| Amadou & Mariam – Sabali Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Assuming Amadou and Mariam are a Malian band, i'd say Malian dialect. A translation found on the web : "We came to have fun with music The world is a place of amusement We have a good time doing that. We have a good time doing that. Audience!! Patience! Patience is worth everything! Patience! Patience is good. If you love someone, patience is worth everything If you love a man, patience is worth everything If you love a woman, patience is worth everything Patience, patience, patience is good. Baby, I’m talking to you With you, baby, life is beautiful With you, baby, This is for life. Baby I give you a great big kiss I give you a great big kiss I hug you hard Bye-bye!" |
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| Eagles – Hotel California Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Didn't anyone ever thought like me that the song was about some kind of bloody inn ? Since the first time I heard the song, years ago, I've always thought that the lyrics were some poetical evocation of a man stopping by an hostel : welcomed by a waitress who was so cute and cheerful he had some kind of crush, he then discovered that she was the "flytrap" to draw the travelers in, kill them and rob them. The voices he thinks he heard were the ones of the dead travelers who passed away, and they sing "Such a lovely face / place" as a lament which recalls the way they all succumbed to the beauty of the waitress and the comfort of the hotel, which is an oasis of relief in a remote harsh place. Only the narrator managed to escape, and his story is muddled, blending true facts and ghostly visions, because the narrator is under a great emotional shock. Many lines make sense with this interpretation. For example, in the end, the waitress confesses to the narrator that they are "all prisoners here, of our own device" ; she complains that she, as all the employees (the night man) are trapped in a circle since they committed the first crime, wether they're happy with it or not. What do you think ? |
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| Muse – Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Muse's songwriting is unfocused and clever enough to enable several interpretations. The story the lyrics have been inspired by is quite renowned : like it has been previously said, the story is about humanity sending astronauts into space to find a new planet to live and spread human race, because Earth is doomed. To quote a previous user "Part 3 is when the astronauts realize that it is just one big cycle, and recognize that unless humanity can change it will happen all over again". However, the song can be understood as an evocation of the overall theme of being given a second chance. This meaning can be carried by the lyrics but also by the crescendo-like construction of the song. It refers to an event resulting in protagonists considering an opportunity, offered but not yet seized, of taking a brand new start into something, after a great trauma or crisis. For example, it works very well if you apply it to a romance : Two lovers went through a big emotional crisis (one cheating on the other, betraying him/her, neglecting him/her…) leading to a split. Once the crisis is over, they decide to wipe away the troubles and take a new start, this time avoiding their previous mistakes. Considering how serious their quarrel was, this solution is a desperate attempt to reconcile with each other and try to go on : "It's our last chance […]". Both lovers share guiltiness, they both have wrongs to apologize for, and to do it is the only path leading to a new peace : "[…] to forgive ourselves". Of course this interpretation works with any kind of relationship, although the extremity which the characters involved seem to have been led to, plus the urge, tense, desperate and romantic feeling carried by the instrumentation based on strings, suggest a very close relationship, so my first thought was a love story. The official music video "Furiko" ("Pendulum") by Takefumi "Tekken" Kurashina also helps feeding this interpretation, but in a different way. The song is full of hope and promises for the future, and yet it keeps a slight ambiguity that might lead to consider the meaning desperate and hopeless. "Just let us start it over again" and "Why can't we start it over again" suggests that the protagonist aren't, in some way, allowed to try and get their second chance, that they aren't in the capability of being redeemed, and they are begging for it, suffering of being deprived of that chance. These sentences fit perfectly the music video "Pendulum" : a man (or more likely his soul/spirit) tries desperately to stop the pendulum representing the course of Time, in order to get the chance/the time to repair its faults against his wife. The good and innocent moments the couple spent together are also displayed in the background during this sequence, echoing with the "fight against time" occurring, in a way that suggests that the man would like to go back in time, to get the chance to make the good choices and treat his wife properly. In this sadder vision, the song becomes a reflection on the theme of mankind struggling against its mortal condition : we are running short of time to do everything right the way we'd like it to be done. It echoes to the general need for us to be forgiven, which means : to be loved in spite of our flaws and failures. However, in the end, the pace of the song slow down, and the peaceful piano notes of the beginning come back. Of course it suggests a cycling story, like "the story will repeat itself", and with it, all the wrongs. But the cooling down feeling also suggests some kind of happy end, like the weather calming down after a storm. Ending that way, the song may give a feeling of a found back peace, like if the redemption (after all, it's the subtitle of the song) as been successfully completed. So the song let you free to hope and choose what end you want to give it. |
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