| Interpol – PDA Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is about two people who are in a relationship and one of them, the girl (since it's a guy singing the song), her personality is awful but that's what makes her attractive. Anyone ever heard about SPD? It's this personality disorder, people with SPD don't really find anything interesting and don't really have lots of emotions and stuff... and this coldness makes the girl attractive to the guy since he's willing to abandon his former habits and way of life (that's what I think he means by "desertion" ... and he says her version is the only one he "could ever subscribe to", he wouldn't do this for anyone else...). Maybe she tried changing, going to a shrink perhaps, was given some drugs ("so cute when you're sedated")... but it's impossible for her to settle with the guy and they can't have a normal relationship and this is expressed through the existence of two hundred of couches she has to choose from, all of her "friends" or maybe strangers, she doesn't really have or need a home since she is unable to care about anyone... but he understands it because he says "sleep tight" But then the second verse is much more bitter because the guy realizes what a fcking ordeal it is to be in love with someone like that and care about them, and he's like "this is actually really fun why can't you just enjoy it, everyone's having fun" ("You are the only person who's completely certain there's nothing here to be into, That is all that you can do") and he understands that it's the girl's personality, but it still saddens him when he realizes she won't consider whatever she's done with his life, how she's affected him, she won't ever think about it, she doesn't care at all, and so he's leaving her ("now there is this distance so...") and he knows she will continue just the way she's lived before. and the song ends with him trying to forget about her and at the same time take something out of the situation, but there's nothing he can do so he just leaves her alone. and PDA refers to how she doesn't really act like they're together at all, maybe they're out and he sees all the couples holding hands and stuff, "public displays of affection", and then he looks at them two and sees how detatched she is from him, how different it is.... oh well that's what I think. ;) |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Your Heart Is an Empty Room Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I went through all the comments and I couldn't find anything close to my understanding of the song, so I'm posting it. I'm pretty sure the song is about a person leaving home and being constantly on the move in search for a better place. Describing the person's heart as an "empty room" refers to what a new room looks like when you first move in it, this is the state of mind the person aims to be in, "pure", starting new. "The chase is all you know" means that the person (supposedly a guy) has become so used to moving places all the time that he's unable to develop strong feelings for any place or another human being there. The fact that "she stopped running months ago" means that the girl the guy met and came to love is already settled down in one place. The chorus ("all you see is where else you could be") merely describes the frustration of the guy when he's forced to stay in one place and with one person for a longer period of time. He eventually decides to leave again, convinced that there is many more people to meet ("so many possibilities to not be alone") and that not being attached or tied to something is a win ("finally free"). I think this fits with the video as well. |
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| Arctic Monkeys – Crying Lightning Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I agree with bueller84 almost completely, the only thing I see slightly differently is that he is not attracted to her anymore not because she is, um, a mean bitch, but because he realizes how childish and pathetic her behaviour is even when he tries to end things ('stood and puffed your chest out like you'd never lost a war') and he's trying hard to be the grown-up ('and though I try so not to suffer the indignity of a reaction...'), but it's obviously very difficult. I also think the first verse and the 'ice-cream man' are only analogies, but I don't quite know what they mean yet. | |
| Radiohead – 15 Step Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| When I first listened to this song, I was in this emo, *I'm not good enough* mood, and at the time my friends would go "What happened?" all the time, but that was actually the question I'd been asking myself, too. This song just sums it all up, I like to think of it as an inner dialogue of a person that used to be confident but suddenly they find themselves all unstable and insecure and when they look in the mirror, all they can actually think of is how they don't know who they are anymore. | |
| Interpol – NYC Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| For me, it's like when you're in a big city in the evening and you feel alien, because you don't know any of the people you pass and you wonder if it's less painful to care or not when either way, it'll just get you tired. I think the 'New York cares' thing is irony. Everywhere you see commercials and government and whatever making you feel like you're family, while you belong nowhere. And there come moods when you even wish that people who love you wouldn't, because it gets hard to love them back ('I know you've supported me for a long time/ Somehow I'm not impressed')... and then you get the feeling like everything could be different and beautiful and feel the power of changing your life ('turn on the bright lights')... before waking up into another s*itty day of it next morning. Just what the song sounds like to me personally. =) | |
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