| Arctic Monkeys – Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I do agree (as someone whose family has 9/10 times destroyed some portion of everyone's lives through drug & alcohol addiction) that this song can be upsetting (I didn't want to even listen at first) but I don't think it should necessarily be dismissed as a song trying to promote shitty communication tactics or turning to drugs. I feel like the title of the song being the only reply to missed calls & texts means that the narrator feels guilty, knows they shouldn't be acting this way, and that they keep hearing that same phrase in their head. Especially since at the end that's all that repeats. This is underscored by the lines mentioning "making bad decisions" and "harder and harder to get through to you." It's not like people get high or drunk, sober up, and wonder why the people they love resent them for how they acted high off their ass. (Some do, but I don't think this narrator is one of them) It's clear the other person is making their point. They don't pick up because the narrator won't listen, or is too out of it to take their words in. They've made it clear they're getting bored and their lifestyles don't match. The narrator makes it clear they're not enjoying their haze and inability to get their point across, but they can't when their sober. Maybe they're scared, maybe they think it's been so long that their apologies won't matter. There's a lot of feelings and situations that could be applied to knowing how you feel, but not knowing how to say it face to face. Either way, the narrator is using substances as a coping mechanism for the failed relationship, and the substances are making the downward spiral worse. The substance abuse could've started even before the relationship, and have been the cause of the failure, but that isn't implied anywhere. |
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| The Birthday Massacre – Superstition Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I saw no one had posted so I wanted to take my crack at it. This song is pretty simple, in my opinion. It's about questioning faith/religion/etc. Water imagery is used a lot through out the album, and in this song it represents the inkling once someone begins to question the validity of something. [Eyes following the water / As it washes my convictions away.] The "he" in the story sees the narrator sitting staring at the lake and notices the narrator's feelings, so he speaks and helps further the process. [He stops me when I'm starting to pray / He says, "Intuition is the awakening of suspicion.] The third verse implies that "he" used the doubt in the narrator's mind to convince them to do something that was seen as a sin in their faith. The eyes burning means they're either crying or feel like crying at committing this sin. [Eyes burning like the ashes / In submission to the heat of desire.] "He" uses cruel irony in telling the narrator not to lament their sin/consider it wrong when they just committed it. [He tells me not to preach to the choir.] In the fourth verse, the phrase "slow decomposition" refers to the narrator's faith slowly fading away. "He" is using cruel irony again, claiming sedition ("conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch; trouble making, rebel inciting, subversion." Totally didn't have to google that.) is his religion. The final verse sums up the song. Even though the narrator is not "he," I think the title was chosen from his POV, since a lot of people who encourage questioning religion call religion "superstition." I think the entire album is really great both sound-wise and concept-wise. This song is relatively simple but also has a lot of depth to it. The United States is currently in this state of most everyone questioning the validity of following the rules of religion, so it's cool to have a song relevant to that status. |
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