| FKA Twigs – Hide Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Committing oneself to being distance, so much so, that it is just easier to hide away than to accept someone's caring. The hate, in my opinion, is a front; saving face. "Face me, if you think you can take another route out" is in essence predicting the person's behaviour, and challenging them to be different. "Face me" is very confrontational, as if challenging someone's bluff. |
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| iamamiwhoami – Sever Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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this song to me means wanting something you can't have. Might look so grand from a distance that you need to touch It gives a vision of the simple but it is so much -- it looks so good, and it feels so good in a broad sense, from a wide perspective I won't be fooled by its touch of emotional supply The scent of affair in heavy love we dry -- this feels like some sort of endless, dry love affair. It looked to appealing, it felt so grand, but in the end, it is an affair, it is a love that will fade like any other. Almost forgotten the way we used to live for play -- this line signifies falling deep into it, feeling to swept up in it that you almost forget how it started. Fun has become intensity and held you up in its game. The cold in the bare grass so delicate by one's eye Is why we can't ally and elope tonight -- in the end, we are both swept up in this, but my intuition feels this isn't what it feels it should be, and I don't feel the comfort of "eloping" tonight. of sharing intimacy, or of sharing commitment. Knowing you want something by your intuition, your heart can't give in, because it feels that although you want to fall into it, and deep into it, it won't happen. A sense of despair in not being able to completely give in to the situation at hand, and be true to your sincere desire to feel intimacy. |
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| Niki & The Dove – The Fox Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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An open letter to parents. Reminds me a little of my own situation. Growing away from my single mother and doing my own thing. She fears and has many hopes for me and I am striving to be who I am, and succeeding in my life, although my goals may differ from what she believe they should be. "I've grown a handsome tall tree, mother And I want to bear a fruit for you" - looking to strive in your life and give your mom a gift in return for her being there your entire life "And I've carried your fears and your hopes, father I'll conquer them for me and you" - dad has fears and hopes for you but it's okay. I will conquer them and you'll see, father, no need to worry about me. |
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| CocoRosie – Child Bride Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is incredibly heartbreaking. Makes me think of a young girl being taken away to be forced into a marriage, witnessing her father (playing on freudian theory as CocoRosie always does) and family abandon her. She drifts away and even years later she sees that they have gotten along fine in despite her absence and her own suffering by marriage at such a young age. I watched the grass blow, I watched the flowers grow - these lyrics depict the passing of time. And to me, personally, reflect a very deep sense of loneliness as if she has nothing better to go than to watch time go by through a window. |
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| Daughter – Home Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Initially, you might think this song were about a one night stand or something. But then as the lyrics go on, you realise it is a story about a girl who is re-initiating a night of intimacy with someone she had a past with. You are not a friend - you are nothing, kind of depicts a resentment. Then it follows with a sense of self consciousness. I think I should be more confident in my skin and not focusing so much on my resentment towards you. "Burned out flames should never re-ignite. But I thought you might..." - I should never have gone back to that old place of comfort and intimacy with this person again, because you can not re-ignite an old emotional spark between two people. But still, "take me home" and remind me of that place we used to be at together once before. Then she depicts a sense of overwhelming emotion when he comes close to her, and her fear that he may realise the power he has over her and in having kept her from sleeping for nights at a time. This time she says "But I thought you might - take me home" - as in, but I thought you might take me back to that place I felt home, comforted, familiar, like before. And so, although this might make her feel powerless, unconfident, and maybe even bad about herself afterward, she really just wants to feel like home again even for just a moment. This song to be is a little bittersweet. It is super sensual and intimate, and yet deeply sad, because it is as if she is trying to fill an inner void of loneliness through this one night and imagine she is back in a place she used to feel at home and intimate with someone in her past. |
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| Tegan and Sara – I Was a Fool Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Reminds me of my own break up. (Do you remember I searched you out How I climbed your city's walls Do you remember me as devout) - Telling someone if they remember how hard you worked in trying to break down their walls/barriers. "Searched you out" as in finding you, really getting to know you for who you are behind all the walls you built. (I stood still, it's what I did Love like ours is never fixed I stuck around, I did behave) - Putting a pause on your own life to be part of theirs. Standing in place in your own ambitions and goals and putting theirs over yours. "I did behave" meaning, I really was being good to you. (I was a fool for love, I was a fool) - Losing your sense of self because you fall in love with someone so much you want to be everything for them. Feeling foolish and idiotic looking back on this. (Then you blamed me and blocked me out How long did you think I'd last Then you disappeared for weeks to pout How many times could I pack) - Then this person blamed you for the relationship falling apart. "How long did you think I'd last" can depict both the person be blamed falling apart at the blame being put on them, and also translated as in "how long did you think I could keep taking this active role in your life and putting in as much energy as I am". Then this person seems to want space but after some weeks, want you back again (how many times to I have to keep packing over and over) (If you're worried that I might have changed Left behind all of my foolish ways You best be looking for somebody else Without a foolish heart, a foolish heart) - Not being able to make the promise that you wouldn't do this again with either the same person or a different one. Feeling like if you're looking for someone not to be as stupid as me to fall so hard and put in so much energy, maybe you should look for someone else because I can't promise I won't be a fool again. |
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| Daughter – Smother Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"I am wasted, losing time " This could mean wasting away or even wasted drinking alcohol to forget the pain, and in essence, losing time by being drunk through hours of time "I’m a foolish, fragile spine I want all that is not mine I want him but we’re not right" These three lines really signify some sort of regret to me, but also a sense of "how could I be so sensitive and stupid". And now I want him so bad, even though I know I regret having been with him. He made me feel so vulnerable and now I want him still. I can't stop being vulnerable. "In the darkness I will meet my creators And they will all agree, that I’m a suffocator" This part is really upsetting because she is imposing a lot of self blame. I know I was smothering, I know that even my creators would say so. They are disappointed in me too. Really feeling alone and at fault. That point in the break up where you start to miss them and feel like "please, let us just forget everything and just be lying beside each other. I miss your touch so much" "I should go now quietly For my bones have found a place to lie down and sleep Where all my layers can become reeds All my limbs can become trees All my children can become me What a mess I leave To follow" She is really expressing a deep sadness and hopelessness. I am such a mess, and I am leaving such a mess of me behind. A mess of someone who only smothers and suffocates others. She is really regretful, as if she feels like she is the worst person in the world. "Oh no I’m sorry if I smothered you I sometimes wish I’d stayed inside My mother Never to come out" Again, it is that coming to terms with oh my god, I am so sorry. I am sorry if I smothered you and drove you away. I feel so worthless and I just wish I didn't exist. Overall this song is so sad, Elena must have been in a really dark place writing this one. There is such desperation of not wanting to be alone, this really hit home. |
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| Daughter – Winter Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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My take on this song is that it is about being in love with someone and seeking their love back, but when the love has faded, the main person has given up trying to seek it any more . "And we were in flames, I needed I needed you To run through my veins, like disease" meaning when we had a spark, I needed you. I really need you to be with me, be one with me and be mine. "And now we are strange, strangers" But now we are drifting apart, and we are too strange for me to want you to be a part of me and my heart any more. The flame and the heat represent the love, and winter is the cold draft that blew the fire out, froze it over. The flame that once spark is now gone and left is a cold space. |
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