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| Vance Joy – Riptide Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I always thought it was about a man's love for a woman whom he's put upon a pedestal. She might not be the best person (she sings the words wrong, is being pulled to the dark side) but he still loves her and thinks she's beautiful (destined for the screen, etc.).
It's either that or a love that's just out of a reach. Maybe, he offers to be her left hand man because he can't be her right hand man for whatever reason.
Either way, the key lines seems to be: "she's been living on the highest shelf." The song has more of an unrequited-love-feel, as opposed to the break-up-song-feel. |
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| Okkervil River – White Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song seems to serve as a reminder that amongst the chaos of everyday, our lives keep moving. The seasons change.
The first half reads as a record of a youth's wild summers when everything moved fast and each day was a cinematic adventure.
As the song progresses, he presumably gets older, talking about marriage, and the song takes a desperate turn. The seasons keep changing, but it's moving too fast, and the things that should change, don't. We run out of time, we miss opportunities. We begin to see the changing seasons as a way to procrastinate, or push back responsibilities/goals.
The song also progressively picks up pace. The first half feels hopeful about the future while the second half has the urgency of someone who thinks they're running out of time. |
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| Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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this song is absolutely stunning. the video is equally as beautiful and reveals a bit more about li's intent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZYbEL06lEU. make sure to watch it to the very end. while at first i thought this was a gorgeous, simple love song, i might be wrong. the video makes me question the bit about "not your money" |
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