| Bright Eyes – I Won't Ever Be Happy Again Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
Bro I think I can explain what the song means, but it's just an interpretation. Imma try to answer this shit legit tho my dude: The first half of the song, up until the point where Conor Oberst first says, "so I won't ever be happy again," I believe he is discussing the turmoils of living in society because living in a society where "I won't ever be lonely again" requires you to constantly be there to support your "lovers and friends," and this implies being, what one would call, "happy." The remainder of this section deals with the facts of life. There are many facts of life, and one of them is that you will not always be happy, which Oberst is often not. Oberst goes further to emphasize the sadness in this song, aside from establishing a slow melody, displaying an obviously tragic title, and utilizing the overall tone of voice that he does, by discussing facts of life that shove our true limitations in our faces. Bright Eyes capitalizes on this section of the song as a whole by, I'm sorry I really don't know the musical terms, but building the melody or, as you would say, building the beat for a hip-hop song (starts at line 8: "Now a forest fenced becomes backyards" this statement of course meaning that everything around us is simply taken from the beautiful earth and now we generally destroy it and use it for crude purposes, i.e. corporations taking down forrests, endagering animals by way of conducting work with dangerous materials, etc.). Notice "So, I mean, here we go, but there ain't no escape \ These streets are just dead ends," stating that one may not simply "leave society," you are a part of it forever unless you actually do leave society as a whole. This raises the point that in order to survive, many people in the modern world do require, or at least would prefer the benefits of, today's society because it helps them acquire everything they need for living in addition to extra commodities as well. Of course, this is still all just my interpretation so it could not only be applied to society, but life entirely as a whole, especially considering his focus on the limitations of people in real life. I do not know much of Mister Oberst's past, therefore I do not know of the particular reasons why he may seem so emotionally distraught. The next few lines (15-19 on this site), Oberst references a "you" so as to, if nothing else, imply that he is conversing with another being. As a consolation to this being, after simply stating that life is basically all shit, he states, "But as the story goes, or it is often told \ A new day will arise." and the things that follow this statement are all inevitabilities. Skeletons will come to life and dance, a lion will betray his nature and lie down with a lamb (generally inevitable if in the wild at least), and finally, as Mister Oberst puts it, "I won't ever be lonely again," being the final inevitability to be listed. This is a list of things that will not happen, not in his opinion anyway, therefore he continues, and he feels terribly sorrow, and he would never like to feel this way again. To be completely honest, this song means that life is fucking stupid a lot of the time, and depending on who you are, it could be fucking terrible every single day of your life, but damn any man who does not become emblazened with appreciation when he looks up into the sky and sees it dressed in a "lovely yellow gown." |
|
| Blue October – Blue Sunshine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's not about an acid trip, it's about a combination of his experiences and thoughts strewn together by himself to make sense in whatever way he wants whoever it is to perceive it. | |
| Bright Eyes – Poison Oak Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Connor grew up with his cousin who wasn't very happy and Connor grew true respect for him when he decided to stand up and fight against that which was suppressing him. Connor makes it a point to state that this wasn't what should have happened as he states that he still believed in war, implying he does not currently, and his cousin starts a war with family by breaking free, leaving, and sticking up for himself. Many poets discuss war in their art and he too is a poet. He sings tearful words, but they are venomous, they do not simply revert into steam, they cause irreversible damage to his cousin. The muddy field is where Colin left the family. They used to appear content and healthy like a garden, but what he did changed that. Now Connor is stuck in the muddy field where the deserted family members sulk, while Connor becomes enlightened. Connor never thought such drastic change could come to his life, even though he'd been wishing for it. His cousin was the catalyst for something great and also something horrible. He showed Connor how to stand up for himself as well and now Connor's eyes are opened to what is truly important to him. | |
| Gary Jules – Mad World (Tears for Fears cover) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
|
The speaker is obviously viewing the world as an outsider. The first and final stanzas mainly discuss how everyone in the world seems so shut out of life itself as they are going through it with "worn out faces" with "no expression." The speaker perceives these people to be "going nowhere" because their goals in every day life are wrong in his point of view. The second stanza is about his feelings for this mad world, which he does not wish to continue being a part of, if you would even consider him a part of it in the first place. Again, he sees these people just running around in circles, with nothing truly reached in the end. The birthday and school references in the third stanza are examples as to how people are phased out and are no longer "living" and are instead just going through the motions. Every child just waits until they get to feel special for their birthday which is a very dark concept as it implies children do not very often feel as though they are special, or are highly valued, until it is their special day to be. Just as children do not feel special, the adults do not treat them as special. His teacher would look straight through him, as instead of getting to know his student, he runs through the motions as he would any regular student, rather than creating any bond between him as the teacher and the speaker as a student. The speaker is very obviously stating that there is something wrong with how people are living and that they are not truly reaching any valuable goals. I believe this could be interpreted in many different ways and this is also why this song is so great; people can form connections to the song with very different interpretations of it. One example that I believe fits best is that the speaker is speaking of the corporate world. Everyone is "racing" to get to the top, be the richest, and earn the most money. The speaker would perceive this as a mad world as money is completely extrinsic and does not help you achieve anything intrinsically meaningful. We could then see the teacher's lack of enthusiasm to help the speaker as a child as a very fitting topic to include in the lyrics because the teacher only wants money, and does not wish to go out of his way to help unless it will earn him more money. Then we could also acknowledge the bit about children not feeling so special until their birthdays as an effect of the greed of the adults who are too busy working to get money to make their children feel truly special, but attempt to make them feel better by buying them things instead. I have only presented one possible interpretation that makes sense to me and throughout these comments you may find many more that are just as viable. I believe this is a very beautiful song. |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.