| Jaymay – You'd Rather Run Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Sounds like what I'm going through...but it is directed towards me rather then taking the place of her. | |
| Paramore – Careful Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Eh, I was heading in that direction. Good lyrics though...I can definitely relate to her position. |
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| Paramore – Careful Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The song appears to be taken differently from each person. I'm going to give my take on what the song means to me. "I settled down A twisted up frown Disguised as a smile, well You would have never known I had it all but not what i wanted 'cause hope for me was a place uncharted And overgrown" I get the impression that 'she' settles down in a relationship. However, there seems to be a certain past with her that is rather distressing. She masks her inner self from the other as implied by the disguised smile and that 'you would have never known'. It sounds like this person was ordeal for her but she did not want to experience such feelings as determine by the theme created in the first phrases. Her feelings were 'uncharted', unexplored, new to her, and were never experienced or ventured towards. She has essentially dealt with her emotions by essentially detaching from them. "You make your way in I resist you just like this You can't tell me to feel The truth never set me free So i did it myself" This is the moment where we see that this person made his way into her heart but she resisted it as these feelings were 'different'. He was forcing her to embrace these feelings. It sounds like these feelings were 'true' but distressing to her. And as implied above, she deals with them by detaching herself. 'So I did it myself' implies that she ended the relationship before he got too close or had these feelings in her be awakened, in a sense. I sort of picture this song as having a sense of growth to it. It starts off with pushing someone away that was getting close and having her embark on feeling a side of her she either has never experienced or attempts to detach herself from. "You can't be too careful anymore When all that is waiting for you Won't come any closer You've got to reach a little more,more,more,more,more" This seems to be a moment of self realization. In order for her not to be hurt by this experience, she needs to be more careful, but the rest of the verse states that if she is too careful, she won't ever be able to experience such. You need to 'reach', or give it a go or take the first few steps, or find it in yourself in order to break out of your shell. "Open your eyes like i opened mine It's only the real world A life you will never know Shifting your weight to throw off the pain Well you can ignore it But only for so long" I'm a little confused on what perspective is being taken here. Is this a narration where she was previously telling a story and the reader is to learn from her mistakes or is it the other person, he, talking to her, trying to show her that she needs to open up; it's a great feeling, don't run from it. This is 'life', 'love' is present in the real world. Eventually you'll have to deal with it as you are essentially human. However, keeping the same meaning, the later verses seem to paint that this is the author talking to the person or the self-realization from an 3rd person perspective. This perspective is trying to teach her that you can't run from detaching yourself from him, and all the feelings she once felt are coming back to her know as implied by 'but only for so long'. "You look like i did You resist me just like this You can't tell me to heal And it hurts remembering how it felt to shut down" It sort of seems that one of them is telling the other how much it hurt to be pushed away as they got too close. It is hard to accept them back into their lives as they'll remember how much it hurt. And she still hasn't gotten over it. The rest of the song just goes over the same principle of that if you want him/her back or you want to embrace these feelings again, you are going to need to try. I like the perspective that others have given where this is about having to 'try' to get out of dire situations. 'Life is hard, but you need to try...' Anyways, that's my input. It is more then likely going to change...but it is an interesting perspective...that sort of links to my current position. |
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| Paramore – Careful Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| GJ on your contribution | |
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