| Foo Fighters – The Neverending Sigh Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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To me, it sounds like he's singing about how one feels when one tries to take care of EVERYONE. "No one lets everyone in" because it would just break them down. The verses are basically explaining what you'll go through if you never take a rest from caring for others. "Woe is me. The end is near, thought you'd never leave." sounds like this person has been caring for someone for a very long while, and seems a bit tired of it. "Heart and teeth just to taste bittersweet. One last stain to get beneath the skin." the feeling he gets from having to take care of constantly more people is turning into a bittersweet taste, and it's more and more feeling like "just one more stain beneath the skin" everytime he decides spend his energy on yet another soul. "The wish is drawn inside. The neverending sigh." The wish of the person he's helping has now become his own wish, but it all just adds to his neverending sigh, because this extreme level of empathy is tearing him down. The second verse sounds like he's actually trying to draw a line to think of himself too, but it seems to end in failure. Thinking about this song with this meaning in my mind just made it so much more kick ass. I think there's a lot of good people out there who can relate to this self-destructive pattern of living, and that HEAVY riff at the intro really sounds destructive enough to make me feel the immediate danger of living this way. |
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| Fifth Harmony – Worth It (feat. Kid Ink) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I'm trying to see how: "Come harder just because I don't like it, like it too soft I like it a little rough Not too much, but maybe just enough" could not be about sex. It's very hard. |
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| Sleeping with Sirens – The Bomb Dot Com v2.0 Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I actually find some of the lines in the song a bit anti-religous. He's obviously singing the song from the perspective of someone who believes in God, but it almost sounds a little satirical, like he's criticizing himself. "There's blood on my hands, but the killers not my enemy. It's all for the sake of love, It's all for you. " It sounds a lot like he's committing an act which he himself considers wrong ("the killer is not my enemy", perhaps indicating that the killer is himself), but he quickly ascertains that it's an act of love in God's eyes, which he uses to convince himself to follow through with the act. (I.e. when God tells Abraham to kill his son.) Then there's this line which kinda gives me the same message: "When everything is beautiful, when everything's OK. Even if it's not OK I'll say It's all for you." Even if he thinks that what's going on and what he's doing is not OK, he'll still accept it, because it's for God's sake. "These words that I'm writing wont be misunderstood" Just a little note on this line. I think of the ones who wrote the bible when I hear this. It's like he's impersonating them, saying "There's no need to worry for me what I write down, people won't take these words the wrong way." and evidently, there is a lot of people who use the bible to explain their acts of hate, possibly having misinterpreted words in it. The more I look into it, the more I think of the song as anti-religious :S I think it's about those who rely to much on God and their religion and blind themselves from what they truly believe. |
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| Foo Fighters – All My Life Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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So Dave Grohl himself has said that the song is about pleasuring women orally, but he's also known for not wanting to describe the meaning of his lyrics in too much detail, which leads me to believe that "All My Life" is about more than just oral sex. Most interpretations of this song are about depression, drug abuse and self harm. All of the above meanings sound very valid, but I've also thought of something else when listening to this song. "All my life I've been searching for something Something never comes never leads to nothing" Let's assume from the get-go that this "something" is some form of pure happiness ascending his life to a new level, which is often found from a person (someone to love with deep affection, possibly a soulmate). But his search for his special someone never leads anywhere. I'm also thinking that this "nothing" works as a counterpart to the "something". "Something" is the true joy he's searching for, whereas the "nothing" stands for physical and shallow pleasure such as drugs and meaningless sex. When he can't find his "something", it leads him to "nothing". "Nothing satisfies but I'm getting close Closer to the prize at the end of the rope" It's only logical that his failures of finding someone to make him truly happy is dissatisfying. He's saying that he's getting close to what he's longing for perhaps as a way to comfort himself, that it'll get better in the end, that he'll just struggle his way through in the meantime. "All night long I dream of the day When it comes around and it's taken away" He's someone living in the night (a dark period of his life) and he's longing for the sun to rise for him. And when the sun finally comes around (he finds someone who might be the one), it's taken away from him. "Leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most Feel it come to life when I see your ghost" The abandonment leaves him with his most common feeling (emptiness and loneliness). The "ghost" is the person he is longing for, but he can't see who it is. After being abandoned, he fantasizes about his "ghost", which makes his present feelings "come to life" (his emptiness and loneliness gets amplified). This is where the rest of the song comes in, where he's helplessly trying to fill the void. "Calm down don't you resist You've such a delicate wrist And if I give it a twist Something to hold when I lose my grip" He's seducing women to have sexual relations with him. Meaningless sex is what he tells himself that he can hold on to as he's losing his grip on what he's really longing for. "Will I find something in there To give me just what I need Another reason to bleed One by one hidden up my sleeve (one by one hidden up my sleeve)" These lines actually sound more like he's using drugs, but for the sake of consistency, I'll stick to the meaningless sex: He's wondering if he'll find his temporary solution with sex, or if it will just make things even worse (another reason to bleed). Each woman to seduce is just like another ace card up his sleeve to him. "Don't let it go to waste, I love it but I hate the taste Weight keepin' me down" Since sex is such a short act, he doesn't want it to go to waste. While he is actually in the act, he's loving it, but the taste, the lingering feeling afterwards, is something he hates. His constant pursuit of meaningless pleasure makes it harder and harder for him to break free from it, it is the weight that is keeping him down from achieving greater joys in life. "Will I find a believer Another one who believes" He's wondering if he might find another one who is like him, believing that there is more to life than all this meaninglessness. "Another one to deceive" He quickly reminds himself that if he would find another believer, it would still just be another one of his many meaningless sexual relations, since he's trapped in his constant sexual acts. "Over and over down on my knees" This can be interpreted as him pleasuring a woman, but it also might portray him praying over and over. Probably praying for him to find a way out of his downward spiral. "If I get any closer And if you open up wide And if you let me inside On and on I've got nothing to hide (on and on I've got nothing to hide)" This might be him deceiving a girl to open up her mind and/or her body to let him use her, lying that he's got nothing to hide. But it might also be something more sincere. If he would find someone who would open up their thoughts and feelings for him, he would do the same, because he would feel that he has nothing to hide from this person. And then comes the lines that made me think the song is about meaningless sex: "Done done on to the next one Done I'm done and on to the next one" These lines get repeated over and over for a large portion of the song, indicating that they're a key to the song's meaning. It describes what he's thinking after he's done with every sexual act. He's just "done and on to the next one". There is nothing more going for him. After the eighth line, he starts to scream the lines in a very aggressive manner, filled with rage, probably directed towards himself for using countless people for his own selfish needs, and for allowing himself to fall this low and lose sight of what he truly wanted all along. Personally, I feel that the song becomes so much more powerful when having this meaning in mind. I read that Dave Grohl described "All My Life" as being a representative of the album "One By One"'s sound for being "much more aggressive" as well as "a little darker, more romantic, creepier than anything we have done". The fact that the word "romantic" was thrown in among words like "aggressive", "darker" and "creepier" leads me to believe that my interpretation at least holds some ground. The romantic part being his longing for true love. I am not saying that my interpretation is a very solid one (I am actually not very sure about it). The song may very well be about oral sex, drug abuse or suicidal thinking. Either way, I think we can all agree on that "All My Life" has a very dark theme going for it, and that Dave made a marvelous job in writing these lyrics vague enough for everyone to speculate and find various meanings, yet still maintaining enough context for there to be very plausible interpretations. |
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| I Fight Dragons – Not I Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song is about suicidal thinking, or depression overall. It's trying to convey those who are heartbroken/who have lost something/who are just hurt to live on. If I'd sum up the whole song's meaning into one sentence it'd be something like: "Life's a bitch, just deal with it." but the song says it in a much more beautiful way. Instead of being like so many other suicide-fighters, who usually only talk about thinking positive and just ignoring everything bad about your life, Not I wants to let you know that shit's going to happen to you, but it's an essential part of your life. It's almost like the song is embracing the bad parts of life. Cause without bad, there's no good. I love the ending of the verses. "So, who's afraid to live/love/laugh? Not I." It's like the song is playing with you, like it's saying "I dare you to live/love/laugh!" and calling you a coward if you're too afraid to do it. It kind of ignites a sparkle in you, making you want to love or live or become happy again. |
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| Foo Fighters – Miracle Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Further proving your theory is that the song got played in Scrubs when Carla gave birth...oh right, spoiler alert... | |
| Five Times August – Better With You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I just think it's a guy falling in love with a girl. That's just what I like about it. It's so cheery, no ultra-dramatic shouting and cry-singing crap like oh-so-many love songs have. When you fall in love, you're supposed to get happy. This song is pretty much the definition of that. Btw, are there any g1s here? |
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| SamboMaster – Sekai Wa Sore Wo Ai To Yobun Da Ze (The World Call Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think it's about him singing to a girl that what he and what she did in the past, if they did some really stupid stuff, doesn't matter. It's who they are right now that matters. And that's what the world calls love, just caring about each other with no painful memories of the past, just being happy together. | |
| Seatbelts – Tank! Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think it's about jamming out with your band and making all the fans go apeshit-crazy about you. ^^ | |
| Foo Fighters – Another Round Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Is it just me, or does he sing "I will BOTHER you down and out" on the second to last time he says that sentence? O.o | |
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