| Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| This is one of my favorite songs and it stays with me because I think it carries through life despite the youthful take on it. Or rather, because of the youthful perspective because we've all been there. My interpretation is that this is someone staving off the bitter acceptance that things usually don't work out which is so prevalent in older perspectives: "Forget what we're told before we get too old". The desire to cling to a young, simple love "If I just lay here would you lie with me and just forget the world?" and accepting that includes making all the mistakes that come with denying this well-known ending, to learn the hard way for its own sake "We'll do it all, everything, on our own" just to enjoy the emersion in it "forget the world", "those three words...they're not enough", "let's waste time, chasing cars", "all that I am, all that I ever was, is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see", "these things will never change for us at all" but all in the [vain?] hope they can learn and grow together, prove the inevitable wrong "I need your grace to remind me to find my own", "I don't know where, confused about how as well", "we'll do it all, everything, on our own, we don't need anything from anyone". And, for me anyway, I know I don't want to let go of that child-like optimism that love conquers all either, so it continues to speak to my soul every time I hear it, no matter how old I get. | |
| Enya – Even in the Shadows Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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While this song is clearly about grief ("Wonder why this love is over"), and most likely a break-up ("I turn around to find you walk away"), it's an eerily peppy tune for it. So I think the emphasis is meant to be on the word "could" in the chorus. The singer COULD just keep falling in love or falling over themselves over this person they know they need to let go of, but they realize they have the choice. To me, this is a song of empowerment. You COULD be overwhelmed by the grief, and it is SO tempting to do so, to envelope yourself in the sense of love you once had, the sorrow in it's loss, the confusion in how it could end... but that also means you have the choice Not To. Sometimes in grief you find yourself plagued with highs and lows, and the highs can be just as bad because you feel guilt for them, as if they mean you didn't care as much as you thought you did, or that you're letting go just as easily as the other person who you feel abandoned you, as if that's justifying them. You COULD look at it that way and stay stuck in the lows if you choose to. This song says to me that you COULD choose to accept the lows, the grief, AS WELL AS the love that you felt and that it wasn't your choice that things ended, or that if it was you can do so with the confidence you're doing the right thing. You CAN give yourself peace. And even then you can still look back with love and sadness, guilt, or whatever feelings you may have. I appreciate that the song doesn't say it explicitly, doesn't resolve anything, just repeats over and over that the choice is yours. It's a judgement-free empowerment. You can even choose to be overwhelmed with grief right now, and that's okay, too. As many times as you need to until you're ready, if you're ever ready. It's your choice. Yours. You COULD choose to move on, but you COULD choose to carry your grief with you always. And there's peace in that, too. |
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