| Phoenix – 1901 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song has all these historical references and stuff but what they all hint at is the games we play with those we are interested in. Every verse in this song speaks to me because I do such similar things. I figure people out I sort out all the different things they say. You eventually see the "elliptical patterns" someone goes through, how they react to situations and stuff. I personally love to entice the idea that to succeed we need a miracle, and when things work out it feels so good but if you get caught up in someone else's game you forget what you're doing, forget to fallout of the interaction. The chorus is funny because it's a tease, "lie down, it's summer" You can just let this person you have attracted just fall into your arms, everything has worked out. It wasn't a miracle that just happened but, you know this, but this person you have attracted thinks it is. They will be everything you want them to be, a miracle has happened that they are with you. But naturally you wouldn't tell them you have been working to get here. AHH! It's all so perfect. The game with women is so much fun =P |
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| Rise Against – The Dirt Whispered Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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OK as for meanings... I think the song is set by the second stanza "echoes of songs still lurk on distant foreign shores, where we danced just to please the gods that only ask for more," This definitely is relating back to older times when life was simpler and not so jumbled with economic and environment issues. In the song I think dirt is kind of a symbol of simpler times. I think the image of a girl listening to the ground is more a metaphor for this generation being almost scared to enter into this big world with all these issues facing us. The first stanza is us asking for a simpler world but the dirt made not a sound. "but still we give ourselves to this we can't spend our lives waiting to live" Then the concrete stanza. Concrete represents industrialization and well generally in this song I think the modern world. But under the concrete is the dirt, the earth, so give up on our desires of a simpler world and walk on the concrete representing the modern world. But we still want to slip between the cracks down to the dirt. "but that was then, and this is now I'll make it up to you somehow" This more emphasizes the simpler vs modern contrast. The chorus about praying on a cold night but daylight isn't was she wanted relates to how at night in bed perhaps we can dream or pray for this desire but daylight comes and isn't what we wanted. The bridge, when looked at from this perspective makes sense as well. The final image of the dirt whispering back implies a change in the world to make it simpler. After writing this I realized that this is merely the meaning I saw but the simpler world vs modern world can be replaced with any kind of clash between old times and new times that are harder to coop with. -Feelin Deeper |
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| The Fray – Over My Head (Cable Car) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I really like what jake0112 said about it, that last verse i think sets up the canyon, cable car metaphor for their relationship. I picture a huge canyon representing each of them and the cable car as their relationship. She is on his side after he confronted her about something. They get into a fight, she storms away onto a departing cable car, as it's departing. He thinks about how he has now become part of her past, get angry about everything that he's done for her and the effort put into thinking aobut her, and then jumps onto the cable car. They "lose sight of the ground" beneath them and The argument continues until the two bring down the cable car and thus their relationship. Those are my thought on that last verse. |
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| The Fray – Over My Head (Cable Car) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I really like what jake0112 said about it, that last verse i think sets up the canyon, cable car metaphor for their relationship. I picture a huge canyon representing each of them and the cable car as their relationship. She is on his side after he confronted her about something. They get into a fight, she storms away onto a departing cable car, as it's departing. He thinks about how he has now become part of her past, get angry about everything that he's done for her and the effort put into thinking aobut her, and then jumps onto the cable car. They "lose sight of the ground" beneath them and The argument continues until the two bring down the cable car and thus their relationship. Those are my thought on that last verse. |
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| Everlast – Put Your Lights On Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think Lori kinda got it. The more I listen to it, the more it seems to be talking about the things inside we're afraid or ashamed of. We all have to put the lights on inside us and look at who we are and see if this is how we really want to live and be. Religion tells us that we have nothing to fear because God (or whoever you pray to) will be there for us, but regardless it's so tough and scary to look at who we really are. Children are already innocent from sin in this song, so they leave their lights on, everyone else can't help but sin, we need to turn our lights on and repent for who we are, put light on the monster inside each of us. -Under his bed has the imagery of a place that rarely sees light, the monster/ sins in us, don't get thought about cause we don't like to think about it. -Everlast must have been thinking about how it took a near-death experience to really see how we need to look at our life, so why now write a song to tell everyone body about it. -"hey now" we need to take responsibility and repent for our sins instead of ignoring and hiding the light from them. |
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| Santana – Put Your Lights On Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think Lori kinda got it. The more I listen to it, the more it seems to be talking about the things inside we're afraid or ashamed of. We all have to put the lights on inside us and look at who we are and see if this is how we really want to live and be. Religion tells us that we have nothing to fear because God (or whoever you pray to) will be there for us, but regardless it's so tough and scary to look at who we really are. Children are already innocent from sin in this song, so they leave their lights on, everyone else can't help but sin, we need to turn our lights on and repent for who we are, put light on the monster inside each of us. -Under his bed has the imagery of a place that rarely sees light, the monster/ sins in us, don't get thought about cause we don't like to think about it. -Everlast must have been thinking about how it took a near-death experience to really see how we need to look at our life, so why now write a song to tell everyone body about it. -"hey now" we need to take responsibility and repent for our sins instead of ignoring and hiding the light from them. |
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