| The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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To me, it's about having a loved one in a coma. Of course, I'm biased, since that was my life. My mother had stroke two years ago, and was in a coma for almost a month. Even now she can't communicate. She's just there. But anyway, it all makes sense. "I know that you feel me somehow" I wondered, when I went to see her, if she had any clue I was there. "You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be" A person in a coma is often someone who has just barely escaped death - death = heaven. "And I don't want the world to see me Because I don't think that they'd understand When everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I am" This summed me up almost perfectly at that time. I was in such a haze, I didn't think other people could possibly understand what was going on in my head. I was ashamed of the bizarre way I was acting, because I was afraid of almost literally everything. "I just want you to know who I am" was pretty much what I was thinking. "And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming Or the moment of truth in your lies" I think this refers to when you're finally too numb to care. When you're so used to it you can't cry. And maybe the lie is when someone asks if you're alright, and you claim that you are. The moment of truth being that you're slowly moving on with your life, but you feel guilty about it. |
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| Maroon 5 – She Will Be Loved Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Especially judging from the video, I'd say it's about a man in love with a prostitute. He may have been friends with her before she turned to that life, too. The lines "I don't mind spending every day out on your corner in the pouring rain" and "you always belonged to someone else" really bring that home. | |
| Yellowcard – Grey Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Uh, this doesn't seem like it has a thing to do with careers and such to me. More like a relationship that crashed and burned. "Grey skies clouding up the things we used to see with wide eyes" Grey skies = problems and anger two people can't see past, and therefore they can't get along anymore, even though they used to love each other ("we used to see with wide eyes"). "Maybe everything was meant to be this way Will it ever change But are we stuck here on our own" Wondering if they will ever be able to go back to the way things were. "I found telling you the truth the hardest thing to get out" Possibly referring to the actual break-up, the truth being that he no longer wanted to be with her? "I know it wasn't you that made me feel this way Will it ever change Or are we stuck here on our own." Referring to how he believes he is more angry at her than she deserves, and that he's holding an unreasonable grudge. "And give it one more try I don't know if I would stay" He is asked to try to start the relationship again, but he knows he would not be happy that way. "I feel so much better now And baby begging me Will leave you so empty inside So you shouldn't even try" She persists in trying to get him back, but he will not hear of it. "I know every last regret inside of me is my own The way I hold them close has made me be this way" Again referring to his admittedly overblown anger for her, and how it is not her fault that he feels this way. "I will never change I know I'm stuck here on my own, on my own" Referring to being trapped by his own anger, and never being able to move on from it. "Where did we go wrong I know you still hold on to me But it's time that you let go" She still loves him, but he now has a general disdain for her, and it is nothing but an annoyance that she still relies on him. "I gave you things I had That I could not get back again" Possibly time spent helping her with problems? A first kiss? Sex? "But I'm better off alone" He wants to finally be rid of her, because she's grown dependent and he can't get past his anger. Or maybe I'm missing something.... After all, this way, it is basically the story of my life (I'm the he, though) |
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