| Broken Bells – The High Road Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think the song is about a girl with borderline disorder and the singing person who is in love with her gets faced with her conflicting and distancing behavior. Her inner army disables the relationship. The soldiers are getting up to her head - means the characteristic affective states lately influence her thinking and he has no chance to stop the "warfare in her house" which was all he ever wanted. But she needs to break up with everyone who gets too close. She has to "say goodbye to all of her friends" He feels rejected and finally tells her that it's too late to change her misguided ways of living. He recognizes that he has invested enough and she is bound to act like this. |
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| Broken Bells – The High Road Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song is about experiences with a female who has a borderline personality disorder. Being together with her means to be confronted with her confusing and injuring behavior. There seems to be no way to act right with her. He empathizes with the disorder but at the same time realizes that it's impossible for him to defeat her "inner army". He can't reach her and even asks himself if he is still existing because if she gets cold, she gives him the feeling of being not. She can "say goodbye to all of her friends" because she doesn't truly bond with somebody. |
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| Florence + the Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think the song is about a young woman who is afraid of human closeness because of bad experiences she made in her past while she was vulnerable (when she was a child) and now still feels like she is in danger if she doesn't hide herself. The person who wants to get near to her has to raise up "the offering" which could mean, he has to invest more feelings so she could dare to get into contact. In fact it's her own fear, she hat to overcome. The fear is represented by a metaphorical figure she calls "Midas". Could be that the idea of Midas is related to her father. Anyway, if the fear keeps controling her, she will get cold inside, unable to feel anything ("turn into gold"), being an empty shell, beautiful but unable to reach. But the person that wants to get through to her is also not confidable (or doesn't seem to be), he doesn't show his face and obliges her into a fight, or she puts herself into the fight because she can't trust. She has to become brave and this means she has to leave her fear behind (shed her skin) and lead off the fight. She offers herself as a gift because no matter how she acts she probably can't win but she prefers to be brave and get into contact, even if this will kill her because if she gives herself to somenone else at least she will no longer be the victim of Midas. In my oppinion the fight will be lost by both of them. That's why it's impossible to say who is the lamb and who is the knife because. In a manner they are both the same. |
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| Emeli Sandé – Next to Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| To me it sounds like a declaration of love for a man. From her viewpoint it's a deep and sustainable love. And the song is not addressed directly to the beloved one but to a third person or to herself or something else, as for me even something divine. Yet I think that it's about love between humans. | |
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