| fun. – Some Nights Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I agree mostly with FinnBose. I think he's not singing about actually war, but the war that's going on between the music industry and actual musicians. On one hand, the music industry makes him famous and gives him chance to make himself known. He'll even make some money off of it. His voice gets to be heard by more and more people every single day. But on the other hand, he's losing himself. He doesn't like that the industry is trying to take away his own voice and replace it with what they want. He talks about how he lost people in his life, how he wishes things could be different. He wants to be the person he was, but things are changing. The record company wants him to be this mass produced thing, which is what I believe the autotune part is subtly supposed to represent. But now he wants to take a stand. He wants the best of both worlds; the fame, the stronger voice, the money, the chance to become huge. But he also wants his old life; his family, girlfriend, to be there for the people he loves, for his music to still be his music, for the record company to let him be himself. And honestly, that's a very hard position to be in. |
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| The All-American Rejects – Dirty Little Secret Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think it's about the "other" girl in his life. He has a girlfriend, but this song is about the "buddy" he has on the side that he's trying to hide, and not doing a great job at possibly because the "other" girl is a mutual friend within his group of friends. So he's telling her that he's going to keep this all on the DL, and she should too because if she does, she'll just be another regret he has. |
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| Passion Pit – Little Secrets Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I feel that it's pretty much about coming out of the closet. "Painting Rainbows across my ugly face against this cardboard neighborhood's disgrace" can be seen as going against the mold of the non-progressive neighborhood and embracing the rainbow. "Within the confines of such chemistry" can be seen as a blow to the old argument that being gay goes against human nature and chemistry. "But I feel alive and I feel it in me" talks about how even though he will hide it and people don't want to see him this way, he still knows who he is on the inside. "Oh have you ever felt so goddamn strong, how come it takes some people so damn long" talks about how he feels good about the way he is, but he doesn't understand why others take so long to accept him even though he himself is happy about it. "Watch the basin drain as your life lines wane and you can't explain as your friends complain you've caused all this pain and you proudly shame your whole families name" remarks how he is losing a lot being this way. His family and friends don't like the fact that he is gay, but he doesn't care what they think. "Mother I can tell what you've been thinking staring at the stars on your ceiling thinking once there was a power that you were wielding" has a line about the stars on her ceiling, which can be seen as a symbol for the plastic stars on kids ceilings, and how she feels she has lost her son. She doesn't know where she went wrong. So yeah, that's my take on it. |
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| The Offspring – You're Gonna Go Far, Kid Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The song is clearly about the book, Lord of the Flies. It's not just because of the CORRECT last line, or the fact that Holland flat out stated it was. If you look at the lyrics and compare them to the book, it's pretty much the same. "And turning all against one Is an art that's hard to teach" is about Jack turning most of Ralph's tribe against him in order to go hunting and be wild. "Another clever word Sets off an unsuspecting herd And as you step back in the line A mob jumps to their feet" is parallel to when Jack sics his tribe unto Ralph and his gang because Ralph didn't do what Jack wanted him to do. The chorus is about Jack killing Piggy. "With a thousand lies and a good disguise Hit 'em right between the eyes" is talking about how Jack painted his tribe up with war paint and false promises, and when he order for Roger to knock the rock off of the ledge, hitting Piggy "right between the eyes", killing him. "So play it out, I'm wide awake It's a scene about me" goes along with the night time ambush Jack organized against Ralph, followed by the next line "There's someone in your way And now someone is gonna pay", which talks about Ralph being in the way of hunting and killing because he wants to tend to the fire to make sure they stay safe. "No more alibis" is talking about THE Lord of the Flies, and calling the beast what it is, which is really the evil and wildness living inside each one of the boys. The line right after that, the correct lyric is "Lord of the Flies." |
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