| Thriving Ivory – Day of Rain Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I've just discovered Thriving Ivory and there are two songs that stand out to me more than others. Angels on the Moon & Day of Rain. This song is, just like someone has discussed before me, about a break-up. The girl is so lost (after waking up one day and not knowing who the hell she is and what is it that she really wants from life), and the guy feels unloved because of her confusion. He always thinks to himself that eventually she will get back to her senses, so he gives her one more day. Yet again, the next day she comes back and asks if she could spend the night alone. So, he thinks to himself that he should get a grip of himself, be a man, and just get out of this 'unhealthy' relationship and find himself a true love in the 'rain'. Although the image of him finding a new love in the rain is quite beautiful to think of, but if we think about it, it's a heart-breaking image of someone who is just so desperate to be loved with just as much as he's capable of loving. This is why i may disagree with the previous posts concerning the fact that he's going out to the rain to find his confused girlfriend. I think it's the image he's placing in his mind that, just tomorrow, he'll be able to get out to the rain and find a new love who could eventually be sure of her love to him. |
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| Amy Winehouse – Stronger Than Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| great analysis!! :) i'm so with you on this.. | |
| Damien Rice – Elephant Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is such an amazing song and I think it’s very complicated as to what it holds of meanings. The "you" and the "she" in the song does go back and forth. He refers to his ex-gf as "you" at some points, and then uses the same word “you” to his current gf. Here’s my elaborate explanation to what I think the song means. He's with someone right now but he's longing to be with his X. It was a lie that broke him and his X apart, but it clearly shows that she’s all he still thinks about and she’s all that he will always need. He begins his song with "this has got to stop". This, here, is in reference to his current relationship. He knows that it must end because he knows that he will never love his current girlfriend as much as he loved his X. In the 2nd paragraph, he refers to his current gf using the word 'you', telling her that she can keep him “pinned” but she will never know how to 'paint an elephant' the way his x did. Painting an elephant may hold various meanings, in which people may vary in the way they analyze it. But that’s not a problem here. The whole idea here is that he’s comparing what his current gf does, and how his x does it even better. (We all know that a guy always compares a current relationship to one that he has passed thru with a person that mattered to him much in the past old days just to see if it’s better than what he had or not). Obviously, he’s not. Even when it comes to painting an elephant, his past love beats his current one. In the 3rd paragraph, he addresses his X and uses the 'she' to his current gf. He’s explaining to his X why he's with his current gf. She's only filling the empty space his X left in his heart. He carries on with his explanation that although she might 'cry like a baby' but at least she's with him when he's 'lonely'. (which means that he feels lonely almost all the time even though he’s with someone. He’s only lonely because his X isn’t the one beside him. So he tries to imagine his current gf as his X to try to suck up on that loneliness that he feels.) Then he asks his x-gf if she regrets how it all ended - 'do you fall upon your knees..." and wonders whether she has forgotten 'the breeze' (which I think refers to the beautiful shivery feeling a couple in love would feel when they’re next to one another). And now my favorite part: "And she may rise, if I sing you down And she may wisely cling to the ground".- Here he is speaking to his x telling her that his current gf is wise enough to cling to 'his' ground and rise him up every time he slides down into thinking about his X. He's telling his x that his current gf accepts him despite his ‘thorns’ and that she does the right thing for him when he’s horny and lonely. Finally, “What's the point of this song? Or even singing? You've already gone, why am I clinging?" He knows its impossible for his X to get back to him, but he still thinks its worth singing for her. He tells her that he could simply ‘throw out’ his current gf anytime, if his X decides to come back to him- which he knows very well that she will not be doing. He knows and admits that he's living a lie, and he's going to continue living a lie just to fill in the void that his x had left in him, despite the fact that he knows that ‘this has got to stop’. Jorj Na’was |
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