| Supertramp – The Logical Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I love how in the beginning it is describing his innocence, how everything seemed so nice, so beautiful. The birds (people) seemed happy and he is in ignorant bliss. However, the birds also playfully watch him. And then when he reaches age they (the people) take him away. He is taught to be like everyone else. Not to challenge convention in fear of being considered a "radical" or "liberal" or even jump to extreme conclusions and call him a "criminal." However, outside not wanting anyone to see how he really feels, "at night when all the world's asleep" or in his own mind space, he is confused and does not understand how this is right. Logically he should not feel this way since he is "such a simple man" but obviously he realizes he is nothing of that sort. He wants to understand "who I am." "someone tell me please." | |
| Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Scattered Pearls Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The idea of pearls also being a metaphor for innocence is perfect! | |
| The Airborne Toxic Event – Wishing Well Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is so incredibly complex I can't really understand or relate all of it. But it seems like the wishing well is a pivotal moment in his life. And it wasn't just him who fell in the well, it was his lover too (according to the end of the song where his lover or ex-lover talks to him. "in that hole in the ground where we fell.") At some point they both experienced something extraordinary and both went deeper and deeper, "in the dark blue waters" hoping that it would all turn out well, like a "coin" being tossed in a wishing well, just hoping it will all be ok when you have no real foundation to know that. It's sort of a sense of losing control, almost like a drug addiction, (guessing from the chaotic nature of the lyrics, walls spinning, suicide, and the direct reference to a drug, mescaline.) But, I don't want to immediately jump to a drug addiction because that could be only a small part of the song. Anyway, they kept going deeper in the well, becoming more and more seduced into whatever it is, whether that be drugs, nightlife, perhaps the something related to the city as he expresses desire to be in the bustle of the city, etc anything really. Close to the end of the song the girl kills herself. It explicitly says this both in "first and last words she read" and how she thought "suicide was an alibi." She could not take it anymore and that was an enlightenment for him, now that whatever had happened with them had led her to killing herself. This leaves him to standing at the bus stop, almost lifeless, cold and alone, reminiscing of them "falling down the well." He ultimately admits to wanting to fight with himself, because, he, himself is his ultimate enemy and he cannot blame her death on drugs, or anything else that the two had done. He blames himself, and he is his ultimate enemy. He is finally seen "standing on the corner where the angles sit" this implies.. the edge of a building, someplace that he is about to commit suicide. He repeats "This is it, this is it" as well. At last, him falling down the "well" becomes more than a metaphor for his life, but he literally falls. He is tossed in the air like a coin in a well and he "falls and falls." Both the well, and this song is a metaphor for someone's life. The coin being a metaphor for them themselves. | |
| Pete Seeger – Little Boxes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song almost explicitly says what the meaning is. It is a clear opposition to conformity. It frowns upon the idea of suburbia, talking about more than just the houses but about the way people lived. Everyone tried to conform to have the ideal house and the ideal children. It was the age when the middle class rose up and everyone tried to be like their neighbors. The boxes may be different colors but they are actually all the same, all made out of ticky-tacky. The people, before they lived in the boxes went to the university where they were all "put in boxes just the same." The institution of education attempts to conform everyone as well. They all play golf (very typical middle and upper class leisure activity) All the boys go into the business, and all the girls marry the boys in business, and everyone has "pretty" children. Pretty being white, middle class, typical children. This song raises the issue of challenging convention and conformity, and mostly reflected the era that it was composed in, but has also established meaning today. |
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| Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is so beautiful. I fell in love with it long before even seeing the famous stop-motion music video. Personally, this song, is a bitter sweet song. It's sad, but by no means depressing, which is what makes it so artistically beautiful is that it really makes you think about the lyrics. I think it could be about a woman suffering from depression, family troubles, loneliness, or any other problem. The problem isn't mentioned because it doesn't need to be. Oren Lavie is creating meaning and sympathy for the woman without anyone explicitly knowing what her problem is, just that she is suffering. This woman awakes in the morning, and comes down the stairs in her "morning elegance." Oren Lavie sees this as her morning elegance, he sees her beauty. She puts the kettle on and dozes off "sound of water makes her dream" and then is awaken by the "cloud of steam" of the teapot. She puts sugar in her tea to "sweeten" it up, a metaphor for perhaps her life or situation. Obviously sugar would sweeten tea up, but the fact that it is mentioned, indicates she needs to have that spoon of sugar to sweeten things up, or at least attempt to sweeten things up. The "sun" has been down for days, and she is sining a winter melody. Winter in this context signifies cold, barren, almost lifeless. Its the sweet song of loneliness, no one understands her and she feels alone to suffer by herself. She hopes that a stranger will arrive, "someone to love" someone who is there for her in her dark hour. Or that a letter will come, most likely from someone she knows just to know that someone cares. Every simple task she does such as buying bread, getting on the train, putting on her coat, and counting change suddenly becomes pointless and basic tasks that only add to her agony because of their meaninglessness yet also sudden difficulty. Its almost a suicidal way of looking at life, all of the simple things adding up to nothing, and "nobody knows" so nobody cares or wants to care or even notices that is troubled. She is completely alone. The fact that she is "fighting for her life" implies further agony, not only by the tasks that she must complete everyday, but the tasks get successively harder and harder and she is forced to try and keep it together; she "fights her life when she goes in the store" and fights for her life "on the train." Along with the winter melody, it is also raining. Rain in this context symbolizes how she feels. Sad and alone with no way out. The one part that I am still trying to understand is why "the people are pleasantly strange." It could be that the people do not notice her, and that part is strange, but pleasant because she really doesn't want to be noticed by everyone, random people, who she comes across in the street because she is in no mood. |
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