| Laura Marling – My Manic and I Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I disagree with me now and feel like it's probably how one person is down and drags another down with them. Kind of, passed on the negative outlook on life type of thing. I still feel, however, that perhaps, certain elements are exaggerated for the purpose of the story. | |
| Laura Marling – My Manic and I Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I feel like it's about a different side to her, written to appear like two different people and, perhaps exaggerated to serve the purpose of the story. | |
| Laura Marling – Failure Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I kind of feel that this is just about how we all fuck things up sometimes and, to some extent, we're all failures, but it's okay. "Don't cry child, you've got so much for to live for" = Move on, it's not the end of the world? "Don't cry child, you've got something I would die for" = There's something good about every person? The whole smile again, so many don't is like... you will fade away, if you don't move past your mistakes and let the positives about you shine- people won't notice you kind of thing, maybe? I agree with the person further up who said it could be to do with growing up. I think to some extent, moving on from previous mistakes is part of growing up, and you realise things as you grow up like, your hero isn't perfect either. |
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| Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I keep listening to this song and can't work out whether the "work more, earn more, live more, have more fun" bit is good or bad... It could be the pressure with the golden gun forcing it so it's not real. It's not fun and all forced... or it could be as I said previously with it being work hard and you'll reap the rewards? it could be either and it could be intended to make you think about the difference between real fun and being told it's fun by everyone else. | |
| Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| *I meant that she begins by thinking she is missing out but, by the end of the song, she has realised that she isn't missing out at all. | |
| Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It kind of seems like an argument within one's self about whether to jump in or not. It talks of the good things across the water and how she is missing out, but "Alas, I cannot swim" implies an inability to cope; she will drown before she gets there. Throughout the song she seems to be convincing herself that she doesn't need false happiness (gold etc.) because she can earn her own happiness. The golden gun could imply that once you've given in to the temptation it is difficult/impossible to go back, people will try to keep you there. I agree with 'roo92123' it could apply to the music industry and selling out, or it could simply mean that you shouldn't give in to other people, as you will never be able to please them all anyway/there will always be something more they want from you ("Why I should please those that will never be pleased?") Be happy with being yourself, if you work hard you will reap the rewards. |
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| Laura Marling – Ghosts Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Personally, I feel like the whole song is about the line "It's not like I believe in everlasting love" I think a story is used to describe how people fall in and out of love. It's sad, kind of like... wishing that there could be everlasting love, rather than just broken promises and broken hearts? The story seems to tell of how two people want to believe in everlasting love, but know better due to the "the ghosts that broke my heart before I met you." The emotions described are part of the story, the result of having their hearts broken. The lines "He went crazy at nineteen, Said he’d lost all his self esteem" perhaps is despair at having lost the belief in everlasting love, but still wanting to hold onto it. The next line "And couldn’t understand why he was crying" implies almost a childish longing for what he once believed in and yet he's grown up, why is he crying? The story then seems to tell of how perhaps it was fate that made them meet, so they could mourn together for their loss of belief in everlasting love, knowing that, although they are together, they will not always be as love does not last forever. |
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