| Sara Bareilles – Many the Miles Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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At first when I just heard the song without paying a lot of attention I thought it was about being far away from someone you love and she was saying that she would go anywhere no matter how far to be with that person. BUT, paying close attention I realize now that Sara is so much more than what the "girls across the nation would eat up". Sara pretty much says in the piece Laurenm209 posted. It's perfect and totally sums it up. She sometiems get overwhelmed about life and how fast it goes and how she is scared of not leaving it right ("so many things I haven't done yet" "can't waste a day wishing it'd slowed down") and that makes her sad ("but now and again i lose sight of the good life i get stuck in a low light") but than love (the thing she is all about, the thing she thinks life is for, "the only good thing worth trying to be") makes it all better ("but then love comes in"). And she will go as far as she has to to follow that love. Amazing. I love Sara's songs more and more every day. Who hasn't felt that way, sad and frustrated because of all the things you haven't lived yet? Wondering if you're living your life right. And then she offers her insight, her piece of advice: love, follow it, go for it, don't let the rest get to you. Do everything for love and you'll be living your life to the fullest. And when I say love I don't mean the commercialized man&woman, couple kind of love. I mean and that's what I think she also means, love for everything in life. Love for life itself. |
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| Sara Bareilles – Vegas Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree with Elena. I always heard this song as if she is singing it to someone who is always running after something, thinking that happiness (or fame, or success) will always be somewhere else and they are never satisfied with whatever they got so they are always moving somewhere (or thinking about it) to try and find it. "gonna sell my car and go to Vegas cause somebody told me that's where dreams would be" this is someone saying hey that's it, Vegas is where I'm going to be happy, that's where dreams should be, then... "gonna quit my job and move to New York cause somebody told thats where dreams should go" now this person is not happy in Vegas, so he/she comes up with NY, that's where dreamers should go, so that's where I'm gonna be happy. And so on... "listen up now honey you're gonna be sorry can't get out from under a sky that is falling and you say" And here she is trying to tell that person to stop doing that because that's not how he/she will find happiness. And that person apparently knows it "no fame, no money I'm nobody, the way I'm running has sure got me down on my knees" but he/she can't stop it "but next stop Vegas please" I love this song because I kind of relate to it. Always thinking that only if I move over there, or find another job I'll finally find the happy ever after of my life. And I know that that's not how life goes. It's full of ups and downs and it's more of an inside job when it comes to being happy and making your dreams come true. |
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