| Gym Class Heroes – Cupid's Chokehold Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song has got a really ironic tone. It's so sarcastic. They just mention every cheesy part of young love. And "young love" isn't "real love" but it's the closest thing teenagers and many 20-somethings have had that they can relate to and call love. The repeated line "if that ain't then I don't know what love is," is the most ironic phrase of the song. When he's calling his parents and telling them the same instances over and over again, or if it's the first time it's happened and he's bragging about it, either way it shows that he's immature in love and has no idea what love is. I love this song for its lyrics and its beat. No doubt it's cheesy, I mean "one nocturnal son of a gun" is one of the lamest rhymes I've heard in a while, but it just powers the song even further. You have to credit GCH for having the emotion of a young person in young love. |
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| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song is more accessible as a a unlove song about breaking up, moving out, and being alone because that's what most of us know about. But for anyone who has lived directly through a war and/or genocide; perhaps survivors of the world wars, the wars of the Middle East, or the genocides in Africa, it would symbolize the disorientation that comes from the shock of the declaration of a war in your homeland. Jewish people had to play a fatal game of "hide and seek" against the Nazi German army. They hid in their attics, where you would expect to find toy "train" sets, "sewing machines", and old clothes. Many citizens have been forced out of their nice, cozy, carpeted homes in Afghanistan during civil wars and the present war. They sell what possessions they can, like furniture, and keep what pleasures they have left - such as pictures. "when busy streets a mess with people/ would stop to hold their heads heavy" is a snapshot of most cities all over the world who are aware of the tragedies of war occurring all around them. "Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth/ mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs/ speak no feeling, no, I don't believe you/ you don't care a bit" expresses the feelings of bystanders and groups of innocents who have to listen to unemotional lies from their leaders. All of these leaders are declaring they mean well, "well, of course you did." And since they decide what their people need, it's a shock when we hear that we are going to war, "what did you say?" The "sweeping insensitivity" and "still life" that is produced by wars and mass murders are just a couple of phrases that convince me that this song is more relative as a politically driven song that serves as a voice for those affected by the wars where they are misinformed, misled, misadvised, have misalliances, have the mischance, and most of all are misgoverned into. need I continue? "mis-" is a pretty easy prefix. |
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| Imogen Heap – Speeding Cars Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think many people, me included, just grab to the phrase "paper cuts, the cheating lovers" and hold the overall perception that the whole song is about her lover cheating on her. But as relevant and as beautiful as that lyric is, (I mean comparing infidelity to something as insignificant as a paper cut is creatively poetic, but...) that seems to block people from seeing that the lyrics of the full song can relate to anyone who has been scorned by a loved one. That loved one could be a family member, dear friend, or especially a partner. This song seems to be a response to a loved one who is asking forgiveness for hurting the singer, and the songwriting telling that loved one that their love is strong enough that they will make it through their situation because it's just a small part of life. |
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