| Andrew Bird – I Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[thriggle:3644] when i heard it on his new album i was shocked.... and so happy and impressed | |
| The Velvet Underground – I'll Be Your Mirror Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I don't think it's about someone who hits someone else. i interpret "put down your hands" as a metaphor for someone who is trying to hide who they are or are insecure about who they are because their hands are in front of their face. Yes, it can be an abuser, but I think it's just talking about a general person. I think this is meant to be a song that we can all put ourselves in, that we can all relate ourselves to. | |
| Atmosphere – Can't Break Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this song is really relatable. My interpretation is that he has an agenda, like plans for his future, and he was going to be something but he got caught up in distractions. It could be drugs, but i think he's talking about any form of procrastination in general. He doesn't want to think about the things that stress him out so he'll forget about it through alcohol, drugs, and sex. The wheels are stopped done so let me off Deal the cards but already lost Kill me now just to get applause Steal the shot, run and set it off ^^This is talking about how he feels its too late to get his life together. I feel and I fear and I want and I can't break away I^^and this is a feeling i often get. I get stressed, then i fear that my life is falling apart, and i want to get my life together but i can't break away from my lifestyle. I feel like its already to late. I think he means the same thing as i feel sometimes. If they buy it for you how you not gonna drink it? If they fry it for you how you not gonna eat it? If they throw it at you how you not gonna hold it? Touch it, taste it, love it, and fuck with it a moment? ^^This just further shows that he can't break away from his lifestyle. Guilty pleasures are too hard to turn down. This whole song is basically about a vicious cycle that he got himself into, learning to ignore his problems through other things, and now he feels like he's not making anything of himself or improving in any way. He just feels hopeless because he's trapped in the lifestyle he's been living. |
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| Tegan and Sara – Feel It in My Bones Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I LOVE this interpretation and i love how you broke it down in a way that sort of translates it. I think this is dead on. | |
| Tegan and Sara – Feel It in My Bones Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I LOVE this interpretation and i love how you broke it down in a way that sort of translates it. I think this is dead on. | |
| Modest Mouse – Birds vs. Worms Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I actually think this song is not about a relationship between different types of people, but how he feels about himself. Like at times he feels self righteous, or powerful and confident (bird), and at other times he'll get so down on himself and feel worthless (worm). he's either flying high or he feels like dirt. there's no in between (the birds and worms dont get along). But in the end he's down on himself for everything, like when he did feel confident he felt that it was wrong to feel that way so he's just stuck as a worm crawling on. It's like this constant internal struggle to label himself as either good enough or not good enough in the end just makes him feel down on himself. And he uses we because he wants it to be relatable. That's what I think at least because I could relate. | |
| The Shins – Caring Is Creepy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The way i interperit this song is really relatable to myself when i went to a different school where i would always get made fun of.. "I think I'll go home and mull this over Before I cram it down my throat At long last it's crashed, the colossal mass Has broken up into bits in my moat" This means he's going to try to avoid thinking about all the negative things in his life before he starts beating himself up about it, but then the load of negativity rushed into his mind and it was too late to shut it out at that point. -A moat is what keeps bad things out, so when his "moat" was tainted with all the negativity it means he could no longer shut out the pain. -its hard to explain but i think i knew what he meant by it if hes talking about what i would always experience after school. I'm not sure what "Lift the mattress off the floor" means. "Walk the cramps off Go meander in the cold Hail to your dark skin Hiding the fact you're dead again Underneath the power lines seeking shade Far above our heads are the icy heights That contain all reason" -When one walks the cramps off they do it to make sure it slowly goes away instead of just sitting down and giving up. I assume he's saying to just "walk it off" and in a way just toughen up. -When he says "go meander in the cold hail" i think hes saying the same thing as the cramps metaphor--He's telling himself to just go through the painful situation to just motivate himself to keep on going. I'm not sure what he's talking about when he talks about his dark skin. -The next line ("hiding..") is him telling himself to keep his head held high even though he's so depressed. To seem happy. -"Underneath..." is talking about trying to find an escape from the pain (shade is where you go to hide from the sun) even if its the smallest escape. He's trying to do anything he can to avoid the depression. -"far... reason" I think this means that he knows that there is a reason for all this pain but he's not sure what. "It's a luscious mix of words and tricks That let us bet when you know we should fold On rocks I dreamt of where we'd stepped And the whole mess of roads we're not on" -"It's... fold" He knew he was getting himself into a mess doing certain things but he did them anyway because there was still a chance it could make him happy (perhaps drugs?) -"On.. on" He's thought about all the mistakes that led him to where he is now. It messed up everything and now he feels like he's going no where. Im not sure about the other lyrics until the end. "All these squawking birds won't quit Building nothing, laying bricks" - The depression won't stop taking over his thoughts. When he says building nothing, he could be talking about himself. That its eating away at him, slowly turning him into nothing and it just keeps building and building. *I could be completely wrong. |
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