| Taking Back Sunday – One-Eighty By Summer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I guess I too maybe tying this is with my current position in life, but I can't help it. For me this song resembls some entrapment (just say it, c'mon are you afraid to). I have to imagine this couple just can't admit they shouldn't be together anymore, even though they should be. The guy is being honest with her and himself... he needs her... defenseless, dependent, and alone (like after a break up you just want that girl to want you.... no one else... just you on her mind all the time and a wreck without you). There is so much more power given to the person that initiates a break up before the other is ready. So, my favorite line is "live up to your first impression, my best side was your worst invention." In a break up I had similar to the one I am projecting onto this song, My gf made me into the respecting, courteous, polite, etc. guy that you usally are when you first meet someone (but inevtiablly goes away after time). but she demanded that I kept up that first impression... and I did... and internalized it (so my best side, that bull shit protected first-impression side... was her creation... and now I have to live with how I can reveal the real side of me to people without fearing they will tell me to bugger off). That is one girl that really F'ed me up. |
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| Brand New – Handcuffs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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While I think there is a battle here about being a better man vs seeking one's own justice the song speaks completely to the former does it not? It's hard to be a better man... one who hopes for a what goes around comes around... when you aren't trying/lying to yourself. What is stopping him from drowning babies? making arrests? Humanity? laziness? I think it is healty to question why being a better man is important. Why try and figure out why a baby is crying instead of drowning it (like several parents actually do). It seems like here, however, being a better man feels more like lying to yourself, or if you forget you are trying then you probably don't know why it is a good idea. And maybe sometimes it isn't. And imagine what would happen if you drowned those babies... .that piece of you that dies... is that piece of you that represents morality, good will, humanity. Your humanity would die, but what if you know there were no reprocussions. What if jail didn't exist? Does't that make morality pretty suggestive? |
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