| OneRepublic – Secrets Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Has anyone else read the book "Looking for Alaska"? If so, then you understand why I was immediately reminded of that book when I first heard this song. It just fits so perfectly with Pudge's, Colonel's, and Alaska's friendship and dynamic. | |
| The Goo Goo Dolls – Name Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I love this song so incredibly much, to me it's as if he's singing to someone very close to him who has passed away, especially in the verse that goes, "Scars are souvenirs you never lose , the past is never far / Did you lose yourself somewhere out there / did you get to be a star / Don't it make you sad to know that life is more that who we are" and also where he says, "I think about you all the time / But I don't need the same / It's lonely where you are come back down / And I won't tell em your name". I'm also planning on getting the lyric "life is more than who we are" tattooed on my lower back, in memory of my cousin who died in a car accident and loved this song. |
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| Coldplay – The Scientist Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is absolutely beautiful. A few years ago, a kid at my school's mom died, and he got up and sang this at the funeral. Rather than looking at this song as two lovers breaking up, I see it as someone losing someone very close to them, and wanting to "go back to the start", so they can be with the one they lost again. |
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| Coldplay – The Scientist Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is absolutely beautiful. A few years ago, a kid at my school's mom died, and he got up and sang this at the funeral. Rather than looking at this song as two lovers breaking up, I see it as someone losing someone very close to them, and wanting to "go back to the start", so they can be with the one they lost again. |
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| The Killers – Read My Mind Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm really shocked that only one person has seen the parallels between this song and F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, "The Great Gatsby". "I'm on the corner of main street just tryin' to keep it in line you say you wanna move on and you say I'm falling behind" ^Gatsby and Daisy were once in love, but she left him to get what she thought was a better life. She was moving on, he was falling behind "I never really gave up on breakin' out of this two-star town I got the green light I got a little fight I'm gonna turn this thing around" ^Gatsby never gave up on his pursuit of Daisy, and completely changed himself("turn this thing around") in order to get her to love him again. The green light is also pertaining to the green light on the dock connected to Daisy's house. Every night Gatsby would stare out at the green light, longing for Daisy. "The good old days the honest man the restless heart the promised land a subtle kiss that no one sees a broken wrist and a big trapeze" ^Gatsby is living in the past throughout the whole novel, and longing for the relationship that he and Daisy had. The broken wrist and the big trapeze is a metaphor for someone like Gatsby, who was once nothing, seeing how both sides live (swinging from side to side). "Oh well I don't mind if you don't mind coz I don't shine if you don't shine before you go can you read my mind?" ^Gatsby would do anything for Daisy, and only wants to make her happy. "it's funny how you just break down waitin' on some sign I pull up to the front of your driveway with magic soakin' my spine" ^In the end of the novel, Gatsby dies still in love with and longing for Daisy, and never knows how she actually, truly feels about him. "The teenage queen the loaded gun the drop dead dream the chosen one a southern drawl a world unseen a city wall and a trampoline" ^Daisy is the teenage queen, the loaded gun is clearly the ending of the book, the drop dead dream is Gatsby literally dying and being under the impression that Daisy does not love him, the chosen one is Tom, A southern drawl relates to Gatsby and Daisy meeting in Louisiana, a world unseen is Gatsby getting a taste of how the elite live, and the city wall and trampoline is Gatsby "jumping into" high society. "Slippin in my faith until I fall You never returned that call woman, open the door don't let it sting I wanna breathe that fire again" ^Gatsby kept trying and trying to win Daisy back, and the "fall" is his death. From "you never" to "fire again" is Gatsby being eventually rejected by Daisy, and Gatsby's longing to live in the past and have what he once had with Daisy. "She said I don't mind if you don't mind coz I don't shine if you don't shine put your back on me put your back on me put your back on me" ^Originally Daisy loved Gatsby, and tried to love him again. And I'm not entirely sure how the last verse would parallel "The Great Gatsby", but other than that, it's pretty much the same story line. |
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| Oasis – Songbird Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| My now ex-boyfriend won me over by singing this to me, saying that I was his song-writing inspiration. We ended on good terms so it's not like I've boycotted the song, and I always love hearing it because it's like, my own little song ;). | |
| Nat King Cole – L-O-V-E Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I love this song. So simple, self-explanatory, but still it's amazing. Why don't people write songs like this anymore??? | |
| Nat King Cole – L-O-V-E Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I love this song. So simple, self-explanatory, but still it's amazing. Why don't people write songs like this anymore??? | |
| Michael Bublé – Come Fly With Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Michael Buble is absolutely lovely. Though no one could possibly fill Frank Sinatra's shoes, Michael's come awfully close. Unequivocally my favorite song on the CD. | |
| Rufus Wainwright – Release the Stars Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Why has only one person commented on this song?! It's so beyond fabulous! The sound of it is so cool because it sounds like an old song, and he's saying that old Hollywood is over, so it ties into the theme. PennyT, you're right it is about celebrities being restricted by their public image. The way that Hollywood works is that many homosexual actors and actresses cannot come out because their agencies feel that homophobic people would "boycott", for lack of a better term, the celebrities, which would affect the agencies, so thus they must "play it straight". Celebs who do come out are taking the huge risk of being rejected by their fans and agents, so thus many of them do not come out. So basically Rufus is saying that people are being old-fashioned and need to accept the fact that homosexuality exists in the world today. |
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| Rufus Wainwright – Nobody's Off the Hook Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This may seem like a far stretch, but it's almost like Rufus is singing to himself, example... "See you looking so sad/ trying to live your life in style" Rufus actually sings about conforming to the "stylish" lifestyle in his song Poses "I remember you when/ Looking like a teenager how you have become a man with all the power/ Running the moon aground/ ... You would become the one desired/ In every woman's heart" This could be how he has rose to fame, and how he started out as nothing and now he's on top of the world and loads of people love him "'Cause life/ Will take that little heart/ And bring you to your knees/ Threatening to break it/ For the final time and you'll believe it..." He's almost giving himself advice with this one, saying that yeah, he's going to face challenges but he's got to overcome them and keep going on So again, it may seem like a stretch, but in a way it does make sense... |
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