| The Black Keys – Nova Baby Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Not convinced - listening to the first stanza it sounds like "You'll meet me one day / Need me one day". For me fits with him watching her out with her crowd. | |
| The Black Keys – Nova Baby Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Saw Nova as a reference to Novacaine - which numbs pain and causes feelings of euphoria. I see the song as someone who basically abuses themselves (drugs/alcohol), hanging round with the wrong crowd who are really her enemies whilst ignoring the fact that someone has been drawn into her life who loves her but he isn't appreciated (probably because he's too caring to register with her). |
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| Snow Patrol – Set the Fire to the Third Bar Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It may be just me but I find this one of the most devastating songs I've ever listened to. I can't begin to describe the hair-raising, gut-wrenching anguish it leaves me in. I agree with pretty much everyone else has said but have a drastically different take on the chorus: "I find the map and draw a straight line Over rivers, farms, and state lines The distance from A to where you'd 'B' It's only finger-lengths that I see I touch the place where I'd find your face My fingers in creases of distant dark places" Superb start - impresses distance both objectively (she's a long way away) and emotionally (they are not together). "I hang my coat up in the first bar There is no peace that I've felt so far The laughter penetrates my silence As drunken men find flaws in science Their words mostly noises Ghosts with just voices Your words in my memory Are like music to me" Anyone who's had a broken heart will resonate with these lines - the constantly churning thoughts, lack of peace and inability to join-in. In this state of mind any situation you're in is somehow unreal. "I'm miles from where you are, I lay down on the cold ground I pray that something picks me up And sets me down in your warm arms" And this, for me, is where the wheels come off the world. After trying, and failing to carry on without his love the protagonist, in a drunken haze, sets off towards her. He's traced the route on the map so often he knows it backwards and his desperation carries him onward. There's a part of me sees him staggering through snow, caught up in the rivers and farms mentioned in the first verse, until he can't go on any more; sinking to the ground praying for deliverance. And why is he walking, why not the bus, plane or car? Why not phone her? He's walking to her because he's not *allowed* to see her, they've broken up, she's moved on and for him there's nothing but the thought of her left. "After I have traveled so far We'd set the fire to the third bar We'd share each other like an island Until exhausted, close our eyelids And dreaming pick up from The last place we left off Your soft skin is weeping A joy you can't keep it" The sudden switch to future tense - he's on the cold ground drifting off; imagining the welcome that should be his if he makes it. Didn't get the third bar reference until reading through the other posts which, for me, just serves to increase the overall intimacy of the verse and highlights how cold he currently is (One of my fondest memories as a child was the warmth of a good fire after being cold and wet). "I'm miles from where you are, I lay down on the cold ground And I pray that something picks me up and sets me down in your warm arms I'm miles from where you are, I lay down on the cold ground I pray that something picks me up and sets me down in your warm arms" So there he is still miles from where she is, wanting just to be in her arms. I read the harmonies as the echoes of his lost love - it's not that she's missing him in the same way; it's like a siren song calling him on. |
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