| Willy Mason – Oxygen Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Won't anyone actually examine the meaning of the damn song. I'd love to, but I just wrote one fro We Can be Strong, and I need to get back to work. Enough of these stupid posts that say "I love this song". You aren't contributing to the freakin' board. Quickly, too quickly, I'll say this is what I get from the lyrics: It seems to be a dual examinination of both him as a musical artists and his desire to make an impact on his audience, and even broader upon society. I'd love to quote lyrics that give support my ideas, but I don't have the time. I'll be back alter. |
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| Willy Mason – We Can Be Strong Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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You have to be careful when interpreting songs to make sure you have lyrical evidence for your arguments otherwise it is just supposition which is neither correct nor incorrect. The problem arises when you aruge someones supposition is wrong but yours is right. If you say something like "he's not a (sic) search at all. He doesn't want to go to college because it will pospne(sic) his true amition, music." then you'd better be able to back it up with evidence from the lyrics. Nowhere in the lyrics does the writer say what his true ambition is. You have no lyrical basis for your argument that college is delaying his music. It is supposition which is, as I said earlier, neither right nor wrong. However, you can't say someone elses supposition is wrong and then substitute your own. What I see from this song is a person who decides that college is not the correct path for him/her. It seems he believes the idea of college is to put off the current life of now for the future life of tomorrow, as discussed in the lyrics "waiting on tomorrow waiting on tomorrow we can be strong... signed myself out today sent a letter far away said baby come home today i'm here and its tomorrow i'm home and its tomorrow" What I gather from the song is that guy tried college, decided it wasn't for him because it delayed "life" for later, when he decided that his life was now and the future could wait. One by one his friends come to the same realization as he did, and now there are others who are likeminded. In the end he asks his lover to leave his/her college and join the writer back home where life is already underway. |
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| Luke Doucet – Wallow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is about failed love. It's about a man (assumption made because song by a man) who has had a failed marriage (probably marriage). It's about him "wallow"ing in his memories of what was. He mentions "look at Coco's preincess dress depectiving optomistic youthful alabies." Which can be read as the man looking at a photo of his daughter and the youthful ignorance of the pain and heartache that love can lead to, and when he calls her an "alibi" it could mean that the child was used by the parents as a reason why their love failed. " Scratch the itch pick the scab don't let it seal this is a martyr's scar" is about how the man places importance on wallowling in the pain the feeling he is a victim, a martyr. It's a song about sadness, lost love, self pitty, and grief. It's touching a moving, and beautiful as only the truth can be. |
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| The Avett Brothers – Murder in the City Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's all about family, and the one has for one's family. Simple, and sweet. Perfect. | |
| The Avett Brothers – Salina Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Bah, people always want to make song lyrics about girls and love. People can just be the amzing, wonderful people they meet everywhere they go. It's not always girls and love. | |
| The Avett Brothers – Laundry Room Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The first verse "Don't push me out. Just a little Longer" is about a man over at his girlfriend's place. And it's getting late and he wants to stay, but she's making him leave. Coupled with the next lines, "Stall your mother. Disregard your father's words", it makes me believe that the girl (and probably the guy) are pretty young and that the girl still lives with her parents, which is part of the reason why the girl makes the guy leave. The next verse "Close the laundry door, tiptoe across the floor," is about how the two lovers have to be quiet in their actions because of her parents being in the same house. The guy then says "Keep your clothes on. I have all that I can take" which means that his interest isn't about Sex but rather her company and her love. He has all that he can take meaning his emotions are already running high and to add sex to the mix would be overwhelming. The next verse "Stop your parents car i just thought you'd ignore We can wish upon it but we wont share the wish we made But i cant keep no secrets, I wish that you would always stay Last night i dreamt the whole night long I woke with a head full of songs i spent the whole day I wrote em down but its a shame Tonight i'll burn the lyrics, cause every chorus was your name" is about how in love the guy is for the girl. How he hopes and prays that the girl will always be his. It's hopeful and a little naieve in it's youthful ignorance, but that's what makes it beautiful, because we all hope that love will be the fireworks that is at first, and that it'll never fade. Then "break this tired old routine, and this time dont' make me leave." Is the guys protest about the girl kicking him out every night because of her parents and their youth. He wants to stay because he loves her and he doesn't want to leave. "Finally, I am a breathing time machine, i'll take you on for a ride " I take this last verse to be the Avett brother's stepping back fromt he characters (the guy and girl) that they created in this songs, and this is more of a message from them as artists and musicians to their audience saying "Remember when you had a love like this, when you were youthful and naieve. I am the time machine that can take you back to those moments. I'll take all the listeners for a ride, back to the time and place when they felt in the same way." |
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