| Lana Del Rey – Video Games Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I seem to be one of the few that think in this song she is singing about two men. There's the one that she wants to have the relationship with and that the song "speaks" directly to, whom spends most of his time playing video games. Then there's the other that she goes out partying with, the guy with the "big arms". To me the verse that says this most clearly is the one below, where she uses both "you" and "his". "I say you the bestest Lean in for a big kiss Put his favorite perfume on" So she gives the gamer a big kiss before putting on Mr Big Arms' favourite perfume and heading downtown to party with him, leaving the gamer to his video games. The way I read it the person she wants the relationship with is the gamer, as she continuously repeats that it's 'all for you" but he seems unreceptive to her attempts to draw him away from his video games. |
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| Marina and the Diamonds – The Outsider Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| instead of "All of us are in your face" I hear "I look myself in the face" | |
| Nerina Pallot – Damascus Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Having read the short story she wrote of the same name. http://web.archive.org/web/20071011095302/www.nerinapallot.com/damascus.aspx I'm pretty sure the subject is breaking up with someone that you'd been with for many years. The beginning of the song is their realisation that they'd been "playing the roles" for a long time already and that the relationship had already been over for a while. The part about seeing the light and "it never saw me" seems to be about how the realisation ("I saw the light") has been a revelation but it doesn't make everything ok ("but hey it never saw me") as her child self had hoped in the short story. I'm not sure about my interpretation of "you've played yourself so well and now i want to be you". Connecting it with the last part of the short story "Envy the actor, who has lost all sense of himself and can play the role required, yet still believes he is his own authentic self." It might be a moment where she wishes that she could fool herself so well that she could continue the relationship and not go through the trials of breakup but she finds that she cannot as she hasn't lost her real self. What a fantastic, grown up, break-up song. Really goes to straight to the heart. Refreshingly unlike the mountains of cliched revenge/pining break-up songs out there. |
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| Florence + the Machine – Blinding Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"'Cause all the walls of dreaming, they were torn right open" I hear "wide open" rather than "right open" :-S "And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open", to me represents her anger when she sees that she was being held under. |
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| Feist – Now at Last Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'd always loved the sound of Feist's version of this song but only having heard it so many times do I finally think I get it. Now that the weather is getting cold I thought i'd write up my take on it. Obviously it's about a person that's looking back at a relationship and realising that they've lost more than they thought they had when they parted ways. The "When the wind was fresh on the hills" verse seems to be a metaphor for their relationship when the other person was full of love for them but they didn't recognise or didn't fully appreciate it ("where was I?") "When the spring is cold where do robins go?" could mean that now that love is gone the person doesn't know what to do/where to go. This is one of those songs that breaks you heart but you can't stop listening to it because it reaches straight into you. |
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