| Radical Face – Welcome Home Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is really the only song I know of that makes me genuinely happy every time I hear it. It can, in my opinion, be applied to any burden you're carrying or is holding you back. My favorite is the last verse and chorus. "Peel the scars from off my back. I don't need them anymore. You can throw them out, or keep them in your mason jars. I've come home," and, my personal favorite line "all my nightmares escaped my head". Even the title makes me happy. "Welcome home." why thank you Radical Face |
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| Bon Iver – Skinny Love Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Let me start with the definition of skinny love- well, okay, there are a few definitions, but this definition is the one that fits with my interpretation quite perfectly: Love that's too skinny to survive. It's not properly fleshed out, and is doomed to failure. I recently met this guy, and holy cow. Hoooly cow. Possibly just infatuation, but nonetheless, I can't stop thinking about him. I haven't had feelings for someone this strongly for at least a year or two. However, I KNOW it won't work, I know it. I like him for all of the wrong reasons. But. "Come on, skinny love, just last the year." Oh, how I wish it could last just for that long, at least. "Pour a little salt; we were never hear." Okay, so salt can erode all kinds of things. Pour a little salt, everything will disappear. "I tell my love to wreck it all, cut out all the ropes and let me fall." Let me fall in love, basically, just don't hold anything back. "I'll be holding all the tickets, and you'll be owning all the fines." I'll have just the evidence that shows I've paid and am entitled to your love, while you'll have the highest quality. It could be that OR it could be saying they owe fines, you know, they're in debt, but since it says 'owning' instead of 'owing', my guess would be the former. "Come on, skinny love, what happened here?!" ah, what a line. where did it go, what did you do? "and now all your love is wasted? then who was I?!" pretty self-explanatory. "Who will love you? Who will fight? Who will fall far behind?" I think of that as, who's next to try to win you over? Who will bother to waste that time? Honestly, the song is brilliant. Easily relatable, yet ambiguous, and absolutely breathtaking. <3 |
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| The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build A Home Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'm going to actually share one more interpretation of it. Well. This is totally a personal experience, so I'm not sure if 'interpretation' is the right word. But here we go. So, I'm going to a project-based high school right now that's currently not working out for me at all. It's a very small school. Not many people go there, and the ones that do are fantastic. They feel like family. Well, basically, the school feels like a second home. But that doesn't mean I'm doing well in the school. I'm not really learning anything. My grades aren't the best. I'm switching schools. It feels like part of my heart is gone. I seriously love everyone there. But I know I can't stay just for the people. After all, a school is for getting an education. There was a talent show a few days ago. I sang this for it, as a sort of farewell. Whenever I hear this song, I can't help but think of it. I'm obsessed with this sogn. |
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| The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build A Home Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I so agree with this. | |
| The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build A Home Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Alright, I guess I'll share how I interpret it. This song really means a lot to me. I have clinical depression. It's kind of hard to have feelings for someone when you have depression, because it's kind of hard to feel anything but emptiness. But I did try, and I think I did a very good job trying. I built a house out of stone. I built a house that blocked out the depression. It was fairly strong, and I felt like myself. I felt at home. But this guy, that I allowed myself to love, did not care for my effort. Didn't really care for me at all, which, of course, I didn't know at the time. I climbed a tree. I could see it. I could see it fading away. The lie became more visible, so when the gusts came around to blow me down, I held on as tightly as he held on to me. He didn't hold on to me. I fell. I felt seriously low. Everything that I tried to fix became undone. Now? It's time to leave, and turn to dust. To say goodbye. To go back into the unknown, and leave the place I called 'home'. |
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| Iron & Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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No wonder I've always liked the song so much. Thank you for that wonderful interpretation. Insanely relatable. |
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| Fences – From Roses Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Obviously the singer broke up with a girl he loved. He's wondering if she's at all sad about it, if she ever thinks of him, if it keeps her up at night. Then, the part that kills you: Love goes,"I'll never leave you again." Love goes. "I'll never leave you again"? I picture it like that, with him remembering the awful luck with love he's had in the past, and when he decided to love again, he was ruined, just like he had been before. He feels like love is just some kind of sick prank that he keeps falling for. When you feel like love's going to stick around and actually work 'this time', it doesn't, and you're left with nothing but the memory and you questioning yourself as to why you ever thought to trust love again in the first place. "Sing me sweetly to sleep, so I can remember my dreams falling slowly, like leaves fall from trees, then I'll wake up there on my praying knees again." In this part, he's pretty bitter. He knows if he lets his mind wander, he will think about how everything fell apart, and this is so upsetting to him that he can't keep hoping and praying for the anguish to stop. Then the chorus. |
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| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I personally think it's about a divorce, where they had a kid before everything went down. I've never experienced a divorce, but that's just what I think of when I hear this song. I think of it in the child's perspective. Where are we? What is going on? The dust has only just begun to fall, crop circles in the carpet. Sinking feeling. "Why is this happening? Looking around at this house, which was once a home... It's not the same with dad gone. It's completely disheartening," and obviously the divorce was pretty recent. Spin me round again, and rub my eyes. This can't be happening. "I never thought it would come to this." Hide and seek, trains and sewing machines. All those years, they were here first. "The happiness once felt in this home was here first, before the tension and decision you made to split. Shouldn't that mean something? Everything used to be fine, why did this have to happen?" Oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before the takeover. The sweeping insensitivity of this still life... "These pieces of artwork you've placed in absence of the photographs and happy memories that once were are devoid of feeling. They don't matter." So by 'oily marks' I think of oil paintings or art in place of where precious photographs used to be, because the parent is trying to remove the other from their life completely. Hide and seek, trains and sewing machines? Oh, you won't catch me around here. Blood and tears? They were here first. I picture the child crying out in anger,"I will no longer find happiness here. It's gone, it's all gone. My anguish was clear when you decided to get divorced, my anguish was right there before the divorce happened, and you knew it, and that should've mattered to you." (I picture this part kind of sarcastic). What you say... That you only meant well? Well, of course you did. What you say... That it's all for the best? Of course it is! What you say... That it's just what we need? and you decided this?! What you say... Mm, what did you say?! "You keep trying to reassure me that you meant well, that this is all for the best. How could you have meant well? How could this pain, how could dad leaving be better for us? You say this is what needed to happen? YOU decided this. What about me, did you ask me?!" Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth, mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut-outs. Speak no feeling, no, I don't believe you. You don't care a bit, you don't care a bit. "You act like this is some kind of redemption. I know you're upset about this, too. Don't try to tell me now that you cared, even a little, about what I've gone through because of a choice you made, and don't pretend like you're all that happy about this, either." Also, the newspaper cut-outs could mean a lot. Announced marriages, a death, or something else, I don't know. I'm just not sure. This song can be interpreted in many different ways. That's just my take on it. |
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| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Despite GinLA's comment, I think it's a really interesting take on the song. I'm not sure if it's accurate, but it could definitely work. | |
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