| Blind Pilot – The Story I Heard Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I meant @[RiceTongs:5828], sorry | |
| Blind Pilot – The Story I Heard Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[steviedlyrics:5827] to add to your interpretation, I think it's also about judgement. It says "Jojo don't forget your name" to say that no matter what people think you are it's more important for you to know who you are. I think the song says "I cannot say" or "I cannot tell" frequently to emphasize that's it's not for anyone else to judge how someone (in this case Jojo) has lived his life. Maybe Jojo tried to be a typical all American and then cheated on is wife (second stanza). But Israel can't say if this is for better or worse. Finally the chorus " all the measures you fake...will he measure your time/ will, etc" is asking the methods of judgement. Is it all about the routine you go through to get to heaven or is it about your time and will. |
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| Rogue Wave – California Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[charcoalsketch:5824] I think that @[junglebunny91:5825] has it right in that the ice is a grudge, but it could also mean that "California" is never going away. It will never be lost under water because the glaciers (and grudges) will never melt. | |
| Matt Pond PA – Devil in the Water Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The beauty of this song is that it is art and can thus be interpreted in ways depending on our own situations. That being said, @[asSTARSfallx:5797] I like your interpretation, but adding to it on a slightly different line of thought: I think the song might be describing something more general like living in the now and the big picture of life. I think that the dismissal traditional religion is a way to live out what he is describing in more specific area of life. I interpreted the song as describing a way to live life the now and not the past, and to accept/ understand that other people have a past that they might be living with under the surface of what you see everyday. Along these lines, and to answer the question @[yibbitta:5798] raised, I think that the title: "The Devil in the Water" can be interpreted in a couple of ways, but I like this... You can't see beneath the surface of the water and similarly you can't see what is in another person's past. The past could be the devil being described and the water is the person. A lot of misunderstandings come from people not looking at other as deep and complex individuals with a past. Their devil, the past, hides beneath the surface. Additionally, living in the past can cause you to not see clearly and live in the now. For me, the first stanza: tonight the sounds are from the ceiling they turned up to be a floor strained on muffled conversations the eyes hesitate for more reminds me of being in an apartment. You have neighbors above you. You try to understand the lives they are living through the walls of your apartment, but you only get a confused, muffled, and topsy turvy view of what their lives really are (in their full complexity). And again, you try to live in the now, but if you are living in the past all you see is this muffled confused view of life. The second stanza: laying low but not escaping find by contrast what is free hear reminders in the spacing the time when it is hard to breathe sounds like the song is describing suppressing your past, but never truly getting away from it. By living with your past you can see what its like living free of it. You are reminded of the every once in a while; especially when you are in a high stress situation. On to the first stanza of the chorus: the sun on the street looks good to me burning and gold for a while it's hard to see where we come from this could be something that seems good in life that makes it hard to see what was in the past, but really its only a of a way to dull the memories. Second stanza: let's go to the sea take memory buried in sand 'til the tide comes in and drowns it I feel that this stanza was the major “live in the now” stanza. Lets make some memories, take advantage of the now, before its over and gone. It also has a feel of wanting to get rid of the old memories and letting them wash away with the tide. The next stanza: no one's pulling up the floorboards to find out how we can stand stop throwing salt outside the windows looking hard to see it land the first two lines seem to say that no-one is looking into what everyone else has been through in their lives or what type of foundation they are standing on. And of course I loved the “or throwing salt on old wounds” interpretation of the second two lines. Once more… a call to live in the now. Last full stanza: no one knows what anybody knows no one knows what they're thinking about spend our time guessing, spend it all I interpreted this as we don’t know what is “under the surface” of other people’s “waters” and what they are going through because of their past and we spend all of our time trying to figure out what is going on in their past, but Finally: when it's over, why can't it be gone... When the situation is over, why can we not just let it go? |
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