| Brighten – Ready When You Are Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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My bad...I still just don't care for this band. While they aren't really horrible or grating in any way, they simply don't stand out to me, just sort of blend in with all of their similar pop/rock peers (Cute is What We Aim For, Hawthorne Heights, etc.), which are basically a dime a dozen these days, from what I can bother to pay attention to. It's all just not very inspired in any way. I also don't see how me not personally composing music should interfere with me listening to and having an opinion on it, though. I do think Brighten have some potential, and wasn't even particularly insulting, so I guess I'll just chalk this up to internetz hostility. /giveup. |
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| The Notwist – Boneless Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The Panda Bear remix of this song sort of destroys the original for me... listen here --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJFEBunBHRY |
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| Pavement – Here Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"I was dressed for success But success it never comes And I'm the only one that laughs At your jokes when they are so bad And your jokes are always bad..." Sums up everyone's life? (or at least some point in everyone's life) This song sounds very nostalgic and sort reflective/wistful to me without being schmaltzy, which is always admirable. My favourite song off of Slanted and Enchanted, and perhaps my favourite Pavement song in general (though they have somewhere around 487984753 great songs). |
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| Bright Eyes – A Scale, a Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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grrr, I'm such a spaz. Somehow missed the first line of the poem when copying and pasting (which is actually one of my favourite parts, as the language is so precise, and devoid of emotion. It reflects and establishes the theme of the poem quite well.) I wish songmeanings.net let you edit or delete your posts. ANYWAY, here is the whole poem. Let's hope I get it right this time :P : Mirror By Sylvia Plath I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful- The eye of god, four-cornered Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a lake. A women bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and agitation of hands. I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. In me she has drowned a young girl, and me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish. |
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| The Notwist – Neon Golden Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Love the title of this song. Neon; the most vibrant, man-made, synthetic, quality and Golden; the most vibrant natural, earthly quality. Summarizes the entire album really beautifully, natural acoustic elements in simultaneous contrast and complement to the glitchy electronic-ness. |
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| Bright Eyes – A Scale, a Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In English class this year we've been studying poetry analysis, and one of my favourite poems that we've looked at thus far (by one of my all time favourite poets and writers) is "Mirrors" by Sylvia Plath. Reading it, I couldn't help being reminded of this song and all of "Fevers and Mirrors" in general. The concept of a mirror reflecting everything accurately and without personal bias, distortion, judgement or emotion, etc. but not truly reflecting who you truly are. Sort of. Or something. Anyway, here's the poem (which I think is beautifully haunting, btw, as is this song): Mirror By Sylvia Plath Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful- The eye of god, four-cornered Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a lake. A women bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and agitation of hands. I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. In me she has drowned a young girl, and me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish. |
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| Taylor Swift – Teardrops on My Guitar Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Okay, so it's kind of a funny story... My school always plays songs over the announcements in the morning between the first and second bells. Whoever picks the music seems to be rather fond of this song. I mean, really fond. In one week, it was on 4 out of 5 days. So I'd kind of reached my breaking point. One day before english, this song was (predictably) playing (again). My friend and I got to class early, and while we were walking to our seats I turned to her and said (I admit, a bit loudly) "Uggghhhh, this song is SO cheesy...". At that moment (to my easy embarrassment) the entire class looked at me, and the "most popular" (don't ask me why, she seems very unlikable and generic to me) girl turned to her friend and mimicked me. Everyone glared at me, and I said "I'm not gonna lie. That song is just a TAD melodramatic and cheesy. I just don't really like it." She smirked and said "Well, I think it's cute..." So to make a long story short, she and her gang of "birkenstockers", as I like to call them (for their love of the trendolicious shoe and fondness of "The Hills") have a strong disliking of me. I'm not even kidding. Whenever I try to talk to someone, they say "Oh you're the girl who hates that teardrops song." The whole thing is so "ridiculous-high school-drama" it's not even funny. Who ever heard of completely chastising someone because they don't like a song. Apparently her hate of me has grown, because supposedly, the guy she likes (who I haven't even had any contact with, for over a year) has a "thing for me." It's all so cliche. I know I should be flattered, but at this point, I don't even care. So anyway. Now I can't hear this song without cringing. And I still stand behind my statement. The whole song is just so "disneyprincess" and says practically nothing about anything. But I'm sure once she gets Drew, life will be absolutely amazing. For her, for you, for me...for all of us! But that's just me. |
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| Bright Eyes – We Are Nowhere and It's Now Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Thinking a lot about the lyrics. I like the part: "And if you swear that there's no truth and who cares How come you say it like you're right?" That always reminds me of people who constantly say that they don't care what people think about them, but get so angry when you subtly point out if they don't care, they wouldn't bother to say anything at all. A bit paradoxical... "And like a ten minute dream in the passenger seat While the world was flying by I haven't been gone very long But it feels like a lifetime " Like this part a lot too. I've always loved looking out the window in cars. (As lame as that sounds). When i was little I was obsessed with staring @ the moon and watching everything else around it move, while it stayed in one place. Those lyrics always remind me of that. "I've been sleeping so strange at night Side effects they don't advertise I've been sleeping so strange With a head full of pesticide" I'm pretty sure that has to do with some sort of meds, but i like to think of more as his thoughts are poisoning him. "I'm always lost in thought as I walk the block To my favorite neon sign" Does anyone else find the neon sign bit so sincere it's almost sarcastic? "Where the waitress looks concerned But she never says a word Just turns the jukebox on and we hum along And I smile back at her" I've always loved diners. They just seem so comforting and...stable? Like they'll always be there. I love how after the jukebox part the piano comes in like someone just turned on a jukebox. And my friend comes after work When the features start to blur She says these bars are filled with things that kill By now you probably should have learned On the other hand, I've always thought bars as impersonal and cold. Like they could be the happiest place in the world one moment and the saddest the next. "Did you forget that yellow bird? How could you forget your yellow bird?" This part is still open for speculation. "She took a small silver wreath and pinned it on to me She said, "This one will bring you love" And I don't know if it's true But I keep it for good luck" Absolutely love this part. I'm probably the most sentimental person you could ever know, and I save everything people give me. It's a bit pathetic. So thats it I guess. I hope this wasn't too off-topic. I'm infamous among people I know for awkwardly rambling... |
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| Bright Eyes – We Are Nowhere and It's Now Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I find myself listening to this song a lot lately. When I first read the title, i remembered this weird trick my grandad showed me when i was about 8. You look at, and then read out: godisnowhere. It either reads "god is NOW HERE" or "god is NOWHERE". Kind of meaningless, but weird right? |
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| Brighten – Ready When You Are Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i agree...this song, while not completely, in your face sucking, is kind of forgettable. A guy friend of mine suggested this band for a project i was doing in music, so i gave it a listen. I didn't know how to break it to him that the song writing ability of Brighten is just slightly better than the early days Good Charlotte. But seriously. I'm hoping this band will evolve and get better...(lol, get well soon dudes!) and if anyone really loves this band, give me a few reasons to like it...because seriously, i want to give them a chance!... |
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| Vampire Weekend – A-Punk Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i love this song...it makes me happy:)i think crudnick pretty much got the story in the song right...johanna seems like a pretty sketchy character (i don't know, but maybe thats why the songs called A-Punk?) I really like the part about the ring being at the bottom of the sea at the end...for some reason this song always reminds me of that under the sea song in the little mermaid, so i can imagine this song playing while that lobster dude dances around...lol... think its easy not even listen to the lyrics, especially when the video's on, because its so visually enticing...i saw it late one night on MuchMusic and i was completely mesmerized... |
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| Bright Eyes – The Big Picture Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Forgot to mention, love the part: "It all sort of looks familiar Until you get up close, then it's different clearly" As people, we like to believe we've seen it all before and can't be tricked or surprised too well, or at least I do...but i always get put in my place. |
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| Bright Eyes – The Big Picture Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love his vocals in this song...just how his voice rises up at parts it's simply gorgeous. I don't really know much about whats going on in this song so I won't try to decode it because I'm not smart enough anyway but at the overall story in the song (i.e. the people talking at the beginning)...in it I somehow think the guy and the girl are listening to the radio or something (it's the "small picture" because it's just two people) and towards the end they get bored or something and change the station (which explains why conor is suddenly cut off) and suddenly we're thrown into the "big picture" of a million different voices and sounds. Shit. Disregard the above. I have no fucking clue what this song is about. But I love it. |
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| Bright Eyes – A Line Allows Progress, a Circle Does Not Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think that the people who are saying that the cocaine references are "bullshit" are being serious douches. Do you not see that the comment box says "What does this song mean TO YOU?" There isn't really one specific meaning. I'd like to believe that GOOD songs and poetry evoke different feelings and meanings in all of us. No one's meaning is better than another person. Sorry I feel like I'm a teacher telling some disrespectful kid off or something...It just annoys me that everywhere in life now there can only be one correct answer...to me, music should always allow different opinions and mean different things to different people. |
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| Bright Eyes – Take It Easy (Love Nothing) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Good song...not amazing or life changing like some other Bright Eyes songs but good none the less. I agree that the song is definitely about a relationship gone amiss, but what makes it brings it together for me is the last verse; "If you stay too long inside my memory I will trap you in a song tied to a melody And I'll keep you there so you can't bother me" Songs are like our alternate universes. If a song is beautiful I often wish I could live in it...does that makes sense? I don't know much about song writing (as I am talentless) but I imagine it might be like letter writing? Like, you can say stuff in it you might not necessarily say in person. As long as you're brave in your songs, you don't have to be in real life. I have to say, this was a pretty shitty post. I apologize. |
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| Bright Eyes – Don't Know When but a Day Is Gonna Come Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"But what my father did, no, it don't mean shit I'm not him" That part always reminds me of my father with my granddad. My dad grew up in a small town and his dad was a lawyer. His entire life all he's ever heard of is how great a lawyer his dad was and how he should be one too and yadda yadda yadda. My dad always responds the same way "My father was a great man, but I can't be the same man he was. We all have to find our own way." I think this song really focuses on deciding on things for yourself (religion, the truth, your direction in life etc.) In the end no one can explain to you. People can help you and assist you and discipline and try to explain to you as much as they want but its up to you to figure it all out. |
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| Bright Eyes – Going for the Gold Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I've loved this song for forever but I never knew what to write about it. It's like everything in the song is articulated so perfectly that nothing I say could possibly add to its greatness; it could only make it worse. So I won't try to do that. I'll just write what I think it means. The song is, essentially, part of the ongoing theme of the search for truth in bright eyes songs (False Advertising, No Lies Just Love, and yeah, this one too). As an "independent" artist Conor probably feels that music should convey a certain feeling or say a certain thing, and should always have truth found within it. Music is just one of those things you shouldn't lie to, its too pure and will know instantly if you're being dishonest. Since Bright Eyes, rightly or not, has been accused of being an "emo" band, its understandable that Conor feels as though he's fabricating things or lying within (or to) his music. Basically, he's saying that music, when interwoven with people's different emotions and beliefs, can come off as lies, and so it is a "risky" thing to do. I think it also goes back to the whole "can you put a price on music/art?" thing. Like Conor could be considered a lier or con artist (not actually saying that he is...) because he makes people pay for his music, when some would argue if he truly loved music, he would not need money as motivation to make it. Anyway i feel like i've barely scratched at the surface of this song...there's just so much feeling in it...its impossible to listen to it and not feel something. Like everyone, I love the part at the end; "I know a girl who cries when she practices violin Because each note sounds so pure It just cuts into her And then the melody comes pouring out her eyes" I wish I could be capable of feeling something so deeply. |
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| Bright Eyes – Going for the Gold Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I've loved this song for forever but I never knew what to write about it. It's like everything in the song is articulated so perfectly that nothing I say could possibly add to its greatness; it could only make it worse. So I won't try to do that. I'll just write what I think it means. The song is, essentially, part of the ongoing theme of the search for truth in bright eyes songs (False Advertising, No Lies Just Love, and yeah, this one too). As an "independent" artist Conor probably feels that music should convey a certain feeling or say a certain thing, and should always have truth found within it. Music is just one of those things you shouldn't lie to, its too pure and will know instantly if you're being dishonest. Since Bright Eyes, rightly or not, has been accused of being an "emo" band, its understandable that Conor feels as though he's fabricating things or lying within (or to) his music. Basically, he's saying that music, when interwoven with people's different emotions and beliefs, can come off as lies, and so it is a "risky" thing to do. I think it also goes back to the whole "can you put a price on music/art?" thing. Like Conor could be considered a lier or con artist (not actually saying that he is...) because he makes people pay for his music, when some would argue if he truly loved music, he would not need money as motivation to make it. Anyway i feel like i've barely scratched at the surface of this song...there's just so much feeling in it...its impossible to listen to it and not feel something. Like everyone, I love the part at the end; "I know a girl who cries when she practices violin Because each note sounds so pure It just cuts into her And then the melody comes pouring out her eyes" I wish I could be capable of feeling something so deeply. |
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| Bright Eyes – An Attempt to Tip the Scales Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song. It reminds me of life. Like many before me have already posted, the lyrics focus alot on details; mostly how trivial they are, but also how when they bombard you all at once you can feel like your suffocating in them, and you want more than anything for it to just stop to let you catch up. But the only way to catch up is to let it all go and say "things are the way they are and I don't care anymore." Well anyway thats what i see in the song, but I might have changed it's meaning somewhat to make it fit into my life (specifically) better. But thats what I love about all bright eyes songs. No matter how different all of our lives are, all of these songs can still fit into our lives somehow, and make sense, just in a different way for all of us. The songs are amazingly versatile in that respect. |
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| Bright Eyes – An Attempt to Tip the Scales Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song. It reminds me of life. Like many before me have already posted, the lyrics focus alot on details; mostly how trivial they are, but also how when they bombard you all at once you can feel like your suffocating in them, and you want more than anything for it to just stop to let you catch up. But the only way to catch up is to let it all go and say "things are the way they are and I don't care anymore." Well anyway thats what i see in the song, but I might have changed it's meaning somewhat to make it fit into my life (specifically) better. But thats what I love about all bright eyes songs. No matter how different all of our lives are, all of these songs can still fit into our lives somehow, and make sense, just in a different way for all of us. The songs are amazingly versatile in that respect. |
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| Bright Eyes – A Song to Pass the Time Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Theres just something about this song that's so brilliant. The part where he's talking about the mexican kids: "And they laugh in a language I don't understand..." has always struck me as particularly ingenious. Just the part about him not understanding laughter says so much. I also love the part about passing through life like dreams through our heads. So often I think about people who I used to know and i realize all evidnence of them has vanished from my life. Almost like I dreamed them. But my favourite part would have to be "In my secret drawer, in my pockets deep You will find the reasons that I can’t sleep And you will still want me But will you still want me? " Its like he stole the words from my mouth. Anytime I feel myself getting close to anyone, I feel like a total phony. Like, if I let them know all the little things about me; or show them who I am when I'm at rock bottom; they'll discover that the truth is that I'm not worthy of them. I don't really know if that makes sense or not. But the song means alot to me either way. Its more than just a way to pass the time. |
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| Bright Eyes – Make a Plan to Love Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think the title pretty much says it all...you can't "plan" to love someone...it just happens. In the song, conor's in love with someone who has to have everything (including love) rigidly planned out, and conor keeps saying life, let alone love doesn't always follow a plan. You can't plan for success in those things. The just happen the way they happen, whether you want them to or not. ( |
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| Bromheads Jacket – Poppy Bird Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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A gorgeous song. I mean, really. I remember the first time I heard the "Miss is this your book that you left part?" I was like "Aw man...what's she going to say?" Then there was that suspenseful pause and all you hear is the drums getting the shit beat out of them.lol. I like the simple rhythms though. They kind of make it so you can figure out what happens next...but only if you don't think about it too hard...I think? I wouldn't really want to know EXACTLY what happens next anyway. I think that the characters should just remain living in this song. Who knows what would happen if we exposed them to the real world? |
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| The Libertines – What Katie Did Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this has already been mentioned but i think the title for this song was taken from the kiddie's story "What Katy Did". i remember because it was in this children's collections of bedtime stories my grandma used to read to me and my brother to make us shut up. i also remember it was a pretty boring story...or it must have been because i can't even remember what exactly katy did, but judging from the song it probably wasn't very good (what she did i mean.) It's kind of an intriguing title though...after all who wouldn't want to know what katy did? |
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| Bright Eyes – Tourist Trap Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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| Bright Eyes – Tourist Trap Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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yeah i get what you mean ^^.at first i thought it might have been talking about neely, but in all of bright eyes's songs whenever conor mentions a girl or someone he knew from Omaha, everyone just automatically assumes he's referring to neely. i think it's probably more a combination of people, as conor is friends with a lot of people on the Omaha music scene and grew up with a lot of them roo. |
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| Bright Eyes – Saturday as Usual Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i love the style in which this song was written, kinda like he's just looking out the window and writing about the things and people he sees around him. I also love how it's "Saturday, as Usual" which goes back to the theme of conor not wanting to grow up to be like his father, who's life is (presumably) very predictable or "usual." I think it's possible oberst wrote this song at 13, because if you read interviews, he always talks of how he was really over-sensitive and aware as a kid. Anyway it doesn't really matter what age he was, cause some people can go their whole lives without having an original or "poignant" thought, while some people achieve one at age 5. It's interesting how at the end; "And me, I'm in the bathroom Crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man When you are scared like a little kid The world has become a little too mean" He sounds so self-loathing. I love the phrase "patient love" too. I wish I thought of it first. like I do with so many of Oberst's lyrics. |
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| ...fire! – In The Diner Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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love this song...somehow i doubt anyone is gonna read this since no one but me seems to have heard ...fire! (which is seriously a horrible shame as he's so impossibly talented...unfortunately i can only find like, 6 songs by him and i've already listened to them each like 674839210 times each. well okay, that might a SLIGHT exaggeration.) anyway, as i said i'd count this as one of my most favourite songs (is that even grammatically correct?) i don't even know if i can articulate what it is about it i adore. I love the part "like a dream where you wanna run but your legs have all but died". i don't know if it's just me, but i always find that at the times you need to get the hell out and leave, you can't bring yourself to. But i don't know if that's what he meant by it. I also love the end of the song...how it almost sounds so reluctant; " the waitress was already gone" like the moment you realize you just made a terrible mistake. also, when he's finished the last line, he takes a breath, like he's gonna say something more, but can't bring himself to or something...awesome. anyway, this song always seems to me like a confession, (or something), like a true life story of how a guy has some great epiphany, realizes what he must do, then seconds later realizes it's all too late. (only in the song it doesn't sound like a stupid hollywood movie pitch or a cheesy reality show plot.) it sounds completely honest and true, like music should. anyway if anyone knows anything about ...fire! please tell me! I can't find anything about him. His sound reminds me of bright eyes kinda, and think i remember reading somewhere that he's sixteen and from California, but i realllllllllly can't remember where...anyway he seriously deserves more people to hear his music. okay that's about it. i'll stop gushing now. but like i said, it's not like anyone's gonna read this. |
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| Bright Eyes – Easy/Lucky/Free Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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just thinking about what indiexeyes wrote about the song having no ending. how the song keeps trying to continue even after it's supposed to have ended. i keep thinking the point of this is to show how everything should end eventually, or else it's incomplete. you can't have a beginning without an ending. you can't have life without death. or it could just be to sound cool. |
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| Bright Eyes – Easy/Lucky/Free Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this song means so much to me. i know it might seem sort of naive to believe a song can parallel YOUR life specifically, but i really do feel that way about this song. my older brother sean died when he was four months old by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, which is where (by no fault of the parents) a baby suddenly stops breathing while he is sleeping. he literally died before he even knew who he was. i always wonder what he would have been like, if id ever gotten to meet him. what kind of person would he be? sometimes i feel so angry, because he was so entirely cheated out of life. i listen to this song though, and it somehow makes me feel better, like maybe death wasn't the worst fate he could have suffered. the only true way to be free of all of life's hardships is to be dead. when your dead, you're truly protected from all the pain life can give. i also think this song is trying to say don't feel sorry for the dead, because they're not the one's the death affects the most. the close friends and family of the victim are the one's we should be weeping for, because they are ones who need to continue living, breathing, and feeling. my father, for example, fell into a bad addiction to alcohol after all of this happened, so really he had it hard/unlucky/trapped, and not sean, as you might expect. anyway, i didn't mean to be a debbie-downer with all of this, and don't weep for me. i never even met sean, so in that respect, i could be considered easy/lucky/free too. |
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| The Spill Canvas – The Tide Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i think this song might be about different kinds of love. like how the mom was too distracted with her love for her husband to love her kids until it was too late. she was so intent on finding romantic love she didn't realize she had not one, but three, people who loved her, but in an entirely different way than she was looking for. love is love. no matter whether it's between lovers, close friends, or family. contrary to what popular books, movies, poetry, and yes, music, like to tell us not everyone can find a traditional "True Love". but true love exists in some way in everyone's life (or at least i'd LIKE to think so, too sad otherwise) overall the message in this song is to appreciate everyone's love before it is too late. only, the spill canvas make it sound way more poignant and way less bad sunday-sermon than i do. |
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| Bright Eyes – Tourist Trap Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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just reread what i wrote. i didn't mean to ramble on about stuff that was hardly even related to the song. sorry. anyway i just wanted to add that i love the effect that the percussion creates at the It's not my weight that makes me faint.... part. you know. where the rest of the music fades out and it sounds like your heartbeat in your ears. |
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| Bright Eyes – It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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love this song. i know it sounds kinda insincere to say that, because people say they love songs all the time, but they way conor sings this song...you can feel his pain, his bitterness, just everything i guess. not to be corny or anything, but i think it's pretty amazing that he can captivate so many people with his voice and a simple guitar tune. takes talent to do that, for all those people who claim he's a completely untalented little whiner-boy. anyway, now that i'm done with the pathetic cliches, i really do think this song is amazing. the sound in the back ground (what is it?...a xylophone?...not sure) kind of reminds me of ice clinking in a glass. i think this relates to the end of the song, (i'm pouring some whisky...) like he's drinking AS he sings, and then at the end of the song there's a longer bell type sound that kind of reminds me of someone slamming a glass down on the table. i love the last verse too. it always gets to me: I'm going to get so, so drunk That I pass out and forget your face By the time I wake up... like: this isn't the best way to deal with my pain, but it hurts so fucking much i'll do anything to numb it, even for just a while. anyone who's battled any form of addiction (or is close to someone with an addiction) will know what i mean. or i don't know. maybe im trying to read to much into the song... |
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| Bright Eyes – Tourist Trap Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I really like this song (a lot) but then again I love pretty much every bright eyes song. What I love most about this song though is probably it's simplicity. It's a song that most can probably relate to (or at least I can). What I think conor's trying to say is that when you're away from somewhere (or someone, or something, even) you build it up in your mind to be like a perfect euphoria, because when you're not actually there, it's so easy to forget all the things that were wrong. Then when you return, and you see that things sorta suck, you start to wonder if things ever really were all that great to begin with. Sort of like a disappointment. That feeling kind of reminds me of like, when you're a little kid, and you see a really cool toy or something on tv, and you build it up so much in your mind that it's gonna be the coolest thing EVER and once you have it your life will be perfect etc.. But then once you get it you see it really isn't as cool as the kids on the commercial made it look, and so you're kind of disappointed and confused. Anyway that's what i think, and it makes sense to me, but it might be WAAAYY off and make absolutely no sense to the rest of you. |
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| Bright Eyes – Neely O'Hara Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Does anyone know what it means by "Do you think that someone paints your mirror?" I ask this because in Haligh, Haligh Conor also mentions a painted mirror, so I thought maybe it symbolizes something (perhaps?) | |
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