| Paramore – Decode Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Twilight is SO annoying. Don't get me wrong---HUGE fan. But oh my GOD shut up about TEAMEDWARDTEAMJACOBVAMPIREWEREWOLF shit. God. I like lowkey stuff, not this popular nonsense. But good God, damn it, holy wow. This song KILLS me. | |
| Flyleaf – Arise Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Also, I think "hammers and needles" is just a general metaphor for the bad and pain and hurt in the world, the corruption. Maybe nothing specific, like drugs, as you said. Just things that represent corruption. She said, "End of these hammers and needles for you," and this song is about ending all the bad things of our world. It makes sense. That's what I think at least. | |
| Flyleaf – Arise Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Drug use? I never thought of that. I assumed self-mutilation by way of cutting, because her other songs have hinted toward the fact that she's done that. I wonder if she's done drugs. Interesting perspective. | |
| Flyleaf – The Kind Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Thank you for agreeing! I'm really glad you've been thinking twice. I'm trying to quit and I'm on Day 23! o_O But I think it's the part in the beginning that goes, "It's like being in love; you rob your own mind and defile your bed" that makes me think it's about cutting. Because really, when you get trapped in this addiction, it's ALL you think about, and you're obsessed, at least that's what it's like for me. And it's like being in love, and it takes over your mind. I don't know. There's just some dark feel in it. And plus, there are a lot of other for instances in Flyleaf's songs that make me think that Lacey was/is a cutter, like in the song in their first album called Red Sam. The first lyrics are "Here I stand, empty-handed, wishing my wrists were bleeding to stop the pain from its beatings." It's a good song. And in Arise, she said, "Snow on your face/ And your razorblade." I don't know. I also wonder if the lead singer of Evanescence cuts too! Anyway, I know how tough this is! If you EVER need anyone to talk to about this, I'm ALWAYS here to listen! My email is henryandclarexx@aol.com Don't be afraid to use it! Good luck! (: |
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| Flyleaf – Arise Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| What does she mean when she says, "There's snow on your face/ And your razorblade?" | |
| Flyleaf – The Kind Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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You guys all have amazing points, and it made me think of the song differently. As well as I may think even Lacey would very much agree with you, my own personal opinion is different. We all connect with artists on levels only we know and only we, individually, can understand. I have connected with Lacey on the level of darkness, because that is what I see in her and her songs. Darkness, and recovery. And I think that's what this song is about. "It's like being in love/ You rob your own mind/ And defile your bed/ You ignore the fight of the players who both end up dead/ And you pretend for us and you pretend for them/ This fairytale will make them jealous of you." That does sound like a sexual reference. But the term "and for the first time, your right arm becomes useful/ as you sin with it, you want to cut it off/ but instead you thank God for all of the wrong you do." That part got me to think. I myself am a cutter, and I've picked up on MANY things in Flyleaf songs to hint that Lacey is/was a cutter too. I think maybe only cutters could understand this, but, when you have a secret so dark like that, you literally fall in love with it. I think, at least in my opinion, it's about just that. Falling in love with the dark secret. She wants to cut off her right arm because of how she sins, how God wouldn't want her to cut, but she ends up cutting and thanking God for an outlet, something that she loves as much as taking a blade to her wrist. It's a strong kind of love, one you can't help, like loving a human being. That's what I take from it. |
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