| Andain – Beautiful Things Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Official word on this, at least from Dave Dresden, who helped create the best known version of the song, is "'Beautiful things' is a real-life stoy about one of mavie's friend who got married at a young age to a successful man and they had kids. Mavie interpreted her situation into a song. it's a song about regret. a song about a someone who is not ready to settle down and be a housewife in the suburbs. it originally had very different lyrics and was called 'Annie' When Mavie and David perform acoustic shows, she sometimes sings the original words as they are even more depressing and paint the picture of her friend's situation even better." So can we stop with the suicide and drugs stuff now? |
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| Vienna Teng – Watershed Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Sheela is right, Vienna said as much at the last show I saw her at. | |
| Vienna Teng – City Hall Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I was just at her show in Northampton, MA last night, and believe it or not she was talking about this site before she played City Hall. She mentioned your question specifically; the answer is yes ^^ | |
| Vienna Teng – Nothing Without You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Personally, I'm not so sure that the "No one here can speak a word of my native tongue" should be taken entirely literally. To me, it comes across more as that feeling when you're surrounded by people, but feel so different from them, you just don't feel like you have any way to connect with them, that "alone in a crowd" feeling. It's a bit of a stretch, I suppose, and probably more cliche of an interpretation than Vienna deserves, but I can't help but see it as looking for that one person meant for you, that one person who's everything you need, not knowing how to go on without finding them to lean on. Feeling that they have to be out there, somewhere, but not knowing where. |
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| Vienna Teng – Gravity Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Vienna explained this one at a show last year. She wrote this for a friend of hers who was in an on-again, off-again relationship, trying to get into her mind and understand what it felt like, what was actually between her and her sometimes-boyfriend. According to her friend, she got it all wrong =P Doesn't change the fact that it's a stunningly beautiful song, though. | |
| Vienna Teng – Enough To Go By Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I could be completely off here, since I haven't heard any explanation from Vienna at any of her shows I've been to on this one yet, but everyone so far is going by the interpretation that it's the narrator/singer who made all the mistakes and left the relationship and is coming back asking for forgiveness. To me, though, much of the song makes it seem like it was the other party who broke things off, perhaps with an "it's not you, it's me" kind of reason, that something in his life was keeping him from being with or being happy with her ("you were not mine to save, you could not change"; "the chains in the night that had you pulled apart"). Now, though, the narrator still isn't over her love, and is coming back, begging to give it another try, trying to explain that she will accept and try to help with whatever problems he had ("I'll carry the weight of you"), hoping that love will be enough to make things work out. Even knowing that he likely won't be happy to see her, and that he's already given up, but wanting to make him try once again anyway (I'm wanting your anger, I only want to see if I can shake you out of sleep). Just my take on it, though! |
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