| Natalie Imbruglia – Smoke Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I love this song, the first time I heard it is when it came out on the album and I was 17. I was struggling at that time in my life, to cope and deal with my feelings. The words all made sense to me, but maybe not so straight forward as others above have suggested, For example, "bleeding is breathing". What if you were to turn those words backwards: "breathing is bleeding" it then shows how life feels so painful that actually living, and breathing feel like bleeding. You get so used to the feeling of pain, the bleeding, that actually it feels like bleeding is life, and life is a result of the pain. You can so easily forget (when your in that much pain) that life is not all about the pain. But in fact, pain is a part of life, not all of it. The crawling on the floor, crawling to the door, and falling on the floor all show someone trying to get out- its like, you feel so much pain that you get an out-ter body experience. You watch yourself from the outside, you separate from yourself as its easier to process and deal with in your mind. Your not watching someone else crawling and falling to the floor, your watching yourself. |
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| Scala & Kolacny Brothers – I Will Bleed For You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Is this the original? this song is so beautiful- has anyone else sung it? | |
| Eurythmics – Thorn In My Side Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Hahahaha, I feel sort of bad saying this, but this song to me is about the relationship I have with my father. | |
| Eurythmics – When Tomorrow Comes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Love this- its so happy but sort of sad. It reminds me of being about 5. I loved it even back then! | |
| Eurythmics – 17 Again Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is one of the songs of my life. At 17, I was in the throws of anorexia and bulimia. It may seem like a very sorry state to be in, but unless your actually in some sort of realisation that you have a problem, your in your own world, on cloud nine. Its only when I was 19 (when the album came out and I bought it) that I was struck by this song. I had just come to the conclusion I was really not at all well and needed both medical and emotional help. While the medical side couldn't come fast enough (very unwell) the emotional help was far behind. And I was not able to access it. Instead I was stood, looking back at my life, almost trying to pick up the peices of what I had missed and what I had lost. At 19 I felt like I was 17, and suddenly feeling the enormity of what I had missed, and all the emotional growing pains were catching up with me. The magazines and vicious queens? I went to an all girls school. A huge part of what kick-started my eating disorder was wanting to look like a model from a magazine. Sweet dreams were indeed anything that could make me slimmer, and anything that would get me "in the scene". Story of my life. |
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| Annie Lennox – Loneliness Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is one of my all time favorie songs. I really believe I will still love this when I am 80, its a classic and so clearly describes the harrowing lonliness you can feel in day to day life. Its a strange phenomina but the loneliest place you can be is often surrounded by people. They neither know nor really even like you, but your with them. That for me is lonliness, and this song sums it up extremely well. |
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| Annie Lennox – Love Song For A Vampire Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song for me is about a love you have for someone who is or is like a mother figure to you, Something you can't have, something that has gone or has died and you are left alone, searching and without. Its a horrible place to be. | |
| Annie Lennox – Coloured Bedspread Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Very simply out, its about having sex. | |
| Annie Lennox – Pavement Cracks Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Bit taken a back that no one has added more meanings to this song- it speaks alot about depression, which I believe that 1 in 4 have to some degree? perhaps even more. This song explains my depression very well. Infact if I want to describe how things are, I use this song- its very simple in its description. When you are "well" i.e not depressed, you don't notice the pavement cracks, the grief of life doesn't feel so heavy you can't breath and you can see people being kind to each other (even if its only afew!) . Its life, you accept it. Love exists, in many different forms. But when you become depressed, this goes. It just vanishes. You can't see the love, you see everything differently, sort of like someone has shon a new light on it- the love from a man to his wife becomes in your eyes, just sex, the love from a father to his son becomes an animal requirement, no love, just all machine like. In the end we are all separate, we are all alone. We will all die alone. No one cares, there is no love. The song is about painting that out- there is no love in the pavement cracks meaning there is no love in the small passings from one person to another. Thats me. But actually, the writer, (Annie Lennox) wrote this about her divorce. She was in the throws of a divorce and describing the separation you get when that happens (I can only imagine, as I have not been there). When you see that actually, there is no going back, no you cannot go back in time, you cannot have what you once had, the love is gone, the comfort zone is no more as the comfort you once sort from the relationship, from having someone at your side, is gone, you are alone and your life has changed, there is no going back, only going forward- I wish you well, is saying, good luck to you, we will both need it. |
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| Counting Crows – Colorblind Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I have only just caught this song- I heard the version by Scala and Konacny Brothers- very beautiful. The reason it stuck out to me is it speaks volumes about how I am feeling right now. I currently have depression. The song mood itself is the first thing that caught me- soft byt meloncholy, sad but not "woe-is-me" and almost sung in a whisper. I hear that and its like "this is how I feel- this song nails it! Then the words- and they all make sense to me, the coffee-black and egg white describes how I feel I am portraying myself/how I feel I am, either one mood or another, happy or in despair. But also plain, non descipt and fading into the background. I don't want to be noticed. The next part, about "pull me out from inside" many of you agree I can see, its about wanting someone to reach in and hold out thier arms to you- to pull you out from inside your (my) own private hell. The hell being the depression your (I am) in. The "taffy stuck and tongue tied" describes how hard it is when you try to get the words out to ask for help, to describe where your (I'm) at, to even know what you (I) need in the first place or why you (I) even may be trying. The speaking about being covered in skin, well thats describing the mental-war-paint we all wear to get through the day, and the hard times. Not all times are so (coffee) black, but when they are, there is a huge thick skin there, you need it to carry on. But the risk of doing that is that you iscolate yourself and cut yourself off from everyone. You become alone. But at the same time you are protected. And the "I am ready, I am fine"? thats about telling everyone your fine (when perhaps you are not). It is part of building the thick skin. Its a resigned state to be in, realising that infact, you are alone and no one can help so you will not let anyone waste their time trying to help. You say your fine, people believe your fine, your also protected as your somewhat at a distance as to whats going on in the world around you. You have become someone else. You are egg white. |
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