| Vanessa Carlton – Home Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think the "house on a hill" image means having a life that looks idyllic and perfect from the outside, not someone who isolates his- or herself. It's that typical married life in big, beautiful house with a view. Carlton uses that image repeatedly in her music; in her song I Don't Want to be a Bride, she says, "I don't need a house on a hill, swing on a tree, grandfather clock, porcelain for tea, a garden with rose and jasmine" and goes on to talk about how just being with her significant other is enough for her. She basically doesn't want a big fancy wedding or a beautiful house or that typical life she's supposed to want. So for me, the house on a hill in Home is someone who has a seemingly perfect married life, but they don't feel that they can confide in their husband or wife and wish for something better, or that "they were someplace else." Besides that, you guys took everything I wanted to say about the rest of the song, haha. It's such a beautifully written song; the music and the lyrics are just perfect. But I'm wondering, what do you think she means when she says "even now, when I'm alone?" Why would she be alone? Is it because they're temporarily separated, or...? | |
| Taylor Swift – Barnyard Song Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's pretty obvious from the lyrics, but some background might help. She wrote this song for the radio station 93.7, a country station. They played it the day her first album, Taylor Swift, was released. I've heard from some other fans that the alternate name of this song is Electric Barnyard Jingle, and that's pretty much what this is-- a jingle. A jingle is an advertising song with hooks promoting the product being advertised. In this case, that product is Tay's song, Tim McGraw. | |
| Taylor Swift – Better Than Revenge Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| There is no classy way to call someone a slut. | |
| Taylor Swift – Better Than Revenge Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| THANK YOU! As much as I love Taylor, I think this was a really catty and mean song. I mean, it's one thing to write it just to get it out of her system; but to release it to the whole world? I think it reflects kind of negatively on Taylor's character. I mean, yes, I get that she's upset. Any girl would be. But you could respond with grace, take the high road, and get over him. Instead Taylor chose to show her bitchy, jealous side to the world. She's on the other end of the spectrum she wrote about in "Mean;" she's become the bully with this song. And you know what? The thing our society seems to misunderstand is that a woman doesn't steal a man; he chooses to leave. A women isn't a slutty seductresses just because a guy chose her. Yes, the woman maybe shouldn't have gone after a guy in a relationship; but she wouldn't have done so if he hadn't sent her the right signals. If he'd ignored her and blown her off like he should have, there wouldn't have been any stealing going on. I kind of hate that women get called home-wreckers and sluts when it's the man's straying eye that's to blame. Of course you hate the "other woman." But in reality, she isn't a devil seductress out to steal your man. She's just another woman. It's probably easier to blame her rather than blame the guy you loved. But it isn't right. If my boyfriend left me for another girl, yes, I would hate her; but I would also acknowledge that it was HIM, not her, that tore our relationship apart. And honestly, I have a little bit less respect for Taylor after this slut-shaming song. Her "mattress" allusions aren't clever. They're catty. And she is sending entirely the wrong message to her young fans. Slut-shaming IS bullying, and Taylor is condoning it. | |
| Charlotte Martin – Is This Called Desire? Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To me, this song is about love unrequited, desire unfulfilled. It will never be fulfilled. I was in love with my best friend my junior year, and even though he was dating someone else, I always thought there was something more that went unsaid between me and him. I might have been fooling myself, but I still to this day don't think our friendship was totally platonic. That's why I related to the words, "codes of silence speak too loud in too many languages." Unfortunately, the girl he was dating was one of my friends, making him totally off-limits. I tried so hard to stop thinking about him the way I did, but I couldn't. I fell hard for him and I couldn't reverse those feelings. I thought maybe in a different life we would have been together. "If I could bend space and time, would you think of being mine?" And of course, he made my heart beat faster just sitting next to me. He used to sit close to me while we did homework, seemingly without thinking anything of it, and I would be sitting next to him, going crazy and trying to hide it. He was my weakness, so the most fitting lyrics for me were, "...You have starred in all of my daydreams. Mesmerizing, to your credit my armour's failing. Take it easy on a heart with trouble inhaling. Take it easy on my now cause I'm going crazy." When I first heard this song, it was during that time of my life, and I connected with it because of him. He and I will never be together. I know that. We're attending college in different states and he lives 2000 miles away. But this song will always bring me back to those memories. It's a song of deep longing and confusion. It's about your world being turned upside down by someone you can't have. It's about falling for someone right when you thought you had your heart under control ("an ice age catching fire"), and being surprised at how intensely you can want someone. Charlotte Martin captures that feeling perfectly in this poetic, beautiful song. |
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| Missy Higgins – Sugarcane Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I like your interpretation! I hadn't noticed the symbolism in the second verse, very insightful. | |
| Sister Hazel – Firefly Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I love the sound of this song. I have no idea why it's not more popular. I played it for a couple of friends and they both loved it. Firefly is on my Sister Hazel Favorites playlist- which I need, since I have so freaking many Sister Hazel songs... what a Hazelnut. Anyway, Firefly is obviously about falling in love with an amazing girl. The guy was in a dark time before he met her, but "she has a subtle way of making you forget your darkness." She came and lit him back up again. It's a cute metaphor. I love all the "maybe"s in the chorus, so that is shows both his hope and his underlying fear to let himself hope. Very Ken Block. This song reminds me of Truth Is off of Absolutely, and Everything Else Disappears, too. I don't know why, but I really feel like Everything Else Disappears and Firefly were written about the same person. "She tells stories like a painter, yeah/ With colorful words that I don't always understand; But it always sounds like somewhere better than here/ Well, everywhere is better with her." |
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| Ken Block – Chance Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's about his son, whose name is Chanson. Block has mentioned in a few interviews that he has a really special relationship with his son because he reminds him so much of his brother, who died of cancer at eighteen. It's a really sweet song and it sounds so pretty acoustic, like all of Ken Block's songs. I cried a little the first time I heard it, but that's probably because I'm a hazelnut who's read all the interviews. |
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