| Björk – Pagan Poetry Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[nuclearheadache89:2253] thank you for this! "Transcendent love" wow. Thank you for putting words into my the song's soul. I think it is a struggle to transcend too. I want to know what you think of my interpretation too! | |
| Björk – Pagan Poetry Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[ilikegreen:2252] this is amazing. I wanna know what you think of my interpretation too! | |
| Björk – Pagan Poetry Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this is about two people in a relationship for a long time already that one party has come to a point where the sweetness is gone. She feels like it is a sign that he does not want to be with him anymore. She pedals through dark currents. Because she is confused and cannot see her way, her lover anymore. There is an accurate copy, a blue print of her pleasure is inside her. Probably, is the memory of how her lover used to be. How she still wishes that her lover was that accurate copy of the blueprint of someone who used to make her feel so loved. He offers a handshake… yet to be matched. He offers to her something less than a hug. She could offer more but she cannot offer any less. It is yet to be matched. If she doesn’t, it might drive him away. On the surface, it is simply change. An evolving relationship. But inside her, are dark pits of despair. Someone crumpling from the harshness of the change. But just like pagans in a Christian world, she has to hide her pain. Because if it were revealed, she would be vanquished. Poetry is a form of masking a message to an audience. She tries so hard to hide her turmoil that she puts inside of her, as a poem. A form of art that probably only she understands. She tries to understand the signals for change. So she would wake up from her neediness from her partner. Her partner sends the signals in morsecode. On the surface it is simple to understand the code really, but she is in swirling black lilies that are clouding her. Despite her turmoil, she still loves the man. The man loves her too. But her love, that is a form of love existing in the previous stage of their relationship, cannot exist anymore. So she is going to keep it to herself. As a pagan poem. The man seems distant. Her pain connects her to him. |
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| Guns N' Roses – Don't Cry Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| does anyone know where i can listen to the vocal trance (female) version of this song? i've heard it on the radio and I've been looking for it for months now to no avail. :( | |
| Eric Whitacre – Water Night Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| i think this song is about making love. in poetry, horses are usually a phallic symbol. whitacre shapes and molds it into a beautiful obra. this is my fave from polyphony | |
| Eric Whitacre – Water Night Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| i agree. this song first drew me to Whitacre too | |
| Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| good one. haha | |
| The Killers – Mr. Brightside Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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i've been reading in on this, it's an allusion to a movie with a character names Tim Brightside. He falls in love with a prostitute. She promises to quite her job but lies. Tim, upon knowing this kills himself by jumping from Brooklyn bride. it does makes sense thou if you have this context and read the lyrics :P |
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| Céline Dion – Then You Look At Me Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| yea. i thought more people would put comments saying they like/love this song. but the song is pretty straightforward. so maybe that's one reason not a lot of people would put their meaning of this song | |
| CeeLo Green – Fuck You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| i think this just someone getting mad at a lover because that lover could not see pass whatever the singer is lacking (in this case it is money), which btw is ver superficial. I remember my previous partner here. We broke up because I was not "good enough" that person's happy now and Im like Fuck you. | |
| Linkin Park – Numb Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| i think this song came from "you're not good enough son" | |
| Linkin Park – Somewhere I Belong Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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i think this is to all the parents who are too controling of their children. because they know whats best for them. and because they believe that the child cannot do things on its own. the kid wants to experience life. make mistakes. tackle problems. live. i will never know until i do it on my own |
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| Linkin Park – In The End Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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this can be someone who feels like he is being controled by someone else. Be it a woman, a man, a father or a mother or whoever. keeping all the angst inside. trying to keep the lid on because he thought it would all assemble into something. But In the end, none of the things he kept inside meant anything. all those years of being a good son/daughter/ boy/girl friend would just tantamount into being left, either by death or some other cause. the lesson? every man acts for himself. noone is another person's property. so LAY OFF |
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| The Goo Goo Dolls – Better Days Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| i think it is about begining a new year. it does not have to be new year's eve. it can be today. it does not have to be something so grand. because one child could have started it and noone would have known, but for that one person, it was the time the worl begun again. | |
| Lady GaGa – Speechless Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think that Lady Gaga killed the man in the end. Here’s what happened: “I can't believe what you said to me Last night when we were alone You threw your arms up Baby you gave up, you gave up” They fought one night and a bad relationship eventually falls under its own weight when the man “threw his hands up” and “gave” The imagery looks like a wrestling match. They are fighting but Lady Gaga seems to enjoy this kind of dynamics of relationship. “I can't believe how you looked at me With your James Dean glossy eyes In your tight jeans with your long hair And your cigarette stained lies” Imagery: 1st line: disbelief 2nd line: Hot rebel 3rd line: more imagery 4th line: his mouth is stained with lies and he can’t change that (cigarette stains) James Dean is best known for being the ‘Rebel without a Cause’ they must have started the relationship with promises and sweet words. But in the end, Lady Gaga feels that he rebelled against her and ultimately against the kind of relationship they were having. “Could we fix you if you broke?” Can the both of us fix this relationship now that it is broke? “And is your punch line just a joke?” was the promise just some punch line to a joke? “I'll never talk again Oh boy you've left me speechless You've left me speechless, so speechless And I'll never love again Oh boy you've left me speechless You've left me speechless, so speechless” She then tries to bargain with him. She will never talk again and quietly accept whatever is in front of her (giving up one’s voice) She will never love again because all she want is him now. Thou she wants him to stay, it isn’t out of love, but out of a need. She is just speechless. Plus this is a singer who is saying this. Someone who uses expression in everything she does. If she cannot use speech, she has lost everything. (She will give up everything, ie: career, for him) “I can't believe how you slurred at me With your half wired broken jaw You popped my heart seams All my bubble dreams, bubble dreams” Here it looks like they’ve become doll/puppet-like items. He is a broken doll/puppet who unraveled the dreams of the singer. They’ve become nothing but empty husks or what was once love. They are no longer in control. They have turned to play things of each other’s love. “And after all the drinks and bars that we've been to Would you give it all up? Could I give it all up for you? And after all the boys and the girls that we've been through Would you give it all up? Could you give it all up? If I promised boy to you That I'll never talk again And I'll never love again I'll never write a song Won't even sing along I'll never love again” She talks about the experiences they had together as something to hold on to. So after all that, would you REALLY give up? She tries to compromise again. “How, how, how so speechless You left me speechless, so speechless baby Will you ever talk again? Oh boy, why you so speechless? You've left me speechless, so speechless Some men may follow me But you choose "death and company" Why you so speechless? Oh oh oh” Here the love ultimately goes wrong. In her desperation and fear of him leaving her, she “killed” him. If, like “some men” he followed her, he would not have followed “death and company” So now he is speechless. The tides have changed. I leave it you whether she killed him literary, or she just managed to get over the guy and now it’s the other way around. |
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| Adele – Set Fire to the Rain Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| why? | |
| Adele – Set Fire to the Rain Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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| The Chordettes – Mr. Sandman Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| lol | |
| The Carpenters – Close to You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| this is a really nice song and makes me feel like it's a sunday :) | |
| Jane Siberry – Calling All Angels Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is just my thoughts on the song's meaning. Please feel free to reply and say anything :) “A man is placed upon the steps, a baby cries” (someone has died and he is put in a place where is has to ascend “And high above him you hear the church bells start to ring.” (something higher is ringing. It signals something like when the church bells ring to signal the end of a ceremony and the beginning of another one: a new cycle has begun) “The heaviness, the heaviness of it settles in,” (the heaviness of the narrator is emphasized as if saying it once is not enough. The narrator is starting to see the how much he/she has lost once the everything has “settled” and has been accounted for) “A mother starts to sing.” (i think this might the man’s mother, or mother, being the source of creation, another unearthly being beckoning the man to come up by means of singing to him, or singing might be a form of rejoicing at the reunion with the “mother”) “Then it's one foot then the other as you step along the road Steppin' on the road, how much weight, how much weight?” (this might be the experience the narrator is feeling having been left the “man” he/she starts to go on with baby steps (... one foot then the other...) still feeling the “weight” of the loss. yet the narrator is asking “how much weight, how much weight?” as if he/she is not able to fathom the gravity. Maybe that is why the narrator used “Then it’s one foot then the other as you step along the road” giving the imagery of someone walking carrying something heavy taking one step at a time.) “And it's how long and how far and how many times, Oh, before it's too late?” (the narrator is wondering “how long” he/she has to journey before he/she can make it through. “How many times” does he/she has to try again to recover from this loss. Or is it too late? Will he/she wander forever unsure what to make out of this “new life he/she has without the “man”... more on the “unsure” part in the chorus) “Calling all angels, calling all angels. Walk me through this one, don't leave me alone.” (The narrator is summoning help from angels as if because not one man can help out the narrator with his/her ordeal) “Calling all angels, calling all angels. We're trying, we're hoping, but we're not sure how” (trying to cope but is uncertain if the way he/she is coping is the right way) “Oh and every day you gaze upon the sunset With such love and intensity.” (sunset means it’s the end of the day likewise it may mean the end of a cycle. The narrator may be talking about appreciating the fleeting beauty of the present seeing it in its full circle, for its entirety just when it is about to end) “Why it's almost as if, if you could only crack the code You'd finally understand what this all means.” (once you’ve seen life for what it is, you could see what everything happening is for and about: the meaning of life. the narrator sees the light of his/her suffering.) “Oh but if you could, do you think you would Have traded all the pain and suffering?” (But the narrator has been so deeply immersed in “pain and suffering” that he/she is addicted to it. All the drama and crying has been her catharsis. It must have been an outlet for her. Or maybe there might be some other unhealthy outlet that he/she has been using but now she sees that the addiction must be given up in order to “move on” and be better. He/she cries for help from everyone except herself. Will he/she move or will he/she stay in the glum that he/she has been used to?) “Oh, but then you would've missed the beauty of the light upon this earth And the sweetness of the leaving.” (the narrator is weighing things out. Will she leave the beauty of repetition of the security of the familiar and start anew?) Calling all angels, calling all angels! Walk me through this one, don't leave me alone Calling all angels, calling all angels, We're trying, we're hoping but we're not sure Calling all angels (call all angels) Calling all angels (call all angels) Walk me through this one Don't leave me alone. Calling all angels, calling all angels We're trying, we're hoping, we're hurting, we're loving We're crying, we're calling, But we're not sure how this goes. |
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| Jane Siberry – Calling All Angels Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is just my thoughts on the song's meaning. Please feel free to reply and say anything :) “A man is placed upon the steps, a baby cries” (someone has died and he is put in a place where is has to ascend “And high above him you hear the church bells start to ring.” (something higher is ringing. It signals something like when the church bells ring to signal the end of a ceremony and the beginning of another one: a new cycle has begun) “The heaviness, the heaviness of it settles in,” (the heaviness of the narrator is emphasized as if saying it once is not enough. The narrator is starting to see the how much he/she has lost once the everything has “settled” and has been accounted for) “A mother starts to sing.” (i think this might the man’s mother, or mother, being the source of creation, another unearthly being beckoning the man to come up by means of singing to him, or singing might be a form of rejoicing at the reunion with the “mother”) “Then it's one foot then the other as you step along the road Steppin' on the road, how much weight, how much weight?” (this might be the experience the narrator is feeling having been left the “man” he/she starts to go on with baby steps (... one foot then the other...) still feeling the “weight” of the loss. yet the narrator is asking “how much weight, how much weight?” as if he/she is not able to fathom the gravity. Maybe that is why the narrator used “Then it’s one foot then the other as you step along the road” giving the imagery of someone walking carrying something heavy taking one step at a time.) “And it's how long and how far and how many times, Oh, before it's too late?” (the narrator is wondering “how long” he/she has to journey before he/she can make it through. “How many times” does he/she has to try again to recover from this loss. Or is it too late? Will he/she wander forever unsure what to make out of this “new life he/she has without the “man”... more on the “unsure” part in the chorus) “Calling all angels, calling all angels. Walk me through this one, don't leave me alone.” (The narrator is summoning help from angels as if because not one man can help out the narrator with his/her ordeal) “Calling all angels, calling all angels. We're trying, we're hoping, but we're not sure how” (trying to cope but is uncertain if the way he/she is coping is the right way) “Oh and every day you gaze upon the sunset With such love and intensity.” (sunset means it’s the end of the day likewise it may mean the end of a cycle. The narrator may be talking about appreciating the fleeting beauty of the present seeing it in its full circle, for its entirety just when it is about to end) “Why it's almost as if, if you could only crack the code You'd finally understand what this all means.” (once you’ve seen life for what it is, you could see what everything happening is for and about: the meaning of life. the narrator sees the light of his/her suffering.) “Oh but if you could, do you think you would Have traded all the pain and suffering?” (But the narrator has been so deeply immersed in “pain and suffering” that he/she is addicted to it. All the drama and crying has been her catharsis. It must have been an outlet for her. Or maybe there might be some other unhealthy outlet that he/she has been using but now she sees that the addiction must be given up in order to “move on” and be better. He/she cries for help from everyone except herself. Will he/she move or will he/she stay in the glum that he/she has been used to?) “Oh, but then you would've missed the beauty of the light upon this earth And the sweetness of the leaving.” (the narrator is weighing things out. Will she leave the beauty of repetition of the security of the familiar and start anew?) Calling all angels, calling all angels! Walk me through this one, don't leave me alone Calling all angels, calling all angels, We're trying, we're hoping but we're not sure Calling all angels (call all angels) Calling all angels (call all angels) Walk me through this one Don't leave me alone. Calling all angels, calling all angels We're trying, we're hoping, we're hurting, we're loving We're crying, we're calling, But we're not sure how this goes. |
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