| Shai – If I Ever Fall In Love Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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This interpretation could be 100% wrong - but it seems like they are still together, and he’s trying to make his SO feel better about his lack of fidelity to her. The lyrics to me seem like he is talking to his girl that he cheated on and she found out and this is his “apology” song (he knew she was the one since they met....he cherishes every moment with her and feels he doesn’t deserve her...sounds like they’re still together). Sounds like he’s giving a romantic disclaimer that although she is “the one,” he will still have other crushes - but next time, instead of physically cheating on her, he will “make sure that the lady is a friend” aka not sleep with her, or, if it goes farther and it does become a physical affair and he “falls in love so true” he’ll make “sure that the lady’s just like you,” meaning he is telling her he finds her, his significant other, to be the most physically attractive type of person (so it makes it ok to cheat I guess.... |
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| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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This song seems to be much bigger than just one person’s event, which this does elaborate on individual suffering.. but rather Hide and Seek is about a mass casualty and the individual effect on each victim, the Holocaust. I think the tragedy on various scales repeats itself in history and this song is a call to attention to the suffering innocent people are forced to endure. - WHERE ARE WE? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? (This is a reminder that Jewish people were taken from their homes by the Nazis and forced to live, and often die - in complete confusion as to where they may be, why, or what may happen in the coming day - in concentration camps, which is incredibly difficult to experience and process) - THE DUST HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN TO FORM CROP CIRCLES IN THE CARPET. SINKING FEELING.. (This alludes to the fact that Imogen Heap is writing here and above, as it would seem, about a family that had only just been torn from their homes. Their home hasn’t even gotten dusty yet. The Nazis took everything from the Jewish population, not just their valuables at home but even their gold teeth after they passed..this also alludes to the vacancy of what used to be homes, because of this, and the pain that comes with losing these comforts of home). - SPIN ME ROUND AGAIN AND RUB MY EYES...THIS CANT BE HAPPENING, WHEN BUSY STREETS AMASSED WITH PEOPLE WOULD STOP TO HOLD THEIR HEADS, HEAVY. (This takes a step back from the above, intimate account, to “look at the whole elephant.” It alludes to the dizzying pain and fear, and sweeping horrors that gripped the nations where Nazi influence took hold. Not only were individual families torn apart - you could see the effects throughout the general population, in the streets, in their suffering together.) The chorus is the clearest indicator, a pointed collage of what we remember of the Holocaust: - HIDE AND SEEK (Jewish citizens were forced to take to hiding, going so far as to hide within the attics and between walls in their friend’s homes) TRAINS (innocent people were ripped from society and taken away in trains to concentration camps) AND SEWING MACHINES (Hitler forced Jewish people to sew stars of David to their clothing to represent their ethnic identity) BLOOD AND TEARS (the Holocaust was filled with pain and suffering) THEY WERE HERE FIRST (Jewish people had peacefully populated Germany well before the 1930s Nazi takeover, but this fact was disregarded by Hitler). - OILY MARKS APPEAR ON WALLS (pictures were removed from the walls of Jewish homes) WHERE PLEASURE MOMENTS (pictures of good times) HUNG BEFORE THE TAKEOVER (the Holocaust is commonly referred to as the Nazi takeover), THE SWEEPING INSENSITIVITY OF THIS STILL LIFE (the Holocaust was mass murder, the epitome of insensitivity). - MM..WHAT DID YOU SAY? THAT YOU ONLY MEANT WELL?...WELL OF COURSE YOU DID... WHAT DID YOU SAY? MM..THAT IT’S ALL FOR THE BEST?...OF COURSE IT IS.... WHAT DID YOU SAY? THAT ITS JUST WHAT WE NEED AND YOU DECIDED THIS? WHAT DID YOU SAY...OH WHAT DID YOU SAY... (This is an infuriated retort to Hitler’s false ideologies, that he somehow convinced an entire Nazi party to act on these terrible prejudices) - RANSOM NOTES KEEP FALLING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, MID-SWEET TALK, NEWSPAPER WORD CUTOUTS. SPEAK, NO FEELING...NO, I DON’T BELIEVE YOU. YOU DON’T CARE A BIT, YOU DON’T CARE A BIT...HIDE AND SEEK...NO, NO, YOU DONT CARE A BIT. NO, NO, YOU DON’T CARE A BIT. (This again speaks directly to Hitler about the chaos, pain and suffering he caused to erupt. It treats him as a killer taking people for ransom. He spoke “mid-sweet” words to the nation, leading people on using false pretenses, the results of which ended up in newspapers across the globe. I also believe that the newspaper word cutouts might indirectly refer to the fact that he went so far to brainwash people as to have people tear select pages from their history and other school books. In the end this shows - your words led to a horrific “hide and seek” which gripped a People, a Nation, and the World, and we know it stemmed from his brainwashing). This is a beautifully written and extremely sad, and I think important song. I can see how it can relate to so many horrific casualties - which should be never forgotten and we should all act to stop this suffering which still happens in other ways today, as well as prevent it in the future... |
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