| Lana Del Rey – Summertime Sadness Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Lyric-wise, it appears to me to be a song about a lost love. The line "kiss me hard before you go" is really the one line that indicates it is about a lost lover and not just a close friend or sibling. In light of that, I'm thinking the video is about a woman remembering her lesbian lover who has passed away. In other words, it takes the more broad idea of a lost love (which the song is about) and tells a story about a specific kind of lost love. |
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| Hillsong UNITED – From The Inside Out Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is one of my favorite worship songs, and Hillsong United is one of my favorite worship bands. If making lots of great worship music made you Australian, they'd be Australian. | |
| Exposé – I'll Never Get Over You (getting Over Me) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Well, the meaning is about as clear and self-explanatory as it gets. However, this is Songmeanings.net, so I'll save us all some time. IT'S ABOUT DRUGS :P |
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| Journey – Send Her My Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's funny (in a sad way). This song was released on the same album as "Faithfully," which Jonathan Cain wrote for his wife as an expression of his undying love. Of course like all famous people they eventually got divorced, probably in part due to the stress of them both being on the road (she was a semi famous singer herself). Life imitating art, perhaps? | |
| Van Halen – Love Walks In Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| When I first heard this song I thought it was awesome - until I heard the chorus. An alien? An alien who pulls a string? Not all metaphors aregood metaphors. I just can't take it seriously. It sounds like something weird Al Yankovic would write, except weird Al is funny. | |
| A Fine Frenzy – Ashes and Wine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I could swear on a stack of phonebooks that this song is called Ashes AND Wine. That said, this is probably my second favorite A Fine Frenzy song (behind Almost Lover). It's simply beautiful. |
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| A Fine Frenzy – Near To You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ok, so, as I said above, I feel this song does an imperfect job of expressing the commonly held views of the song as said above. However, that is assuming that the views of previous posters are what the song is really about (I am not criticizing the posts above; their views make perfect sense and honestly are more likely to be right than what I'm about to propose, but hear me out). I propose that the song may actually be more complex than we give it credit for. I gave reasons above why it doesn't do a good job of convincing us the girl is sincere. Maybe she's not supposed to be... Maybe, we are supposed to hear the song and think, "I don't think the girl is sincere about getting over the other guy." Maybe the song is directed not at the new guy but at herself. Just as the motif of somebody getting over a past love with a new one is common in both life and art, so is another; the theme of people avoiding true love because they've been hurt by that person, and their futile attempts to move on with someone else, somebody "on the rebound" if you will. Maybe she talks about how much she loved the other guy not to give context of how things were, but rather as a hint that this is still how she feels. This would explain why the new guy is complemented often yet looked upon somewhat coldly. Her declarations of "I belong where you are" could very well be her way of demanding of herself "He's good, you should love him!" After all, the old guy was a dick, and the new guy is probably sweet, sensitive, loving, whatever it is she is looking for. She left the old guy because he rejected her, and wants to convince herself she is improving and will eventually be happy with the new guy. In short, maybe it’s supposed to sound phony. That’s not to say that she isn't convinced that she is sincere, but people can be quite good at fooling themselves and convincing themselves they feel differently than they do (although this tends to eventually unfold, both in life and in art...believe me I've been there). If this were a movie, we might expect the new guy to eventually question her, and when she says “we have something different” and “I’m enjoying it” he would tell her that he loves her but that she needs to ask herself if its him she really loves. The fact that the words chosen do a poor job of convincing me the girl is sincere would therefore be a strength in this case; she's SUPPOSED to be insincere. If that’s the case, my opinion of this song would change from me finding it “superficial” and “hard to take seriously” to “excellent,” “clever,” and “in a whole ‘nother realm.” If that is the case, BRAVO! Note: I use the term love” loosely. True love is the kind of thing that happens once in a lifetime. As used in my post, love can mean as little as the serious and deep infatuation that is often confused with the real deal. Also, despite my somewhat harsh criticism of this song (in post #1), I believe Alison Sudol is an amazing singer and songwriter. In fact, One Cell In The Sea is one of my all-time favorite albums (along with the likes of Metallica’s “Master of Puppets”; I’m not called MetalSandman999 for nothing). Goodnight! |
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| A Fine Frenzy – Near To You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm not sure what to think of this song. Some of the words chosen kind of make me question whether she really is even getting over the old guy. This can be a weakness - she's trying to express an easy-to-relate to feeling but she's doing an imperfect job of it. Some examples I use: Verse 1: "He and I had something, BEAUTIFUL..." Verse 2: "You and I, have something, DIFFERENT..." Of all the words she could have chosen, she said "different." Granted, after beautiful", few adjectives would make it sound as good as the first, but "different"?! "Being with him was beautiful. You and I, are, uh, different..." Unless directly comparing it to something bad, "different" is never a good word...It's often a euphemism, or a substitute for when a fitting positive adjective can't be found. Point 2: Verse two "...and I’m ENJOYING IT." Not sure that’s a good way to put it in any right (don't get me wrong, Alison Sudol is a great lyricist, probably better than I'll ever be, but I think this line doesn't quite work). Enjoying makes it sound so casual and detached. Point 3: When describing the old guy, she talks about how "she loved him so," how it was "beautiful" as seen above. When describing the new guy, it’s all "I'm enjoying it, it's different, you're wonderful." The old guy seems like "love," the new guy seems like "a relationship." With the old guy, there was naturally something there and she cut it off to save herself. The new guy seems like the kind of guy girls would want to go out with, a Mr. perfect if you will, and therefore is seen as a good replacement. If the girl truly feels it with the new guy and is merely healing from the wounds of the other guy (as opposed to still loving him and forcing a new relationship), I don't think it should seem as though the new relationship is forced. Rebuttal point: One can say that the bridge, about how she declares, "I only know that I belong Where you are" that it is a serious and deep declaration of affection for the new guy. While the sincerity can be debated, I will give them that the line is at least consistent with that idea. Overall, I am not as impressed with the lyrics of this song as I am with most other AFF songs, at least if the song is simply about the girl moving on but still being wounded, as stated in the posts above. However, I have an alternate hypothesis that, if true, would change everything... |
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| Little Richard – Tutti Frutti Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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DarkenRahl makes sense for the most part. However: 1. Tutti Frutti and Neapolitan are not the same thing. Tutti frutti is entirely fruit flavored and often has dried or candied fruit as well as flavoring. Neapolitan is 1/3 strawberry, 1/3 chocolate, and 1/3 vanilla, which isn't even that fruity. 2. "A lop bam boom" isn't necessarily gibberish. Ferdinand Lop was a French presidential candidate in the 1940s, and since he ran right after WWII, Little Richard probably added war onomatopoeia (BAM! BOOM!). It is also possible that instead of "Bam boom," he's saying "bamboo," which would probably be a reference to a love of pandas. Also, only at the end does he go "A Lop bam boom (bamboo). The rest of the song its "A lop bum bum." The "bum bum" is likely either just a musical segway, or perhaps a reference to the subject of both the original version and many other Little Richard songs (you know what I'm talking about). |
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| Weezer – Say It Ain't So Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Wikipedia offers quite an interesting background to the song, a tale that would come straight from the mind of Rivers Cuomo if it weren't already true. (Of course, its wikipedia so its accuracy can always be questioned). So, Rivers' father left when he was only 4. Not knowing his father well (since he was so young), Rivers' knew his father mainly as the man in a photograph. The photograph showed his father in a wife beater with a cigar and a beer. Years later, Rivers found a beer in the fridge which he deduced must belong to his stepfather. Knowing his biological father was an alcoholic, Rivers feared his stepfather too was about to leave the family, thank to the devil's brew. In a perfectly Weezeresque twist, he found out, years after writing the song, that his biological father didn't actually drink and that it was a gag photo that he had based his entire memory of his father on. Ironic, since Weezer is known for light-hearted and at time twisted music, and when Rivers actually writes something deep and serious, the real-life behind is like a traditional Weezer song. At least I think that qualifies as irony... |
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| A Fine Frenzy – Almost Lover Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It sounds to me like a song about a romance that never formed, even though the girl was given so many false signals. The girl, though determined to leave it all behind and move on, is still hung up on the almost romance and feels indignant towards the guy, not out of genuine dislike or honest blame for his feelings, but out of her hurt over what has happened. I think she still wants it to work out deep in her heart, though she knows in the left side of her brain that it won't work out and that shes better off moving on. Having been both in the girls position, as well having seen the pain of those I care most about when they find themselves in the same position, this song really hits me deep, as I bet it does a lot of people for one reason or another. |
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