| The Antlers – Palace Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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@[eadgbe123:526] I personally don't like saying that there's a right or wrong interpretation for song lyrics, but I can see how it can be taken as just that. I feel like there are parts to this lyrics that hint at something more, however, such as this: "When he heard I was on his tail he emptied your account and hid a part of you that’s so invaluable" and "Now he hangs your mirrors separately, so can't show you what the other reflects" |
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| Jake Bugg – Simple as This Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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First of all, amazing song! The lyrics are really relatable and down to earth, but with a twist. Firstly, it's a story about a young guy searching for some meaning to his life. As the lyrics go on, we hear how he didn't find "it" in booze, pot, travelling, eastern religions, individualism and what not. Through every chorus we get a hint that as of now, he's found "it", and is amazed by how simple an answer it is. In the end there's the twist, as the guy reveals that the "it" he found is another person. "I've been falling crashing breaking And all the while you were Stood here waiting For me girl" In a split second the song about soul-searching turns into one of the most beautiful love songs I've heard in a long, long time. |
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| Bon Iver – Hinnom, TX Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Seeing as this song is about a city in Texas, it could also be a reference to the texan band ZZ-top, and their famous song "La Grange". This, actually, is where Lucinda got that idea from if you ask me. But who knows, maybe it has nothing to do with either one of them. | |
| Bon Iver – Calgary Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I get a similar vibe from this. Or might just be a couple heading towards a break-up. Obviously the narrator here has seen this coming, and is now trying to explain why it's for the best. "There's a fire going out, but there's really nothing to the south." Also in the beginning it describes a dying relationship: "Just have to keep a dialogue. Teach our bodies: haunt the cause." To me that says they have nothing to talk about and no lust, but they've just kept it going because you get used to a relationship and it's hard to leave it behind. "I was only for to die beside" This says that he thinks she only stuck with him because they're too old to find someone new to spend the rest of their lives with. Or at least they or she feels that way. |
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| Bon Iver – Calgary Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I don't think it has any universal meaning. It might just be the place where something happened that inspired him to write this song. Or maybe he wrote it in Calgary. After all, all the songs on the new album are named after different places. | |
| Mew – Apocalypso Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Seems to me like a story about overcoming depression or anxieties. This pretty much says it all: We will not die! Our days are multiplied And I'm happy again Also there's talk about a psychiatrist posing as a psychologist. Oh an yeah, care-lines too. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – My Mirror Speaks Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I always fall in love with an open door Or the horizon on an endless sea As I look around the ones who are standing right in front of me. This pretty much sums up the whole song to me. It's about how "the grass is always greener on the other side", meaning that when this person is in a given situation (for example a certain city, relationship or job or whatever) he always "falls in love with the open door", the exit. So, in other words he falls in love with the possibility of going away from any given situation, to a new and seemingly more exciting situation. It's funny how this song is pretty up-beat and kind of groovy but still very sad. |
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| Built to Spill – Car Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Pondering with big questions and trying to find out the meaning of life is the biggest challenge anyone will ever face. Everyone has given these things a thought, but some never give up, and may even eventually go mad or give in to despair. I think this is all about a couple. One of them (the narrator in this song) has given up on the big questions, whereas the other one is not giving up, and is almost going crazy. "You get the car I'll get the night off You'll get the chance to take the world apart and figure out how it works" Here the narrator says he's willing to support his friend (or lover) in his or her quest for a meaning. "Don't let me know what you find out" He knows that there is no answer, no meaning, but has been able to ignore that fact and live life happily. That's why he doesn't want to hear it when his friend finds it out. He doesn't want to risk his own happiness. "If I don't die or worse I'm gonna need a nap at best I'll be asleep when you get back" Finding out that everything is meaningless can make you die (suicide?), or worse (go mad, get depressed). So he's warning his friend that it's going to be a long and hard trip. "I wanna see it when you find out what comets, stars and moons are all about I wanna see their faces turn to backs of heads and slowly get smaller" Still he wishes that his friend will find answers. Maybe he just loves the childlike curiosity of his friend, the never ending questioning of things, even though he knows it will set him or her apart from other people who want to live their lives without thinking about these kinds of things. "I want specifics on the general idea I wanna think what I should know I want you to do me what to show I wanna see movies of my dreams" I think this just means that he wants his friend to do what he didn't have the courage or the brains for; to find out something concrete about the world. "I wanna see it when you get stoned on a cloudy breezy desert afternoon I wanna see it untame itself and break its owner" I think this symbolizes the situation where the questions start to curse his friend. He's getting stoned just to escape from the questions he's so frustrated with? The thing that is untaming itself is the persons mind. The reason why he still wants to see it, is because he what he really loves about his friend is the way he never gives up, and is even braver than the narrator himself, who gave up with these questions. |
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| Elliott Smith – The Biggest Lie Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Even though I hate the fact that many of Elliot's songs can be interpreted to be about drugs, I'm pretty sure this one is really about a relationship and drugs ruining it. "I'm waiting for the train The subway that only goes one way The stupid thing that will come to pull us apart" The train is symbol for the drugs, or the situation where one is neck-deep in the addiction. The train goes one way, obviously meaning that it's easy to start but hard to quit. The drugs are also being referred to as 'The stupid thing', which shows that he doesn't like being an addict, 'cause he's calling it stupid. "You spent everything you had Wanted everything to stop that bad And now I'm a crushed credit card registered to Smith" This might mean that his companion paid for his rehab, or just used all of her energy to help him get off drugs. His credit card being crushed, I think, just says that the use of his money is being monitored and/or even restricted. "You turned white like a saint I'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint" I think it's saying that even though his companion is being the most caring and saint-like person, he is still willing to stop trying, stop dancing and saying it'll be alright. The pot of gold flake paint refers to dreams they have about their future life together without his drug-problem. "Oh, we're so very precious, you and I" Here, I think, precious means precious in a beautiful and especially fragile way. Their relationship is beautiful but it could be broken in an instance. "And everything that you do makes me want to die" He is saying that the way his companion uses all her energy to help him, makes him feel bad = makes him want to die. BUT THEN HE SAYS: "Oh, I just told the biggest lie" This is the crucial line in this song, which is probably why it's also the name of this song, because here the narrator is saying that he actually doesn't feel bad about her using up her energy on him, while he doesn't have any progress on getting off the drugs. He just says so to make her feel better about it. He's so deep in his own world of anguish and self-loath, that he's lost interest in everything, even the feelings of his loved one. It's a beatiful song, and I think it could be interpreted other ways too. Just substitute the drugs with for example ones feelings about not wanting to be in a relationship. |
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