| Periphery – Flatline Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| This song's clearly about bullying and the effect it has on victims of bullying. | |
| Relient K – Sahara Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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First off, I listened to this album for the first time in about six months today and I can't help but think Ethan Luck's drumming breathed something incredibly fresh into Relient K's music while he was around. Anyway the song itself? I think everything's covered in it being a sort of prayer song of desperation in desertion, but I have a unique connection to this song. Around two months ago, my former bandmate (who moved from Texas 18 months ago to marry in Australia) left his wife (who is also my best friend) to pursue another woman and tl;dr, he's dragging her name through the mud trying to make her look like a bad person when history has proven he's just an abusive piece of shit towards women. Every time I hear this song now, I just think of it as her praying to God saying "I trusted this asshole and he left me. I'm sinful, but please don't leave me either." |
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| Relient K – Sahara Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Emini you couldn't have put it any better. Well interpreted. | |
| Taylor Swift – I Wish You Would Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Taylor talks about the meaning of the voice memo/demo of this song. She says it's basically about a guy driving home at night passing his ex's house thinking she still hates him whereas from the girl's point of view she just wants him back. Dramatic irony at its best. | |
| Taylor Swift – Clean Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I haven't heard anything to back up whether 1989 was a concept album, but this is certainly an interesting observation. I've gotta listen to the album more carefully. :P | |
| Taylor Swift – Clean Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I think the majority of comments have covered the basis of it already but I read somewhere recently, might have been Buzzfeed, that Taylor said it's more about the fact that she'd been in a city where an ex lived for two weeks and hadn't even thought about it and when she did it was just coming to that realization that she was over him, didn't have any urge to call him or anything. Disclaimer: I can't confirm if it's specifically about anyone as I've heard it's about an ex in particular but also read that everything she writes is factual and more as a coping mechanism for those who need a song to relate to. |
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| Taylor Swift – Style Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[amirbe:3862] I think you hit the nail on the head. Another similar meaning I read was that she sees the two of them as a James Dean/Marilyn Monroe couple and how they live and love to be in the old classic style. Second half of the chorus seems to be based on the old saying of how "every good girl wants a bad boy to be good just for her". Second verse echoes that where the guy is clearly a bad boy cheating on her but they both can't stop thinking about each other. I dunno. |
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| Avenged Sevenfold – 4:00 A.M. Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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My guess, both from studying the lyrics and relating it to my own life, is that it's about the dangers of mental illnesses and how much they can control people's lives if sufferers aren't careful to monitoring the symptoms. The first verse talks about overthinking the tiniest things and how it's probably nothing wrong at all yet an anxious person's mind will be racing a million miles an hour trying to understand what's going on. The chorus focuses more as a make-or-break statement. It's basically a metaphor saying "if you don't break free of the shackles of anxiety/mental disorders, you'll simply permit them to control your life in the long run and miss out on so much in life". Second verse focuses more on someone's realization that anxiety is taking over their life. Not really much more I can get from this verse to be honest. The bridge talks about someone coming to the realization that their mental illness will cloud them forever, but they still have a life they can take control of and live to the best of their ability. Not sure if this has any significance to the meaning of the song, but almost five years ago to the day, Zacky posted on the Avenged Sevenfold Twitter page: "Tracking is complete. There are no words that will ever describe the feeling of listening to this album while driving home alone at 4 am." |
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| Rise Against – Methadone Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is really long and rather detailed but I'm gonna take a stab at it anyway cause I feel I can relate to it really strongly. I'm kinda getting the impression it's about a guy in a relationship with someone while he battles a mental illness - possibly anxiety, depression or even someone with anger management issues - and this is his way of warning the girl of what they're up for if their relationship continues. Couple of ideas to support this: "Love like a needle full of methadone Potent but not real, left you wanting more" The guy feels like the girl's love for them is a painkiller; basically a safety of some sort to keep him/her happy. This person knows it's not a real kind of love and wants a more realistic and "meaningful" love, if that makes any sense. "Like unstable chemicals combining only to explode" This is where I think it turns from the guy explaining that he's messed up to explaining to the girl that this is what she's in for by staying with him. Gives me the idea that he's been trying to make himself happy on his own terms (and not just rely on her love to bring him happiness) but isn't making any progress, and a false sense of security of happiness (her love) combined with the insecurities that plague anyone with depression or anxiety just keeps causing him to overthink and worry about whether he's really happy after all. I dunno, it makes sense to me. "I am a heart on fire and all the world's a fuse so don't get close" To me this is really similar to The Fault In Our Stars in the sense that Hazel compares herself and her condition to a grenade and how one day, she doesn't know when, she'll relapse and her sickness will destroy more than just herself. It comes as the guy's warning to the girl that one day his mental illness may cause him to do something really stupid and end up hurting her in one way or another. "The trouble and the worth, am I better off on my own?" I myself have struggled with anxiety and depression for the better part of five years now; I can tell you now, this is a very common thought of insecurity that clouds a lot of sufferers of mental illness. Circling back to the first part of the chorus, he's warning the girl that he may unintentionally hurt her down the track, but at the same time he worries about whether it's worth sacrificing their relationship for the sake of eliminating the risk of hurting her altogether. The entire second verse is full of analogies and metaphors related to how people with anxiety and depression can feel on a daily basis. "I'm not good enough", "I feel like people are just tossing my useless self aside", "nothing's going right and it'll never get any better", etc. The line in the second pre-chorus, "for you there's still a chance, just let go", I think it circles back to him worrying about the sacrifice and eliminating the risk that I talked about with the chorus. It's his way of giving her a way out right then and there if she wants to eliminate any risk of getting hurt later on. This is what I got from it anyway. Hope this helps. |
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| Alter Bridge – All Ends Well Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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It seems pretty straight forward to me. It's a call of inspiration to anyone who feels like giving up, a reminder that all struggles are temporary and that if you believe in yourself you can get past your troubles and feel better in the end. |
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