| Oasis – Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Everyone seems to be saying, "Oh, it's just random lyrics, it was written on drugs and alcohol, bleh bleh bleh." But allow me to look at it from a point of view to actually give it meaning, aye? So, let's start. The song centres around the title lyrics, "Put yer money where yer mouth is." It's in the title, and it's in two verses. Looking at it from a perspective of phrase meanings, the term means, basically, to put actions behind your words; if you say you're going to do something, then do it! The next phrase is fairly simple, saying, "Yer mamma/pappa said that you was real." This means that other people have expectations of you, and to tie in with the previous line(s), saying that other people have expectations of you, so live up to it by talking the talk and walking the walk. The verse after the first and third is the same, saying: "Ready or not, come what may. The bets are going down for judgement day, so put yer money in yer mouth and your hands right upon the wheel." What I've gathered from this verse is also simple. The line, "The bets are going down for judgement day," is meaning that you don't have forever to live, gathering terminology from the Biblical judgement day, when people go before God to determine whether they go to Heaven or Hell. After that, it says, once again, "Put yer money in yer mouth." The next phrase, "And your hands right upon the wheel," may be another way of saying put the shoulder to the wheel. This means, essentially, to work hard to achieve. So, here's what I gather Noel was trying to tell us here -- if we say we can do something, then do it, and work hard for it, because we don't have forever to do so. |
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| Rascal Flatts – What Hurts The Most Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Everyone keeps saying that this is about a boyfriend and girlfriend, about love and how one walked out on the other, whether it was against both of their wills or the choosing of one or both. However, I'd like to look at it a different way. So I'll give a little background. As a child, a very young child, I remember being in the car. My family listened strictly to two types of music in there, though now we are a bit more diverse. Those two? Contemporary Christian and Country. But not your typical pop Country music, like Blake Shelton. I mean the classic stuff; Brad Paisley, Josh Turner, Johnny Cash, and, of course, Rascal Flatts. My mother was a huge fan of Rascal Flatts. So we'd listen to it often. Now I can't say this was the most memorable song; Life is A Highway (A killer cover, if I may add), and Me And My Gang were probably the ones most vivid in my memory. But nonetheless, I enjoyed and remembered this song. However, after about ten years old, it kind of faded out and I got into other things. Rock, dubstep, classical, and more. I've been into the same thing in general (Mostly rock and classical, as I have grown away from dubstep but slowly getting back to it), and currently I'm fourteen and nearing fifteen. So four to five years. I heard this a bit in between, but never really paid much mind. Until about a week ago. My dad was driving my sister and I to school; it was about 7:30 AM, and we were heading down the main road to my highschool. I'm a freshman at the moment. Anyways, we were driving, and as I was scrolling through the music stations, I came across a station playing pop from 2000 to 2010. And guess what was playing? This song. So, figuring I may as well since I hadn't heard it for so long, I kept it on. Later, at home. I was doing a bit of writing, scrolling through a music library, when I saw this. I figured I'd listen to it again. But after, I realised how deep it was. I've seen a lot in my short life so far; some friends have come way too close to comfort to committing suicide, and some even have. And I understood the lyrics in a way you guys may not have thought of. This song is about suicide. I suppose I should explain myself, then. The first verse is definitely saddening, a bit depressing; most songs depicting loss of love are sad to some measure. It didn't ring many bells, and the line "Even though goin' on with you gone still upsets me" definitely notes the loss of someone loved. "There are days every now and again I pretend I'm okay But that's not what gets me" This is also fairly normal. But it's the chorus that planted the seed of thought within my mind, and in a way confirmed my propositions. It says, "What hurts the most was being so close, and havin' so much to say, and watchin' you walk away..." It's a killer pain inside when someone you love kills themselves. It makes one want to follow them, because they've lost somebody special in their life, a major part that can never be replaced. That may not seem so uncommon, the line of being so close and all, in a song about the breakup or such between a couple. However, "And havin' so much to say, and watchin' you walk away" sets my thoughts in. What does it represent? Having so much to say is talking someone out of suicide. Watching them walk away is your failure to keep them alive. It's a resonating emotion, and it hurts a lot. You tried to help them, and failed, and that leaves a feeling of "I couldn't save them.", and just a lot of guilt. Not a fun thing, and anyone like me who's been in that position as well can definitely attest. Now, "And never knowin' what could've been, and not seein' that lovin' you, is what I was trying to do..." Never knowing what could have been is simple: how would things turn out if they hadn't ended their life? Not seeing the love, trying to do that...I feel like that's attempting to pull the one you loved out of their suicidal mood, but, as aforementioned, resulting in failure. "It's hard to deal with the pain of losin' you everywhere I go, but I'm doing it..." This line is pretty self-explanatory. It's going through life without the one you lost, and having trouble but still managing. "It's hard to force that smile when I see our old friends and I'm alone" means that their friends are there to comfort you, but you're still without they who ended themselves. At the same time, you smile and say it's going to be okay to yourself, knowing how untrue it is. The next line, "Still harder gettin' up, gettin' dressed, livin' with this regret", is describing life. It's difficult to go on without a point when someone kills themselves, and the regret of not being able to keep them from it always remains with you; it never, ever goes away. "But I know if I could do it over, I would trade, give away all the words that I saved in my heart, that I left unspoken..." Simply, considering what else you could have said or done to prevent their suicide. Running the conversations over in your head, remembering what you were doing when you found out. Millions of things that you wanted to say, but in the moment didn't know if it was the right thing, only to realise when it was too late that you should have said it. That's the gist of it. Moral of the story? If you're talking someone out of suicide, don't hold back. Tell them everything to keep them from it. Sit there with them for as long as you have to. And if you've nothing to say, then at least stay there with them so they're not alone. Hope this helps, whether you're actually talking someone out of suicide or simply looking up someone's interpretation to this beauty of a song. Good day. ^-^ |
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