| Bright Eyes – The Center of the World Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I often applied this song to my personal life, specifically one relationship, and this is what I can up with. "At the center of the world There is a statue of a girl She is standing near a well With a bucket bare and dry" This is depicting his absolute infatuation with this girl. She is the kind he thinks about daily, before he sleeps, right when he wakes up. She is an unmoving presence in his life, and he just wants to be with her. "I went and looked her in the eyes And she turned me into sand This clumsy form that I despise Scattered easy in her hand" She allows him in, they have a relationship. He just melts before her, transforms into sand, because he obsesses over her so much, she means so much to him that he will do anything for her. In hindsight, he hates how helpless he is about her absolute control over him. "And it came to rest upon a beach With a million others there We sat and waited for the sea To stretch out so that we could disappear" The relationship is over, and he now sits with ALL the other guys she has been with. He thought he was special, and his love with her was a special thing, but he realizes now he's just with the others he thought he was better than. Now he just wants to disappear, be swallowed by the sea. "Into the horror of the truth We are far less than we knew" He hates that he is not special to her, he is just like everyone else, but he is faced with this truth. He isn't special to her. "But we knew what we could taste Girls found honey to drench our hands Men cut marble to mark our graves Saying that we will need something to remind us" He knew what he was getting into, this girl obviously had tempted many men before. The grave being marked is his want for his past love with her to have meant something. He thought it was quite special, and he wants it remembered. "The priests dressed children for a choir But found no joy in what was sung The funeral had begun" At the "funeral" of his and her love, he listens to the events of their relationship being recited. Instead of feeling good and proud of it, he just felt bad and bitter. "In the middle of the day When you drive home to your place From that job that makes you sleep Back to the thoughts that keep you awake" His life has moved on. His exhilarating love with her is over and he has moved on to the mundane of an everyday job, but its her he still thinks about every night. "Long after night has come to claim Any light that still remains in the corner of the frame That you put around her face" He put a frame around her face, he had completely idealized her and treasured every moment he had with her. He still clings to those memories, but the night is coming. He is realizing that him and her is truly over, and he hates that his perfect woman and love is fading from his life. "Two pills just weren’t enough The alarm clock is going off but you are not waking up This isn’t happening It is" All his attempts of coping with this heartbreak have failed. He is in utter denial. I know a lot of people interpret this ending as suicide, but I think of it more as a final death to the relationship. He screams "THIS ISN'T HAPPENING HAPPENING HAPPENING HAPPENING HAPPENING!" as a final protest that the most important relationship to him simply cannot end this way. But the last line provides closure. He realizes that it is over, and he must move on, as tough as that may be. |
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| Arcade Fire – Crown of Love Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I have read a lot of the comments on here, and I can definitely understand those interpretations, but I had a different impression of the meaning before reading into it. So I'll share what I thought. I always thought of the singer as the ex-lover of who he's singing to (obviously), but he is stuck in an odd friend zone with her and is tormented by what the relationship has become. "They say it fades if you let it, Love was made to forget it. I carved your name across my eyelids, You pray for rain I pray for blindness." He is trying to forget about her, but he was so deeply in love with her, he carved her name into his eyelids. At this point, albeit still obsessed with her, he is trying to forget her, forget their love, become "blind" to it. "If you still want me, please forgive me, The crown of love has fallen from me. If you still want me, please forgive me, Because the spark is not within me." This is where I differ from most others. She wants to still be friends with him, but he is too depressed about how everything went down between them, and he can't even expose himself to her anymore. He asks her forgiveness, but their love has been hopelessly ruined for him. The spark has been snuffed, but he is still so confused about this love/hate he's experiencing in the relationship. "The only thing that you keep changin' Is your name, my love keeps growin' Still the same, just like a cancer, And you won't give me a straight answer!" As he grows older, his feelings in relationships keep growing stronger. Like a cancer, his love over this particular girl has taken over his body, and he's obsessed with trying to define their relationship in its broken down stage, maybe for her to reaffirm his love for her, but she of course is not being so blatant. As the song progresses, he gets more obsessed with her name, despite his lack of ability to feel the same way about her as he used to. This confused state is a paradox, which he presents through the crown of love leaving him, but he still obsesses over her. |
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