| Ben Folds – Gracie Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Wow...this song gets me. I've started to sing it to my 3-year-old daughter - except I change the name "Gracie" to "Lydie" (her name is Lydia - but her nickname has always been Lydie). She now knows this as "her" song. It's just a beautiful tribute to his daughter - and really to any daughter from her dad. The lyrics are not complex - but so deep. "You will always have a part of me/Nobody else is ever going to see" always put a lump in my throat because I know that feeling. She'll always have a part of me that will forever belong to her. The image of the little girl walking on her toes while clutching some toy or carrying a "mystery" box around the house evokes so many memories. My daughter padding around the living room in her pajamas lugging a backpack full of toys (I think) around - a sweet smile on her face. Just the sweet innocence of childhood. When he hits the "Life flies by in seconds" line I get choked up EVERY SINGLE TIME I hear it! It's so true. They grow up so fast. "You're not a baby, Gracie/You're my friend" My daughter has become my friend. She's gone from being the infant who just lies there and cries to being a little girl who crawls up into her daddy's lap to tell me about her day or thrusts a doll into my hands and asks me to play with her. I do chuckle that he throws in the "You gotta do what I say" line - which is both poignant and funny. "One day you're gonna want to go/I hope we taught everything you need to know" Wow. She is going to to want to go one day - and I pray I will have taught her everything she needs to know. It's going to be so hard to say goodbye to her one day as she sets off on her own - but I'll be so proud. Just such a gorgeous song - so beautifully written and performed and I hope Ben doesn't mind that I've borrowed it! :) |
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| Ben Folds – Still Fighting It Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I play this song for my son (who is 5.5) all of the time and it always brings a tear to my eye. If you are a father - you will get this song - and it's written and performed in a manner that will hit you hard every single time you hear it. Quite simply - it's Ben looking at fatherhood and thinking ahead to the journey his son will face growing up and knowing that one day he will "leave the nest". He sings about how everyone knows that it's hard to grow up - and it is, right? It can be downright painful - but we get through it - but now he knows he's going to have to go through it again with his son - so weird to be back here. I think he knows his son will be like him - maybe a little too emotionally vulnerable - but it could be anything we pass on to our children - any "fault" and feeling bad that we're "giving" that to our children. Growing up is already hard - but hey - guess what? All-in-all, however, I think it's a positive song - tinged with sadness. Life is going to be tough - but we're still fighting it - I'm still here, you're still here - we're still fighting it together and it's good. Life is scary - there is always something down the road - but it's good because we're still here. Just love this song so much. |
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| Ryan Adams – Come Pick Me Up Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[Leddyldskpr:3225] Well said. I feel the same way about the breakup I'm going through right now. You're totally right: the feeling of just wanting to be with someone IS so powerful - it's like a drug. My wife and I get along - but there have been ups and downs - and the end gets closer every day. I know she doesn't treat me right - she sends out all sorts of mixed signals - really messes with my head - but I'm willing to put up with that because the need is so great. I could have made a clean break - but I cling to whatever we have left - even though it tears me up - and I allow her to do it. The final verse is classic. "I wish you'd make up my bed, so I could make up my mind" - I mean - who can't relate to that. I know I can. |
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| Ryan Adams – Come Pick Me Up Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I should add that this song really speaks to me right now. I am in the process of splitting with my wife: nobody's fault, I guess - I just saw we're good people who went through a devastating loss (we lost our first child at birth) and who then lost one another because they didn't know how it really damaged them - and that damage drove us apart. We're still in the same house - raising our two kids together - eating dinner together - except I sleep on the couch. I have done the whole introspection thing - what could I have done differently - but she continues her passive aggressive denial. Part of me wants her gone - but part of me wants her despite how unhealthy it is right now. I sometimes wish she would "come pick me up". | |
| Ryan Adams – Come Pick Me Up Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I agree. It's about a messed up relationship that is over or is in the process of ending. He knows it's messed up - she maybe does, too - but it's about him. She messed him up emotionally - it was not a clean split - yet he can't let her go. He'd take her back in a heartbeat even though he knows it's wrong - heck - he'd even take her back even if she did all of this crummy stuff to him - and he does this part kind of "tongue and cheek" - which really helps "make" the song. In the end - he misses her - he wants her back - maybe it will work out maybe it won't. I think there is also an element of mixed signals - especially in the part about the bed - he wants her to make up her mind: does she want him or not so he can stop lying awake in bed at night and actually sleep - even though there is a sense in his voice that it might not matter anyway. Great lyric - great vocal. Nobody does heartbreak like David Ryan Adams. | |
| Ryan Adams – La Cienega Just Smiled Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It's an incredible breakup song. It's about trying to let go and not knowing how to say goodbye. Anyone who has had their heart broken can relate to the question about "how'd I end up feeling so bad..." When you get blindsided - things stop making sense. The memories of your life together are there - and they feel good to remember - but at the same time they destroy you bit by bit. It does get scary to think about the person you lost - to really examine the feelings you still have. You do look for comfort wherever you can find it - the routine of going out - the bottom of a glass - but nothing ever dulls the pain. The "sober" thoughts bring pain - they hurt the soul - the drink dulls the pain - but it hurts the body. Either way you're screwed. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – We Take Care Of Our Own Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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In response to cubfever7...Springsteen was classified as 4F by his local draft board due to a rather nasty head injury he'd suffered in a motorcycle accident the year before. Also, I'd say his commentary on the war has generally been very sympathetic. Nothing personal, just thought I'd throw my opinion out there. In regards to this song...I think it's a commentary on the general greed and selfishness that have taken over this country. It's both an indictment...but also maybe a plea for us to find ourselves as neighbors, friends, brothers and sisters so maybe we will someday take care of our own! |
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