| Owl City – Paper Tigers Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Well I been thinking, and this song apparently has many meanings to it in very different ways. And.. Well I’ve been huddled up alone By the fire even though I’m not exactly feeling cold He's been doing something that's supposed to be helping.. but doesn't really feel like it's the right thing. And I’ve been bundled up for days Too confused to be amazed At all the icy water in my veins He doesn't know what it is, but something is making his life worse and turning is blood into ice. Why do I feel so alone? He feels he has no one to help him. Yeah I’ve been moving in and out Of this old split-level house And I’d just as soon burn the whole place down He's actually trying to do something with is seemingly useless life but he thinks sooner or later his house will burn down, or he will make his life worse than it already is. ‘Cause I quit working lumberyards To build a mansion out of cards But I feel thin behind these paper walls He quit having to control his own life because it's just making him feel worse, so he starts building a "house of cards" but he'd still think that he'd rather spend his time someplace more useful. Why do I feel so alone? ‘Cause the angriest bark is always worse than the bite Like the ache in my chest that my heart didn’t invite He didn't invite the ache means that he doesn't really know where it comes from. But if the prettiest romance isn’t perfectly right That makes every love lost just a holiday every night This part i felt was kind of complex.. But if the prettiest romance isn't perfectly right means if he sees something pleasing many times but still thinks something's missing...That makes every love lost just a holiday every night means that when that does happen he still tries to make himself feel better and fail, ending up with an "uncompleted holiday". This happens every night, in attempt to make himself feel better. Well I’ve been painting through the night In the basement out of sight Brushing paper tigers black and white ‘Cause come tomorrow afternoon I’ll fill a helium balloon And set them free into the baby blue sky So they won’t have to be alone This whole song was kind of about how he is alone, but he makes paper tigers and let's them free in the baby blue sky. So at this point even though he feels trapped, he makes an attempt to free other "beings" in to the baby blue sky (A happy place) ‘Cause the angriest bark is always worse than the bite Like the ache in my chest that my heart didn’t invite But if the prettiest romance isn’t perfectly right That makes every love lost just a holiday every night But when I close these heavy lids after dark Each sweet dream is a target And all my shots are so consistently wide of the mark this part goes back to his feeling of trapped, what he means by this is each dream, or night, he tries to make him feel better but he keeps "missing". ‘Cause the angriest bark is always worse than the bite Like the ache in my chest that my heart didn’t invite But if the prettiest romance isn’t perfectly right That makes every love lost just a holiday every night Just a holiday every night Just a holiday every night Just a holiday every night Well I’ve been huddled up alone By the fire even though I’m not exactly feeling cold But how my heartache hit the trail When a paper tiger tail Fluttered down, I guess I’ll never know And later in his life, he remembers a "paper tiger tail" falling down reminding him he's freed something, not necessarily himself. He's happy now that something is free. Now, I'm not christian, so I have no idea if he really interprets it that way. But this is my way, and if you have any feelings post! |
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