| The Lumineers – Angela Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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In interpret this song as being more about people who try to run away from their problems, and the ensuing mental health problems that tend to follow. I interpret the song as being a story about a woman who has run away from her problems for a better life in Hollywood (like so many young people do). But all she finds is a cold-hearted wasteland full of people who 'drag you down' ("Strangers in this town, raise you up just to cut you down"). People try to run away from their problems only to find that you can't do that. Your problems always follow you, no matter how rich or famous you become, your problems remain, or get worse, as appears to be the case in this song. I see the song as suggesting a descent into drug addiction, and the craziness that descent can conjure up in a person's mind. "Did you hear the notes, all those static codes In the radio abyss?" ...suggests a level of 'psychosis' brought on by chronic drug use. "Were you safe and warm in your coat of arms With your fingers in a fist" Suggests, probably heroin addiction. Angela's fingers are in a fist (trying to find a vein, and maybe even overdosing), and she is 'warm in her coat of arms', the warmth that swells over you from a heroin high. There is also the suggestion that she is in a cheap hotel room. "Vacancy, hotel room..." ...and of course the constant throughout the song: "Home at last" Suggests the warmth of Heroin taking her to her final destination. That is, death is taking her home, away from the pain of life. It's a very sad song. |
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| The Stone Roses – Waterfall Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Joseph 1052 - I'm interpreting song lyrics for Pete's sake! Honestly, as a non Brit or American your respective patriotic sensitivities are beyond absurd, and ever so annoying to have to endure. You just sound bitter and angry, and it shows your ultimate weaknesses; vanity. Your patriotic pride is dented by me interpreting song lyrics? Get a grip! |
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| The Stone Roses – Waterfall Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Joseph 1052 - I'm interpreting song lyrics for Pete's sake! Honestly, as a non Brit or American your respective patriotic sensitivities are beyond absurd, and ever so annoying to have to endure. You just sound bitter and angry, and it shows your ultimate weaknesses; vanity. Your patriotic pride is dented by me interpreting song lyrics? Get a grip! |
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| The Stone Roses – Waterfall Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Joseph 1052 - I'm interpreting song lyrics for Pete's sake! Honestly, as a non Brit or American your respective patriotic sensitivities are beyond absurd, and ever so annoying to have to endure. You just sound bitter and angry, and it shows your ultimate weaknesses; vanity. Your patriotic pride is dented by me interpreting song lyrics? Get a grip! |
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| Soundgarden – The Day I Tried to Live Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This is an old post but I must weigh in (especially in light of the loss of Cornell....life sucks!). As has been asserted in an earlier post, this song is about nothing more than realising that you are nothing special in this world (any of us). The day Cornell tried to live? He realised there is nothing special about him or his achievements in life; he's just another person trying to make it in the world who nobody really gives a fuck about. Nobody really cares what he has to say and he is not changing the world - he's just dragging his knuckles like the rest of us and trying to figure it all out. It's definitely a cynical song about the simplicity, arrogance, righteousness, but perhaps most importantly? The naivety of youth, and the realisation that it's all bullshit, and in the end? We all end up conforming to what we once hated to some degree, and have to admit that our youthful exuberance for change and revolution was just that, youthful exuberance, and the older you get? The more you begin to realise that you, your generation and your attitude are not special and will not achieve any REAL change...I guess you just start to realise how huge and complex the world really is...and how little impact you will have on it with your limited time on this rock. Great song! And one that always puts a smile on my face. Somebody else has mentioned the issue of Existential Depression. I would agree that this touches on the whole question of 'what's the point?", but this has an added punch to it, that he realises that he thought he was something special and that he could make a difference, but he can't - the system is stacked against him; the powers-that-be too strong, and his willingness to turn his back on the money and comfort it provides him has dissipated. Now he's just joined the ranks of the vast majority of human beings, going through the motions of life and hoping for the best. |
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