| Lana Del Rey – Video Games Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It's about unrequited love. She calls it video games because she knows he doesn't love her but instead of finding someone that will love her for her she plays along, knowing he only wants her for sex & stuff. It's her idea of fun because she can pretend it's real love, but she knows it's not. |
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| Dessa – The Chaconne Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I adore this song. It's haunting, which I feel fits with the theme of the song. Not going to lie, I think too many people are too quick to assume that songs are about love. This one included. I thought it was about an affair at first, given the congruent theme throughout this album. She mentions that it's fictional but this is what I have inferred: If you combine the comments by amdowns and shnakepup it sums up everything pretty well (at least in my mind). The song is about a famous violinist and someone who idolized this person. When someone idolizes someone else, we try to romanticize them and minimize their faults. This is combined with the illness-stricken childhood this violinist had (roses on the pillow). Either that or it has to do with the kind of illness that almost lead to this young musician's death (and you're back on earth again). His passion for his music and his status is mentioned in the next verse, and his rise to fame after that. Dessa sings from the perspective of a student and perhaps mistress (you were vain and hard to take, all the same I was brave). She is jealous that he gives all his time to his violin (your love sleeps in a velvet case, so what'd you bring me for). But she knows his wife feels the same. The most interesting part of the song are the thee lines throughout: Now the bough breaks, how the tides rise, and now the bells toll. The Brahm's lullaby and John Donne poem reference that amdowns made, I believe, are spot on. So the song I believe is a lament for the death of a famous musician, who was not perfect by any means, but who was loved by the narrator of the song (either romantically or just as an idol; I think Dessa wanted to keep that unclear), and this is her coping with his death (now the bells toll). This leads me to believe that "how the tides rise" also is a reference to a classical song that can be tied in with a deeper meaning, but I have yet to make that connection. |
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