| The Sundays – I Won Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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It seems that this song is about someone "young and selfish" who may be starting to realise how vain and intellectually competitive they are. Maybe it's another character speaking to them in the chorus, someone more mature telling that person how vain, selfish and immature he or she is and how he/she keeps seeking the pleasure of showing off by trying to win arguments all the time. And that young, immature, vain and selfish person has pangs of conscience and can't sleep well at night, because he/she "won the war in the sitting room, felt proud but it cost him/her", probably he/she feels guilty for humiliating someone else or telling lies in the intellectual discussions just to be able to win. It cost him/her integrity. He/she starts to realise her/his own vanity, selfishness and immaturity. I love Harriet but I wonder, in case my interpretation is right, if she's talking about herself in her past academic life. By the way, most songs on that album seem to describe someone's journey dealing with their own ambition, selfishness, existential crisis, intellectuality, etc. |
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| The Sundays – A Certain Someone Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Yes, it is confusing. However, it seems to express a sort of arrogance, selfishness, mischief, hopelessness and cynicism that seems to describe a journey or a story of one character throughout the whole album! This song seems to be the one that stands out the most in that sense. I can't quite figure out what that whole story would be. I would love to sit with Harriet and David at a pub in London to talk about all their lyrics. |
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| The Sundays – Can't Be Sure Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| "a perfect behind" = "a perfect arse", really? | |
| The Sundays – What Do You Think? Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Wondering if this song is about being exhausted from touring, being interviewed, idolised, scrutinized and all the stress and craziness that may come with being an artist and having to promote your work. I read about somewhere that The Sundays had to cut short one of their tours because they were exhausted. I'm just not sure which tour it was. | |
| The Sundays – Can't Be Sure Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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@[Looking_glass_eyes:34895] Up to this point, I interpreted this song as someone saying to her how she shouldn't be a slave to desire and should learn to be positive but she responds with irony and says it's all about what she wants and no one should meddle in and it's her own life and it's up to her and she is not sure but she has faith she will be fine. But your interpretation makes more sense, like it's an internal dialogue, not a conflict with someone else. |
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| Natalie Imbruglia – That Day Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Interesting to see what everyone else has said. It kind of makes sense with what I have to say too. Someone said it was about having several feelings one on top of the other and so fast and so intense that the words don't seem to make sense - that's beautiful! I would interpret it as a moment when a person is remembering or reliving a special day when she felt everything she had to feel, good or bad, accepted it, accepted people as they are, accepted the confusion, the war, the backstabbing and also saw divinity in herself, was able to see beyond the common human experience to realise she is much more than this experience on Earth. She seems to get a feeling of transcendence. It's like a moment of clarity. I would love to hear what Natalie herself has to say about it. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Purgatorying Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It is about alienation and escapism, with examples of three kinds of alienation, but which are connected. The first verse is about alieanation through entertainment. The second, through work and the third, through relationships and romance. It is about realizing how we escape, more or less unconsciously through these external things, to avoid being in contact with our inner reality (which can be hard to deal with and accept), and how that prevents us from knowing ourselves better and keeps us in this "purgatory" state, when we could reach the "heaven" that awaits after this dealing with that reality that we keep hiding from. |
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