no matter how much we plead with each other to stay, responsibility creeps back in, we have to return to our respective lives and then the moment is lost forever. "Gonna feel it baby Oh I don’t wanna cry I know we’ll get to tomorrow and say goodbye That’s why I’m asking for Tonight" "Stay tonight Don’t come morning, don’t come light They may be lies, but say that we’ll be alright Say that we’re gonna be alright Tonight" I encourage you to listen to this song several times in a row and at each listen focus your attention on specific instruments that make up the composition. They each represent how in-sync the two people are in Sara’s lyrics. The strings, light piano, rhythm guitar and even the backing vocals are all musical layers that work in concert with each other while contributing to a crescendo that is the overall magic and message of Stay. By the end Sara’s passionate vocal exudes so much pain, heartache and love, it’s easy to identify with her thoughts, especially if we connect with the words. The way she holds out “tonight” before the final chorus, conveys those aforementioned emotions, and just like the night we don’t want it to end. #andrepeat this song again and again and it never will. musicalmorphine.com |
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| Sara Bareilles – River (Joni Mitchell cover) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Sarah’s Joni Mitchell cover of River is really splendid. This is a song of escape. It’s somber. And brutally honest. Sara’s version was recorded live, however I’m not sure where. If you know, please let me know in the comment section below. To understand the lyrics I think it’s best to recognize that Joni Mitchell is Canadian. I think it’s safe to assume that she has wonderful holiday memories of skating on a river or pond in the cold Canadian air. Her current life in L.A. while nice, has to be weird come holiday time. Joni associates the holiday with snowmen, cold temperatures, boots, jackets and mittens. In L.A., or “The Land of Make Believe”, they have to fabricate the holiday. River realizes the duality of the holiday season. On one side you have family, joy, friendship, love, warmth and a reason to celebrate. On the other side you have a those dealing with mounting money problems, perhaps the first holiday since their Mother passed, or in this case a broken love. It’s in this broken love where Joni Mitchell crafts honest lyrics where the person realizes they are the root of the relationships demise. That they’re the reason why they left. This realization is the worst, and magnified ten fold at the holiday’s. So a river to skate away on seems just the thing to do, if you want to disappear. |
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| Sara Bareilles – Red Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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If you own a business you know there is one goal you should to focus on. Stay. Out. Of. The. Red. If not, your business fails. Retailers understand this goal. See there’s this silly day called Black Friday. It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and it’s called Black Friday because that’s the day where retailers, due in part to ridiculous price cuts and ravenous consumers, count on sales to move their ledger from the red to black. Now, I am not saying that Red is a song centered around saving businesses and commerce. Not at all. But Red is a song about saving. In this case Red is a song about Sara saving herself. The color red is an alert. A warning. But red is also the color of perceived happiness. Who doesn’t like a red fire truck, or a red balloon as a kid? A red bike, or sports car? Red Starburst, jelly bean or Red Ryder BB Gun? Red, while a color of warning is also one of comfort, warmth and accomplishment. Sara explores this balance of the color red in the lyrics. She has devoted herself to life on the road she has to be mindful of warnings that can place her sanity in the red while chasing success. Things like the jerks, creeps and d-bags Sara talks references in City. Things like rejection and negativity that if dwelled on can bring her down. Or perhaps things like the separation from family and friends, lovers and companions that used to be there to lift her up when times became mentally bleak. At it’s core, Red is a message of strength and independence. Sara’s perspective tells us that in her isolation she’s developed coping measures to pull herself out of the red. So that she can enjoy the red things in life. |
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| Hozier – From Eden Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[tommyg:404] The duality one faces in an affair is ever-present, and Hozier is poetic within his lyrics and not so obvious with the meanings. In the song From Eden, "Babe" and "Honey" represent two separate people. Consider the usage of the two labels in everyday life. Babe is a common chauvinistic term used in a courtships like "Babe, your looking good", "Babe where do you want to meet for dinner tonight?", “Hey, Babe can I buy you and your friends the next round”, Historically, Honey is a pet name used to describe someone close and stable: "Honey, can you pick up the kids?" Honey I was going to make Lasagna tonight.", "Honey, do you know where we keep the extra light bulbs?” Hozier further defines these two roles within the structure of the song itself. Highlighting the new fresh lyrics in the verse for his love interest Babe, while using the repetitive stable lyrics for Honey. | |
| Hozier – From Eden Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is about an affair and is lyrically broken up into two parts featuring his lover and his wife. He refers to his lover as Babe. She is mysterious, alive, broken like him, looking for way to escape. She is not judgmental like his wife, and loves him in the moment. In the chorus he refers to his wife as Honey. She is familiar, boring, and the lyrics speak to the reasons why his marriage is failing. He has to slither back home from Eden where he has sinned with Babe. “just to sit outside your door” is a metaphor to the fact that when he’s home with his wife Honey he’s still mentally far away with Babe in Eden. |
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