| Matthew Ryan – I can't steal you Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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So as far as I can tell the song is roughly about a guy who has given up trying to figure out a way to get the girl back after doing something wrong (cheating maybe?) and is saying "ya know what? If you wanna be with me, you can but I am done trying." Especially the lines: "Hold yourself, I'm done. My arms are tired" "We betray what we can't deny, cuz I believe she needs me" "just as sad as the words we'd say...it's all gone in an instant" All of this points to a guy who screwed up but in his mind it wasn't enough to warrant all his begging for her to come back and now he is just done with it. As a separate point, I am not sure that this isn't an unreliable narrator since some of the lyrics seem to say that he is gonna keep chasing her. e.g. "it's just so easy it's hard hold me close, I can't feel you you'll have to trust me I can't steal you" It's just so easy is what he says to himself to leave her. But it's not. Especially the way that it was sang when he did it with Brian, one was singing the first part but both sang the "it's hard" In any event, just what I am seeing in it (and full disclosure, this is similar to something that happened to me). |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Old Haunts Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song is more complicated than just saying it's time to move on from older songs/relationships (depending on whether you think it's a love letter to an old girlfriend or to The '59 Sound) because of the last line. The entire song he is saying "god help THE man who says if youd'a known me when, old haunts are for forgotten ghosts" until the end when he says "god help THIS man, old haunts are all WE'VE ever known." He is succumbing to the reality that sometimes you can't move on. He is trying to convince someone (himself? I always thought it was a song talking to himself) that it's time to move on but by the end he knows that those old haunts aren't gone and neither is ready to leave them. |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Halloween Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song is about a guy who is at a party, probably for business and he sees a girl who looks vaguely like a girl he loved and lost. He is the ghost in a suit, everyone at the party is because they are just images of what they really are. A ghost in that they are not full people, they can't be at a business party. Further, after a drink or two and seeing this girl, he spends the rest of the party trying to "find his love" even though she isn't there and likely isn't coming back anyway |
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