| The Temper Trap – Trembling Hands Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Turning the ground I once used to know People are strangers Same as before Streets look familiar I remember the park Where I buried my head So deep in my hands All around me was dark He is walking through where he usually does. But this time, it's with a new perspective. Everything is darker unfamiliar. He mentions it is familiar, but he would not describe an area he knows by heart if it truly was. People are strangers, he knows that as he encounters them. Everyone has a story, but to begin to even start their story, you need to start over. This isn't his first rodeo of feeling lonely and lost. This here city Is for the lonely ones Won't find no angels Sell a map to the lost This here place Is too small for two It took one to realize When dreaming's this hard It's not meant to come true Loneliness is further conveyed here. As he sees others, he inevitably ponders that others may feel the same. Althought people are strangers, everyone has this common path to walk down. You won't find angels, who are meant to be a guide. So it is better to go "sell a map" to those who need help. But that's what he wants. Someone to help him. This state of loneliness or loss of a relationship troubles him deeply. He wishes the place is big enough for two, but the reality (what he noticed) was that after so many tries, he always ends up in the same position. He feels it is meant to be this way because it never ends any differently. So throw me a line Somebody out there help me I'm on my own I'm on my own Throw me a line Afraid that I have come here To win you again With trembling hands As mentioned before, he wishes for someone to come up to him and help him. This time it is more blunt. However, when he sings this, he sounds desperate. As if nobody is listening. Also as mentioned before, he says "Afraid I have come here again/To win you again/With trembling hands," indicating he needs to start over with a relationship he has lost. Passing the days Looking over the buildings Time seems to stop While the millions keep moving Now here I am I'm a drop in your ocean Noise in the crowd Pushing through your halls of reason This lonely feeling seems to be a daily occurrence, for he notices people seem to move on and move forward in life when this one thing is burdening him. The second half of this solidifies the idea that this is of a person, a relationship he lost. He is a drop in their ocean. A noise in a crowd. Insignificant. But he doesn't get how it got to this point, so he is running through the possibilities of what happened so he could (as stated before and after) win them again. So throw me a line Somebody out there help me I'm on my own I'm on my own Throw me a line Afraid that I have come here To win you again With trembling hands Hear me now make me whole, whole Hear me now make me whole, whole He wants to feel significant. He wants to feel like a person. He wants to feel whole. Like life is complete. And to do that, he wants to win this person back (again stated before and after these lines). So throw me a line Somebody out there help me I'm on my own I'm on my own Throw me a line Afraid that I have come here To win you again With trembling hands Trembling hands There goes the ending It left me in the war But I tried everything yeah I'm done with my part This part, despite being short, really does hit the message home that theres no hope. He knows things are ending. Things are done. But there's this mental battle he is going through -- he is lost, he is lonely, and it makes it worse that the other person moved on. But he tried so many things. He tried to win her back. But nobody can help. The relationship is done, it's over with, there's no going back. Because of this, knowing he tried his best and nobody can really help, he is done with his part. There is nothing he can do. I like this song because it is fairly vague and the instruments and background echoes mixed with the pain heard in his voice hits hard. I personally get hit with a wave of loneliness when hearing this song because it brings me back to things I have lost, not just a person. It truly makes me feel like nobody is out there to help me. Maybe because they all face their own similar problem. Or maybe because they don't realize how much it means to me. They tell me to get over it. It's always things out of my control. However, this song has helped me realize when I DO have control over a situation and a feeling. Sure, I have to start some place where I am uncomfortable, but eventually, I get to where I want to be. This is because the reverse of this song is also true. That an insignicant loss of hope (that is me) can be picked out in a crowd, in an ocean just as easily as I could get lost in one. And I realize others have this same exact feeling. I could show this song to everyone and the vocals with instrumentals could get them sad, sure, but paying attention to the lyrics sends them to a depressive state. In college, I struggled endlessly on my own to study. My friends were either different majors, not focused on school, or way behind me to understand what I am learning. In class, I would blurt out wrong answers and everyone looked at me like an idiot. But this song has given me the courage to do something about it and ask someone to be my study partner. Everything changed since then. Because I am no longer on my own. |
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| We Were Promised Jetpacks – Quiet Little Voices Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think this means he fell for someone for the first time in a while, but he isn't ready for that yet. "Quiet little voices" are "creeping into [his] head." He feels "young again" because it feels childish to have a crush on someone. These monsters (because he doesn't want to feel this way) "creep inside [his] bedroom wall," indicating he can't stop thinking about it even while trying to sleep. "Little words of wisdom" is misleading and sarcastic because these words come from the monsters, not himself that he would die for this person. He then becomes ready to do anything for this person, being ready at any moment in time, running for them, coming for them, dying for them. However, he reminds himself that its these monstrous thoughts that make him feel this way. He says he "better stop now" because he knows his feelings will only grow as these voices strengthen in his head. Why should he restrict his feelings? I don't know, it only emphasizes what he feels, not why. But it seems like he is trying to internally stop an obsession from forming for someone who doesn't feel the same or someone too far out of reach. Or maybe he's already with someone, so he cannot have these thoughts. Maybe that's why he feels "young again," because an affair is playing with an existing relationship he has previously committed to. And these monsters are monsters because he knows it's wrong. |
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| Stateless – Bloodstream Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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"Wake up look me in the eyes again" could be interpretted as "[I] wake up [and I want you to] look me in the eyes again," meaning he was dreaming of someone and wanted them to appear alongside his bed when he wakes up. "I need to feel your hand upon my face" further solidifies this, as the person isn't physically with them, but he felt this in his dream and wants it to continue when he wakes. "Words can be like knives/They can cut you open/And the silence surrounds you/And holds you" can be shown as a type of rejection in a way. He tried to make something work with someone he wanted to be closer to, but it did not exactly work out. And that rejection "cuts you open." But since they were close before, that "silence" that "surrounds you and holds you" haunts him because of how close they were, but that tension of one not wanting the other made them stop being so close. This is further shown through the lines "I think I might've inhaled you/I could feel you behind my eyes/You gotten into my bloodstream/I could feel you floating in me." I first thought this was about a breakup, but these lines made me think it was a moment of realization that he fell in love with someone. He THINKS he might've inhaled the person. He won't stop thinking about them, they're the thought that plagues his mind and bloodstream. The lines "The spaces in between/Two minds and all the places they have been" shows their closeness and how alike they were. So when he says, "I tried to put my finger on it," he is possibly trying to figure out why the other person doesn't feel the same if he himself feels they are compatible. "I tried to put my finger on it" can also mean he is trying to put his finger on why exactly this person is constantly crossing his mind." TL;DR He had a moment of realization that he was falling for someone who does not feel the same about him |
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