| Beach House – You Came to Me Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I'm now convinced the end of the song is "sweet remedies, the night wanderings" | |
| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Detective's Daughter Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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she says "love is hell, hell is love hell is asking to be loved" NOT "love is real, real is love love is asking to be loved" that doesn't even make sense. |
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| Sun Airway – Oh Naoko Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i love this song but the book it draws inspiration from- haruki murakami's "norwegian wood"- is just mediocre. it has such a great reputation but it's really a rather flat book. | |
| Beach House – Zebra Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| my take is that it's someone that she knows very well who is obsessed with his/her image and she pities and understands him/her for his/her self-consciousness. think about it- a zebra looks like a regular horse except for its pattern. she probably knows this person 'beneath his/her stripes.' she is trying to comfort him/her and let that person know it's ok to be yourself (you know you're golden, you don't gotta worry none." however, it's likely that i am wrong. the lyrics are so vague it's difficult to say. | |
| Florence + the Machine – Postcards from Italy (Beirut cover) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i actually like this version more! it's unrestrained and powerful. | |
| Beach House – You Came to Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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some corrections: hands over your eyes we're all on your side and sweet were the days, the night was breathing only words dig early beds |
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| Florence + the Machine – Dog Days Are Over Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is beautiful, I LOVE it! Florence says so much with so little and that's what helps this song to work so well. I'd agree with most of what has been posted so far but I'll elaborate a bit on what I feel like has been ignored. This song is about a bad relationship (obviously), but it was one in which the girl didn't realize how unhappy she was until she left it behind. The first stanza is about how she avoided leaving the relationship because she felt like there was something salvageable. Another interpretation is that she wanted to have the relationship on HER terms, but the person who had less invested was always in control (so she felt powerless in a way). Anyway, she tried to avoid ending this relationship by hiding "around corners" and "under beds," taunting it, and getting drunk. Eventually, she realized that she was causing her own suffering by holding back and being blind to the fact that you can't control how others feel about you. So she let happiness finally catch up with her- the dog days ended. She naturally ran for the people that had consistently cared most about her (her family and friends), and also abandoned the emotions she had invested into the relationship because they would be nothing but constant reminders of how miserable she was during that time. Before she did this however, she had one final moment of remembering why she was so obsessed with the other person. She thinks it's quite simple- she only wanted "everything [he] had." The next few lines are tricky to interpret, but here's what makes the most sense: because she was the vulnerable one in the relationship, she always felt like the other person was knocking her down to a lower level because her strong feelings weren't reciprocated. So although she felt invincible from one point because she was in a stable relationship (at a "great height"), she let the other person walk all over her. And it was at this low point that she knows that the other person should understand how he is emotionally torturing her ("someone who should know better than that") by not being as in love with her and she is with him. Yes, we can't control how others feel towards us, but the other person was being ignorant in not seeing how much pain he was causing. She comes to a realization and finally lets happiness overtake her! W00tz! |
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