| Alberta Cross – Low Man Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song goes much deeper than a break up ballad. I think its about a man that left a woman who was ultimately everything he ever wanted in someone. He left her not wanting the commitment, but feels empty now she is gone......"The decision was made how could it be wrong?"..... I liked it's use on Californication. It is a show about a man who sleeps with random women all the time. He finally meets someone who is more than someone he just wants to sleep with him and vice-versa. They have a child together, and are stuck dealing with each other forever....She knows he could never really commit to her as a family man, or has it in him to be monogamous. It is odd to watch a man love a woman so deeply but not be able to give her what she wants and commit.....Just had a very similar experience with someone I almost had a child with.....I choose not to, and we don't speak anymore. I know that would have been my life a tv sitcom gone wrong, but not a day goes by that I don't wonder what life would have been like if I would have choose to go down that road?.......When I heard this song on the soundtrack it fit home for me....It just fits my situation perfectly:( |
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| The Lumineers – Stubborn Love Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is one many of us can relate to, as many of us have been in love with someone we wanted to believe someone is who we see in them. He begins by saying all the things she has done in order to keep him in her life. (Lie-steal-cheat-"make you believe its different this time) It seems he is holding onto a ghost that died long ago in the woman he fell in love with. No matter the pain she has caused him, he desperately still loves her. ("But I still love her I don't even care") ("When we were young we did enough,when it was cold we bundled up- no one can say it can't be done") He is saying they had already gotten past so much, so who is anyone to argue they can't make it work. It seems she doesn't anymore what happens to her, and that she doesn't feel like anyone really cares. She clearly has given up on their relationship, but he still sees the best in her. Possibly not so much on the relationship but on life. (It's better to feel pain, than nothing at all The opposite of love's indifference So pay attention now, I'm standing on your porch screaming out And I won't leave until you come downstairs) Through this piece he i saying it is better to have someone even if it hurts then for to be alone and wander through life with no meaning. The opposite of love is not caring, and to give up on something shows she has shown a disregard for him altogether, and possibly life. He is demanding she stands up and gives a shit again! About herself, life, and them. ("So keep your head up, keep your love Keep your head up, my love [x2] Keep your head up, keep your love") Reassuring someone they still have meaning and they are loved is essential when someone no longer cares about life "(And I don't blame you dear for running like you did all these years I would do the same, you'd best believe") He knows the life she has lived and can't blame her for giving it all the proverbial "fuck you." He can see why she doesnt care anymore ("And the highway signs say we're close but I don't read those things anymore I never trusted my own eyes") Relationships are full of twists and turns and just when we think we understand the next event, we get surprised by the other person. No one can trust their own view of things as it is regularly incorrect. When we were young oh, oh, we did enough When it got cold, ooh, ooh we bundled up I can't be told, ah, ah, it can't be done So keep your head up, keep your love Keep your head up, my love [x2] Keep your head up, keep your love Head up, love Head up, love Head up, love Head up, love I think this song is possibly about a love of someone with addiction or depression issues. When hopelessness surrounds us like a consuming cloud nothing seems to matter, even those we love the most. I feel this is a brilliant song, as we all have loved someone we couldn't convince how great they were. (or ourselves they are better then they ever will be) Tori Amos said it in "Winter" when she said, "When you going to love you as much as I do?" |
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