| London Grammar – Sights Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[Uhuru95:4895] I feel like this comes across very well in the video for this song. The view goes from the band on stage and through the crowd and eventually finds its way to Hannah in the crowd. It makes it seem as though the true audience of the song is supposed to be Hannah herself. | |
| London Grammar – Sights Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[Uhuru95:4894] I feel like this comes across very well in the video for this song. The view goes from the band on stage and through the crowd and eventually finds its way to Hannah in the crowd. It makes it seem as though the true audience of the song is supposed to be Hannah herself. | |
| Now, Now – Prehistoric Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I've always thought of the song as being about trying to cope with being estranged of a significant other. She can't sleep b/c she's thinking of them. She knows trying to talk will mess things up, but she just wants to be able to close her eyes. In the small talk she'll mention how she's moving on, but she really isn't. They are no longer in a relationship, but it's hard to move on. Certain things are tied to that person while other ties are severed. They now follow different paths. She'd rather have them than the sleep she's missing. They can't find common ground to get things started again. They can't communicate. She's turned her back on them. She wants them to follow her in pursuit, and they are, but she knows that she must wait longer or she may scare them off. They've been stuck in this argument for what seems like ages. Maybe it's the same argument that led to their separation. They seem to be frozen in it. But if she were thawed out, she would still be without sleep. That is part of what makes it so hard to move on. |
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| Half Moon Run – Unofferable Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I interpreted the lyrics from the album, which offered the opportunity to playback individual parts of the song in order to make the best assumption of the words being sung. It may be clearer what they are saying live, but I wouldn't know. They are touring Canada and I live in Mississippi. That in itself may explain why I misheard the lyrics, haha. Down here, "and said" can be pronounced "an' said" which sounds a lot like "unsaid". When it comes to the "Imagine a war" vs "Imagine the warmth" debate, it just made more sense that hands would have warmth instead of a war in them, but "war" would definitely offer more imagery and deeper meaning in the song. That word was hard to decipher. It definitely sounds like he says "Imagine the" and not "Imagine a" though. When it comes to "drunk" or "trunk" I interpreted the song to mean that he kept "a few memories" (which could be held in a "trunk", idk) and that those memories were what was binding him, not that he was being literally tied up by a drunkard. I feel like the instead/unsaid shift makes more sense as instead/and said. As in: in the first verse something rotten was said and something potentially more important was lost or forgotten. When it shifts, the reeking afterthought is left to rot while something potentially more important was said. That's how I originally interpreted it, and I like it better that way, ha. I'll call that artistic license. | |
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