| Piano Magic – You Can Hear the Room Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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No comments on this song at all? What a shame. It's a beautiful song, wonderfully composed and enigmatic to listen to. It has a very alluring sound to it that draws the listener in and the lyrics are intriguing. Whenever I listen to it, I like to sit still and it does feel like I can hear the room. It's a very very well composed and orchestrated song. Lyrical interpretation is curious and a bit abstract. I'm never quite sure what to make of them. Sometimes they mean one thing to me, and then other times they mean something else. I think that's part of their charm though. |
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| Soap&Skin – Mr. Gaunt Pt 1000 Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I always thought it said: "I fell in love with where you were, But I know, I know it's just the sky. I don't know. Where will I go?" Am I hearing things? The lyrics always sounded pretty clear to me... And I think they (the lyrics I'm hearing at least) make pretty good sense. I could be totally nuts though... Side note, this song is beautiful. I can listen to it on repeat for hours and just let my mind drift. |
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| Radiohead – Karma Police Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Aside from the obvious about how the song started, with the comment about the Karma Police, etc... I always felt this song was meant to be interpreted by the individual, that it should mean what the listener feels when they hear it. To me, this song has always been about oppression. You have two situations in which the singer is demanding for the Karma Police to arrest someone based on traits that the singer views as strange. To me, it seems like the oppression of those who are different in society across the centuries. At the end though, the singer comments on how his service to the Karma Police (pointing out all these strange, odd individuals to be taken out) isn't getting him anywhere. He's done all he can, but it's never enough. And for a moment, I think there's regret in the lyrics, a kind of sense of "What have I done? I've given everything to this and it's got me nowhere.", but then the singer lets those thoughts go (perhaps because if he continued to voice them, the Karma Police would come for him too) and says "Phew, for a minute there, I lost myself", and goes back to being the oppressive force he was in the beginning of the song. Again, though, I don't think this song necessarily has a set meaning. I think this is something that is supposed to speak to each person differently. But that is how it spoke to me. |
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| Mumford & Sons – Home Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To be honest, whenever I hear this song I think it's about suicide too. Prepare yourselves, this comment turned out longer than I intended. Haha. "I ran away in floods of shame I'll never tell how close I came As I cross the Holland road You went left and I went right As the moon hung proud and white You would of loved it here tonight" Here he seems to be talking about something bad he's done - something he regrets. Someone upthread mentioned that he'd cheated on his girlfriend? I don't know much about the band members, so that's entirely possible, so we'll use that for the sake of argument. He's mentioning something that he'd done that he's ashamed of and it seems like he's already contemplating doing something (I'll never tell how close I came), perhaps coming close to suicide again? He's miserable at the fact that he did what he did and now they've parted ways because of it. He continuously thinks about this other person too. The chorus is: "Spin me round just to pin me down On the cover of this strange bed Spin me round just to pin me down" And to me, this is talking about a casket, or a bed of earth. It's a bed of sorts (you rest permanently in a casket, atop a cushion and pillow, and you rest in a bed of earth) so it's a bed, but in all respects, it's a strange one, and it's a bed you are essentially pinned down onto because you can't leave it. But if you don't want to think of it being a casket, you could essentially view it as him lying on a bed that is empty. Perhaps still thinking of his lover that he's no longer beside, or that he's no longer sleeping in the bed they shared. He feels weighed down and pinned down by what all has happened and now he's trapped, alone, on a bed he doesn't feel is his (presumably because she isn't there). The next verses are trickier. "Roll out your questions keep them down Let the water lead us home And I was sorry for what I'd done" This could very easily be taken as suicide. You have people asking "Why did he do it?" And he's saying just don't ask those sorts of questions. Instead, just let the water take us home. Water has often been a metaphor for traveling to the afterlife - River Styx, anyone? You had to travel it to get to the afterlife. But even so, he's still sorry for what he did, but can't take it back. "You were young I was not old But our story was not told But torn apart by greedy hands" Another one that could easily be linked to suicide. "You were young, I was not old", basically saying "hey, you were young but so was I and honestly, it really wasn't my time to die. I wasn't old like I should have been when I died." But it happened, regardless, and the former lovers' story was never told because it was "torn apart by greedy hands", hands that I can only assume are his own hands, as they were the ones that took his own life. And he admittedly calls himself greedy (or even selfish) for doing such a thing. "Spin me round just to pin me down I'll be gone by the nights end Spin me round just to pin me down" I'll be gone by the night's end could mean a couple things. Either directly referring to death, in that he means he'll be dead by the morning. Or he could also mean his memory, say that once he's buried and gone and lying in his permanent, strange bed, his memory will fade soon enough and the woman he wronged will finally be free from what he did. So yeah, lots of ways to interpret this song, but this is how I personally took it. :) |
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