| 2 Live Crew – Do The Damn Thing Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| That was amazing. I know the feeling just never been able to express it properly and what you have written is exactly what I've been wanting to hear myself say. That is truly amazing, you have a talent. | |
| Patty Griffin – Rain Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I've thought a lot about this song. I've listened to it thousands of times, over and over. All of which just trying to figure out what Patty Griffin meant when she sang this. I don't think I'll ever be able to. However, I feel that this song isa way to express the emotions of a break up. "It's hard to listen to a hard hard heart" refers to the lack of emotion that is being displayed by the lover. "Pounding up against the stone and steel, walls that I won't climb" means that the lover is so sealed shut to the other person, in this case Patty, that there is no possible way around how closed out they are. That no matter how much effort is poured out into it, you would never be able to open up that person. "Strange how hard it rains now" explains the amount of tears the unloved individual in the relationship cries. "Rows and rows of big dark clouds" resembles the terrible thoughts the person feels. Whether thoughts of suicide because the relationship is over or just thoughts of life having no purpose any longer. "When I'm holding on underneath this shroud" is the will the person has to live to try to make the best of things and hopefully fall in love again. To be loved just as much as they loved the last person who was incapable of loving them back. "I'm not looking for the rest of your life, I just want another chance to live" shows that the person wants to tell them that they can no longer go on being unloved by them and that they want an opportunity to actually live and have a good life. That they would like to have another attempt at a relationship, but with someone else. I am really appreciative of Patty Griffin for writing this song the way she did for one particular reason. It is so stereotypical for people to believe that only men hurt women in relationships when in fact it can go both ways. Men may not show any sort of sensitive side, but it is there. We do have weak spots. The fact that Patty Griffin did not write this using the words (he/she) is superb. She used words like "baby" which is exchanged between lovers whether man to woman or woman to man. I am extremely thankful for Patty writing this the way she did whether knowingly doing it to express this point I have just elaborated or not. |
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