| Pendulum – The Island, Part I (Dawn) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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To me the lyrics are about drugs in so much as it is LOVE that is the drug. Two people are taken on a journey by the love drug ("you arrive in the morning sun" = beginning of relationship/journey) and just like with any drug there is a comedown, a 'traveler' if you will ("I am caught...move me"), and in this comedown appears the realization that they are no good for each other and that their relationship is, appropriate to the song title, 'on the rocks' (perhaps some word association by Swire?). The bridge/chorus, all the way from "What are you waiting for?" to "we come undone" I believe is about this very realization: "What are you waiting for? Just surrender here tonight What are you waiting for? As we go towards the light" Why are we still kidding ourselves that our relationship can continue? Let's surrender - admit defeat, that the relationship is over. Literally, with the use of "tonight" and then "go towards the light" seems to suggest more word association. That is, that they should literally 'call it a day" and move on towards the next day - i.e. a life without each other. "When everything is said and done So looking for answers if only one Turn my back the urge has gone Left with no reason we come undone" Reinforces the above stanza. They've tried everything to keep their relationship going, seeking the answer of should they stay together or not. He then realizes that to keep trying is a futile endeavour and consigns himself, albeit regretfully, to parting with her. The music echoes the sentiment of the lyrics perfectly. It's slow and hazy during the verses, mirroring the drug induced haze of the couple's love, then builds during the bridge/chorus as the come down brings the couple to the realization that they have to split. Whether deliberate or not (and tbh I really can't tell), the lack of lyrics to the actual chorus could speak volumes; there's nothing left to say so why say anything? I <3 Pendulum. Quality music you can dance to with lyrics you can actually think about. |
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| Pendulum – Witchcraft Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| @anonymous2010 either you're exceptionally perceptive or you're Rob Swire in disguise lol ;) Yours is the most fitting interpretation so far, by miles. Makes everything clear, and explains the video and title too. Love is itself bewitching, and when in love you are said to be under a spell. Love transforms you, whether for good or bad, but it's witchcraft in all but name ^^ | |
| Florence + the Machine – Cosmic Love Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Absolutely rip-roaring, mind-blowing song! Her voice is absolutely captivating...now I know why she called the album 'Lungs' - she's certainly got a good pair on her! IMO the song it's about a woman who falls in, apparently, unrequited love with a man. She feels so consumed and overwhelmed by this emotion - blinded by the intensity of it - that she is literally in the dark; totally lost, confused, scared, cannot see the wood for the trees, and also in agony because she believes that he doesn't feel the same way. She decides she has to remove herself from his influence, yet in doing so she finds out that he is in fact in love with her too, so they lose themselves in each other ("Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too, So I stayed in the darkness with you"). What I especially like about this song is how the chorus is ambiguous enough to be able to be interpreted, convincingly, as both negative and positive emotions; respectively, prior to the middle eight and after it. The first two choruses her supposed unrequited love for him is impacting on her negatively, but in the ones following his revelation in the middle eight she is still consumed by her love for him but now, because their feeling is mutual, the power of the love that they share is powerful enough to destroy cosmic bodies. His love has blown her away. Such an intense song, perfection. |
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