| The Script – Flares Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This is one of the most hopeful songs I've come across in a long, long time. It tells you just one thing – even at your worst, you're not alone. After having lost someone who meant the world to you, it's not unusual to find yourself at, what you may think is, the lowest point of your life. And there, you find yourself alone. No doubt there are people around you trying to help you, but you feel like no one cares – just because the one person you'd want to care, doesn't. This song is about not letting the darkness take over, but looking up in the sky, to see flares being sent out by people just like you. They may not replace the one you've lost, they may not help you find another either; but to know that you're there, and not alone, is a feeling that one would value way too much, especially in the state that one is in. To be completely honest, this is true too. When you're down and you look around, you'll see so many people fighting their own battles. They fight, and they fight hard, and they inspire you to fight too. Just that we choose to not see them, and here the guys are telling you to look for the signs (the flares), look for people who are sending them, and even though your world won't fix itself, you at least will have the strength to try to fix it yourself. | |
| Coldplay – Midnight Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This seems to be one of Coldplay's most enigmatic songs. The tone is generally positive, but the unusual vocals (use of vocoder) and the video, have darker and negative shades. The first few lines talk about not letting a hope die. As they say, the night is the darkest just before the dawn; in the case of the song, it implies that just before things get better, they hit their worst. There's an impending storm and one is on the verge of giving up everything. But then the line "Leave a light on" suggests to hang on a little longer, until the dawn breaks, and things get better. It's atypical of Coldplay to make a song like this one, but I can imagine entering a trance-like state if I listened to this song over and over again while lying in a dark room. |
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