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Au Revoir Simone – The Way To There Lyrics

13 years ago

After further thought I've also realized the last stanza could be an allusion to the big bang. Before the big bang, all the space and energy in the universe was compressed into this tiny, 0-dimensional spot. When the big bang happened, space started expanding and the energy spread out. So before the big bang, the matter that makes up my body and yours once inhabited "every point in space." And from the point of the big bang, the matter that makes up the narrator and the subject have ended up in the same place, almost miraculously.

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Au Revoir Simone – The Way To There Lyrics

13 years ago

I think this song is about a conflict between the narrator and science/causality. The first two stanzas are an observation of the physical world; it seems natural, fine, "innocent." But if this is ALL the world is, then the love between her and another is just another natural process, just like "gravity." "The seconds stretch to days/cause time was made that way" is another observation of the physical universe; time just progresses because that's how it was made. The last stanza, however, is the realization that this physicality and causality is something that in fact BEAUTIFIES their love. Of all the points in space (the vastness of the universe) these two people ended up in the same place. If the universe is purely physical and causal, these two were DESTINED to end up in the same place, making it fate, and in a way, miraculous.

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Dntel – Rock My Boat Lyrics

13 years ago

As morbid as this sounds, I think this song might be about suicide. The narrator "finally understands" "how to be free," free of the life that she hates. The river of light and the ocean of pain, where angels get their wings and babies get their names is heaven, where our souls started off and where we should be going when we die. The person who rocks her boat is someone she loves that's keeping her from doing it.

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Figurine – IMpossible Lyrics

14 years ago

So I think it's pretty obvious what this song is about. Boy and Girl were in long-distance relationship but Girl got a life and went away and she doesn't even care about Boy anymore. I would just like to add though that I think it's significant how Girl says "IM/I am" with Boy every time. It's as if the lyrics to this song is itself an instant message conversation, and when the two sing IM/I am in unison it sort of gives the that conversational impression. They way they sing it sounds rehearsed, robotic almost, like they've been doing it for so long. In the last lines, Boy gets so desperate that he breaks the cycle, saying that if this is how it's going to be, just know that I'm still here, as if he's inviting her to say IM again. But Girl ends it forever by simply saying "I don't want you to," bluntly ending the cycle.

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Dntel – Why I'm So Unhappy Lyrics

14 years ago

Anyone think this song might be about the narrator losing her belief in God, and the disarray it puts her life into? I think the first stanza, how he's "sitting" under her in "dreams;" that could be a comparison between God and dreams--both of these can seem so real yet God might be just as fictional as dreams are. The third stanza illustrates the comfort she gets from praying perhaps, his "hands" unfolding her and taking her worries away, forming a protective ring around her. When the narrator struggles with the belief in paragraph 4, the "God" in her mind tells her that she's just hiding from her, and her life is divided because of her conflicting beliefs. In the end, her doubt overcomes her, leaving her feeling "alone."

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