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| Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I'm not saying that my interpretation is the absolute right one or that it's the one intended by the band. Maybe when Snow Patrol wrote the song they intended it to just be a nice love song, I don't know that. My particular personal interpretation was obviously shaped by a bad experience I had that this song was a part of. I still think of her when I hear it. Also I was more than a little depressed when I wrote my original post, so you have to keep that in mind. If you prefer to think of this song as something positive, more power to you. The beauty of the music is that it does different things to different people. You don't have to let what I said affect you if you don't want it to. By the way if you're going through a hard time in your life right now or have been, I can totally sympathize. All the best! |
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| Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song isn't as innocent as it sounds. I've learned that from experience, then went back to analyze the lyrics of the song. They fit my situation perfectly. This was "our song" for me and girl I dated for a year and four months. At the time I thought of it as just a pure love song. We had a Disney movie idealized relationship. I wrote her sappy poetry, we took walks on the beach together, and we just put off discussing all of our issues and our differences, of which there were many. In that way, we wanted to "just forget the world". Others, especially my parents warned me about how the relationship was destined to fall apart, and I just ignored them. There the lyrics "forget what we're told, before we get too old" come in. Unfortunately by that point I was completely defining myself through my relationship with her, echoing the lyrics "all that I am, all that I ever was, is here in your perfect eyes". In the end, we ended up breaking up over religious differences (I'm not religious, she's very Christian), something we both knew would be an issue before we ever began the relationship. Looking back at the song, I found it very fitting. It's not an actual love song, since "forget(ting) the world" and completely defining yourself through your partner really don't make for a healthy relationship. Instead, it's a song about a type of love that may sound very enticing, but can't or shouldn't actually survive. I guess it was my song with her in more ways than I knew when we first chose it. |
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| R.E.M. – Accelerate Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Yeah it's true that REM is very political but I don't think everything they write is Bush-bashing, as fashionable as that was a few years ago. I think this song is more personal than political, and I think that it's about suicide. The protagonist of the song is climbing to the top floor of a building and "I threw the window open in challenge and despair". He's thinking about throwing himself out of the window and ending whatever pain he has. As he's ready to accelerate downwards, he thinks about what circumstances have brought him to this point "What put me here?". He knows that there's no easy way out of his troubles "Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?", and so is forced with the decision of ending his life or climbing back down the stairs and trying to change things the hard way. The ending is a little ambiguous as to whether or not he actually jumps. All of the imagery of high places seems to me to fit a lot better with suicide than with a political song. Just my 2 cents. |
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