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The Meg And Dia Band – Santa Barbara Lyrics 17 years ago
This song has a really deep meaning to me; It can be taken many,many different ways, too, though this is just my interoperation

Pray for them
I often loose track
So I took a drag
of my first cigarette
and I found my head
[Turning to drugs and alcohol during hard times.]
Roll down the dumps
of twenty seventh street
[Living threw our simple mundane lives; dealing with sorrow.]

I drew a sketch
with lipstick and sidewalk
of Newports edge
Legoblock cliffs
and an ocean that doesn't
deserve the sounds of silence
I'd swear on a dead artists grave

An ocean that doesn't diverse the sounds of silence, like..A sorrow that doesn't deserve death; like, knowing you've done something terrible; and then feelings as if you can't forget about it because you're forgetting about what you did to the people that it effected.

I found a spot
where the drunk never got to

Finding a place where your happy enough with yourself that you don't' feel the need to be drunk; or thinking that your like two different people; when your drunk; and when your not; and never getting drunk; or high in one certain place.

And it rocks me gently silent, silent I never surface
then it doesn't matter
Hold my breath
It's silent, silent, now

Wanting to kill yourself over what your doing now; and what you've done in the past;

Diligent
Escape by the water
Not sick of it

Now; using What she said "If I never surface than it doesn't matter" Its like she tried to kill herself; and then realized that that wasn't the right thing to do even though she still wishes she could

It only gets harder
That's no excuse

Living through everything; whether its hard or not; because it doesn't matter how bad your life is; there's someone who's got it a lot worse.

to block all the cliches and
reason for kicks

The sorrow she was living threw blocked out all the bliss in her life.

He strokes her hair
both sitting on sand
and her shoulders bare
nothing to demand of them

I'm not really sure what to make of it; for some reason it reminds me of living threw an abusive relationship; but then finding someone much better? I don't know...

laying back on a lonely stone wall
and passersby look passed it all

Knowing not to assume that people know how messed up your life is; because to everyone else your just another person on the street...

I found a spot
where the drunk never got to
And it rocks me gently silent, silent If never surface
then it doesn't matter
Hold my breath

I found a spot
where the drunk never got to
It rocks me gently silent, silent If never surface
then it doesn't matter
Hold my breath
It's silent, silent, now

Now; this could be taken as suicide; or forgiving the horrible things you've done in your life; as mentioned with the ocean...

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