| Foxes – Home Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I'm not totally certain of this since I haven't heard Louisa's (Foxes') real interpretation of it, but I think Home describes her hardship with moving from her hometown of Southampton to London. From interviews I've seen, she said she didn't really have a plan plotted out for her life when she moved and she spent a lot of time sleeping on couches. Sometimes, I listen to songs and try to imagine the artist's reason for writing the song or the situations that inspired it. For some reason, I always imagine this as a farewell song to her mum as she moves away from home. So I imagine the first verse to be at a time right before she leaves. It's hard for her and her mum so there are words that are "left hanging in the air". The second verse I see as a metaphor as them actually playing hide and seek, which shows Lou's youth and also darkness and ignorance. Now, she's grown up and she "sees the light" or has had some sort of enlightenment. The eyes spill over bit is her crying since it is an emotional time for her since she's leaving her childhood and everything she's ever known to try and find herself. The refrain I imagine Loui walking around in London for one of the first times since she's arrived. She had a phone call with her mother the day prior, but after being submerged in the excitement of London makes it seem like it was ages ago. It's a strange feeling and quite scary to set yourself in a new world without a plan, but after seeing everything, she feels a sense of courage and knows that this is the place she has to be and that she's not going home. The third and final verse has had a couple different meanings for me over time. At first, I interpreted this verse as an argument where she sees someone (perhaps a boyfriend at the time or something) in a whole new light. Now, since I see this as a farewell song, I see this verse as Lou talking to her mum on the phone again after she's seen all there is to see in the city. When she says "I never heard you speak like this", I imagine this as her mother finally talking to her like an adult, no filters, maybe warning her about the struggles of life and the possible risk of failures she'll face. So for Louisa, this is a shocking moment and she feels emotional (sad, scared, guilt, etc.) and she feels broken down when she realizes everything she's down could crash and fall at any moment (hence the "brings me down to this line"). So this is my sort of psychological analysis of this song. :) In shorter and more vague terms, I think "Home" overall is a song about taking chances and perhaps leaving your old life for something new, not really being sure of what's going to happen, but having a sort of instinctual feeling that everything's gonna turn out okay. |
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| Marina and the Diamonds – Lonely Hearts Club Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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So this song is part of the Electra Heart album (the deluxe version I believe) so Marina obviously meant for this song to be relevant to Electra's life. Just as a heads up, this will be a long explanation because I'm going to try to break apart several aspects of the song so people can understand it better. For anyone who is not familiar with the character of Electra Heart, she is the antithesis of Marina and people in general for the most part. She's shallow, annoying, and lacks identity. Trying to compensate for having absolutely no personality whatever, Electra goes around "stealing" identities, ranging from a housewife to a beauty queen to a homewrecker to an idle teen. Now that you have an idea about who Electra is, it makes understanding this song and pretty much every song on the album much easier. Lonely Hearts Club is pretty straight-forward: Electra Heart is in fact quite heart broken. She feels that no one wants to be with her (which in her case is actually probably with the way she acts). Because she's so alone, she wants people to unite with her to form a "Lonely Hearts Club", possibly even going so far as to trying to find love inside her new club since 'lonely hearts' gives off a sense of desperation; the members of the club are so alone or feel so alone that they will do anything to change that. Now moving onto specific lyrics: Laugh track on a TV show echoes in the dark alone I go to bed feeling bad that I’m the reason that you’re sad Electra has yet again run away from a relationship since she's proven in "How To Be a Heartbreaker" that she's about as good with relationships as a fish is surviving above water. She's sitting in a dark room with a TV show laugh track resounding through the silence. It's possible that she's even watching a comedy to try to make herself laugh; she realizes that jumping out of the relationship was a bad idea and she feels bad for making her ex sad, but she doesn't do anything to change it because she'd first have to admit that there was something wrong with her. January to December, do you wanna be a member? Electra is very obviously full of herself. She's making a club of lonely people specifically to make herself feel better. Therefore, if someone joins the club, they will most likely be signing a contract for a full time commitment of being Electra's personal assistant or comforter in some way. Lonely hearts club Do you want to be with somebody like me? Again, Electra is quite possibly using her Lonely Hearts Club to try and find a new 'love', although due to her history, it would end as soon as she developed real feelings and she'd wind up right back into her club. I feel like if I’m too kind then you will only change your mind This shows just one of Electra's identities, the beauty queen or, as one of her songs states, a "Primadonna". Primadonnas act how they want and most often act arrogantly because no one tells them know. They take what they want when they want it and are very shallow because they are (or at least think they are) the best so that means they're automatically entitled to anything and everything. Electra is actually revealing a fear of hers here, which is that if she acts sincerely nice, her love interest will lose interest in her and leave. This, in Electra's mind, serves as her justification for acting like a Primadonna. Take advantage of my heart and I’ll go back into the dark Furthermore, she goes on to say that if she feels that if someone is "taking advantage of her heart", she'll just run away. It is probable that Electra does this as well if her lover is the perfect boyfriend and has just begun to make Electra feel genuine happiness. Again, she's so consumed by fear of being hut that she thinks everyone is out to get her and hurt her so she constantly runs away. Love will never be forever, feelings are just like the weather Because she's godawful at relationships and ends them before they begin, she doesn't know what a real one is actually like. She dumps a guy quickly and probably has even brainwashed herself into thinking that she's just lost interest in him rather than her being scared of being heartbroken. |
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