| R.E.M. – The Ascent of Man Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is actually my favorite song. I really mean it. Like, favorite song of all time.... There is just something mysteriously beautiful in some of the prose, like panning for ore with this person on the desert floor, admitting to them " that I could never imagine a place so beautiful; I could never steal your gold away." I absolutely love that line. As if he has found someone he loves but he is both so grateful for and self deprecating, that it's not his place to pursue a love so grand. Aside from the entire 'selfless love' theme going on in this song, I'm particularly drawn to the line "I looked for you, it's my last grand stand. A motor scooter goat-legged Pan. Figure-eighting in quicksand." Like no matter how hard to tries to "divine" or connect his love to this person, they have him completely awestruck and there's really no way he can find to do it, but he loves them anyways, with nothing in return. ** In the live version, there's a break in the song when it goes to instrumentals where Stipe says the words, "I look at you, but you look right through me. What's a man to do? What's a man to say?" Also, at the end of the song in the live version the last line (completely,) is: And with my hands tied I won't crack 'Cause in my mind I called you back Just fyi. |
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| Coldplay – Swallowed in the Sea Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The line specifically about the BOOK gets me every time. I don't know why or how, but this song has made me come to understand and interpret it in my own way. As the song crescendos a bit, the line "And I could write a book . . . " seems to explode, and I think this line deserves a little a more attention. Almost as if his love or relationship and the experience he's gained and the situations endured due to this loved one was so grand, eternal, and UNIQUE enough to write an award winning book on, as he states: "And I could write a book, the one they'll say that shook the world." It must have been something so special that he could write a book about it without it being deemed a cliché romance novel. As if he'd be pouring his entire heart and soul into the pages of something so personal (Like Edgar Alan Po or Shakespeare, etc.) that he wouldn't mind writing "it down, and spread it all around," no matter what kind of backlash he'd feel from exposing the love he still feels for someone who has left and ultimate vulnerability of the matter if he'd choose to go public about his romance, (which is exactly what he's done through this song however vague.) That takes guts. This whole metaphor with the book marks the utmost value he marked his relationship with this person as. It was clearly a time that changed him for the best, and permanently, although the outcome may have been unpleasant tumultuous and disastrous. So hypothetically, he'll have published this book about him and her for the whole world to criticize and know of, and after such a radical, embarrassing and humbling method of professing undying love for someone, he's certain "You'll come back to me, not swallowed in the sea." My heart. It breaks. |
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| Beach House – Real Love Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"Real love, it finds you somewhere with your back to it." *____* And the title of the song "Real Love" ends up a melancholic lamentation of real love which wasn't explored. like a commenter before me said, they MET real love but that's really where it ended... |
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