| Villagers – Twenty Seven Strangers Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I can't help but think that this song is just a bad excuse for being late, which perhaps is a perpetual problem for him. He's just trying to hard here. "The bus was late." Yeah, that would cause tardiness, but "the bus broke down..." too. That's really stretching it. I love the details he adds like "a baby cries," "Fluorescent lights doubled everyone in sight," and "Noticing that tree of yours", but I feel like those details are merely added as slight of hand to get his partner to really believe his ridiculous story this time. Then, to prepare the partner for future lateness, he warns that "Tomorrow it could be the same..." This guy's just not the punctual type, but he tells a great story. |
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| Birdy – I'll Never Forget You Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I've got quite a different interpretation than it seems others have taken here. First, she uses third person to describe Eighty-Six Charlie. This suggests that she is not speaking to Charlie. Charlie "Asked me to make an exception." To me, I think Charlie is asking her to come back to him even though he cheated on or did something wrong to her, maybe just dumped (eighty-sixed) her. Charlie asks her "if it's not too late," to take him back. The part where I vary from others is this. I think she's speaking to her current love interest. She says "I'll never forget you," to tell that person that she is going to go back to Charlie. The part that convinces me that this is the case is when she says to this person "You make things so easy." She couldn't be saying that to Charlie. He surely doesn't make things easy, but that insecurity has probably increased her passion for Charlie and that stability probably reduced her passion for the current relationship. She will never forget because she's finally been treated right, but she is going to go back to Charlie anyhow. She ends with "It's not too late because..." That isn't Charlie's request but her response. |
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