| Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[mafiachuck:22293] I massively respect Cohen and he crafted this song and that can never be taken from him and is the highest honor, but I have to disagree and say Buckleys version is better. His delivery is. He did not write the masterpiece though | |
| Pink Floyd – A Pillow of Winds Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[MCDIII:22280] I like your interpretation. Nice initials. Im also MCD although the II | |
| Pink Floyd – A Pillow of Winds Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I feel this song captures the state between consciousness and innocuousness perfectly. Right before you fall into deep sleep. Echoes as well | |
| Pink Floyd – Wot's... Uh the Deal? Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| This song is 2 part. A young man looking ahead, single and working. The 2nd he has found meaning and love in his lover and is realizing hes old, yet the wind that troubled him in his youth no longer blows. Hes content and ready to settle down and accept death because hes lives his lifes purpose, to love. | |
| Pink Floyd – Wot's... Uh the Deal? Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[ludwigiv:22279] Gilmour and Waters are athiest | |
| The War On Drugs – In Reverse Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I cant attest for most of the lyrics in the song but I think the general theme is about a past lover whos just out of reach, in the darkness and how badly you want them. And I don't mind you disappearing When I know you can be found This to me is about letting a lover go but with the idea that they may come back into your life and you can rekindle that love again I'll be here or I'll fade away Never cared about moving, never cared about now Not the notes I'm playing Is there room in the dark, in between the changes? Like a light that's drifting, in reverse I'm moving The narrator isnt really that concerned with anything except love. Yea he says he doesnt care about the notes he playing, but he does, just not as much as he cares for his lover. Is there room in the dark, in between the changes? The lover lives in this darkness and he asks, are you ready for me to join you in this comfortable refugee and live through the changing seasons of live. As for last line, I havent got a clue |
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| Rufus Wainwright – Out of the Game Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think this song is about Rufus breaking up with a fun but not serious relationship with a younger man who just wants to have fine. Rufus realizes he wants to settle down and be with someone mature, but still longs for his ex lover with the line "Hey come over and let me smell you for one last time" He knows that his ex lover is just gonna go out in the sea of men and sleep around and he wants to find someone to settle with but until then come back just for a second so we can make love one last time |
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| Rufus Wainwright – Candles Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think this song is about lighting a candle and accepting the death of a loved one you didnt get along with. Rufus being gay faced im sure hostility, as all LGBTQ+ people do, even from family members. I dont know too much about his personal relationships other than what his wiki article stated, with him and his parents never really talking about his sexuality: 'Wainwright later said in another interview that his "mother and father could not even handle me being gay. We never talked about it really."' His father is still alive, but his mother died in 2010, 2 years before the release of this song. The article does mention several of his songs have been written about family members as well. Rufus does all he can to make up for the rocky relationship he has had with this person that was never resolved before their death. Then one day in the cathedral I finally lit you a candle And all along the vaulted halls The virgins did smile from their mantles It’s always just that little bit more That doesn’t get you what you’re looking for But gets you where you need to go The Gods have smiled down upon his kind action and even though he wasnt able to resolve the conflict while the person was living, this action has helped him move on, forgive himself, and "gets you where you need to go" I could be completely wrong but there has been other comments thus far on a fantastic and haunting song and thought I would get the conversation started |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Tiny Vessels Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think this song is about wanting to be in love with someone but there's just no chemistry there. IMHO it isn't about using someone for sex. That's an overgenerilziation about men. It's about wanting to feel connected to a person that's healthy and good for you in a relationship but there's either nothing there or Gibbard has been broken in the past and is emotionally void or still has eyes for someone else. "That you told her that you loved her but you don't" Gibbard toys with the idea that maybe saying I love you will break the flood gate and it'll become easier or that she'll stick around till he feels a spark of love "Wanted to believe in all the words I was telling" Well there's no I or She before wanted so it's alittle ambiguous but I get the feeling it's I. He wants to believe in this love, because she's perfect in everyday But there's no connection "So one last touch, and then you'll go" She's the one that leaves. I can see interpretation of this song only about using someone but as a man that's felt empty before, I know the feeling of wanting to be with someone because they're healthy for you but there's not the connection there |
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| Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| When Dylan says "Hard Rain" I think hes talking about ICBMS AKA nuclear weapons. ICBMS come from the sky and they are the ultimate symbol of mans destruction that he has created. This fits well with the time of the cold war | |
| David Bowie – Blackstar Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think this song is about accepting death and being relieved of having to be the "star" and all the responsibilities of being famous. He talks about dying and having his soul step aside to have someone else fill the place and shout "im a black star," almost proud to take the duty over. "A black star need not have an event horizon, and may or may not be a transitional phase between a collapsing star and a singularity." He was in the transition phase of being alive to dead, which cancer isnt an instant process. I think this astronomical metaphor interpretation is further supported by the music video featuring a space man (Major Tom??). The candle? A metaphor for death. All candles burn out. |
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| David Gilmour – This Heaven Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[mikemac:16359] Its about accepting morality and knowing youre going to die and your children will live on. Gilmour is an outspoken atheist. | |
| David Gilmour – This Heaven Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Definitely about appreciating the one life we get and living it to the fullest. Gilmour is an outspoken atheist. The brilliance of this song is the religious imagery to make a point about atheism | |
| David Gilmour – This Heaven Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[fitius:16358] Gilmour is an outspoken atheist | |
| David Gilmour – This Heaven Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[banedraven:16357] I do know Gilmours an atheist, so its his acceptance of this life and this song is telling us to make the most of life because its all we get | |
| The Police – Message In A Bottle Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[tps12:16147] Why the fuck not? Songs can have many meanings. Great explanation. Neil Young wrote a song about us leaving earth in a space ship?! This analysis isnt outlandish. Thats the beauty of lyrics. They can be interpreted a bunch of ways. | |
| Elton John – Levon Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think this song is about being in the middle of life, a father to a son named Jesus and with a grandfather named Alvin. Levon does the best for his son Jesus, in a world where "God is dead" and "wars begun" which is a world that does not look so hopeful for Jesus. Levon understands and is afraid of a future where his child Jesus must fight and is directly opposed to because "God is dead" and if God is dead, whos making the rules? And Jesus? Well Jesus has high ambitions for life, hes still a child and naive or hopeful and Levon sees this. Jesus blows balloons and watches them go up into the sky. Levon accepts his place in life, to provide for a child who may do something greater than he, a simple balloon salesman. Maybe Jesus will reach Venus. | |
| The Who – Baba O'Riley Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Okay I always come to this sight for its lyrical interpretations and I believe its my time to contribute. Basically, I see this song about dieing and/or leaving behind innocence and youth. "Out here in the fields I fight for my meals I get my back into my living" The narrator is young, or is experienced. They make an honest living, digging their plow and getting their "back into" their livings. The fight part could be against the elements and themselves, no other. "I don't need to fight To prove I'm right I don't need to be forgiven" With old age and maturity the narrator gives up the endless pursuit of argument. He doesnt need the justification of others to make what they believe in any more valid. They dont need someone with superiority to forgive them because they are not innocent and they know what theyve done. They can sleep with their actions. "Don't cry Don't raise your eye It's only teenage wasteland" The classic lines. It almost seems the narrator is speaking to his lover, his elderly wife that lives on the farm with him. Hes saying, dont cry. Dont feel sadness. We are leaving this wasteland of spoiled ignorant youth. Its nothing to cry over, which leads into the next verses. "Sally take my hand We'll travel south cross land Put out the fire And don't look past my shoulder" Here is his wife again, "Sally." Hes saying "well travel south cross land," which can be interpreted to the ends of the earth; to the places no mortal soul goes unto. "Put out the fire" fire here being youth. "Dont look part my shoulder" just put it out and move on, its gonna be okay, im right behind you love. "The exodus is here The happy ones are near Let's get together, before we get much older" This is where it gets very much about death/old age. Exodus of course being used in the Old testament takes on a holy tone and it means a mass movement. It brings to mind the rapture or souls moving to another place/land/plane. "The happy ones are near" that line seems to be about the loved ones in heaven waiting for you or angeles. Beings of white light that love you and cant wait to see you again. "Lets get together before we get much older" which the narrator is saying lets settle down and enjoy the time going by, not running around blindly missing it. "Teenage wasteland It's only teenage wasteland Teenage wasteland Oh yeah, teenage wasteland They're all wasted" And this again the narrator is saying, theyres a better place for us, better than this wasteland of fools. I want to point out a very overlooked part of this song that ties in with the lyrics: The music. The song starts off with an arpegiatted piano which is like the start of our story. A boy/man in his home town just starting off. Like a montage, building up to his age at the start of the lyrics. Now the end is the most important part. It seems to build up and climax with the fiddle and guitars. Note the fiddle starts out very slow and gradually builds until its flying along like a mad locomotive towards the edge of a cliff. The music represents time and how we perceive it. So slow in youth and then it continues to pick up speed, wissing by us with sights of sadness and great beauty like the death of your best friend and the birth of your child, and it keeps getting faster and faster and faster and duh! Its over just like that, in a blink of an eye. You almost dont see it coming. Its beautiful as well. |
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