| Courtney Barnett – Depreston Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[Robert128:3295] You're right, but I feel there is so much more to this song (maybe you agree and couldn’t be bothered writing it all out, fair enough). It's about how we treat and think about other people. It’s asking how much do we really care about our neighbours (as in people other than ourselves)? The concept of looking for a house is used as a driver/example of how we are more often interested in looking after ourselves than caring about other people’s stories, love and suffering. I think the storyteller (Courtney, I guess) is saying that she realises that the home and the stories that are left behind are of more significance than whether it has polished floorboards, north-facing rooms etc. And now that she sees the significance of what was there, she couldn't live there/doesn’t want to live there as it isn’t her ‘home’. This ties into the ‘half-a-million/knocking it down’ idea, that so many of these stories just get destroyed and forgotten about (as Robert128 said). But the song is also about suburbia, growing up and how you’re meant to live your life. Many of us grow up with our family, go to school, get a job, get married, buy a house etc… Courtney is questioning the whole idea, does it bring happiness? Why is it the right way to live life? By following the same path are you just destined to die in a Californian bungalow and be forgotten about? As with the whole album, there is also something undeniably Australian about this song. Not just the references but the whole concept. Being Australian and knowing the culture we live within unlocks another layer to this song and the album (not having a go at people who aren’t Australian, just an observation). This is a very timely song that will resonate with a lot of people. |
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| Mumford & Sons – Lovers' Eyes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It didn't surprise me that the majority of the interpretations for this song were concerned with personal relationships. But it did surprise me that there really are no other insights into this song. Taking into account common themes of Mumford and Sons lyrics, I think the meaning is much more universal and significant... This song is about struggling with sin, struggling to be a good person, struggling to live a Godly life. Let me explain through the lyrics... I believe the song is a poem which can be applied to anyone, everything he explains is something we all experience in someway in our lives. [There are several key errors in these lyrics, I have corrected them in brackets, corrected from the Babel album booklet.] "Well, love was kind for a time and now it just stays and it makes me blind" This man has tried loving, but true and unselfish love has proven too hard. His failures have caused him to give up and finds it hard to love at all. "This mirror holds my eyes too bright [that] I can’t see the others in my life" The mirror is a metaphor for his perception of himself, he (as many of us) can't see, hear, feel the people around him because of his preoccupation with serving himself. "Were we too young, our heads too strong to bear the weight of [these] lovers’ eyes" Now, I believe 'lovers' eyes' is used as a romantic synonym for sin, wrong-doings etc. This lyric questions how God could expect us as humans to completely repent sin? How can we be expected to always do right and be selfless when it is in our nature to be selfish? This man is asking, are we not too weak as humans to overcome sin? "‘Cause I feel numb beneath your tongue, beneath the [curse] of these lovers’ eyes" This man feels numb beneath the expectations of God to do good, he has tried and failed and struggles to see the point in trying to be good when he is destined to fail again. "‘Cause there’s no drink or drug I’ve tried to rend the curse of these lovers’ eyes" He has found that is no physical cure to overcome our nature as humans to be selfish and sinful. "But do not ask the [price] I paid I must live with my quiet rage" He is saying: don't ask me how many times I've tried and failed, too many to count... He now has to live with the frustrating memory of his failures. "Tame the ghosts in my head that run wild and wish me dead" The 'ghosts in my head' is a metaophor the selfish, sinful nature of man which plagues him, like it plagues us all. "Should you shake my ash to the wind Lord, forget all of my sins" '...shake my ash to the wind' becomes a metaphor for his potential death as a Godly man. He is saying: if I make it through this life and repent my sin, please, Lord, forgive me for what I have done wrong.. "[Or] let me die where I lie beneath the curse of my lovers’ eyes" In this lyric he is saying: if I don't make it to the end as good as I could have, or I give up now, just let me die here now, don't let it continue. "[I'll] walk slow, [I'll] walk slow take my hand, help me on my way" This lyric turns the song around, much like it does musically. This is the man saying to God: I will try again, please help me, I won't be perfect but please help me on my way... If you have read to the end of this, Thank You! I hope there are others out there that agree with me! I have listened to this song many times and I really believe this is the meaning of the song. Of course, other interpretations are valid but I find songs (by quality artists like Mumford and Sons) are very rarely just about personal relationships, it's usually the first layer to something much deeper. |
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| Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Put simply, this song is about coming to know God/Love/goodness/Allah/whatever you call it (I call it God). It's about knowing your wrong doings, asking for forgiveness (first verse) and placing your trust in God/Love (second and third verse). It's about the freedom that comes from knowing and placing your faith in God/Love and also the desire at the core of man to know the beauty of God/Love (chorus). For those unclear, to me God and Love are interchangable. God is everything good that I know in this world. I believe God/Love is a very real force, probably the most real force we all know (as mankind) and that is what this song is about! I'm not from a Christian home but I came to realise I know God because I always believed in Love. If nothing else is, Love is evidence of God. For those who say this song isn't about Christianity you must read the Bible and learn more because there are countless references in this song (as many as Much Ado About Nothing), its undeniable. Yes, the song has obvious ties with Much Ado About Nothing and is structured and inspired by it (even directly quotes it). But this song is most definitely about Love, God or the good of the universe, whatever it is you believe. The play also discusses this theme! You must remember, Shakespeare came from a time where Christianity held the values and beliefs of his homeland, he is surely inspired by it and Shakespeare was known to reference, amongst many other things, Christianity and God.. Much Ado About Nothing is not the origin of the ideas behind Sigh No More, the song uses the play as a platform to discuss the nature of God/Love within mankind. P.S. Although there are definite allusions to Christ and Salvation, I believe this song is about God. |
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| He Is Legend – (((louds Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is easily he is legend's best song and one of my favourite songs for sure. as for its meaning i wasn't sure for ages, it could be about a split personality or about bad luck in relationships or madness or completely nothing or heaps of things. but to me the lyrics and the song are far too well constructed to have no meaning. My interpretation is about superstition, bad luck and how people let it rule their lives not seeing that they are the reasons for what happens to them. Schuylar says its about magic, isn't superstition magic? to me, there are two points of view within the lyrics, the blind man (im a blind man...), and bad luck itself (im a bad man...). the blind man represents a common person (anyone), the bad man is the voice inside his head telling him that all bad things are caused by bad luck and it has a hold on them. Through the song the blind man discusses his problems with bad luck, how he tries to avoid it but fails and it is evident that he blames bad luck for his misfortunes in life. Finally he realises that he is the fault of his bad luck ‘mirror mirror on the wall it was me who made you fall’ (the mirror is a symbol for his mind) also realising that he had been blind to his own wrongdoings (not literally blind). I could go into heaps of detail to what i mean but it would be too long but i have often thought it is a pretty interesting song and this is just one of many plausible interpretations im sure, when it comes to the crunch its what it means to you and i guess this is just what i think |
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| Black Stone Cherry – Ghost of Floyd Collins Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| porbably my favourite song off the album, obviousl about Southern folklore as jrod said but a well written song with awesome southern influences | |
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