| Counting Crows – She Likes the Weather Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Hmm... no one has commented on this cc song? Well, I believe it's about a girl who's been the "strong independent" type for so long that she's just been out doing her own thing but is starting to yearn for a simpler and more "homey" life. She's been out creating a show for so long, with the circus and cowboys... but now the cowgirl settles down alone- a cowgirl who's been out "wrangling men" and now she's ready to settle down but wonders if there's anyone left to settle down with now that she has a little garden of her own after 10 years out of Eden. I take these lines to mean that after 10 years of sleeping with men (10 years out of Eden or 10 years after being "exiled" from the view of being holy and pure by a "decent" man, all while everyone is going back to "Eden" or trying to get back to living a "good life," they pass her on the "train" as she's settling down alone), she's now looking back at the "garden" of her own of men she's slept with (perhaps a few one-night-stands after the first lines about the cowgirl talking to people that she doesn't know) and really just wants one flower clear of color- or a man who has no baggage- for herself. But due to her own garden she now wonders if it's even possible to find this man "clear of color." Her reason for liking the weather today is because it's "raining in her head" or she's at least able to overlook her past transgressions due to the messiness of other things she's thinking about. | |
| Patty Griffin – Long Ride Home Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I actually perceived this to be from a women, primarily because of applying my own life experiences and experiences of those I know and love, but in all honesty I think it could come from either gender. I do believe that is about the loss of a spouse and the long ride home from the funeral- "Someone dug a hole six long feet in the ground, I said goodbye to you and I threw my roses down". The person who's point of view it is from is someone who has not had a lot of money in life, and therefore have not had many opportunities to ride in "shiny cars" (given a piece of land would imply that they were farmers, thus very little income). Also in the traumatic moment of losing someone you start to focus on other things as you're trying to cope and yet ignore your bereavement, thus the focus on the shiniest car they've ever seen, where the backseat is nice and clean. Time also stops in moments of devastation, and so it is a long ride home where he/she is thinking about the spouse that they lost. It sounds to me like it was actually for the most part an unpleasant marriage. We know they married because of "taking your tiny hand and placed your finger in a wedding band"- men can have tiny hands too :) and perhaps its really just talking about at the actual wedding when the wedding bands are exchanged- thus my belief it's from a woman's perspective initially. "Daddy gave a piece of land" is probably referencing the wedding dowry of land for farming. They had made themselves the best of plans at the beginning, but for the past 40 years he/she felt like they were sleeping next to a stranger "40 years go by with someone laying in your bed" and that the spouse was very harsh to them "40 years of things you say you wish you'd never said"- it all sounds to me like the living spouse went into the marriage with all these great plans and ideas of what marriage and a life with this person be like, and now that it's all over they're looking back and realizing that that person was never the person they thought they were at all. And are even questioning if they were intentionally degrading them with the comment of "things you say you wish you'd never said," if the living spouse really believed that the dead spouse felt bad for things they said then i think it would have been worded differently, but things you say imply that they weren't necessarily sincere in their admitting they wish they'd never said it. At any rate she's wondering why he/she couldn't have been nicer to them as they look at the sky turn red (implying they're becoming anger perhaps with the red reference?) Then once they get home after thinking over the past 40 years they come home to a house that is as empty as them, thus a realization that even if after 40 years of frustration and heartache they still have this empty feeling because at the end of it all, that person was their home, they were his/her life. They had dedicated so much of themselves and their time to this person that they are now "empty" without having them there. Perhaps a sense of buyer's remorse of sorts?? And still they probably are feeling like there was a reason to marry them in the first place, they did really love them for some reason. But what part of that person did they really love, and was that part still present the whole time. This last little bit is obviously me doting upon experiences from others, but things to think about none-the-less. Marriage is (or is supposed to be anyways) a life long commitment. It's saying to the other I am investing myself, my dreams, and my life in you and assuming that you are doing the same. That we will want the best for each other and try to make sure that we are both not just taken care of, but that we are happy and working towards the same thing. Once it becomes one-sided, once it becomes a case where someone is constantly giving while the other is just taking from the other, the giving partner becomes resentful. Unfortunately this is generally the person like the singer in the song who probably feels so invested and hopeful that things will go along with their initial "best plans" and keep waiting for something to turn around. In reality it would probably take time for the other spouse to realize and then change his/her actions for the giving and taking to balance out... or it may be time to admit that the other person isn't the same person you married... or not the person you thought you married at all. Things to ponder I suppose. Perfect reasons for really making sure you know the one you're marrying and what it is they want from life. Or at least being vocal when feeling like you're being taken advantage of before your spouse/friend/acquaintance thinks that it is normal to take advantage of you (and perhaps doesn't even realize they are taking advantage) Happy listening! |
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| Ryan Adams – Come Pick Me Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Honestly, I think this song is about being so in love with someone that you don't care what they do to you, nor the fact that your initial relationship with them seemed to be purely physical love/lust that could have been with anyone ("i wish you'd make up my bed...try it for sleeping sometimes"- actually be there in the morning to sleep in, not just hook up and leave- and also considering the first verse where he talks about putting on a show for others- more or less trying to attract others by wearing "your favorite sweater" and walking up to them either with a smile or cowering once others do give you attention). You don't care if they lie to you and cheat (sleep with your friends), you don't care if they steal from you (take your most prized possessions, your records), you just want to have that brief moment in time to be with them, to call them your own. And you know all of the pain and agony is imminent because it's happened before, it's happened with this person and you've been devastated by them before. And you've since been yearning for them (and hoping that they're yearning for you too- seeing his/her eyes in mannequins eyes, perhaps cowering and holding an old love letter when others are calling them- as opposed to smiling and walking right up to them). But it's all worth it, just being in the presence of that person. This was probably a jumbled mess, but i was processing as i read and reread- and the funny thing, even though this is one of my favorite ryan adams songs, i don't think i've ever read further into it than being so in love with someone that you don't care how much they fuck you up. that you think your love is enough for the two of you... oh my |
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| Ryan Adams – Dear Chicago Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Okay, so here's my interpretation, and it is most likely based upon my own life experiences, as most interpretations are... butttt Chicago and New York are actually two seperate people. Chicago is the person that he just recently broke up with, the one that it's still so fresh that he's still trying to cope with it and he thinks he's close, but he just keeps fluctuating and everything reminds him of her. The last part: "The wind's feelin' real these days, yeah and baby it hurts me some... Never thought I'd feel so blue, New York City you're almost gone. I think that I've fallen out of love, I think I've fallen out of love, I think I've fallen out of love...with you" Is talking about an old love, perhaps a first love (at least for me :) ). That person who you never thought you could get over, and probably even still thought about throughout the aforementioned love, the person who you always seem to compare everyone else to, and yet some how that person is almost gone from your memory. You're finally reaching that point where you can let go of that person, where you've fallen out of love with them and can feel the wind of others- but it's a melancholy feeling, because you got so used to missing them that now you're missing that loneliness that came from loving and missing them- it became a comfort zone, and now it's almost gone as your love for them has ceased. |
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