| Weezer – King Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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First off, its a brilliant song, those who can't see past the outside, I feel sorry for you. This song is extremely deep especially from a certain point of view. I think this is a guy in the bar, he sees a pretty girl and goes up to ask her when some jag off just walks up and GRABS her, no questions asked, just grabs. Now the guy who the lyrics are coming from, doesn't like this in the slightest, he sees it as disrespect to the girl and himself. Most of the more powerful men, or women for that matter, you find, are not ones to square off in a confrontation with a fight. Most will avoid the situation and find another means to accomplish there goal. I think that's this situation exactly, instead of just laying the other guy out, the offended guy goes for this guys ego with surgical precision. Sometimes, that's all you need. Pick up your action, act like a grown man Look at the winners, you can be like them Life is so easy, pleasant, and dreamy If you get off me, if you get with me |
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| Bon Iver – Holocene Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I don't even know where to begin with this song.. Justin Vernon has simply proved overwhelmingly just how beautiful of singer/songwriter he is. Its not enough he wrote such an engrossingly gorgeous song, but the way he sings it is utterly FILLED with emotion. You can't help but get caught up in this song.. | |
| Mumford & Sons – After the Storm Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To quote Wikipedia on the album itself as a whole: "Much of Mumford & Sons' lyrical content has a strong literary influence, its debut album name deriving from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The track "Sigh No More" includes lines from the play such as Serve God love me and mend and One foot in sea and one on shore. The song "Roll Away Your Stone" is influenced by Macbeth.[28] In an interview, Mumford was quoted as saying, "You can rip off Shakespeare all you like; no lawyer's going to call you up on that one."[28] Additionally, "The Cave" includes several references to The Odyssey. Both "Timshel" and "Dust Bowl Dance" draw heavily from the John Steinbeck novels Of Mice and Men, East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath, respectively. Mumford, in an interview, even compared touring to a Steinbeck adventure: "[Steinbeck] talked about how a journey is a thing of its own, and you can't plan it or predict it too much because that suffocates the life out it. That's kind of what touring is like. Even though there's a structure–you know what towns you're going to, and that you'll be playing a gig–pretty much anything can happen." Mumford also in his spare time runs an online book club on the band's official web site.[29]" That said, just like with Leonard Cohen's wonderful "Hallelujah", there are many things in this song that seem Christian, fact is most of the lyrics are to do with literary pieces. However, once again, people will end up seeing what they wish to see. For me, a strong Agnostic, I see the pure spirituality in it of a man who has gone through the pain of being tortured by love, yet still longs to find that one person who can give him true love. Songs like this are powerful for a reason, we've all been there, we've all been loves dirty floor matt being walked upon. Songs like this remind us, and make us want to look that much harder. Its beauty incarnate. |
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| Stars – Your Ex-Lover Is Dead Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me, I always associated this as being almost a companion piece to One More Night. The two songs tell a story we all experience when we age, the inevitable break up and the running into each other later on in life. My thought on One More Night is that final night of sex you have before its time to go your separate ways. I believe the man is far more emotionally attached and committed to the relationship then the woman is, he seems on the verge of literally breaking down, screaming and begging, even grabbing the woman. As where, she, almost seems cold and just going through the motions, like a person who's head, or for this instance, heart just isn't in it. And then we come to that random chance meeting with this person, I would say, years later. A friend of a friend introduces them, someone who couldn't possibly know the back story between them. The man, thinks to himself, just like anyone does after realizing the world does not end after one relationship, this woman he had been so infatuated with, to beg, cry and possibly even physically harm, and he can't even remember her name now? Now, she's sitting on the other side of this cab looking at this guy who tried so hard with her, but no matter what he did, he could never get to that emotional part of her. She has this air to her, this idea that he still this way about her, and sees him looking off into the distance possibly being sad at the thought of her, yet in all honesty, the guys there just trying to remember her name. In the end, she did feel something, she just choose to hide it, he wasn't for her, or at least shes trying to justify that thought to herself. But now, now shes with someone new, someone with real love for her, or at least that's how she sees it and shes thinking of telling him the news. But at the end of it all, there voices and thoughts unite, and in quite unison of this taxi crossing this bridge on a rainy day in Ottawa, they think: There's one thing I want to say, so I'll be brave You were what I wanted I gave what I gave I'm not sorry I met you I'm not sorry it's over I'm not sorry there's nothing to save Because like all people, they are shaped by their experiences. We all are. Those miserable relationships we have? They ultimately make us better people in the end. That's what this song is truly about, the ability to admit, you don't feel sorry for having that relationship, and having gone through that pain they gave you. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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First off, with this song, most covers just like the original speak differently. Buckley's is the most haunting and love filled of them, as where John Cale's is shiveringly sad and can send tingles down your spine, the original itself, it seems to be the voice with most redemption in it, as if in all the sadness there is still an answer. Well, I heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? Well it goes like this: the fourth, the fifth The minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Its essentially a man trying to rationalize two things, Love and music. He's proclaiming his love for a woman and music at the same time, even though he realizes that the two do not go well together, they are essentially, oil and vinegar. Complete opposites, and even though he realizes this, he still tries to show this cold woman hes in love with, what it all means. Well, your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you She tied you to her kitchen chair She broke your throne and she cut your hair And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah He had faith in the idea he could turn her warm and love the music he so passinoatley loved himself. But, this is when he lost to the animal side of a man's nature and she knows it. He lost to her physical beauty and nothing more, he lost to sex and lust. Next thing he knows, hes bound to her, unable to free himself. She draes that last musical not from him, that last gorgeous Hallelujah for the music he loves, but its just not the same, his power/voice is gone. Baby I've been here before I've seen this room and I've walked this floor You know, I used to live alone before I knew you I've seen your flag on the marble arch And love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah He's rationalizing his love for this cold woman by thinking to what is was like to be alone and all by himself. Her flag is a literally the idea of him having seen her before and thinking to himself, if I'm with this flag, if I'm with this woman, I will never be alone again. And so he realizes to himself, that love is not a victorious thing nor is it always a happy thing, and for this, he sings out once more, to give up his passion, and it's just a cold and a broken Hallelujah that comes forth from his lips. Well there was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show that to me, do you? But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah Before she broke him, she treated him as a lover, she talked and told him everything. But now that he is no longer the man he was, he was broken from his Hallelujah, she doesn't need to anymore. She know's hes depedent on her. This causes him to think back to a time when he had both, the love of his Hallelujah/Music and her. Maybe there is a god above But all I've ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you And it's not a cry that you hear at night It's not somebody who's seen the light It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah This is the ultimate in a truly sad statement of love. Looking back at this, all he can possibly fell from his entire experience with this woman is that love is not something to want, but almost something to be feared. In the end, this love, this desire to not be alone and the fact he gave into his sexual desires over his own love and passion for music, breaks him. One of the greatest songs ever written, and just proof that words can be just as beautiful as anything in this world. |
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