| John Mayer – Bold as Love (Jimi Hendrix Experience cover) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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OK - this cover is nothing like Hendrix's. it's mostly foul. aaronv15 I think you have it all there. Maybe the Axis is supposed to represent the differnt "colors" of love, like how different emotions associated with love -anger, jealousy, tranquilty, confidence, and fear - can take over at times in turn. Perhaps Hendrix's Axis was always turned in the direction of one of the hindering emotions like fear or anger. These emotionas took over and prevented him from "giving my life to a rainbow like you." Recognizing that the other has all the colors, and to love requires all the colors - even the hindering ones. I think Hendrix's goal was to inspire people to accept and get past the hindering "colors" of love and not to get hung up on fear or anger... |
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| Anberlin – Inevitable Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| haha that entertains me that you posted that idea... =P | |
| Anberlin – Blame Me! Blame Me! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"courting disaster" I admire the image of dancing around a fight... because that's EXACTLY what it's like when relationships fall apart; be it a lover, a family member, or a friend. it sickens me knowing how accurate this song is. |
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| Anberlin – Dance, Dance, Christa Paffgen Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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So I think I read somewhere in these comments that "Lips that need no introduction" means the singer is with a former lover - although it could be possible I read that in comments about "The Feel Good Drag" since this line is found in both songs. I agree that is a plausible explanation, but I took that line a bit differently. It makes me think the lips need no introduction becuase the two have eliminated speech when they meet. The relationship has become focused - or was always focused - on physical intimacy rather than emotional intimacy. The song is SO very powerful because the body's demands can outweigh the mind's demands - Hence the struggle shown with, "If Lodon's calling, don't you dare pick up the phone. Only you entwined could make this orphan feel at home. Lips that need to introduction, but now waiting for your call. If a picture's worth a thousand words, than your touch is worth them all..." The mind saves a picture which usually would be the more important element - the memory and thought of a lover, not just their body entwined. But here, her touch is worth more because of the nature of the relationship. It reminds me of a scence in The Graduate - when Ben notes to Mrs. Robinson that all we do is jump in bed - shouldn't we talk at all? And by the way... the ones of you that commented you would want to be that girl!?!?!??? I sugguest you think twice about a statement like that... I assure you, you would NOT want to be that girl... CRAZY awesome song!!!! =] |
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| Cursive – The Recluse Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I put this on repeat and it will play five or six times before I can gather the strength to let the CD advance... I think "home" goes beyond the literal meaning - that it may be a location - rather it refers to feeling comforted or feeling complete. The singer seems to think a person can fill that void, but he knows they can't because he "pretends" he's "finally home." He may feel that he cannot get a feeling of satisfaction on his own and so he seeks a girl to fill that void. Will she stay with him? He doesn't know because he doubts himself just as much as he doubts the depth of the relationship. There's discomfort that he experiences from knowing he is totally wrapped around the girl's desires because he has nothing else. He doesn't have a "home" and I don't think he believes he ever will. |
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| Blue October – Drilled a Wire Through My Cheek Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I recently became obsessed with this song and have been listening to it over and over and over... Justin's voice cradles his words in his mouth, leaving me in awe. "Where confidence is found attached to wires on our sleeve" is my favorite line. I enjoy reading everyone's interpretations! | |
| Blindside – Ask Me Now Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| thanks cstovall for posting the artist's meaning!!! reading that adds so much more to the song and YES yeerk86 - I AGREE on those inevitable albatross bumps!!!! | |
| Anchor & Braille – In Retrospect, it was Obviously Hell Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is titled "Introspect" on the final album. By the way, "introspect" is a verb meaning "to examine one's thoughts or feelings." And I think this song is a reflection on one's feelings about another person and a situation they created from an intermingling of love and lust. It's interesting that this song follows "Blur," which is about "love and sin" - love and lust - and questioning a relationship's meaning. I think these two songs are tied together. "Introspect" tells a story of someone (I assume it's the singer, because it is written in first person) sleeping (or engaging in sexual acts) with a former lover who took the singer's love and used it to satisfy sexual desire. The singer thought the acts were legitimate - after all, who wouldn't think it's right to engage in passionate encounters if you loved that person? - but the reality of this encounter is that it was built on the foundation of lust, not love. The singer seems to realize this reality, with the lyrics, "Heat of the moment, well this used to feel like home," "But I can tell when you're lying baby, your lips move again" and "The scars of my heart, they keep me, keep me in line" Yet he is still enthralled somehow, wanting the relationship to be that of heaven, not hell. His attachment is shown with the lyrics, "These leftover feelings raise, raise from the dead" and "I may be lost here, here in your eyes." Maybe this lasting attachment is because he is too afraid to let the person go or he is too ashamed to fully admit to the sins he fell to - is falling to and for - and recognizing this would mean to break every attachment and live with that shame. He's not comfortable in his situation, but seems willing to keep it if that means he will not need to open his eyes to his sins and his hell. The singer is at a point where he knows their encounter and previous encounters were lustful, hollow, and meaningless - not because he had lustful intentions, but because the other did and always will. What he thought was heaven has crashed into hell. Was it ever heaven at all? I am convinced it was hell, and he knows it. The only thing hindering him now is his weariness and drunken state - "drunk" meaning high and muddled with ecstasy from these encounters and the false pleasure the other gives to him. He will have to overcome his tiredness and break from her enthralling aura. I find many of Stephen Christian's songs about the "lines between love and sin" - about lust, temptation, love, confusion heaven and hell. Once a person knows of sexual encounters and participates in them, it's easy to get carried away in acting upon sexual pleasure and for sexual pleasure. The love can be lost, or in some cases it was never there from both people or one's intentions were purely for their own pleasure and benefit. This leaves the one who did love in doubt, wondering what the definition of what "heaven" (love) is and what the definition of "hell" (lust) is. If the singer was in hell, what is heaven? What are acts of love, and what are acts of lust? I think Stephen Christian explores this question and is trying to figure it out. It's difficult to live with yourself, knowing you may have sinned and knowing the love you thought was there was really just talks of "green grass" and lies. All in all, this song gives me chills and unnerves my senses. It's such a compliment to "Blur" and messages in other Stephen Christian songs. |
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