| Bishop Allen – Shrinking Violet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I can't believe no one else loves this song as much as I do. I love the double entendres, for the first thing. impatiens/impatience, two lips/tulips. Violet as a person and a flower. Beautiful. this is obviously some sort of break up song. The Shrinking Violet obviously shrunk away from the relationship. He probably thought he did everything right, leaving flowers at her door and whatnot, but the bulb burned out, and the light went out. he is also, perhaps, somewhat impatient. maybe he doesn't know exactly what happened. in any case, rain came - something bad happened - and Violet's roots, and her integrity in the relationship rotted. He says it like he believes she is also of the same opinion, "we're waiting," calling her "my," and "Dear" as if they are still close. Maybe he is not entirely devastated, saying that it is a shame that their relationship falters as if one would say it is a shame that it is raining. And he is still waiting for Violet. For her roots to regrow and for her to come back to life and come back to him. The rain lasts the night and inundates all it comes across, from the roots of Violet to the weed of a daffodil. But he believes that even after the bad, it will get better. the sun will come out in the morning. does it? Who knows. But he'll wait for kingdom to come for it to happen. This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. |
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| Los Campesinos! – In Medias Res Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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ah, silly me, I was unaware of that it was a LATIN phrase and not spanish. Means "into the middle of affairs" which makes sense. What a funny translation into spanish! |
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| Los Campesinos! – In Medias Res Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The title has always baffled me for some reason, the translation from Spanish. It either means roughly Animal Socks or Average Animal. With the "in" before it makes me think that it is the socks one, as you can be "in" socks. But what does this song have to do with socks? |
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| And Then There Were None – Thank the Watchmaker Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I might be going out on a limb here, but this is my absolute favorite ATTWN song so I've had lots of opportunity to figure out what it means. "If both our lives pulled us apart and we were stuck on both coasts, I would still find you. Every night you'd fall asleep and I would meet you in your dreams, three-thousand miles away." The key words here are IF and WOULD. This isn't what's really happening. This is hypothetical. Basically he's saying that he'd do anything for this girl, no matter what the circumstances are. "It's not perfection, but we've come so far. Tell me now, tell me you believe again. Well, I can see you when I close my eyes, it's complicated, but I'll make it that simple. Your pictures are the paper that lines my wall, I'm waiting for the moment you come back, I'm tearing out the pages of my heart and what you need is what you'll get from me." I'm thinking that the girl has left, that she stopped believing in him, stopped caring. It's a complicated situation, but the guy doesn't want it to be that way. He's obsessing over her, wanting her back no matter what he has to do. He's regetting long they were together and how it ended. He will do anything for her. "Not at the end of the road, I'd be with you each day, every step of the way. I know it's late, this took too long, but I would write you this song, now could you listen to me?" It's what he wants to do. He wants to get her to listen to him. It took him too long to realize what he did wrong, and now doesn't know if she will bother to give him a second chance or to let him explain. "If not for moments, what's this life we lead? Tell me now, Jamie tell me you believe. Three-thousand miles is not that far, it's complicated but I'll make it that simple." He is disagreeing with whatever she has left him because. He wants to live in the moment and she doesn't possibly? He wants this Jamie to forgive him, saying that no matter where she goes he doesn't care, she'll never be far enough away to get him off of his mind. "Well, maybe I could tell you that everything was okay, it was alright. Take me in on the inside and we could make it alright. You'll come back to me." He wants to tell her to come back, and he'd fix things and forget whatever the bad thing was, and make it better. I figured the only comment this had should be a good one. You may or may not agree with me here, but this is the way I think of it. This song means an extra lot for me, since there was a male Jamie I could have written this song for myself... |
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| Les Misérables – Lovely Ladies Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "Don't they know they're making love to one already dead!" is my favorite line of this song. It really shows that Fantine really wasn't doing what she wanted to, but only because of her daughter and she had lost all respect for herself - if there was no Cosette, she'd rather be dead. It really makes me sad, even though it is definitely one of the lost catchy songs, one that gets stuck in your head so easily. | |
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