| Laura Branigan – Gloria Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[hferro:16899] Fallin likely means failing or losing it. Basically she no longer has the ability and looks she once had and thus is not able to use her looks to get men to take care of her like she once did. | |
| Laura Branigan – Gloria Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[hferro:16898] I personally see main line as referencing men not on the rebound (the main group) as opposed to a man who is on the rebound (just out of a relationship) and thus not part of the main line. I believe it is simply a way to distinguish between the different groups. | |
| Laura Branigan – Gloria Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song sounds to me as if the singer, (Laura,) is talking about a woman who has lived a life of chasing men for money. But now in her older years her life is not working the way it did when she was young and pretty. When she was younger she could have any man she wanted. Yet as she is older she cannot, but she cannot deal with it. So she is now beginning to push harder and starting to panic. The first lines are about her running after somebody that she has to get somehow. And then it explains she needs to be careful not to blow it and she is headed for a breakdown, but she has to be careful not to show it and give it away or she has less of a chance of getting the man. The next stanza it talks about her not remembering, possibly referring to either becoming forgetful, or to a man blowing her off and she cannot accept it. The reference to voices in her head may mean all the men she has been trying to get over the years and whether they are calling her or not. then it talks about her fallin, (basically failing or losing her touch) and then it says if everybody wants you, why isn't anybody callin. but she cannot answer that question. "You don't have to answer" has a dual meaning to me in that when she was younger she did not have to answer the phone unless she felt like it, but now she does not have to answer because they are not calling. And then when it says "leave them hangin on the line," it references when she was in her prime she could turn guys away and string them along. It then states that "I think they've got your number," which I think has dual meaning of her wondering if they have her phone number, which they do, and also meaning the men are on to her game. And then goes to the next lines saying they have her alias, (again, they know what she is up to.) And the next stanza talks about how she may get one of her men. will she meet him on the main line (which I think may simply refer to a normal guy not in a relationship,) or will you meet him on the rebound (a guy right out of a relationship.) Are you gonna marry for the money and take a lover in the afternoon. And then it talks about her innocence slipping away and does not see it coming back soon. She is reflecting on her life in that verse. (This stanza to me is such a parallel to the song, "Lyin Eyes" by The Eagles, where the girl in the song married for money, has a lover she sees in the afternoon/evenings, and lost her innocence.) |
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