| The Avett Brothers – Tear Down the House Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's definitely reasonable to say that it's a "break up song"/"get=over-you" song. But, to me, it's more about the passing of a parent. "Tear down the house I grew up in", I think has a double meaning in this context. It's that your parent(s) passed away, and the house you grew up in doesn't feel like it's really the same place, it's "torn down", so to speak. Or, literally wanting to tear down the house you grew up in, simply because you might not want to have to look at your old, now empty, home ever again. "Carry the pictures of me and you. I have no memory of who I once was, and I don't remember your name." Seems to be clinging to the good times instead of some of the actual memories. Almost saying, 'I don't know who we were, but I know we were happy'. I called my parents by their first names, but now that my father is dead, I always refer to him as dad. And when the day comes that I lose my mother, I'll never call her Kathy again, always mom. "I'm talking to these children and I'm keeping it clean" seems like a message to kids, to value your parents while you've got them, y'know? There's some other little things, I think. Like that the singer keeps referring to his childhood, which seems a little wierd if it's a break up song. I don't know if the Avett brothers' parents are passed or not, but this was just how I received the song. |
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| The Limousines – New Year's Resolution Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Kind of amazed this song only has two (three counting mine) comments so far. I think that they're pretty much just being straight up in this song. No hidden meanings or anything. It's just about a group of people who are just making these realizations about their lives on New Year's Eve. As the start of a new year often does force some realizations. "we wasted the first few hours of a brand new year wishing we could fly" Those lines hit me pretty hard. The whole song does, really, but those lines especially. I spent the first few hours of 2011 drunk on a friend's couch, just watching television and thinking about my life, wishing I could fly, as it were. |
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| Regina Spektor – Eet Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Going to go ahead and lay out my opinion. I'm sure some people will disagree, but that's fine. I haven't read through all of the other comments yet. I feel like the song is about always being shown up by someone else. I think specifically by someone you may know or care about. I'm someone who has two older brothers, both roughly ten years older than me. So maybe I can see this meaning better than some other people, or maybe I'm just inclined to understand the song in this way. But I can't hardly see any other meaning to it than being shown up by a person you care about. Not that they try to show you up on purpose, but simply that their achievements dwarf your own. "It's like forgetting the words to your favorite song", "You can't believe it, you were always singing along", ... "You can't remember; you try to feel the beat." Those lines give me imagery of something that was yours and made you feel special, but then for whatever reason, that feeling is taken away from you (by someone doing it better than you, for example). And then when that feeling's been taken away, you sit there trying to recall it and get it back, but you just can't. "Like forgetting the words to your favorite song." "You spend half of your life trying to fall behind. You're using your headphones to drown out your mind." ... "You can't remember; you try to move your feet." Perhaps sarcasm on Regina's part, or maybe just an illustration of despair and hopelessness, and actually trying to just purposely fall behind. Then being haunted by the thoughts of failure versus success, so you try to "drown out" those thoughts. "You try to move your feet" being a sense of trying to just trudge onward in life, but feeling so stuck in place. "Someone's deciding whether or not to steal. He opens a window just to feel the chill. He hears that outside a small boy just started to cry 'Cause it's his turn, but his brother won't let him try." Lots of meanings for that first line. Possibly deciding if you should try to ruin what the other person has? Or if you should try to compete with them and show them up, to shame their accomplishments? Or perhaps just literally steal what they're attained. Opening the window just to feel the chill, is just doing something different for the sake of feeling something different. The last two lines, to me, are almost like flashbacks to the person's past. I don't know, just some thoughts of mine; my personal interpretation I suppose. |
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| The Weepies – Nobody Knows Me At All Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree with the above interpretations, but I'll offer another one that crossed my mind and heart. To be honest, I think most of what's said in the song is sarcasm, and that the song is really about self sabotage. The singer isn't actually saying that nobody knows her, she's pointing out these good or bad situations and then thinking, "nobody knows me at all". The first line, "When I was a child everybody smiled", that should be a good happy thing, but she's still sitting there in her pity, thinking nobody knows her. The second line, "Very late at night and in the morning light", that's part of her self sabotage to, maybe one night stands or hookups she has and then afterwards she wonders about why she isn't happy, or why nobody knows her at all. The next part too, "Now I got lots of friends, yes but then again, nobody knows me at all", she's doing it again; being a part of something worth being happy about, but finding the bad in it anyway. Again with the next line, "Kids and a wife, it's a beautiful life", something that anyone should be happy to have, but again, she sits there thinking that not even they know her. "Ah, what can you do? There's nobody like you" and "I know how you feel, no secrets to reveal" just seem to absolutely ooze that sarcasm that the rest of the song may be a little more subtle about. |
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| Mumford & Sons – Winter Winds Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I really like the above interpretations, but I thought I'd add mine. Which is that this song is from the perspective of a 'bad' good guy. He's done wrong and/or will do wrong to her. She gives him a kind of solace and salvation, but despite how much he wants to let himself stay and be in love and be happy, he feels like he'll hurt her too bad eventually. "Oh the shame that sent me off from the God that I once loved, Was the same that sent me into your arms" Those two lines make me think what I explained first, that's he not a good guy. That's he done wrong, and that she acts as some kind of salvation for his heavy head and heart. "And if your strife strikes at your sleep, Remember spring swaps snow for leaves, You'll be happy and wholesome again, When the city clears and sun ascends" Those lines make me think that he's not going to be around, and he's telling her that. Telling her he can't stay, but that she'll be ok without him, better even. The argument between his head and his heart is that his head is being rational, saying that this is his escape and that it's safe here with her, it's ok to stay. But his heart is saying that it wouldn't be right to stay here, with her, now, because the heart knows how this will end for the both of them. Of course, this could also go from the perspective of a girl who had done wrong and will do wrong, but meets a boy, so on and so forth. |
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