| The Used – Come Undone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "this song is about wet, dirty, sticky sex" - that's what bert said at the concert in vegas hahaha | |
| Third Eye Blind – New Girl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| there's the eye of fatima... reference going back to how 3eb got their name :) | |
| Third Eye Blind – Sharp Knife Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I thought it was "it seems like the ending is a LIE like the start" haha. We'll see when i get the cd and look at the lyrics.... | |
| Third Eye Blind – Red Star Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A red star is indeed the symbol for communism. However, it is astronomically a giant or supergiant star that has a short life cycle because it burns its fuel very quickly and ends in an explosive supernova death. The core of it collapses, most of its mass is sent into space, and what is left over becomes a small dwarf star or black hole. She could be a red star not in that she's a communist, but that she burned out very quickly after speaking her mind. Her influence that was "the voice of the people" has scattered. She's still alive, just hiding underground--a faded version of her old seft that is "timid as a mouse" because she "compromised" the truth for her own safety. Knowing 3eb, this ambiguity is probably intentional. |
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| Strung Out – Scarlet Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"And now I watch your shaking hands embrace the window as you stare into the light"... beautiful, but so easily missed if you're not listening for it. my new favorite line. |
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| The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Cat and Mouse Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song completely touches my heart... It's when you reach a point in a relationship you've been in where you realize that something is different, due to something specific happening or just something that you finally see; the relationship is crumbling, dissolving right before your eyes. It's when you're shaking because you feel like everything's ending after all this time because the damage may be irreparable... everything happy is fading so far into the distance that you can barely see it, and you have happy pictures of the two of you around you but you can't connect with those people in the picture anymore-- the you in the picture said you'd never leave, but now that's what you're thinking of doing because the other person won't change and you've tried all you can to fix it, and all that's left is arguments and bitterness, and you're not satisfied with where you're at anymore--you need something to change or grow. Then you can't help but question why things turned out this way, why nothing good ever happens, or when it does it always has a price to pay. The perfect person turns out to be not-so-perfect, or as you grow they stay in the same place and disapprove of how you've changed, and you find something that makes you happy but at the consequence of division between you and your significant other. It's all you wanted to just be happy--is that too much to ask?--but all you ever get is trouble for it. And you've made plans to be with that person forever, or get married, and you still mean them, or at least you meant it back when you said it and you still want to mean it now. It wasn't just stories, that was your life you were planning. And you go from grand plans of happiness to a dreary, never-ending game of trying to make the other person react, when you know neither of you will ever really win; you're unequal forces against each other, but nothing ever gets settled. And all you remember is fighting and arguing to the point that you don't even feel like the same person before the thing happened that sent you down this path with them. Especially when they swore they loved you so much they would die for you, or that they couldn't live without you. But that's easy to say, and it's so much harder to show it, but it's shown by living for that person, every day keeping them in mind and communicating and being considerate, patient, sacrificing, unselfish, involved with their daily life, and really caring for them and their well-being. But that's so hard when you reach a point where you feel you're the only one doing the giving, or when you know you're not really living for them but you justify it because they're not really living for you... it's accusatory, it's asking if they will change to keep that promise they made to you. For me, this song could end either way; we don't know if his relationship actually dissolves or whether they make up and renew their promises. I'm inclined to believe it didn't work out, and they moved on because of the way people usually are, but on a good day... sometimes i believe in reconciliation. It's tough, but if you can do it you can get out of the situation this song is about... sorry for writing so much. |
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| The Used – Blood On My Hands Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yeah I have to agree with kaitlynvandort, it's "It's the me that I let you know" and "Straight from your eyes it's barely me," but who knows til we actually get the lyrics :) Thank you thank you thank you for putting these up so soon!!! | |
| The Used – Hard To Say Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this song means to me the "break up" between me and my best friend ashley: i wish things had gone better for us, but it was my fault. i made mistakes in our friendship and i took her criticism as attack instead of seeing i was wrong. we never really spoke again, and honestly my life has been different ever since then. it's been years now; its hard to swallow my pride and say i miss her but i do. visit my journal, i wrote a poem (of sorts) about it based on this song. |
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| Taylor Swift – I'd Lie Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i havent actually listened to the song yet, just read the lyrics, but i think the recycled lyrics are kinda interesting.... passenger seat, the colors in his eyes, runs his fingers through his hair, fake a smile, wishing he was mine, wake-up/make-up, he's beautiful, etc.... so you get some of the same images as fearless, teardrops on my guitar, i heart ?, you're beautiful, etc... |
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| The Spill Canvas – Appreciation and the Bomb Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| building on what eric_is_cool said, the bomb could be a metaphor specifically for the song itself, because the song is the method/canvas (if you will) by which he spills his emotion and thoughts. once he explodes and says all these things in the song, he can deal with the pain, so it is the answer. | |
| Bullet for My Valentine – Hit the Floor Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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im going to combine the two most popular theories and say its about rape AND murder. in retaliation for whatever he thinks she did to him, he rapes her then murders her. but good lord people, its not funny and its not cool. even if he is only being figurative and he is using words to lay out a story of rape and murder to describe how he assaults her in their relationship and is so mad that he wants to kill her, domestic violence is not a way to solve problems. abusive relationships suck. to me it sounds like she is completely unaware of what was going to happen. it sounds like she moved on "your face is alive and bright" and he has made whatever happened between them seem like a bigger deal than it is because he was thinking about it so much and got carried away with anger. then he takes it out on her, whether it is by actual rape or murder after the relationship, or whether it is figurative for him assaulting her while they are still in the relationship to make her pay. i liked this song a lot before i learned what the lyrics really were. now it just makes me feel sick. |
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| We the Kings – Check Yes, Juliet Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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yeah "kill the limbo" means that she needs to end the in-between state of their relationship: he knows she likes him, but she hasn't committed yet, leaving him hanging there not knowing what's going to happen; this intermediary lull is "being in limbo." as for "check yes," it is like he is passing her a note in class or whatever. think "Check Yes or No" by George Strait: "Do you love me, do you wanna be my friend? ... I think this is how love goes, check yes or no." |
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| The Spill Canvas – Natalie Marie and 1cc Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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oh and for the line: "a wide-eyed flutter and the violins, they swell" i have thought about it long and hard and the thing that makes the most sense to me is that in his mind, she looks at him wide-eyed [with love], and when she blinks, he sees her eyelashes as fluttering. whenever he sees her do this, his heart swells with feeling (him either falling in love with her or just loving her/falling in love with her all over again, like when you look at someone you love so much), symbolized by violins swelling (like in a movie when it gets romantic, and violin music fades in, making it sound all sappy and stuff hehe). it's like he's saying he sees her so clearly and this love creates such feeling in him to the point that it has to be real. |
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| The Spill Canvas – Natalie Marie and 1cc Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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so i am in complete agreement with InGunsWeTrust. for my own slight variation, i think this sort of schizophrenia is brought on by severe depression, and the only way he can cope is when he thinks of Natalie Marie, this fictional girl who helps him get through each day. after so long of replaying his creation in his mind, he thinks she is real. maybe he is periodically on drugs, and they help him to be with her even more realistically when he's on them; i don't know. somehow he gets to a hospital or a therapist (prehaps a therapist he has been seeing to help with his depression), and this therapist has not known of Natalie Marie until now, when the singer finally mentions her. the therapist realizes that he is imagining her and that he believes she's real at this point. the therapist tries to let him know that Natalie Marie is not real, but the singer won't have anything of it and thinks that the therapist is against him and is trying to take her away from him. he knows she is real, he just has to figure out how to show the therapist she is real to keep her from being destroyed (there's a method to my madness, if only i could find it i could make you safe.) this is where i think of Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, where Jim Carrey's character is trying to put Kate Winslet's character into memories in other parts of his brain so that she won't be eradicated haha. but, like that movie, they do find her and take her away from him by making him doubt she's real. in a last desperate attempt to produce her for them, he tries to actually cut open his own head to dig her out and show her to them. he is not htinking straight, so this makes perfect sense to him; it is the method to his madness. this is where i get this picture in my mind of him sitting on the floor, blood streaming down his hands as he holds them to his head, and he is stunned that he can't find her. kindof like Russel Crowe in A Beautiful Mind when he tries to dig the microchip out of his arm in that psych ward haha. he has injured himself severely. so they have to hospitalize him in a bed, stitch him up,hook him up to an IV and give him medicine to knock him out and help him heal--thus the 1cc. he is literally in stitches because of her, or he could even be, in his unstable condition, "in stitches" as in laughing to himself about his believing she were real--the weird sort of laughing where you're crying with grief at the same time. ok so i know that was a pretty detailed image of the song as i see it, and sorry for all the movie references. but i think it's relateable to someone even without schizophrenia, such as when you have had love from someone and then all of a sudden you don't. you know it was real because it happened, but then you start to doubt your sanity because now that person acts completely opposite to you as if you imagined the whole thing. i would go insane because of that. |
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| Josephine Collective – Living Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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this song is all about cocaine addiction. i know the band confirmed it in an interview, but just look at the lyrics. it couldn't be about a relationship: the cousin's mother in the ditch, bright white=cocaine, strung out, almost getting clean. itchy arms, nosebleed, blood rushing to the head and intense through the heart, all results of the drug. the second verse is all about how it feels and the effects it has on the body. it "strolls our veins so effortless and keeps us entertained and interested," its an easy way to escape the depression he feels from misery of life--he describes that in the chorus (about the sun and gray sky)--and cocaine makes life seem fun and interesting again. and lovers' song refers to his feeling toward the drug; addiction is like a relationship because he loves it and keeps coming back to it, and yet he tries to break up (get clean) when it goes on for too long and he knows its not good for him or his depression. who would have known that all that stuff is packed into this poppy ubeat sounding song. its actually depressing if you think about it! |
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| Third Eye Blind – Another Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| yeah i take that back. he does say "can't let goes." | |
| Paramore – When It Rains Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| ah yes. TWLOHA definitely goes with this. | |
| *NSYNC – Digital Get Down Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Well, IdigMusicHowBoutU16, the fact is that a lot of us WERE 12 with virgin ears when this song/cd came out. So it really is that disgusting because with such a younger female audience, nsync still chose to release a song about cybersex. They should have been more responsible than that; it was a disappointment to see that they did not respect their audience more. I know that by using sexual content they were trying to show their maturity and all, but this was definitely the wrong way to do that--there are plenty of cleaner ways. And also, i'm sure we all know that sexual experience DOES NOT equal maturity... this song helped them go downhill and lost them a lot of business and fans in the end. | |
| The Spill Canvas – This Is For Keeps Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To The_Steg, (or anyone else who is wondering), the last four lines do go along with the vampire theory b/c the sea and drowning are metaphorical: the sea can be thought of as blood, and drowning is basically immersing herself in the life of a vampire, and vampires drink blood, so it's like plunging into a life surrounded by blood to live, etc. She will follow him into the vampire life, which will immortalize her--as well as immortalize the two of them together. They are not talking about suicide, for that would completely undermine his desire to be with her for more than forever. I'm surprised no one has really addressed these lines.... they are awesome. |
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| The Format – I'm Ready, I Am Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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man i am feeling this song right now... the last line he says in the song is "this time i feel i'm just not getting through." |
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| Third Eye Blind – Another Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i think it's "now i'm holding onto chemicals" not "now i'm holding onto can't let goes" | |
| Josephine Collective – Crack My Heart Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| oh and i like their music... but why are their lyrics so demented?? | |
| Josephine Collective – Crack My Heart Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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yeah i thought it sounded like held my brush to his head. umm i had trouble making sense of this song when i thought it was one speaker, so i thought maybe there were two. it makes more sense-- one guy is in her basement on the cold floor waiting for her (the verses), and another guy is gone who realizes that there is someone who is following/waiting for her, and he wants to protect her (the chorus). but something happened to the guy she was with that causes him not to be there [at the moment?], and so the other guy is waiting for her to notice him because he wants to treat her right. like a fight between the two for the girl. i dont know, thats just a shot in the dark because i havent listened to it that much. but what would mourning signify?? |
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| The Used – Into My Web Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| its about his being a pedophile | |
| Paramore – When It Rains Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i dont think this song is talking about it because she uses present and future tense when talking about that person, so it doesnt make sense that they'd be dead: "why can't you STAY just long enough to explain... you WILL SLEEP til may... you WILL SAY that you dont ever see the sun anymore... TAKE these chances to turn it around... we WILL MAKE it somehow... you CAN TAKE your time..." etc. so, to me this song IS about depression ("you don't see the sun anymore" = the person cannot be happy/all the joy has gone out of their life, hence life is dark and gloomy to them). "when it rains/on this side of town/it touches everything" could represent depression coming on ("rain"), and that person affects everyone around them (unintentionally). even the singer is sad-sounding in the song--she is melancholy because it has affected her too. i dont know if she is referring to a friend or a lover, but both work. if hayley is speaking of a friend, "i never saw it coming" could refer to the friend looking like she has her life together on the outside, but inside she was hurting and hayley wonders how she could have missed the signs; and, now that the friend's problems have become evident, hayley asks "how could you do it" with the meaning of "how could you let depression happen to you." this makes sense when you think that with everything the friend has going on for herself (hence her life looking perfectly pulled together) it doesnt make sense that she would let something get her down and want to hide from life. so she wants to help her get out of the situation, saying she can take all the time she needs and that she (hayley) will give her as much of her (hayley's) time as she needs until she sorts things out. but for the moment, the friend is running away from all help ("running away from all the ones who love you"), so hayley advises her to "take these chances to turn it around" while she can and while others are there offering their hands to help her. same/similar thing for if she is referring to a lover: if she didnt see it coming, then you could assume that they were happy together. now that he is depressed, he is pulling away from her and retreating into himself where no one can get to him ("bottom of the blackest hole", bottling all of his troubles inside of himself. he won't talk to her about it and she wants to be there supporting him ("take your time, take my time"), but he won't talk to her about the issues he is facing: "why can't you stay just long enough to explain." but he just says he will be back later when he can be happy again: "you'll sleep til may." and she is confused because she thought he was happy with her so she never even thought a thing like depression could happen to him. so i dont know if it was a friend or a lover, but i think it is pretty interchangeable--what i said pretty much goes for both potential situations despite my paragraph division and separation of the depressed person's identity. i think this is such a beautiful song... my favorite on the album. |
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| Story of the Year – Sidewalks Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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umm.. i always thought it was "eighteen blue, twenty-one RED" not GRAY. sounds like there's a "D" at the end of the word. reason that's so important is b/c i have always loved staring out windows that overlook a road, and the car colors i notice most are blue and red. |
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| The Used – Smother Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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there's a pretty awesome demo of this song on their myspace and the bridge is actually different. instead of: When I'm alone time goes so slow I need you here with me and how my mistakes have made Your heart break Still I need you here with me Baby I'm here he says: i chose you, chose you i see forever i know the road is long, but baby i'm, baby i'm here |
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| Matchbook Romance – Promise Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| hmmm... instead of "why does hello feel like goodbye" i always thought he says "why does alone feel like goodbye"... everytime i had to be apart from my boyfriend so he could work, i felt like i had said goodbye to him--we are so close, that is how alone felt. unfortunately, i have gotten a little more used to being alone b/c now we are long distance... this song reminds me so much of when i had to leave him to go back home and we had all these plans to get married and just start over together... i have just gotten really into this song and i am sending it to him right now to make him smile at remembering. a part of me is always missing when he is not here, i miss him so much and this song is my promise to him that i will never let him go. only a little longer til we get married baby, and i will start over with you and take your hand and never let you go!! | |
| Matchbook Romance – Promise Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Spazguitar306- "is it just me, or would TBS, Matchbook Romance, My Chemical Romance, Senses Fail, Early November, and The Used make the perfect tour. " awesome awesome!!... the used is my fav... |
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| The Used – Pain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| oh this song is so awesome he sang it with so much emotion at the concert... love it | |
| The Used – Pieces Mended Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| i totally thought this song was about a broken relationship. when he says "lie to me and try to say you never will" i took it to mean that she lied to him when she said she never would--that she went back on her promise to marry him because she changed.... but then i realized it is the complete opposite, like a double negative... they are so sure of each other that he knows they will marry, and they will stay the same (in love), and it seems ridiculous that they would ever end up apart. i thought of it as kindof like a dare to lie to him and say she'll change and never marry him. | |
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