| The New Pornographers – Challengers Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I agree with TriangleMan. Obviously, he's quoting Carl Newman so that doesn't leave much for interpretation. I guess I just wanted to lend my support. When I first heard the song, I assumed it was about two people who were in love and could see a future for themselves but were with other people at the time. To me, the song is about being realistic and putting your love on hold and all the complications that go with that. I like these lines especially because it reflects how vague/shallow their idea of being together is. "On the walls of the day In the shade of the sun We wrote down Another vision of us" And I don't mean shallow as superficial, I mean shallow in the sense that their idea of being together is almost impossible and not really rooted in reality. Therefore "walls of the day" and "shade of the sun" demonstrate the intangibility of their love. |
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| Bat for Lashes – Daniel Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree that this song seems to be about first love that was lost but at a slightly different angle. I feel like, obviously this song is about her first crush/love Daniel Larusso. But of course, he wasn't real. She didn't personally know him, but in admiring from afar, he felt like "home" to her, like she knew his soul. I feel like this song is about trying to find the real version of Daniel in someone else. Like in the last verse with the "goodbye bed", it seems like she's saying goodbye to the unrealistic crush she has on this fictional persona and is realizing she needs to find someone in the real world to love. "Just kids in the eye of the storm And as my head spun 'round My dreams pulled me from the ground Forever to search for the flame For home again For home again" So she realizes that her idealistic crush on this celebrity was childish but now she seems determined to find someone in her own life that reminds her of the soul and "fire" that first attracted her. This can be attributed to everyone's first love because I feel like after that person (if you ended it when you didn't want to) is the person you compare every love/crush afterwards to and it is the hardest battle to give up looking for the perfect replacement. She describes it so beautifully by comparing it to a child crush. The lyrics and music are so haunting and dreamlike. I want to live in this song. |
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