| Morphine – Candy Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Really outstanding song - haunting in melody and lyrics. Agree with @morphinejunkie and @coughxcool: this is a song about drugs, morphine or heroin in particular, personified as a lover named "Candy." (Candy could also be a real addict / dealer girlfriend). She's sweet and sexy and seductive and is trying to lure the narrator away from the real world. In Candyland, "nothing really matters anymore" and "she wonders why we try" to live life, i.e., when they could just enjoy the euphoria of being together? Candyland is "down" from real life, a place to be pulled under, to swim or drown, a lower energy / accomplishment state. "And when I ask her what she means she says I ought to know" is because he's been in this place before... but (see below) isn't using currently. Of the "arrangements in the sand," the "sand" is the literal powder of the drugs; and time in the hourglass of the narrator's life; and the dirt in which he will eventually be buried. Also, per @morphinejunkie, it's an impermanent thing that will be swept or washed away; it's shiftless and without structure. "Candy asked me if she died if I could go on / Of course I said I couldn't and of course we knew that's wrong" means, "Could he quit?" He says he can't... but they both know that he COULD quit - and may have already done so. Even as he's saying "But Candy I said Candy no you can't do that to me / Because you love me way to much for you to ever leave" - note that SHE loves HIM too much for HER to ever leave? In part, that's about withdrawl... but also because, in this metaphor, it's ultimately the opiate that needs him to "live." It seems like the narrator is being tempted... perhaps to fall off the wagon, if he had quit, but it's also possible that this particular "Candy" represents a potential escalation of his habit. Maybe he was using morphine and is contemplating heroin? Or this is supposed to be the "really good" stuff? "But Candy says I'd like it where she is / She says it's an opportunity that I don't want to miss." On the bright side, it seems like he's not yet taken the step... |
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| Adele – Rolling in the Deep Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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There's an obvious contrast between the potential of the relationship ("We could have had it all") and the reality of it ("You had my heart inside of your hands / And you played it"). Along those lines, "Rolling in the deep" has a dual meaning, I think: e.g., the depths of passion vs. "depths of your despair". My interpretation is that our protagonist has been physically / emotionally abused by her partner: i.e., beat / beating / scars. Hence, the intensity of her rage (e.g., "You're gonna wish you never had met me"), which otherwise seems more intense than just being cheated on. It seems like kind of song Rihanna would sing to Chris Brown. |
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