| Christina Perri – Jar of Hearts Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| "I've learned to live half alive". That line is so painfully beautiful. Heart so broken, that even though have moved on, you've lost a part of yourself. Or having to numb yourself from pain, to move forward. The song's obviously about a romantic relationship, but it makes me think of people I know who have lost a young child. As time passes, they seem semi-okay, but sometimes see this look on their face, as if they're forcing themselves to even function...learning to live half alive. To love someone that much, to where feel that kind of agony over them hurting you, it would be such a struggle to be ever strong enough to not 'fall back in his arms'. | |
| Bon Iver – Skinny Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Sorry 2trees, i meant to rate as a +, but hit - instead and couldn't figure out how to edit it. That's why shows Rated -1. Think perfect interpretation of that line and sums up song. | |
| Sherwood – Not Gonna Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"I am the favorite In a fight that I can't win".....being told you're "the winner", but meaningless because you're certain you'll ultimately lose in the end, one way or another. "So every morning I take another on my chin"......In moments when allow yourself to forget that, the realization afterwards feels like a punch in the face. "But I never know, I never know, I never know the round I'm in, yeah".....very confused at times. "So I'm not gonna love when I know what I've given up Not gonna love when I know what I've given up"......not going to give in to what feel/what want to feel, because it's not worth the price have to pay in exchange. "Windows open Daylight broken"......seeing the light, in a moment of darkness. "Could be a warning Could be the evidence of grace"......just because somethings tastes really, really good, doesn't mean it's actually good for you. Read the label. "And I don't deserve, I don't deserve, I don't deserve to call this place my home"...no matter how much you want it, taking something that doesn't belong to you, is never right, even if it seems like it was made especially for you. "And I'm getting tired, I'm getting tired of lying down instead of standing on my own"...need to stop being weak, and have the strength to stand up for what's right or to simply walk away. "Long night, cold room Hold tight, blue moon. And I'm not gonna love when I know what I've given"......lonely, stay stong, don't let momentary pain get the best of you, because ultimately will feel much worse. "Hey! There's something on my mind. Something I've been dying to say Hey! When you've lost so many times. The old familiar lines start to fade"....I'm really trying, but it's hard to stand tall sometimes, when I've been knocked down so many times before. |
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| Bon Iver – Skinny Love Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Funny how you can hear a song and think it's literally speaking to you perfectly in its translation. But then someone else thinks the exact same thing (speaking to them), but their translation is so completely different. Seems like most agree the common theme in Skinny Love is heartbreak, whether past or present, your own, or what inflicted on someone else. To me the line "Pour a little salt we were never here" is what the entire song is all about. I didn't even have to think about what the artist meant by that line, because what it spoke to me was so very clear. I think it's about love that wasn't supposed to happen, shouldn't have happened, wasn't yours to have. Love experienced that felt the most real and at it's purest in one sense, but at the same time not reality at all, and very unpure...tainted. Hence, "Skinny Love"...love felt that can never be full and can never be developed or allowed to grow, because of circumstance, and not for lack of feeling. Also, "skinny" in the sense that it depletes you, instead of fills you, because you can't have what seems perfect, when the rest of the world is shut out. "Just last a year"...hanging on to contact, whatever that might be, because there is no other choice but for you to part ways. "Pour a little salt, we were never here"...realizing that you've experienced something you've read about, seen in a movie, and know what it means when someone says want to shout you love that person to the world (I know that's goofy!), but having it go on and develop isn't "right", because it would/could eventually lead to heartbreak for someone. So not only can you not have what's so amazing, but it was never "reality" ("we were never here"). You were never allowed to really experience it to it's fullest out in the open, can never really share it with anyone else, and it was something hidden, not reality, so not real, "never here"...it's like pouring salt in a wound, the fact that "we were never here" (the salt), makes something more painful (your wound left behind), even more painful. Sorry, not very easy to get point across in writing, without sounding confusing. When forced to part ways, the love feel for eachother remains ("in the morning I'll be with you"), but contact will no longer continue ("but it will be a different kind"). "I'll be holding all the tickets" (the pain you're left with) ...is the consequence of breaking the rules. "And you'll be owning all the fines"...ongoing price (pain) paying to love you or love always going to have for you or pain feel without you, is the fine I'm paying, even though you were the one with technically deserving of the tickets (the one who wasn't available to love). Can analyze the entire song, but other stuff to deep, and am sure this reads confusing enough as it is, outside of my brain, which actually hurts trying to put this in writing! :) | |
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