| Coldplay – Yes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Okay... it here it goes: How about looking at this from another angle? A forbidden love in terms of an affair? Perhaps he is already in a relationship, but this song is about lust. The search is sexual either way, but instead of it being a love song, I see it as breaking rules. 'When it started we had high hopes;' It seemed like good idea at first... 'now my back's on the line, my back's on the ropes...' Maybe it wasn't such a great idea... I'm in dangerous territory now... 'When it started we were alright,' Everything was going great in the beginning 'but night makes a fool of us in daylight.' What seems great in the darkness/hidden isn't really that great after all. There's an expression that says a cat is a cat by day, but by the darkness of night it is a panther... so it's kind of both the disillusion of something great, as well as how silly it really is once you get a second more detailed look at it. 'There we were dying of frustration, saying, "Lord lead me not into temptation."' They really wanted to take it to bed, but were holding against it because it they knew it wasn't right. 'But it's not easy when she turns you on... since they've gone.' I think that the they here can refer to the people around them. If they didn't have anyone to judge them, he would feel more comfortable with her because she turns him on easily. But it's everyone else that holds him back. 'If you'd only, if you'd only say yes. Whether you will is anybody's guess.' At this point he's wondering whether she really is THAT girl. The girl that will have a relationship with an unavailable man. 'God only, God knows I'm trying my best, but I'm just so tired of this loneliness.' Chris definitely goes back and forth with this song... one sentence is him doing the right thing, the other is him not thinking the right thoughts. Here it's like a prayer. He's telling God that he's trying not to be tempted by this woman, but he feels more attracted to her than with whom he has his current relationship. 'So up they picked me by the big toe; I was held from the rooftop, then they let it go.' At this point the affair is out... his friends, family, wife or girlfriend has kicked him aside. They've shunned him and by saying they picked him up by the big toe... well you can imagine the pain. 'If there's any screaming let the windows down, as I crawl to the ground.' The screaming he refers to is his own as he falls from the rooftop. Basically he thought he was on top of the world that he had it all covered, but now that reality has hit he is screaming either for apology or for the very fact that his world is falling apart. Again closing the windows, is the people around him ignoring his pleas because he's not worth it and as such he crawls to the ground with remorse. 'If you'd only, if you'd only say yes. Whether you will is anybody's guess.' I think that apart from it sounding awesome the repeat of this chorus has another meaning now. Now he asks his affair to be something more and he wants more from that than just sex. 'God only, God knows she won't let me rest, but I'm just so tired of this loneliness. I've become so tired of this loneliness.' Basically she doesn't want anything more. She won't let him rest because he knows that the relationship is heavily based only on one thing, but he doesn't have anyone else to turn to. She is the only one he can lean on now because he ruined his actual relationship... so that's why he says i've become this time because he's become lonely because now he doesn't even have love. |
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| Stars – Fixed Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| PS: The great thing about this song is that the words and the actual melody are perfect for each other. You can literally have the song on loop and because of the way that it begins and ends it sounds like a never ending song, so you can never stop... you're fixed. (: | |
| Stars – Fixed Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Kind of reminds me of the sound of M83. Here's an idea of what I think it means. I think it might be a long shot. By taking a look at the lyrics I figured this song might be about a person loving someone who hurts them. I can't tell from which perspective it's being told, but this is what I see. "You, you hold my heart You, you won't let up After when I'm called Touch turns into fisticuffs It's all in your head Wonder if I'm fixed to cut" So I see this section about the love and it's an interesting play on words because there's both beautiful words that can define love (heart, touch, in your head, fixed), but at the same time there are words that describe hurt and not so beautiful things (won't let up, fisticuffs, cut). "We are the hunger That keeps you climing walls" I think that the hunger here refers to staying even though leaving is a better option, even if you have to suffer (climb walls) to do it. "For its statistics In the collected whole" Before when it says this it means in the bigger scheme of things... "It's the one thing you can count on We all end floating away We all end floating away" So it doesn't matter in the end, because everyone has the same fate, so why not stick it out together. "Is it your fault?" She's asking if it's his fault that she is this way, or if it's love or herself or who? Then in the end the last verse... I think it's a monologue. So she's talking to herself saying that it's all over and it doesn't matter anymore. And when she says "I care when caring fades" I think she's reached the point of numbness, where she doesn't feel the pain she only feels the love. |
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