| The Joy Formidable – Whirring Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think this song is about an inability to express your thoughts to someone important to you who is leaving. First of all, song title: Whirring - in the context of the song seems to imply a whirring of thoughts, feelings and emotions. The song details a welling of strong positive emotion (love, delight?), filling you up (fills columns to new heights), colors running prime (simple strong colors, simple strong emotions), and painting a picture so bright (really a very positive image of those feelings). This person obviously has strong, delightful and positive emotions that are clear inside of her, but all those things about her you can't tell. Those thoughts and feelings she wants to express, so much so, that they keep her up at night. Now when the time comes to relay those feelings, they get lost on that person. Who turns the dial on her words. She herself can feel her words falling short - not expressing all the emotion and thoughts inside her. And she becomes part of the 'radio' chatter around that person, all chiming along (I envision a group of people telling that person who is leaving that they'll miss them, but she feels even deeper feelings for that person, that she cannot express or make the other actually hear. Her words become like all the other people's words, when she wants to express her deepest emotions, and it comes out sounding like everyone else. This person could be someone she loves romantically, but also could be someone who is just a really close friend, a family member, etc., and she's never been able to express how important that person is to her. I think the most telling line is "I can see you staying here." It's what she wants to say, in a way that isn't direct, but clearly means she would like that person to stay. Each time she says it in the song, it is very quiet, covered by a cacophany of guitars and drums, like her words in the song, it is being lost. "Fierce steps shadow, life's will gone shallow." - heartbreaking, she has not been able to express her true feelings, and that person, I think has left. Shadow and darkness come in. Her life's will has gone shallow. I think we can all relate when someone we really like leaves, and our life feels emptier without them. Again, all those things about her, you never can tell - again, no one knows the emptiness that she feels now that that person is gone. |
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| Post Malone – Sunflower Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[lupination:29299] I think the comments above are right, but you really hit the nail right on the head. It's about a relationship dynamic, where one is more invested in the other, where one needs the other - where "you'd be lost in the dust, unless I stuck by ya". It's a really bittersweet song. Love it. |
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