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| Elton John – High Flying Bird Lyrics
| 10 months ago
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My take is that the song is about a man who loves a young woman (perhaps it’s romantic love or perhaps it’s paternal or fraternal love), and because he loves her, he thinks he has to protect her from the world, but she grows to see this behavior (rightly or wrongly) as malicious, believing he’s holding her back, that he’s keeping her in a cage. Eventually it builds up to the point that she attempts suicide because she believes that is the only means she has to escape. I think she survives, but her actions make the narrator reevaluate his own actions towards her and he realizes that intentionally or not, he has been causing her harm. And he experiences great regret over how he treated her, because he never meant to hurt her, he thought he was acting in her best interests. So he realizes he has to let her go, to let her fly from out his arms. Thematically, I think it’s not too dissimilar from Blues For Baby And Me. I think they’re both about men having to let women they love and want to protect go. |
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| Ben Folds Five – House Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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I think beepboopbop hit it on the head about it being about trying to move on from a bad experience. I’m not sure about the mental illness angle, though, unless you’re talking about PTSD. I get a very strong vibe of someone recovering from PTSD. I picture someone who grew up in a household or maybe had a relationship where he experienced some kind of trauma— maybe physical or verbal abuse— and it plagued him for a long time after, gave him flashbacks and nightmares where he was still in it; and now years later he’s in a much better place mentally, but maybe his parents have died and left the house to him, and while it can’t hurt him anymore, he doesn’t want anything to do with it anymore. He had it cleared out, took whatever he wanted to keep, sold or scrapped everything else, and put the house up for sale. And he’s done with it. He’s already dealt with the trauma, the bad memories, he’s gotten therapy, faced his demons, and he just wants to move on. |
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