| The Avett Brothers – Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song, especially the second verse, is really relevant in my life right now, the song means a lot to me. I love the symbolism in the first line, and maybe its not what was meant, but I interpret the darkness to be society telling people to be a certain thing, societal norms dictating peoples lives to be what everyone else thinks is best, and it very well may be the wrong thing. It's flooded in light, meaning that there's always a reason to justify a people's disapproval of a person's life choices or opinions, they convince people that they're right and the other person is wrong just because they're different. A currently relevant example: People against gay rights(in my opinion these people are darkness) using christianity(flooded in light) to justify their intrusion into someone else's life. |
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| fun. – Some Nights Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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having listened to the band since back when they were the format (when nate was a long haired hippie-ish guy, not metro and trendy like now), I had this idea that the song is just about everything that's going on in his life and his quarrels and such, a major one: his guilt of selling out (why, nate? why?). when I first heard this song i was like, what the hell is this? what are you doing? did you just use a synthesizer? listening to it again, I think the crazy synthesizer could be a symbol for this guilt of selling out. I dunno, its late and now i don't feel like writing out the rest of my explanation; i think that it could be kind easy to see yourself in some places. Having heard the war idea, though, i really like that interpretation. "Still Can't Imagine" youtube video by kate jablonski. its a dance, the last part of which is to this song and uses the war interpretation. it's really beautiful, i suggest watching it. *sigh* I actually do like fun. I just really miss The Format, and earlier fun. The Gambler, go listen to that if some nights and we are young are the only Fun. songs you've heard. |
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| Florence + the Machine – Falling Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| yes, it's talking about suicide, but suicide is being used as a metaphor. | |
| Florence + the Machine – Falling Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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keep in mind that this is my interpretation after just breaking free from a situation pretty much exactly like the one i hear the song explaining. i also think this song can be interpreted as pretty much any destructive tendency we have as humans. I feel like its about her always falling in love with guys (or just one who are no good for her in the long run, but she keeps falling for these guys (or coming back to the same one) because she wants the momentary happiness she can get from 'falling', but it's destroying her. "I fell, in your opinion, when I fell in love with you." This line makes me think that the guy knows he's no good, as well. still, she cant leave. "I've danced myself up, I've drunk myself down." Pretty much my life^. Not sure this is anything like what she meant this line to mean, but I'm a dancer and dancing helps me feel better when stuff like this is going on, and I've also been getting drunk quite often, lately. Ok, the last two things probably were too personal to be any real meaning of those lines. But I quite like my interpretation of the song as a whole. I think that the way subjective interpretations can be so completely different and personal is what makes music so vivid and meaningful and beautiful. |
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| Florence + the Machine – Falling Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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keep in mind that this is my interpretation after just breaking free from a situation pretty much exactly like the one i hear the song explaining. i also think this song can be interpreted as pretty much any destructive tendency we have as humans. I feel like its about her always falling in love with guys (or just one who are no good for her in the long run, but she keeps falling for these guys (or coming back to the same one) because she wants the momentary happiness she can get from 'falling', but it's destroying her. "I fell, in your opinion, when I fell in love with you." This line makes me think that the guy knows he's no good, as well. still, she cant leave. "I've danced myself up, I've drunk myself down." Pretty much my life^. Not sure this is anything like what she meant this line to mean, but I'm a dancer and dancing helps me feel better when stuff like this is going on, and I've also been getting drunk quite often, lately. Ok, the last two things probably were too personal to be any real meaning of those lines. But I quite like my interpretation of the song as a whole. I think that the way subjective interpretations can be so completely different and personal is what makes music so vivid and meaningful and beautiful. |
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| Awolnation – Sail Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I heard this song and just started crying because it's everything in my head and in my life right now. I am just not in a good place in my life right now. I have ADD and am medicated (which makes me completely on edge and angry at everyone and the world as a whole) but I get completely overwhelmed all the time by all the pressure put on me to do well in everything. I think that's a big part of the song. I am going in and out of a relationship with a guy who is crazy and it's just so weird because it's not even really a relationship anymore, he's just the only person I know crazier than me so I can talk to him and feel a little saner. Anyway, here's what the song means to me: This is how I show my love I made it in my mind because Blame it on my add baby I get really upset because this guy won't answer me for days at a time because he's on a drug binge or some shit. I'll get mad and confront him about it sometimes, but more often, I just shrug it off like oh, no big deal. So I show my love by being subdued to him I guess. Sometimes I look at our past and wonder if I made all of the good moments up in my head, because I wasn't paying attention to all the signs in those moments. "Blame it on my ADD, baby" This is how an angel dies Blame it on my own sick pride Blame it on my add baby A dead angel is a demon. I used to be a really good, happy girl. I've changed a lot recently and I don't like what I've become. I keep to myself, I don't like to leave my house unless its to get drunk or high or do something else stupid. But I don't let anybody around me know that I'm feeling any of this, partly because I think everyone around me is too stupid to even get it, which is most likely a result of the medication making a demon out of me. "Blame it on my own sick pride..." I guess sail would be how I cope--getting high. Or the release I feel when I finally let myself breakdown. Or it could mean how we go through life in such a situation. Just kind of sailing through it, not living, just a zombie going through the motions. Maybe I should cry for help Maybe I should kill myself Blame it on my add baby I could cry for help-- tell someone, my parents, get professional help. But I'm supposed to be the golden child. 4.0 in an extremely advanced program at school, bound for medical school, etc. How can I even begin to tell my parents, who don't believe in psychology, that I am going insane? I can't. I get completely overwhelmed by the pressure that is on me, and overwhelmed by all the things around world that I can't change that truly upset me, suicide seems like a pretty good option at times. (I won't though, I would never wish such an experience on the people around me.) Maybe I'm a different breed Maybe I'm not listening So blame it on my add baby I am a different breed, I don't know how to interact with people any longer, so how can I find my niche with anybody else? I'm not listening to the signs I'm given- in relationships, in happiness, in anything. The la la las at the end seem to me to represent the putting on a smile. It's whimsical, but you can hear the sorrow behind it. Like someone putting on this image of happiness, when they're really dying inside. Ok, done with my pity party now. |
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