| Sara Bareilles – Between the Lines Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Almost forgot... the part in the song "Leave unsaid unspoken".... It's the wife saying, "I'd rather want to believe that it's over for the wrong reasons...rather than tell me you don't love me anymore." I always imagine this song to be played when the wife and the husband is about to sign the divorce paper in a room together with their lawyers. Those simple glares, kept tears, and silence brewing in the mind of the woman, as she sings this song, as she signs on the dotted line while giving her husband one last glimpse, as her husband looks at her in silence speaking only in surreptitious whispers in her mind that says, "Let me go." |
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| Sara Bareilles – Between the Lines Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I always referred to this song as a reference to divorce papers that you have to read between the lines before you sign it. It is simply a woman who cannot fathom her right as a wife, to have known that her husband is cheating, that she let him fall for another woman, and that the reason for their divorce is simply because he does not love her anymore. A wife in denial, yet the only thing she could do is ask herself how as to why it all happened. The wife obviously loves the husband, but the fact that she loved him too much, or was too busy to give notice that he would cheat, or leave him for some other woman, is what devastates her. And the last line stating, "You and me, always between the lines." It means that they could never have worked out, because even at the signs that she knew deep inside that her husband was cheating (the wife hearing the name of his husband's woman, and neglecting the fact that she even existed), or the fact that he left him with another woman (no pieces of paper in the way as the sign of the divorce papers), or that she still loved the man deeply (to burden your mouth of which you say, or tell me, your wife, if you still love me or if you ever loved me), she knows that the only thing she could do is let him go despite her heart saying she still wants another chance because she loves him... In other words, they are always at the opposite end of the spectrum, or in different pages of a book; never knowing how to work things out because if she only realized now, seeing that her husband is giving her the condition of divorce, that their relationship has ended...despite every sign that he was giving her, it's a sign that she her love for him blinded her not to see the real picture, a typical scenario common to a one-sided relationship. And the part where the wife was saying, "Wait for me, I'm almost ready...when he meant let go". She was blinding herself of the idea that maybe, just maybe, he still loves her. But obviously, seeing the husband is with another woman...clearly states the opposite of what reality was telling her and even the suggestion of divorce awoken to her senses that it is evidently over. |
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| Joy Williams – Speaking a Dead Language Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Brick by brick, we started crumbling" Will I find you when it falls?"" ~These two lines states that the relationship is ended or has ended, and the other person wishes for it to survive after problems have arisen." "Don't hold your breath Look around Try to add it up, pin it down But you can't" ~This part in the song states a desire of the other person to really ask what his or her lover feels. A last cry to ask his/her lover to give him/her an answer; to end, move on, or start again. "Oh, I wonder when did it all stop making sense? I don't understand I remember, we were so sure, so innocent Oh, but that was then Can we ever go back again? Can we ever go back?" ~The chorus verse is the person's questions to himself/herself, who'se wanting or wishing for the relationship to continue. As he/she looks back to their begginings of how their love began, much like the purpose of the tower of babel and it's creation...to reach the heavens. Or figuratively speaking, love's highs and its lows. My personal assessment of this song, it's simply the start and the fall of a relationship. And sometimes the lingering question that sets in after it ended is the question itself that we ourselves - such as the question like "What happened?" or "Why did it happen?". And as some relationships never get the closure needed, the words to speak out or the process of letting the other person know of what you really want to say, explain, debate, or simply inform; it simply becomes the greatest obstacle itself. Because in reality, some relationships doesn't make sense as to how or how it started in the first place. But one thing is for sure though, there's a start and an end. |
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| Joy Williams – Speaking a Dead Language Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"We built a tall, tall tower Towards the sun, towards the sun Took some words and built a wall And called it love, called it love" ~The first verse is a reference to the tower of Babel, to which is cited as a part in the bible (Book of Genesis) where language had been diversified and no universal language was spoken, after the tower fell; to which God had spread the people in other parts of the world to speak their own spoken language. ~The tower of Babel can also be referenced as "Love", as the creation of love amongst people irregardless of race and diversity. Therefore, the creation of two people's love as the foundation of every relationship, as to being in love - is what is then referenced in this verse. "Somewhere in all the talking, the meaning faded out" ~And as every relationship reaches it's peak (same as the people trying to reach heavens with the creation of the tower per se and after it's fall), confusion sets in and communication becomes a problem for any lovers experiencing problems within their relationship. "You're speaking a dead, dead language You don't sound like yourself I hope it's just lost in translation So why don't you show, don't try to tell ~In this part of the verse, when two lovers are in an argument it is hard to understand what the other person seeks to define through ones words. And more often than not, sometimes words seem insufficient to prove or disprove a point given that ones emotions hamper ones way of thinking. Thus, making an effort to communicate properly not only makes it a barrier, but the confusion that the person feels disjoints oneself in the relationship, especially if uncertainties arise in the future of the relationship. |
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