| Gregory and the Hawk – Boats and Birds Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think this song is about any loving relationship. It's my best friend's and my song. A beautiful song about the devotion of kindred souls. | |
| The Temper Trap – Soldier On Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| He finds himself thinking about death ("this side of mortality is scaring me to death") and realizes it's pointless ("Who wants to know all that is gold is rusting?"). So he tells himself not to think about it and to just cherish life while he can ("keep your heart close to the ground" and just "soldier on"). Or at least that's what it means to me! | |
| The Weepies – Slow Pony Home Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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To me, the arrival of the girl on the slow pony home is really just someone coming to terms with themselves. The "people in her suitcase heart" are people from her past she's tried to gain the approval of, and be-ridding herself of them is a sign that she doesn't really care anymore because now she knows undeniably who she is. "I can remember when I first saw you. You said in my photograph I looked more far away, I laughed and smiled and didn't say, 'I am a bit afraid to be here.'" The "you" is her old self, returning to her new self and saying she's changed so much, she doesn't even recognize herself anymore. "Setting free the anchor" is letting go of the insecurities that were weighing her down, while "looking past the shore" to a "sea of horses on ships with no sails, no motors, no oars" means she can now see how other people live in denial. They'll never get anywhere just as a ship of horses would never get anywhere without a motor. And finally, she tries to clean the metaphorical window between her old self and her new self only to realize that maybe she can't go back; she can only move forward with the new person she's become. |
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| The Weepies – Citywide Rodeo Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think this song is about how we all fight against the perceptions people have of us- rather pointlessly, really. But there's "no need to save face" because "this is a ride, not a fight." The line "you wonder how fast you'll go when you hit the air" (getting bucked off a bull's back) is a metaphor for realizing the "dust in the stadium seats" means all your enemies and spectators were imagined. We are our worst enemies, after all. You should "step into your car" and leave your self-criticisms and feelings of insufficiency behind. "Look up at the indigo and pick out your star"- realize who you are and go after it. | |
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