| Lady GaGa – Speechless Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Sounds like destructive love (read: abusive) with someone who has a substance abuse prob. My interpretation: The singer wants to make things perfect/right, but it doesn't matter what they do; because, they'll always be wrong. They're walking on eggshells and messed up about the essence of love, i.e. "speechless." |
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| Hellogoodbye – Betrayed By Bones Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song really speaks to me and my struggles with an ED. I know that's not what he's writing about, but bare with me... I feel like he's me and instead of talking to Chelsea Lynn or w/e, he's talking with the eating disorder. When it all started, it was about perfection and prettiness. Sort of and I was proud of ALL my new bones just poking through the skin. I thought they were beautiful, dainty, feminine. Now, as I sit here after a pretty defeating binge, it's no longer something I can control. I wish that I wasn't "betrayed by these bones." And because this is the standard of beauty; I still secretly feel that I'm winning. Sometimes when I've restricted a meal to <120 calories or take off my clothes to bathe and I see my spinal cord etc. I touch back with reality. Any who haven't slept and my hormones are off... But the lines, "My bones are wrong sometimes; Sometimes my bones are wrong" really resonates with me, because sometimes, regardless of how beautiful I feel in skinny sizes or people in awe of my thinness. Sometimes, it's not right and I'm imprisoned by this. Followed by the very last, "Oh, I know I'm not leaving; Oh, I know I believe it and so do my bones." The worst part is, I can't escape this prison and maybe I love the skinniness so much that I won't ever stop this and abandon what I'm doing to stay this way. Hence, I know I'm not leaving and so do my bones. |
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| Morningwood – Sugarbaby Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| ^No. The song's video and lyrics support an "upgrade" theme, in terms of society and cash flow, but that step up doesn't always guarantee happiness. Or something. | |
| Relient K – Sahara Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Although I believe a song's meaning is completely subjective. I just listened to an interview with Matt discussing this song. Surprise, surprise, it is about his fiance. He talked about knowing "someone" for four years and once things just dissipate cold turkey, that someone refuses to speak one word to him ( reference "Therapy") which he felt was unwarranted and made him feel completely deserted as if everything spoken within the last four years meant nothing. He then goes on to explain in a more cheery tone about how the whole "lion" imagery came about in the shower, as do most wonderful ideas. He also talks about the whole "Savannah" and "Sahara" concepts being very closely conceptualized, evoking themes of Africa etc. | |
| Relient K – I Don't Need A Soul (To Hold) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Hands down one of the most well-written and painfully poetic songs I've ever heard. Forget and Not Slow Down is a masterpiece. It's shocking there aren't more comments or interpretations. I think the title plays on the ole' terminology for your everlasting lover, "soulmate." I was listening to an interview with Matt the other day where he discusses not only parting with his ex, but the death of his Uncle while in post-break up solitude while writing the album. I think that accounts for the verse about, "departing from the hospital..." The song is self-reaffirming and presents a positive outlook where dealing with change and departures are concerned. In the aforementioned interview, Matt Thiessen talks about how he hasn't been single for a long time, because he tends to jump from relationship to relationship. This, he says, is often the explanation WHY many relationships fall apart, because one of the two people (or both) involved isn't whole on their own and has yet to learn what makes themselves happy. "I don't need a soul to hold, without you I'm still whole. You and life remain beautiful," says to me that once you self reflect and are content all by yourself, only then, can you attempt to complement another. In other words, no one NEEDS a soul(mate) to hold. You can be happy single as well once you realize that it's never the end of the world. The song meaning of this song and "Part of It" are complimentary in that they consider "the big picture" when dealing with hard times (break ups etc.), knowing that better days will come, or that "things could still be worse... and there's nothing to complain about now." |
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| Chairlift – Bruises Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't think this song is "cute" in the least, well, besides in it's catchiness. I think it's literally about abuse OR that good ole' fellatio. |
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| Relient K – From End to End Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think Relient K writes music that is meant to reach a broad audience. So to some of you, that means Christianity to others, it could mean anything else. I think their music is always Christian yet always secular. | |
| The Kooks – Pull Me In Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think "Pull Me In" is ultimately about a guy, in a heteronormative world, who's trying to bed his girlfriend. Classic tale of guy wants sex, girl doesn't. The first verse is the epitome of male entitlement. He obviously feels entitled to taking without asking. Second verse he is clearly playing out scenarios somewhat forcing his girl to go further sexually. "It's easy to pick and choose, with you and me we can only lose," sounds like the divide between the two on the subject of sex; the two will never agree. The singer tries to convince their S.O. that they should just go along or it's over between them, i.e. "Just don't fight me off and I won't write you off." This verse is completely naughty: Take me in and then you push me out Fall all over yourself tonight And just don't let it go, without a fight Take me in and then you push me out Fall all over yourself tonight And just don't let it go, let it go In my opinion, the singer seems frustrated (as are most teenage boys) when they aren't allowed to go further. He's complaining that she is receptive at first to his advances and then stops him. I believe, "fall all over yourself tonight" is slang for, um... self love. "And just don't let it go without a fight" is based on the male creed, if at first you don't succeed! The next verse he talks about trying to woo her while slightly resentful about the fact he hasn't and isn't getting any, "Cause you know what's on my mind... is you getting all this time". The last verse/screaming part makes me think that ultimately the speaker got what they wanted, whether from the girl he was with or "another girl." Honestly, I think it's obvious what kind of guy Luke is. A lot of their music has this theme, although these ones written later are more mature, think "So Vicious" and that line in "See the Sun," "Oh no! I didn't mean to say what I did say, all about lovers and how they should lay. That was never for me to say and say. Don't you see now how I pay?" |
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| Relient K – Which To Bury, Us Or The Hatchet Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I agree with princess*delilah and 2bored2think. Truly a great song. I think it's about love between two people that turns bitterly violent. I think the lyrics were meant literally AND metaphorically in this song; not to mention that the title adds a level of animosity. I think people stay in crappy relationships until they realize there's nothing redeemable about "love" like that. "Which to Bury, Us Or the Hatchet" sounds like a very bad break up, where they've both changed for the worse, "What happend to us? Why didn't you stop me from turning out this way." Any type of abuse is always corrosive to a relationship and overshadows everything else, "The memories that you select, you keep the bad but the good ones you forget." And the love/hate feeling never really goes away when you've reached the end. | |
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