| The Beautiful South – Closer Than Most Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I have a slightly different take than Becka_, and I would tend agree with ThatKidSteve. The first two paragraphs clearly suggests a romance based more on sexual attraction, that is if you will consider sweet tooth and sugar rush loaded with meaning. On the other hand, and here's the almost eeriely scientific thing, that it is now well known at times of stress, the body craves for sugar rich snacks, especially when "when" working late nights. Now that may sound far fetched but it is a fact based on genetic research. My whole point is that besides being a song apparently wishing only well, and complimenting an ex-lover, or a partner with whom one has had an intense but difficult and short lived affair, there's always this undercurrent of a disaster brewing. The song seems to a sort of "Dear Jane" letter (the reverse of a Dear John, that is)... a personal declaration looking for closure;despite the compliments the author of the song has for the subject in question, and those compliments are not to belittled what with his honest opinion about how much he appreciates her looks that even Miss World would be second place to her in his eyes, it's pretty clear that the affair has not worked because the one receiving the compliment has refused to take it as nothing but exaggeration ("...your face might mean zip to you"). In fact, there's a considerable amount of emotional pain and frustration in the way the song is sung: the oblique yet over exaggerated compliments should be heights of romanticism, except they are delivered in a matter of fact style,... and towards the end, it seems the singer even breaks down ... |
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| Coldplay – Clocks Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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A number of people seemed to think of it as addiction (in another site);although I agree about it somewhat, I don't think there is no explicit, even implicit symbolism in those lines that suggest drugs. But there is a definite voice of regret about "missed opportunities". And that is more about likely about relationships, as many have pointed out. But the central question that emerges is: what kind of relationships are "against" the tide? Cannot be talked about? Causes troubles that cannot be talked about? Questions that may have led people to think about drugs ... Drug abuse and, even same sex relationships are not problems which cannot be talked about in this age and time, unless you are living in very "backward" parts. The whole mystery about this lyric is the "you" which is incomparable. There's home mentioned twice... "Take you home" and "Home, home, where I wanted to go" ... An out of fashion Freudian interpretation with the "tamed tiger" will lead us towards "incest". But it could just be something like relationships which would be condemned by society like relationships with someone very close, like a friend's spouse or partner ... The horrible end of the world, feeling of death and confusion are all there with an emphasis on time which takes the song to another level ... it is very appropriate when you consider the delivery: the events are not chronological... the feelings are mixed... there is no explicit horror in the music or vocals, no horror at violent ending (like terrified or primal screams, it's much more softer and lyrical)... it's more like a passion, a forbidden passion one is ashamed of, one cannot confront directly (cannot even name it) and finally unfulfilled ... the last lines are not of resolve but of defeat ... unfulfilled desire, unconsummated love perhaps ... |
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