| Beach House – Myth Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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One of the amazing things about the best poetry and music is how easily we can project our own personalized meaning to it. It can take on multiple meanings as our lives, circumstances, and perspectives change. This song has done that for me. “Drifting in and out You see what road you’re on” Your focus changes but you at least see where you’re heading. “It came rolling down your cheek You say just what you mean And in between it’s never as it seems” Your heart has broken. You’ve tried to be honest about it, but you can’t move through the stages of recovery over the loss. As you’re in the middle of this, you don’t even know what to expect. “Help me to name it Help me to name it” What do we call this in not quite a relationship yet not quite nothing? “If you built yourself a myth You’d know just what to give” If you built an ideal in your mind of what our relationship should be, you know who’s you’d have to be to make that reality. “What comes after this Momentary bliss, the consequence Of what you do to me” When you do live out that ideal, you create bliss for me. What I (& we) feel is beyond love. “Help me to name it Help me to name it” That feeling of love and ecstasy can’t be labeled. Ot is beyond description. “Found yourself in a new direction Arrows falling from the sun” You’ve found our being apart is harder than expected. It feels like the sky is falling and everything coming at you will destroy you. “Canyon calling Would they come to greet you Let you know you’re not the only one” You can find echo chambers in society where there are plenty of people who will remind you this happens all the time to many others. “Can’t keep hanging on to what is dead and gone” If it’s dead, it’s dead and time to move on … “If you build yourself a myth You’d know just what to give Materialize Or let the ashes fly” … but if this is the ideal we dreamed of you get to choose whether to rebirth it as a phoenix or let its ashes blow away. “Help me to name it Help me to name it” I need you to decide what this is, the ideal we wanted at one time or a part of our past. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Soma Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| I still consider this the theme song of my childhood. It's an amazing song that builds toward that feeling of inevitable destruction and pain, ending with an exhausted depression of powerlessness. The lyrics aren't always applicable to every situation, but even they fit too well too often. I love this song. Some really high quality headphones and a high volume is great therapy. I'm grateful Billy Corgan could relate to something I've felt. | |
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