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| The Cardigans – Carnival Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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If you listen to it slowed down the song has a self-effacing tone to it as though it's about a person who's always having to wait for someone she loves rather than being able to attain him. It's as though she sees the world outside as being really bright and alive and she wants the object of her affection to be the one to take her into it but for whatever reason she's full of either self-doubt or a lack of trust in that affection being redirected her way. She wants him to confirm her feelings, she says he'll never show but it's not specified whether or not he's literally not going to show up or show his feelings, I'd like to think it's the latter and that her song is pleading but in an endearing way. There's a demanding tone to accompany this with the "come on and love me now" which is sort of an indication this romance doesn't have her completely swooning without a second thought, she has strong feelings and she wants him to take her up on them with a bit more gusto because she really believes in it. |
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| Stina Nordenstam – Hopefully Yours Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song seems to track the vivid sensations and feelings usually associated with a person in love. "Hopefully Yours" is almost a stream of consciousness with a sense of both immense hope & doubt, stringing all the sensations together. There's so much woven into this relationship that the prospect of it failing seems humiliating but little flutters of tenderness make her feel too alive, too passionate to hold herself back any longer. It's a song that lingers around the possibilities but is delicate and breathy enough to at least acknowledge that she is completely enamored and taken by this person, undoubtedly in love and just waiting for the go ahead. |
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| Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry On Their Own Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is about conquering pessimism and depression after a break up and learning to be high-chested about the future. But it notes a certain tragedy, almost contradicting itself when she says that with his exit the sun goes down, I think it actually bleeds into the next track which is "Wake Up Alone" which talks of bathing in moonlight (the dark after the sunset she references). She's repititive and almost insistant that she'll be okay and that she can handle herself and in that she seems to hope to manage on her own at least even if she thinks of him longingly. She cares for him but she has to maintain herself and shove this misery elsewhere, even with regret and angst she knows ultimately she has herself.
There's a narrative, this whole album seems like the anatmony of her relationship with her now husband, it's strange how chronological it is. There's the fooling around, minor antics, playful temporary estrangement of sorts, abandonment, despair, a revival, a small relapse, a sudden rekindling, and then a much more positive outcome.
Though now that her love life has been pieced back together, the drug abuse hasn't been explored to it's full extent... :(... maybe next album. |
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| Sarah McLachlan – Dirty Little Secret Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think this song is much more so about having to love someone in a chaotic, dettached world and how agonizing that can be. It seems to be about a man concerned with his reputation, caught in the vanity of a world that doesn't truly value him as a whole person and the love a woman has for him regardless. But in spite of that, based on the place by which she is stranded she doesn't know how to reach him but keeps herself from the chaotic world around her waiting for him to return to her. |
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