| Avril Lavigne – I'm With You Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Does anyone else find this song a little creepy. I mean, it sounds good on a strictly musical level; boring and unoriginal, but if that's what you're into... And then you listen to the lyrics: "Isn't ANYONE tryin to find me?" "Won't SOMEBODY come take me home?" "I don't know who you are, but I... I'm with you." There's something to be said for being open-minded, but it's also good to be at least a little bit discriminating. What is she saying here? "The person I was waiting for didn't show up. Can I go home with you?" This is how bad things happen to little girls! |
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| Roger Whittaker – The Last Farewell Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| This is beautiful. It's being sung to the country he loves as he sails off to defend it. Very moving, especially given the events going on in the world right now. | |
| Tonic – Soldier's Daughter Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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I have to say, this is by far my favorite Tonic song. I almost cried the first time I heard it (and a few times since for that matter), and I can tell you exactly what it means in my head, which is what matters really ;p This is a being sung by a man to his younger sister. They've both grown up, moved out, gone on with their lives, and then one day he realizes that all the crap from when they were young is still there. The relationship between his sister and his dad is still not right. She keeps wanting something, affection maybe, or just for him to say 'I'm proud of who you've become', and he's not giving it. Maybe he's oblivious, maybe he's just cruel. I don't think either of them know. I love a couple of the lines; "You can bend/But you can't break." I get this picture of a palm tree, standing alone, completely unshielded from the winds off the water. And yet it stays standing, stays rooted in the ground, because instead of fighting the wind it's trunk bends, so low sometimes that it touches the sand, but it always stands up again when the wind stops blowing. I had a friend tell me it's all about sexual abuse, but I don't get that from this song at all. I think he thought so because of the 'sun shin[ing] though her dress' bit. To me that's just this beautiful image, carried by the brother, of a time when they were kids and they'd play in the fields and she'd pretend to be a ballerina, dancing around in her sundress. It's a plea to not lose that completely, even though it was that innocence that allowed her to be hurt in the first place. See, now I'm getting all teary again. Maybe I need to stop drawing parallels between song lyrics and my life. Or maybe that's the mark of a good song. |
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| Nirvana – You Know You're Right Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Here's the funny thing. When I first heard this on the radio, I though "Cool! Who would have thought we'd be hearing new Nirvana a decade later?" Then I listened to the song some more, and realized that I would have HATED this one when I was 14. It's the "Pain" bit; sounds like something Silverchair would do, after they grew up and didn't have a excuse for being lame... Anyway, I thought that was interesting when I figured it out. |
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