| Zedd – Clarity (feat. Foxes) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This reminds me of the feeling when my dear friend and I were in Disneyland. It was a school trip, and I somehow fell very ill when we arrived and was ushered into the hospital. Unfortunately, she couldn't come with me because she wasn't 18... Strange. I felt immense pain that I have never experienced before, and yet my vitals were completely normal. After 7 hours, I went back to Disneyland and searched everywhere for her. I'll never forget the fleeting emotions that spontaneously emerged when we embraced after that separation. It was an epiphany for both us. We realized how just how dearly we hold one another in our hearts... I think that was the closest feeling of love that I've got, for it was something that I never tried yearning for. That made me realize that sharing this moment of love is something that is pretty necessary. She was my clarity. And I can never get her off my mind since that very day. Falling for another woman would mean betrayal to my own wishes and my own pride.. Despite that, we both knew that we were in dangerous territory now, because if something happened, it would end tragically. Especially with the fact that I was moving to another city for University. To me, our love was tragedy because it was something that couldn't be arranged. It was weird to have Fate or God play His prank on us to realize this only to be severed away by destiny. But thanks to His intervention or whatever the heck it's called and thanks to her... I've realized how important sharing love and affection is. I'll never forget that feeling that I've had. Our love somehow ended 'tragically' then. But I am thankful to her for making me realize just how important that feeling was. |
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| Jimmy Eat World – Table For Glasses Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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-THIS IS VERY LONG, LIKE AN ESSAY- BEWARE- This song is about a man's pessimistic view on love. Because of how he's never experienced this before or all his relationships ended tragically in some way, he's held this pessimistic view on love. Instead of moving on he remains stationary on the "dirty stairs", waiting for love to find him instead of looking for it himself. This man wants to be in love and to be loved by another, but he chooses to remain at the stairs for anyone to take notice. Unfortunately for the man, "It happened too fast, to make sense of it, to make it last," as this woman in the dirty dress goes up and down these figurative stairs and probably giving him a time of day, but leaves too fast for the man to make sense of her true intentions. All because of his pessimistic view on love. The man can't sort out his feelings for this girl and is too afraid to chase her down because he thinks that dress of hers is "dirty" and not for him. Ironic, because he's the one sitting on those stairs in the first place. It can be implied that some woman wronged him in some way that he holds this view on love in general; that's why he feels like he has to look for some ideal woman to love. However, the hypocrite can tolerate his same "dirty" stance on those stairs that he didn't sweep, but is too afraid to accept the flaws of any potential lover. The man is skeptic on with his feelings for this "dirty" woman that he so labels her so because he can't fully trust her, but at the same time wonders if what he feels for her is actual love. He desperately wants her take on his own feelings because he fears of opening up and getting rejected as shown in this verse of the song. "Not asking of me anything, Saying nothing about what it means, Without anybody telling me How I should feel" The man has no one to console and is left to figure it out in his "skeptic sight" on love for himself. We can see that the man has failed to realize that he's doing nothing to move on; he's merely a dot waiting for a line to pass by and walk him out of those dirty stairs and into love-- only to be back again. But if we can extrapolate this even further beyond context, we can see that this woman with a "dirty" dress is trying to get the man to sweep the dust off the stairs, so his "skeptic sight" can be clear and polished like a "table for glasses." Perhaps the woman is also in the same boat he is in, but she is moving on unlike getting consumed. Of course, she might as well be "dirty" in a moral sense to others' eyes, but that doesn't stop the woman from moving on and even hinting at the man to move on himself. After all, I believe it's best to let love find you as the man seems to take it, but it is more probable for two lines to find their way in an accident rather than having a line try to hit a point directly. If the man wants to find love, he must simply move on, because contemplating and waiting for so long will just add to his pessimistic view and "skeptic sight" on love. Lyrically, a beautiful song with calming instruments to paint some pleading "save me" anguish. Everything is there for the man, and now he just needs to make the first step. By the end of the song, the instruments suggest a very hopeful ending and that the man will be on his ways. He won't look for love, because "love" made his sight clear. And I am certain that the lady with the dirty dress will certainly find him when he gets going. |
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