| The National – Son Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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What's the point of a website like this if the lyrics you publish are all wrong? Get your shit together, SongMeanings! Correct this bullshit. "And if you follow me, son, the wind'll wrap around you Carry from the ground, you will never be alone Your weight will turn to sunlight that's falling on a girl Who's still inside the world" |
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| The National – Anna Freud Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Lyrics correction continued: Don't come home without the crown Don't come back to Lawrence Town |
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| The National – Anna Freud Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Lyrics correction (what is published here is a joke or something?): A dead location on a dying sea You gave Lawrence a full salute ... |
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| The National – 29 Years Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[BabyBritian:10539] I think he just decided this piece of lyrics is too great to be left buried on the debut album that not many people would ever listen to. And I agree. This is the greatest piece of love poetry I've ever read. | |
| The National – 29 Years Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[anise:10538] These lyrics are so great that I'm not surprised at all they used them again. | |
| The National – 29 Years Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Miniemetoo:10537] This is a great interpretation of this part of the lyrics and I totally relate to that. But I think it contradicts the rest of the lyrics, which is definitely about realizing that the girl he once knew (29 years ago) was the one and he was dreaming about her ever since he left her. | |
| The National – Watching You Well Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[logan_sd:10536] I don't think that he is particularly angry at something specific she has done. For me it seems he decided he wanted to break up with her. Breaking up is difficult even for a person who made the decision. She stands there shocked, it's the middle of the night. Maybe they just finished making love, she did not see that coming. She's unable to speak, unable to move and he wants her to leave quickly because he's embarrassed and can't watch her suffering. He doesn't love her anymore, but he doesn't want her to suffer. | |
| The National – John's Star Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[RadioNorris:10535] "Strawberry Fields Forever" by the Beatles. Rings the bell now? And he is ruined by the Stones... | |
| The National – Pay for Me Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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All due credit for the below interpretation goes to Coleridge as I am simply copying his comment, which is buried in the replies, so not many people would find it. And he nailed it perfectly: "I think this song is about an ordinary shmoe whose girlfriend, an actress, has suddenly hit the big time. She has been shooting a film in Manhattan for a while, and hasn't been returning his calls. He sees her on the cover of a magazine and it makes him realize how much things have changed, and how quickly. Afraid he might be losing her, he decides to drive to New York City on the interstate. He arrives at the location where his girlfriend's film is shooting, but is not allowed on the set. Instead of talking to her boyfriend, she sends her *body double* over with the keys to her hotel room at Essex House (a very, very posh hotel across the street from Central Patk) and instructions to wait for her there because "the actors want to be alone". He goes there, and waits in the empty, intimidatingly opulent hotel room for a while, and thinks about how he used to never have to wait for her at all. He sees another copy of the magazine with her picture on the cover, the one he drove there with, and he gives up. She's so far above him now, and he's lost her, and it just isn't fair. How come it's not him getting famous, and rich, and abandoning HER? And then it hits him. It can be, just this once. He grabs her new platinum card, and decides to take a five-star trip to Paris. First class. On the Concorde. On her. My baby's gonna pay for me. .. Meaning she'lll pay his bill, and shell pay fir breaking his heart. He calls his brother. Nobody home. Thinks of calling his girlfriend, but knows there's no point. The Concorde doesn't turn around... But he wonders if he made a mistake, if she's lonely. And heartbroken in new York, missing him and lonely, wondering where he went and still in love with him." |
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| The National – Pay for Me Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Coleridge:10409] You are a genius! You nailed it. Suddenly all pieces of the puzzle jumped into position. All fits perfectly. | |
| The National – American Mary Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Aquarius121:10323] Exactly my thought. The fact that this is specifically "American" Mary is so strange, that I immediately thought that Mary is only a disguise of the real subject. I don't say I'm sure this is the correct interpretation, but if not than why the heck he calls her "American"? | |
| The National – American Mary Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[jookyswede:10322] I'm not so sure that he left her: "There is nothing you can say to ever make me leave you". It seems he no longer loves her, but he's unable to leave. | |
| The National – American Mary Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[hans4:10321] I'm not American and still it is obvious for me that "army" means Salvation Army not military. I don't understand how someone living in the US can miss that. You don't instruct relatives to give your belongings to the military, but to donate them to the poor once you died or don't need them anymore. | |
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