| Fiona Apple – Never Is a Promise Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think that this is about not allowing someone to understand you because you are afraid that they will let you down, not because they have let you down already. | |
| Laura Marling – My Friends Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I've always thought that she said, "your skin smells like lemonade," but maybe not? It seems that I'm the only person who thinks this. | |
| Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song is beautifully written, of course. Leonard Cohen is a genius lyricist, but I really prefer Joan Baez's version of the song. It just adds some sort of magic that only Joan Baez is capable of pulling off. My interpretation is that the song is a letter to a good friend, or even best friend of Cohen's who had a love affair with Cohen's lover or wife. When he writes about "going clear," I think he is referring to his wife and friend getting away with their affair without Cohen finding out. The song is an attempt to reach out to this friend, who he's been disconnected with and let him know that he still loves, and forgives him. It's a very simple interpretation, but it's always the feeling I get when listening to it. And I definitely associate the "speaker" fully with Cohen, of course, because of the signature at the end. Very haunting and beautiful. Seriously though, listen to Baez singing it. | |
| Gregory Alan Isakov – Big Black Car Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This is so beautiful. | |
| Joni Mitchell – A Case Of You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I know that songs are open to interpretation, but I think that you might be over analyzing this just a bit. | |
| Matt Pond PA – Starting Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Very Carpe Diem! | |
| Arcade Fire – Ready to Start Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Business men drink my blood Like the kids in art school said they would" This really resonates with me. I paint, and I draw, and I write. I'm an English major, and almost everyone I know tells me that getting an English degree is worthless, and I should major in something useful, like business or accounting. I think, honestly, (not to sound dramatic)that it's a tragedy that society just doesn't value the humanities anymore. |
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| Arcade Fire – Rococo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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To the two comments above: If you're referring to the "angel headed hipsters" of the 1950s, well then, OK, but the modern day "hipsters" are nothing like those that Ginsberg was referring to. I'm pretty sure that they are as much a part of mainstream culture as anyone else. If anything, hipsters today are all about looking the part, and don't necessarily have the same ideals as the original hipsters(whose ideas of course have been absorbed by the dominant ideology). They're not authentic,they're certainly not original and they're not "non conformists," in fact I don't think anyone is...we're all a part of something, we're all conforming to something, we're all subjects... read Louis Althusser. Arcade Fire isn't pinpointing the hipsters, but any group of "non conforming," rebels that talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. I think the comment by tim4x below, is the most valid interpretation and makes the most sense, but then again that's just my opinion. |
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| Jaymay – Gray Or Blue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure every girl has felt like this at one time or another. I love this song. | |
| Neil Young – Heart Of Gold Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is so beautiful, but so depressing. To me it's about the fulfillment that people yearn for. You can spend your entire existence searching for the "meaning" of life, and yet you can never find it (or at least that's what the song is suggesting). People want to achieve perfect peace with themselves, but that is impossible, because perfection doesn't exist, but we are forever searching for it. | |
| Elliott Smith – Twilight (Somebody's Baby) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The form of the song is kind of like that of a ballad (there are a few differences). If you look at the quatrains, 1. the rhyme scheme is ABAB: "Haven't laughed this hard in a long time I better stop now before I start crying Go off to sleep in the sunshine I don't want to see the day when it's dying" 2. There is repetition: "already somebody's baby" and 3. There's a conversation, he's talking to the girl. The typical theme for most ballads is "lost love," and there never really is a happy ending, and that fits this song perfectly. I'm pretty sure the song is actually about him being in love with someone he can't have. They want to be together but at the same time he knows it won't work out, because she is with someone, and he has an addiction to drugs and loves her too much to start something with her, just to see it fall apart due to his addiction. I don't think it's written to himself, but I guess the only person who knows the true meaning of the song is him...just felt like expression my interpretation. Pretty song. |
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