| Mute Math – Stratosphere Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| The author is talking about only ever wanting to accomplish one thing, which would put him "on top of the world", but he finds that to accomplish that, he's sacrificed the attention of someone important, and that his achievement has paradoxically left him having to reorient his goals; this time, unfortunately, without the presence/attentions of this special person. | |
| Snow Patrol – Shut Your Eyes Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is about making a bookmark in your life - in this case, imagined - to hold onto when things get bad. The lyrics are quite literal. "Shut your eyes and thing of somewhere/ Somewhere cold and caked in snow" This sets the scene for the rest of the verse, which is the only metaphor for sex that the song contains, "Learn to wear eath other well". The verse instructs the listener, who may be a love of the lyricist, to imagine a safe and comfortable place. "When the worrying starts to hurt .... You can imagine this place/ Yeah, our secret space, at will": This is the crux of my interpretation of the song. The lyricist is saying that when things get bad, the listener can imagine that special place with them together, and everything will be ok. While others think that the lyrics are transcribed incorrectly, they are merely trying to shape the song into their interpretation. With the lyrics as written, this is my best interpretation. The next verse is similar. Imagine being a kid and spinning in a big office chair, and the happy, dizzy - good - feeling you get. The lyricist would like the listener to remember those times and that feeling for when the world starts to creep in "like graves of dirt". The repetition of "shut your eyes" implies that there are bad times, often. Just shut your eyes and think of these good things. Unlike some of the other comments here, I do not believe that this whole song is a metaphor for sex. Yes, there are undertones of it in the first verse, but these undertones do not dominate the meaning of the song. |
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