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| Līve – They Stood Up For Love Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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To me this has always been about human endeavour, and the fact that people are capable of great things. This song has always encouraged me to be one of the ones who 'stood up for love'. |
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| Darren Hayes – Black Out the Sun Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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This song is a fantastic modern take on the WH Auden poem 'Funeral Blues'/'Stop all the clocks', particularly the last stanza:
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
To me, this song is very much about contemplating the death of someone the narrator loves very much and the devastating effect that would have on the rest of the narrator's life. It's the first frenzy of grief when you don't understand how the world can go on without the person you loved, and you feel that nothing matters anymore or ever will. |
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| Darren Hayes – A Conversation With God Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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To me, this song feels like the narrator is very depressed and contemplating his own suicide, over and over in many different ways - driving a car off of a bridge, shooting himself, jumping underneath the hull of a ship. If he could, he would 'turn [his] light off' but there are glimmers of hope as he starts to ask himself 'how's the way back?' and wonder how he got where he is now.
This song never fails to make me tear up; the bit that really gets me is "pain has reservoirs it keeps for itself." I also think the bit about 'the voice of God is laced with sarcasm in your hands' is very appropriate for someone who is going through depression. In this case, the 'voice of God' is the voice of his depression, his own mind telling him horrible things about himself. |
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| Darren Hayes – Black Out the Sun Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This song is pretty clear about what it means - the end of a relationship and how utterly devastating it can be. I love how Darren's perfectly captured the exact way it feels - hollowed-out, empty, as if the world is worth nothing without the person you loved beside you. |
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| Darren Hayes – The Siren's Call Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This is such an amazing song but I've really struggled to figure out what it means. Of course there's the imagery of Odysseus standing tied to the mast as they sail past the Sirens.
In this case the singer is doing much the same thing in a metaphorical sense, perhaps being attracted in a lustful way to other people, and staying true to his love by remembering their embrace and true happiness. The singer is also facing his internal demons, which he cannot ever fully defeat, and which threaten his happiness. But all along he knows he must try to get back to that perfect happiness he had once and now is always craving. |
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| Tim Minchin – Storm Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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My god, this is the best thing EVER. Next time a fundie gets on my nerves (hippy or Christian or any other kind) I know where to send them. |
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| Blue Gillespie – The Swamp Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Not yet - working on it, though. Most of the ones I already posted were pretty easy because the band have posted a lot of their lyrics to their Myspace blogs, but not the ones from their second EP yet. |
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| Blue Gillespie – The Swamp Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This eerie, haunting tone poem makes me think of Frodo in the Dead Marshes - it's like this is a story of what he feels about trudging through them, from his perspective and the singing at the end is him falling into the water, trying not to, but sinking against his will.
There's a contradiction here - the words are said so peacefully and the background music just lulls you, but the situation actually seems very dangerous. |
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| We Are Smug – Watching Me Watching You Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This seems to be about being a superhero in a CCTV culture - or just an ordinary human, living life with the cameras always on, everywhere you go. The video of this is really affecting - it's footage of the news, of CCTV cameras, along with footage of cop shows, showing police violence and how much we are watched every day by anonymous cameras in the sky.
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| Devotchka – How It Ends Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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As an ex-Christian, I agree somewhat with newlite's interpretation of this song, although I take it in a different direction. The 'YET you already know' really points it out - initially I thought it was 'YES you already know'.
To me, it's about someone who wants to believe in God, etc, but deep down they really just don't, they can't. So they try acting out Christianity in an effort not to disappoint their family, but "you already know how this will end" - with the person rejecting their faith in favour of atheism.
Over the years, this person's faith has been eroded by education and learning and thinking about things - 'they poked a million holes but you never let 'em show'. They've had religious experiences 'now you've seen his face', but despite 'always wanted to believe' and their friends/family telling them 'just ask and you'll receive beyond your wildest dreams' the person knows it's a fairy tale and nothing more. |
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