| Ben Folds Five – Air Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[pokeman:34430] oops, I just realized I probably got the idea from @[skirt:34431]. Sorry | |
| Ben Folds Five – Air Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I think all the comments here are great. I tried to come up with my own idea, too. I'm sorry if it contradicts others ideas. I think really all of them are right, since the song was meant to be interpreted by everybody. My idea is that air is symbolic of peace or a better time, because usually I go outside to take a breath of fresh air when I'm stressed out. The drowning person and the person with the helmet are the same person. The drowning narrator is in a difficult place, because they don't have air. It's like they don't have peace. They look upwards through the dark sea into the future, and it's murky. It might be murky because when we look into the future, we aren't sure what's going to happen. He thinks he sees himself flying into space, taking off his helmet, and there's no air in space. He isn't very optimistic about his future, he's just gonna be in a different place with the same situation. But his future self pulls his past self up out of the water. His past self isn't breathing. I think they're the same people because of the line where he sees himself in the drowning person's eyes. I saw it as his future self making it above the surface. He made it to the air which means he got out of that bad situation. It's really a vision of the drowning person. The ugly buzz are the bad and depressing thoughts in his past self's head, and his past self decided to shut them out and try to get to the surface. He's going up to the surface by himself, but it feels like his future self he saw is helping by pulling him up. I thought the voice he knows could be somebody who cares about him, but in this interpretation the voice he knows is a bad person, those bad thoughts he shut out. And he's going to ignore the bad thoughts which says "there's no hope for him" and keep swimming to the surface. |
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| Train – Eggplant Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| To me the song is about something taking care of and protecting somebody from the harsh outside, like a parent and little kid. "Cover your face" is like telling them not to look at the hardships since they are too young or in a perfect world nobody would see them, and they try to make life for them like a fantasy with kings and mother time and eggplant and caviar. Like a parent pretending with a little kid. The singer would love to have apple pie for the person he's singing to, but in reality it is hard times and all there is is appleseeds and cold sheets and he needs to put food on the table. The situation seems stressful and hard, but there's positivity like the person he's singing to is holding up his wings like the sky and they are like perfume, metaphorically it is covering the bad parts of life and giving the willpower to keep going. | |
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