| Crystal Bowersox – Saved By Grace Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Sounds like the speaker is sifting through new issues in life, where ordinarily she was able to deal through it on her own. But now, she's sensing that grace (whether religiously, from God, or rediscovering her own inner strength) is something that she could really use. She's taken it for granted in times before ("well you say you don't need this right now, just throw it out"; "i watched grace pass me by"). She also realizes the limitations she has in adding to this grace ("you can't feed it"). And as she's pacing back and forth on the bathroom floor, ruminating, that's when grace is likely to appear. | |
| Tegan and Sara – Dark Come Soon Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song reminds me of feeling very much alone in the world. Of how we push people (family, friends) in our lives away when we need space, the very next moment those are the same people who'll be there for you when something scary or catastrophic comes up. It sounds like the speaker is waiting for the dark to engulf her (maybe an allusion to depression or even death, darkness of the heaviest kind), but she's still waiting and hoping that her loved ones (or, anyone) might come back, and be with her to back to the place that she needs to be. | |
| Rent – Contact Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is great. It expresses the horrors and disappointments that may come from unprotected sex. I can't stop listening to it! It's spoken word at it's finest. Also, it would be really cool to hear Angel's part [starting with 'take me ... 'sung as a dance remix, don'tcha think? | |
| Maria Mena – Internal Dialogue Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is so dark and sad, but with verses like "There's no need to cling to unnecessary lies" it is inspiring and encouraging as well. This is my favorite track on Apparently Unaffected. | |
| Tegan and Sara – Hype Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song sounds remarkably similar to "Proud". Anyone else think so? | |
| Sara Bareilles – Inside Out Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song lifts me up every time I hear it. It sounds like (and this may be reading into it too much) the speaker is struggling with depression or bipolar disorder. This is illustrated in the first verse, but especially in the line, "Some days are perfect, and some simply could not get worse". More generally, by not making the song out to be one struggling with a disorder, it sounds like the speaker is going through the many hardships of life (I know that sounds cliche). At times she pleads with her inner spirit (her gut) to help her cope with the trials she is going through. She forces herself to stand through the pain she faces and ultimately reminds herself that, although she knows her limitations and isn't fearless ("I know what I'm not"), she also knows she'll overcome and keep standing. I love the ending where she tells herself "it's only rain". LOVE this song!!! |
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| Sara Bareilles – One Sweet Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I find this song really romantic. I think the images of sleepless nights, getting her sanity taken by her object of affection, and her impressive display of patience in the lines, "I don't look, don't touch, don't do anything, but hope that there is a you", all work to paint this picture of a woman hopelessly in love, at times unsure that this love will work yet at other times she seems pretty confident that things will work out when she says, "No ordinary wings I'll need the sky itself will carry me". One of my favorite songs on Little Voice, along with Gravity. I can see Sara going places. Her voice reminds me a little of Sheryl Crow's. |
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| Ingrid Michaelson – Keep Breathing Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I agree with onetwofold. The song sounds to me like it could be about someone coming having a breakup and trying to expand their viewpoint of the world to all that is out there, but finding it so hard to look past their immediate horizon of losing someone you love. | |
| Sia – Rewrite Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song reminds me of my recent split with my girlfriend. In the first verse it seems that the speaker is reminiscing on how things were when her and her partner were together, and how things are now (apart). She remarks that her partner doesn't "know her" and can't "hold her", which seems to reflect an admission that they have distanced from each other considerably. I like the lines, "I slip through your hands/I am one single grain of sand". It's kind of a line of humility that says about to her partner, "I'm not in your life anymore, but I realize that not only my life but your life moves on - for I'm just one small piece of your life; important at one time, but eventually I've become a fleeting memory". There's something so painful about those lines, yet they still capture a feeling of acceptance about the couple's split in the way she sings it. In the second verse the speaker continues to acknowledge the separation that now exists between her and her partner, but she seems to hold herself in somewhat better esteem than the first verse. By saying that she "can't be replaced", and that she's an "empty space", the speaker more assuredly says that she really was an important part of her partner's life, and she's irreplaceable. However, in the next couple of lines the asks her ex to delete her from the ex's memory, it seems, because of what comes next in the chorus... "you are free to love/happily received/you are free to love/if that is all you need" It seems like when we get to that chorus that we have the speaker doing something that is to me, one of the toughest things about breaking up with someone - finally coming to closure that you want your ex to be happy, even if it means they're not with you. The speaker is trying to accept that this person she grew so close to is moving on to continue to love, but not her. Everyone needs love, and the speaker recognizes that moving on is the healthiest thing for both people involved. At the same time, it is definetly one of the hardest things ever |
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| High School Musical – Stick to the Status Quo Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song. To tjtech12, I think that this song is supposed to be a satire on "sticking to the status quo". When you think about the enthusiasm that the students have when they talk about their secret interests, you'll see that those that urge them to "stick with the stuff they know" could not be further from how those students feel. When you think of the song as a parody of how high school (and life in general, sometimes) is for many students - with cliques and apprehension to trying new things, it makes more sense and I personally learn to laugh at the ridiculous of it (as I cheesily sing along, I admit). | |
| Toni Collette & The Finish – Beautiful Awkward Pictures Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It sounds either like 1) the speaker is about to lose someone he/she is close to romantically because of something the speaker has done ("don't wanna go first/don't wanna be left behind") or 2) someone the speaker is close to is about to die ("if the bell should sound my dear/have nothing to fear"). I have been listening to this song over and over again, because I feel kind of like #1....and it sucks. (This song is gorgeous, and toni is an amazing actress, too.) | |
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