| Blur – Resigned Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is about (Damon) who has too much self-consciousness, who needs someone's love, and keep on picturing it, and these thoughts keep on haunting (him). He feels powerless and cannot control his emotions, hence the hatefulness and the stupid things. He's resigned that there's only one person who can fill his blank heart. Firstly, he tried to think about many substitutes, thought too much about them, said stupid things, and then understood that these things he wanted too much could not replace the one and only one. He tries to forget about this one person, but then he's resigned that whether he'll try to get this person back, whether he'll remain unhappy. This person is beyond reach for now, like an ideal on a piedestal. The second verse seems to show that for now, as he's lonely and without any perspectives for a change (resignation), he tries to catch every little thing that would make him feel better. Then, after a while, he might forget to breathe someday, and he'll see what happens. His helplessness trully demotivated him, as well as his thoughts that makes him turn in round, in this vicious circle of understanding why this one person, the only one who could fill his blank heart, left him or didn't want to be with him. Marvellous song, my favourite of the band. The atmosphere is so sweet, which is paradoxal, as the words are bitter. My identification with this song is utter. I'm totally resigned to the fact, that only she can fill my blank heart. But she's far away. |
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| Led Zeppelin – The Rain Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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In The Rain Song, lyrics are a beautiful mask which dissimulates the crucial thing in all that, emotions. When you listen to a song and unconsciously it's linked with an atmosphere, a moment, a situation, then you can feel that your soul is taken off your body, only bound to your heart. Artists' role is to communicate emotions in many different ways, but only few manage. The Rain Song and Ten Years Gone, are my favourite Led Zeppelin songs. But what's weird is that when I asked my father what are his favourite Led Zep tracks, he answered the same, unaware that I shared his tastes. And so we had a talk and it ended up that all the other songs, "hits" like Kashmir, Whole Lotta Love ect... are more about the form and not the content, that these ones are either perfect nor avangarde, but it's not filled with so deep emotions as you have in TRS and TYG, which are about love, the harmful one, which is to me the most powerful emotion. |
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