| Metric – Lost Kitten Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To me this song seems to be about girls/young women in the entertainment business. "Don't say yes if you can't say no, Victim of the system, say it isn't so" Sort of like a warning to girls entering the business- don't do it if you have no other choice. If you're only in it because it's the only way to make money- you're doing it for the wrong reasons. Because then you'll become a 'victim of the system'. "Squatted on the doorstep, swollen on the blow Leaving without you, can't say no" And eventually with an abundance of money most celebrities turn towards drugs. and the 'singer' wont be able to help them at this point, because they warned them. "Halfway starts with happiness for me Halfway house, lost kitten in the street Hit me where it hurts, I'm coming home to lose Kitten on the catwalk, high-heeled shoes" What happens to these young women pains the singer. They turn these innocent cats into sex vixens- homeless versions of themselves. "No more hard-headed Saturdays, They got it, they want it, they give it away Tell me one thing you would never do I was looking for a hooker when I found you" The 'no more hard-headed Saturdays' seems to me like no more being a child/teen that can just enjoy themselves. These women have what everyone wants fame/money/power and they have to keep giving it away to the media and their audiences- leaving them with nothing, and no other choices to sell themselves again and again. Hookers to the industry. "You've got my eyes, you've got my eyes You'll never be mine, ah, but you've got my eyes" I always found this line haunting. The singer sees her eyes in all these girls. They are all her- she could have easily been them. "When you lie, I'll cover it up When you hide, I'll cover it up When you cry, I'll cover it up When you come undone, I'll cover it up" When these girls mess up/get caught up in scandals the singer/the media tries to cover things up for them so they don't get bad reputations. The way we always seem to bail celebrities out of DUI's or any sort of legal trouble. When celebrities abuse people or their fans we always make excess for them. "So pent up, I was coming home to you Happy in the nighttime, howlin' at the moon Sippin' on a cocktail, drinking in the loo There's something about you I hold on to" All these young women are trying to be adults- trying to be someone everyone else wants them to be- grown ups wo attend cocktail parties, drugs in the bathroom, going home with strangers. And yet we hold on to them as perfect beings that are not regular humans. |
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| Mount Moriah – The Letting Go Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I suppose for me, this song is about a man and woman in a relationship and the woman has cheated. But this isn't a big surprise, like he'd previously known she has cheated before. That's it's sort of who she is: "Thread worn thin on all our clothes, But where we've been is what we choose" But he's disillusioned by his love for her and is too forgiving, he still sees a future with her. This confuses her: "Ooh, lover can't you tell a broken love from chiming wedding bells?" And she wants to be that for him: "Lover, help me to be A woman with only the truest offering" |
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