| Andrew Bird – Tea and Thorazine Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| That's really nothing like how people with schizophrenia behave and actually an insulting imitation. Clearly, you don't know anything about the disease. | |
| Dead Man's Bones – Werewolf Heart Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think it makes a lot more sense if the last two lines are: "'Cause if the full moon comes, our love is done, So forever, towards dawn, we run". |
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| Coldplay – Violet Hill Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I believe that this song is about war and the collective of soldiers dying in war. I think the speaker is a soldier being deployed to fight in a war he doesn't believe in, and he's directing the song to a love he has back wherever he came from. "When the future's architectured By a carnival of idiots on show You'd better lie low" I think the reference is to a future architectured by world leaders who don't have concern for the troops or civilian casualties overseas. Chris Martin said in an interview with Rolling Stone that it's about deception in the media, and so I think it's about the news stations putting on a show and using propaganda to imply that the war is somehow beneficial. I have a theory that "lying low" might imply draft-evasion, but i don't think Chris Martin intended quite that strong a position. "I don't want to be a soldier Who the captain of some sinking ship Would stow far below If you love me Why'd you let me go?" I think that this is a slightly bitter but overall affectionate question to families of soldiers. I think that it's asking, "If you love me, why would you send me to my death, because I'm not ready to die." "I took my love down to Violet Hill There we sat in snow All that time she was silent still So if you love me Won't you let me know?" Violet Hill, being the stereotype for a battleground in this song, implies that he is taking his love to show her the suffering that goes on in the world. I think she is silent because she is in shock or deeply moved. And when he asks "If you love me..." at the end, he (the soldier) is trying to reaffirm that he had something worth dying for while he was alive, and that his personal suffering was not in vain. |
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