| Patty Griffin – Nobody's Crying Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I interpreted this a little differently than ilove705. I think it's a little less coded and the meaning is a little more straightforward. I think this song is talking about a breakup between the singer and a man, who is leaving her. He's probably leaving her to go on some sort of quest. It reminds me of the ancient times when the heroes had to leave their women to go save the world, but since this is from the girl's point of view, she doubts how useful his mission is. Therefore she says "off to slay some dragon or dragonfly". Dragons are dangerous, but dragonflies are harmless. So as he leaves her, he takes her necklace with the note inside. But even though she may be a little bitter, she wishes him well on the way to his journey. She says that she "can tell how hard you're trying", and I think this means he's trying to prove himself to the world. So she tells him to keep "our secret hope" and just to cope. But in the end, "on the steepest slope, there'll be an endless rope" for him to go back to her whenever he's done. That's why neither of them will cry, because he will come back. The 2nd verse is a little trickier. It says "Well a long night turns into a couple long years Of me walkin' around, around this trail of tears" and it isn't clear whether these years are after he left (and therefore she's still waiting) or while he was with her (the relationship was difficult because of his problems), but I think it is the first one. Even though she told him that he will be able to come back, she isn't sure he will anymore because of how long it's been since she's seen him. There's a voice in her mind that tells her that the love the two shared is gone, and he never cared "for me, for anything, for anyone" in the first place. But even despite these fears, she still wishes that wherever he is, his fears are dispelled by angels. And I think to stop herself from crying that he's not coming back, in the end she remembers the memory of when he left, and how she swore she wouldn't cry, thinking he would someday come back. |
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| Ellie Goulding – Human Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'll do this stanza by stanza. Humans have evolved so much since their beginnings, and Ellie thinks that they may burst soon, so she tells us to "let it all out", referring to our insignificant feelings and problems. I think Ellie is referring to a human as complex, with a dual nature. One one hand, we cannot fully love or hate anything, but it is only a close illusion. This is because we see only what we see and feel now. Ellie, in comparison, is looking at the big picture too much that she's losing sight of what she's doing and wants to "be someone, to be human". At the same time, she's thinking how horrible humans can be----evidence being the evolution that was referenced in the beginning. "I would give my life to be human". I think this is very interesting line. My take is that Ellie is so frustrated with her mind, which is trying to push her to the limit of life, that she wants to give it all up and be human---as in, settle for reaching absolutely nothing (which ties back into the part about humans neither fully loving or hating). Now Ellie is thinking that she has all the tools to be human, and she's wondering why she would ever waste them because she wants to be alive---and she feels she's never felt it before. "Human I'm trying not to lose my faith in you"----Ellie is having doubts. But she reassures herself by saying that she's explicated every aspect of being human, which is as vast as an ocean. In the bridge, Ellie says that she "used to hear it all so loud, the sound of my heart breaking", showing how she's been trying to reach the limit of love. But now "the truth is waiting to be found", saying that love can never be fully reached. A part of Ellie is still trying to reach it though, but she expects at some point she will concede to the truth. Overall, I think the lyrics are very complicated but one of the best I've ever heard. I connect so well to this song, and I absolutely love it. |
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