| The Starting Line – Island (Float Away) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Still listening to this song in 2016. The song seems to be about a tumultuous relationship. The writer is pleading with the other person to keep faith and see it through because something has to give eventually, and they can get past the difficulties they are facing. |
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| Sara Bareilles – 1000 Times Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Sara said on her commentary for this album that 1000 Times is written about unrequited love, and that sense of determination you feel to make them feel the exact same way that you do. | |
| Sara Bareilles – Gonna Get Over You Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song is about putting your foot down and walking away from something that isn't giving anything back. In this case, it looks like the guy is telling Sara goodbye in the first stanza, but by the second stanza Sara is describing her their relationship. They aren't together, they are betwixt and between. Hence, "'Maybe,' it's a vicious little word that can slay me." and "Well no more, I won't beg to buy a shot at your back door." Sara is describing that she's just a last resort option for the guy who is playing the field. And while Sara is giving him everything, she has decided it's time to walk away from being an option. And while she wishes that he'd want her with the same intensity that she does, she accepts that he won't ever and that she'll be fine without him. | |
| Mayday Parade – Just Say You're Not Into It Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think there is something to be said about the first lines of this song. "In a show of hands, who has said these words before?" I think that directly correlates with the name of song, Just Say You're Not Into it. With that, I think the song is about the uncertainty of what is between two people, and those conversations trying to define what is going on and the expectations of what it is and the reality of what it isn't. |
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| Paramore – (One Of Those) Crazy Girls Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is obviously about a relationship coming to an end. I think the significance of the song is that the girl has never been crazy like this before over a dying relationship, hence why she keeps repeating she's not one of those crazy girls. But by the end of the song, she realizes that this is the first time she's felt so strongly, that she's manic and doing crazy things. So of course at the end, she realizes she is one of those crazy girls. |
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| Fleetwood Mac – Silver Springs Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"I would be your only dream." That single-handedly has to be the most powerful line in the song. It encapsulates the dream of Nicks and also that her dream isn't what is reality in reference to Buckingham. |
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| Paramore – For a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song is about a situation in which someone refuses to follow through with anything. They always fight shy of everything, they refuse to be completely involved in it. Hayley is basically calling the person out for putting their foot in the door, and then taking it right out. She might even been calling herself out for putting faith in someone that she knew wasn't ride or die for whatever reason. | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Weird I read this. The same thing happened to me. Except I'm the girl who studied there, couldn't find a job, and had to leave. He did the dumping because he couldn't just keep waiting. I feel your pain. | |
| Sara Bareilles – Manhattan Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think it's exactly what you said. I think it's just the realization that what they had before is over, and it's time to quit holding onto each other and their dream (Manhattan). It didn't work out, and it's time to move on. | |
| Sara Bareilles – Gravity Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Sara said herself that she wrote this song after her first heartbreak, and it's about someone who doesn't love you back. | |
| Sara Bareilles – Hold My Heart Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song is about the relationship obviously ending. But I think something sparked it, and it left the narrator incapacitated in some way. And from that point, it was like the narrator unconsciously check out of the relationship and did things to make the other person want to leave. Honestly, the song is about noticing the inevitable decay of a relationship, and wanting to find a way to stop it or least delay it. |
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| Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To me, this song is about a person who falls very fast and hard for someone for the first time. And the feeling is so strong and so addicting that he/she keeps pushing and pushing for more. Hence the line, 'I came in like a wrecking ball; I never hit so hard in love." The other person doesn't necessarily not feel the same, but is deterred by how hard the other is pushing and feels that it is irrational. The other person feels so pressured that eventually, the pushing is too much and they leave the situation. This really is a powerful song , and everyone can relate to the time that they fell too hard and they pushed too hard or held it to tightly that it fell out of their grasp. |
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| Lianne La Havas – No Room For Doubt Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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In my last comment I forgot to leave my interpretation for "leave me no room for doubt." In accordance to what I said before, She keeps repeating "Please sleep softly, leave me no room for doubt." I think she is pleading that he is sleeping and is not awake when she leaves him for good, and leave her zero margin to believe that he is in fact awake and just letting her leave him. |
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| Lianne La Havas – No Room For Doubt Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song definitely has to be about the tragic end of a relationship. The narrator of the song knows that it is over, but is debating what to do. Ultimately, she chooses to leave because whatever mistakes they have made have probably morphed the relationship into something so far from what it was. During the second verse of the song, I think she finally made up her mind to leave. "I tiptoe, too slow, out of the door to your house." This makes me think that he's awake when she leaves. Hence why she would say she that she tiptoed too slow. "I know that you know this way leads me out. Outside, too bright, you're within and I'm without." I think this has two meanings. One, that is the way out of his house. And two, this means she's leaving for good. "Please sleep softly, leave me no room for doubt." This is the most profound message of the entire song. It's like she's pleading that he is really, truly asleep while she is leaving him for good. But I think that the narrator knows very well that he's just letting her leave because both of them are unhappy. This is probably one of the most heartbreaking songs I've heard in a very long time. It reminds me very much of myself leaving on the 14:37 train back to London knowing something was very wrong, and how he let me leave. It's a different context from the song, but the same underlying theme applies. |
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| Sara Bareilles – Basket Case Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| When I saw her in concert, she said this song was very, very personal to her. It was about losing someone who means the world to you, and how when it happens you feel like you'll never be okay again without them. Hence, a "basket case". And boy, does this song hit so close to home for me. And I hope, just like with Sara, that he and I can work it out. | |
| Sara Bareilles – Breathe Again Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Heart-breaking to listen to this song. Sara has a trend of writing songs about someone who doesn't love her back, and no doubt is there that this is another one. Possibly the same person she has been continuously writing about. Anyway, to me, this song is about someone who doesn't love you back. Lines like: "Open up next to you, and my secrets become your truths. And the distance between that was sheltering me comes in full view." To me, this sounds like little doubts in the back of her mind, or maybe trying to be blissfully unaware that he doesn't love her back. And finally when there is confrontation about it, she gets to hear him say it--to know he doesn't love her. And the next line could be about how she mentally detached herself from that fact to keep her the feeling for so long, but it finally came to the surface. All in all, this song is about losing someone you love who can't love you back, but being so hopefully optimistic that either that person will finally love you, or you'll be able to move on and 'breathe again'. |
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| Duffy – Warwick Avenue Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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What an incredible song. "All those days spent together; I wished for better, but I didn't want the train to come. Now it's departed, I'm broken-hearted. Seems like we never started." That line gets me every single time. So weird that I listened to that song on the 14:37 Sunday train back to Waterloo. I probably would have lost it at that part if I had known that it would be the last time I would get to see you. |
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| Paramore – The Only Exception Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Everyone has interpreted this song a billion times and a billion different ways, but I think who she sings about in the end isn't who she ends up with. I think she met someone who made her believe in love, but for some reason it didn't work out. Like when she sings, "I've got a tight grip on reality, but I can't let go of what's in front of me here. I know you're leaving in the morning when you wake up; leave me with some kind of proof it's not a dream." I think that signifies the end of that particular relationship. But she goes on to say that she's on her way to believing. So therefore, she has learned that love is very real, and that she will be able to believe in it someday with the right person. | |
| Rihanna – Stay Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Definitely my situation now. I'm trying to be with someone who is so completely broken and so am I. We're one in the same, and there is no way it will ever work. Unfortunately for us, there is such magnetism between us that there is no way for he and I to let go. The selfishness we both exhibit by keeping us here only makes our relationship worse, but we know that the only way we'll ever be satisfied is by making sure we keep the other under our thumbs. This song is definitely heartbreaking when I interpret it that way. | |
| Haley Reinhart – now that you're here Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Definitely the situation I'm in now. Goddamn you, sir. | |
| Paramore – Franklin Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I can definitely relate to this song right now. My best friend moved really far away, and us trying to stay friends when it's so obvious that there is no way that we can be as close as we used to be. And everything has changed. She has new friends that are nothing like her and us. | |
| Paramore – Franklin Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I can definitely relate to this song right now. My best friend moved really far away, and us trying to stay friends when it's so obvious that there is no way that we can be as close as we used to be. And everything has changed. She has new friends that are nothing like her and us. | |
| Paramore – Franklin Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I can definitely relate to this song right now. My best friend moved really far away, and us trying to stay friends when it's so obvious that there is no way that we can be as close as we used to be. And everything has changed. She has new friends that are nothing like her and us. | |
| Amanda Seyfried – Little House Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think this song is about two people who are in a relationship that isn't working. That would appeal to the line, "Our hearts sing less than we wanted, we wanted." And one person is absolutely in love with where she is, but it's turning out to hurt more being in that particular place (i.e. "I love this place, but it's haunted without you"). One person is ready to call it quits, but the other person is trying to get them to re-evaluate their decision to leave. Which would fit the lines, "If you live another day in this happy little house, the fire is here to stay". That would mean that if they can make it through this severely hard time which will determine where their relationship will ultimately stand then it is something real and will last. And the last part of the song I think is the person who is asking the person to stay is saying that they shouldn't fight it because regardless of how they feel, they won't be able to let whatever is binding them together go. | |
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