| Red House Painters – Katy Song Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"I thought you'd come over, but for some reason you didn't, glass on the pavement under my shoe, without you that's all my life amounts to." I'm sorry, Jeremiah. |
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| Red House Painters – Katy Song Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think you summed it up perfectly. | |
| Concrete Blonde – Joey Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Anyone who has ever been in a relationship with someone who has a drinking problem knows exactly what this song is about. I've spent many nights listening to this song on repeat. Even today I can't hear it without reliving the helpless heartache that comes with loving someone who doesn't love themselves enough to quit. I'll always love you, JB. Wherever you may be, I hope you're okay, and know that I'm not angry anymore. | |
| Sarah McLachlan – Black & White Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"I am the archive of our failure."--I love this line. I'm pretty sure this song (judging by the other songs on Surfacing and my personal experience with feeling this way) is about how you almost feel like a machine, or a robot, when you're depressed. You distance yourself from everyone, which is tough, especially when you're in a relationship ("The very center of our union is caving in."). The black and white and "everybody loves you when you're easy..." is how you end up just going through the motions to keep everyone happy, shutting off all emotions, when inside you're unraveling and falling apart. |
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| Sarah McLachlan – Wintersong Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I've heard several times that Sarah wrote this for her mother, that had recently passed away, but here's what this song means to me: When I was 11 and my younger brother was 7, one Christmas morning, just before the sun came up, we snuck out, before anybody else was awake. It'd snowed the night before, and we wanted to go to the big hill out behind our house and get first crack at the newly fallen snow with our sleds. We climbed to the top of the hill and me, being the big sister, said that I would go first, as he looked to me to be the brave one. I made my way down the big hill, and at the bottom I looked up, expecting him to still be hesitatingly deciding to come down or not. Instead, I saw him already halfway down the hill on his sled, his hands thrown in the air, and a smile and look of sheer joy on his face, laughing all the way down. I will never forget the way his face looked at that moment. It's a feeling I've spent my entire life trying to capture. My brother died earlier this year from a car accident. I've always loved this song by Sarah, but this year it's particularly meaningful to me. Out all of our adventures together in the last 22 years, that one moment of watching him soar down the hill like nothing could ever hurt him remains the one that sticks out in my mind. You were always the brave one...you were always the brave one. I miss him so much that sometimes I think I'm dying inside. He was my baby brother and my best friend. I would give up anything to have just one more moment like that with him. I miss you more than words could say, A. I hope someday I will see you again, soaring down the hill with that look on your face, racing me to meet me at the bottom. Until then, I keep this moment by and by. Love you, always and forever. -Your Loving Sister, M. |
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| Stina Nordenstam – Soon After Christmas Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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First off, this is one of the most beautifully depressing songs I've ever heard, and I'm a connoisseur of depressing music. This is heartache at its finest. Being alone at Christmas is one of the worst feelings in the world, especially when you're yearning for someone. Stina captures it perfectly. The lines that get me most are... "The city's taking a day off The streets are empty No one's out tonight My life is in another's hands" Anyone who has walked the streets on Christmas know that this is exactly how the world feels--lonely and cold, and if you're heart is broken, then it truly feels like your life is in another's hands. Then there's... "The TV screen is lighting up my room The film has ended Every inch of my skin is crying for your hands" Christmas night in a small apartment, laying on the couch crying in the dark with the TV on, but the movie you were watching is over, so it's just stuck on the screen. The overwhelming feeling of being alone and not being able to even get up and move and feeling like you're going to die because every inch of your skin is crying for the touch of the one you love and lost. Finally... "I wanted to write songs About how we're walking in the snow" This is the most mournful image to me. Think of lovers walking hand-in-hand at Christmas, with lights blinking, snow falling, laughs, smiles, love. But now he's gone and she will never get to write songs about them walking in the snow together. God, this is the saddest song ever. |
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| Red House Painters – Katy Song Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Beautiful, sad, and haunting all at once. If there were a movie of my life, this is what would be playing during the end credits. Red House Painters are one of my most often frequented bands when I'm depressed. | |
| Sarah McLachlan – Full Of Grace Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I really hate that everyone associates it with a certain TV show, but I guess however you hear Sarah's music, at least you're hearing it. I'm just sure that when Sarah wrote it she wasn't thinking it'd be a symbol for vampire love in the future. I first heard it when I bought her Surfacing album in 1997. Still one of my favorite albums to listen to when I'm down. This song to me, is pretty obvious. Anyone who had suffered from depression knows that winter months are the hardest. I think being depressed on your own is tough, but it's even tougher when you're in a relationship with someone and you feel like they deserve much better when you're at rock bottom. To me, this is a cry for help. It's a song to listen to when you're in your last throes of desperation and are begging for something to save you--"if all of the strength and all of the courage come and life me from this place". You drive away the one you love because you "know you can love you much better than this" I think the lines: "it's better this way, I said, having seen this place before, where everything we say and do hurts us all the more it's just that we stay too long in the same old sickly skin" are the most meaningful to me. You know if you could just shed that sickly skin and see the sun again, that you could make it, but you don't know how. You want to love them full of grace, and proudly, not hiding in the weak and ashamed condition that depression leaves you in. The final line where she repeats "It's better this way", in a determined way, is the saddest of all. Because you feel like there might be some hope in the last chorus begging for strength and courage to life you up, but in the end you decide it's better this way. God, I've cried so many tears to this song over the years. |
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| Radiohead – Black Star Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I always interpreted it as his girlfriend is depressed and the last verse makes it seem as though maybe she has committed suicide. A beautiful song. | |
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