| Blink-182 – Violence Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Five years later... Here I am commenting on this song. I'm going to see blink this summer so I was listening to all their albums I had sitting in my closet when I came across this song. I remember I used to despise it, but taking another listen, I am addicted to it. Now the story Tom is telling is pretty straightforward. "Man I adore her. But so does everyone else in the room. I know full well how she works, she's a heartbreaker, yada yada yada" But I thought the things that Mark is mumbling in the interlude were kind of interesting, and they have to have a deeper meaning to them. "Who'll stand by your side?" she's got all these relationships but nobody wants to stick around to see what happens to her. "So watch my eyes, watch them turn while you go change" He cant bear to look at her while she changes, he wants her to know that. He wants her to stop being a maneater. Maybe "While you go change" doesn't mean undress though. Maybe it means a change of heart. As if shes changing for the worse right before his eyes and he can't stand to watch. "Curtains down." "All the eyes that stare" are no longer staring. Its just him and her. "When all their skill was cut, and I bled." Listen to the second verse, "She kills when the life despair Just victims are left to bleed" Maybe she's cutting others' confidence, but he doesn't let her get inside that deep, he refuses to be rendered insecure, so he just sits and bleeds instead. "There were forces of John Jones" To be honest, I have no idea. John Jones is an average joe kind of name. Maybe he's just saying, they were everyday forces. Or maybe something entirely different. "I can't make you happy, it seems all I ever do is try." pretty self explanatory. "You could never cut me deep enough to leave a scar" Another "she cuts her victims and leaves them to bleed." reference. She hurt him alright, but he wont remember her, or he wont let her bring down his self esteem too much. "So take this gift, its something to save." Save has several meanings. He could mean that he's giving her something to remember him by, although he wont have any memories of her. Or he could mean that he's trying to save her from her old ways. Alright, I'm done rambling, I hope that made sense to anyone who spent their precious time reading an aimless comment of mine. |
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| Park – Gasoline Kisses For Everyone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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He goes right out and says it... we've all been trapped before in this situation. It's the pain of knowing your partner is unfaithful, and not being able to do anything about it except love them and try to win them over in desperation. But I don't understand one of the lines "...and burnt red are the arms of a sunburnt boy in love" Any ideas? Originally I thought it was a self-harm reference, but I'm not sure. |
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