NoOne\'sPerfect
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I love reading, writing, listening to music, and being outside, and my favorite thing to do outside is going on hikes. I recommend listening to If Today Was Your Last Day by Nickelback, and the music video, too. It almost brought me to tears!
| Jason Mraz – I Won't Give Up Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think this song is simply about not giving up on anything no matter what the situation is. | |
| Sara Bareilles – Brave Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I watched the Official Music video, and this song is about bullying. My favorite verses are: "Innocence, your history of silence Won't do you any good Did you think it would? Let your words be anything but empty Why don't you tell them the truth?" |
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| Plain White T's – Rhythm of Love Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This is what I thought the song was about before I found out what it really was about: "My head is stuck in the clouds She begs me to come down Says 'Boy quit foolin' around'" This verse would mean someone is getting after a young boy—about fourteen or fifteen—to quit 'foolin' around' in a dangerous area, such as on top of a very high building. "I told her 'I love the view from up here Warm sun and wind in my ear We'll watch the world from above As it turns to the rhythm of love'" The boy likes heights and looking over the city, and feeling the "warm sun and wind" all around him. The third line would mean that he is going to depart from planet Earth: die, and the fourth line states that he will go to Heaven. "We may only have tonight But till the morning sun you're mine, all mine Play the music low and sway to the rhythm of love" I think the boy who's going to die is talking to Planet Earth, because he admires her beauty. The first two lines states that he's spending his last moments on Earth. The third verse is describing his death as he slips away: the birds are only starting to chirp: "play the music low" when he dies: "sway to" and goes to Heaven: "The rhythm of love", which would mean he hears the music of Heaven. "My heart beats like a drum A guitar string to the strum A beautiful song to be sung She's got blue eyes deep like the sea That roll back when she's laughing at me She rises up like the tide The moment her lips meet mine" I would think the boy was remembering his past life on Earth, when he wanted to write a song—which he did using the instruments mentioned, and talking about the rain in the fourth verse. The description of "her" eyes in the fifth line is when the raindrops are falling, and when they hit a surface, they somehow sound like Earth's laugh to him: The fifth verse talks about the sea in a wave while he's surfing, hence "rises up like the tide". "The moment her lips meet mine" is when he falls into the water. "When the moon is low We can dance in slow motion And all your tears will subside All your tears will dry" The first line would mean it's close to morning. "We can dance in slow motion" would say that the boy and Planet Earth can slow down time. Planet Earth would be raining at that time, thus says "All your tears", and since they would slow down time, Planet Earth would stop crying for the moment and give him sunshine to freely enjoy all the time they've got left together. "And long after I've gone You'll still be humming along And I will keep you in my mind The way you make love so fine" "And long after I've gone" would be long after the boy has died. "You'll still be humming along" would mean that life will keep moving without him. "And I will keep you in my mind" would be literal, and "The way you make love so fine" would mean that it is easy to remember life on Earth because Planet Earth was so beautiful. That's what I thought the song meant before I found out it was really about one of the guys trying to get a girl he dumped back, but she didn't return, and she's with another guy. Sad. |
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| Plain White T's – Rhythm of Love Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Wow! That's really interesting! | |
| Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| That makes sense. I agree that the song meaning has something to do with war, loyalty, and beheading. | |
| The Fray – How To Save A Life Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I'm sorry, I forgot one part: the second scene of "As he begins to raise his voice": the son, out of anger at his father for discovering that he wants to commit suicide, screams at him, and the father lowers his voice, unintentionally granting him the choice to "drive until you lose the road or break with the ones you've followed", which would mean either take his own life or please change his mind, there's more to life, and you're too young to die. | |
| The Fray – How To Save A Life Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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| The Fray – How To Save A Life Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This is what I believe the song means: "Step one, you say we need to talk. He walks, you say sit down, it's just a talk." The song starts in the perspective of a father who has just found out his son wants to commit suicide. He is taking the first step—"step one"—in preventing his son from carrying out his wish by talking to him. In "He walks, you say sit down" the son knows what his father wants to discuss, and tries to walk away, but his father says, "Sit down, it's just a talk." The perspective switches to the son in the verses, "He smiles politely back at you. You stare politely right on through. Some sort of window to your right." "He smiles politely back at you" states that the father is smiling at his son to assure him that everything will be all right. "You stare politely right on through" says that the son is staring at his father as if he isn't even there. "Some sort of window to your right" is a big discussion. There could be a window to the son's right, it is behind the father and the son is staring at the window "right on through" his father. In his mind, he imagines it as the way out of his life: therefore, the window would represent the son taking his own life. That is the "some sort" part. The point of view flips back to the father in "As he goes left, and you stay right. Between the lines of fear and blame. You begin to wonder why you came." "As he goes left, and you stay right" shows the result of the conversation, with the son walking away more distressed than he was before his father spoke to him. "Between the lines of fear and blame" tells of the father's feelings: he is fearing for his son's life, and he is blaming himself for the way his son feels. "You begin to wonder why you came" is the father talking to himself in his head, where he starts wonder, "Why did I try to talk to him? It did neither of us any good." Another thing, too, is that the father was close to his son, and he noticed that something was wrong with his son's behavior, so he sat down and talked to his son, learning that his son wanted to commit suicide. That could also fit in with the "I lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness" part. The father could've considered his son a friend, and he doesn't know where—or when—he lost him "along in the bitterness." The "when" could be when his son decided he wanted to kill himself. The point of views are swapped between the father and son in "Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend, somewhere along in the bitterness. And I would have stayed up with you all night had I known how to save a life." "Where did I go wrong" is the son's cry of demanding to know what he did to make himself wrong, leading into the next lines "I lost a friend, somewhere along in the bitterness." "I lost a friend" could be saying that the son literally "lost a friend" due to "going wrong". "Somewhere along in the bitterness" is a tough line to define. It could be that the friend and the son had a conflict, and that's where the friend could've said, "There is something wrong with you," and the son is saying, "What is wrong with me," symbolized by "Where did I go wrong?" "And I would have stayed up with you all night had I known how to save a life" could be put into either or both the father and the friend's eyes. The father may've either literally stayed up with his son all night to prevent his son's suicide or the phrase could be symbolizing the father's foolishness of being so lost on what to do next that he didn't do anything, hence "had I known how to save a life". Also, the friend could have wanted to make amends with the son, but didn't know how. That would be represented by, "And I would have stayed up with you all night, had I known how to save a life." In "Let him know that you know best, 'cause after all, you do know best" is almost certain to be in the father's shoes, in some contact with the friend, and he is angry with the friend for being the cause of his son's suicide. It is also possible for the father to be angry at the friend's parents for letting their son treat the grieving father's son so badly, and is requesting for the friend's parents to punish him. "Try to slip past his defense, without granting innocence" would be the father speaking with the friend, and the father's angry heart is telling him to lay all the blame on the friend for his son's suicide, instead of blaming himself. "Lay down a list of what is wrong, the things you've told him all along" is almost certain to have taken place in the past, before the father sat down and talked with his son. "Lay down a list of what is wrong" could be a voice in the son's head encouraging him to talk to his dad about how he feels, but the son refuses. It could also be possibly a literal list—mentally or on paper—of what the son thinks is wrong with himself. "The things you've told him all along" could be the voice encouraging the son to tell his father about the conflict with his friend. "And pray to God he hears you, and I pray to God he hears you" is where the friend asks God for forgiveness for being the reason the son committed suicide, and the friend might say in his prayer, "O God, hear my prayer!" Or something like that. And the father would pray for the friend that God might hear him. "As he begins to raise his voice, you lower yours and grant him one last choice: drive until you lose the road or break with the ones you've followed" could take place in two completely different scenes. The first scene would go back to the disagreement between the son and the friend, and the lines are in the friend's skin. "As he begins to raise his voice" would be the son starting to yell at the friend, and the friend would fall silent a whole, granting the son "one last choice" to "drive until you lose the road"—keep yelling at the friend until the situation lost control, or "break with the ones you've followed"—where the friend would start screaming and saying mean things to the son out of anger and hurt feelings, like "There is something wrong with you." That's what I think, and I hope you understand my point of view even if there are some ideas you do not agree with. |
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