| Laura Marling – The Captain and the Hourglass Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think that verse reflects a fear of abandonment. "Leaving his lady alone thinking he don't love me no more, he's done with all this bullshit, he's going back to war" sounds to me like she is voicing her fears about him leaving her. | |
| Kathleen Edwards – Sweet Lil' Duck Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is soo beautiful. I often wake up with it in my head, the bit that goes "and I sleep through most my days so the time goes by, and I think I drink more now than ever" I think it's about being completely exhausted by something, in this case a relationship. It's like she is saying, i'm going to drink and sleep too much to make the time pass, but I'm going to do something to fix things, and don't come after me because I am too exhausted and hurt (I'm gonna set things right, I've got a job down south, don't you think about coming after me). |
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| Tori Amos – Smokey Joe Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I love this song... It's one her more sinister ones. I think it's about a deep anger towards someone (possibly the rapist) and the anger is causing her to have thoughts about hurting him, getting revenge ("it's too easy, it's too easy to wish you harm"). She thinks that killing him would make her feel better, but she also knows that she shouldn't ("if I kill him there are complications") so instead she thinks about all the ways she would hurt him. Because American Doll Posse is all about the different parts of Tori's personality, it's like one part of herself (Pip) is singing about the other parts - she talks about her 'twin'. When she says "he stole my sister clitorides" I think this is a reference to rape. (clitorides = Clyde). Maybe Tori was imagining a group of women coming together, talking about how much they were hurt by the rapist, and plotting their revenge on him. "I did not ask for this, 'oh but yes you did'" suggests she is battling with shame and guilt associated with the rape - she knows it is not her fault, but there is still part of her pinning the blame on herself. "Maybe it terrifies me, this quiet siege" - the anger and destructive thoughts are so strong, and they scare her. The anger (quiet siege) has been building up over time, and suddenly she is overwhelmbed by these thoughts. |
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| Katy Rose – Because I Can Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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She keeps finding herself staring in the mirror, because she is trying to look deeply into herself to figure out who she is. She is the only one who can see the struggles she faces every day. In the mirror, she can see all her scars - she can see the truth, and no one else can ("I keep on looking through the looking glass" and "my bony fingers stay locked here - the glass is cold when I touch my face, but I can taste my salty tears") She is looking at herself from another point of view - she sees herself as someone else when she looks in the mirror - someone vulnerable and broken who needs to be healed. She is searching for that person, the part of her personality who is strong as has the ability to care for, and heal her. She is trying to find a compassionate person inside her, who will help take care of her ("Mirror mirror, won't you kiss me cheeks and tell me i'll be okay, warm my spirits with your sugar lips"). To me, this song is about how someone who is constantly battling with something, but always being strong and carrying on anyway despite her pain, temporarily losing her strength, and instead just feeling tired from the constant effort of trying to live a normal life. She feels so weak and tired from it, that she feels like any day, she could just die, and is kind of waiting for it to happen. ("I keep on slipping out of this, waiting for the drapes to close"). Part of her actually wants to, because she wants an escape from this life. She wants to disappear to a place where she doesn't have to suffer through it anymore. ("and I want fall on through, out of the real world to a happy day, out of the wreckage that I do"). This is not a song of despair. She knows that she will find her strength again, but she just needs an escape from it first - maybe she feels like if she could disappear somewhere where she doesn't feel anything for a while, she would wake up and be strong enough to carry on. ("and help me wait for another day"). I feel exactly like this sometimes, and this song gives me comfort because i can relate to it so much. |
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| Katy Rose – Lemon Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"They've clipped my wings again, tore them apart and then left me" This sounds like she is feeling trapped, like she cannot escape from a situation she has been trying to get away from. "No use to fly away to my yesterday of freedom" Maybe this means that her old ways of coping don't give her the freedom she needs anymore? "So hurting here is where I belong" and "Beat me instead of them, pain is my only zen of fun" To me, it sounds a bit like she has accepted the painful situation she is in, but instead of dwelling on it she is trying to make the best of it, saying that the pain is fun/makes her feel alive. "So if I close my eyes I can really fly" I think this means she spends a lot of time dreaming about things that make her feel free. "I'll go where secrets are sold, where roses unfold, I'll sleep as time goes by" This is like saying, I will go to my own world where I am safe and no one can touch me. If I stay in a place where I can feel safe, time will pass and maybe things will be okay. I think this song is about her finding some sort of closure in a situation that cannot really be resolved, and realising that the only way to get the freedom she needs is by changing her view of what has happened in her life, and accepting the pain as part of her life. |
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| Tori Amos – Code Red Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It seems like it's about being exploited in some way, and being aware that she is being exploited but knowing there isn't much she can do about it and just going along with it. "Slip and slide my way through this charade, I know all the players and I must say do this long enough you'll get a taste for it" I've always thought it was about sex. And the bit that goes "what you stole I would have given freely" sounds like it's about rape. |
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