| Sparta – Tensioning Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
This song is about the difficulties of sustaining relationships over time. The narrator has had too many bad experiences that force him to believe it is inevitable that everything good comes to an end at some point, but he would like to believe in it. His partner believes this relationship is strong enough, and he himself hopes that his partner is right and able to fully convince him - with head and heart. Btw: Interesting connection to Jim Ward's song "Broken songs" which similarly deals with the bliss of beginnings and things becoming uninteresting over time. |
|
| Jim Ward – Broken Songs Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
Frontman17 is right, but I think it is not meant restrictedly to relationships. Also in terms of work, bands, music, etc. - in everything new you start there is a bliss of the beginning that is often difficult to sustain. Btw: There is an interesting connection to the Sparta song "Tensioning", where Jim sings the great line "the bliss of beginning replaced with an end". |
|
| Sleepercar – Fences Down Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
No interpretation so far? OK, i'll give it a try. Not that easy for a non-native speaker, though... I believe this song deals with Jim's mixed feelings about his home town El Paso when he decided moving back after the split of ATD-I and settle down. After travelling the world to find that at the end "it's all the same" and being in different places is not making him happier, he returns and falls in love with his hometown, "at fences down" - being in an emotionally weak disposition ("distraught by fortune, debranded by fame"). He feels lonely as there is not much around and many of his friends "skated north", left the city to find their luck somewhere else. But he knows, for him it was just an empty promise ("it seemed to good to be true"), and despite feeling lonely from time to time, this is the place where he wants stay. Does this make sense to you? Can the term "fences down" be understood like this? Best regards from Germany! |
|
| Thrice – Don't Tell And We Won't Ask Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Oops, sorry, I mixed up "sacred" with "sacrificed". But that doesn't change much in my interpretation, I guess... | |
| Thrice – Don't Tell And We Won't Ask Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
It's actually not easy to find the correct interpretation of this song or even to decide if there IS a clear interpretation. I cannot share the "abortion" interpretation. There are several verses that do not connect to this meaning, e.g. "blue blood" clearly stands for "nobility". The "poor/rich" interpretation is pretty clever and would be suitable, if the lyrics would stay on a highly metaphorical level throughout the whole song. But to me it is obvious, that the song actually DOES refer to Pres. Bush and the Iraq war - although many songs are over-interpreted in this way... The song was written in early 2003 - the actual time when the Iraq war was discussed and took place. This was something that emotionally concerned everyone at that time. If you listen to the song, the last lines are partly not printed in the booklet or diverge from what is written in the booklet. He sings: "don't we all know, life is sacred" before singing "don't we all know, we bleed the same red blood". This line makes it all clear: sacred lifes - this used to be and still is the main point of the Iraq war discussion! By the way, there is a parallels to "End Moraine" from Sparta, which was also written around that time. Sparta's song also leaves the meaning open till the end, when they get clearer, also referring to Bush and the war. |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.