| Blue Öyster Cult – Don't Fear The Reaper Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I read it as a person trying to convince their lover to commit joint suicide. "Come on baby, don't fear the reaper Baby take my hand, don't fear the reaper We'll be able to fly, don't fear the reaper Baby I'm your man," The implication being that she shouldn't be afraid of dying, and -perhaps- that the method should be jumping of a ledge. "Romeo and Juliet Are together in eternity, Romeo and Juliet Forty thousand men and women everyday, Like Romeo and Juliet Forty thousand men and women everyday, Redefine happiness Another forty thousand coming everyday, We can be like they are" Again, Romeo and Juliet are probably among the most famous lovers who committed suicide together/because of each other. The singer wants them and their lover to be like Romeo and Juliet. The last verse shows the aftermath of their suicide and their lover following. A tad grim. |
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| Ed Sheeran – The Parting Glass Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It's been around since the 1700s and probably earlier still. | |
| Ed Sheeran – The Parting Glass Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It's been around since the 1700s and probably earlier still. | |
| Rise Against – Hero of War Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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So here's my take on the song. To me it's about a young man who's fresh out of high school (or college, or whatever) without much of a plan of what he's going to do now. He comes across a recruitment centre where, after listening to some of its "advertisements", he signs up for the army. He goes through training with the idealized image of a patriotic soldier who fights the evils and protects the weak. When he later gets deployed things start to get ugly, starting with capturing what I assume is a family father (who may or may not be the actual enemy) and then continuing to joining his fellow soldiers in humiliating their prisoner. He keeps telling himself that the image he had during recruitment and training is still accurate and true. In a later engagement where he's pinned down with his squad, one of the soldiers, a woman (nothing against women, only relating to the lyrics), decides that it would simply be better if they surrendered to the enemy. Since he cannot talk her out of walking out with the white flag he shoots her himself. In the end he finally realizes that the romanticised image he's carried with him is nowhere near the far grimmer truth. That there are no 'good' sides in war. |
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| Woodkid – Iron Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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@ilikethisand: At first I was going to criticize the arrogance of the first sentence in your comment, but after reading the rest of it I am prepared to stand behind your interpretation. This is very obviously a song about some sort of war, and the drums that keep beating throughout the song puts me into a sort of medieval/old times mood. A million mile from home, I'm walking ahead I'm frozen to the bones, I am... A soldier on my own, I don't know the way This^ could very well be talking about someone who has either fled the field of battle or been captured by his opponents and separated from those he felt any connection to. |
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