| London Grammar – If You Wait Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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To treasure gold is fun Brother, drop your bag at once. ===> material goods are fun, but you needs to stop carrying around that weight From the air to the people, A mass to take you on. From a clock to the past A future that I own. ===> confusing loyalties, in a long-term relationship And to find just one other Seems to be the goal of everyone. From the search to the hurt, I believed I could take you on. We would drink, we would dance And you would watch me whenever you want. ===> everyone is looking for love. Despite the work of the search and the hurt, I believed too, and thought I could “take you on” as a love project And can you give me, everything Everything, everything 'Cause I can't give you anything===> the relationship is set up so that you keep on giving to me , because you sense I cannot connect to you. You are trying to cover up for my inability to connect with you, with favors and treasures. And if you wait, if you wait I will trust in time that we will meet again If you wait===> the mantra of the relationship has been “it will get better”, the despair of which which she captures in the forlorn voice cracks of the line “if you wait”. The relationship is over now, but I still have a hopeless hope that we will meet and understand things later. If letters spell out words, son You chose to put them in order, didn't you From the meaning, the moment you tried to take me on From the air to the room a bed that I own ====> you wrote me that letter and also tried to make me your project, diving into my world and bed |
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| Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Wooden Ships Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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From Wikipedia: "Wooden Ships" was written at the height of the Vietnam War, a time of great tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, nuclear-armed rivals in the Cold War. It has been likened to Tom Lehrer's "We Will All Go Together When We Go" and Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction," in that it describes the consequences of an apocalyptic nuclear war.[1] We "imagined ourselves as the few survivors, escaping on a boat to create a new civilization."[3] The words of the song depict the horrors confronting the survivors of a nuclear holocaust in which the two sides have annihilated each other. A man from one side stumbles upon a man (or woman, as in Jefferson Airplane's version) from the other side and asks him/her, "Can you tell me, please, who won?" Since the question has no real meaning in the circumstances or even at all, it is left unanswered. To stay alive, they share purple berries that, presumably, have not been poisoned by radiation. The lyrics beg "silver people on the shoreline" (described by David Crosby as "guys in radiation suits") to "let us be."[1] As wooden ships (whose wooden material includes no metal that could possibly be dangerously irradiated) are carrying the survivors away from the shores, radiation poisoning kills those who have not made it aboard. That grim tableau is described thus: Horror grips us as we watch you die All we can do is echo your anguished cries Stare as all human feelings die We are leaving you don't need us It is also described in an [unsung] prelude, included in the lyric sheet: Black sails knifing through the pitchblende night Away from the radioactive landmass madness From the silver-suited people searching out Uncontaminated food and shelter on the shores No glowing metal on our ship of wood only Free happy crazy people naked in the universe [1] |
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| Jim James – State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think it is about night vision goggles in wartime. Very powerful. Featured in Blacklist when the new recruit finds out about her husband first episode. Agree with first comment - technology changes everything. "Other means" is key phrase. Power out. All you hear from people you bump into is vowels. | |
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