| The Gaslight Anthem – High Lonesome Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Just listening to Pandora, and they played Counting Crows "Round Here" and finally put the two together. I know Brian Fallon uses a lot of allusions in his songs, but man, this one is a doozy. The song is basically all stolen, and I think that says something fantastic about his song writing. This song is about being someone else, that's really the only line that isn't "stolen". It's about "Maria" and the speaker trying to make it big just like the Boss, Counting Crows, Tom Petty, and the outlaw cowboy bands on the radio, like Hank III or whoever Brian's into. This song is about two people's love for music, and one person not making it,ending up getting old and ugly "the gravity came...", turning to drugs "the powder on the bar" and giving up. The guy singer doesn't give up though, he goes on by himself, where he may have wanted to bring her along with him at one point, that could be the high and lonesome sound he references, that he is walking alone now. Not sure, but the song is still awesome. | |
| The Gaslight Anthem – Howl Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It's always about Mary with Brian. I'm pretty much in total agreement with Mike. The graduation gown torn up in the last verst of Thunder Road is what starts this story. Mary has made it through school, and the old mechanic back in Jersey is still stuck out in Atlantic City or something like that riding around listening to the waves and the radio in his old car. I think that Mary and the Mechanic, or anti-hero from Thunder Road are both lonely though. The chorus "like you waited on his call, and made your plans for great escapes" suggests that the girl waited for the mechanics call while she was away, and that she maybe wanted him to come with her. The second chorus is all about how the mechanic never got to ask the question, or never got Mary to stay, or to come back. In the end though, they're both lying alone. Mary in her bed in silence, the magic maybe gone from her life as she has a 9 to 5, and has to "shake it out" every morning just to get out of bed; and the mechanic on the hood of his car still dreaming big, and still howling about Mary and what could have been if she hadn't doubted him, or he hadn't doubted her. I think that the last lines are really what matters too. Bless your words, bless your doubts, or waters and doubts, because it shows the speaker isn't angry about the situation, and maybe believes that both he and Mary are in better places now, her or his doubts, saving them from heart break, and maybe allowing him to love her forever even if he cannot have her. |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Here Comes My Man Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'm with Kamikaze Dreamer and Jeffrey. I definitely feel like this story is from the woman's perspective, which is incredibly strange. To me the song is about a woman who has left someone that wasn't too great, made her cry, took his job more seriously than her, had a couple of other girls on the side. So she leaves, and decides to grow her hair back out and look for someone new, let the night decide who is better, etc. The chorus is her running into the old guy on the streets, but her new guy is coming along, so she's just like, hey bro, it's good seeing you and all, but I've moved on. The bridge complicates it for me a little as the background vocals say "one of these, one of these, one of these days" and makes me feel like maybe this didn't really happen to the speaker, but is something she is hoping will happen. Song is still cool, but strange to sing if you're a guy. I can't think of another song that is sung by a man, but is told in the first person perspective of a woman. It's either the smartest thing ever or the most crazy... I hope Gaslight doesn't go the way of Against Me! ha ha ha. |
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| The Horrible Crowes – Sugar Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Man this song is great. Sad that there aren't more comments, I'm hoping that it's because the lyrics are pretty straight forward, and people aren't looking them up. I needed to know what he said about the slippers exactly because I couldn't quite make it out, but knew it was an awesome line. The reference to Cinderella is pretty amazing if you think of it. People tend to look at that fairy tale and what it means to girls, but I think the fairy tale also teaches boys some pretty crazy stuff about relationships. I think that you both are correct, and that the song is about him falling for a girl who is a bit of a tramp, but I think that what makes this song unique is the reason for the pain in falling for that girl. He found the girl that the slipper fit on perfectly, his Cinderella, but she didn't want him necessarily. She continued to look for the sugar after her prince charming had come. His love was a season, a temporary deal, to the girl, but to him it was forever. He realizes that her season as a pretty girl will eventually end though, and that no one else will be waiting on her anymore. He's not going to be and that's why he asks "who do you think gonna be laughing this time". It's not going to be her, who smiles when she lies, but him who will refuse to take her back. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Right Where It Belongs Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'm too lazy to go through and read all of the comments, and don't know if anyone has mentioned this. This song seems to be Reznor's take on Plato's Allegory of the Cave. He is making the claim that the world we are in could be an illusion, much like the shadows on the walls in Plato's cave. Using the caged animal represents the man chained to only be able to see the shadows on the wall, to be unable to fathom that there is any other reality than those shadows. Reznor doesn't go as far as to say what would happen if we were to get out, just asks us to question whether or not we are in that cave. The song also seems to take on the idea of Descarte's Cogito Ergo Sum, "I think therefore I am" philosophy in a way. The phrase is usually taken to mean that because I have thoughts, I must exist, but the song makes the claim that your thoughts could cause the existence of everything, rather than the other way around. In a sense, the world really could revolve around you. Though we usually say that someone "acts like the world revolves around them" to show we feel that person is narcistic, I don't think that Reznor is doing that. He is trying to show that we truly are alone inside the prisons of ourselves. He is right in a way. No one can never really know you as well as you know yourself. No one can know every thought you have, every emotion, every feeling. We are trapped, and alone in our bodies, and our minds, and in a sense do create the world around us. This would explain the line "feel the hollowness inside your heart". The song is depressing because of these ideas; and Reznor's ability to express the ideas in the song, I believe, show what he was going through at the time he wrote this album, which was a bout of alcoholism (or so I've heard). He was experiencing a mental illness of sorts, and was trying to explain what it feels like. I've seen some that have commented on this stating it's about dissociative disorders, or schizophrenia, but that wouldn't fit with the theme of the album which is about pain and suffering caused by alcoholism (with teeth, all the love in the world [I believe him asking the bottle why he loves it so much] The Hand that Feeds, &c.), since those going through those diseases rarely understand that they are suffering from a disease. The loneliness, and confusion of this song comes from depression, and alcoholism, two things many of us can relate with, which is why it is such a fantastic song, and people are still posting on it 7 years after its release. If it were a song playing literary games, and trying to make us feel like a person suffering from one of the rarer psychological disorders that people have brought up, it wouldn't have the weight that it does to those of us who have listened enough to comment, just not enough of us feel that way. In brief, this song is Trent Reznor's thesis on the album With Teeth. His answer to what alcohol has done to him by digging its teeth into his soul. It shows how alone it has made him feel, so alone, that he can actually believe that the world is his own creation, and that nothing, absolutely nothing, not love, hate, war, disease, beauty, friendship is real. |
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| Jets to Brazil – Wish List Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Man, I hope I'm not the only one still listing to JTB in 2012. I think this is my favorite song by them. The lyrics are cheesy but, poetic. It all makes sense as to why it's cheesy when he says "Some people think I'm corny, or I'm morbid". The song almost references itself. It is "I know I can write my way out of this". To me this song is about about that dream of being a poet, a writer or a musician, and how everything in your life adds to your writing, oooooorr, about how going through life is like reading a book. The overview (the Cliff's Notes/ getting the story from someone else) is not the same as going through (reading the book/ actually living something). |
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| Brand New – Noro Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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PS here is my interpretation I think the chariot represents a means of conveyance to heaven, and the forest humanity. The song to me is about God dying, from God's point of view. The little light is leading "us", the Holy Trinity, through the forest to their death caused by humanity or whatever. The chariot would then carry all three Gods to whatever afterlife God's have. The "I'm on my way out" part is God's voice saying he's dying or at least giving up on being God. Why doesn't anyone I know sleep - Talks about the guilt of everyone on earth. We're all sinners right? Well at least in the eyes of Christianity, and therefore a Christian God. That guy must know a lot of people who have sleepless nights wrestling with their guilt or whatever. (I'm sleeping fine being the Godless little jerk I am strangely) Later God says he's a sitting duck (I hear this as getting dark (the impending death), but I'm probably wrong. Either way it still doesn't change the interpretation), and running out of luck because he realizes that by giving free will to his creations, or whatever, they are allowing him to disappear, die, what have you. How will God know peace if his creations are killing him, and how can he see the light through the trees (forest/ humanity), if they are so guilty and murderous and vile that they would let him die. He created humanity and therefore wants to burn down everything he's begun (ala Sodom and Gammora [sp.?]), kill and eat his young going back to a time before humanity could destroy him, oddly a naturalistic time (back to the forest). I think this song pairs well with Daisy which is kind of a human's desire for God to just start things over again as well. Armageddon would be a good thing to the speaker in Daisy (If the skies opened up and started pouring rain like he knew it was time to start things over again it'd be alright...it'd be easier that way). This album, like T.D.A.G.A.R.I.M is about Jesse or Vin and how they are wrestling with their loss of faith. It makes sense to try and understand faith from God's point of view to end the whole thing here on Daisy after it starts with Sowing Season a song that could be interpreted to be about dying or killing yourself for worldly pleasure or love or something earthbound like that. This is probably why Jesse has said they want to write a happier album/ songs next time they go at it. They've completed the cycle of the death of God and have argued the point from all sides. Even God is ready not to exist anymore the way things are going, and he's going to take us with him. |
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| Brand New – Noro Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I know this is a really old post, but I think the chariot represents a means of conveyance to heaven, and the forest humanity. The song to me is about God being dead to the speaker. The little light is leading "us", the Holy Trinity through their deaths. The chariot then carries all three Gods to whatever afterlife Gods have. The "I'm on my way out" part is God's voice saying he's dying. Why doesn't anyone I know sleep - Talks about the guilt of everyone on earth. We're all sinners right. God must know a lot of people who have sleepless nights wrestling with their guilt. Later God is a sitting duck (I hear this as getting dark, but I'm probably wrong still doesn't change my interpretation either way), and running out of luck because he realizes that either by giving freewill to his creation, or for whatever purpose they are allowing him to disappear, die, what have you. How will God know peace if his creations are killing him, and how can he see the light in the forest (humanity), if they are so guilty and murderous and just vile. He created and therefore wants to burn down everything he's begun (ala Sodom and Gammora [sp.?]), kill and eat his young therefore going back to a godless, naturalistic time. I think this song pairs well with Daisy which is kind of a humans desire for God to just start things over again as well. Armageddon would be a good thing to the speaker in Daisy (If the skies opened up and started pouring rain like he knew it was time to start things over again it'd be alright...it'd be easier that way). This album, like T.D.A.G.A.R.I.M is about Jesse or Vin or whoever wrote the thing and how they are wrestling with their loss of faith. It makes sense to try and understand faith from Gods point of view to end the whole thing, which is why I think Jesse has said they want to write a happier album/ songs next time they go at it. They've completed the cycle and have argued the point from all sides, and even God is ready to not exist anymore the way things are going, let alone let us exist. Hope I helped out a little bit. |
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| Brand New – Noro Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| God, I can't believe how much of this is about one word that doesn't really change the meaning of the song. My ears are cleansed, and it is at least "I'm on my way out" through most of the song. See the term melismatic to understand something about what singers do with words and stop wasting countless bytes of data on the argument for God's sake. | |
| Thrice – Words in The Water Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'm not a Christian, and I try to listen to most of Thrice's stuff from the stand point of a non-Cristian (though I know they are good little Christ lovers), which is becoming increasingly more and more difficult as of late, but they are still good. I think they are creating art from a western point of view and that usually has an influence from Christianity, though Major/ Minor is rife with a little too much of said Christianity in my Athiestic opinion, it's still an amazing record. Anyway, my non-Christian interpretation (though I do see the Ezekiel meaning and the book of laws etc.) is that this song is about the acceptance of death. The book is not the book of law in my interpretation, but the book of the speakers life. The words rising from their place is the way a journal entry or story can give you the visual of that memory. He is essentially reliving his life again through the words in this metaphorical book. His life has been good so these memories are "like honey on the lips" but he doesn't want to leave that good life behind so he cries for someone to save him. In the second verse he is still questioning what is going to happen after he dies, "What things lay sleeping deep in the darkness", yet he again realizes that his life is good in the chorus. The person taking the heavy book from his hands is Death(a good guy in my interpretation)/ god (purposeful lowercase G). He no longer has to feel any reservations about death, or leaving his good life behind as the afterlife, whatever it is, the white light, the colors reversing, and the thing that takes the weight off of his shoulders are good. He can accept death by the end of the song. Perhaps Dustin is comparing the passage in Ezekiel to what death must be like, a bitter sweet thing that isn't so bad because there is some sort of afterlife (heaven, Zen, rebirth, what have you) and it is something we must prophesize about to ease the fears of those who will go after us. The song basically makes either a claim for religion as a healing tool for those who are ready to die, or as a coming of age story for a dying person (see Kubler Ross) with acceptance being that final step. Great song regardless of the way you look at it. Fantastic production, perfect crescendos and build ups throught the chorus and especially the final verse with the white light experienced by many during near death incidents. Go Thrice. I may not be able to fully appreciate your religious overtones, but you are still one of the most creative bands out there right now, and musically talented as well. Really, who writes songs in crazy time signatures anymore? No one since the eighties that I can think of. |
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| Dashboard Confessional – Truth of the Matter Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To me this song is about running away from a past love, or rather the fear that past love has put into you. The whole song is about escaping, but the curse still catches up to the speaker. It's noble that he is trying to get away from that fear of his heart break, but at the same time he realizes that it's kind of impossible at the same time. Even if I'm safe, even if he makes it out, the curse is still there. Some of the lyrics are a little incorrect "who knows if it 'can' take my weight" "Who knows if I can make the 'rails'" If you listen to it while you're reading you'll probably get it so no biggie, just being a stickler. Anyway, I like that love has been embodied as a scary thing in this song. Chris has given it a few different faces on the album, but this is my favorite face of love... The one that won't let you get over it and move on. Kind of sad that it was just a bonus track. Seems like it should have made the cut to be included with the album in any form rather than just the digital downloads. |
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| The Get Up Kids – Regent's Court Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This kind of has the same feel to me as Tithe, kind of like he is singing about how people expect more from the band than they have to offer. The patient the father/ whose at fault? kind of gives me the feeling that they know they kind of started the "scene" and that those who came after were patients of the music and perhaps the medicine doesn't work any more, but is their fault for doing it so long, or the fans/ other bands fault for over medicating. | |
| The Get Up Kids – Tithe Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's "pittance" not advantage. To me this song is about the music industry. Those on the golden throne would be the record label, and the band is the one with the broken hands from working (playing, touring, etc.). He's tithing by making music, but feels that it's not real, hence the paltry pittance that he must give to them based on contracts. Man, I love this album. These guys are still good so many years after starting the whole scene that seems to have slunk back into the underground. (thank god!) |
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| Foo Fighters – Walk Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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To me this song is about falling in love again. The "million miles away" and the "signal in the distance" are representative of an old painful relationship. The memories are still there, but are pretty far away now. "To whom it may concern", either the former love isn't for the speaker anymore, or this could be the first line to the new person the speaker is feeling something for, like the start of a letter, and saying everything else from here on is for you. "I think I lost my way". This is also to the new love. Talking about how he was alone for so long, or didn't know how to love anymore from whatever in his past is now a million miles away. "Getting good at starting over everytime I return" that's about returning to that feeling that he actually can love someone. Maybe the speaker has felt this way on a few occasions, or has had this happen a few times now since that relationship first ended. The chorus is pretty self explainatory then if you take the first part to be a valid interpretation. Learning to walk (love) again. He's waited long enough to get over it so why not give it a shot. "Learning to talk again, can't 'you' see I've waited long enough" He's working his way through the new relationship with this person he actually loves, or maybe just actually learning to talk to someone because he isn't alone anymore. Talking to a friend is completely different than talking to a lover, and talking to yourself about that lover. The second verse I think is either going back to the first relationship. The paper mountains could be the letters written in a relationship, or even memories that are burned away when the relationship ends. (Kind of the metaphor of the Snows of Kilamanjaro or something). Or perhaps it is talking about how both of the people in the relationship have this past where they've had to destroy the memories of their relationships to get on and fall in love again, but I think it is more him asking himself the question "do you remember those days?" The best part is "I think I've found my place, can't you feel it growing stronger, little conquerors". They did it. They beat the memories of their old love, or whatever that made them so lonely before. Gives me goosebumps, man. The last part is just the celebration of the love I think. "I never want to die, I'm dancing on my grave" it all just goes back to conquering the emotions that kept you lonely for however long you didn't have someone. There's other stuff in there about the relationship too. The first decline (the first fight, or feeling it might not be right). "A whisper to a riot" the faint tinge of love that turns into full blown head over heels love. "The sacrifice, the knowing to survive" Knowing that the speaker must make sacrifices to keep the new relationship going. There's a bunch of stuff you can pull from it. I think a lot of people could relate to this. I also kind of took it as a recovery piece. Perhaps from alcoholism. I know the guys in the band have had some troubles with drugs and what not. Living life while not on something could be like learning to do everything all over again. You're a completely different person sober. I like my first interpretation better, but I can see how there are a lot of things that can be pulled from this little song which in my opinion is the best on the new record, and probably the best Foo song since Best of You which has awesome personal meaning to me. |
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| The Ataris – In This Diary Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Heard this song listening to Pandora today. I had forgotten about it, and how me and an ex-girlfriend tried to copy everything in the lyrics one night, just because it was fun. I was sad to read that DaPissa wasn't so stoked on it, man. I'm sorry that these lyrics piss you off, but even sorrier that you would feel that this song is in any way about high school. This song is about the crap you do outside of school. It's about summer and parties, and friendship, not about walking around the halls thinking your sh** doesn't stink. You may assume that your terrible high school experience wasn't what, oh... 90% of people felt in high school, but you're wrong. High school is a joke, man! And the prosaic struggle you speak of is exactly what Kris is talking about in this song. Growing up is having to get a job and kiss ass to a boss to make a buck, and if you think bands don't have to do this, think again. They have to kiss up to record labels, producers, club owners, promoters and everyone just to make a pittance of what they should sometimes. Everyone has to do this, even the self employed. So get used to it, or get used to living in a cardboard box. I think you need to grow DOWN a little bit man, or get some friends and stop trolling around the internet. You choose to say "yes" to life? Well go out and live it and try to experience at least some of the joy this song is trying to kindle in your bleak soul. Even if lighting off fireworks and wreaking havoc aint your idea of a good time, go do whatever it is you think is fun, and ENJOY YOURSELF! PS: You don't stop having fun the day you graduate from high school... Remember that when you get to college after passing those AP tests. |
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