| Michael Bublé – It Had Better Be Tonight (Meglio Stasera) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| angiaz, thanks so much for the italian version! | |
| Placebo – Drag Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think I interpreted this song differently. Straight forward, yes, but that doesn't mean people get it. He talks about everything from Algebra to swimming across the Seine, and that makes me think that he's talking about someone like a best friend he idolizes or an older sibling. If this song refers to a lover, it's one he's known since childhood. This kind of dynamic happens often, especially among children, where one friend excels and the other drags behind. Or with siblings, where everyone compares them, even their parents, and one, often the elder, is "better." At first I thought this song talked more about a rival, but a friend makes the most sense on second thought, especially because of the line, "You're the monkey I've got on my back/That tells me to shine." This person does care for and encourage him, even if in the end the speaker always drags behind. |
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| Strung Out – Her Name in Blood Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Violent obsessive love. What intrigues me about this song more than the words themselves is how he says them--most metal moves between singing and screaming, but in this song it's such a duality that it sounds like the same person feels two different ways about the same thing. | |
| Kelly Clarkson – Addicted Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think it's really interesting that this song elicited a lot of talk about what it means to people personally but not much about the song itself. I just found the song on YouTube, a video by dutchxfan for Wolverine and Rogue, and I'm listening to it on repeat. I'm addicted to Addicted! I love Kelly Clarkson generally, but this song seems different than a lot of her stuff. More powerful. I think this song could be about a lot of things, and what it means to everyone else is just as important as why Kelly wrote it, though bulimia does make the most sense. This song applies to any addiction really, and with the title maybe that's what she meant--that it was more about the quality of addiction than a specific addiction. I have an addictive personality, and I know I personally can get addicted to anything from a person to an online game, what to speak of drugs or self-destructive behavior. I've always loved songs like this, and other ones I've listened to on repeat were "Protege-moi" by Placebo and "Dance with the Devil" by Breaking Benjamin. Songs that have a bittersweet edge you just can't let go of, talking about needing to be protected from our own desires. Or "Stand in the Rain," a Christian song by Superchick adopted by a lot of pro-ED people. Assuming the song is about a relationship between two people, which is at least the surface meaning even if it isn't the deeper meaning, I wanted to bring up the line "I can't breathe without you inside of me." Basically, this means "I can't survive without you." This could be "I can't function without my fix," or "I feel lost without Ana/Mia guiding me," but in relation to a person the line brings a sexual connotation to the song I didn't wee anywhere else. I can't hear that line without thinking of sex. I thought of the way a relationship can become addictive through sex, because sex and orgasm can stimulate physical sensations that mimic love. Especially when he (or she) is your first love, or the first person you've had sex with, it's overwhelming. A lot of people mentioned their first loves, and mine definitely comes to mind. As a final thought, a guy doesn't have to be bad for this song to apply. Some of us, I'm talking about myself, give ourselves away to easily, and we want so much that the infatuation and addiction takes over before we even realize it. He doesn't have to lead you on or make false promises, he doesn't have to be an asshole. He just has to exist and you love him. Or at least I did. And what I said would be just as true if you replaced "he" with "it." |
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| Placebo – Post Blue Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Mostly everything has been said already, but I still wanted to add my take. What no one mentioned is that writing a song is not like writing a story where everything is mapped out. Songwriting is more about the emotional meaning of the words, since rhythm often controls the word choice. Everyone has had a different idea on the line "I'd break the back of love for you." Emotionally, we all get it. It's an ultimate declaration of love, so lost in this person that you would break love itself for them, but probably still be in love with them--but to put that emotion in words is hard to do. We all have our own ways to say it, Brian Molko's original phrasing being the best. :) I'm interested in the pregnancy theory, and it was fun to read everyone's thoughts on that, but I think Dylan in the movies got closest. Blue is universally a word for depression. To me, this song is about a codependent, screwed up relationship, and the violent love that characterizes it. Songs are made to be easy to relate to, and that kind of relationship and depression in it would be something everyone can understand. The whole pregnancy thing, not so much. A relationship where you're up and down all the time, using and never really stable, betraying each other and fighting, having make up fucks, sometimes even angry sex, betraying each other--bite the hand that feeds--bleeding your life's blood for this person because the extremity of the relationship makes it feel like real love. And it's in the water. Something they can't get rid of, have no control over. The most contagious diseases are those carried by water because no one can avoid drinking, and that's what I think of. And finally, down on bended knees. This song is a plea in several directions. On one hand he never wants to lose this lover, on the other hand he wants out. The love vascilates between passion and despair. But he tells his lover, "Bite the hand that feeds--betray me--tap the vein that bleeds--suck away my life's blood--and I will still be on my bended knees for you, offering you everything. I would even break the back of love for you." |
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| Placebo – Post Blue Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Mostly everything has been said already, but I still wanted to add my take. What no one mentioned is that writing a song is not like writing a story where everything is mapped out. Songwriting is more about the emotional meaning of the words, since rhythm often controls the word choice. Everyone has had a different idea on the line "I'd break the back of love for you." Emotionally, we all get it. It's an ultimate declaration of love, so lost in this person that you would break love itself for them, but probably still be in love with them--but to put that emotion in words is hard to do. We all have our own ways to say it, Brian Molko's original phrasing being the best. :) I'm interested in the pregnancy theory, and it was fun to read everyone's thoughts on that, but I think Dylan in the movies got closest. Blue is universally a word for depression. To me, this song is about a codependent, screwed up relationship, and the violent love that characterizes it. Songs are made to be easy to relate to, and that kind of relationship and depression in it would be something everyone can understand. The whole pregnancy thing, not so much. A relationship where you're up and down all the time, using and never really stable, betraying each other and fighting, having make up fucks, sometimes even angry sex, betraying each other--bite the hand that feeds--bleeding your life's blood for this person because the extremity of the relationship makes it feel like real love. And it's in the water. Something they can't get rid of, have no control over. The most contagious diseases are those carried by water because no one can avoid drinking, and that's what I think of. And finally, down on bended knees. This song is a plea in several directions. On one hand he never wants to lose this lover, on the other hand he wants out. The love vascillates between passion and despair. But he tells his lover, "Bite the hand that feeds--betray me--tap the vein that bleeds--suck away my life's blood--and I will still be on my bended knees for you, offering you everything. I would even break the back of love for you." |
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