| Ryan Adams – Happy Birthday Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Fuck loving someone who you love, who's too good to love... But, she knows it, and loves you back in her own way. You can't win for losing, sometimes. |
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| Ryan Adams – Sylvia Plath Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me this song is about meeting a woman who is so totally not you, you can't help but be drawn to her. You're wrapped up in her life, and thoughts, and actions - but everything she does is foreign. She's uncouth - ashes on the carpet, abuses pills and alcohol, sleeps for a week, exotic to the point of being extreme - but you want nothing more than to be near her. At the same time, she fills needs in you no one else has - gives you a bath, sleeping on boats, naked swimming, dancing in mansions - all while being just out of reach. I wish I sometimes had a Sylvia Plath. |
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| Ryan Adams – When Will You Come Back Home? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Sometimes the grass is greener, because the future seems to predict it. But, sometimes, the grass is greenest in the past. The first verse seems to be about him realizing a relationship that was good is now fading. "Carolina" is his utopia, based on other lyrics. The first chorus is about him hoping "she" is looking for him - knowing she isn't. The second verse is about realizing it's done - he's going to stay strong, but he knows it's his fault. The second chorus is the same as the first, but now he's the one looking. Finally, he realizes he's thrown away a real chance at happiness by looking for greener grass. But, it's too late, the things that appealed to her just aren't there anymore. Now, it's nothing but regret. I hate and love this song at the same time for describing some relationships in my past. |
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| Ryan Adams – Ultraviolet Light Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song strikes me as a contemplation of the comparison of our fleeting lives with the slow, ageless, tick-tocking of the universe. External things are generally described as slow, while the human interactions are rushed and urgent. Make and follow your wishes when you can, because the universe is catching up. |
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| Ryan Adams – Come Pick Me Up Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I don't necessarily see this as a breakup song. I can understand why a person might think that, but I think it's about REAL love. Sometimes, maybe more often than not, a song for that is written after the fact... If you search for the song title and "Original Live Version" on YouTube, you might find an EARLY release of this song. (It kills me that the crowd might laugh at what I consider one of the greatest songs ever written...) "Break my heart, and then do it again"... You write that for someone you YEARN for. "I wish you would make up your mind, so I could make up my bed; Try it for sleeping sometime, maybe you'd get some rest..." I believe this song is about a NEW love that he doesn't have. (In his case, yet. In most of our cases, ever.) |
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| Ryan Adams – Dear John Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The album version of this song is a duet with Norah Jones. Her accompanying vocals add femininity to a song that is seemingly written from a woman's perspective. The better (in my opinion) version of this song is the BBC4 Sessions version. The emotion in the way he performs that version melt my soul in a way few other artists can. This song is about a woman whose husband has died. It appears he was unfaithful to her many times but she loved him in spite of the indiscretions. The reference to many seemingly everyday reminders make me think she'll never really move on. The window that still isn't fixed, the door that she still doesn't latch. She died inside the day he did. The chorus implies a type of fateful connection that is larger than the trivialities of normal life - a love that transcends. "Cause you're always mine to keep when you're gone" - the only time no one else can have him. "And I wanted you so bad..." You can feel the anguish of a missed love when he sings that. |
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