| Joe Nichols – Gimmie That Girl Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| He's also saying that he wants to continue getting to know her because even the moments that aren't very impressive "never cease to amaze me." By saying to let down her hair and put up that red dress he's saying that she doesn't have to try to be sexy, he's already into her without her trying. When he says to cancel the reservations he's saying that they can be relaxed and just hang out and that's not only enough for him but it's what gets him going. I really like that he's saying that he prefers her that way, not just that she's good enough as is. This song is so full of affirmations for the lady because he's telling her how beautiful and incredible she is as she is, no facade. | |
| Joe Nichols – Gimmie That Girl Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song has a special spot in my heart because a special, blue-eyed man likes to reference it. He says that Joe Nichols must have had me in mind when he wrote this song. D'aww! Anyway, the meaning of this song is pretty straightforward: The man adores the woman for who she really is---dorky, hot-mess and all. He prefers her the way she is instead of conventially impressive, pretty or cool. He likes her when she's laid-back, comfortable, and relaxed because she's more fun that way. He thinks she is amazing, flaws and all and considers himself lucky because he gets to see a side of her that most people never bother looking to see. Such a sweet song. |
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| The Hush Sound – Magnolia Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree with something more along the lines of VerseChorusBridge. I love The Hush Sound because if Vanessa Carlton was a more talented lyricist and had a musical band-baby with the lead singer of Panic! At the Disco who was additionally less obnoxious, it might sound something like this. :) 1st stanza: I thought this song was to sung by a woman to her (ex?) lover but it could just be a friend. It sounds like he is so happy to have beaten his drug addiction in some rehabilitation hospital and he's so incredibly happy to have realized that he's alive, now that he's out of his drug-induced stupor. The allusion to smoke as his words combine her mixed feelings--her affections for him yet how she knows who he really is, that he's into all this stuff that's not good for him and that bothers her. Still, when you love someone you can't help but feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. Obviously he sent her letters as a way of staying in touch. Lovers or not, they had a strong connection and when he was alone in the world she was the most important one still around. Then it sounded to me as though she tells him it's gonna me okay and that he should run to the garden of magnolias, perhaps an old meeting place or some other secret, safeplace, even encoded. The next verse she describes him as experienced when it comes to "lovers" but they've all hurt him. What she next sings of sounds to me like these lovers all seduce you and it makes you feel alive but that doesn't make it right. He is weathered from his experiences with lovers who "pulled you into the night They touched your skin with velvet gloves And made you feel alive" Chorus: She tells him it kind of doesn't matter now if he can run to the magnolias where he can leave it all behind him. It sounds like she describes sunset, but that's open to interpretation. As for what the faded/fading sunset stands for, it could mean anything. It could mean she's dying, that he's leaving & they're saying goodbye, it could be that he is simply being pursued by the demons of his later adolescence. The latter is my favorite because it matches the urgent and passionate music. Next verse sounds as if she is remembering him, whether it is from wherever new place she or he is (maybe he is in hiding from the things she tells him to run from). Bent shoulders to hold the weight of the world sound like a great responsibility that he takes with him throughout the rest of his adult life. Chorus: So she wishes him the same things she always wished him, wherever he is out there and hopes that he found that place of shelter. But now she is alone, he is gone and that doesn't really bother her or at least she's moved on but she finally cries out simply to wish him well, as someone who was once so important to her. It sounds like their lives go on ...just without each other. I like to think that after the last verse of expression/venting, she goes on with her life and they both act in their daily lives like this life changing experience never happened. But the point is that it did. And it changed them. |
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| Camera Obscura – Come Back Margaret Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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My initial take on "Come Back, Margaret" was that it was about an affair. Because it's right after "Tears for Affairs" on the album (Let's Get Out of This Country), I always felt like this was the back story to the eventual peace she finds in "Tears for Affairs". That being said... She beckons Margaret to come back because he "wants to explore you" which is obviously of a sensual nature but also because she'd "like to explore you." Like get to know the other woman a little better, see who the competition is and what she's all about. Women love to gossip and get really into the details about stuff like that. The line about the tears in her eyes for love for this cheating man is directed towards Margaret, almost like 'can't you see what this is doing to me? why did you do this to us!?' A relatively universal sentiment for the significant other to the 'Other Woman'. "I like the free days with no expectations / I like it my way with no limitation" refers to the freedom of being single and getting everything her way again. But the last two lines of this verse tell of the pain of the way the relationship ended. She still cries for him even though she paradoxically despises him. It's like, by the time the affair occurred/she uncovered the affair she already loved this man but then for him to do such a thing is just truly despicable. So despite his awful deeds unto her, she can't help but still love him (she's not over that yet.) "Darling, you will always be around / Whether my mood's up or if it's down" is about the man she loved. When you fall in love, you think of someone all the time. And when it ends (good or bad) you still think of them at some of the most unexpected times. So this line is saying that he's still in her heart no matter what happened. The rest of this verse "In dreams I try to take you far away / But you never stay / No, you never stay" is, because of the context, about the man. By taking him far away she means that she is trying to get over him and it doesn't work. But if you took that part of the song out of context, it could be about Margaret too, about wanting her to go away but she never stays out of the way. I never thought this was about being stuck with the man, I thought it was about loving him first and not being able to stop thinking about him no matter how much it hurts but eh it's all interpretation. As dividee5 says, it definitely could be about her grandmother, and while I don't know what it's MEANT to be about, I think the beautiful thing about music is that everyone gets something different out of it. In the case that Margaret is the narrator's late grandmother, the "him" involved would most likely be the grandfather (or possibly step-grandfather/lover of the grandma). In the case that Margaret is the step-grandmother/lover of her grandfather who left, it would also make sense. She no longer has to live up to the expectations of this woman though she still misses her and thinks of taking her ("far away") on vacation. |
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