| Sherwood – Those Bright Lights Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| God...This is the story of my life and exactly how I feel right now. | |
| Sherwood – Learn To Sing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song is about not living your life through movies, tv books and music but never really getting out and Living. the result is that you never learn anything for yourself, and in spite of watching TV and Movies which are often encouraging people to LIVE (yes, all caps), you won't even learn what they are teaching because you are so busy trying to drown out your life in secondary media. when you do this, the lessons you could have learned from TV, Movies, etc. (which are meant as a *supplement* for life, not a *substitute*) just become useless noise. your life is meaningless. i think this is a song to the current generation, not to just get lost in technology for the sake of technology, but to actually still live and interact with people. only then will we truly learn to sing. |
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| Sherwood – Traveling Alone Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love that even though many of Sherwood's songs are about hardship or dealing with uncomfortable things, they still soud so up-beat, as it to say (like the name of their album) "Sometimes life sucks, but we can sing about it and keep going on". This song displays this perfectly I think. | |
| Sherwood – We Do This To Ourselves Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i think this song is not about the singer leaving, but about the person he's singing to leaving at a time when they were really needed, perhaps because of wrongs done to them previously. | |
| The Classic Crime – Gravedigging Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the "star-crossed" is actually a reference to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In the play they are referred to as "star-crossed lovers". They also commit suicide, which fits the suicide imagery of the song. But yeah, any time I hear "star-crossed" I immediately think "Romeo and Juliet", and since it's probably the most popular play in the English language, they may have expected people to pick up on the reference. Just a thought. (As a side note, there is actually a LOT of religious imagery used in the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet "new baptized", etc. If you read the scene with the idea of Juliet as the Christ figure It's really amazing. I don't even really like the play--I had to read it for school--but after reading that scene in this way, it made me appreciate it a bit more.) |
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| The Classic Crime – I Know the Feeling Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song is not overtly about God or Christ, but it may be referencing accepting a family of people who can relate to what you feel which could definitely apply to a religious group. Basically I feel like this song is the heart of the To Write Love on Her Arms movement (myspace.com/towriteloveonherarms). The speaker is talking to someone who is struggling with depression, and thoughts of suicide (It's been a while since you've felt like you've been home/Your life's just flesh and bone ...The one thing that hurts more than your life/Is to wake up one more time alone/It's to wake up one more time alive). Basically he's saying, "Yeah it hurts like hell to wake up and have to live through a day of this again, I know--I feel it too... But, at least we're suffering through this together" (I know the feeling of being alone/So let's drink to the fact that we're not). The second part of the song is offering ways to cope (So take us in, we'll stop you dead/ We'll show you something you won't ever forget). This could be either talking about drugs, or a community. I think really it easily could be a good, wholesome community like a church of support group, or a drug culture. The reason I say that is because he follows is with (my heart's a hole that needs to constantly be filled with love). He doesn't offer a permanent solution, he just says, "I know the solution is love," but he leaves it up to the person to decide where to get that love. He also offers artistic expression as an outlet for restless feelings of this nature (This time it's all that I've got Words hit the page like gunshots My stomach's left in a knot My pride is left here to rot It's been a while since I've felt this restless By definition it's depressing but I'm alright) The overall message of this song I think is just to convince the person that they are not alone, and that someone understands how they feel--which are two of the main reasons people commit suicide: feeling alone and misunderstood in their depression. It has the feel of an intervention by someone just as confused as the listener, but asking the person to hold on at at least explore their options before making a final decision. |
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| The Classic Crime – R&R Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I agree. while I think the deeper meaning may be something besides war, he is very obviously using a war metaphor. It almost seems like he's using Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (or shell shock) as a metaphor for something deeper. "Sick with regret" sounds like someone who may have made choices in the heat of the moment, but later changed their mind, or maybe isn't sure whether they chose correctly. "Life's thrown before your eyes and takes it's toll"--seeing the terror and fragility of life through the lens of war can be very damaging for soldiers. The first few lines seem to be describing someone who uses drugs to escape the negative feelings (possibly PTSD or guilt). In spite of the temporary escape, they feel alone and the irony is, they escape death in the war, at the hands of their enemies, only to "sputter out" (die) at their own hands. This song seems to me to definitely end in a type of suicide, whether literal or figurative. Overall, it is very depressing. But sometimes it's good to have songs like that because people can experience the relief of suffering through the music and not by actually harming themselves. | |
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