| Shel Silverstein – In The Hills of Shiloh Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| *1905,typo. | |
| Shel Silverstein – In The Hills of Shiloh Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| Forty years after the War ended would have been 1904. Amanda Blaine would have been probably in her early 60s or so by then,depending on how old she was when her man went away...since she still wore her(yellowed)wedding gown,she was likely recently married and very young,likely no more than 20. Can only imagine how many times real-life stories like these actually played out,on both sides. | |
| Electric Light Orchestra – Telephone Line Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I found myself listening to this song a lot in the couple of years following my dad's death back in 1995, almost always on late and otherwise silent nights when there was only me and the cd player. The song speaks to me personally of human loneliness and isolation and despair probably more than ANY song I can think of. Twenty-five-plus years later it still feels the same way when I listen to it, if not more so, and now it's even more of the "just can't believe they've all faded out of view". "The love you need ain't gonna see you through...the little things you planned ain't coming true...give me some time...I'm living in twilight..." Years, even decades pass, some things change to the point that they aren't recognizeable, yet other things remain just as they were, time flies and we have less and less of it, relationships fall through and people leave, and some of us are still all alone. Just my personal interpretation. |
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| Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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I'm just going to interpret this iconic song with the misheard lyrics my prematurely-jaded teenage mind heard when I first started hearing it on an oldies station around 1990. I thought it was "we skipped our lives and dangled" and thought it meant just avoiding responsibility and being cynical because life sucked so you just said "skip it". "Cartwheels across the floor/feeling seasick/crowd called for more/room humming/ceiling flew away" just sounded like all the crazy things that go on around you no matter what times you live in and being desensitized to them and disillusioned. "The waiter brought a tray" of drinks because the system will always want to keep you drunk and drugged. I thought "miller" was "mirror", and saw it as someone seeing a reflection in the mirror they were unhappy with,or perhaps the mirror was "telling its tale" by showing the truth about someone,maybe the face that turned a whiter shade of pale. "Her face at first just ghostly turned a white shade of pale" sounded like someone who thinks they've seen and heard everything but along comes something that surprises or shocks them. "She said there is no reason/and the truth is plain to see" being cynical and disillusioned again. "One of 16 Vestal Virgins/though my eyes were open might just as well have been closed" again,sounds like a cynical person who thinks they've seen it all. So I tend to see it as being about disillusionment and cynicism yet still being surprised at something sometimes. |
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| Josh Joplin Group – Camera One Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| *have to try to be someone else,typo. | |
| Josh Joplin Group – Camera One Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I always saw this song as being not about celebrities acting,but how so many of us in the "real world" havetry to to be something or someone we're not,as a means of coping with being unable to accept the actual role life has handed us - but when the day comes when we finally have to be what we truly are("you're playing you now"),we're not successful at it. Imagining yourself as something/someone better can provide the confidence to face life sometimes(albeit temporary),but sooner or later you have to play yourself,and that sense of confidence dissipates. The "take a bow" part is ironic because in this case playing onesself is their worst performance. | |
| Pearl Jam – Yellow Ledbetter Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Had no clue what the actual lyrics were or what they were about for years. The music and how he sang them(whatever they were or were about)just hit me regardless. I personally interpreted as being about depression and alcoholism(I thought "unsealed" was "on the ceiling" and may have been a reference to being drunk on the floor), "wasting it all away" i.e. getting drunk and not caring, calling out someone's name when intoxicated, being destitute and hopeless(misheard lyrics: "I don't know whether that's a box or a bed"), feeling you have no opportunities, and ("I don't know if there's something else")not wanting to stay somewhere or in some situation but having no choice...just general hopelessness. | |
| Melanie Safka – Look What They've Done to My Song Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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It always reminded me of the public so-called "school/education" system and its so-called "teachers" when I was an execptionally bright but dirt poor kid in the 80s. The only thing(s) that I,the student/artist, could get half-right had to be damaged or even destroyed by "teachers" because a poor kid and outsider with a promising mind was just too much of an upset to their little apple cart. And of course the "teachers" and later so-called "guidance counselors" had to pick my mind and make me believe I wasn't normal, plus make me feel completely awful about my early-developing body until I believed I was ugly and worthless, so that I wouldn't grow up to question their failure of a system. Just my interpretation. |
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| Tears for Fears – Mad World Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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This is one of those songs that can be interpreted by everyone who hears it on both a larger-scale and on a personal basis. At large and macrocosmically the world is mad, for a million different reasons; down here on the personal level,it's mad to the individual for as many different reasons. To me personally the lyrics about "waiting for the day they feel good/happy birthday/happy birthday" is about being forgotten on my birthday because of a(so-called)family member who was born on the same day a few years before me and who was always treated like a princess,which can make you miserable when you're just a kid. "Teacher,what's my lesson? Look right through me" - in fifth grade,already a poor kid from the wring side of the tracks going through early puberty and getting dumped on from all directions,my so-called teacher(yes Mrs. Greenway,I'm finally calling you out)had the nerve to tell me not to call on God because he didn't know me. Nice thing to say to an already very troubled eleven-year-old,eh "teacher"? Just my personal commentary. |
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| Gillian Welch – Wayside/Back In Time Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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LOVE this song... "Soldier's Joy" is a reference to the combination of morphine,whiskey & beer that many late 19th and early 20th-century servicemen(starting in the Civil War era and continuing through WW1) became addicted to after being given morphine for pain. "Peaches in the summertime/apples in the fall" is from the old American folk song "Cindy",which may date back to the early 1900s. "The buggies and the hacks" = horses and carriages. On a more personal note some of the other lyrics really reasonate with me..."wasted on the wayside,wasted on the way"...someone who has wasted and lost their best years on the road of life to hard luck, bad decisions, unfortunate circumstances, substance abuse,etc...then you reach an age where you don't know what to do with yourself anymore and feel wasted, forgotten and left by the wayside. I think the last lyric is actually "oh darlin',the songs they played/are all I've got left of the love we made"...sometimes old familiar songs are all someone has left to remind them of a better time and place. |
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| Elton John – Tiny Dancer Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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This is one of those songs that sounds so positive and uplifting yet for some reason has an undercurrent of sadness to it. I always interpreted this song as being about a young girl,maybe even a runaway,whom others see as a free spirit and desirable but who ends up dying tragically and possibly committing suicide. For years I thought the lyrics were "you had a visitor today" instead of a "busy day",which sounded like someone came to visit the girl but she was already dead - I can't really interpret the song as I always have without using the misheard lyric. The first stanza is about her dreams,how hopeful she is at first,how she fantasizes about being with a musician.The second refers to the realities she discovers upon running away and her experiences with street life. "Turning back,she just laughs,the boulevard is not that bad" - she's trying to be flippant about her uncertain situation,laughing and saying(pretending)the streets aren't really so bad. "Piano man,he makes his stand in the auditorium" - she's thinking back to when she first heard her favorite band and how inspiring it was. "Looking on,she sings the songs;the words she knows,the tunes she hums" - she's continuing along her chosen yet broken path,trying to remain optimistic in a hopeless situation. "Count the headlights on the highway,lay me down in sheets of linen" - the last thing she sees is a busy highway at night before going to a motel room and either swallowing pills or being strangled to death.(Sorry if that's a grim thing to read into this beloved song,but it's just how I always interpreted it) And the misheard lyric,"you had a visitor today" - maybe someone came searching for her,maybe a friend from the streets came to check on her,maybe someone back home went to her family's home and asked about her,but she was already gone. (I know what the song is actually about,this is just my personal interpretation.) |
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| Elton John – Tiny Dancer Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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This is one of those songs that sounds so positive and uplifting yet for some reason has an undercurrent of sadness to it. I always interpreted this song as being about a young girl,maybe even a runaway,whom others see as a free spirit and desirable but who ends up dying tragically and possibly committing suicide. For years I thought the lyrics were "you had a visitor today" instead of a "busy day",which sounded like someone came to visit the girl but she was already dead - I can't really interpret the song as I always have without using the misheard lyric. The first stanza is about her dreams,how hopeful she is at first,how she fantasizes about being with a musician.The second refers to the realities she discovers upon running away and her experiences with street life. "Turning back,she just laughs,the boulevard is not that bad" - she's trying to be flippant about her uncertain situation,laughing and saying(pretending)the streets aren't really so bad. "Piano man,he makes his stand in the auditorium" - she's thinking back to when she first heard her favorite band and how inspiring it was. "Looking on,she sings the songs;the words she knows,the tunes she hums" - she's continuing along her chosen yet broken path,trying to remain optimistic in a hopeless situation. "Count the headlights on the highway,lay me down in sheets of linen" - the last thing she sees is a busy highway at night before going to a motel room and either swallowing pills or being strangled to death.(Sorry if that's a grim thing to read into this beloved song,but it's just how I always interpreted it) And the misheard lyric,"you had a visitor today" - maybe someone came searching for her,maybe a friend from the streets came to check on her,maybe someone back home went to her family's home and asked about her,but she was already gone. (I know what the song is actually about,this is just my personal interpretation.) |
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| Ass Ponys – Fingers Fall Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I'm going to assume the woman in the song is the same person mentioned in all three stanzas as I try to interpret what I think this song means: In the first one she is in a hospital,possibly after a suicide attempt - the "bandage wrapped around her hand" could indicate self harm. The "loud machines so foreign to her" is a bit hard to figure out,maybe it's a metaphor for her mental problems(?) Same with "sent her splattered red against the wall" - maybe she cut her self badly and was bleeding everywhere and was struggling with doctors trying to restrain and sedate her(?) The second stanza sounds like a flashback to her childhood playing the piano for her "drunken father". The third is obviously the woman about to hang herself,having left a suicide note,and this attempt is assumed to be successful("this is it,she'll show those bastards"),or she believes it will be successful. "Everything she said was true" - could refer to something that happened to her that no one believed and was a source of her trauma. |
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| Duran Duran – The Chauffeur Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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An unhappy young woman who can't drive and loathes & despises automobiles is chauffeured around by a driver hired by her father,who is more or less bribing the guy to spend time with his daughter,as being unable to drive makes her undesirable in the modern world,regardless of how beautiful she is. She is pissed at her father for trying to "buy" her a suitor and for being a fake social climber,pissed at herself for being high-strung and unstable,and pissed at the chauffeur because she figures he would never really like her and just needs the $$.It looks like she is smiling at "lovers passing",but she's really snarling at them. The chauffeur is in fact very attracted to her looks,charm,and sex appeal,and even wants to sleep with her,but knows he would be embarrassed for his guy friends to see him going out with someone who *GASP* doesn't know how to drive and whose old man won't buy her a car anyway. "I'll only watch you leave me further behind" is not the thought of the chauffeur but the young woman,who feels out of place in her time.The lyrics about the "droning engine" and her "beating heart" refer to how machines are held in such high regard over human emotions and needs. This song just inspires a story in my mind that becomes a personal commentary on society's obsession with cars and how nowadays it's so shocking when a woman isn't a driver,when at one time it was no big deal.So this is just my own little interpretation/story of the song. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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My own personal interpretation is the woman in the song is someone who appears self-reliant,confident and not in need of "love",at least on the outside and to others,but no one can really know her or get close to her so it's unclear if she's really like that,or if she wants to be loved and desired. She "takes to the sky like a bird in flight",her assumed confidence seems to come naturally to her;she's "taken by the wind" as in no one else can take/know her - She is "like a cat in the dark" and also is the darkness,she has more than one side to her personality,and is chameleon-like; she "rules her life" and seems to need no one - "Would you stay if she promised you Heaven?" - maybe she does in fact have a hard time getting the right person to stay,and has to make them outlandish promises to keep their interest,because maybe she's actually more insecure than she appears to most - "Taken by the sky(and wind)" - she may want to be loved but is afraid of losing her freedom,and taking to/taken by the sky symbolizes her strong desire for freedom and solitude. Just my personal interpretation. |
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| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Spellbound Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[FakeLoveRemedy:37849] Siouxsie's dad was a French-speaking Walloon Belgian. | |
| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Melt Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Just how I personally experienced/interpreted the song,I felt it was about constantly & vividly fantasizing about someone unattainable or even nonexistent,frequently masturbating while fantasizing about him,and the frustration at how the sexual bliss you believe you would have with them,as well as sexual bliss in general,is so out of reach. The "melting man" means that he's only in her imagination and disappears or "melts" in reality. "No time to breathe and yet one single breath leads to an insatiable desire" - being repressed,isolated,frustrated,with so much pent-up desire. "Suicide in sex" - depression resulting from sexual frustration and not from sex itself. "So many blazing orchids burning in your throat" - intense pent-up passion with no outlet or expression or fulfillment. "Sigh in tiny deaths" - orgasm after orgasm but from masturbation only. Just some of my own interpretation. |
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| The Rolling Stones – You Can't Always Get What You Want Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[punkdad:37148] You say the "dream" was dead...just what exactly was that dream anyway? | |
| The Rolling Stones – You Can't Always Get What You Want Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The woman at the reception is crashing the wedding of the man she's in love with who jilted her and is marrying someone else. Her "connection" is someone she is buying explosives from. The "footloose man" at her feet is the dumb schmuck whom she conned the money from to buy the explosives and whom she used to crash the wedding. The demonstration was where she went to seek out her connection in order to purchase explosives. As there was a "blowing up a 50-amp fuse" planned there,she knew someone there would have explosives. The drug store is a reference to the fact that the woman at the reception,"Mr Jimmy"(her two-timing lover),her connection,and the footloose man are all drug abusers. Mr. Jimmy's use of the word "dead" symbolizes that he doesn't actually want to get married at the reception in the first place and fears a bad outcome. In the last verse the woman at the reception has detonated the explosives bought from her connection with money from the footloose man. The footloose man is a casualty,and of course Mr. Jimmy is now literally "dead" as he eerily predicted earlier. So the woman didn't get what she wanted(a happy ending with her lover),but damn it,it felt good to blow that reception up,so she got what she needed. Yeah,I KNOW the real story behind the lyrics,I'm just making up a mad tale as I'm listening to the song and my imagination goes into overdrive at times. |
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| R.E.M. – Welcome To The Occupation Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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When this song came out in 1987 I was to young to know it had any sociopolitical associations or to really grasp most of the lyrics.I don't tend to think of big issues when listening to music,as songs tend to immediately tie me to personal memories. I personally interpreted the phrase "welcome to the occupation" as sort of meaning welcome to your life,this is what you're dealing with through no fault of your own,etc,and "all your fallen heroes" as being about finding out the truth about people,famous or not famous,that you looked up to.So I tended to think of this song as being about loss of the innocence of youth,which it still reminds me of when I hear it now. |
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| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Pulled To Bits Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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The lyrics always sounded like a description of the "mob instinct",like a village of people in a past era turning on one individual(the one who is "pulled to bits")accused of something they likely aren't guilty of,but the fact that they're outnumbered sentences them to what sounds like a very brutal method of public execution. "Tongues are clacking" obviously vicious gossip and judgement "Words of one vision" accusations all agreed on,though nothing but words,but still powerful enough to condemn the individual "One tiny incision" either the accused did do something,very minor,or the "incision" is inflicted upon them by their accusers "Pulled to bits in silence" no one even says a word as the accused is violently killed "Left rotting on the ground" their remains are left to decompose "The mindless ones yapping/slashing through the thoroughfare" every ignorant person present participates in the execution,mindlessly following the mob Just my interpretation. |
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| Night Ranger – Sentimental Street Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Absolutely loved this song as a kid in 1985,and it always had a deep meaning for me.Beautiful,bittersweet and very underplayed song. It sounded like someone who happens across someone from their past in a place that was important to them once("sentimental street") and sees that the person is behaving badly/has adopted some bad habits ("whatcha doin' out there,who ya tryin' to be?") that they,too,were once guilty of ("I know what you're thinkin' cause I've been there myself/I've been kicked so many times,I don't know nothing else"). The singer wishes there could be a reconciliation,but realizes that the other person is "having too much fun" now without them and too much has changed ("will you ever find out?Guess I'll leave that up to you"). "I've seen it before,it happens time and again/all cut up inside,yet you're caught in a spin" and "there ain't nothin' ever new" sounds like the singer has grown jaded and that there have likely been prior issues with the person they're singing about,or that similar things have happened with other people. |
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| R.E.M. – Fall On Me Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I was very young when this song came out and I had it on 45rpm.I somehow interpreted it as the individual against the world(symbolized by the sky)and the cry of "don't fall on me" as someone downtrodden pleading with whatever was more powerful than them to stop dropping burden after burden on them. "Lift your arms up to the sky,and ask the sky and ask the sky,don't fall on me" - the isolated,alienated,voiceless individual literally pleading with something/someone in a powerful position to please not burden them anymore(I'd already been through too much s**t at 13). "There's a progress;we have found a way to talk around the problem...note it's "around" the problem,not talk *about* it,in other words,avoid and ignore the issue at hand and the suffering individual. "I would keep it above,but then it wouldn't be sky anymore;so if I send it to you,you've got to promise to keep it whole"- the individual is making a futile attempt to use reason and logic and have a say,but they are still ignored. Just my own interpretation. |
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| Terry Reid – To Be Treated Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Not sure if all the lyrics are 100% correct,but to me this song has themes of betrayal, disillusionment, and how life seems both philosophical and meaningless at the same time,(hence why it was used in The Devil's Rejects): "We are what we are when in danger,and we are as we stand head in hands" - to me these lyrics need little interpretation.We are stripped of all basic defenses when alone,scared and vulnerable,and reduced to our most primitive of instincts...and at our most weak with head in hands we have little,if any,defenses and are at our most desperate as well as our most resourceful. "When a friend brings to light(life?)on a cold silver knife" - really powerful lyrics.Too often it is the one we thought was our most loyal friend who turns out to be the real enemy,or at least the false friend,which is much worse that a known enemy.Being betrayed by someone you believe is a friend and ally is far worse than any harm from an enemy. "You can stare your fate right into his hands" - the shock and hurt of betrayal and dishonor.Staring at fate in the hands of someone you wrongly believed to be your friend,lover,ally,confidante,etc. "Don't it seem so strange,how it just don't change" - speaks for itself.Either extreme you are pushed to by fate and circumstances,it's all the same,and you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. "In the faith that everyone will be treated right" - could be interpreted as either hope that fairness will win out or acceptance that fate has its own way and we can only dream of better things. |
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| Blink-182 – I Miss You Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I interpret the lyrics as someone having to admit and accept that someone whom they wanted to believe was their "ideal" or their rescuer,is exactly the opposite,and admit to themselves that they in fact knew all along. The "angel from my nightmare" refers to how they convinced themselves the person was an angel/savior who would rescue them from the nightmare/dire situation they were trapped in;the "shadow in the background of the morgue" is the truth they tried to avoid about this person,yet was always there in the background,like a shadow,with the morgue being a metaphor for their own sad heart and/or psyche.The "unsuspecting victim" is the singer/narrator themselves. "We can live like Jack and Sally if we want" and "Halloween on Christmas" is the narrator trying to tell both the "angel" and themselves that things can work out,that they can be together,even if the situation is not ideal."Where you can always find me" means they once gave their loyalty to the other person. "Where are you,I'm so sorry I cannot sleep,I cannot dream tonight", "sick strange darkness", the reference to spiders, "indecision to call you,and hear your voice of treason",this is the narrator finally seeing the truth that they always knew."Don't waste your time on me;you're already the voice inside my head" is them finally telling their "angel" that they are through with them yet still can't get them out of their head. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I first heard the Stones version as a teen in the late 1980s and have heard all the other versions and will just add my personal interpretation of the song. "No sweeping exits or off stage lines could make me feel bitter,or treat you unkind" No matter what differences or rivalries there may be,there is a loyalty to this particular person that others may not be afforded - the singer has perhaps been bitter toward some,and unkind at times,but there is one person he/she will never feel that bitterness to,no matter what(my own interpretation). "I know I've dreamed you,a sin and a lie; I have my freedom,but I don't have much time. Faith has been broken;tears must be cried, let's do some living after we die" The singer has idealized both the person and the situation they have desired,and is aware of it.They are free of certain restraints and conventions but are growing older and time is catching up.The faith in the outcome they desired is fading,acceptance of fate and reality is imminent,and we are not getting any younger,damn it,so let's make the best of what time we may or may not have left. Just my personal interpretation of this awesome song. |
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| Hole – Doll Parts Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[coykoi:6610] The 'female rivalry' could also indicate a rival who,though less doll-like or desirable,may be the one the guy eventually chooses,leading her to hate her own looks and maybe self-mutilate("it stands for knife" etc). | |
| Hole – Doll Parts Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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"Doll Parts" seems to me like a metaphor for someone who,despite how they may be desired and admired by others,is only going to be used,broken and discarded once the initial infatuation wears off.Just a pretty shell that everyone desires bur no one really loves or cares for;they just play with it for a while then toss it away.It's an accurate description of how so may people are at first praised and then used and cast aside,often for new "doll parts" which will be treated the same way. "Yeah,they really want you,they really want you,they really do..." ...and then suddenly they don't want you,despite how they desired you at first. "I love him so much,it just turns to hate"...sometimes the only way to deal with love that is no longer being returned is to start hating the one we actually love too much. "I fake it so real I am beyond fake"...she does such a convincing job of pretending she isn't hurt/broken that it's hard to tell just how she really feels. "Someday,you'll ache like I ache"...the last resort is just to desperately hope that one day the person who hurt you will hurt. |
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| U2 – Trip Through Your Wires Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This seems like a not-so-deep song IMHO...a guy hasn't seen a woman in a while,she "wets his lips"(heh)and he's been dry(heh heh)so long he don't care if she's good or bad;by the end of the song("in the distance,she saw me coming 'round,I was calling out,I was calling out")he's either already moved on to the next one after another "dry" spell(for a man this could be only a few days or hours)or back to his old girlfriend-thingy etc etc... | |
| Lana Del Rey – Shades of Cool Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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| The Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow's Parties Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Just my own personal interpretation...I first started listening to this song while writing a historical fiction story in which the central female character,a poor Welsh girl living London in the late 1600s,was still shunned by the acquaintances of her well-off English suitor regardless of how nice her clothes were,because of her background.It kind of became her "theme song" when I was writing. Applying it to reality,how some of us will always be scorned even if we do have nice clothes,if they do outgrow their ugly-ducking phase and become a beauty,if they have success,etc,because sometimes a person's background or past will always be held against them.I always interpreted the "turns once more to Sunday's clown" as meaning that she will always end up alone,no matter how many paid attention to her at the party on Thursday night,she is alone once more come Sunday morning while all the "socially acceptable" girls are with their beaus or husbands. |
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| Lana Del Rey – Sad Girl Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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| Lady GaGa – Bloody Mary Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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| Keane – Somewhere Only We Know Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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"I walked across an empty land, I knew the pathway like the back of my hand" Returning to a place(either geographically or metaphorically)that is very familiar,a place been to many times,yet now it seems barren and empty because so much time has passed,things have changed,and the feeling is more alone than ever "Oh simple thing,where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on; So tell me when you're gonna let me in; I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin..." The once-seemingly-simple ways that worked just don't suffice anymore.The situation is different;the singer is older,and tired of the same old ways over and over again never working out;something needs to change.The "Somewhere Only We Know" is a place,feeling,situation,etc,that he has in common with one other very special individual and he wants them to take this mutual feeling,etc,and make something lasting from it. |
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| Kris Kristofferson – Epitaph (Black and Blue) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I've read that he wrote this song about Janis Joplin,after being very despondent over her death and how no one realized how bad off she was. | |
| The Allman Brothers Band – Melissa Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| The "gypsy" always sounded to me like a man who is resigned to a certain way of life for whatever reasons yet carries a soft spot for a certain woman/girl.He can't change and isn't going to be a phony and pretend he can change,yet deep inside he has special feelings for "Melissa". | |
| The Beatles – The Long and Winding Road Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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One of the most beautiful and most timeless ballads ever.And one that can hold a deep personal meaning for each listener(in my opinion). I always think of the 'door' as being somewhat symbolic of someone's heart and the long and winding road as both geographic and symbolic of the long road to gain or regain someone's trust(heart).The singer may have once held the other person's heart(door)or was on the road to doing so,but was 'left standing there',and through all their wanderings they are still 'led back' because despite the door(heart)being so hard to reach it was still the one door(heart)they knew would open to them. 'The wild and windy night that the rain washed away has left a pool of tears crying for the day' To me this symbolizes some turmoil or other that even once seemingly overcame has left an emptiness and need,that can only be filled by reaching the end of the long winding road and the door/heart though the singer is uncertain he/she will ever get there.The theme throughout the song is uncertainty,will the road ever finally end,and where? Though definitely a love song,I feel it's very different than the typical love song in the sense that it's about finally knowing who you should be with yet the road there is still difficult. |
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| Terry Reid – Seed Of Memory Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I interpret the lyrics as meaning that change(the winds of change that rearrange the county)is simply inevitable,and that since change cannot be avoided,that in the face of change,the change should "also sow a seed of memory",because although the past is gone,we should at least learn from it and try not to keep repeating it.I don't see it as either patriotic or anti-war,but a symbolic way of saying we humans have a tendency to repeat the bloody past,yet we keep changing,so in the face of inevitable change(which happens naturally),we should let the "winds of change" also "sow a seed of memory" that we can learn from. | |
| Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Jackie Blue Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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In my own interpretation: "You'll take an inch but you'd love a mile" She is trapped by her own insecurity,and wishes she had the nerve to take more chances to improve her seemingly empty life,and is very self-limiting. "What's a game,girl,if you never lose ask a winner,and you'll probably find, Ooh Jackie,they've lost at sometime" She is afraid of taking chances because she's afraid of losing,and the singer is trying to tell her that sometimes you have to lose a few times before success. "Every day in your indigo eyes, I watch the sun set but I don't see it rise" She always seems to be at an ending,and never a new beginning,and appears very world-weary despite the fact that she is very inexperienced and insecure. "You'd take the world but you won't take the time" She wants everyone to think she has been there,done that,when in fact she just doesn't have the nerve and just won't take the time to allow life's experiences to happen to her.'Jackie Blue' is an anxious,insecure girl who is full of doubt and cynicism,and instead of risk losing or failure,she puts on a facade of being experienced and worldly,instead of earning and learning through experience.She expects things to happen too soon,and the singer is trying to tell her that it all takes time and sometimes you just have to fail a few times before you get it right. |
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