| Dance Gavin Dance – Acceptance Speech Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I agree with what doomy said. to me it feels like a recollection or reliving of past sins and just wanting to end it. dwelling on past mistakes can make us hate ourselves. this is why he needs an acceptance speech. to accept himself exactly the way he is. | |
| A Lot Like Birds – Connector Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think he is comparing himself to the house that is falling apart. He compares the paint peeling to flesh decaying and the hallways to his bones. To me, this song is about getting so caught up in your problems and unhappiness that you let everything else in your life go to shit. The ghost stutter stepping is like how we feel our demons haunting us, ever inching closer but always out of reach, and our reaction is to hope it goes away. Here he is just trying to ignore his problems or bury them to protect himself: "Always colliding with the things that we had tried hard to avoid we just bury them, close our eyes, cover it up. But what was buried managed to unlock the door even though we had boarded them, nailed them shut, hid the keys." Here he sees all the paint has fallen off the walls (showing his life falling apart) and he asks if this happened due to neglect when he was focusing on his flaws, deep in insecurity. Then he says that while he is caught up in his problems, he has decayed even further and isn't really living anymore (because the vultures are waiting for him to die).: "It feels like our time is getting short. And it's too late cause all the paint is lying on the floor. Did we selfishly erase it? (And we have all ignored the fault.) Busy filling mirrors with our damn faces? Circling flaws that we find without respite, what do we find? What do we find? And in the meantime, all the vultures circle us in hopes to feed." So basically, don't get so deep into your head worrying about everything because you wont notice everything else falling apart around you, and you'll essentially stop living. Constantly worrying about past mistakes will wear you down and make you forget what life is really about, and what the future can hold for you. |
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| No Devotion – Stay Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think the meaning comes through pretty clear and its about him being broken up with all of a sudden and he can't get over her. | |
| Thursday – Standing On The Edge Of Summer Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"It's about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Colombus, and I saw that she was dying, and that was the last time I was going to see her. it's about realizing how young you are but how quickly you could go. this song is called Standing on the Edge of Summer." - Geoff Rickly I think that this song is full of ideas about death and dying. I think the "house of cards" metaphor is exactly what geoff said above, how fragile your life is and how quickly it could end (fall apart). Then there is one line that (not listed above in the lyrics) shakes me to the core. At the end of the chorus he screams "when you leave, you leave nothing but broken hearts". When I realize what he means by that, how every person's death is a tragedy and leaves grieving people in the wake... just wow. Beautiful line. There are plenty more examples of death in this song but I am not going to bore you.. And however I used his quote I am not saying that those of you who have different meanings are wrong because this is art. It is left to the observer to ultimately interpret it, I'm just sharing my thoughts. |
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