| Phoenix – 1901 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think he is saying "folded" not "fold it" and he also "material tower" not "meteor tower" It's a sad song, about a relationship falling apart. She has become materialistic, he can't understand the way she thinks anymore He almost gets stuck with her "for a minute I couldn't tell how to fall out" He is trying to save her, but he doesn't know how |
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| Elliott Smith – In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Leered: To look with a sidelong glance, indicative especially of sexual desire or sly and malicious intent. A desirous, sly, or knowing look. |
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| Amos Lee – Sympathize Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this is about a woman and a man split up by war. And he is sympathizing's with their situation. "It ain't no jive, I was burning alive Whenever you walk in the room" he is saying that he had a genuine connection with his wife, he really loved her. but in the next two lines, "It happened so quickly I was feeling so sickly Like a lover who lost his muse" All the sudden he has to go to war. It makes him sad/sick, he is a lover whose lost his love. Then later in the song it says, "I don't know when I'll be coming home baby But I shall sympathize" So he is waiting to find out when he can go home (waiting is common in the American military) And then at the end : "She drops to the floor Her head's by the door Her bible is by her side Heaven is calling The new world is falling And she ain't got a single person left " she is devastated because her lover has died at war. She spent all her time waiting for him to come home and now he never was going to... she feels alone in the world without him. and of course, amos sympathizes :) |
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| Howie Beck – I need light Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i can relate to every line of this song... for me it is about recovering from a past relationship. in the beginning he is thinking about how empty he feels now that he has lost his lover and friend. but then he begins to remember things that he forgot, "you were so bad/ falling, calling" he remembers the bad things about his ex and how they started to fall apart. at the time he may have been blind to it but in retrospect it becomes clear. in the second stanza "now i'm getting closer there/ in the distance i hear friends" he is beginning to realize he doesn't have to stay empty forever. friends and family help the pain to slowly go away. "maybe this keeps happening more" he is saying maybe i can feel happy more? he grows stronger and stronger and realizes "i can't see what i need you for" he doesn't need that relationship anymore. "i was so young/ trying, trying" he was young (naive, foolish) and he kept trying to make it work but of course he couldn't. "on the edge of my mistake" he is still recovering, still learning and growing from his mistake of losing his heart so quickly. "so if i fuck this up again/ I dont know how i'll find the strength" he is saying that after this i can't let it happen again. finding the strength once is hard enough, he doesn't know if he would be able to do it again. he closes his eyes, tries to go to sleep, but the thoughts still haunt him. "I need light inside of me" the most beautiful line. He realizes that in order to be strong and overcome it fully he has to find the light within himself. Friends and family can only do so much, in the end we have look to ourselves and become our own hero. |
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| The Shins – New Slang Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth. Only, i don't know how they got out, dear. ---> the evils of the world are hidden in his "mouth" when he didn't know or understand them, but then they came out and he saw the world for what it was, but he still doesn't understand how the world got so bad. Turn me back into the pet that i was when we met. I was happier then with no mind-set. ---> he wishes he could go back to when he was younger and when he understood less because he was happier. ignorance is bliss. And if you'd 'a took to me like A gull takes to the wind. Well, i'd 'a jumped from my tree And i'd a danced like the king of the eyesores And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well. ---> he believes that if things had worked out well with this person then his life would be better. he has very low self esteem as he calls himself the "king of the eyesores" (ugly). New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries. ---> its a new world, a new language, a new way of life, when suddenly you notice all the dirt and filth and evil in this world. when we are children we don't notice "dirt" in our fries. but when you get older you see the world as it really is, and you wish you could go back. Hope it's right when you die, old and bony. ---> he hopes that the moment you see the world as it is will be the same moment that you die so that you don't have to live in a world that you hate. Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall, ---> the image of dawn breaking should be a lovely one, but for him its like a bull through the hall, meaning that each day disturbs him more and more. Never should have called But my head's to the wall and i'm lonely. ---> we can probably all relate to this, he is feeling lonely so he calls up his ex even though he knows he shouldn't. God speed all the bakers at dawn may they all cut their thumbs, And bleed into their buns 'till they melt away. ---> he is angry with his life and the place that he is at so he wishes bad things on other people. I'm looking in on the good life i might be doomed never to find. ---> probably the saddest line in this song. he can see other happy people but he doesn't believe that he will ever reach happiness, so all he can do is look in on them. he feels doomed to his depression. Without a trust or flaming fields am i too dumb to refine? ---> shows his low self-esteem again. he thinks he is too dumb and maybe that's why he can't be happy. And if you'd 'a took to me like Well i'd a danced like the queen of the eyesores And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well. ---> in the end all he can think about is the person who left him, he truly believes that if they had stayed he would have lived happliy ever after. overall a very good song, but also very depressing. i know the feeling that he describes, the moment when you see the world as it truly is. this happened for me when i was 18 and a serious relationship i was in ended and broke my heart. after that day i was never the same, everywhere i would look i could see pain and suffering and saddness. the optimistic views i once had were gone. but the truth is we could cry for our whole lives about the evil in this world but it does no good. the only thing we can do is recognize that it is there and do anything we can to make the world a better place. the person in the song can't get past the depression, he is resigned to live in regret, wishing that person he loved hadn't left and that he was young and ignorant again. but these are fools wishes because they cannot come true. life must go on and we have to make the best of it. |
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| Ben Folds Five – Alice Childress Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this song is pretty much my life right now. i moved across the country to be with a guy i loved. we were together for a while but it didn't work out. I stayed here though because i had started school here already and had a life pretty established. I wish my friends from back home were here everyday, but its true, they wouldn't dig this town. so i try not to think about it... "no it didn't work out no it didn't work out the way we thought it would" this part fits perfectly to the relationship i had. we both loved each other and still do, but it just didn't work out the way we thought it would, the way we thought we'd be together forever and had planned marriage... sometimes things just don't work out. but we are still good friends, and he is such an important person in my life even though we aren't together anymore... "thank god its you you know your timing is impeccable and i'm not fooling you i don't know what to do" even though we dont talk everyday we are still always there the second we need each other... and we can always make each other okay again. and the fact that we aren't together... well i just try not to think about that anymore. |
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