| The Honorary Title – Points Underneath Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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For me, this song is about yearning for someone: "Feed me the words to explain this urge" and completely adoring them. It may be someone he wants, but I'm fairly certain he is referring to a girl he has had before and is no longer together with. He yearns to be with her again, but she holds some sort of control over him-- negative control. Mainly, he cares about her honestly and purely, but she is aware and conscious of this hold and often uses it to her advantage, keeping him on a string even though she doesn't necessarily want to be with him. She uses and messes with his feelings, saying how much she still cares about him, being nostalgic and bringing up old memories which cause him to miss her at night: "Don’t you ever leave me alone, not this evening I am cold and shivering without you near". She actually has no intention of restarting the relationship, but she always leaves that small chance that things could repatch themslves, and he hangs onto that because he is afraid to lose her for good: "And I can, so I will, just as long as you instill this fear in my heart". He is idealizing her, while keeping the mindset that she is the one he is supposed to be with, and someday it will eventually work out. His friends have all lost respect for him, because he is the only one who fails to see her true colors. At the end of the song it finally hits him that she is a controlling, awful person. And that all of the hopes and dreams they used to have back when times were good are no longer realistic or practical at all, because he realizes that this isn't the person he was meant to be with. From a personal standpoint, when he says "You were wrong.", that is him telling her that he is over her. While she still assumed she had this hold on him, she was wrong. Because he is finally over her and is moving on. And he hopes she can move on as well: "I just hope that you aren't alone". |
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| The Postal Service – Clark Gable Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is terribly relateable to my own life Ben and I share very similar expectations and hopes about the subject of love. We both wonder constantly if that "perfect love" exists, and we each like to see our love stories unfold like movies-- in otherwords, a beginning, a middle, a conflict, a climax, and eventually a resolution. I think the reality is that nothing happens like in the movies. Clark Gable was a famous actor, and I believe Ben is placing himself in the role of Gable, because he plays a man who is very convincingly smooth with the ladies, and romantic, which Ben sees that Gable and himself have in common. Ben also tries very hard to act the role, as noted when he is gathering the equipment for the filming of this scene, and the effort he exerts to make the scene happen perfectly. We all want a perfect ending to any story, or at least some sort of resolution, just to be able to put certain points in our lives away, so as not to think or worry about them anymore, to move on. |
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| Paper Rival – A Fox in the Garden Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It seems to me that the person speaking is yearning for someone they care deeply about. You can tell by the way he whines "Doooon't go to bed in the garden.." that something inside is killing him about the situation he is in, and keeping him up all night: "I'll be throwing apples away, when no one's awake.." It seems a helpless situation that he cannot, for some reason, be proactive about-- Either by will or actual helplessness, in that even if he made an effort, nothing would change. So instead, he let's it eat away at him. He tries thinking out loud (the chorus) so that maybe she will hear him, but of course, she won't. He reminisces about the moment when he first laid eyes on her: "There you were like Sunday mass.." The way he keeps talking about her, and his first impression, notes that she is important to him, and there are feelings he has towards her that he has been keeping in the dark. Since he is not telling her directly, it seems he doesn't want her to know, but he wishes she did at the same time. Apples to me, signify the hours that he is throwing away staying up and concerning himself with the conflict at hand. Apples are seen in biblical texts as vital, or sacred, and important, as in Adam and Eve, and "DON'T eat the apple!" Time is a valuable part in the the human life, so precious time should not be wasted, and neither should good apples. And judging by the way he promises that he'll by planting flowers till his pitchfork breaks, insinuates that he isn't going to give up until something is achieved or solved. I may be off, but it seems that he is placing himself in the role of the Devil as the snake from the garden in the story of Adam and Eve, and that he knows that he has bad intentions, or has been a bad person in the past, and he doesn't want to hurt the girl, but wants what he wants regardless. What he wants is to still be decided. |
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