| Syd Matters – Obstacles Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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To me this is a coming of age song. First four verses: Even though it would be hopeful , maybe even naive ( lets say ) to wish sunshine( happiness) for everyone and forever this cannot be the case ( but as far as.. ) . Our feelings and circumstances change like the weather, we look for sunshine because its not always there the same way animals migrate in search of it so sunshine inherently cannot last. Second four verses : In the spirit of the first four verses, mistakes will be made and feelings will be hurt. Today we will have to sell our uniform to continue living but we are living together. And for that there is hope that in the future we will avoid the obstacles, we will understand ourselfs better and will have to give away less. We played hide and seek in waterfalls.. we were younger : We were once young and unware of the pains and the sorrows, we only knew happiness, how to play and enjoy ourselves. The waterfalls set up an ideal dreamy environment, pure of essence, something that we had to lose when grown up. ( This part of the song is emphasized heavily, persistent like grief of the lost childhood. It is obvious that everyone was younger at some point so emphasizing at a commonplace fact as this makes us really think about it, remember what being younger actually meant. ) The song finishes once again with the hope that even though we are now adults living life unsheltered by parents and childhood naivety we can still hope to be stonger in the future and avoid obstacles. |
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