| Wilco – Ashes of American Flags Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think this song is about the state of the average American. People live their lives without meaning, degrading into petty comforts and consumerism. "Why we listen to poets and nobody gives a fuck" We have stopped even caring about the possibility of meaning in our lives, and consumerism gathers us up into plastic bags, like fallen leaves (quite a symbol). This song is a salute to those people living under a the ashes of an American flag. This is what our country, maybe even our entire world, has come to. | |
| The Bravery – Believe Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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this song is about the very concept of religion corrupting and destroying people the first three verses are about how religion convinces people that the only reason for life is to reach the afterlife, so people live their lives waiting for a 'ship thats not comming back' the song is told from the point of view of a non-believer who thinks that life has no point. the final verse is the most important. the evil that religion speaks of is the very act of worrying about the afterlife. the most optimistic line of the song is 'now I am just nothing, now thats just what ive become'. by spending your life worrying and searching for something to believe and make you feel better about your life, you take the meaning out of life. the line implies that life HAS meaning to begin with. the song suggests that living just to breathe is all the meaning one needs seems optimistic enough for me |
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