| k.d. lang – Simple Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Be sure to know that all in love is ours That love as a philosophy Is simple I am calm in oblivion Calm as I ever have been Love will not elude me Love is simple Be sure to know that all in love is ours Is ours That all in love is ours That love as a philosophy Is simple And ours |
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| 311 – Lovesong (The Cure cover) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Heh heh the lyric is very self explanatory, but I suppose there's no harm in dissecting it for a more elaborate (free) interpretation. ------ Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am home again Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am whole again ------- The guy is far away from home, has left the place he belonged to for a long time and never really found it again. He's scarred, part of him destroyed, life hasn't been too kind to him. But this person he's singing for gives him peace every time they're alone together. ------- Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am young again Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am fun again ------- He's old and broken, he's tired and he doesn't feel like he's happy or making other people happy. But being together with this person makes him forget about all that. This person gives him joy. ------- However far away, I will always love you However long I stay, I will always love you Whatever words I say, I will always love you I will always love you ------- He can't be with the person he's singing for all the time, not even a lot of times, but he will always love this person. He might stay only for a short while, he say and do hurtful things and probably can't help but keep on doing it, but despite all that he will always love this person. ------ Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am free again Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am clean again ------ He isn't free, he's tied to situations and things or people or his own needs and choices that make him unhappy but he can't break away. He feels dirty, might be for living a life of crime or having diseases or stuff within himself that he considers unclean. But every time he's with this person, he feels liberated, clean again. ------ However far away, I will always love you However long I stay, I will always love you Whatever words I say, I will always love you I will always love you ------ Life sucks he sucks they can't be together freely he says and do hurtful things without meaning to, but he loves this person, and will always love this person until the day he dies, despite everything. |
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| K'naan – Wavin' Flag Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"When I get older I will be stronger They'll call me 'Freedom' just like a wavin' flag and then it goes back, and then it goes back and then it goes back, and then it goes . . ." Generally a waving flag is a symbol of freedom. It does give the impression of something powerful, free, relentless, the movements don't stop, it goes back and forth over and over again. You also can't have your flag waving freely without having the political and physical freedom to do so. But ironically a flag is bound to the pole, it's not really going anywhere ever. Still, as the song say this is his home, it's all he has ever known. Perhaps being free doesn't mean flying away from the land, but to have the power to stand right there, proud and strong and above many struggles, overcoming them. |
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