| Ellie Goulding – Be Mine Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I interpret this song as the voice of the song/lyrics has just told the person he/she (let's just say 'she' 'cause Ellie is the first singer and it makes it easier) has romantic feelings for how she truly feels but him but he's rejected her: 'it's a good thing tears never show in the pouring rain'-she's embarrassed, she doesn't want people to know of her confession and her rejection because she honestly feels so stupid. 'as if...pain'- he's said he wants to be friends and to his face she's accepted but deep down she knows she won't feel truly okay about him because nothing can make up for the heartbreak. 'no last chance...again'- no way of taking back the confession, things will be awkward between them from now on. 'it's a cruel thing...tried'- he'll never see everything she did and he'll never get to love her for all the things she did to help and support him. 'you never were and you never will be mine'- she always knew that he didn't reciprocate her feelings, she didn't truly expect him to. 'for the first time there is a mercy in your eyes'-clearly the two are good friends and he cares about her but now he feels guilty for leading her on and hurting her. 'cold winds...away'- he made her forget her troubles, he was just such a light in her life, a shelter from the harsh world and now he's walking away and she's exposed to the cruel realities of both real life and also the truth of his feelings towards her. 'wishing...would'- she can hope and wish all she likes but it changes nothing because she can't manipulate his heart, she can't control how he feels about her. 'there's a moment to seize...passing me by'- they have obvious chemistry but the timing's not right, or she's not brave enough, or he just doesn't see how good they'd be together like she does and the moments keep passing her by, they never get an opportunity. |
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| Ellie Goulding – Dead in the Water Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[Md891:21555] I completely agree with you! | |
| Birdy – 1901 (Phoenix cover) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song is about a relationship in which the two people are both sort of aware that it isn't working, but neither want to separate. So there isn't any emotion in the relationship and it's based upon sex. In the first paragraph, it's talking about the two people arguing (from a man's point of view). The woman is talking about what's wrong and he's thinking that it isn't as complicated as what she's saying. We're just not supposed to be together. "Twenty seconds 'til the last call", this relationship is going to end soon."Lie down, you know it's easy", they solve everything with sex, not really resolving anything. "Like we did throughout the summer long." We've done this all summer, this is how our relationship has been for an entire season. |
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| Birdy – Not About Angels Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I agree that this song is about TFIOS and that it's about finally finding someone or "something real" but it's "out of touch" because the person is I.e. dying. The way that this person is dying, like Gus, the illness is something fatal and they know about it. They "know full well there's just time". It also says "if your heart was full of love, could you give it up?" If you really loved this person, could you bear to be without them? How would you react? Then Birdy says "how unfair, it's just our [I thought it was 'luck' but apparently it's] love. Found something real that's out of touch." They found a love but it's just their luck that it couldn't be. "If you searched the whole wide world, would you dare to let go?" Would you be able to live without someone who you'd finally found after searching for someone special? "Don't give me up" don't let me go, don't forget me. "But what about Angels." What about those people who make our lives so sweet, look after us, care for us? They're sent by God to love us. "They will come, they will go, make us special." These people who seem like they're sent from God do come and go, but the right one makes us feel so special and like we're the only one they truly care about. In the very last part where Birdy says "It's not about Angels." It's not really about literal Angels. It's about people we find or who find us and are as though sent by God because of the way they make us feel. |
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| Ellie Goulding – Fighter Plane Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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For me, Ellie's singing about how she's desperately in love, but she's clumsy with it.- 'two left feet, emergency.' So she feels that the person she's in love with won't love her back. She's angry with herself. Then as the song goes on, she's trying to 'smooth [herself] out' and make herself more appealing. 'Take the rage and smooth it out'- stop being childish, make him love you. Make yourself better. 'Stick to my skin'-please love me back, come to me and hold me. 'Paper mache face to live in'- hide what you really are so he'll like you back. 'Read every page'- she's seen what she's doing to herself. 'You'll never have to feel that way again'- see the beauty in yourself, see that it's not working because it's not meant to happen. So if she realises that she can eventually overcome her feelings or 'fighter plane'. In the last verses she's trying to overcome this desperate love, she's getting hurt by it. She's 'sold [her] soul' by trying to change herself for someone. By the last verse, she's realised that the love's gone away because she's realised it's not meant to be. 'I have muted the screams'- I've stopped the screaming inside, the pain that I felt when I had feelings for this boy. 'I've broken the fall'- she stopped herself before she got rejected. I know it's probably called 'Fighter plane' for a different reason like she's fighting for the boy; fighting herself. But I like to think that this love's a secret, just for herself, and it's a code word she has instead of 'love', because maybe she's not bery open about her feelings. |
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| Bastille – The Draw Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Same as a couple of others, I always thought this song was about being addicted, probably drugs. How Dan's trying something new and he gets addicted to the lifestyle of that drug. And he gets paranoid, or one of the people who got him to take the drug in the first place tells him that his friends aren't really his friends and that they don't really care about his welfare. In the second verse, Dan's singing about the fact that he's gone too far with the addiction and that all his friends are going to leave him behind as if they're going to mature, settle down etc. Then he's possibly saying to himself that his friends do care and they're only trying to help him, but the draw of the drug is pulling him back to it. |
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| The Fray – How To Save A Life Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I tried to add a complete analysis of the song a few months ago but my laptop deleted the entire comment when it crashed, but here's the shortened version. The singer is singing about how he didn't listen to his friend when he needed him most, so his left went downhill rapidly and ended up with him commiting suicide, where the singer, I think his name's Isaac, is feeling guilty, thinking how he could have prevented the unneeded death of his friend if he had just listened to him when the friend had needed him. In the chorus where he says he'd have 'stayed up all night' I think he means that if he'd have known the effect he would have had on his friend by listening, he'd have stayed there all night and listened. In the verse where Isaac is saying that he'd known best, he was trying to get the friend to open up and he was trying to listen to him, after finding out his intentions of suicide. But the damage of not having anyone there to listen was already done and it was too much. Then he talks about praying to God, desperately asking him to help in this situation, to prevent the death. He also talks about getting 'past his defence' and not trying to make the friend think that he was taking it lightly, or seeing it as not serious. Okay, that's my shortened theory. |
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| Bastille – Durban Skies Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Ah, I've been wondering. Since the mentioning of 'chromosomes' I presumed it must have meant Dan was looking into the lives of people who had genetic conditions, and when he said 'it's alive' and 'see it through your eyes' he meant that he really felt sorry for them and was showing empathy and compassion for them. I know it's a stupid theory but that's just what my mind associated the song with. Now I've read your meaning, it's really cleared it up. Thank you. :) | |
| The Fray – How To Save A Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| My thoughts too. Not confusing at all. | |
| The Fray – How To Save A Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I thought basically the same thing but about the staying up all night that he would have stayed up all night talking about the friend's problems and this would have resulted in the friend not feeling so alone and not commiting suicide. | |
| The Fray – How To Save A Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think this song is abouty a friend who's severely depressed and kills himself because he feels so alone. | |
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