| Bob Dylan – Desolation Row Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| my interpretation of this song is a general one. i think its related to something kerouac talked about. desolation row is just unadulterated reality. the song attempts to distinguish between the glamor put into life by artists and media, and what life actually is. breaking from romanticized notions that most people carry. the verse about eyes fixed upon noah's great rainbow (a symbol of god's promise), but peeking into desolation row (doubting that there is some grand hidden meaning in life)...to me thats the main idea. he brings up so many references to famous or iconic persons, and then breaks them down or puts them into a realistic or maybe just pessimistic backdrop. the idea is that life is ordinary and maybe even bleak, but we've been lead to believe that we are all special and filled with some type of almost divine purpose. i don't want to say its as much a commentary about religion or spirituality as it is a commentary on the hyperbole that's kind of inherent in art. | |
| Sunny Day Real Estate – How It Feels To Be Something On Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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thoughts about this song. heres my interpretation. if i break down all that i am ----if i really think about myself and who i am a field of wires we'll see what it's worth to walk-----if we walk a harder path to break the lines of alternate streel------we learn more about ourselves if i turn around what matters the most in time we're going nowhere------------------if i go back and have too many regrets and dwell on the past, i dont move forward don't tell me now the days i've had to fill it up but spill instead (the times i tried to accomplish something but messed up) talk to remind days weeks and hours-----------dont try to tell me that all the mistakes and failures in my life, were meaningless and are just time wasted, because i learned from them. all in time will be later on we'll try hollow peaks we've climbed all those things i've seen-----------------we'll try again, after evaluating past failures and learning from them---- how it feels to be something on-------this is what life is about thats how the days go if i break down all that i am a field of wires we'll see what it's worth to walk to break the lines of alternate streel if i turn around what matters the most in time we're going nowhere don't tell me god the dreams i've had to fill it up but spill instead talk to remind days weeks and hours all in time will be later on we'll try all we gave to fly hollow peaks we've climbed all these things i've been how it feels to be something on so i think the main idea of this song is pretty simple. learning from mistakes and continuing on without regret is the only way to make progress in life. |
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| Sunny Day Real Estate – Guitar and Video Games Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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im leaving a lot of song interpretations right now because im in a thinking mood. so here goes for this one. how is it you feel? ----how do you feel about your life? I remember you at the top of my room all these things we wondered how to hide ------we were ashamed of who we really were see how it works when all the day long in a bottle of mud------see how life is when you stifle yourself with shame and doubt all these fears we wondered how to hide our love how is it you feel when you run?----do you really feel good when you try to deny yourself? ships won't come in in a bottle of mud----bottle of mud is a metaphor for actions that obscure who you really are----ships wont come in-----nothing is achieved when you act like this all this time looking for love and-----you spend your time trying to achieve a romanticized conventional ideal type of life you want to find peace but you find me mandrary fields where we run see how it works with a bottle of rum--same kind of imagery as before all this time hiding from death and we want to be strong but we find the true story a tale writing itself as we sail------life is unpredictable---life happens as you live it a story a tale writing itself as we wail oh no never again my dear shall we come dancing here--------let's not pretend and try to live up to other people's standards of what we should be doing....trying to posture and impress people we'll play guitar and video games-----we can take pleasure in the simple things in life what if we refused to follow the rules of fashion?-----would it be so bad to be ourselves, despite other people finding distate in it? tell me something you'd tell a fool ways to refuse to follow the rules of fashion how is it you feel when? remember you in the top of my room all these things remade me and caused to be something grand never again shall we come dancing in the sea we'll play guitar for a new (2x) we'll play guitar and video games anyway i didnt feel like doing every line...but i think the song is about being true to yourself and not trying to live up to other people's perceptions of who you are, or their expectations of who you should be. |
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| Sunny Day Real Estate – Seven Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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some thoughts on the meanings of lines in this song. sew it on. face the fool. december's tragic drive --reference to seasonal affective disorder when time is poetry and ----when you're depressed, time is like poetry to some people...it requires more effort to get through and find the meaning in things stolen the world outside-----don't want to leave the house because of depression the waiting could crush my heart----"i feel like i might die while im waiting for this to get better" the tide breaks a wave of fear---tide is a reference to "as eventual as the tides"...periods of depression are eventualities for him....and now eventuality has brought him to this period of depression...basically "now im depressed" and brave songs dissapear to the secret voice of dawn ------------------------i cant reassure myself this last time raise my eyes.------not too sure about this line you'll taste it in time-----i'm guessing hes saying you may not understand but eventually you will and all this will make sense the right words in time. the mirrors lie those aren't my eyes ----i look in the mirror and i don't feel i'm really the person i see destroy them raise my hand ----i want to break the mirror out of frustration reflected in savage shards a new face a soul reborn. ------------i feel the fractured image in a broken mirror is a more accurate reflection of who i really am inside. my mind and my spirit is cracked and jagged. this is just my interpretation. the song is a description of an episode of severe depression and the chorus is a commentary on how people who haven't experienced severe depression don't usually understand and try to marginalize your pain, but eventually, everyone finds a time of desperation. love to hear anyone's thoughts on this. |
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| Jeremy Enigk – Carnival Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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well i don't see any interpretations here so i thought i'd give a try. next to each line ill put what i think is being said. well for the lines i have thoughts about. What were my intentions in time will bring good "even though all my actions haven't turned out well, the intention to do good things will eventually work out if i keep striving for it" and so we'll make this our own paradise "and as long as we try do good things, we will eventually make the world better" where blue eyes should look "and it will be an example for people who are preoccupied with superficial things to learn from" so i played again to lay down myself "so i continued to try to act well and attempt to stop being egocentric and put others before myself" the lines made me perfect and came then ---not sure about this line the light gave me dark "acting morally was a light that showed me contrast and made life clearer to me" threw myself in your door "i showed you my vulnerabilities" you stared at me with those eyes " you saw my weaknesses and were happy to exploit them" and caught your disease "you tried to change my mind about my ideals and i let you" then swallowed ideas to skin "i accepted ideas that really should be dissected and analyzed further" and left standing there "these ideas ended up isolating me" and so we'll make this your own paradise "and by acting this way, all we do is make things better for ourselves and not everyone else." where all eyes would stare "you'd rather have people envy your happiness than to have people, themselves, be happy" so i played again to lay down myself "and even though i doubted my plan, I'll try it again now..." the lines made me perfect and came then the light gave me dark. so i think the idea of this song is someone making you doubt your faith and because theyre unhappy and cynical they want you to be. other lines i think were left out. "and two wrongs waste my time" at least i think thats the line...he's saying even though someone tried to sabotage his beliefs and jade him, probably for malicious reasons, he won't retaliate..."the same sign" he repeats at the end...he's saying retaliation would just perpetuate a negative cycle and the he'd never be able to strive to make a change in the world with his actions. i'm not really sure how the title relates. if anyone has any thoughts about any of this, i'd love to hear them. |
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| Jeremy Enigk – Shade And The Black Hat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i know this post is pretty old, but if you take "paying regards" as a reference to Christ's death, I'd think it would follow "i've paid my regards pouring in wine" would mean something like "i've sacrificed in blood, as Christ did", even further, sacrificing in blood most likely a metaphor and and a hyperbole just saying "don't tell me i haven't lived to follow Christ's example, i've sacrificed and been altruistic as he did, and at great personal expense to myself." just a thought. | |
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