| Imogen Heap – Speeding Cars Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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As with any good song, there are a million different ways to interpret this. Here's mine. One day my sister came to me after a petty fight, crying, and telling me she was so sorry for what she had done to me when we were children. She said if there was anyone in the world that she had truly wronged, it would be me. She was so upset, but it had been a long time, and I no longer even considered her the same person who had done those things. We were young; she didn't know what she was doing. That didn't mean the wounds were healed, or that what happened didn't still affect me in ways I couldn't even understand. But she was okay by me. People are so fragile, so easily hurt, and sometimes we seriously wound each other just by accident. The wounds don't go away, but nobody is the devil there. It's just part of life. There there, baby, it's just textbook stuff; it's in the ABCs of growing up. None of us were angels, and you know I love you. It's okay by me. It was a long time ago. |
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| Neko Case – I Missed The Point Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the language of this song describes being surrounded by the violence and chaos of a storm and feeling, not threatened, but loved. I like to think that it's describing the storm as a love song from a god (or God) to Neko, or the listener, and that though she doesn't get all the words, she at least understands that much, and is grateful. "I have lightning if the stars dry out to guide me" I think that line introduces with a bang the idea of love in the storm. Stars are usually seen as guides, comforts, sources of beauty and wonder. But in the very first line, she seems to say that she doesn't mind if they are gone; She has the lightning. Needless to say, lightning isn't usually seen as being quite so benign and comforting as stars. And yet, to the narrator, it is just as good or better. I'm a little caught up on the line "I have soft clay to knit my bones astride". It's one of my favorites, and yet I'm not sure what she means by it. My mind is making vague allusions to man being formed out of clay, which would solidify the idea that the song is sung to God. I don't know. By the way, it is my personal opinion that when she talks about the clouds singing "to me / Of wonders unseen", she's referring to thunder. For what that's worth. The last stanza, "I'm sorry..." and so on, makes me think of the girl standing in the middle of the rain and storm, like a girl lavished with words and gifts, giggling and saying, "Sorry, I don't get it, I don't get it! But thank you." It's a strange song. On the one hand, there's the violence and catastrophe (good word, RossJackson) of the storm. But it's treated as no big deal, even sweet, like a dog that enthusiastically licks its owner's face. In many ways, I think this may be the cutest song Neko has written. Figures that it'd be about something like thunderstorms. :D |
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| Neko Case – At Last Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree with persimmon on this line: "Relation now means nothing/Having chosen, so defined" She never said the place she's talking about is where she was born, or that the ones she refers to as her "people" are the ones she was born among. I think of someone having traveled a long way, homeless, and having finally come to a place and a people to call their own. |
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| Nerina Pallot – Damascus Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm a little surprised so few people seem to feel they know what this song means. It seemed very clear to me: That it's about choosing atheism, even though you believe in God. "On the road to Damascus they fell" references the conversion of Paul. Then she goes on to say, "I saw the light... but it never saw me. Conversion has just left me heathen," and, "I've been to Damascus as well." She seems to be saying (probably metaphorically) that she's had an experience like Paul's, so that she /knows/ God is real. But despite that knowledge, she can't follow God, because God--the light--never saw /her/, never paid her or her life any attention. It doesn't work for her. And she knows she'll go to hell for not following God, so hey--"On to a mecca of earthly delights." ...It's a little hard for me to try and explain what each bit means, although I suppose I could. It's describing a lifestyle, a fight of beliefs, that I know quite well because I live it. The only bit I'm not sure about is the first verse, because I'm not sure where it fits with the rest. I can only assume it's personal--probably she's talking to someone, a friend, who's had a similar experience. That's how I read all this, anyway, though I'm not familiar with her lyric style--this is the only song I've heard of hers! (I'll be fixing that soon.) |
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