| Radiohead – How to Disappear Completely Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| I don’t know if this was the intention or not, but it sounds a lot like it’s about trauma and dissociation. Especially depersonalization, when it feels like you are watching yourself, or that you are not actually in your body. “I’m not here, this isn’t happening” being repeated sounds like someone who is trying to survive a situation that reminds them of trauma, (which I think that’s what strobe lights, blown speakers, fireworks, and hurricanes means. Those things are dissociative triggers) or even during a traumatizing situation itself. When I first heard this song, it was during a time in my life when I dissociated a lot, and this song was extremely relatable | |
| A Perfect Circle – The Hollow Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| I think this song is about a woman, who’s suffered abuse in her life, possibly as a child. The “hollow” is the abcense of the abuse, which she doesn’t know how to live without it, so she constantly sleeps with different men to try and fill the void of the part of her that she feels missing. | |
| Funeral for a Friend – Ghosts Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I know I go really deep into this. But here's my thoughts: Congratulations, it's a boy Buried underneath the afterbirth of joy (means parents that celebrated when their son was born, but after a while, they regretted having him, and metaphorically "buried" him. as in emotional neglect) Sticks and stones will always break His bones can barely take the weight ("sticks and stones" means abuse. And it's saying here that he can barely take it) Of your breath breathing down his neck again ("breathing down ones neck" is an idiom that means overbearing. And so in this context it might mean overprotective, toxic parents .) Keep it to yourself 'Cause you don't need to ask Everything was golden Memories will last (People suspecting abuse in a person's life, and asking about it. But that person denies it, and insists everything is okay.) Your family; a little girl (This changes stories now. I think now it's about a man adopting or fostering a little girl) One little wonder with your back against the wall ("Back against the wall" means a situation with no escape.) Kisses at bedtime never meant A life that came to represent (I think this is referring to sexual abuse, making the little girl feel like her life is worthless.) Failings that she could not forget again (The man making "mistakes" as a father that traumatize her.) Keep it to yourself 'Cause you don't need to ask Everything was golden Memories will last She could not forget Breathing down his neck She could not forget (She can't forget his abuse) Well the price you pay is never worth The pain to suffer the abuse (Children shouldn't have to pay the price of being abused just so they can have parents.) Lay down and sleep with all the ghosts Again, again, again, again Lay down and sleep with all the ghosts Again, again, again, again Lay down and sleep with all the ghosts Again, again, again, again (Directed to child abusers. Its saying "good luck sleeping at night" when your actions should haunt you for every moment of the rest of your life) |
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| Blue October – Angel Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[poketh616:24350] he mentions his father in "the 21st", "weight of the world", "overweight", and "for the love", | |
| Blue October – Angel Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Great song. The best by blue october in my opinion. They don't have any other songs like it. It's very graphic and sad, and harsh, but that's why it's so great. It's about a topic that most bands would be too scared to touch upon. I believe that he's he's singing for every child that's been abused and/or neglected by their family. What makes this song meaning so confusing is that he changes his point of view so often throughout the song and it's so hard to keep up. But by now I've listened to this song a million times and I think I've got it figured out. The intro and ending, I think, is a story of a child abuse scenario. "I'm wishing the bath water clean. She hides in the back and is unseen" makes me think that right then, he is singing from the point of view of a pedophile, who is a dad/uncle/cousin, creeping into the bathroom while this young girl is taking a bath and hiding behind the shower curtain or door or in the dark or something like that, "I take off this mask that surrounds me" either means opening the door or shower curtain or turning on the lights In the bathroom that the girl is in. "Look me in the face, what do you see." Means the girl sees the pedophile, and sees him as her family member. " I feel like a boy of age 13, my body grows up but my mind stays the same" is talking about the pedophile's predatory lusting for the girl. "Look me in the face, what do you see?" Is the pedophile wondering how scared the little girl is of him in that moment. Then when the song starts, it switches to the point of view of maybe the actual singer? Of when he was an 18ish year old boy, and processing the aftermath of mistreatment from his own parents. "How do you tell an an angel, that you don't beleive in God?" Is him when he questioning his faith, probably about the time when he moved out and away from his parents and was starting to have opinions of his own. "Why do I feel like such a stranger? I look around and all my friends are gone" is just him talking about the struggles of growing up. "But oh would you be me? Cause I would be you. Oh you'd be happy, only if you wanted to. And oh, would you treat me? Cause I would treat you. Oh, you'd be happy. Only if you wanted to." I think he's talking to his parents, more specifically to his mom, who he loves, but is disappointed and angry at. He's basically saying, "you could have been a better parents, if you actually tried to be." "How do you tell your father, that you want him to notice you?" Is him addressing the listeners of the song. He's telling the listeners how hard his relationship with his father was in his childhood. "Why does this seem, like such a bother? When mom says he'd be better off dead" he's talking to the listeners again, explaining how his mother felt about his father. "But I want to see you. I still want to see you." He's singing to his father now, telling him how much he loves him and wishes he would be there for him. "But oh, would you call me? Oh, it's not hard to." He's talking to his mom now. Asking her why she didn't try to be a better mother than she was. "I'm the first one, oh, you gave birth to." I think, is him telling his mother he doesn't understand why she seems to love his little brother more than she loves him (I think?) "And oh would you write me, on my birthday? Graduation was yesterday." This is him again, asking why she didn't put any effort into acting like he was important to her. "How do you hold, the special victim? When they push you away." (I'm still sort of confused on what this part means. Or what his point of view is here.) but by "special victim" he means victim of abuse or mistreatment. And by "push you away," maybe it means how other family members have badly handled this mistreatment or abuse of a child. By ignoring it or blaming them or something like that. "When they've been raped on the inside, torn on the outside" is him at this point now switching to singing about all the children who have been abused. And symbolizing the harsh physical and emotional damage inflicted on the victim "The dirt and ugly from the stain that they try to hide" is symbolic of the aftermath of abuse, and the shame that comes with it. "Touched in private places" is specifically describing victims of sexual abuse. "Embarrassed faces. Too scared to ask for help, why?" Is about the shame that comes with abuse. "But oh would you be me? Cause I would be you. Oh, you'd be happy. Only if you wanted to. And oh would you treat me? Cause I would treat at you? Oh, you'd be happy. Only if you wanted to. You wanted to." This is the chorus. "I'm wishing the bath water clean. She hides in the back and is unseen. I take off this mask that surrounds me. Look me in the face, what do you see." Repeating the line from the beginning, because that's what the meaning of the song still stands for. |
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| Staind – How About You Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| My interpretation of this song is like, reminding the people who have easy lives and always get what they want, that it isn't like that for everyone. That for some people, it takes everything you have just to succeed in something. And that sometimes that doesn't even work. And a lot of people have gone through bad shit that other people could never begin to understand. And that they just want those people to know how hard it is for them. | |
| SafetySuit – Find A Way Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I feel like this is exactly my life right now. This is just my interpretation: "You know I'm going to find a way to let you have your way with me" reminds me of how I'm making reckless decisions in my life right now. And how I was almost going to date this guy I knew would use me, because my life is so bad at the moment, and I just wanted to feel something. And how he left my life, and how much I miss being used. And how I'm trying to get him back. And how I'll do anything to get him back. And I know it's bad, but I'd run back to him in a heartbeat. But he doesn't want me anymore. |
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| Green Day – Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I love this song because i listened to it growing up, and when I was 11 I had a nightmare about rape and this song was playing in the dream and when I woke up I interpreted it as having to "let go" of my traumatic past. so this song always makes me feel scared and comforted at the same time. It's a beautiful song. I love it especially when it plays at a grocery store or something like that. It fits the mood perfectly. | |
| Blue October – 18th Floor Balcony Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Idk bout y'all but this perfectly captures the feeling of being with my lesbian lover when I was 14 | |
| Radiohead – How to Disappear Completely Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| As a person that suffers from dissociation and depersonalization, this song rly Fuks Me Up. I feel like it's the perfect musical embodiment of the feeling of dissociating | |
| Death Cab for Cutie – A Lack of Color Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Yeah I know this probably wasn't what it was meant to mean but that's what I've interpreted it as. I heard this song when I was 14 and I was anorexic and on the way to a hospital . It just felt fitting , "lack of color" meaning depression, "when I see you I really see you upside down, but my brain knows better it picks you up and turns you around" meaning body image. "All the girls in all the girly magazines can't make me feel any less alone" meaning magazine models triggering dysmorphia. And "I should've given you a reason to stay" meaning wishing there was a better way out than to be hospitalized. | |
| Flatsound – You Are the Coffin Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I think it's about female sexuality..? And how she discovered what she could do with it after she hit puberty | |
| Blue October – Angel Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I've always thought he was singing for all the kids who have been abused or neglected by their parents | |
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