| A Great Big World – Say Something Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[avaegrtsn:24273] Very succinct and totally right. But with the intensity of the emotions you're describing it just feels a little too analytical, what's your personal interpretation? What images, moments, stories (real or fictional) does it bring up or connote for you? | |
| A Great Big World – Say Something Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Having read many of the interpretations here it's lovely to have such consensus on the meaning. I certainly think its about love, I think it jumps characters and contexts of it's own meaning a lot. It's not a linear story of meaning, it's like vignettes with different meanings and context arising in a beautifully random way. I absolutely agree the explicit context is a relationship breaking down, the plea for a loved one to say something and try again to fix things. This had been so amazingly illustrated in other interpretations below so I'll add the most poignant for me as well as a person imagining of the meaning that is not necessarily part of the original meaning: The bit that had me in tears was the images of the old couple, and the man grieving the death of his love. The most important lyrics in this song for me "and anywhere I would have followed you"simply because that is the crescendo in which the song peaks, the emotion in that crescendo in the context of death had me streaming with tears. The idea that, no matter how hard and how truly the desire to follow his love, is nothing short of tragic. An impossible task paired against an unending conviction. The title of the song on obviously compounds this tragedy, begging for her to say something so that he won't have to give up simply as a matter of self preservation and acknowledgement of reality. Personally, this is so poignant because I know it is exactly how I will feel when my mother dies. My love for her is total and perfect, there is no end nor any condition to it, within myself I know I would follow her without limit and without hesitation. I owe her more than can be described verbally. I personally believe in an afterlife, but I have not been able yet to come to terms with this inevitability. Music is a far more comprehensive expression of emotion and the crescendo in this song is a truer representation of future feelings than words. That's my $0.02. The other natural "fantasy" that this song brought to me was one of an creator or (G)god. This is totally a personal image, but the idea that this God sees it's creation and it's journey through life and is deeply disappointed in their choices, something I imagine a spiritual creator of Humanity would be. The lines main lyrics "say something I'm giving up on you, I'll be the one of you want me to, anywhere I would have followed you" fit this idea of regret, imploring the created to return to good, asking almost meekly if it is an entity that should be known. Equally the first verse is a really nice interpretation of God, "And I am feeling so small, it was over my head I know nothing at all, and I will stumble and fall, I'm still learning to love just starting to crawl" to me this connotes a young deity, who's first creation went astray. That it feels like it failed, that it is faced with its own inadequacy in creation, teaching and also it's inability feel benevolent (infinitely loving). This idea of an adolescent omnipotent creator is nuanced and is not an unlikely event should creator/creators exist. Equally, the lyrics "and I will swallow my pride, you're the one that I love and I'm saying goodbye" to me is an obvious denotation of accepting the failure and admitting that it's only option is to abandon it's creation. Something I imagine is an unimaginable sense of grief, shame and loss. Hope you enjoyed, been meaning to write this for a while |
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