| David Cook – A Daily AntheM Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Clever song - gotta love DC. This is my interpretation: "This is temporary sanity, an exercise in vanity So long to the ordinary day Wrought with fictitious tales Of how there's any other way" Guessing this is about his life before becoming famous for his music - so long to his ordinary life in which he tried to convince himself and others that he could ever be happy doing anything except making music for a living. Prob. the song itself is "an exercise in vanity" because it's self-referential. "Hold on to anything at all It's a long way down between the summer and the fall If I told you that you're everything Would you sing along" I think here he's referring to the summer tour and the adoration of his fans - he's worried about what will happen when the tour is over - will his popularity fall or will his fans stay true, so he is saying to his fans - ya'll are everything, please sing my songs - I need you to keep this life that I love going. "It's a daily anthem Would you sing my song at the top of your lungs And we'll all sing along, we'll all sing along It's a half-baked blessing All the lessons I've learned, never deserved And we'll all sing along, we'll all sing along" Maybe the anthem part is an expression of his hope that his fans will be so touched by his music that it will become part of their daily lives? And that he's learned more from the experiences he's had than he feels he deserved to. And he'll be with his fans singing along if they hang in with him. |
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| Fiona Apple – Never Is a Promise Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is a song about boundaries and growing beyond an unhealthy relationship. It's quietly defiant, basically with her saying "This is me, and that is you; you don't even understand who I am, much less get to define me." "You'll never see the courage I know Its colors' richness won't appear within your view I'll never glow - the way that you glow Your presence dominates the judgments made on you" It's like she's saying that the other person will never get her perspective, and that the other person will be judged based on who they are, not based on her. Someone's enmeshed with her and she has to get the other person to recognize that they are not the same. Then she talks about growing beyond her past perspective, but she's not yet brave enough to say what she sees yet - she's too "proud" to talk about it with this person who has hurt her, and who doesn't listen or understand well enough to even know who she is. They think they understand her motives, her personhood, but she knows that they won't, because they don't listen, and they can't be trusted, apparently because they have failed her before. You'll say you understand, but You don't understand You'll say you'd never give up seeing eye to eye But never is a promise, and *you can't afford to lie* I think the second verse is a repeat of the same idea - you can touch my skin, but you will never be able to understand or capture who I am, and I will hide it from you because you aren't worthy kind of a deal. (as in, My fever burns me deeper than I'll ever show - to you." And the third verse is her reiterating the idea in the first two verses, and also saying look, you don't get it, you aren't going to get it, and I don't need your false concern in my life, and I never will. Pretty clear boundaries spoken in a very gentle way - love this song. |
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