| Coldplay – The Scientist Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I think this song is about a guy who isn't ready to commit fully in a relationship, scared of what it means and how vulnerable it'll make him. In my interpretation of these lyrics I play with a few stereotypes - so please don't be offended, I speak generally. "Come up to meet you. Tell you I'm sorry. You don't know how lovely you are. I had to find you. Tell you I need you. Tell you I set you apart." The guy in this relationship is trying to apologise the the girl, he knows he was screwed up but he wants another chance. He's trying to tell her how special she is to him but can't quite figure out how to say it. "Tell me your secrets. And ask me your questions. Oh let's go back to the start. Running in circles; coming up tails. Heads on a science apart." He's trying to get past the awkwardness after a fight, wanting things to go back to how they were and thinking that ignoring the problem will make it go away. That somehow, she'll forgive him because she'll see that he really does care. But they're both on different wave-lengths, never coming to the same conclusion. "Nobody said it was easy. It's such a shame for us to part. Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be this hard. Oh take me back to the start." He realises that being in a relationship is hard, it takes effort on both parts. But at the same time, he didn't know that it would be This hard, he wants to go back to the beginning of the relationship where it wasn't so complicated. "I was just guessing at numbers and figures. Pulling your puzzles apart. Questions of science; science and progress. Do not speak as loud as my heart." (This is where it gets kind of stereotypical.) The guy is a real 'scientist', he's someone who firmly believes in science and that things can only be explained through scientific reasoning. This makes him blind to how other people are feeling and he ignores the reality that science cannot explain everything - especially human emotions and love. He would attack anything she said if it wasn't 'smart enough' or didn't have science to back it up. He'd take apart everything she told him, tearing up her theories, ideas and dreams, passing them off as childish, immature and unrealistic. Not realising he was breaking Her in the process. "Tell me you love me. Come back and haunt me. Oh and I rush to the start. Running in circles, chasing our tails. Coming back as we are." When she tells him that she loves and cares for him he gets scared, this is something he can't control or regard from a scientific point of view, so he runs. Back to the start of their relationship, where everything was simple and they were only just getting to get to know one another. He's chasing after something but getting nowhere because he refuses to see things as more complicated than he could ever understand. "Nobody said it was easy. Oh it's such a shame for us to part. Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be so hard. I'm going back to the start." Again he knows that being in a relationship isn't easy, and although he doesn't want it to end he's not sure if he can put in the amount of effort required of him. So he goes back to the start, still searching for a simpler answer, and easier way for all this to work out. Oblivious to how he's affecting her and refusing to give in to vulnerability. |
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| James Blunt – Shine On Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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| James Blunt – Shine On Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Some of the lyrics here are wrong, I think these are the actual lyrics: Are they calling for our last dance? I see it in your eyes. In your eyes. Same old moves for a new romance. I could us the same old lies, but I'll sing, Shine on, just, shine on! Close your eyes and they'll all be gone. They can scream and shout that they've been sold out, but it paid for the cloud that we're dancing on. So shine on, just, shine on! With your smile just as bright as the sun. 'Cause they're all just slves to the gods they made but you and I just shone. Just shone. And when silence greets my last goodbye, The words I need are in your eyes, and I'll sing. Shine on, just, shine on! Close your eyes and they'll all be gone. They can scream and shout that they've been sold out, but it paid for the cloud that we're dancing on. So shine on, just, shine on! With your smile just as bright as the dun. 'Cause they're all just slaves to the gods they made, but you and I just shone. Just shone. |
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| James Blunt – Carry You Home Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Like his song 'Same Mistake', I think this song relates back to James' time at war. I think someone James knows and has fighting with has been shot, and he's staying with her as she's dying. Trouble is her only friend and he's back again. Makes her body older than it really is. She says it's high time she got away, no one's got much to say in this town. Trouble is the only way is down. Down, down." I think the woman is lying there, wounded as he is holding her. She knows she's not going to make it but chooses to pretend everything is okay. She tells him jokingly that trouble always finds her, but when she gets home she's going to move away from the tired old town she lives in. Find somewhere nice and settle down where trouble can't find her anymore. He knows she's dying and thinks that 'trouble is' the only way is down - she'd going to die. "As strong as you were, tender you go. I'm watching you breathing for the last time. A song for your heart, but when it is quiet I know what it means and I'll carry you home. I'll carry you home." She was a stong woman, always a fighter, never giving up. But despite all this, she was still gentle and tender, and he sees this youth and innocence shine through as she's dying in his arms. "A song for your heart" - I take this that they both start singing something to distract her from the pain and her impending fate, perhaps a song they sang when they were younger, or something that means something to them both. And when she stops singing he knows she is gone, and he promises to bring her home to her family. "If she had wings she would fly away, And another day God will give her some. Trouble is the only way is down. Down, down." He's not entirely ready to let her go, and hopes she'll somehow pull through. He uses the image of an angel, and her being able to fly away. This then brings him around to the realisation that she isn't going to make it, but god will give her wings one day. But again, he's thinking the only way is down. There is not light side to the situation. "And they're all born pretty in New York City tonight. And someones' little girl was taken from the world tonight, under the Stars and Stripes." Here I think he's contrasting the images of happiness and joy at babies being born in New York City (not sure of reason for chooing this city, perhaps because it's so prosperous?) and the image of his friend dying. She was someone's daughter, and now she's dead, and no one really cares. Under the Stars and Stripes could obviously be the American flag. But it could also be interpreted as a metaphor for where they are - it's night ime and the stars are out, but there are also stripes of smoke across the sky from all the bullets and ammunition being shot. Then he goes through the chorus again, reinforcing the idea he's lost a dear friend. That's just my interpretation. Either way, the song makes me cry. Every time. |
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| James Blunt – Same Mistake Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This is such a beautiful, poignant song. My interpretation is that it's about James' own experience at war - he spent time in the British Army before becoming a singer/songwriter. "Saw the world turning in my sheets and once again I cannot sleep. Walk out the door and up the street; look at the stars beneath my feet. Remember rights that I did wrong, so here I go." He (be it James or someone else) can't sleep because he's haunted by war, it's always on his mind and going to sleep just brings back all the nightmares of what he saw. He can't get over it and can't seem to forgive himself - the rights that he did wrong are always on his mind. "And so I sent some men to fight, and one came back at dead of night. Said he'd seen my enemy. Said he looked just like me. So I set out to cut myself and here I go." When at war he sent some soldiers out to fight. And when they came back they told him his enemy was just like him - ie. they're not fighting some monster, they're fighting men just like them. They may not even know Why they're fighting a war, they're just following orders. And so are the men on the 'other side'. This realisation is too much for him to handle, he realises how pointless it all is, and how unfair war is. "I'm not calling for a second chance, I'm screaming at the top of my voice. Give me reason but don't give me choice. 'Cause I'll just make the same mistake again." He possibly killed poeople at war, and he wants to go back, undo what he did. He wants forgiveness, atonement he'll never be able to get. But as he thinks about it he realises, he can't and, in truth, if he was in the same situation again he'd do the same (kill them) because it was 'them or him'. If he hadn't killed them, they'd have killed him. He knows he shouldn't have, but no amount of reasoning would have stopped him, as it is in man's nature to survive. "And maybe someday we will meet, and maybe talk and not just speak. Don't buy the promises 'cause, there are no promises I keep. And my reflection troubles me, so here I go." He hopes someday to meet with these other men, perhaps the ones he killed or even just the men he was against in the war, and get to know them. They'll talk and see that they're the exact same as each other. But he also fears that he is too broken from war and won't be able to see them as men/friends because of how it was drilled into him that they are 'the enemy'. He is conflicted inside and doesn't know how to find peace. When he looks in the mirror his reflection troubles hm because he isn't the same man as he was before the war. He's afraid he's become a monster. Someone he doesn't recognise looks back at him. "Saw the world turning in my sheets and once again I cannot sleep. Walk out the door and up the street; look at the stars. Look at the stars fall down. And wonder where did I go wrong." All this repeats itself everyday, he cant get away from the hopeless emptiness that fills him. And can't figure out how to fix it. So each day he goes through the motions, going through it all over and over again. |
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| Half Moon Run – Unofferable Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I think the song is about a guy (the singer) and he's singing about his childhood. His mother left when he was younger, and he's holding onto this penance that he didn't really deserve "Imagine a war, in those tiny hands that held onto a penance I didn't deserve." He wants to know why his mother would choose to leave him, and he didn't deserve what happened. I think the 'drunk' is his father. The father couldn't cope well without the mother, he still loved her but another part of him hated her for leaving them. "Oh, and I'm bound by a drunk, with a few memories of how you burn through your lovers It's like an ugly disease" The "offer unofferable" I think could possibly be he wants his mother back, and at the start when he says, "Tell me a lie, I'll be the first to fall", I think he's saying he wants to be told that his mother did really love him, and that she will come back for him, and he will believe it, because he's so desperate to see/know her. Not sure what anyone else thinks, but that's how I understand it:) Beautiful song. |
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