| Leonard Cohen – Alexandra Leaving Lyrics | 7 days ago |
| To me this song is about the end of an intense relationship with someone who is deeply embedded in your life, and the ways we try to use our minds to rationalize the end when sometimes there is no reason. It's about the human tendency to scramble for answers and to neatly fit life and heartbreak into tidy boxes that we can understand better. It's about looking in hindsight after the end of the relationship and wondering if the love was even real, if they even really loved you and confronting our tendency to diminish or explain away what cannot be explained: "Do not say the moment was imagined, Do not stoop to strategies like this," and "Do not choose a coward's explanation, That hides behind the cause and the effect." This is one of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs and it has been my salve through time of deep sadness. | |
| The Staves – Facing West Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To me this song is about a girl who is hoping for her boyfriend to be more like her, dreamy and sentimental rather than cold and distant. She I think this song is about a girl who is hoping for her lover or boyfriend to be more like her, dreamy and sentimental. She sings: "you with your hands across your chest facing me" She is looking out the window facing west to the sea while he watchs her with his hands across his chest, "you with your hands across your chest facing me." This gave me the sense that there is some animosity between then, mainly because she desires him to be a more affectionate dreamy man, but in reality he can often cold. OR perhaps he was that once, and she is longing for him to be that way again, 'sing me a song your voice is like silver." She sings, 'I can't do this anymore' because she loves him but it is taking a toll on her the line; I'll take the high road that he walked' indicated to me that she like to be in what she perceives to be the superior position that he is in where the coldness mean that feelings are at bay and you get hurt less. "you sit and watch me as I come" ... through the 'door" to me this line is sexual. It is a play on words. And again there is that that distance between them because he watches her in an intimate moment. So close yet so far. They clearly have chemistry but it has a an elusive distant quality to it.is looking out the window facing west to the sea while he watches her with his hands across his chest, "you with your hands across your chest facing me." It's as if she is dreamily gazing out longing for something more. This gave me the sense that there is some tension between them, mainly because she desires him to be a more emotionally engaged person, but in reality he can often be cold towards her. Or perhaps he was that way once, but she feels like she is losing him and is longing for him to be that way again "sing me a song your voice is like silver," she says. She sings, "I don't think that I can do this anymore," because she loves him but it is taking a toll on her. the line; I'll take the high road that he walked' indicated to me that she will try to mimic his more stoic action, what she perceives to be the superior position that he is in where his coldness means that he is less vulnerable to hurt. "You sit and watch me as I come" ... through the 'door" to me this is a play on words and is sexual. Again there is that distance between them because he watches her in an intimate moment... So close yet so far. They clearly have chemistry but it has a an elusive distant quality to it. |
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| The Staves – Facing West Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To me this song is about a girl who is hoping for her boyfriend to be more like her, dreamy and sentimental rather than cold and distant. She I think this song is about a girl who is hoping for her lover or boyfriend to be more like her, dreamy and sentimental. She sings: "you with your hands across your chest facing me" She is looking out the window facing west to the sea while he watchs her with his hands across his chest, "you with your hands across your chest facing me." This gave me the sense that there is some animosity between then, mainly because she desires him to be a more affectionate dreamy man, but in reality he can often cold. OR perhaps he was that once, and she is longing for him to be that way again, 'sing me a song your voice is like silver." She sings, 'I can't do this anymore' because she loves him but it is taking a toll on her the line; I'll take the high road that he walked' indicated to me that she like to be in what she perceives to be the superior position that he is in where the coldness mean that feelings are at bay and you get hurt less. "you sit and watch me as I come" ... through the 'door" to me this line is sexual. It is a play on words. And again there is that that distance between them because he watches her in an intimate moment. So close yet so far. They clearly have chemistry but it has a an elusive distant quality to it.is looking out the window facing west to the sea while he watches her with his hands across his chest, "you with your hands across your chest facing me." It's as if she is dreamily gazing out longing for something more. This gave me the sense that there is some tension between them, mainly because she desires him to be a more emotionally engaged person, but in reality he can often be cold towards her. Or perhaps he was that way once, but she feels like she is losing him and is longing for him to be that way again "sing me a song your voice is like silver," she says. She sings, "I don't think that I can do this anymore," because she loves him but it is taking a toll on her. the line; I'll take the high road that he walked' indicated to me that she will try to mimic his more stoic action, what she perceives to be the superior position that he is in where his coldness means that he is less vulnerable to hurt. "You sit and watch me as I come" ... through the 'door" to me this is a play on words and is sexual. Again there is that distance between them because he watches her in an intimate moment... So close yet so far. They clearly have chemistry but it has a an elusive distant quality to it. |
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| Jewel – Enter From The East Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The beauty of this song lies in the raw honesty of the words. It is very evocative the way she describes sorrowful craving, and this is also captured by the raspier whispered tone she uses to sing this line "I must have you all to myself, Feel the full weight of your skin, I'll hollow out my insides, To place you in." This is one of those songs that resonates with me on a deeper level and I love the unashamed desire to merge with and be possessed by another and the rich darkness of the words. To me it is about a passionate love that has left a mark forever; the kind that one lives and breathes for to have again. Weather it is a lost love craved for once again, the moments in between in the absence of intimacy, or a glimpse of a hijacking type of love through inspiration, she describes in simple but beautiful language the kind of love that remains a constant hollow pain until it is satiated, "The clock became a bullet hole, Cruel and unkind, It hurt me with its second hand, Alone another night." Even with the overarching sad tone,I think this is also a very hopeful song; at one point she tells 'blue' to take a hike, "Blue, go be true for someone else There's no room inside this heart of mine My heart has four empty rooms Three wait for lightning And one waits for you." |
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