| Seether – Fine Again Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Anberlin – A Whisper and a Clamor Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is about ending the silence and actually doing something about whats going on around us. I also think its about seeking out who we truly are, and not becoming what others say we are. "Growing tired of bedside resolve" This part makes it seem that somebody is getting tired of praying to solve their problems. (People often kneel and pray by their bedsides) "(Public display of depression)" They're frustrated with whats going on and they're becoming depressed. "Something's got to give now Something's going to break down" The person might compromise who they are because of their depression. "I grow tired of writing songs While people listen but never hear What's really going on now" To me it seems that Christian is saying that if the people really heard what he was saying in his songs they wouldn't be giving in to depression and they would want to be working to change the world around them. "Tell me what's so wrong now" He wants to know whats so wrong and what made them depressed when there's so much hope to be had. "Clap your hands, all ye children There's a clamor in your whispering Clap your hands tonight Hear what the silence screams" My interpretation of this part is that he wants all the children (fellow Christians) to rejoice in the hope that they have and to give that hope to others. To clap your hands shows the rejoicing, it also could represent action, because clapping makes noise in the middle of silence (silence meaning doing nothing). Whispering seems to mean praying. The clamor is your prayers breaking through the silence because they bring about change in the world. "Hear what the silence screams" means understand that the consequences of doing nothing are too great. "For most who live and breathe Hell is never knowing who they are now Tell me who you are now" Christian seems to be suggesting that to truly know yourself you have to know your Creator. According to the Bible not knowing yourself would then mean hell, because you chose to reject God. "Tell me who you are now" seems to be a challenge for people to seek and find out who they truly are in God. "Finally saved from the outside Trapped in what you know Are you safe from yourself? Can you escape all by yourself?" Here he seems to point out that there's people who know that truth comes from God and the ways of the world are lies, yet they feel trapped because they know better but keep following the lies. Christian points out that to be safe from ourselves we need to abandon ourselves (our pride, our egos, our selfishness) and put faith in Christ so we can die to ourselves and follow Him. "It's not the lies that you sing But what the silence will scream" I think the "lies that you sing" represents the ignorance people have about who they are and what's going on in the world around them. "But what the silence will scream" means once again that because of the ignorance and the inaction the consequences will be great. Great song. |
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| Anberlin – Hello Alone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is one of my favorite songs of all time. *Is this where the interstate ends? In coastal towns like this Waiting for my world to cave under We seem to invent ourselves (we seem to invent ourselves) In places left unknown If hope could only find me out* I think the interstate and the coastal towns signify the realization that this is where I am and there's nothing left for me here. Nothing left to find. To invent oneself in another place is to say they aren't themselves in the place that they are in, and they want to leave. He longs for hope, hope that can find him in his loneliness. *Is this the end of everything we know? This is the end of everything I am* Again I think he's coming to the realization that there's a lot more out there besides everything he is right now. *Is anybody out there? Hello, hello Broken hearts like promises, are left for lesser knows Is anybody out there? Alone, alone Cause the coldest winters thrive* For "Broken hearts like promises" I think he's just saying that many times the depression that people (the lesser knows) experience is often because they're brokenhearted and given broken promises by others. Coldness is often associated with sadness and depression and "the coldest winters thrive" shows that he is in a deep state of depression. *Depression is the unholy ghost In the coastal towns ahead. Though I know a thousand names I seem my only friend I've got the gun All I need is ten cents for the bullet I feel helpless, Sleeping at best Waiting for your return Are you ever coming home?* I think the unholy ghost is the devil and he's the one that's making him feel this way (the devil wants us to be sad and depressed). He's got a gun but needs ten cents for the bullet, the ten cents in my opinion signifies the "death" choice in the decision he has to make, life or death. But I'm probably looking too far into it. Helpless, and sleeping at best suggest that he feels as if nobody can reach him where he is and he's living as though he's not awake. "Waiting for your return" this part I think signifies a family member who's left "a broken home". I also think of it as a personification of happiness (can a home appear broken because there's no happiness to be had within it?). *Does anybody, do they ever listen?...* Being depressed often feels like nobody understands you or knows what you're going through. You feel like you're really all alone. *From a lesser known. I'm here and there's hope. There's hope.* As Zeewei pointed out, Christian uses lesser knows earlier in the song and lesser known at the end. This signifies that he went through all he wrote about but, he found hope and he's not depressed anymore and he's awake and alive now. There's hope for all the people that are going through what he went through. "I'm here" lets them know that they aren't alone and that he (along with many others who found this hope) actually listen and are there for them. I also used to be alone and depressed, but there's hope, and now I'm awakening to life. What a victorious ending to a great song! Stephen Christian is such an inspiration to me. Instead of just writing entertaining songs like many others do, he writes songs that can be applied to all aspects of life, you can take so much away from them. This song is a great example. |
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