| David Gray – Draw The Line Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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According to an interview that David Gray did with an online newspaper, "Draw the Line" is "about staying alive, to not be curbed by what you have to wade through day in and day out. "Draw the Line" is about escape..." http://www.davidgray.com/about/press/press.aspx?PostID=719518 |
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| David Gray – Babylon Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree with this interpretation. I also think that the lights and colors are significant. In the first verse, the lights are changing "green to red." He is literally "going nowhere" because he is afraid, stuck in negativity, and looking back at this relationship with frustration and regret: I've been a fool To ever open up my heart To all that jealousy, that bitterness, that ridicule He is putting all the blame on the other person. Then in the second verse, the lights are changing "red to green." He is now able to move forward because he can look back without so much hurt and anger and acknowledge his own mistakes in the relationship: You know I'm seeing it so clear I've been afraid To tell you how I really feel Admit to some of those bad mistakes I've made Then, the happy ending... |
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| David Gray – Slow Motion Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"for me the song is about that moment when life overwhelms you and, in this specific instance, the moment you realize someone you love is slipping away from you (be it from death or lost ties etc) i feel like he's reached that moment where everything around him is moving in slow motion, like he's stuck and doesn't know what to do. he imagines the walls having eyes (think of those horror movies where everything is exaggerated and scary in the dark), like everything is judging/staring at him" I agree with you, bakemeacake161. Then, when he says, "Snowflakes are falling / I'll catch them in my hands / Snowflakes are falling / Now you're my long lost friend," I think that he is still talking about the impermanence of things. Just like the person did, the snowflakes disappear after he catches them (snowflakes do a "slow dissolve" in your hands after you catch them). Just like these snowflakes, the person is gone. Now, he or she is his "long lost friend" rather than the friend who is still there and still a real part of his life. |
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