| Vienna Teng – White Light Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I guess the big idea is that it's much easier to justify our wrong actions than to correct them. | |
| Vienna Teng – Mission Street Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I loved this song all along, but I think I appreciated it even more after visiting San Francisco for the first time. As one who has spend most of my life in the suburbs, I was unprepared for how isolated I felt in the big city. As if the city was this huge, living entity and I was completely small and insignificant within it, almost like a ghost. Vienna really captures that feeling of being a stranger in a strange land, but with the idea of gradually feeling more and more at home. |
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| Vienna Teng – In Another Life Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Something worth mentioning is the theory, believed by some, that people "follow" each other between lifetimes. In other words, the belief that we meet people again who we've known in previous lives. I think the idea of this song is that the two people have experienced a lot of hardships together in the past, and now that they're finally able to be together without any suffering, they appreciate each other that much more. | |
| Vienna Teng – Harbor Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Hmmm...this might be changing the subject, but has anyone else noticed what an odd rhythm the song has? I try to follow a steady beat in my head, but it always like...changes! What the heck time signature is it IN anyway? Back on topic, it is a very good song though. Haha. |
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| Vienna Teng – Between Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I have a slightly different way of thinking about this song. I made the connection with this song when two people I know were going through a difficult time in their relationship. I interpreted this song as two people who are trying to remain close to each other, but they are living very different lives. Perhaps they live far apart, and their daily lives are getting in the way of their relationship. The speaker is having doubts as to whether their bond is strong enough to survive the distance, and what's worse, the two seem to be avoiding addressing the issue to each other, as shown in "No pleasing drama in subtly averted eyes," and "I'm tired of hiding, and so are you." I like to think of the "third one" the song describes as less of an actual person, and more as the living embodiment the two people's "other" lives. As they find themselves immersed in their daily activities and relationships, they are unintentionally pushing each other away, as if there was another whole person getting between them. In short, I think of this song in a much more metaphoric sense than the artist probably intended for it to be. Like Ferrard said, I think I'm largely just applying my own situation to the lyrics. But this is an extremely powerful song however you interpret it, and Vienna did an exquisite job of combining the words with the melancholy harmonies and accompaniment. |
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