| James Blake – Limit to Your Love Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I feel like this song is about someone who is supposedly in love, but they aren't actually fully immersed in love; there's a limit to it. They would not do anything for the object of their affection like true love, rather, it's a fleeting thing that they claim is love when it's really just a slight emotional attachment that has no way of standing the test of time. He knows that it's not going to last and that it isn't genuine: "There's a limit to you care/ So carelessly there, is it truth or dare/ There's a limit to your care." A map without an ocean is incomplete, it isn't whole. I'm still trying to grasp what "a waterfall in slow motion" signifies... I feel like I'm so close to it but I can't quite sort out my thoughts. I get the feeling that James Blake is hurt that the person doesn't truly care. This song is just amazing. Perfect in every way. I definitely agree with tee2thawhyon on the use of negative space. In lots of ways it's more meaningful than songs with tons of layers. |
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| Idaho – Hearts Of Palm Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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After listening to this song for the first time, I'm practically in a trance. Wow, beautiful. |
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| Daughter – Switzerland Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This is beautiful. It's like that state of peace of mind where suddenly you aren't in your body, but you're viewing everything, and know you can face the world because it's all so inconsequential in the big picture. It's strength and sensitivity all combined and poured out into music. Although they seem like opposites, they go hand in hand, and this song represents that perfect state of a mixture of vulnerability and power. | |
| Night Beds – Even If We Try Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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My gosh, this is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. It's life, that's what it's about. Life-- trying and trying and failing and almost losing hope, but accepting that. |
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| The Head and the Heart – Heaven Go Easy On Me Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song is life. | |
| The Head and the Heart – Ghosts Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's about people who only dream about a new life and having the courage to leave the life they were born in to, but in reality they're too cowardly to really put themselves out there and grow up. They might as well be ghosts for all the adventure they'll never have in their life and the fact that they'll make no difference in the world by the time they die. "One day we'll all be found" ends it on a happier note-- at least when they really do die, they'll go up to heaven because these people ARE good people, and then they'll be in eternal peace. |
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| Oasis – Some Might Say Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Everyone has got a different take on life, so make the most of it but don't get to caught up in all their meanings. | |
| Radiohead – Talk Show Host Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song makes me cry. It's just... it's everything I can't explain, all this hidden up anger put into words. My dissatisfaction with myself, with the world, with everyone else. It's everything. | |
| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A version) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Lots of people are over thinking it. Radiohead is brilliant, and so is this song, but not necessarily because of its lyrics' metaphorical and deep meaning. What makes this song is so effectiveness is its simpleness in meaning contrasted with the depth of the musical aspects of it. It's about being devastated when someone is no longer in your life, being in a deep depression over them. You can't stop thinking about how wonderful they were, how they made you laugh and made you happy: "I think you're crazy, maybe" (I think this line is like when someone says a joke and you lovingly respond that they're crazy). It's terrible and life has no meaning when this person is gone, but as shown by the music, especially the end, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and there's hope. This song has gotten me through a lot. Whenever I'm sad over someone, especially a failed romance, it gets me out of it. There's so much empathy just seeping out of Thom's voice. A truly beautiful masterpiece. |
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| Radiohead – Motion Picture Soundtrack (Kid A version) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Lots of people are over thinking it. Radiohead is brilliant, and so is this song, but not necessarily because of its lyrics' metaphorical and deep meaning. What makes this song is so effectiveness is its simpleness in meaning contrasted with the depth of the musical aspects of it. It's about being devastated when someone is no longer in your life, being in a deep depression over them. You can't stop thinking about how wonderful they were, how they made you laugh and made you happy: "I think you're crazy, maybe" (I think this line is like when someone says a joke and you lovingly respond that they're crazy). It's terrible and life has no meaning when this person is gone, but as shown by the music, especially the end, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and there's hope. This song has gotten me through a lot. Whenever I'm sad over someone, especially a failed romance, it gets me out of it. There's so much empathy just seeping out of Thom's voice. A truly beautiful masterpiece. |
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| Radiohead – House of Cards Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| To me it seems like two people who are attracted to each other and are pretty much blind by love but shouldn't be together. Thom is suggesting that they each "forget about" their "house of cards" ie forget about all the consequences. They can "fall off the table" and "get swept under", meaning they can get caught up in the relationship and not ignore that they shouldn't be together. It's wishful thinking that they can go on like this though, because both are trying to deny the wrongfulness of what they're doing. | |
| The Lumineers – Dead Sea Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The basic meaning of this song is pretty simple and obvious-- there's a girl who is grateful for a guy she is able to depend on. This sounds like an uplifting starting point for the song, but there's a little more to it that is hinted at. I interpret it as the girl is grateful for the guy, but sees it as no more than that, whereas the guy has some feelings for her but just doesn't tell her because he knows she doesn't want a real relationship. The girl doesn't like "domestic life," so she doesn't really want a relationship. The "nicest thing" she has ever said to him is how he's like a "dead sea," not the most romantic metaphor ever. He is there for her and she appreciates it, but he wishes she saw him as more than that. He has held on to the compliment... this happens to me some times. If I like someone and they say the slightest nice thing to me, I'll over analyze their words and hold on to them. He has asked her to stay the night, but she just can't see him like that. It's sort of defeat, but he is at least happy that he is able to be helpful to her and be in her life. It's bittersweet. I could go on and on, but overall this is a refreshing and nice song. It's a realistic situation that we can all find ourselves in at one point or another, and its tone just gives the feeling that life goes on. |
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| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I get an adrenaline rush just listening to this song. | |
| Radiohead – Idioteque Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Danger that's quickly approaching and losing yourself. | |
| Radiohead – Optimistic Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Writing this after listening to it for the first time, it kind of scares me how clear the lyrics are to me. Normally it takes me a while to figure out songs, but this is so obvious. It's about the idealistic, optimistic views we all eat up that we're brainwashed into believing: "Fodder for the animals" The only reason those ideas are given to us isn't to be inspirational, that's just a lie. It's given to us so those spreading the ideas can gain power: "Dinosaurs roam the earth" The repetition of considering people as animals, dinosaurs, marionettes, vultures, etc. shows how people either aren't thinking for themselves even though as humans we have the capacity to think this way, or those who do think that are preying on everyone else. |
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| Radiohead – Subterranean Homesick Alien Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Wow I just heard this song for the first time and I'm nearly in tears. It's just all the feelings I have everyday. You just hate what this world and the people in it have become, and you hate how nobody understands this. You feel like everyone is "uptight" and concerned with all these material things and faking smiles, etc. You wish someone would come into your life that DOES understand you and take you away to a perfect place where you can finally fit in. You tell people about your views and stuff, and they don't understand so they just laugh at you to try to switch around the embarrassment. You stop telling people what you believe, you lose your voice, and realize you have become uptight now :( | |
| Radiohead – Everything in Its Right Place Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Pretty much a total state of immersion in your thoughts. Thought processes often make seemingly no sense, as this song does, but theres a method behind everything. This song conveys a state of obsession, of near madness; when something is shocking and a million things are flying through your head and nothing makes sense, so you resort to focusing on certain things, like "everything being in its right place." This song seriously reminds me of OCD with the repetitive, obsessive lyrics, and I can't get enough of it. |
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| Radiohead – Just Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Well after seeing the video my thoughts changes slightly. I think this song actually has a similar meaning to lots of other radiohead songs, although many would disagree. I think the song is pretty much about people who get so caught up in everything, they end up depressed, they ignore what really matters in life like learning to accept yourself and others and instead they just keep distracting themselves with all the little things, afraid to look at the big picture. They'll complain about all their issues when if only they'd just take a step back every once in a while their issues wouldn't get to them so much. Sometimes I'll see someone so depressed and upset with life, and it literally pains me to see someone in such a dark place, you know? That's how I interpret the "that's what really hurts" lyrics. Just my interpretation, I can't explain all the lyrics, but when I listen to the song that's just the vibe I feel. Thom is pretty much taking a step back and looking at the big picture for them, pitying everyone who the song is about. I may be entirely off though. Who knows, what really matters is the fact that this is an awesome song :) |
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| Radiohead – Planet Telex Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Thanks for making me laugh today ;) But seriously, that's so true! |
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