| Matthew Good Band – Strange Days Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is brilliant. Matt's essentially telling a story in it: the story of someone that's extremely down on life, depressed and seriously contemplating suicide. The opening lyrics (Good morning/Don't cop out) are basically him telling this depressed person that it's just another day, and you can't just give up. Stay strong, keep your chin up, and all that. Then at 'We're making this shit up/The reasons for being are easy to pay' is him saying that we focus on the negative things, and that if you look closer, reasons to live are everywhere. This, personally, is one of my favourite lines in this song, if not the absolute favourite. The first line of the chorus (We're done lying for a living) is basically saying that you're done of pretending everything's alright...because it's not. Then 'The strange days have come and you're gone'...well, I could never draw a conclusion for the meaning of 'The strange days have come'. As for 'and you're gone', it's simply saying that your life is empty, and it's hardly as if you're living it. For 'Either dead or dying/Dead or trying to go' is basically a pessimistic outlook, saying that everyone is either already dead...or they're in the process of becoming so, or even trying to go; to escape your life (suicide). 'It's evening, you're tired/You sleep walk, a robot out on the street' this is saying that it was another exhaustive day, and you're restless in your life (sleep walking), and you act like a robot; you're automated, simply existing but not really living. 'You're driving/It's rush hour, the cars on the freeway are moving backwards/Into a wall of fire.' I think, heavy on the think, that this is saying that we spend our lives rushing to achieve-something,anything-all the while we're dying, falling into the wall of fire that is the end of our lives. This depressed person evidently finds living with the promise of dying empty. Then at the end, when the first lines of the song are repeated...it's like saying, yeah, things are tough, but deal with it. Don't give up, things can only get better. I can relate to this song, as I'm sure many, many people can, and I'd say it's a fantastic listen for anyone that feels like this. Don't give up, ever. |
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| Sam Roberts – Where Have All The Good People Gone Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I...what? That's Matt Good you're talking about, haha. He's the one that did an album named Vancouver, about his hometown, not Sam Roberts... Sam's from Montreal! | |
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