| Regina Spektor – Left Hand Song Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It's about the working class citizen. She mention's being at her office. Not sure exactly what the part about the sparrows is, but it's relatable in some way for sure - perhaps that the pigeons are trying to preserve themselves but are not satisfied, much like the human being is. This song is aimed at the idea of working 9-5 every day for the rest of your life. Regina is scared to live a life like that, it's not much living. Good for her, that she used her skills and talents to escape that lifestyle. | |
| Brand New – Bed Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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My random thoughts on this song... My head is lead, I don't ever want to go to bed Ever feel like you can't sleep and you're just lying there with a heavy head? For some reason, I always see Jesse lying in bed unable to sleep with these thoughts of the girl. Your hair is on fire...etc... I think out of anger, resentment, or spite due to the ending of the relationship with the girl, he's having thoughts, or dreams, or he's fantasizing bad things about her, aka setting her hair on fire. Your sister groans "our usurper to the holy throne" The girl (who is now dead in his dreams, maybe?) has a sister, who accuses Jesse of "playing God," aka usurping the holy throne. To Jesse she's just a dead spy, so again, the act of killing the root of heartbreak in his fantasy. Laid her on the bed seems quite literal. Whenever I experience heartbreak and I know that a girl that I really like is sleeping with other guys, that line resonates with me. In the song, it could either mean the same, as in other guys are laying the girl on the bed, or it could be Jesse's nostalgia of laying the girl on the bed, and how much he liked her, or just remembering the sex/affection they had for each other. My eyes are lungs, I'm a prophet and I speak in tongues... Again, he's playing God. "I know how you'll die" basically means he knows how she'll come undone. Or that he knows her so well and he can foresee where she's going in life... For example, if she's with someone else, which I think the girl is at this point, he knows they're going to break up, or she's going to get dumped or get a broken heart... My eyes are lungs... He breathes through his eyes... All knowing imagery... All knowing eyes... I don't know what you feel like Ambushed on the road [...] Everything that I own Starts to pile up like bones Make the walls of a prison Laid her on the bed" This is a moment of compassion. I don't know what you feel like means he hasn't put himself in her shoes, so he doesn't know what she feels, so he can't possibly understand her actions. She's lost her "gold" or her happiness or innocence. She's lost in life. "You're a rose and you're laughing now," roses and flowers symbolize love and relationships, so again reinforcing the idea that the girl he's singing about is in a relationship and he's not totally over her, which is why he's having these hateful thoughts while he's trying to sleep. She's laughing now because she's currently happy, but remember, Jesse "knows how you'll die" -- he knows it'll end eventually. Everything that I own starts to pile up like bones make the walls of a prison... In At the Bottom, we have I stole bricks from the dam almost every day Now I'm drowning in the flood I made Same idea, he's creating a prison for himself, he's trapping himself in these ideas of her. All the resentment he's built up is imprisoning himself. He can't get over the girl, he's too caught up in hating her and fantasizing about her going through pain and heart break (her hair is on fire at the beginning of the song, when Jesse can't sleep with his heavy head, that's what he's fantasizing about--her in pain). Champ goes down like a clown ... wish he had a better goodbye Her new relationship ends, the champ is the guy she was dating, he's done... Jesse wishes he and the girl (by he I mean Jesse) had a better goodbye or breakup so that they could have gotten together again, but they had such a terrible breakup and there is just so much resentment.... Really beautiful song, Jesse sings it delicately almost like he's trying to serenade listeners... "Bed" ...... he can't stop thinking about someone else laying the girl on the bed, aka her sleeping with guys that aren't him... wanted her all to himself... great song. |
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| Laura Marling – Undine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I can't go in depth, but this song has a mystical sense to it. Undine refers to a water nymph. I love the guitar! It might just be a fun song for laura, about undine. It's also got a sense of longing... "what's going on... let me in..." | |
| Brand New – Daisy Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is about the realization of life and the realization that God and religion are not real. Most of the songs on daisy are about this concept, as per "in a jar." When I obsess with a Brand New song, I dig down and I find the meaning. Usually it's subjective, but in this case it seems indisputably about this realization that, wow, I've been raised a catholic or a christian, but maybe, just maybe, that world may be wrong. When I get sick, like really sick, I have these night terrors that make me feel anxious. They're not something I can really explain. It's just this feeling that everything that is normal in life, everything you've come to understand -- it's all wrong. That's what I thought of during this song. "I'm a mountain that has been moved" -- how can that be? Like turning a world upside down. Realizing that this religious world you have lived in is shattered. This can be seen in every line in the first verse. "I'm a sun that doesn't burn hot" -- the sun burns hot, again, it's something we've come to understand, something we know is indisputable, but now the band is saying imagine all these things we know 100% are turned around. "If we take all these things and we bury them fast And we *PRAY* that they turn to seeds, roots and then grass It'll be all right, it's all right, it's easier that way." Forget that there is scientific evidence to prove religion wrong. Forget that it's ridiculous to believe God exists in this giant thing we call the universe. Forget it all. Forget the hopelessness. Forget the fact that the universe currently is expanding at the speed of light, that we are born into a corrupt world. Forget it all, and believe in god. "Pray" that god will help you grow, like seeds, roots, then into grass. Not because you actually believe it. But because it's easier that way. It's easier to think there is some kind of saviour to save us. It's better than having that anxious realization in which everything you've been led to believe in false. This is exactly how religion works for most believers. Living a life in which you believe to avoid a life of realization and FEAR. |
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| Brand New – Play Crack the Sky Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I barely ever comment on here but I had to, to clear it up. Anyways, the song is called play crack the sky because of a joke — he and his friend went to a concert and recognized one of the singers in a band from a previous band in which he had a cool song called crack the sky. Jesse and his friend — being the only ones at the concert — got a kick out of it, and his friend yelled “Play crack the sky!” to the guy on stage. Most of their song titles are jokes in disguise. I watched many interviews on youtube in which they let this slip. More briefly, this song is about death. More specifically, I believe it’s about his father, who was a fisherman (I believe). This song is immensely personal, I’m not sure we can really get a concrete meaning, but that’s the basic interpretation. |
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| Brand New – Bought a Bride Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The guy who posted about it being about the bride between the character and church seems about right. However, I always thought this was a song about Jesse's feelings towards monogamy. I believe this is the first time he played the song live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvpXdKx850o There is clearly a girl in the song. In this version, "She threw a fit, Now she's got a brick house There's no children in it" ... "Rented out a family She/he bought a bride" "Coming down the aisle while the horns play taps Tied her up and laid her on the train tracks" Almost like a damsel in distress. Seems to me like he's commenting on this idea society projects about how you have to find your soulmate and get married. "He bought a bride" meaning she married him because of wealth and because of the future he could have provided her. She might as well have died, or "Come down the aisle while the horns played taps/" Or, she might as well be tied to train tracks. Seems to me like he's saying if you get married to this one person, if you believe in this idea that spending your one life with this one person, you might as well die. I feel like he had a real bad relationship and lost the girl to a guy and it made him feel this way. But, the other explanation is really good. I think monogamy has a place in this song. A bad place. |
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