| Sparkadia – Talking Like I'm Falling Downstairs Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This is one those songs that I find I can very heavily relate to. 60 miles an hour I think is very close to some of the meaning to this song, especially with him being able to do a lot of difficult and possibly impressive stuff but at the same time not being able to express himself vocally. To get to the possible meaning to those I am comparing some of my own experiences to the lyrics here, which as I said, bear many resemblances. I listened and watched an interview with the singer, Alexander Burnett, and he talked about this song. In the interview he spoke about the song being a narrative of him approaching girl that he's interested in and becoming overcome with nerves "lose my nerve", struggling to talk "tongue - tied", and his body defeating him "self-defeat". These symptoms seem to be very similar to a person who has some form of anxiety. If you aren't familiar with anxiety, it is a mental illness that makes your body respond to common/normal situations in ways that are extreme, as if something really dangerous is happening or will happen: shivering, throat restriction, heartbeat increase, sweat, racing clouded mind, and the result is often social awkwardness and embarrassment. I have a form of anxiety myself and this song seems to be outlining scenes that I can easily imagine myself going through, but I won't go on about myself. Walking "through all the steps" in your head - this is probably because some of the most simple seeming situations take on such big significance because of the fear response, and thinking through these situations in advance, whether accurately or not, helps to find some order and make him feel better prepared for the situation. In the song he's probably preparing what he's going to say mentally as he approaches her. "though all the steps in my head" and "I can't keep climbing are connected" with each other, because the more he goes through the steps in his head, the more muddled his head/thinking becomes; over-thinking things like this are really draining, and also when doing it you know that it's completely unnecessary, irrational and probably not helping anyway. The next bit is probably talking about the kind of self-defeat mentioned earlier, because his overactive mind has muddled up his thoughts and made him unable to say a simple sentence or two or three, so he gives up and feels stupid and tells her that he can't remember what he was going to say (an excuse, because he wants to get out of there by this point) and leaves her presence. The next verse is painful, as he reminds himself of everything that he's good at and then ends on his inability to talk. "Talking like I'm falling downstairs" is a brilliantly imaginative simile, as it makes you imagine someone falling downstairs, but what is most important to be seen here is the fact that it would be very very difficult to talk while you fall downstairs because your breath would be blown out of you from hitting each step. He's saying that trying to talk to the girl is difficult enough to be compared to trying to talk to someone while falling downstairs. It goes with the next bit to him standing probably close to the girl (at least that's what I imagine, because he's muttering, and you don't mutter usually unless there's people around) and there's another psychical expression of his possible anxiety in "stutter" (often people with anxiety stutter too). "You can't quote something from someone else" might show that he's arguing with himself, and still unsure of what to say. "I duck - swerve/Lose my nerve" might describe him, for a second time or maybe the first time I'm not sure, approaching her. And he waits for her to say something with "On the tip of my tongue just give me the word and" - now this is a great line because it's like a cliffhanger in a way because "just give me the word" is often what people say to other people when they want to be polite and suspect that the other person wants them to leave but isn't saying - like "just say the word and I'll leave". The way I see the rest of the song is him going over these events in his head some more. | |
| The Killers – Mr. Brightside Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I imagine this is about a guy who has girlfriend, but is very insecure and tends to over-think to such an extent that he works himself up. In my eyes the song is describing him, maybe lying in bed "Now I'm falling asleep", thinking about what his girlfriend could be doing and coming up with scenarios that hurt him to think about but won't go away. The reason for this could be that he's been hurt before, is insecure, or maybe has always been the jealous-type. "coming out of my cage" seems to be consistent with this because it could mean that he's shy and is putting himself out there, probably feeling fragile on the inside because he's unsure of a lot of things. The scenes of the girl and the guy kissing and smoking and going home together are in his head "And it's all in my head" and he realizes that they might not actually be reliable because one's head is capable of lying. I always thought that he sung "let me go" rather than "letting me go" because it outlines agony, as he doesn't want to be thinking about it but he can't stop, he's pleading. If anyone has the official lyrics I'd be really happy to be told about that bit. In the chorus he sings about the scenes that he's thought up, and not wanting to look (because they refuse to go away) and the effects that jealousy is having over him and probably over a lot of other people who have felt it before. "Swimming through sick lullabies" reminds me that he's trying to sleep and these thoughts are not helping. "Because I'm Mr. Brightside" is the part that I'm most unsure about, although I think that it could be him being sarcastic about his own behavior - he's not Mr. Brightside, not optimistic, but instead pessimistic and assumes the worst, assumes that these scenes that he has thought up might very well have some basis in reality. The repetition of the chorus and verse show to me that he's thinking over these things over and over again, and is becoming more and more pained, and probably tired, by it. "I never" could be interpreted in many different ways, one possible interpretation is that he could be giving up, maybe similar to saying "never again" but I'm not entirely sure of course. | |
| The Killers – Spaceman Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I agree mostly with the people who are wondering if it might be a patient's experiences after attempting suicide and being hospitalized and coming home and living life. The first verse seems to be about the person trying to commit suicide, unsuccessfully - the low light would be the UFO carrying the aliens inside it, and "they" could be just hallucinations or delusions from the event. Him being cut open probably describes part of the hallucinations, as well as the line "because they're calling me by my name" (but doctors or nurses in a human hospital would call you by your name, either because they have your wallet or you've been taken in by someone like a family member or friend that knows). One interesting line that I've thought about quite a lot is "And you know I might have just flow too far from the floor this time" because I imagine in my mind someone trying to hang themself, and this is why: if someone wanted to commit suicide by hanging they would tie the rope up to a support overhead and stand on something that makes them able to reach the rope (normally standing on something like a stool or chair) which they can push away once their neck is in place. If thought about this way, then "falling too far from the floor" would be him dying or dead, and he's wondering if he might be in one of the processes. "That was the turning point/That was one lonely night" I think means that he turned his life around after that point, it took his life down another hopefully more positive road. "The star maker" seems to me to be maybe his manager, as managers are in the business of making people stars or more famous anyway. "The dream maker" I think could be a psychologist or psychiatrist, and making dreams would be hypnotism making, there are many reasons why someone would become angered at such a person because they would be the ones to tell them that what they think they're seeing is actually hallucinatory. "The spaceman says everybody look down, it's all in you mind" is probably him recalling the events, unless he's still seeing them )also it reminds me of many alien abductions recollections that I've read and seen in the past: the people would usually describe the beings that kidnap them as speaking to them through their mind and reassuring them "everything is fine" "do not be afraid" and stuff like that. In the next bit he goes home and is genuinely looking forward to what the future holds, yet at the same time seems to have suicide on his mind "Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea" and "You better look it over before you take that leap" could mean that he's realizing some of the consequences that go along with going through with it. Another interesting line is "And you know I'm fine" because it makes me wonder if he really is fine, or just saying that he is. The following line begins with "But" which works off that uncertainty created in the former line. "The public don't dwell on my transmission/Because it wasn't televised" implies that the public knows who he is, and therefore that he's probably well-known (which makes it more likely that the song could be written about himself). Now this makes the manager as "the star maker" seem more likely because it shows that other people knew about the events, but kept it unknown to the media and thus the public didn't know and couldn't "dwell" on it. "My global position system is vocally addressed/They say the Nile used to run from east to west/They say the Nile to used to run from east to west" I think is displaying that something is wrong inside him still, there is some kind of inner turmoil (the Nile in reality runs from south to north), and this could be an indicator that his inner voices, his guiding voices "global position system" or GPS, might be still out of touch with reality. Then after the chorus is repeated, the lines that I think show doubt or even denial in the speaker "you know I'm fine" are sung again, which leaves me with a fair bit of fear for the person. The way it ends with "It's all in my mind/It's all in my mind" shows that he's probably trying to remind himself of the fact, but maybe finds it hard to believe because they are hard to distinguish between reality and delusion. That's what I get anyway, feel free to reply with opposing or differing opinions. | |
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