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| Vance Joy – Riptide Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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My interpretation differs slightly from the previous ones. I would like to preface it with a metaphor for being in the early stages of liking someone that my good friend thought of. The first stage of a crush is a little bit like being on the beach and dipping your toes into the water, if you go in too fast or wearing the wrong clothes, you end up frozen (we live in Seattle) and perhaps with chafing. Like falling in love, it's a big risk. And even if you do make it into the water safely, you have to be careful not to get swept away by the tide (get ahead of yourself in the relationship) or drown. Thinking about this metaphor while listening to the song provides a different kind of story about falling in love with someone faster than they are falling in love with you. It's a classic case of loving an idea and not the person. You love them when they're singing the song that fits with your ideals but you know that what you love isn't real, hence "I've got a lump in my throat because you're gonna sing the words wrong." Nothing stays perfect. The riptide is a metaphor for getting swept away too fast and the darkness (sadness) that comes with that. The deceptively optimistic yet melancholy tone of the song further drives this home. |
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| Gotye – Smoke & Mirrors Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Okay- I definitely agree with all the existing top comments but I thought I would share an oddly specific insight my friend and I had. Listen to this song and think of it as being about how his mother is a stripper who neglected or left him in his childhood to keep working and make easy money.
Contrived? Yes, but amusing none the less. |
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| Kid Cudi – Young Lady (feat. Father John Misty) Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song is about liking a girl who might be too good for you. This girl is intelligent, beautiful, and she has it together. Cudi sings about her with an unusual amount of respect his genre and his feelings are clear. She isn't your usual chick, she's a "young lady." As we can tell, Cudi really admires this girl for her class but he feels like he wouldn't be good for her. "Who the fuck am I kidding?" The two lead different lifestyles and he knows finding someone he likes this way and might like him back is rare- "People rarely come around if ever." He doesn't want to be another "fool" trying to "spit at her," thus, he can't bring himself to share his feelings. "You'll find out never, unless you're clever. I'll admire from afar..." |
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| Regina Spektor – The Calculation Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I definitely get the whole, love is not a calculation meaning of this song. But for me when I first heard the song, I thought of Guy and Mildred Montag from Fahrenheit 451. Because their love is no longer real, and everything thing in their society is a result of a generalized calculation, if you know what I mean. From there my mind went to the whole theme of how we shouldn't become so sucked into technology that appears with Mildred in the parlor. And that relates to the song because it talks about a computer made of macaroni pieces, that does the thinking for people. I feel like Regina was also talking about how society cannot become dependent on technology to calculate their lives, because its man made ("built our own computer")and without the sparks that are created by living our own lives, there is nothing real and worth living for.
^^^ So what I just wrote is a jumble of randomness haha. I hope you all get what I mean (: |
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