| Twenty One Pilots – Anathema Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This might be biased, as this song reminded me very deeply of one of the characters I've been writing recently. My character, in question, is an extremely sensitive and empathetic soul, who has a tendency to talk far too much. They've been struck with the realization that - well, no one cares, and no one gets it. No one cares, nor will ever care. No one gets /it/ - your state of mind, your reasoning, you - nor will never get it. This is what I believe the first few lines to mean, "You will never know what's behind my skull/You will never know what's under my hair...You will never know what I'm thinking of/You will never know what I believe..." "So won't you say goodnight, So I can say goodbye." As in, please stop pretending to care, so I no longer have to feel guilty about my suicidal thoughts. "Won't you torture someone else's sleep?" They have a tendency to relive past embarrassments, and failures. See, danisnotonfire's "Cringe Attack". "Haven't you taken enough from me?" They feel that they constantly put more into their relationships than the other person would ever bother to. "I start to part two halves of my heart in the dark and I, Don't know where I should go, When the tears and the fears begin to multiply," This realization that they'll never have a strong connection with another human being, despite how much they wish for one, devolves into suffocating loneliness. "Empty sky, no way that's me 'cause one half of my heart is free, Empty sky, no way that's me 'cause the other half of my heart's asleep." One part of them feels free - being alone makes you free of judgement. There is no reason to feel obligated any longer. However, people are a very important aspect of life to them. They crave communication, attention, and unconditional love. No matter how hopeless it is, they can't stop the desire. ("I'm calling my father..." also seemed strangely on-target, since the character I was thinking of has daddy issues. Though, in all honesty, that line likely does reference God.) |
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| Twenty One Pilots – Fake You Out Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Adding on to the general idea that this song is centered around depression and "faking people out" so they believe he's fine, I believe "I'm so afraid Of what you have to say 'Cause I am quiet now And silence gives you space" refers to him, once he's out of the public eye, ceasing to be talkative and dreading having to overthink everything he's done wrong, and how uneeded he is. |
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| Skylar Grey – Haunted Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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''They woke me up again; It's going to be another restless sleep tonight. The ghosts inside my head Are moving furniture and eating dynamite. They're moving furniture and eating dynamite.'' Old, persumably bad, memories are consistantly keeping her awake at night, hence the description of 'Ghost' and 'moving furniture' as in awakening things she would rather keep in place and hide. ''Take me up the rill to haunted hill. Past the floating bridge, the orphanage,'' Feelings of abandonment or being useless and unwanted(hence the orphanage), or realizing that such magic, such as floating bridges, can never happen...'' ''Where the spirits fly and never die. Where the spirits fly and never die, die, die, die. Die, Die, Die, Die.'' ...seem to have their own realm in her mind. A town of sorts, metaphorically speaking. The spirits of what she wishes to forget live on, and on, and on in this place she's constructed for them. ''There it's always cold. Well I've got a fever and I'd like to make it snow. That's why I feel so old.'' Visiting said 'town' freezes her insides, makes her feel sick to remember, but sometimes it's nessasary. When you've riled yourself up into a red, hot, vehement ''fever'' of anger you need time to cool down. Though it all does weigh down on you. ''All these specters need a better place to go. All these specters need a better place to go.'' She stored everything away in a tiny town in the corner of her mind so not everyone wouldn't have to see her when she's like this. ''We could get a chill on haunted hill, Where the saddest parts inside my heart, Can live in the past, leave me at last. Can live in the past, leave me at last.'' I've heard people call this song 'sad'. Now, I know as so far the melody hasn't been upbeat and the words/meaning all sunshine and daisies, but is it sad? Depends on how you see it. As Tom Waites says - "I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things." In this case, I like beautiful, yet melancholy, melodies telling me such sweet things. Please note the use of 'we'. ''We could get a chill on haunted hill''. The aforementioned place you hide away for the so called good for herself and others she decide to show to another, openly, freely. ''Leave me with good will on haunted hill. Past the floating bridge, the orphanage, Where the spirits fly and never die. Where the spirits fly and never die, die, die, die.'' I think this shows a change of perspective on her hiden away memories - perhaps they don't leave you feeling so foolish anymore? |
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| Awolnation – Sail Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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| Passenger – Wicked Man's Rest Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"You can say I'm mad You can say I'm crazy But I'm only as bad As the maker who made me" He has done things he isn't proud of but denies credit, saying the curicumstances forced him. "Sinner in the darkness Liar in the church Deaf man's silence The blind man's search Teardrop falling Memory recalling Ghost in your dreams And your secret recordings Mad man's matches Lump in your throat The pea under your mattress The hole in your coat Singer with the sound down Winner on the come down Poet in the overcoat Looking for a suntan On his birthday Prisoner on his first day... Needle for the user The pain in your chest Beggar and the chooser The wicked man's rest Fear in the stuntman Sneer in the playground Bottle in the hand Of a dirty old drunk man Leaf falling Autumn calling Dark clouds forming" He's listing things that shouldn't be, and are seen as wrong, confusing, sad, or all of the above, but are, and happen very often. "I rise to meet you As your trust dissolves to shame Oh, this innocence has turned and lost its way Retrace the footprints Off the path from which I came I'm the beast in you, the beast in me" He is trying to become a better person and rising to meet a new standard by retracing his steps to see where he went wrong and accepting his flaws. He then wonders if this new role-model of sorts is his angel, and where s/he will lead him. "Bite my nails Right down to the skin Where one trust ends And another lie begins." Old habits die hard, and the cycle keeps going. "Patch over holes In my weakened heart Which angels hold And devils pull apart." He's doing his best to be a better him, but his heart is extremely conflicted when it comes to certain situations, making him feel as if he's being torn in two. "I'm the beast in you The beast in me The bitterness, the jealousy The part of you that never sleeps" He realizes that even his 'angel' his corrupted, and in the second to last stanza he sees how his angel is succumbing to the urge to be bitter, jealous, etc. and finding it addictive and near impossible to stop. Bad influence? In the last stanza, I think the roles are now reversed. |
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