| Leonard Cohen – Bird on the Wire Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| My idea about that line is a description to say that he's feeling not in the right place. A knight from an old book, who is in this century, so in a strange world... But no idea if that's true.. | |
| James Blunt – You're Beautiful (UK Version) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| What do you mean with that?? | |
| Sinead O'Connor – The Emperor's New Clothes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I am wondering since a very long time what it exactly means, and especially what the story about the emperor's new clothes is, because I don't know that story, so thanks a lot circusjuggler for the explanation!! This comment of you I don't really understand: "This song is surely an ask of excuses from her to him." Because I have always thought something quite different, because of the next lines in the song: "If I treated you mean I really didn't mean to But you know how it is And how a pregnancy can change you" "Maybe I was mean But I really don't think so You asked if I'm scared And I said so" "Maybe it sounds mean But I really don't think so You asked for the truth and I told you" She seems to be changing from apologising and asking for forgiveness, into saying that she didn't anything wrong, and stating that she wasn't mean at all. (the first time she says: if I was mean, and apologises, the second one she's doubting if she was mean, and the last one sounds to me like: I wasn't mean, I just answered your question) Anyone has an opinion on this?? And only this little line I don't really get: "You said it was dangerous after Sunday And I knew you loved me" If someone can help me out on this? Really love this song btw, just like so many others of her... :D |
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| dEUS – Via Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| hmm, listening to this song again... starting to think it's about rape? | |
| dEUS – Hotellounge Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yeah, I gues about a prostitute who doesn't want to do the job, and hates it to be the subject of enjoy for men, but thinks this is her way to a "better life"... | |
| Nick Drake – Black Eyed Dog Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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@Flawedifnotfree, it strucks me as well when I listen to it. It is só "penetrating" (I'm sorry, this word feels strange, but I don't know a better one in english to say what I feel, this word was given by the dictionare, I guess it's clear what I mean?) and it makes me lose the ground beneath my feet... "I'm growing old and I wanna go home I'm growing old and I don't wanna know I'm growing old and I wanna go home." A try to express my feeling it gives me: he's growing old, so many uncertainties in his life, so many familiar, well-known things and ideas and people, who are gone now, who left him alone. Alone with his fears, withs his questions, anxieties... Life isn't anymore like when he was a little child and have a caring mother who comforts you and protects you... So he wants to go home. And that home refers obviously (imho) to death. He longs to falls together with the origin of all... death, total emptiness, total nothing.. "A black eyed dog he knew my name" Probably that black eyed dog is the "absoluteness", so he knows all, not only his name, but his thoughts, his fears, his past, what's in the little corners of his mind... So the man wants to go with the black eyed dog, because there (with that black eyed dog) he can find a shield... Sorry, this might sound not very clear, but this song gets so direct to my feelings, and to put words on that, it's harder than I thougt. I wanted to give it a try because it is such a strong song.. That effect is not only because of the lyrics, but also a lot, because the way Nick Drake sings it, especially the sentence: "I'm growing old and I wanna go home, I'm growing old and I don't wanna know..." |
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| Anathema – Lost Control Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I guess it's about havind no one who understands you, which drives you insane, and losing your mind. So he has to take pills in order to stay 'normal'... My impression is that he's got psychotic, because of the words, agony, lost control, can't sleep, bravest mask... It doesn't sound totally like depression to my. But I don't know to be honest.. The intro reminds me of the intro of the song from "Requiem For A Dream"... Those four notes who got repeated, I wonder if they are really the same as in that song... |
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| ABBA – S.O.S. Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I have a cover of this song from the levellers, that made me actually appreciate this song :-) | |
| Sinead O'Connor – Hold Back The Night Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yeah, she wants a nices, lighter life, instead of all these heavy, black feelings and intentions. But she can't reach that alone, she needs someone else to hold all this black things from her, so that she will be able just take the light, sunny things and enjoy it. And not have to worry about her 'night' because the other person is holding the night from her. And the other person, that can't be just anyone. Someone who really loves her, who is willing and able to hold her very dark night. 'Do you want to be these things, do you want to do that for me? But in fact, that doesn't really matter, 'cause if you want to be with me, if you want to love me, you don't have a choice, you WILL be my black night which I 'll put on you so I can be relieved for once and also enjoying nice and simple, positive things. The last verse I actually don't understand very well. |
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| Moondog Jr. – Waiting 'til You're Gone Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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oooooooh! Moondog Jr.! They're... Mmmmmmmmmm I love a lot of their songs, but this one feels so special. I can't really explain. It's just magic in it (but that 's for a lot of their songs actually ;) ) My feeling: about not being able of being yourself in your relationship, not being able of expressing yourself to the other one. Because she makes him feel so very week, so insecure about himself, it's like she has put a spell on him or something that makes him not being able to move. I'll be waiting 'til you're gone and then I'll do my things, say my things, scream, cry, sigh... "I'll be waiting 'til you're gone" that's what I do a lot of times whit people around, people can make situation so horribly difficult. "I can spend my life killing time" Just do things, no matter what, instead of being honest and say your thoughts or feelings |
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| Alanis Morissette – Not The Doctor Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree with emlem25.. The aim in a relationship should be reciprocity, both partners care for each other, can come with their sorrows and problems and pain to the other one, who listen and try to help or try to comfort the other one.. That is the ideal situation. And here one of both partners (I don't think if that's the women or the man is the most important issue here) is totally depending on the other one, asking to much care and help. And not doing the same back for the other one. So that one (the I person in the song) feels that she has to take care of the other one, like his mother, or like his doctor (when you go to the doctor he won't ask you for help, all his attention is about you. She feels that he wants her to be in the role of the doctor, but without paying her for all her care and help, and without caring that her energie, her engaging in that.. she has her limits (he doesn't care about that, because he expects that she's there for him even at hours when the doctor doesn't work (and has the time to rest) ) He wants her to be responsible for him, for his well-being. About the chorus: I guess the line "mind the empty bottle" just means that the dependent partner is 'empty' , has no power or courage in himself to drag himself through a hard time, or to help himself to make things better. "with the holes along the bottle" : the more you help him by supporting him and doing things for him, the more dependent you will make him. So it's pointless. YOU can't make him stronger that way, the energie keeps on flowing out of him. I guess the first - and most important thing - is that he has to glue together his holes, be someone on himself, not only depending on someone else for being someone. This line I don't really get: "I don't want to live on someday when my motto is last week" |
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| Reef – come back brighter Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't really get it. As a teenager, I put a lot of courage from this song, for fighting on in bad times and hard feelings. But now I guess I listen more carefully to songlyrics and there are a few things I don't see clear in this. So if anyone could help me: it would be very great! The basic idea I get from the song is: when you feel bad, when you are down, it doesn't help by just sitting and waiting for better times. You have to fight and make it better yourself. I don't know, is that right? But then, if I got that right, I don't see how these lines match in it: "sun hurts me, if I try to fight her" --> seems to say that if you're fighting against these things, that you just get disappointed? Or is the sun a metaphor for fighting impossible fights? And saying that you have to clear out the possible things that you can change? " I won't be sat here waiting for it, (or for you in the last chorus), so come and take me on" --> If his general message is that you have to take care of yourself and of your good times (or: lighten up yourself and get stronger), here he seems to ask this to another person and that seems contradictory for me... |
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| Ani DiFranco – Work Your Way Out Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think similarly as you starla, except I see it more about "yourself" instead of about somebody else. Start on the inside and work your way out, says to me: start from what you feel and believe and think, and let thát make your behavoir and your outside and your words... (instead of starting from the outside, so starting with the image you want to make to other people, and let that make your behavoir etc, what we all do these days I guess, some in more and some in less ) | |
| Green Day – Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me, it has no specific happening (like breaking up or graduating or whatever...) but when I hear it, my feeling is that it points out how cruel life can be, and just do things with us we didn't want to, didn't ask for, and or not happy with at all to happen. But we can't choose how our life goes (yeah, offcourse we can influence it, but I mean the part that we can't influence), we just see it happen and we have to accept it. So instead of waisting our time with wondering why on earth those bad things had to happen to us, or by complaining ourselves, we just have to accept it, and try to make the best of our lives, don't let it destroy by the bad things that happens. We should keep the good things with us and don't forget them, remember that those worthful memories are what make life worth living, doesn't matter how it goes or how it ends, we ourselves choose on what to put the emphasis, and this lyrics say, put the nice, good memories on the first place, they give you the energy and courage to live on. That's what I feel, and it's a support to me, eventhough it has a very bitter undertone and it says very well how hard and how raw life can be, it gives me a positive message. |
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| Anouk – The Other Side Of Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I love it... So recognizable... The bad thought about yourself, negative feelings... Your own "demons" like they call it. Sometimes they're there and you can't put them away they make you feel bad. On the other side, there are times that you are proud of yourself, for the things that you do in your life, and the good things you do to other people (I guess it's personal about her own but I like to enlargen the theme a bit so I can find myself in it...). And then you think that thát part is really what you are. So you're going back and forth (I don't know the right english expression for the expression I mean, hope it's clear) between those two sides of you, and wondering which is the real you. But you have to realise it's both parts of you, the negative part and also the light, cheerful part. And they both makes you what you are, and you need the dark part to realise the good things. Probably this sounds very cliché but I wanted to comment on this because it helped me throug some hard time and to accept my negative aspects of myself, and seeing my positive parts more. Thanks for this song! |
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| Anouk – One Word Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yes I guess it's about suicide, it seems quite obvious. Beautiful song indeed, very sad and deeply touching. Makes me wanna cry. | |
| Nick Drake – Time Has Told Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yes, I know what you mean Julian, but to be honest, in the first place I'm soooo happy that I know about him! (does that sounds a little bit selfish?) I don't have a lot of experience with love, but I have some kind of idea in my head about what my real love should be (I mean, more abstract, not about his appearance or even certain characteristics, but, just, the feeling that this person should have, the kind of "air" or something, don't know how to explain it very well). And that ideal person (as far as I know I'm straight, but for that it even doesn't matter if this person is male or female) would be very well descripted by this song. I just love it "a troubled cure, for a troubled mind" "a soul with no footprints, a rose with no thorns" And the lines: "So I`ll leave the ways that are making me be What I really don't want to be Leave the ways that are making me love What I really don't want to love." mean, in the way I hear it, that with the going of the time, and just listening to the flow of nature and the flow of our own heart and way in life, we will come closer and closer to ourselves. All the more we will get rid of all this faking : "keep on trying, till there's no more to hide" and just find ourselves and our own way... I'm not very good in explaining what this song says te me, but it sure is one of my favorite "soothing-songs". Makes me so fell in love with Nick Drake ! |
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| Noordkaap – Een Heel Klein Beetje Oorlog Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Prachtige tekst, kzou er eigenlijk wat vaker een voorbeeld aan willen nemen... Momenten genoeg dat ik veel liever "een heel klein beetje oorlog" zou willen voeren, ipv die "lachjes van venijn, nachten van de pijn, onuitgevoerde moorden"... Maar toch alles blijf inhouden en opkroppen omdat dat nu eenmaal zoveel gemakkelijker is... Zeer rake tekst vind ik. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Outta Me, Onto You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Could it be about being in a relationship where she is treated undeserved rude, probalby in mental way? And she is telling about her anger building up, and that one of these days it will become too much and the anger will all come out, and she won't be able to hold it in anymore. "some people wear their smile like a disguise those people who smile a lot watch the eyes i know cause i'm like that a lot you think everything's okay it is till it's not" "some people wear their heart up on their sleave i wear mine underneath my right pant leg strapped to my boot don't think cause i'm easy i'm naive don't think i won't pull it out don't think i won't shoot" She hides her feelings, pretend to be okey, nothing's wrong, and she can keep that facade, until it gets too much and she can't stand the humiliations anymore ("you think everytings okey, till it's nog") In the first and the last verse she is warning him that he's pulling it too far and she will speak back one of these days, and because of that she will push him away, she already knows that she'll miss him, because she does love him. But eventhough she can't stay with him because their relation is too much out of balance, that on the moment that "it's all gonna come out", it will all be too heavy and they won't be able to stay together and pretend it never happened OR find a new balance, where they're more equal... "I'm gonna be torn" : I suppose that she'll feel guilty about chasing the man that she loves away because of suddenly showing all her anger, but on the other side knowing that she couldn't hold it back. "i'm gonna turn on a dime give you 5 cents change" Don't know what this line means, is this a kind of expression or something in english? If I hear this in this song, I guess it's something like, we are gonna be equal, instead of just swallow everything that they say to her (with a smile), she will answer back, so only take the half, equal pay. I don't know how to exactly explain this idea, probably it makes no sense the way I wrote it, but I find it interesting enough to give it a try. So maybe someone else can help me out with this expression? |
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| Manu Chao – King Of The Bongo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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How do you mean that Five, coming out of your shell and being introduced to the bigger world? I've always thought that it's about migration, or maybe refugees, and maybe especially about african people. About how they come from their own lifes, their world, in a total different world, with people who are not interested in them and don't appreciate their special identity and culture. He is very happy and proud with his life, but the people from the country where he ends up don't understand what is special about him, and they prejudice immediately everything that is different about him. They are racists too, because they call him a clown and a monkey, so to me that sounds that they don't see him as a real person, but something less. Just because they judge him in advance and don't even try to get to know him. In the last part, I get the idea that he went back to his hometown and his own life, where he feels good and where no people reject him or ridicule him. Maybe it's meant to people who want to go to the north to look for a better life there, to tell them that the image of the rich, nice west is not so nice at all as they think. |
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| dEUS – Via Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This really rocks, it's too long ago I last hearded, but it's great, I remember listening to it over and over once I start. Don't really know why but I lost dEUS somehow with their last albums, maybe I should start them out, because their earlier albums were really great! Not a clue what's it about actually, but I don't care, maybe it's not supposed to have a real meaning. The only I can think about it meaningless sex. |
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| Harry Nilsson – Coconut Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I got to know this song by Resevoir dogs, and it feels the perfect song for the end of that movie. It says to me: we got in this really crazy situation, with a lot of trouble, all by our own fault, because we where thinking and doing such crazy things (being robbers, living in that robbery scene, getting paranoid, trusting the wrong people), so at the end it just ends up very bad for the most of them. That is the message that I get because after the shots you hear this song, and without it probably I would have a totally different feeling at the end of the movie. Now it brings some humor in the whole situation, pointing at the senselessnes of it all, and relativating. The song says the same imo: it seems that drinking a lime in a coconut is a really bad thing to do, so the fact that this woman had a horrible bellyache is just her own fault, and is because of her own stupid act. So the doctor laughs at her and answers her: keep on acting so stupid and causing yourself problems, and in the morning you can call me back and then I'll tell you what to do, but now in the night you should let me sleep and don't bother me with such futilities. |
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| Beth Hart – Get Your Shit Together Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song helped me through some difficult times, it's so great. Don't give up, don't get encouraged when life gets hard on you, just keep on fighting and try to find yourself back when you seem to have lost yourself. It says: don't despair so soon, it can be a lot worse than now, so you just should face your situation, keep on hoping and trying and it will be allright. And believe in yourself! |
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| Beth Hart – Lay Your Hands on Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Love this song (like most songs of her :p ), but I'm not really sure 'bout the meaning. It seems that it's about a married man which she has an affair with, and she's just longing so very hard for his loving and touching. (or does the sentence "hold me as long, your womans's waiting, not refer to his legal woman, but wants to say that she herself is his woman who is waiting ?) When I personally listed to this, it feels like she is very lonely and misses a lot of fysical, human contact, which she is craving for, because now she is in love with a man. But also afraid of it, of being intimite again after a long time ("hold me as long my body's shaking"), so she asks him to hold her and not be shy, because, she herself might be shy |
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| Beth Hart – Monkey Back Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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One of my favorites by Beth Hart.. Especially because she sings it so strong, and powerfull. I don't exactly know what's it about, I suppose partly bout her drug and alcohol addiction which are still pulling at her and making her crave for it, even while she's clean. And for the other part I suppose it's just all this mess in her head and unsureties that keeps nagging her and never just want to go away. That last part is, anyway, what this song means for me. So many thoughts and beliefs and feelings in my head which are making my life hard and confusing and sometimes impossible. And no matter how long and how hard I've been fighting them, trying to get rid of those, sooner or later they always keep coming back. And actually, it really feels like an old monkey who I can't shake off my back. "Give me my money back slip through your crack" Obviously refers to drugs and drug addiction and throwing all your money in it. But when I listen to it, it feels like the money stands for the good things in me and my life, that I always tend to lose because of that stubborn old monkey on my back (so because of all this hard things in my head). And "crack" I hear then as "holes", not like dope.. |
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| Beth Hart – Leave The Light On Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Listened to this song so many times, especially in moments where I felt really horribly, this is a real help, it's like she's saying to me that she understands how I feel, it's not abnormal to feel bad and to struggle on things, and with very beautiful words she proves me that she really does understand, that it's not one of those hollow phrases that you here sometimes from people.. I thought that "I leave the light on, better leave that light on" might mean that she always stays alert, because of her hurtful past and childhood, she always keeps the lights on, so never at ease because when you are sitting in the dark, you can't see if there is a danger/person with bad intentions coming.. "God bless the child with the dirty face... she leaves the light on, I still leave that light on" When she was a child, she always had to watch and be careful, because she was never sure if she was safe, and now, as an adult, she still kept that habitude to be in a state of alertness, very aware of what's happening around her, ready to react. Also this line says that: "On the run, on the run on the run from myself, from myself and everyone, I leave the light on, better leave that light on" Doens't want to face her real inner self, her own demons and all, because she's to afraid, so she leaves the light on in her own consciousness, avoiding to go deep in there in that unknown dark. |
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| K's Choice – Everything For Free Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I often think it is about a mentally ill person, who is stuck there in this institution, an instead of facing his situation, he doesn't want to accept the fact that he has a mental disfunction, so he redefines the situation a bit, telling: they think I'm crazy, but they don't know that I'm fooling them, and I'm just normal as them, but pretend te be crazy, so I can stay here in this nice place where everything is for free. In my idea, the story of his party down the hall is a nice example of ironic/sarcastic humor that you can hear often by people in mental institutions, making fun of their situation and the, sometimes ridicule rules and conditions they have to live in and obey. I actually don't think that he is a sane person, because the fact that he says that he'll get everything for free, seems to prove that in reality somebody else is responsible for him, and that person pays his bills for the institution. |
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