| The Used – Dark Days Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I agree with Aliveandbelieveing's ending lyrics. They also got me pretty good for some reason. Ultimately, I think I interpret it as him giving up, and the sad acceptance of it all. Especially with the last two lines, all the time of the relationship, gone. And then the last line is him finally just giving up, and letting go of the relationship. all as one, you made me come home and i'll be someone to never follow and i'll be someone who will ever love you all this time, gone, all this i'm done |
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| The Used – Sun Comes Up Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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For those of us actually interested in other's opinions/interpretations of the song here's mine: Maybe it's just because of my fairly recent break-up, but to me it's about a failed relationship, and the slow recovery process. And it all falls down at once And I try to get some sleep And the comforts of this bed Have all been shattered to pieces When it first happens, you feel like your world has come crashing down around you, and you can't sleep because you dwell on it. When you finally do sleep you dream about it and wake up feeling like utter shit, and so you become afraid to sleep. Thus shattering the comforts of your bed. I have a knack for feeling lost All those times I couldn't eat Like I couldn't yell enough But getting tired of screaming Depression sets in, you feel lost, loose your appetite. For me the yelling is almost metaphorical - a mental equivalent to lashing out, you feel like you just can't do it enough, but after awhile it just gets tiresome. But what else can you do? The sun comes up And now you have a chance again The world falls down We all forget where to begin The world collapses You hold it in.. Eventually you do start to realize that this is another chance. A chance for something new and better. A chance to be with someone who can return what you give to them, but right now you're still stuck. Your world has come crashing down, you've forgotten how to be happy. There's a crushing weight on you, and eventually already crumbling ground beneath you collapses, but you just hold it all in. You're tired of screaming, and don't want to burden others around you further. Maybe I have said too much Or really haven't said enough All these words they come undone I'm getting lost in the meaning This one really resonated with me. It made me think of all the times I contacted her afterwards. I knew I had to have been making her feel terrible, and that maybe I should stop, but there was always more I wanted to know, wanted to say. It felt like every new answer made it worse, and opened up a whole new world of questions. What she meant when she said this or that, hoping that clarifying that will make me feel better. And all the coldness in my thoughts Of being frozen all alone In a world that we destroy And try to pick up the pieces This is a little more ambiguous to me than the other sections, but I would think it's just the general fear of being alone, and how cold of your place your mind can seem to be. I'm not so sure on the second half, but it makes me think of your world being the relationship, and after it's destroyed you have to try and pick up the pieces of your life, and put them back together. The rest of the song to me, is kind of that final part of the recovery process, and finding someone new. You have to let go of all you've lost, to the point of letting go of the you that was in that relationship and let yourself drift away and be caught by that new person, or maybe even your new self? The repetition of the chorus, to me, is kind of showing that fact that some of the hurt will probably always be there, but it leaves off on an ultimately optimistic view. |
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| The Decemberists – I Was Meant for the Stage Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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As a performer, this song holds great meaning to me. I'm a high school student in Theatre. At my school we have something I will refer to as bonding, and mostly due to this, I have become terribly attached to this wonderful thing we call theatre. It's given me a second home, a place where no matter what's happening I can go, and just feel comfortable and home. It's a feeling often times not even home itself can give you. To me, that is just what this songs about. The theatre being where you belong, your home, maybe your only home. I'm going to be a senior next year, and the thought of leaving is terrifying. Not only because I'll be essentially loosing what I have here at the school, but because I'm afraid of forgetting what it was like there, with everyone else, that feeling of home. Even if I can find that same feeling somewhere else I never want to forget what I had here, and I know with this song, I never will. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – Would You Be Impressed? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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After reading other comments, watching the video, listening to the song multiple times, and putting some thought into it, I think I'm leaning more towards what SteelKangaroo and Usernamewastaken said. I feel this is more of a song about society - how many things are really are fault, even if it's indirectly and we don't tend to realize, or just refuse, to believe it. Though, I also feel this can go down to a personal level for certain people, or maybe even certain groups of people. Pointing out how hard they try to stay pure, and away from sin, that they ignore what's happening in the world around them, because, tying back into what I said before, they don't think it's their fault. When really, even if it's indirectly, it is since they do nothing to help prevent it, or fix it. "You scream: 'Not me! Take anybody else! -Because it's not my fault!'" |
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