| We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I really like this song. The only intepretation that I will give is that when he says "I'll fall for you" maybe he means not much as to fall in love like I think alot of people usually interpret that line as. Instead, maybe it means just that, like he will fall for the person, meaning he will give up, or give in, or stop a certain lifestyle. Which I guess is kind of like falling in love anyway. LOL |
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| Manchester Orchestra – Shake It Out Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Ok one more, sorry I love this song: Perhaps when he is saying God in the verse and chorus, he is not really meaning it in a literal sense. In otherwords, like a figure of speech or a filler. My interpretation of him going through hard times remains the same. However, at the break down, I think the lyrics can also be when he has the religious experience (the born again experience and no I am not a born again Christian). And when he says "you'll never know" and "reveal the bigger mess, that you can't fix" I think it is him sort of mentally talking to anyone that this world cannot solve his problems but God can. So, the chorale and bell part than like signify him entering the world of God. BUT, in the end he is still asking God for help, for assistance. |
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| Manchester Orchestra – Shake It Out Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Ok, so I think I can nail this one: The guy is going through dark times (funeral, depressions, etc) and he is asking God for help (we'll assume it's the Christian God). And he is defintetely some what skeptical because he keeps asking God to show himself (speak to me). But he feels that perhaps this new taking up of faith could possibly end his dark state. eg. I am the living ghost of what your need. "So we bled it out over the floor of my neighbor's house." I think the he has tried to talk to friends (possibly counselors) about his problems. And than he goes back to seeing that the belief about God is the true answer. Than he goes back to intesely pleading with God to help him. Then there is the breakdown part: He feels taking up God has taken away his sins. BUT, he than really delves deep within himself and realizes that maybe he has just been talking to HIMSELF the whole time and that the institution of religion will not solve all his problems and that there is this true core or selve (his home) that makes him up and that God or the institution of religion will never know or understand. As this part is happeneing, there is church bells and choral singers and it's like this grand personal epiphany of discovery. But, at the end he finds himself returning to God for asnwers. |
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| Piebald – American Hearts Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the song isn't so much about capitalism as it is about how we have become as a nation. This sort of ridiculous way of life...shopping carts, homeless man washing windows for cars, making money, etc. And he realizes that we are all to blame. This place has broken my American heart. I think he realizes that maybe America is not all that is cracked up to be. So America itself has broken his American heart. Like he has heard and seen the truth. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the country. I guess I am just observing the post moderninst thought and tend to feel there is some truth to it. |
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| Arcade Fire – Intervention Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Arcade Fire – Intervention Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it is about the singer having a mental intervention with a friend (soldier) or possibly himself. I love the line "Working for the church while your family dies." Such an amazing contrast in one line. I think the use of the word church doesn't necessarily mean a church in the literal sense. I think it can any institution really. Every spark of friendship and love will die without a home. I think it means that love and friendship in the civilian sense maybe go out the window in time of war. When they say there cutting off the phone, I'll tell them your not home. (Not sure on that one) We can't find you now, But they're going to get their money back somehow, And when you finally disappear We'll just say you were never here. (Not sure on that one either....any thoughts?) |
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