| Woodkid – Run Boy Run Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think the song is about the journey from childhood to adulthood. In the video we see the little boy coming out from a single building ending with what looks like a big city, I think this means that the boys world is expanding, and he can't face it as he is. "This world is not made for you" so he has to run, he gains a sword and a shield in the process of running, the experiences he needs to face this new world. The "child" persona has to hide for now, and he will return but in the form of an adult, I think this refers to the age where a person is no more a child but not yet an adult, which is a confusing phase, but one must do some running and growing up to triumph and this process is considered natural "This race is a prophecy" | |
| Akira Yamaoka – Room of Angel Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm highly affected by the game in this interpretation, but here's my try. English is not my first language, so please do forgive my choice of words and any grammar/spelling mistakes :D I think this song is about a child and a mother (or a mother figure) The child was neglected or abused or was abandoned by this mother, and that made the child turn into a bad person. The child has this love-hate relationship with his mother or whatever memory he has of her. He wonders where is she? The child can't help but love his mother (is she flying high?) and long for the relationship he never had, but in the same time he hates her (or under the sewers?) for abandoning him and blames her for what have become of him and all the bad things he have ever done. He wishes that he was dead, if she had killed him (abortion?). He wouldn't be sad if he was dead, he thinks life would be better without him (and who could sprout up so blessedly). But even so, he will not say sorry for whatever bad things he have done, because he believes it's not his fault. The song highly suggest that the mother is dead, whether by the hands of the child or not. Even so, he still can't find it in him to shed a tear for the death of his mother, and he finds solace in the fact that she will forever feel guilty/frightened of what had become of him, and be haunted by the burdening memories and the curses of this child, and she can't do anything about it. (Here's a lullaby to close your eyes good-bye) I find this part really hard to interpret, it may have several meanings. But it gives the feeling of an ending, a conclusion. Is the child talking to the mother? or himself? both? Did he kill the mother? or did he find that the true person he hates was himself and thus committed suicide? Or is he just talking to the "memory" of this mother and deciding to let it all go? good-bye to my dear mother, good-bye to all the agony you gave me, good-bye to myself. good-bye. |
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