| Jason Mraz – Love For A Child Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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How he would like to believe it was all about love for a child means, I think, that a lot of decisions parents make when they're getting divorced revolve around their children. A lot of couples stay together just for their kids, but also a lot of times they separate because they think that's what's best for their children. I'm relating to this from experience -- how it's easy to be ignored, especially when you're younger and your feelings are not exactly taken that seriously. The parents are all like, "We're doing this for you, we both love you so much and we just want you to always be happy," that it makes the kid feel guilty, and then confused when the parents kind of ignore the kid because they're dealing with their own divorce issues, legal and emotional. "Working the floor" is totally what happens during divorces, especially at the very beginning. Two Christmases, two birthday cakes, and the ability to keep a lot of things private because there aren't as many people involved in your life as consistently. You're left to your own devices and encounter a lot of things that are above your maturity level, and looking back, even though it was nice to get away with shit, what you dealt with at such a young age seems really unfair and almost inappropriate. And in the end, people say it's for the best because they made certain decisions, like moving out, or custody rules, or paying for everything 50/50, because they want to be happy but most of all they want you to be happy because they love you. It would be nice to think that, that it all revolved around you because they both loved you so much, but in the end you realize that although they wanted you to be happy, a lot of the decisions were made for themselves and they unfairly affected you. |
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| Ben Kweller – Living Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I almost feel like this is from a parent to a child who is growing up. Basically though what Manda3eb said though. | |
| Jason Mraz – All Dialed In Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm trying to pick up on the flower references... does anyone have any ideas? I was thinking some sort of allusion to just like, beauty in the world or something. I don't know. |
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| Jason Mraz – God Rests in Reason Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is a more completed song of "God Moves Through You", which is what he wrote for his sister's wedding. The "God rests in reason" comes from a book called The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. A while ago while Mraz was traveling, he received this package of spiritual books from an anonymous sender simply telling him to pass it on when he was done, because they didn't belong to him. He dove into them and it led him to go to India and find himself spiritually. This is definitely a manifestation of the message he learned and now wants to give to his sister. It's really transcendentalist is that he's trying express that everything is part of something greater than human parameters: "well your children will not be your children maybe the daughter, the son of a beginning they'll come through your womb but not be coming from you they will be with you, but they do not belong to you" The rest of the song is really just consistent with that notion of an over soul, or a common, communal existence, love, heart, spirit. It doesn't have to be anti-Christian; that existence can be God, which I guess it is to him. This applies to all of us: We feel significant in our own lives because of our own experiences and wounds, and we're trying to impose order upon our life in our own little ways, but all the while we're being called by love to this greater existence. And what do you do? Accept it. Take it in. Jason Mraz is like... the Walt Whitman of music. But more perfect and nicer to women ;) |
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