| Arcade Fire – Everything Now Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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As seems to be a big theme of this album, this song is about how everything you’ve ever seen/ heard/ experienced shapes your mind. This song sets the stage for the bigger messages later to be found in the album and it ties into all of them so it can’t necessarily be analyzed by itself, but a big part of this song in particular is about being trapped inside the headspace everything you’ve experienced created. Instead of living in the present and just experiencing you become trapped in a loop of wanting more, not feeling content when you have it, gaining that clarity for a moment in those moments of pure openness but then falling back in the trap. It’s kind of hole having everything available to you readily has created. Basically everything now is about wanting everything now but never actually appreciating it while being trapped inside your head of everything you’ve experienced. The bookend of the album, everything now continued, is basically when it’s all taken over you again and yet again you are trapped in the headspace trying to get back to that feeling of living, hence the muted dulled tones and the loop back of the whole album. |
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| Moby – The Perfect Life (with Wayne Coyne) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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@[Halopend:648] Sorta cut myself off there by accident. Anyway, basically its about escapism and how human and relatable that is. It's a bittersweet song that feels very uplifting on the surface but underneath it is this actually depressing tale of the human longing for something unachievable and how we feel "incomplete" without it. Thats why it repeats over/over about how we "close our eyes". It means dreaming/imaging the perfect life and saying "all we need" is about how we'll feel complete till we've reached that goal. |
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| Moby – The Perfect Life (with Wayne Coyne) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I interpreted the song as actually being about how everyone has their hopes and their dreams imagining | |
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