| James – Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Surprisingly I'm getting a very different interpretation from this song. The general theme, to me, is "we need to appreciate life more." Ever hear the adages "Life is wasted on the living" and "you never know what you have until you lose it"? These two statements encompass the spirit of this song, IMHO. The lyrics make this clear by opening up through flippant disdain towards the concept of suicide. You want to end your life? Go ahead. We're insured. You wish you were dead? That's ok. The chorus then gets to the heart of the matter: that life is not appreciated by the living, that we're getting away with the very concept of being alive, and that it's messed up because we don't deserve it. To exemplify this, the lyrics then go on to tell a story about Daniel and Grace, the first willing to sacrifice his life for the second, who is in danger of drowning. Daniel is confident (deep inside his temple, he knows how to surf her), but doesn't make it. Drinking like Richard Burton and dancing like John Travolta are metaphors for the act of drowning: the water going into the lungs, the movements of the body as it goes into desperate automated spasms of survival. Both Daniel and Grace die, and in a final recognition of the nobility of sacrifice and the unfairness of accidental death, the lyrics grant the subjects a happy ending: now they live like dolphins. This story provides the contrast that matters. How can there be people who don't appreciate life and contemplate suicide? How can people worthy of life end up unwillingly leaving it? The living are getting away with living, and it's messed up that we have no appreciation for it. |
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| Kyte – Ihnfsa Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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ihnfsa is the abbreviation of "I have never felt so alive." I this is a song about a death row inmate facing the electric chair, and the perspective of the people watching him die. "My spine is twisted for revenge" is what one member of the audience feels - perhaps the victim's family member. The killer (for we must assume the worst about this inmate) walks out smiling, vowing revenge from the afterlife. The chorus is tricky; it seems to start from the perspective of the killer feeling remorse - "sorry for the first love" - perhaps it was a crime of passion? "Sorry is my last word" definitely drives the point forward about remorse, and "they're screaming inside" seems to be talking about the tormented voices of his victims. However, "terrified we'll all die" and "we're going to rise up above" don't make total sense here. Perhaps he's grown accustomed to the voices in his head, worried that it will all come to an end? The flickering lantern is obvious in this context - the executioner has pulled the switch, the lightbulbs are dimming, and electricity is frying his brain. Still he smiles. A woman in the audience wonders out loud - can he think anything at this point? What will it take to kill him? And the final question for us, is... who has "never felt so alive" here? The vengeful audience, cathartic at last watching the nightmare end? Or the killer, his last moments energized by thousands of volts of electricity? |
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