| Bad Company – Silver, Blue, and Gold Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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It's about a breakup, sure, but it's about a one-sided breakup not initiated by the singer (Paul Rodgers sings the song, but far be it for us to assume he ever truly felt these feelings, so for the purpose of the song's message, I'll refer to "the singer" rather than Rodgers). If it was initiated by the singer, he regrets it greatly. The song is sung from the perspective of someone who still very much in love, but the other person broke it off. Accordingly, it's not about a breakup as much as longing for someone you're in love with but who doesn't love you back. You needn't have been through a bad breakup to know the feeling. Anyone who's experienced any form of unrequited love, from a crush that doesn't materialize into anything more, to the end of a long relationship, can relate to this song. The singer thoroughly explains his feelings and why he has them. She broke up with him. He's in the dark, crying, brokenhearted, world in shreds. He just wants to escape that feeling, break out of that misery, and have some hope to finally see some light, the silver, blue and gold of clouds, sky and sun one sees when one's finally out of the darkness. Why? Because he's overdue to get a rainbow, the beauty and joy of light and color after the miserable, scary storms and rain that resemble tears and pain. I went all but about three weeks of the first 28 years of my life being single. Even though I've now been with my wonderful wife for 12 years, this song takes me back to my first 28 years immediately. For those of us for whom we'd rather build lasting relationships with people from our circle rather than seek out the fast, easy score at the bar, repeated failures sting badly. Not only are you lonely, but you have to learn to cope with the cycle of becoming interested in someone, working up the courage to try to reveal your feelings and dealing with the heartbreak and humiliation of rejection, then doing it again, and again, and again. If you were lucky, you went through the cycle over a few weeks. Other times, it took years. I like to say I practically invented the friendzone. I've read that, on average, men only succeed with about 10 percent of the women they actually try with, so I'm sure a lot of guys can relate. And this is what it feels like if you actually have a bit of a heart: You felt like you had something of love. There was probably a little bit of a connection, enough to give you hope that this time is different. But it went nowhere and now you feel hurt, unlovable, unwanted and like everything about you is wrong. You just want to escape that feeling and, just once, get it right. It does feel good when you finally do. But you never forget the feeling, to the point it almost starts to grow comfortable. And sometimes, when my wife and I are apart for work travel or whatever, it's late at night, and I know I miss her, I can put this song on and know Bad Company captured my feelings when I was single, and still can bring me to a place where it felt like at least one song made me feel like I wasn't the only one who felt that way sometimes. So I put it on, pour a drink, close my eyes and just patiently wait until we're together again while I hope she comes home soon. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – I'm Goin' Down Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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It's a song about frustration and coming to a level of acceptance with frustration. A relationship, and a lasting one, is dying. The two parties are just going through the motions. He wants to make it work and is trying what he knows how to do to make it work, taking her out, putting his arm around her, kissing her and the whole thing. But she's bored and just not having any of it. And, accordingly, he's hitting the breaking point. It's probably going to end in a flourish, one where everyone's probably going to be overjoyed it's over. But in the meantime, everyone's just going to keep going through the motions because that's what you do. I've had a tendency in my life to run into women who run hot and cold. I know it's going to happen. You get hope, you get optimism, she seems into you and then, for some reason, the texts get left on read, she's always busy when you try to arrange a date and things just die. You see it coming because you've seen it happen before. You know it's probably a flaw with you as much as it's a flaw with her. It's boring because it's predictable, and yet, what can you do? You're just goin' down, down, down, down. So yeah, that's when I listen to this song. |
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| Elton John – Simple Life Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I don\'t think there\'s much to this song. It\'s a slow burner that has a quiet, determined energy and optimism to it. \n\nThe message is simple: Things have been rough and trying, but we\'re going to get though it and come out the other side OK, and when we do, we\'re going to be able to breathe a sigh of relief and finally relax. \n\nI think it was a common message in the early 90\'s, with the world having emerged from the Cold War (seemingly) peaceful and OK and there being a lot of optimism that maybe we had gotten past some of our greatest struggles. Furthermore, Elton was emerging from his issues of the 80\'s at this time and was probably feeling a sense of optimism himself about what was left of his life and career. | |
| Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[phuzzy_duckz:38554] Pretty much. It's the classic "one that got away" tale. We've all got one. And we all wonder what it would be like if we could get back together, having learned more, lived more and made the point to better embrace how great that other person was while they were here. This song came out right around the time my own "one that got away," well, got away. I always think of her when I hear this. |
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| Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[phuzzy_duckz:38553] Pretty much. It's the classic "one that got away" tale. We've all got one. And we all wonder what it would be like if we could get back together, having learned more, lived more and made the point to better embrace how great that other person was while they were here. This song came out right around the time my own "one that got away," well, got away. I always think of her when I hear this. |
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| Lou Gramm – Midnight Blue Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Midnight Blue is a song about determination. We've all been there: There's someone we have feelings for, but we don't think we've done the right things or are "good enough" for them. Maybe they're out of our league, or maybe they gave us a shot and we screwed it up. But dang it if we're not going to keep trying, right? I feel like Midnight Blue is a song about the moment when you say, "I'm not giving up. I care. I don't want this to end and I'm going to do whatever I can to win you back and prove I'm worth your love." It's about reflecting on our whole being, including who we are (the things I've done and said), our upbringing (I remember what my father said), our past mistakes (I ain't got no regrets, I won't apologize), then deciding, for the sake of all of that, it's worth it to lean into our feelings (I just gotta follow through) and go for the glory, the cherry red. To do that? Sometimes, you have to throw caution into the wind and drive out into the middle of the night, the midnight blue, to do the silly, desperate thing with no one else's help and, against all odds, try to win someone's heart. It's about optimism, too, though any level of determination revolves around some optimism. "I'm the one that can see the sun right in the pouring rain." I can see us figuring out how to be together, even though we're not. I'm saving up my love. Soon there's going to come a day, I'll be back again. No, not there yet. But I'm going to figure it out. Determination. Add in the driving synth and guitars with drums that are almost marching, and it becomes a song about being determined to go out and prove you're good enough to deserve someone's love. We've all been there: That moment when you know the chance is coming to make a good impression on your crush, maybe the one that takes it from a crush to more. When you're in the car on the way to do that? Midnight Blue is a good soundtrack. |
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