| Jeff Buckley – If You Knew Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think you're onto something, but after listening to it several times, I think it's actually: "I know what e'er betides me" (e'er meaning "ever") |
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| Norah Jones – Nightingale Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think this song writer is musing over a past love interest. Hearing the nightingale singing, she is hoping to hear news of her love. She's wrangling with a question she's afraid to ask herself, because the answers scare her. Did he ever/does he still care? Should she get back in touch and confess her love? Is she missing her chance at something real? In any case, we don't know the question, which may hold the key to all these things, but the answer to the core question is either yes or no. And she doesn't know the answer (I don't know which way the feather falls), or whether she'll go ahead and make a decision without knowing (blow it to the left). She's been getting advice about what to do, and what to feel, but knows the weight of the decision rests solely on her. So she asks the nightingale to take her away so she won't have to face the reality of the decision she's facing. At least that's what this song says to me. I can relate. |
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| Don Henley – The Boys of Summer Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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My interpretation of this song is that the singer at one point lived in a lakeside resort town - a simple rural town near a lake where rich people had their vacation homes. And the "boys of summer" were the rich kids that would come for the Summer to party and then go back to their city lives, leaving an "empty lake, empty streets" in the Fall. He loved her and they had good times together but the "boys of Summer" could show her a better time... (nicer cars, more toys, better drugs?). But he knew that whatever crushes or flings she had would end after the tourist season, and that he'd still be there for her. But she (apparently) took him for granted. Eventually, he moved on but is still haunted by memories of their time together. He sees a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac, which symbolizes someone's new life being out of synch with whoever they used to be - and the little voice inside his head tells him not to be like the Cadillac driver: to leave the past behind and simply move forward. But he can't help but be haunted. He still sees her: her tanned brown skin, Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses, convertible top down, smiling at everyone. I have a parallel story in my life - of a teenage love that didn't work out, but the memories still haunt me, even though I've moved on... But a part of me will always remember and yearn for that second chance to win her back. |
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| Norah Jones – Nightingale Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this song writer is musing over a past love interest. Hearing the nightingale singing, she is hoping to hear news of her love. She's wrangling with a question she's afraid to ask herself, because the answers scare her. Did he ever/does he still care? Should she get back in touch and confess her love? Is she missing her chance at something real? In any case, we don't know the question, which may hold the key to all these things, but the answer to the core question is either yes or no. And she doesn't know the answer (I don't know which way the feather falls), or whether she'll go ahead and make a decision without knowing (blow it to the left). She's been getting advice about what to do, and what to feel, but knows the weight of the decision rests solely on her. So she asks the nightingale to take her away so she won't have to face the reality of the decision she's facing. At least that's what this song says to me. I can relate. |
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