| The Beatles – Blackbird Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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this thought just occurred to me and I had to check the internet to see if I was right!!! It definitely has the imagery and metaphors down pat--a beautiful representation of the Civil Rights Movement! (this is from wikipedia: "McCartney was inspired to write it while in Scotland as a reaction to racial tensions escalating in the United States in the spring of 1968" --1968 being one of the most eventful years in US history, and the year MLKjr was assassinated!) |
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| Vampire Weekend – A-Punk Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| PERFECT EXPLANATION. Exactly what I was going to write hahaha so thanks for doing it for me!! | |
| Queen – I Want To Break Free Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| That would make sense, since Freddie Mercury was gay (or bi?) and back then it was hard to be open about homosexuality. | |
| The Lumineers – Big Parade Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song is so wonderfully American. Including the good stuff and the bad stuff. Vanity, politics, rock 'n' roll, violence... | |
| The Lumineers – Charlie Boy Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| so is Lillian another family member? | |
| The Lumineers – Stubborn Love Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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For some reason this part: "When we were young, Oh oh, we did enough When it got cold, Ooh ooh, we bundled up I can't be told, Ah ah it can't be done" makes me think of a non-sexual relationship. I feel like he's saying that when they were young, they didn't need sex to have fun. They "did enough" of other stuff. Being cold is a metaphor for no sex (heat being sex), but they didn't need it to 'warm up,' they found other ways. People probably doubted him and said that you can't have a serious relationship unless you have sex, that it "[couldn't] be done," and he proved them wrong. |
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| Jay-Z – 99 Problems Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| well he's not talking about all women. Just bitches. | |
| Jay-Z – 99 Problems Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| you suck. | |
| Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It's The Great Gatsby. (WARNING: SPOILERS!!! if you haven't read Gatsby or seen the movie, stop reading NOW because its good and I will ruin the whole story for you!) A refresher: In the Great Gatsby, Gatsby is in love with Daisy, but she is way out of his league. She's rich, he's poor. He does whatever he can (mostly illegal things-bootlegging, etc.) to become rich so that she will love him. He doesn't care about the money at all, just Daisy. He buys a house directly across the water from hers on Long Island. Daisy's house is huge and magnificent. He sits outside his house by night and watches the green light which marks Daisy's dock. The problem is that while Gatsby was making his fortune, Daisy got married and had a daughter. When she finds out that Gatsby is rich, they start an affair, kept secret from everyone except their friend Nick (the narrator). However they have different ideas about how far the affair should go. Soon there are a lot of misunderstandings and Gatsby is shot in his swimming pool My cousin came up with this interpretation: The song talks about a house, garden, and boy across the river. This part is from Daisy's perspective--she wants Gatsby and his money. Their lives were meant for each other, but they cannot get to each other. Gatsby pleases those who will never be pleased, because he deals with both criminals and rich people who are greedy and always want more. When it starts talking about gold, it is entirely from Gatsby's perspective. He doesn't care at all about the money, just Daisy. He knows that gold is fleeting, fickle, and fun. "I would rather be dry than held up by a golden gun/saying work more, earn more, live more, have more fun" refers to how Gatsby's death is a culmination of all the things he did, especially getting rich illegally. He is also in a swimming pool. A person would say they would rather "be dry," both literally (not dead and therefore not in the pool) and figuratively (really poor) than be staining the pool with their own blood. They would also want to have worked more (he, unlike people like Daisy's husband who were born rich, worked for his money, albeit illegally. He put his whole life into it), earn more (he worked for it, but he didn't earn it because he did it so illegally), live more (Gatsby spent all of his time trying to get Daisy, but she would leave him if their affair became inconvenient. He wasted his entire life on nothing, and died for it), and have more fun (Gatsby never even bothered to enjoy the ridiculous parties he threw in order to catch Daisy's attention. He just sat and watched.) HOWEVER Gatsby himself would never actually say any of this, even after his death, because he was so in love with Daisy. This is a logical reaction fro, not Gatsby's. |
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| Mumford & Sons – Below My Feet Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Keep the earth below my feet this lyrics sums up the song (and actually most of the album) in three ways. 1) Keep me alive, and on Earth. 2)Keep me humble, from building a Tower of Babel, from thinking I can be God 3)Bring me to heaven, not hell. In hell the earth is above you, in heaven it is below. |
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| Florence + the Machine – Never Let Me Go Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| SO BEAUTIFUL. The song is already amazingly beautiful, but then I picture Jack and Rose in the water...and I nearly cry. Everytime. | |
| Florence + the Machine – Never Let Me Go Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| i've seen the movie...it was fantastic!! I can kinda see the similarity although i don't think the movie showed that aspect enough...i should read the book... | |
| Florence + the Machine – No Light, No Light Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Reminds me of the book "Fated" by Alyson Noel I'm actually only about a third through the book but so far, there's these two brothers, and they both have beautiful blue eyes, but one's eyes are reflective and happy, while the other's are dark and cruel and "a void." She's in love with the good-eyed one. Anyways, the line "No light, no light in your bright blue eyes, I never knew daylight could be so violent" is sooo so similar to that part of the book. haha sorry i'm so random. |
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| Mumford & Sons – Awake My Soul Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think he's realizing/telling a girl that he isn't going to be good for her. He tells her that he's fickle, that he isn't stable. He says that if she falls in love with him, he's only going to hurt her. He asks for her hand and eyes--to be friends, etc.--but not her heart or soul, because he will just damage them. He reminds her that her body is a temple and she can't just let him take advantage of her. He really does like her though, and tries to save her and to change. He says "you were born to meet your maker"--he thinks she's a good girl who will go to heaven. He is trying to awake his soul so he can go there too. Obviously he is overestimating his terribleness, because he is holding himself back in order to keep her innocence and dignity. He is revealing his own fault, and is therefore being very humble. He's a good guy who just can't control himself. Does that make any sense? |
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| Lulu and the Lampshades – Cups (You're Gonna Miss Me) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Really awesome in Pitch Perfect with Anna Kendrick | |
| The Lumineers – Stubborn Love Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I was going through a rough time with a guy and I realized that for a few days while I was feeling down I had this song stuck in my head, and that I was kind of subconciously singing the lines "its better to feel pain than nothing at all" and "so keep your head up, my love" to myself over and over again. It was like God trying to save me from depression...and it worked. Amazing song... |
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| The Lumineers – Stubborn Love Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I love the lines "It's better to feel pain than nothing at all. The opposite of love's indifference" Reminds me of the saying "its better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." and also at the end of Scarlet Letter when Hawthorne says that love and hate are almost the same thing, not opposites--that not caring is the opposite of both. |
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| The Lumineers – Stubborn Love Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I love the lines "It's better to feel pain than nothing at all. The opposite of love's indifference" Reminds me of the saying "its better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." and also at the end of Scarlet Letter when Hawthorne says that love and hate are almost the same thing, not opposites--that not caring is the opposite of both. |
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| The Lumineers – Charlie Boy Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Sooo Charlie is a soldier in the Vietnam War, Lillian is his mother. The chorus is encouragement to Charlie, from his mother or just people or whatever. the "News was bad..." chorus is about getting bad news about the war--either CHarlie is dead or theyre losing the war, etc. Upland Ave. is a street is Metuchen, NJ...maybe they live there? Sons rebelled--hippies Fathers yelled--people didnt like hippies, but didnt like the dying either... Mothers...--women prayed for it all to end... THats just what im guessing!!!!!! |
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| The Lumineers – Flapper Girl Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Set in the 1920s. But its about how he loves his girl even though they've been separated... |
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| The Lumineers – Submarines Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Sounds like someone is predicting the attack on Pearl Harbor? Baldwin Bay is in New York (Long Island), so not sure how that connects...unless they kept US Navy ships there, and its refering to the fact that they wont be coming? |
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| The Lumineers – Flowers in Your Hair Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I dont think there's even a need for explanation here. This song is adorable! Wonderful imagery. | |
| Florence + the Machine – Blinding Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I really like your interpretation of the Snow White part. I never got that part before, now it totally makes sense! The constrast between a fairy tale and machinery...pure genius. |
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| The Lumineers – Big Parade Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This stanza: And oh my my oh hey hey Here he comes, the candidate Blue eyed boy, united states Vote for him, the candidate isnt sung five times, just four. the last one shouldnt be there :) |
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| Jeremy Messersmith – A Girl, A Boy, and a Graveyard Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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i'm probably wrong, but this is how i interpreted the song, and it means more to me this way. I think someone really important to Lucy (family member, spouse, friend, etc.) has died and she is trying to get over it. The graveyard--she is visiting the grave of her deceased friend She doesn't know how she is supposed to feel because she feels empty, and wants to get back into life and enjoy it, but feels bad enjoying something without the other person there. She feels like she's waiting for something, but she doesn't know what When she talks about life and losing, she means that she is accepting that everyone has to die. she wants them to stick by each other because she feels that if you have to die, you may as well spend the time you have with people you love. |
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