| Bullet for My Valentine – Hearts Burst Into Fire Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I'm starting to think it's supposed to be "heart's" and not "hearts". "Heart's" is the only way it even remotely makes sense. | |
| Evergrey – I'm Sorry (Dilba cover) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's pretty self-explanatory, I think. A person (the singer) has fallen in love with somebody, but this somebody doesn't know. However, the singer doesn't let go of this somebody in their mind, and ends up building this illusion of a relationship that simply isn't true, and "paints a picture" of this person that, really, they don't even know; at least, not as well as they'd like to think. The person they'd imagined in their mind was in actuality nothing that they thought they were. At first the singer knows this, but eventually, the "lie became truth". He didn't want to see the fact that he'd never been close with this person that he's created this whole fantasy around, and doesn't want to accept the fact that it is just a fantasy, and gets lost in his own illusion... and as a result, he ends up hurting the person he fell in love with in some way. Honestly, it hits pretty close to home, for me... |
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| VNV Nation – From My Hands Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm in a very similar situation right now... and this song helps me tremendously. I believe it to be about a man who loves a woman, but he realizes now that his love is one-sided, and that though there is hope, the time has come to let this fall from his hands and move on. He doesn't want to let go of his hope - he wants to hang on forever, to be with this person, to spend his life with them, but there is too much between them, whether it be that they just don't love him in return, or that the circumstances surrounding their relationship make it difficult for one or both parties, and their relationship is really no relationship as such. It's the pained goodbye of a man to his best friend, and the person he loved. Moving on to the future - the past is just the past, and there's no going back, and as difficult as he may find it to let go... he has no choice. Heartbreakingly beautiful. |
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| Washed Out – Feel It All Around Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard in my life. I think "learning" is "love", though. I just don't hear "learning" in there. Doesn't make much sense, either. |
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| Crossfade – Already Gone Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I always though this song was about suicide - I mean, the lyrics alone would probably make a good note. While it could also be about relationships and such, I think that context fits better with Never Coming Home, rather than Already Gone. | |
| Anberlin – Depraved Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Looking over their last couple of albums, Anberlin's album closers (not counting any of their bonus tracks, of course) have had the slow-building formula we know and love, but have also been about God or faith in some fashion. *fin was about Stephen's struggles with God throughout his life, and Miserabile Visu was about the End of the World and the book of Revelation. If I look at this from a religious perspective, I get the feeling he's speaking of somebody who's using their religion to do harm, rather than spread love and the word of God, or somebody who believes in a false doctrine. I'm leaning toward the former, but the song could be about either. "Are you depraved, or are you deceived?" He's asking whether or not this person is wicked and depraved, using God as a means to some despicable end, or if they're simply deceived. We see this all the time, these days. People claiming God and the Bible to hate race, sexual orientation, or whatever else. Muslim extremists, too, use God to justify what they do. Really, he's talking to anybody from any religion who's using it to only do harm, when God's all about love. He wants to know why they do what they do, and if they know or not what they're doing is wrong. "Excuses aside, stop saying please." This person is asking them to please leave them alone. This is their religion. This possibly all they've known. They feel as though this is the right way, so they don't want to deviate from it. They're attached to the belief, and just want to be left alone to believe it in peace. But their beliefs aside, they're doing nothing but perpetuating pain and hatred. He wants them to stop saying 'Please leave me alone' and listen for a minute, to realize that they're not glorifying God, but spitting on all he stands for. "You're not a slave, so get off your knees." If they were deceived, then they're praising God and using his name for all the wrong things. They're not a slave to this hateful doctrine they were fed and believed in, so they should get off their knees and stand on their own to feet to find their way. They need to stop being a slave to the hatred they've contributed to for so long. "Are you ashamed that you were deceived?" He's asking whether they're ashamed of what they've done, now that they know the truth. Are they ashamed of everything they did, or are they vile and depraved, and knew all along but simply wanted an excuse for their hatred, and to get others to help perpetuate it. "Someone tell me I'm wrong about you." He's come to the conclusion that they knew and they are simply depraved, but he was friends with or related to this person, and wants desperately for someone to tell him he's wrong about them. He wants somebody to tell him that his friend or loved one was deceived, and that they didn't know, even if the evidence points otherwise. "Don't feel chained up" goes back to "You're not a slave, so get off your knees." This person isn't a slave to what they believe in, and they shouldn't feel as though they're chained up. They don't have to feel as though they have no choice because it's what God wants, because it's not. He wants to believe that this person was deceived, not depraved. That's my interpretation, anyway. I could be wrong, but if the last couple of closers are any indication, this song *is* religious in some way, so who knows? |
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| Anberlin – Miserabile Visu (Ex Malo Bonum) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Thinking of it that way, it makes sense. I was under the impression that the Red Priest was a false prophet, but it also works as John, who wrote the book of Revelation to begin with, the prophecies of which this song is based upon. In fact, it works better as John. Thanks for filling in that missing piece, for me! | |
| Falling Up – Islander Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Seems pretty simple to me. The song is about growing up, and how things keep changing and get stranger as you grow, leaving you feeling alone and isolated, like you're trapped on a deserted island... as the song title suggests. It's just the confusion and loneliness attributed with how you feel as the world changes around you, and people you thought you'd know forever disappear from your life, or change completely. That's my interpretation at least. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. |
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