| Third Eye Blind – Deep Inside of You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song is about loving someone completely, and realising that they don't love you that much at all. I absolutely love this: "I breathe by your looks, and you look right through me..." A sentiment anybody who ever experienced unrequited love can understand. |
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| The Starting Line – The Night Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's "It'll take a while to see that smile, that's lay dormant since she's gone". I like this song, it's an odd juxtaposition because the music is so sweet and poppy and the lyrics are actually pretty sarcastic and bitter. I think it's about him trying to get over losing someone and people just throwing nonsense phrases at him - "At least you've got your health". And him thinking what a load of bullshit, it still hurts, don't try and take my right to grieve away from me, I "miss her so bad it hurts". |
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| Jimmy Eat World – 23 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is definitely JEW's best song, in my opinion. It grips you from start to finish. It's one of those songs that no matter how late you are, you can't stop halfway through. It's such an entity, and there is so much emotion in Jim's voice. I do honestly think "I won't always live... stop it..." is my favourite lyric ever, just for the sheer emotion in it. |
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| Ash – Twilight of the Innocents Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'll second that, this song is amazing live, it loses something on the album. Still fantastic lyrically though, and easily my fave on the album. As I see it, it's about a person who has been "living in hell" his whole life, unnoticed and tortured and eventually looking for the easy way out... "the banished citadel" through suicide. And even then nobody notices his despair... "your soul denied these warnings, took no notice, disbelieving". And all this person wants is for someone to notice they exist, hence the "I'm still breathing, my heart's still beating..." repeat. At the very end of the song Tim starts chanting "Incoming, incoming..." and I think this is to symbolize that the guy has done it, killed himself, and is "incoming" to heaven or hell or whatever afterlife you choose to believe in. Bits of it seem to be a bit religious, I imagine "When are you coming home? You've been away too long, too far you've wandered" to be God speaking to him, saying it's okay to give up, to come back to him. And then you have the one odd line, the "I am left to wonder why, forever after". That maybe everybody has a person who will miss them and wonder, that no man is an island, no matter what they think. It's a beautiful, tragic song. I adore it. |
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| The Hoosiers – Cops & Robbers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Lol, brilliant, I was just strolling over to this page to say "My God, this song IS Lovecats!" but you guys beat me to it. I honestly thought The Cure had done some bizarre remix when I first heard it. Still, I can't hate it, it's just too much fun. |
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| David Gray – Say Hello Wave Goodbye Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I have to agree with Urban Cannibal. This is quite possibly the worst cover I have ever heard, it makes me want to rip my ears off. Did David Gray even LISTEN to Marc Almond sing this song before he strolled into the studio for 5 minutes and strummed it out? The original is sung with powerful, defiant anger, Marc Almond positively spits the words "going cheap in the sale", the emotion during the "take your hands off me" line, the authority of him saying 'you WILL not do this to me anymore, I am not yours to destroy' is amazing. David Gray sings the entire thing without breaking stride, without a hint of emotion other than melancholy, and this song is NOT about melancholy. It's about release, freedom, and anger, about taking back your life. Absolutely abysmal. |
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| Fall Out Boy – Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I agree with the people saying that this is a bit of a mocking song on the whole "emo" revolution. I don't know a great deal about FOB (I possess both albums and think they're pretty insightful but I couldn't name one member), how old are they? This strikes me as being written for mid-teens (from an older person's perspective), where it seems to be the new trend to be depressed and melodramatic and broken-hearted. FOB are basically saying that depression/self-harm/suicide/3000 piercings are not shocking when every person under the age of 25 is doing it ("This has been said so many times that I'm not sure if it matters") and saying (not just in this song) that as lives go, the "emo kid" stereotypes (middle class surburban white kids) have it pretty good, so stop moping because it's not cool and you'll grow up and regret the time wasted. I really like that this band can actually address their fans and criticise them rather than just pander to the melodrama all the time (A Little Less Sixteen Candles has the same mocking quality, to name one song), it's risky and I respect them for having the balls to say "snap out of, kids". I love the "I know this hurts, it was meant to" line. It's almost paternal. It also says a lot for the people it's aimed at that they don't stop listening, self-reflection is a good thing! |
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