submissions
| Yo La Tengo – Mr. Tough Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The female challenges the macho man (who she knows is really vulnerable and not so tough on the inside) to meet her on the dancefloor. Dance being the metaphor for life. The dancefloor being reality. If you really love me, she's saying then meet me (i.e. face up to it and cut the crap) and tell me you're serious and you're willing to meet me on the dance floor (that is come out in the open and declare your love for me.) She demands that he stgop the nonsense, leave his girlfriend, wife, lover etc. and leave their problems at "home." Not their home, but their respective homes. |
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| Sparklehorse – Sad & Beautiful World Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The song is about love and that makes the person experiencing it conflicted because he/she feels for the first time the complexity of a love that is beautiful for its purity and yet makes him/her sad because it makes him/her feel vulnerable at the same time. If one has never been the object of pure love then one can always be in control of one's emotions. Control equals safety and that sometimes passes for contentment. Love is chaos and creates conflict. It causes one to feel beautiful (especially if it's the first time one has been the object of unconditional love) and vulnerable because it exposes one to the possiblility that feelings can (and do) flow both ways. It's almost impossible to feel the love of someone and not be conflicted by that emotion. |
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