| Bright Eyes – Lime Tree Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Maybe it was a sour thing / relation to begin with though, I'm not sure. Maybe that was another reason to give up. | |
| Bright Eyes – Lime Tree Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Fruits, when not ripe, are often bitter and when they're ripe, they're sweeter. If you pick accordingly to the season / timing, the fruit [or fruitfulness of something] will ultimately prove itself as to whether it was bitter or sweet; unripe, ripe, or rotten. The same is with relationships. I think that maybe here it's not so much of a contradiction as it is the realisation that he isn't only running out of time, but there is no better time / the only time he has left to choose, because while some are ripe, some are rotten and when it starts to bare only rotten fruit, it's too late. It's the following lines that are what seals it - the realisation that rather than being late or too late, he allows for the window of opportunity to close, the sadness and effect to come in immensity, the to colours drain from the life / opportunity that once was, because he feels that there is too much that has passed [become soured and rotten, which may be why it is the lime tree] and only parts left of it still ripe. It is not to say it isn't what he truly wanted, at least at one time ["So pleased with a daydream that now living is no good"], but that he's either too prideful, too hurt, or truly believes that he let the relationship go to waste in time that he knows it won't last / that he missed his chance [ thus also "nauseous with the truth"]. Therefore, letting go and walking alone barefoot [maybe humbly or out of defeat?], he fell within and without, okay and then filled with emptiness / loss for what his mind could conceive and the idea that nothing will ever be better than what could've been with this person had he only picked sooner. |
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| Mew – She Came Home For Christmas Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I've always thought it was about an old love with so much past conflict. Seeing her spills old memories, old wounds. He doesn't want to let her into his heart again, yet he does anyway, but she's isn't there for him. She acts like she owes them all something. A lot of metaphors. The song itself is personal as many Mew songs get. Personally, I think we're better off not knowing and just sharing the feelings that the song has than to know the depth of it. |
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| Jónsi – Boy Lilikoi Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Augh, I kind of messed up a little. . . . yet his friends are the ones who, from the inside, are empty, from the outside, have let age get to them.** |
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| Jónsi – Boy Lilikoi Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think jw7 really got a good jest of the song with the first paragraph, very well done. Personally, I think the song is completely metaphorical, as previously stated. But what I think is different is it's not so much about a pet, but a person. "I want to be a Lilikoi Boy, Lilikoi. You grind your claws, you howl, you growl, unafraid of Hoi Polloi. You run, you're free, you climb endless trees - you reignite. You growl, you howl, you show your teeth, You bite, it's alright." The relation with the fruit being they're bright coloured, yes, but thick in skin. Relating that to where you can either say, the boy in subject is either thick skinned, that he's tough and unafraid, or that he shows one side of him - a bright, daring boy, like most young boys are, but does it to hide his true nature through his actions, that he shows a willingness to fight to be himself and to not grow up. That he protects himself through his actions and keeps his true self preserved through the shell he creates because he doesn't want to be crushed by the weight of the world, or the "Hoi Polloi", he fights them away and their cruel nature by his actions and attitude. Either way, he's of envy to the narrator. In fact, I think it's safe to say he's talking about himself. "Wild be my boy, you burn so bright, you illuminate. One day you're out, you give up the fight, you slow down heart-rate." He doesn't want the world and it's heaviness and the course of life to slow him down and take all the light and the beauty he had in himself and that he saw in everything, set in everything around him, right out of him, as it seems to have begun doing. He doesn't want the world to open up the shell and to take everything he has, and he doesn't want to be empty past the shell he created as he grows older. "Say no more, use your eyes, the world goes and flutter by. Use your eyes, you know you are." I think he's saying to see what the world does to you. The second line saying that the boy does, that the he knows he does and that's why he is like he is. He's saying not just see the beauty of the world, but to see the fall of of people as it begins to come head on, and to be different than the others, to not lose your soul like so many others do over time. The idea flows as the song progresses: "We all grow old, use your life, the world goes and flutter by. Use your life, you know you are." "Electricity wires are down, Rainbow colours fading to brown. Adventurous smile shifting to frown, Courageous boy, now you're a clown. Your antarctic hair, off with the crown, Your spirited friend's now a ghost town. You run." This being about how the world changes. Like he said, to use his eyes, to see the change that has happened. This is the change. The conversation is over, the beauty is gone, and everyone and everything has changed but the boy. He's pinned for it and is called the clown, the fool, yet his friends are the ones who from the inside are empty, from the outside age. He doesn't want to live as the adult he's begun to be, he doesn't want to age. He wants everything to still be beautiful. But, no one around him sees the world like that. He doesn't want to be there, where he's being forced to give up his inner self and die to his true nature in many ways. He doesn't want to be like everyone else, who slowly dies in their age, both on the inside and the outside. He refuses it. He runs away from it. So generally, the song is just about not growing up. Like someone said, it reminded them of Peter Pan. It really is like that. This song is definitely my favourite on the album, it's brilliant. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Angel Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| NIN has a BUNCH of unreleased crap that aren't on any albums, but any hardcore fan will tell you, no, they won't even consider this as a NIN song, much less an unreleased song. If you find any unreleased songs that don't sound too much like Reznor, but somewhat, it's probably some of the stuff he did with Tapeworm, David Bowie, Saul Williams, Nivek Ogre, ectect.. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Angel Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Wait, what, fail. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Angel Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Lolwut. No, it's not. I promise you, ask any fan on the NIN forums and they will tell you otherwise. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Angel Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Uhh no. It's not. | |
| Metric – Gimme Sympathy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Going along with what you said, I think for the whole, “Wild open space Talk like an open book" The world is open for them to see, to be a part of, they are writing the story of their life about all of this they can see and be a part of. Not literally writing it down, but by telling people though singing it. "Sign me up" Affirming the past statement. "Got no time to take a picture I'll remember someday All the chances we took” They'll remember all these things they've done, they don't need to take pictures to remind them. They'll remember the entirety of the things they have taken part in. As for “Who would you rather be, The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?” I think it's because the way they were. The Beatles were about love and life, being open, almost like a child. The Rolling Stones were more take life as it is, as it goes, like the wise man. They both have such strong standings and are both very influential because they're so basic to what life is, it's so easy to understand how to know what it's like to feel like both of them write, to live it out. I could go on and on, but on the other points on analyzing, I agree with you, I just wanted to add onto the idea. |
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