| The Killers – Mr. Brightside Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Jealousy, is what this song is about. How it twists around in our heads and turns us into crazy, irrational beings driven purely by intense emotions. I couldn't really identify with this song until very recently when I experienced my first bout of intense jealousy. "Gotta be down because I want it all" When you love someone that much and you want everything from them, it's going to get you down when they're with someone else. I absolutely love the line "it started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?" I think this embodies how most relationships start out, a casual kiss at a party somewhere or something, a hook up that is just fun and innocent and sweet, a kiss. But then emotional attachment forms and it becomes much more than a kiss, emotional attachment can be incredibly painful when it is unrequited. As in this song. I think it's about a couple that broke up and he's still in love with her but she's with someone new. "Destiny is calling me" He thinks he is destined to be with her. "I just can't look it's killing me and taking control," he doesn't want to see it because it makes him sick and takes control of all his emotions, turning him into this jealous being but then this is followed up by the later line of "Open up my eager eyes" because sick as it sounds, there is something fascinating about it, it hurts like all hell, but you want to see it, you have to see it, there is this person you love and you love them so much you want to see everything they do, you want to see them.... I don't know. i really like this song though. It totally embodies jealousy. |
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| The Raconteurs – Yellow Sun Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's totally about a werewolf....always thought so, always will | |
| The Raconteurs – Together Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This was the song that my husband and I danced to at our wedding in the summer of 06. I love this song and it will always remind me of our beautiful wedding and honey (sunset into which you sail)....I always loved the "so we should write em again in wet cement" bit...unfortunately, it's now bittersweet to me as I am currently go through a divorce....oh well, it's still a nice song. | |
| The Raconteurs – These Stones Will Shout Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Definitely about a relationship. There is a tone of desperation in lyrics, desperation, passion and insistence. The singer clearly is enamored with whoever he is singing to. But I think that he is unsure about the feelings of the "you" in the song. It's like he wants her, but doesn't want to force it---he wants her to want him. And for some reason there is confusion or perhaps she has an emotional wall built up to protect herself from being hurt, or maybe it's a forbidden love type situation. He wants her to want him, and take the lead. The bit about the stones---"below" him, makes me picture him lying on his back trying to hold back these stones. I think the stones represent his unbridled feelings & emotions, and he is trying to keep his composure, keep his own wall and hold them in, but if she doesn't take control soon, he is going to burst and his feelings will take control. Definitely a song about walls and wanting someone but wanting them to want you first. Walls and insecurities. An unwillingness to let your emotions get the best of you and dive into something which may hurt you. Love the song. Reminds me of my current relationship. |
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| Jack Johnson – If I Had Eyes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song totally reminds of my situation right now. I was in a long relationship, and even married the guy. But then I split up with him, and I really hurt him. But I thought I was over him and started a new relationship, but now I realize that I'm not over him. I'm just as in love with him as ever, but we're in the process of getting a divorce. And I've really screwed things up now, I thought the time apart would heal me and I would be over him, but like the song says "sometimes time doesn't heal" and I like the part that says "While we fall in or out of love" because I've gone back and forth with him now. And "I doubt I'm gonna win you back when you got eyes like that that won't let me in," as he should've, he has gotten over me, he's not there emotionally anymore, he won't let me in. So it's really gonna be a challenge to win him back. "You’ve got hungry eyes that just can’t look forward Can’t give them enough but we just can’t start over" He doesn't want to look toward a future with me, and it's true that we can't start over....we have to incorporate all of our experiences into our future. "And if you could have tried to trust the hand that fed You would have never been hungry but you’d never really be" I like this part too....I don't really know how the "hand that fed" part fits in but maybe it's for me....if I had just trusted him and our relationship and not left then I wouldn't have to go through all this pain (hunger) but I wouldn't really be feeling, I wouldn't be as real (never really be) these experiences are crucial to me. I don't know, that's what it reminds me of today. It's a happy sounding song though, it gives me hope :) |
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| Cold War Kids – Hang Me Up to Dry Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song. My favorite it line: "All mixed up in the wash, hot water bleeding our colors." I think it speaks volumes about how when you are in trouble (aka hot water), your true feelings, "true colors" come out. Mixed up in the wash, they are certainly in a sticky situation...and it is exposing their true feelings. It's easy to hide your true feelings when everything is going fine, but when trouble sinks in...out comes some unpleasantness... | |
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