| David Gray – Nemesis Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Simple song, but definitely one of the best I've heard from Gray. It describes a lot of the human experience, how everything- feelings, money, possessions, people - are transient and changeable. I like the interpretation earlier of the line "possibilities limitless / just give me something that's more than this" speaking about how people are never happy with what they have, always looking for something more. My interpretation which I'll add is of the line "Gates of heaven are open wide / God help me baby I'm trapped inside". After reading this again in the context of the stuff I wrote above it seems to me to be about people's expectations. Heaven is perceived as this wonderful, perfect, unchanging place. And the line is kind of saying that people are trapped in heaven - that they're trapped in this conception of the way life should be as this perfect, unchanging thing when it's simply not. How people expect life to be constant progress, a march towards the gates of heaven, when really they're setting themselves up for disappointment that way. |
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| Katatonia – Ghost Of The Sun Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I think these are interesting lyrics. I see it as someone who's tried to identify with a group and found nothing of value from this. "I once changed my style When they said hello I said goodbye I once played a role I was out there marketing my soul" - This sounds like the character's changed themselves to try and belong somewhere, changing their style and marketing themselves to fit in with a group of people, but "when they said hello I said goodbye" is hinting at the trade-off between social acceptance and personal integrity. They - the group - "say hello" while the character "says goodbye" to themselves. "The city of glass that I live in The coldness from my brothers skin" - The city of glass for me is the character's... character, almost. Like they feel as though selling themselves like this has made them fragile and weakened on the inside. The coldness line is probably about betrayal, not being helped when needed. "I trusted you you lied It's all I hear a fucking lie I don't give a shit it's over now It's all I know you broke the vow" - The best bit of the song XD for me anyways... it's pretty self-explanatory I think, they feel intensely betrayed by this, and bitter that it hasn't got them anything of value. Because of this experience they don't trust anyone anymore; "it's all I hear, a fucking lie" saying that now all they hear from other people is a lie because they were so deeply impacted by this. Awesome song! |
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