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| Sia – Chandelier Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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agree with with gilbag and JamsXIV. desperately drinking yourself to utter emotional numbness, to break away from the demons that get you again eventually. desperation so consumes the song that lines that are uplifting at first glance like "i'm gonna fly like a bird through the night, feel my tears as they dry" sound so genuinely pained, like sia's even trying to get herself to believe it. she knows it's a lie that drinking herself to a stupor will make it all go away, that the night is infinite and she'll fly high on that chandelier forever. but it's a self-deception she's willing to submit to. and i think that's where the song's power comes from: the acknowledgement of and resignation in that self-deception. she's "just holding on for tonight"; she knows the night will end and the demons will return. |
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| Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think the fact this song seems to be coming from a different perspective (someone still feeling trapped in their childhood) and that it's essentially the last song on the album suggests that it's all a cycle. We feel suffocated by the suburbs, eager to age, move on to something new, then we feel disillusioned by that culture we were so eager to become part of, like Win was at the beginning of the album. Then it happens to a new set of people, and so on. |
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| Suckers – Afterthoughts & TV Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think it's "talk about what ever you please," in the fourth stanza and "heard your lifestyle choices" in the following stanza. |
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