| Hot Chip – Look After Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Oh this song is beautiful but it absolutely kills my soul. It makes me think of a boy who broke my heart. But I still love Hot Chip. This songs definitely articulates something I never could. |
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| Bon Jovi – (It's Hard) Letting You Go Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I've always thought that it was about someone trying to move on after their wife has died, from the line "leaving me to some organ grinder's lullaby", since an organ grinder is associated with death. And since the speaker wants to "burn down this place that we called home", and you make a home with your spouse. And especially since he "bet all he had" - when you get married you think it's forever, and he didn't consider that he'd have to move on from her. And then I read Arash's comment, about how Jon Bon Jovi wrote it for 'Moonlight and Valentino', which is all about moving on from her husband's death. |
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| Damien Rice – Coconut Skins Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| And, to me, coconut skins are like balls, if you get my drift. | |
| Damien Rice – Coconut Skins Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me, it's quite bitter, and it's a contrast with how upbeat it sounds. Maybe that's because I hear the lyrics and fit them to my situation but, this is what I think: It's like the person speaking had a relationship with the person concerned. The person concerned loves them, but they are with someone else. They are with them to not hurt them, they lie to them to make them happy. They're the kind of person who tries to make everyone else happy, who makes decisions based on everyone else: "you can brave decisions before you crumble up inside spend your time asking everyone else's permission" Then the chorus is really angry, and bitter. They're talking sarcastically, saying how the person concerned runs to God to make them feel better for the guilt they feel by lying to their partner. Then the next bit is the person talking saying how the person concerned can try and be there for their new girlfriend, but they won't be there entirely because they love the person talking. And they can wait until they get over the person talking, they can wait until they truely love the other person, but they'll end up old. They'll end up with something that could grow and breed other things "compost" to something dead and dormant "coal". And yeah. That's what I think. But, like I said, I'm fitting it to suit my own bitterness :) |
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