| Eminem – You're Never Over Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[teehee:2017] my boyfriend died nearly 9 months ago. I feel the same about this song, and also connected to The Offsprings' Gone Away too. I definitely looked at the same line you did, "instead of mourning...celebrate your life" and for a moment had the same motivation you did. The "why why why" is such a true, real lingering feeling though. Hope you're finding some peace with the loss of your brother, even though the wound will never be fully healed. | |
| The Wallflowers – One Headlight Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Honestly, I disagree. Every writer writes what they know. Everything has an intended meaning, even though it's tempting to try to give it your own meaning. | |
| The Wallflowers – One Headlight Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is just my interpretation. I'm not sure how accurate it might be, but I am in a similar situation to this speaker, it's 4:51am, and I can't sleep. So here's my two cents. The 4th verse tells of a time where she was alive. A warm summer Independence Day, which most people look forward to, is cold and unsatisfying to her. "Can't break away from this parade" sounds like someone fighting the thrills of drug addiction, which would explain the lack of interest in everyday normal excitement such as Independence Day celebrations. Drugs are a selfish thing. You do them to spike your own senses. The speaker wishes badly to find the way out of the "maze of ugliness and greed," which sounds to me like a selfish addiction. "the sun up ahead at the county line bridge" is them hoping for a possible light at the end of the tunnel. A bridge brings you from one place to another, and the bridge from addiction to sobriety looked hopeful for a minute. "saying all there's good and nothingness is dead" is probably my favorite line. This was again more hopeful and wishful thinking in a time when things were looking good. Before she passed he wasn't close enough to the idea of death, or "nothingness." So basically the idea of "dead" was dead at the time before her death. "We'll run until she's out of breath...She ran until there's nothin' left" Before she died they kept her going for as long as she could, but the end was inevitable. "Well this place is old It feels just like a beat up truck I turn the engine, but the engine doesn't turn" The speaker revisits memories of his love, but it doesn't do him any good. It hurts to look back knowing that those old memories are the only moments he has left with the person. You can't go forward and make a life based on just memories. The engine is her. Still there, but not in the same sense as before. Ultimately out of use. "Well it smells of cheap wine, cigarettes This place is always such a mess Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn" Smell is considered the strongest sense linked to memories. Again, this refers to a place in his head that he goes to when he's remembering her, and it feels like sometimes he would be better off forgetting, when he says "sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn." "I'm so alone and I feel just like somebody else Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same But somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin' dreams I think of death, it must be killin' me"" After losing the person he loved, who he probably spent most of his time with, he's not even sure who he is without her. He's still him, but there will always be an undercurrent of grief in his head telling him something isn't right. The city walls in the line "between the city walls of dying dreams" is his mind that he practically lives in while grieving, where he can't stop thinking about what things would have been like if the speaker's love hadn't passed, hence the "dying dreams." Thinking about all of this leads to him spiraling down the concept of death, which only eats away at him. "I think of death, it must be killing me." "Hey, come on try a little Nothing is forever There's got to be something better than In the middle" "Nothing is forever" is obvious. Everything dies. This is the voice of the speaker that tells him to keep going on, and try to have some sort of existential outlook, because there has to be something better than in the middle (between birth and death). But me & Cinderella We put it all together We can drive it home With one headlight" The car could be a metaphor for their togetherness, where the one headlight out is her, and the one headlight on is the speaker. Basically the speaker is coming to terms with the idea that she's not completely gone because she's a part of him, and this thought will hopefully ease his mind and help him live on. |
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| The Unicorns – The Unicorns: 2014 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Tomorrow is 2014 | |
| Cream – Tales Of Brave Ulysses Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I love that part in That 70s Show! haha | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – Everything Is Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I second you on this | |
| Man Man – Zebra Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Weird, I just watched Rushmore for the first time two days ago. And I'm not even sure what brought me to this page but it is just weird that you had said that. Anywho I approve your comment | |
| Beastie Boys – I Don't Know Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Sad day in the world of music. rip, you will prosper in your next life | |
| Natasha St. Pier – Mon amie la rose Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| What's it about though? | |
| Dr. Dog – Jackie Wants A Black Eye Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Clearly he and John were talking about Lost. | |
| Neutral Milk Hotel – April 8th Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This is weird. I've been a fan of NMH for a couple years, and I just decided to playlist.com some of their songs, and listened to this song for the first time ever, on April 8th. (Technically April 9th because it's 2am.) But it's also weird because I'm in bed wrapped in covers, watching late night tv and nobody else is up, I'm alone, and it has been raining all night and I can hear it tapping. I love this song. | |
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