| Blue October – Dirt Room Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this has to do with a stepfather/mother. Not someone related to him by blood "You took the future and the food off my family's plate" meaning he doesn't see them as his family, but an outsider eating dinner with him. (Or maybe he just means you took my money thus food off my family's plate. Eh.) Inner inhibitions of wanting to hurt someone that had hurt him. He considers them a pig, constantly make food references, and wanting to bury him with straw - "Now you'll be living in a dirt room Breathing through the a straw of your own..." and thinking about using the kitchen's curtain to choke this guy. Maybe this person asks for a lot of money from him, maybe even guilts him into it - using it for his own pleasures. "I really think that this is fun for the money." This guy thinks he knows him well, but the speaker knows he can't be used anymore. Basically a song saying "I am done with this." |
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| The Hush Sound – Lighthouse Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Zakaie gets credit for my critical thinking of the “two voices” but the two voices I am thinking of are The Girl and The Boy, who are the lovers escaping from the house. Here we go. We have the first two stanzas, which are of a dreamy voice of The Girl. She wakes up her lover to warn him of the fire burning down the city and she suggests they escape to the lighthouse. Third stanza, we have The Boy lover, who is anxious about going to the lighthouse on the shore. He knows of the ghost story of a woman that lived in the house, and her lover never returned. I personally think that “door locked from the outside” means the woman locked her house when she left, and drowned herself in the ocean and her spirit remains in the lighthouse, alone. Oh, getting off track. Boy knows the ghost is real because he was saved by the ghost woman when he went swimming, she left the Lighthouse to come save him in the ocean below. While he is drowning and is underwater, the ghost tells him this story (“under the water, she sings a story”)of her lover that left her (no he didn’t die, he just left her for someone else), and says something along the lines of “I will save you but know this – love is a bad thing” and the line – (“she calls a warning”)is basically saying “don’t fall in love” as she had been hurt badly enough by love that it forced her to commit suicide. As a ghost she had tried over many years to get countless sailors to come quell her loneliness, to come back to her lighthouse. (“Soft as a siren, luring ships off their course” ) Explains that she was trying to seduce them to come to her lighthouse. The Boy, after being saved, was afraid of the ghost and of course ran away. He doesn’t want to go to the lighthouse. This all happened when he was little (“so young I almost drowned”), many years ago. This makes me think the ghost wasn’t in love with him as he was young (he wasn’t seduced like the other sailors) she only gave him a warning as a young child. It is important to note that she /saved/ the Boy as a little kid, only to give him a warning. She did this out of some twisted form of kindness, but otherwise is secluded in the Lighthouse that she, accept for this one occasion, would never leave. I think the ghost, if she ever ended up seducing a sailor to come into her lighthouse, would kill them, as she hates everything that had to do with love. She wants to prove it is a horrible thing. And if she killed the sailor, they would become a ghost, and be forced to be with her forever. The door is still locked from when she first left the lighthouse, so I think no one has come in yet and as she is the only ghost. Apparently, as The Boy has a lover today, does not heed her warning of love. (“Lover you’re foolish, you’re tired”) is The Girl again, thinking he made this up because she had just woken him up. She doesn’t believe him basically and she talks the fearful Boy into going into the lighthouse anyway, despite him explaining that a scary ghost woman that lives there. So they break into the lighthouse, and (perhaps get locked in by the ghost?). The ghost sees the boy and sees that he is with his lover, and thus kills them because he did not heed her warning. The lovers are forced to be ghosts with her forever (“three ghosts in a lighthouse”), and they can not leave, as the door is locked from the outside. My interpretation. :} Tell me if I need to tweak it, or you get lost. |
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