| Paul Baribeau – Brown Brown Brown Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| when i saw him in chicago, he said this song was about seeing the prettiest girl he's ever seen at a gas station. | |
| Paul Baribeau – When You Go Back To College Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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this song should be a lot more popular than it is. Does anyone know the tabs? |
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| Battles – Ddiamondd Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think that this song is about the betrayal and ruthlessness of the american dream. The speaker of the song is staring into this diamond, a symbol of success, wealth, and power. The speaker is trying to figure out the code to unlocking those ideas that are contained within the diamond. The speaker is attempting to figure out the secret to the american dream. He/she only ends becoming more and more confused by the refracting, reflecting, and diffracting beams of light inside the diamond, very similar to Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. Upon analyisis this diamond leaves more questions than answers and shows that thinking about power is just as corrupting as power itself. As a sidenote the lyricist of this song probably uses all of this mathematical vocabulary to confuse the reader. I know that sounds crazy, but think about it. The writer was attempting to confuse the reader just as much as the decoder, who are essentially the same - confusing, eh? - and that is why so many are perplexed by this song. The above paragraph is just a grope in the dark at the song's meaning. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – What Sarah Said Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"and it came to me then, that every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time." This first sentance of the poetry that is Ben Gibbard's lyrics seem to say how hard it is to understand that their might be no tommorrow. How it is human nature to waste time and not take into account that when death comes, there will likely be so many things that will be left undone, unaccomplished. This thought brings the speaker's mind back to his/her current location - the waiting room of the intensive care unit. The speaker thinks of the loved one that he'she is there to see and of all the things the dying one will never do. This likely suggest that the dying is young. the speaker begins to ration his breaths, both in the soon-to-be memory of his/her loved one-and what they will not do- and in the hope that if the speaker sacrifices of himself, that God might spare the life of the dying. The speaker realizes "the descending peak of the LCD" and knows that his/her loved one does not have much time left and that the speaker has been selfishly thinking away. This realization that the dying's life fleeting makes the speaker wonder if his/her memories of the dying will dwindle as well. This is shown when Ben sings "it stung like a violent wind that our memories depend on a faulty camera in our minds." But then, Gibbard says "I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all." This shows that the speaker has and epitome, discovering it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. It can be seen that this saying and Gibbard's lyric are very similar in format and meaning. The next three lines show that the speaker realizes that the lose being felt is universal and he/she should not be so arrogant to think that he/she is the only one to lose somebody close. But even that is not a painkiller to the greiver "'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room." And as the speaker is thinking all of this he/she realizes the slefishness they have exhibited. The speaker has been sitting in this waiting room not mourning the dying but himself/herself. And that if the dying truly was a loved one, the speaker would not be holding his/her head in the waiting room, but holding the hand of the dying in the patient's room. That true love is not crying because the soon-to-be dead will never be seen, talked to, kissed, or laughed with again; but that true love is forgetting those egotistical desires and seeing those you love off on their final journey. "Love is watching someone die." |
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