| Usher – DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is a horrific portrayal of the atrocities of war in a post-apocalyptic setting, and a critique of the abuses of power the Department of Justice is granted in America. It is quite a clever song, he is a master of the metaphor, which adds to its rich verbal depictions. In the beginning, Usher is walking into the "club," which is a euphemism for a death camp. You can tell that there has already been a massive amount of murder that has taken place, so much in fact that the slightest movement causes the bodies he walks on to gently rock from side to side. He is thankful that another week has passed, even if he's not sure why, because he feels like a zombie only brought back to life by occasional moments of unspeakable terror. Suddenly, a guard yells, "HANDS UP!" and every prisoner fearfully complies. Usher has no control over his body, they have taken even that from him. He seems to recognize the guard by his eyes, he is likely a former friend who is now on the other side. Suddenly, he is marched into the forced copulation room, where the Department of Justice (D.J.) has forced him to breed with a selected female. The guard taunts him, telling him to do the forbidden "dance" like it's the last night of his life, which he knows it well may be. Usher briefly dreams of revenge as he is allowed his one drink of the day. He dreams of setting the camp on fire, even using the term "mother fucker" to describe it, a brilliant metaphor as the camp has never physically touched his mother. When the "music" (brilliant, again) of the surrounding stops, he is once more forced to put his hands up while the guard frisks him for any food or water he may be trying to feebly hold onto. Once again, he swears revenge to "get the guard right" while cursing the Department of Justice for making a mockery of love. Pitbull then gives his account of what the death camps are like for Latin American citizens. You can see that because he is more familiar with these nation's histories of social and political turmoil, he pays little attention to the physical suffering around him, instead preferring to think of his now deceased wife, and how they used to fornicate while playing music loudly in his parent's basement, though he is sorry for her passing. He tries to yell at Tyrone, the guard, screaming and "hollering" out in rage, telling him he could easily jump through these "foot hoops" that he is chained in. Instead, Tyrone informs him that the chains are intentionally left loose as a sign of false hope, telling him that the new world order is "global." Dispirited, Pitbull then recalls an earlier conversation he had with his wife in Spanish, when he joked about being her OBGYN. In the end, the two simply remind the listeners of the abuses of power that may be allowed by the Department of Justice if nobody takes action to limit them. They will force people to constantly live every night like it is their last, cursing the D.J. that they will some day get what they deserve, and, with the final line of the song, sarcastically thanking them for all that they've done to these poor two men. |
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| Christina Perri – Jar of Hearts Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this song is obviously about a serial killer trying to kill someone who is a cancer survivor. Read the lyrics, and it makes sense, she is a master of metaphor. In the first part, she says that she cannot step towards him (because he's about to kill her) and she says that she learned to live half alive with her cancer, but won't let him take what she has left. In the chorus, she is wondering who the killer is, because he is likely wearing a mask. Obviously he has a jar of hearts (trophies) from each of his victims until this point, and many times he has killed someone who was part of a couple, and thus he "tore love apart." He is also probably sick because he might have to live outside or hide a lot, and thus has ice "in his soul" (another metaphor) which gave him the flu. She says don't come back for her, because he probably killed the group of friends she was with, but she doesn't want him to come back for her. Then you can see, that the killer realized that he didn't get her, and she is a witness, so he is trying desperately to find her. However, she is recovering from the cancer, so she's now "too strong" for him to catch her, he's likely not very strong, he just usually gets the jump on his victims. Afterwards, it's revealed that she might have had an emotional relationship with the killer. She found the light inside her eyes, but only after it was reflected off of his jar of hearts that she found in his closet which is why he was trying to get her in the first place. Now he wants her back, but if he can't have her alive, at least he'll always have her heart. Now at the last part, she is just questioning him. Wondering if he even knows who he is anymore after killing so many and keeping their heart in a jar. It's really a very haunting song, it makes you wonder how someone could do something like that. |
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