| Zoo Brazil – There Is Hope Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I first heard this song during the commercial for Dermablend tattoo cover. The day of my pharmacy school interview, I went and tried out some Dermablend for my wrist tattoo. It looked like dirt on my arm, was really awful. But listening to the song on the way there wasn't awful. There was hope. There was fear. Being a non-traditional student, this interview was the determining factor in everything I had ever wanted for the past 16 years of my life. So, somehow, a commercial about hiding your tattoos and ultimately who you are with a beautiful background song brought a lot of peace and calmness on my long drive to my interview. Despite the fear, my hope won. I got in. |
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| Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Parts of this song apply to my situation. I met my father when I was 19, and after that he showed interest and took me to dinner on a weekly basis. One week he said he had to work, and said he would call on Tuesday. Tuesday was 8 years ago. As stubborn as I am, I expected him to call me like he said he was going to. I felt like "But you didn't have to cut me off, Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing, And I don't even need your love, But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough, No you didn't have to stoop so low... Now you're just somebody that I used to know". I recently found out that he never called because I kept looking at my phone during dinner. I do not recall this, but I do have a habit of tearing up my phone covers out of nervously playing with them. He thought I was bored, my curiosity was over, and that I would call if I wanted him in my life. My mother had told me that he was a very flakey person, and to be prepared to be disappointed because he had a tendency to do what he wanted and treat friends like, ''hey you're in my life great, you aren't that's fine too''. So, I assumed he didn't call because he was done with me, and I didn't know why. He "had me believing it was always something that I'd done", for 8 years I felt like I had done something wrong, or that his other now deceased daughter was more important. And he thought I didn't call because I was done with him. He rejected himself for me, even though I wasn't rejecting him. Eight years of bullshit, feeling rejected, feeling like I had done something wrong. I was just somebody that he used to know. But I'm glad he's finally back in my life. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – Little Sister Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song reminds me of my ex's little sister, who became addicted to heroin and ultimately a prostitute to support her habit. She only talks to me or "opens up" when she's clean, which is rare. I've tried so many times to encourage her to "find another way", to get her life together, go to school, get a job, stay off smack... but she always goes back to her miserable life. |
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| Bush – Letting The Cables Sleep Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song always reminds me of driving back home from my boyfriend's house when I was in high school. My family had moved an hour away, and we would drive back and forth to see each other. It eventually failed. Fast forward a few years and we decide to try again. I was unhappy with our relationship, "living a hell", and he didn't seem happy either. We "needed to talk about it", our future. I was tired of living in the uncertainty, to the point of ''whatever you say is alright''. I was tired of wasting my time. The worst part was I remember driving home alone from his house, and feeling "like a stranger" in the town I grew up in. I had no one left there. This song came on and I just cried. I went home and said, "If you want out, it's alright." and that was the end. Silence was not the way, and I still hope "heaven is on the way". |
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| Marilyn Manson – The Reflecting God Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'll agree with the LaVey/Satanist point of view. "I went to god just to see, and I was looking at me" and other lines imply that he is his own god. But there is another aspect to it. "Shoot here and the world gets smaller" I see this as he accepts that perhaps the world is bigger than just him. Bigger than him being God, or his own god. Even if he dies, the world merely loses a person and keeps going. "You'll understand when I'm dead" he knows that when he dies, the world will go on, even though he is a "god". "Shoot shoot shoot motherfucker" seems to be encouraging someone to take him out, to make "the world smaller", and maybe because he feels like there is "no salvation", or because "there is an exit" and he wants to take it, but can't kill his own god by himself. I'm sure he's been threatened during his career, and that sometimes it might feel like the easiest route in life would be to just die. Or that he would be a martyr for his cause if he was killed. Regardless, great song. |
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