| Pure Bathing Culture – Scotty Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[Aniland:7812] I agree with this! That's pretty much what I thought about when first hearing/reading the lyrics. "It's your natural place, you stay" kind of reminds me of someone justifying their own abuse. As if maybe they believe being submissive or abused is their natural place in the relationship. So they stay in it. And therefore the abuser, Scotty, gets his way. And then "You laugh in their face as you say Scotty's got to say" kind of reminds me of someone scoffing and dismissing others' concerns. Like you said, maybe her friends tell her he's no good but she just laughs and scoffs at their worries. | |
| Stars – Lights Changing Colour Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Amy has said in an interview that she wrote this song about her daughter Delphine, who was born in 2011, a year before this album was released. I think it's referring to life being empty and less meaningful before Delphine was born (nothing ever goes as planned is perhaps hinting that Amy's pregnancy wasn't planned or expected) but she wants Delphine to remember the little things, like how Amy always held her hand. The whole song is Amy giving her daughter advice about life. It's an amazing song! | |
| Laura Marling – The Beast Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I know I'm totally wrong because this song is symbolic and metaphorical but I like to think of it on a totally literal, story-telling level. Like, a woman who prayed and called to the goddess Sophia for power. But the ritual goes wrong. Or maybe Sophia curses her instead. I don't know. But she ends up getting something darker. A demon. The Beast. And she's enticed and seduced by this dark creature. But I only really get that by interpreting these lines on a literal level: "You know I've been running 'round for hours Calling my Egyptian blood to bear me flowers Calling Sophia, goddess of power Instead I got the beast And tonight he lies with me." But I know Laura's work isn't always literal and usually has deeper meaning so I'm sure that's not what she meant when she wrote it. I just like interpreting it this way; it would make one hell of a music video or short story. |
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| Ida Maria – Oh My God Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song is about suffering from a mental disorder. There's a stigma around mental disease and a lot of people tell those suffering to "just stop" or "snap out of it". For example, telling someone suffering from depression to just stop being depressed or telling someone with an eating disorder to just eat. But it's not that simple and the people suffering aren't in control of these things. People who don't understand think it's a choice; that these people choose to stay in bed all day or choose not to eat. But it's really a disease; any mental disorder is. I think that's what she means by "you think I'm in control" and "you think it's all for fun." She finds it ridiculous that anyone would think she's in control of her illnesses or that she's just doing it for fun. She asks "is this fun for you?" in a sarcastic way, to say that there's absolutely nothing fun about having a mental disorder and she's not doing any of these things because she wants to or enjoys it. I also think "find a cure for my life" and "put a price on my soul" are referring to therapy and medications that "cure" mental illnesses. She says "for my life" because for someone suffering from a mental illness, it takes over and consumes their life until it is their life. People pay a lot of money to be helped and treated, hence "put a price on my soul." I don't know what specific mental disorder she's referring to. Maybe one, maybe just mental diseases in general. I associate this with an eating disorder but that's mainly because I've suffered from one. But it could be depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia...anything. Because all of these things are not things that people do for fun or choose to suffer from or have much control over without help. |
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