| Sia – I'm Not Important To You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this whole song is completely self explanatory....straight to the point | |
| Sia – Don't Bring Me Down Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I watched a documentary on youtube called "The making of Colour the Small One"-(awesome, watch it if you get a chance) and Sia herself says that this song is about a bad comedown off ectascy-about the lonliness, and about being the last person to comedown, and when you do everyone else is asleep and you just can't rest.... For me personally, I can relate to this on so many levels, for me, on first listening I interpreted it as the struggle you feel in a realtionship where it's destructive, but you don't want to let go.The first verse to me desribes the way she feels about the person, and how it effects her; You're honey dipped You are beautiful, floating clouds, soft world I can't feel my lips and how the whole thing is actually ruining her: I'm going down, I don't want to change I'm going down, going down the drain -losing yourself, losing your identity, feeling like your life is going down the drain, veering off track. Don't bring me down, I beg you Don't bring me down, I won't let you Don't bring me down- the feeling of helplessness, begging this person not to destroy her, but internally, never voicing it out loud. And then being at a crossroads; "So now for restless mind, I could go either way" She could detroy herself or save herself, and she doesn't have a clue how its going to pan out.... For me the ectascy story and the fucked up relationship story run parralell to eachother, so the whole song feels very apt. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Peach, Plum, Pear Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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One thing I've really learnt since reading people's interpretation's on this website is that these songs really do mean something different to all of us. I guess we search for meaning in songs that we can relate to. Whilst I've never been a huge fan of breaking down poetry line by line, as I think it kills the magic, its fun to share what it means to you, but thats the point, at the end of the day, whilst there may be some sort of obvious narrative, how we interpret that is up to us. In this case, I really feel like this song is about a girl meeting a guy who really moves her, its about insecurity, its about longing and fear-fear of getting hurt and rejected ( especially on the line "you were knocking me down with the palm of your eye.") So for me its about vulnerability. This isn't the smartest interpretation I'm sure, but it's how I relate to the song.....or rather its how the song makes me FEEL, and I think the point to music like this is to forget to think and just feel.... |
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