| The Ting Tings – That's Not My Name Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I actually first heard this song, as a remix. I enjoyed the remix so much, I had to go searching for the original (if anything, to find how much the remix was changed). I would also like to add, the original is closely done in the remix version, except, the person doing the remix, cut out the ...ame ...ame ...ame part I am actually tossed on which I like better. The original, or the remix. I tend to go towards the remix, as I've heard it far more times. But, the original has its moments just the same. I like songs that harmonize well, and the ending section, where the male and female voices blend, is my all time favorite part of the song (this is the same in the original and remix) I would like to personally thank the person who put up the lyrics, as not knowing them, I kind of "invented" what I thought they were. Listening to both versions, kind of gave me more clues, but never all the words like this. As a final note, I also thought that "Mary, Jo, Lisa" was "Maybe... joleisa" too. |
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| Alex Metric – Open Your Eyes Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I haven't heard this original, but mostly remixes of it. First of all, I need to hear the original, second, I have heard two remixes of this song, where he had a second artist "Steve Angello" do it along with him. The remixes were all high beats per minute, and extremely energetic. I can't listen to this song, or I should say, the remixes of it, without either getting up and moving to it, or in the case of headphones at work, chair dancing to it. The lyrics are pretty simple, but packed with emotion and feeling. Add the driving bass and you have yourself one heck of a trance tune. If the remixes are even "remotely" close to the original, the synthesizer work seems like its simple chords, or even just single notes, but it gets the song going, and the lyrics drive the complete song home, for me. I had to search for this song, because I didn't realize that the lyrics repeated so much. Also, I thought, in some places, the lyrics changed. From the "Let the light come in" to hearing in some places "Night", which can work, if you consider this song being performed at a music festival, open air performance, or done live in a dance / night club. All-in-all, one of my favorite motivational songs. |
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| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Comfortably Numb is one of the two "major" songs that I feel a strong attachment to, the other is Time, in which, I also gave my "impressions" of on this site. Comfortably Numb, as is Time, is a classic melody, with stirring harmonies, and David Gilmour guitar solos. When listening to these songs, I can't help but sway to the smooth tempo. The almost "haunting" vocals almost speak to the heart, and soul. First of all, Comfortably Numb is part of The Wall album, what they billed as a Pink Floyd "Rock Opera", as I thought Pink Floyd's Time album was, in its own way, also, in an earlier year. This was also made into a movie, as was The Who's "Tommy". "The Wall", at least how they portrayed it in the movie, was a small portion of a ficticious "Rock Star", named Pink. I think the songs on the whole album, were, to be taken in that context, even though, if you watch the movie, it seems to jump, and skip, about, in that life. Sometimes, going back to their childhood, and then, in a scene right after that, addolescence. I do agree that there is a lot of "drug" references, but, I still, deep down, think this song is more of a testiment to ones own "connection" with the world, and surroundings. Not so much the drugs. That being said, this song makes me reflect on my own life, and how "I" view it, or even, how someone else would view it. As a child, we are all the same, friends, or enemies, playing in a school yard, or park. We don't think about the whole "what do they think?", "How do people percieve me?" mentality. Innocence. As we grow up, the world interjects that "we" have to get along with others around us, we have to, as the Rush song states: Conform, or be cast out. Our innocence is lost, as we take on thinking processes of how others see us, think about us, and how we are seen in their thinking. A kind of duality mental thinking. One, how we want to be, but, the second, on how others see us. I really feel this is a "underlying" meaning of this song. Coping with hard times, good times, depression, euphoria, and how, as a single entity, we need to be accepted, and in groups. I know a few people here, posted about it being "better" than just a "drug" song, or about it being something more than just a "good" trip / "bad" trip song. I really want to think the same way, and seriously feel, that, the song is more, or it "has to be" more than just a drug song. Why? Well, I have listened to many a Doors tunes, and, I have to admit, while listening to them, I can't help but think "Man! He was really trippin' on this one!", I don't get the same feelings, deep down, listening to this song. These songs are much more, deeper, than just a "Wow! That was a good trip! I need to write that down and make a song of it." kind of thing. I realize that Syd was a driving force in Pink Floyd, and that, Gilmour, pretty much, had to take "second" fiddle to him, but, watching Pink Floyd live, on the Delicate Sound Of Thunder, and the Pulse Tours, seeing these guys playing the songs, I can't imagine them being "Coked" out of their gourd, or "Hopped up". The intensity of their playing, the concentration, and dedication, of every note played... I can't think the songs reflect a "drug haze". |
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| Pink Floyd – Time Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Time is one of those "Classic" Pink Floyd songs. I am sure many people listened to this song, not to mention, the complete album "The Dark Side Of The Moon", in their teenage years, most sitting in a dimly lit room, on a bean bag chair, pipe, or bong, next to them, feeling as if the speakers were just dripping with moisture. Time, as well as, Comfortably Numb, are one of my favorite Floyd tunes, and I know, many an hour was spent listening to these songs in my life so far. This is what I have always felt the song is describing: "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way." I have always thought of this as the time, in my formal education, as the Elementary School years. A time in which, you appreciate the time off during Summer, and as Summer comes closer to ending, the anticipation of a new school year, and what it may bring. "Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun." I think this is reminiscing, as you are in the "Formal Education" School years, back, to when you didn't have to go to school. Many a raining day, sitting in the window, and watching the rain. It possibly reflects also on the time, as a teenager, when you had to make a life decision of going to work, or staying in school, for a higher education. The last two phrases, being thrown back to the "here & now", and seeing that, you may have taken the wrong path, in your decision, and contemplating the "what if", of taking another path. "So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older, Shorter of breath and one day closer to death." I always got the feeling that this emphasised the "Golden" years of ones life, and the time in which, you have made thousands of decisions, chosen millions of paths, in your life, and that, at this time, nothing can be changed, and you can't press the "rewind" button. "Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is over, Thought I'd something more to say." This always gives me an image of an aged person, possibly bed-ridden, possibly even in a hospital, with a life almost ending. The final encapsulating of ones life, and accomplishments. Some times when I hear this song, I can get feelings of sanility taking over ones mind, and the song takes on, possibly, a persons life that ends sooner than an "average" life span, but, I tend to come back to the "normal" thinking of a life-long, full life, story. The last three phrases give me feelings of being on your death bed, and scribbling, in a last minute moment, your last words in a will. The "Thought I'd something more to say." ending of your life, that one last breath, at the moment you press the pen to make that last period. |
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