| Mew – Sometimes Life Isn't Easy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"No, don’t cry for me. /Celebrate el sueño. /The way it operates. /No, don’t cry for me. /Celebrate el sueño. /The way it oughta be." First of all, "el sueño" means "the dream" in Spanish. I think what Jonas is trying to say is to stop worrying about the future, and the dreaming about it shouldn't hurt, and you should always be optimistic about it. This is the way it ought to be, seeing as if you aren't too optimistic in your view of your own future, you're likely not to reach for the stars, and so you will end up settling for less. "Thinking about everything, /Why did you stop? /You don’t know what it’s like. /Isn’t that how it goes, /When you’re lovesick? /Thinking about everything." This part is Jonas probably describing the idea of dropping everything when he thinks he's found love. Before, all he thought about was his own hopes and dreams, but then he was ready to drop everything for that one person. So now when he's "thinking about everything", he's building your entire future around that person, because he thinks they'll always be there. "You don't know what it's like", is the reluctant feeling he gets when somebody tries to tell him that maybe it's a little too soon to be feeling this way. "Don’t you know sometimes, /When it feels like someone put a hex on you? /Well, I felt like that. /I was blaming myself. /I was cushioning my fall." This part is probably about being pulled back into reality. Everything he built his fantasies around has been taken away by that one person, so it feels as if they "put a hex on you". There is a lasting feeling of pain. As for "blaming myself", that could mean he is still in love, and he blamed himself for why things didn't go as planned, instead of blaming it on the person he fell for. He blamed himself to cushion his fall, because if it was his fault, he imagines he could make things right again, and he is giving himself hope again. "Hold my arms back when they beat me. /Leave me in the ditch when they kick me. /Sever my limbs and deceive me. /Sometimes life isn’t easy." This is his acceptance that thing really aren't alright, and that denial and fantasy aren't going to get him back on his feet, so he's forcing himself to take the brunt of the pain, no matter how terrible it may feel, in the hopes of getting over it faster and moving on. At this point in the song, the pain he's going through feels like he's being beaten and kicked and getting hims limbs severed, but it's really just reality crashing down on him. It's also the idea that even though he's already got a wonderful idea of his future worked out in his head, things don't always go as planned, and you can never avoid pain in life, thus, "Sometimes life isn't easy." "Here we go, here we go. /I’m surprised in you. /Here we go home./ Beside you, /And like you. /I’m lost in your doubt. /Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling." I think at this point he's talking to himself a little bit more. He's moved on, and he's surprised in himself that he's gotten over what something that felt so horrible. Now he is starting to feel like his old self again, and he is feeling more at home with himself. However, he still worries whether or not he'll have to face such a struggle again. The scrolling is probably the idea of fast-forwarding, and we find him in more pain, yet again. "Hold my arms back when they beat me. /(I promise you...) /Don't you know sometimes, /When you can’t see no end to the tricks we play? /Sometimes life isn’t easy." This time he promises himself to avoid any kind of denial. He realizes that he's played too many tricks on himself, and he's let himself believe in too many illusions, and he's now regretting all of that, while vowing not to trick himself anymore, because in the end, it only hurts him even more. "Safety net, I regret. /I am shaky. /(We know you are...) /I am shaking." He regrets all the denial he's put himself through. He understands that he was only trying to make himself feel better, but, again, the more he tries to help himself, the more he hurts himself, thus, the regret. He's shaky because he's probably in the middle of another crisis now, and he's making sure to feel everything for what it is instead of softening everything in his head. |
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| Mew – Succubus Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"In your compartment, I'm sorry/ Under a tiny sheet: a silhouette of someone" -Well, the obvious thing to say is that it's about a girl. He's with her at her place and everything looks so tiny, probably because she is rather small, a "silhouette" of a person. "Light hits your curtain/ I'm leaving, but with a certainty/ That I will meet you again in dreams." -He's just been with a woman he knows he can never be with, and probably shouldn't be with, so he gets out of there first thing in the morning. But he knows that he won't be able to get her out of his head. "For your sake, I'll still escape/ Time and time again./ Will you be my succubus until I wake up?" -He meets her in his dreams from now on, because he knows that for her sake, it would be best if they never met again. But he still loves (lusts over?) her, so he only thinks about her in his dreams, and replays these forbidden sexual fantasies in his head about her. He has turned his memory of her into a succubus, something he knows is bad for him, but he can't help but want it from the moments he falls asleep to the moment he wakes up. "Emancipation, I'm sorry./ We will have none of that/ And you have met with your love." -He knows that this fantasy will haunt him forever, and he will never be free from its restraints. It has called to him so strongly, that he's fallen for this ideal woman that may have once been real, but has since only become the perfect being in his head. -This could also be interpreted as him not wanting to let go of the fantasy for the same reason. "In your compartment I'm freezing./ There is a window/ Somebody broke it from the inside." -He probably dared to return to where the original woman lived, the place he left so long ago, but finds that she is no longer there. The freezing is probably both from the broken window letting in a draft, as well as the new knowledge that he was too late to try and be with the woman he had since fallen in love with. As for the window broken from the inside, that could mean that the woman broke the window, either in the symbolic sense (perhaps she had a similar fantasy in her head of him that she escaped from), or literally, in which case it could have been a suicide (now there's really no chance of him having anything with her), or, in light of his comparing her to a succubus (a very sexual type of creature), a night with another guy that may have not ended well, perhaps with her trying to escape from him. (Repeat of chorus) -The music and lyrics together at this last part make this sound like a finality. He knows he's lost his chance forever. He wanted to break free of this succubus dream by being with the real person it was based off of, but now that it's impossible, he doesn't care if this fantasy takes him over again, since that is all he has left of her. The song has a pretty gloomy feel to it, almost remorseful. In both versions, there's a ghostly moaning in the background during the chorus, probably representing the pain within the lyrics of the chorus. I really like this song, very mellow and bleak. My interpretation may be wrong, but that's what the site is for. :) |
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| Mew – Comforting Sounds Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| There are I think two or three other versions of this song (not including the official Frengers Track), and they each have a few nuances, lyrically. I actually came here to see if they would be here, but seeing as it was pretty difficult to find the actual songs, the lyrics may not be so readily available either. | |
| Franz Ferdinand – Wine in the Afternoon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Haddows" itself is a popular liquor store chain in the UK that sells beers, wines, spirits, and drinking accessories. Sounds like Alex is planning a party, let's all go! |
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| Franz Ferdinand – Wine in the Afternoon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it's in one of the blogs on the band's page where Alex talks about writing this song. He said, "I wrote another song, about drinking wine in the afternoon, because, well, that's what I was doing: sitting, drinking wine and playing my guitar. That's a simple thing to do, but one of my favourites. It was raining again and I could remember similar summer days, sitting in a Finnieston tenement, having spent my rent money in Haddows." This explains the whole theme of the song, and the "But we'll have to tell him Haddows swallowed all the rent this month," where Alex probably was forced to explain to his landlord that he ran out of rent money, and the "So summer stains a sky with inky swirls that bring the thunder low," because of the weather at the time he wrote the song. He was in Auckland, new Zealand when he wrote the song. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Matrimony Is Paving the Way for Preplanned Alchemy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Fuck, I'm gonna be in another country in July!!! Does anybody know if the album's coming out the same time in South America? Like, Colombia? |
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| Mew – 156 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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In one interview, Jonas said something like on his first interview after the Frengers release, he was asked about the meaning of 156, and he wasn't planning on keeping it a secret until then because he just didn't really feel like telling that day. Sorry I can't find the interview or give a link... And I've heard elsewhere that Jonas actually forgot what 156 was originally supposed to be once all of these other theories popped up! Thus, 156 remains a mystery... |
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