| Fever Ray – Now's the Only Time I Know Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The song is about the monotony of home life, and morning preparation. The song refers to the fact that, espeicially in the winter, time seems to slow into nothing and the present seems to be the only thing that exists. The morning routine has become ritual, which culminates in order and peace of mind. Contentment, at least, if not happiness. | |
| Massive Attack – Teardrop Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Hello, everyone! This is my first post. Okay. The first lines, “Love, love is a verb/love is a doing word/fearless on my breath”, refer to love as an active verb, and that the word “love” makes the speaker strong. The idea of love is fearless, and certain. “Gentle impulsion/shakes me, makes me lighter/fearless on my breath” is about an impulse to love or else act out what could be construed as love, and how that feeling overcomes the speaker and “makes them lighter”, as in the feeling liberates them. The speaker seems like someone who, for some reason or another, is jaded, cynical, or broken in some way, and when the impulsion to love, to let their guard down suddenly comes to them, the feeling makes them feel alive/fresh/clean. “Nine night of matter/black flowers blossom/fearless on my breath” represents the way that love changes the person. The inside of their mind is “black”, signifying desolation/hatred/pain, but the feeling of love makes black flowers blossom. The flowers are still black because the speaker still has pain, but the pain has been transformed. By relating the mind to the earth Massive Attack is saying that their speaker’s mind is dark, yes, but still fertile and alive. It’s saying that despite appearances the speaker is still capable of love. Once again, love comes “fearless on my breath” to deliver the speaker. If the above stanzas indicate someone previously unable to love finally finding it, the refrain of “teardrop on a fire/fearless on my breath” indicate a loss of love. The fire represents the loss, probably some kind of destruction inflicted by the speaker, and the teardrop is their regret for the damage they’ve caused. In addition, the words are “teardrop on a fire”, meaning that the speaker is standing over the destruction and further signifying themselves as the cause of the problem. “Water is my eye/most faithful mirror/fearless on my breath” relates the eyes to the mirror of the soul, and that the teardrops from the speaker’s eyes, which represent their mourning, are the real indicator for what’s inside the speaker’s heart/mind. Not only are the teardrops falling from the eyes, the teardrops are the eyes, and this attribution is used to say that the speaker not only experiences loss but that they’ve become loss. And lastly, “stumbling a little/stumbling a little” show the speaker’s weakness and that the love that has made them strong has retreated, leaving them once again being weak. That being said, I think the song (with acknowledgment to the video) could very well be about abortion. Not abortion in the political sense, not pro choice or pro life, just abortion for the gains and losses it represents. |
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