| Blackfield – 1.000 People Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| When you have lost the one you love forever, your own success can feel like a mockery, and the loving again feels like a betrayal of the memory of the one you've lost. For me this is an eloquent and direct description of being haunted by grief. | |
| Blackfield – Hello Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me this is about the first months of the long road, when her loss is fresh and the crushing grief of her death is consuming you, as your shattered shell sits alone in a silent room, unmoving, the hours passing unnoticed. The prospect of facing the long years ahead, empty and alone, is terrifying. The hollow inside where her soul was torn away from you is a burning agony. You ache to follow her into the unknown, held to the world only by a sense of obligation to the family and friends who have already endured too much loss. Romantic? No. This is the face of grief, and the cost mortals pay for love. May it be many, many years before your bill comes due. |
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| Radiohead – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this is a song about anticipating a reunion with the one you love. | |
| Jeff Buckley – Lover, You Should've Come Over Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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for Jeff I suppose the opening reference was a metaphor for the loss of his and Rebecca's relationship. For me, this is no metaphor. No song has more effectively expressed the love, grief, loss and regret I've lived with these 20 years. Not something to listen to in public. |
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| Vienna Teng – Passage Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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There is no "moving on." The "silent eye of warmth and word" is the sympathy of friends and family that is empty and meaningless during the shock of the first few days. "trembles with the sobs/whose absence seems absurd" refers to sobs of true grief. Not just emotional pain, but physical pain like someone scooped out your stomach. Muscles clench in spasims, breath will not come, and you feel as though you will collapse into the hollow left within your soul. Because grief is not a presence, it is an absence. You can build around that absence and "crawl blinking into the sun, but the hollowness is always there, ready to pull you in. Three months in, and the shock becomes emptiness and despair. But it isn't "tomorrow comes, hold on a while" that keeps you alive, its an unwillingness to compound the hurt for everyone else. Hope for strength comes later. I read an interview and she actually just imagined all of this, which seems incredible too me. Its been two decades for me, and I have married and am even expecting my first child. But there was no "moving on" of "getting over it;" it still hurts just as much as that bright sunny fall day in 1987. But over time, you gain the ability to hold back the hollowness, and balance that with pleasure, love and joy again. which is that much more meaningful with the contrast. For me, that is the message of the song. That the loved ones we loose are always with us, caring for us and wishing joy and love to balance the loss. That this is a life-long process, and that feeling happiness does not refute your love for the one you lost but reaffirms it. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Start of Something Beautiful Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this is a song about anger, hurt, unrequited love and grief. Deadwing is really one story, and many of the clues are in other songs, but the first verse seems to be about lasting grief: "Always in my thoughts you are/Always in my dreams you are/I've got your voice on tape/I've got your spirit in a photograph/Always out of reach you are" This last verse seems to be a reference to the girl always having been out of reach even while she was alive. The next verses seem to deal with the hot-and-cold nature of the relationship: "cold inside my arms you are/simple like a child you are" The next verse seems to be a distinct memory of a high-point in their relationship "I remember when you took my hand and led me through the rain"; the last sums up his lasting feelings: "down inside my soul you are" the chorus is pretty clear: "The more I show the way I feel the less I find you give a damn" But the last lines make it most clear: "Innocent the time we spent" refers to his feelings and "Forgot to mention we're good friends" refers to her insistence that they remain "just friends" after they've been together. The last two lines are the singer speaking of himself: "You thought it was the start of something beautiful? Well think again." The next verses may be about betrayal: "Mother lost her looks for you/Father never wanted you" could be her story of pain that she shared with him that led him to let down his guard with her. Then she turns away from him: "I trust to love and then I find you never really felt the same/Something in your heart so cruel" And yes, I'm probably transferring my own crap to the song, but that's one of the great things about music: it can mean many things to many people. |
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