| The Black Keys – So He Won't Break Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think this song is about someone who has gotten his/her heart broken. All they need to feel better is love, but love is the one thing they will no longer "break" for. | |
| Thao Nguyen – Tallymarks Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think in this song she is talking generally about relationships at a young age, where you know they're going to end because you have so many dreams that you want to come to reality and can't really stay in a relationship while making those dreams come true. However, she is in a relationship that has ended, just like all those previous to it, and she knew it was going to end, but it's hurting more than it should for just a young relationship. She's surprised at how much she misses the person after they've broken up. "and we drop drop tears like tallymarks and it builds like snow and it keeps us apart and i drop drop tears like tallymarks and i'm keeping score so i keep us apart" I think this part is talking about all her previous relationships. She cries over them, but they are just tallymarks because she knows they were bound to end because she is not ready to settle down. However, with each "tallymark" she is becoming more and more afraid of being vulnerable with someone, and this keeps her "apart" from the new person she is dating. Perhaps this is what caused the breakup. "so don't don't don't explain love to me love love love is not why we leave it is real life dreams, make-believe people you can't build cathedrals out of finger steeples" This part seems to be her explaining that she knows how to love, but love isn't the point of the relationships she's had in the past. She says love is not why we leave, we might love a person, but leave because of real life dreams and we can't realize those dreams vaia "finger steeples", aka we can't expect our dreams to come true just because we are with the right person, we must make those dreams come true for ourselves. |
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| Thao Nguyen – Chivalry Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I could tell in the way He did not kiss back < I think this is about the end of a relationship, when she knows it's going to end because of the way he kisses her - without feeling or emotion. > What's the use in painting faces? You're never gonna find a shade to match < This is just commenting on the way people try to paint their faces or act certain ways to attract a person, when this is useless because it's not going to lead you to your true love. You're never gonna find a shade to match the real you. I think in this song, she feels like the person she was seeing was merely "painting his face" to attract her or please her, but it wasn't real and is now causing the end of their relationship.> Well, yours is a common name And I hear it all the time Could belong to anyone It could never be mine I am tired I'm through When I love I will love so hard Harder than I could love with you < She couldn't love as hard as she is able to with him because he was not real to her. She knows that when she finds the love of her life, she still has a lot of love to give. These lines show her hope for the future and the fact that he hasn't ruined her.) There's nothing in your eyes But slightly amused < When she looks in his eyes, she can't see love or longing. He's simply amused by her, she could be anyone.> An offer of me you politely refused < She tried to be real with him and give herself to him, but he wouldn't respond.> Is it that my heart beat too loud < She's questioning why they weren't able to be that way together, wondering whether she scared him off by loving him too openly.) Is it that i did not bid it come down < She is still questioning wondering whether she should have had more self control when it came to loving him with everything she had; she's wondering if she should have held back, despite wanting to let it show.> Your round-about etiquette < His etiquette seems to be an effort to hide how he really feels.> You hold the door but you won't let me in < He goes through the boyfriend motions, he holds the door, he does sweet things for her, but his heart isn't in it. He can't be real to her, he can't let her in, he can only do the things society has taught him are good to do.> I am tired I'm through When I love I will love so hard Harder than I could love with you Harder than I could love with you I won't make you flex emotion < She never wanted him to fake feelings for her.> I won't make you come a little closer < She's not going to force him to be more open with her.> Do what you want Don't do it for me < She wants any relationship she has to be naturally occurring, not staged and forced.> What's the use in chivalry < What's the use in acting in a way just for the hell of it, as opposed to doing it because you genuinely want to or genuinely love the person that much.> I am tired I am through When I love I will love so hard Harder than I could love with you Harder than I could love with you Well, I could tell in the way He did not kiss back What's the use in painting faces? You're never gonna find a shade to match Well, I could tell in the way He did not kiss back Well, I could tell in the way, yeah, yeah He did not kiss back |
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| Thao Nguyen – Vision In Red Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| it's on the album "like the linen" | |
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