| Dave Matthews – Stay Or Leave Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In response to photochick... "it was good as good goes" refers to pretty much what happens at the end of any long-time relationship. There are good times and bad times, and sometimes the good are really good and the bad are REALLY bad. So... it was good as good goes. It's the natural progression of things. If you've ever seen The Crow - "it can't rain all the time..." - it's the same basic premise. Things can't be perfect all the time. Especially if you've been with someone for a long time. But the good times were as good as they could get - in the end, the negative just outweighed it. |
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| Dave Matthews – Gravedigger Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think "better make it shallow so that I can feel the rain" infers something darker... that the soul sort of lives on in the body afterward. Seems like sort of a very dark take on the afterlife as it meaning that while our bodies die, our souls don't - and they are trapped in the place where our bodies lie. Pretty cryptic and ultimately hopeless... |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Sugar Will Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| *Correction on typo* - "but I heard nothing" | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Sugar Will Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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my favorite version is the one on the stand up bonus disc. . . . lonely as I could have been waiting to hear something form inside of you but I hear nothing so I went looking for myself and found a couple of things for myself maybe not, so what still I was searching all by myself I wonder if you knew... . . . stumbling in, late at night I must have lost track of time at the bottom of the last bottle I was swallowing maybe not, but I was feeling good, good, good. saw this, found it all by myself came back, you was crazy [?] under this for myself I wonder if even you knew... One of those songs I can listen to over and over and over again. I actually missed the Ford show by a week, I was so mad - especially when I found out this song was back. grr. oh well. Great song. General feeling for me is that it's pretty much resigning yourself to staying cyclically in a doomed relationship where the other doesn't know who you really are or what you've been up to. Not necessarily cheating or anything, just lives separate to the point where you're not looking for meaning in it together anymore. |
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| Counting Crows – Speedway Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree with Jag. I realte to this like mad. Some days I really want to just get away and go. The line that gets me the most is: In all this time the bottom line's you dont know how much I feel you say you see but I dont agree. In the 6 years we've been together, I still don't think he understands what I go through in my head all of the time... he doesn't get why I listen to sad music all the time and why I sometimes feel like it's such a big deal that he doesn't. Maybe it's just cause I feel like music expresses everything I repress. Either way - end rant, sorry bout that, but yeah, powerful line right there. |
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| Sevendust – Shadows In Red Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I kind of felt a bit that it is the realization that someone you've been with for a long time and felt secure and happy with might not be the one. The loneliness comes from being the only half of the relationship that feels this way. | |
| Finger Eleven – Absent Elements Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The way I used to interpret it when I did lots of drugs was that they were what built my comfortable defense, and I could never fill the void that ensued when I didn't have anything. I don't do drugs anymore, but the song will always have that sort of significance for me. "May discover some reflection, or may discover none..." referred to what I might find on whatever journey I decided to take myself on, but when I thought about what all of it was doing to me I knew I was just building a wall around the real me. But, you know, everyone interprets things differently. |
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| Cat Power – Rockets Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think part of it is about youth passing by more quickly as you get older. Kind of like we're all rockets shooting aimlessly and infintely until something stops us and we find a life for ourselves amongst the rubble; like you have to take as much as you can while you're still young, and live your life to the fullest or the good things you've been dreaming of since childhood will pass you by before you finally crash into reality. But I'm 22, so maybe it's just that time in my life and the song's warped itself to fit what I'm going through :) |
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| Chris Cornell – Steel Rain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"I train my moods to bloom like flowers unfolding instead of fluttering around" I really like this line. It is very insightful and honest. To me, it reminds me of what I go through daily in shielding myself from myself. Kind of like setting up a safeguard to preserve my own sanity while also keeping up the appearance of stability to those around me (particularly coworkers). |
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