| King Creosote – Bats in the Attic Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Wow. This one hits your nerve. Anyway, my take on the song is: The singer has grown old in misery and realizes he's lived thus far, without any essence. He believes he's wasted all his life reaching for something he couldn't, and has failed towards the end of it. And I've gone silver on my travels, growing silver in my sideburns. I'm starting to unravel her, My heartbeats on a djembe, I counted eighteen on my pulse as Kilrenny Church struck three for three o'clock. The singer essentially means, he's grown old both mentally and physically. "I'm starting to unravel her" is the act of unfolding his soul realizing his incompetencies and failures. "My heartbeats on a djembe" signifies his living is hanging by the thread and he may die any second. "I counted eighteen..." means he's in a physically brutal state and is too tired to think yet too hurtful to sleep. "And you said twelve years in retirement. The hours go by like sips of water. The record lies unbroken, and no doubt, it's white flour in my diet. It's going to be the death of me, sweet drumroll for those embittered big ideas." This essentially means he thought he'd live his life after he's taken care of all his responsibilities, i.e. once retired, he could live for himself, but everything's still messy and he cannot get a hold of himself. He planned to make the best out of his "late" life, but that again has failed. "You mentioned bats in the attic, so now you're lifting up the tiles to get around these conservation rules. I walked down in the basement. I'm hanging upside down. I gag across my mealy mouth." The singer signifies how he's been lonely all through his life. "Bats in the attic" to me means a motionless life. He's been still and probably just waiting for death, yet he doesn't die and is too tired of all the pain he's endured. He wants to quit, but neither does he die, nor can he kill himself willfully. A prime human condition, we're all too depressed with what we have but we generally cannot commit suicide. "And how I'll laugh, I've loved about that. When I read your simple novel, it uses all our real names. And go make yourself a fortune, there's nothing left for us then us left dangling just a little shamefaced." This is a cynical statement. The singer's being rhetoric about the fact that he looks back and laughs over all his miseries realizing his initial plans have all come to an absolute halt and he's no more material than an animal. The world understands his pain, and he understands the world's pain, yet everybody chooses to life in silence and anonymity neglecting the sadness of life, pursuing, perhaps an immaterial life to satisfy the rejection of ourselves in our souls. But again. Songs are subjective. So are books, paintings, etc. Art can never be interpreted objectively, and this is why it's beautiful. We can all believe whatever we want to, not worrying least about what the true meaning behind an artist's work could be. |
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| Coldplay – Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Wow. My initial interpretation was much different, maybe because I've been following the political upheavals in the Middle East and elsewhere very closely. The word "Rebel" and "Next Generation", and made me feel the song had something to do with the recent political and economic crisis in their entirety. The title "Every teardrop is a waterfall"- emphasizes the fact that no single teardrop is any less massive than an entire waterfall. It compares pain to a material natural phenomenon as massive as a waterfall and tells us, no teardrop will go in vain. The beginning implies the act of drowning into self-belief, regardless of what the outer environment is, and irrespective of what's the reality. It relates to the crisis in the sense that, it's about time people start collecting themselves together, and believing in themselves to such extent that nothing else would matter more than what they want/desire. The words "music" and "song" imply the figurative sounds in ones head distinguishing desires to reality. The second verse goes on to say "and all the kids they dance" meaning some sort of a demonstration. Demonstrating with strong self-belief until triumph. "kids" imply the sense of the next generation. Freedom for the next generation. "I'm on a roll this time" and "heaven is in sight" reminds me of the fact that, though repetitive political uprisings have occurred in such parts of our lengthy history, nothing of this magnitude has been ever achieve. Heaven is in sight implies, the success of our will have surpassed the fear of many of the tyrannical regimes/systems. "Don't want to see another generation drop" implies the fact that, many generations have suffered over the years, but it's time to change what has been happening. "I'd rather be a comma than a full stop" expresses the desire to bring about a revolution. A comma often denotes contradiction in sentences, whereas full stop denotes an end. The contradiction means in the sense that, the future will be different from the past. The next verse, depicts the pain and inferiority the person feels, the helplessness he's been rendered with, yet he believes he's in the middle to achieving some sort of a success. "Cathedrals in my heart" tells the hope he has gathered within himself. Well, this is just my interpretation. I realize mine, sounds quit insane when compared to a lot of yours, but isn't this the beauty of art? For one this might seem a dance song, for another, this might be a motivational soundtrack. Music is subjective, and this was my opinion. |
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| James Morrison – Undiscovered Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I've always loved James Morrison. His voice, it's so unique, and add that to the lyrics of his songs, it comes out as a fantastic mixture. This is another song, where he tries to explain, from the worldly perception, he might be different, but no one has ever taken the chance/opportunity to truly figure him out. He is different in substance, because there are reasons, but characteristically, he's the same as anybody else. This song touches me, because there are a lot of us out there, who have differing views and opinions, but it doesn't essentially mean we're any different from the majority. We might have a different take on things, but we're all human. It also explains that the world , in general, refutes to understand the true potential of many of us, living by the general notions, many of us are "lost", because we're all set out to prove ourselves in our own distinct ways, but the rituals of the world confuses us, and we're left undiscovered. Overall, fantastic song. This is what an artist does, puts feelings into words. We're not artists because we can't do that. |
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