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| Mazzy Star – All Your Sisters Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The fact that she's being "caught" drinking of his wine implies that she's not really supposed to be. And then the whole devil bit feels like she's saying she's gonna absolutely blow his mind.
This is out of left field, but the song in general, especially with the sisters and hollowness thrown in there, feels like it's about jealousy.
That's all I've got ...
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| Sia – You Have Been Loved Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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No no no. She’s saying that he’ll be fine but she will not. She gave him every bit of her and can’t recover from that, but he will find someone good and be happy. “You took my very last hope away.” “And now I’ve drunk my very last beer with you.” She might forgive him and be less sad over time, but she’s not going to find love with someone else. And she’s over being angry “The bitterness and anger left me long ago” so I’m pretty sure she’s not calling him an asshole. Just accepting the fact that he damaged her. |
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| Sia – Lentil Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Dude, she blew it. She decieved him and left him for money. Now she's just left with: riches - what she left him for, pictures - memories of him or them, and stitches - her wounds inflicted by the choice she made. The line, "I'm makin' the most of what you send my way" sounds like a reference to alimony. She seems pretty sure that he'll take her back and thinks will go back to great. It almost never works that way, and I wonder if Sia intended it to be the hope she feels right before she's about to be crushed. Or maybe that's just me being pessimistic |
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| Ryan Adams – What Sin Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Amen to melancholyien. Definitely an affair.
Does the mountain, horses, flowers imagery remind anyone else of How Do You Keep Love Alive? I don’t know, they’re very different songs, but still. |
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| Abandoned Pools – Rabble Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I like the way he intermingles the gravity of the moment with the scenes of their surroundings. Like the world is just passing them by while he pours his heart out. I also like his vulnerability in the song. |
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| Matt Costa – Wash Away Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I agree with everyone, but I also think there's more to it. I think the image is that she's letting everything - their dreams, relationship, him - wash away while she chases her own dreams. She has stars in her eyes, chasing her wings, to fly away without him. She's giving it all up for some dream.
I kind of think that he doesn't think she'll reach her dreams though: her feet are frozen, she's blinded by the stars. I don't know. Sooooooo sad though. This song kills me. |
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| Jeremy Enigk – Dare a Smile Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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JE’s lyrics are SO hard to interpret, but I’m taking a crack at this one. He has a fundamentalist Christian background, which I think began during the Sunny Day Real Estate days. Then, he seemed to ease off the whole religious thing for a while. So I think that in this song, he’s worrying about god, eternity, his salvation, etc. In the first part he’s wrestling with afterlife stuff, then in the second part he elaborates on how much it’s tearing him up. In the third section, when he says, “all half read, words half said, politicians fill my head” I think he might be saying that he doesn’t know how to find the truth or who to trust. There are tons of people, including him, and including pastors/teachers in today’s fundamentalist movement who are relatively uneducated but speak with certainty, arguing against each other (like politicians), so it’s like, who do you trust and how do you know? So then “Am I safe?” would be referring to salvation, since they call it being saved. The last line is sad to me, “Can I run back to you?” but I have two interpretations of it. He feels like he’s drifted away from god and he either 1) wants to know if he can get his salvation back, or 2) misses the feelings he had in the beginning and wants that back, like it’s gotten complicated and he just wants the simplistic devotion to god back. Either way, it’s desperate and sad and I think a lot of us can relate. Poor guy. |
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