| Stars – Dead Hearts Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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After watching Like Crazy, this song started to make more sense. (mainly due to the fact that it was actually the credits song) The story is about a very back-and-forth relationship, endless attempts, just really trying to make things work for years, that whole sort of thing. It all seems a bit like just wrong timing. And after all these attempts and going the extra extra extra e x t r a mile to making a relationship work, they finally get what they want: to simply be together. No interruptions. No difficulties. BUT... the fire is out. The "lights inside their eyes" cease to exist anymore. And it's all just awkward confusion because they are wondering what happened and why things are different when now the timing is finally perfect. They start looking back and looking for every sort of sign of trouble but all that is left is nostalgia. And they get lost in those moments. They want to believe so bad that nothing has changed, that feelings towards each other remain the same and the heart in the relationship is not dead. (I could say it but you wont believe me You say you do but you don't deceive me It's hard to know they're out there It's hard to know that you still care) Basically, it's hard to have faith in the idea that the people they once were to each other are still out there, that they still exist. It's hard to believe that they are still able to love each other the same way as then. Everywhere they look, everywhere they turn, coming back from dwelling in the past and just living in the now, "dead hearts are everywhere." And at that point, it's hard to believe that any of it was real when they feel the way they feel after finally getting what they want. They were struggling to get to this point and now they are struggling to get back. It's pretty tragic if you really think about it. But people really do fall out of love, it happens. It's just as real as falling IN love and anything else. |
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| Freelance Whales – We Could Be Friends Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I probably might be completely far from what it actually means, but here's what I came up with... I think it's pretty apparent that the person is fighting to prove one thing: that they could remain friends after whatever situation came upon them to get to this point. This entire song screams persuasion to me, consolation in a way (please don't put your face into your hands we could be friends, here are the reasons why... etc.) So if we focus on these particular words: we COULD/HAVE/SHOULD be friends, it can kind of start to make sense. For example, before the Tahitian grain of sand bit, they add in "I am convinced that we HAVE been friends" as if that in another life, in another shape or form, he/she feels that they HAVE been friends (think reincarnation or whatever.) That that's how they began and how they probably ended in said life, and that they were meant to remain that way. History repeating history. That the sole purpose of their relationship was to begin and end as one thing: friends. Does that make sense? Sorry if it doesn't, I tried lol. |
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| Of Monsters And Men – Sloom Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I went to one of their concerts last week and Raggi said that when they first wrote the song they liked how it sounded backwards better. So the story is, in fact, told backwards. Cool how you caught that! It's interesting how you came up with murder, never thought about it that way. | |
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