| Wolf Parade – I'll Believe in Anything Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The references to hits and trips convince me that archemist1 is right, that the song might have something to do with drug addiction, or with some mental/emotional dependence mediated through the theme of drug addiction. Yes, the lines "If I could take the fire out from the wire/ I'd share a life and you'd share a life" suggests that quitting would allow them to maintain healthy, meaningful lives and relationships. The two people in the song "wait for the scary day/ we both pull the tricks out of our sleeves," or the day they make the decision to quit. I like how one can understand the first line of the song only after listening to the fifth stanza: the request for the other's eyes is a rephrasing of the appeal to "look at the trees and look at my face/ And look at a place far away from here." Finally: stop assuming the other person is a female that the first person is in love with. |
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| Angra – Deep Blue Lyrics | 22 years ago |
| I'm sure the Renaissance in this song doesn't refer to the European cultural/scientific movement, does it? I honestly have no idea what this song is about. | |
| Sonata Arctica – Last Drop Falls Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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This song is about a boy who doesn't have enough self-respect or strength to ease himself out of the grip of some manipulative, emotionally blackmailing, openly unfaithful, and just plain scary lover. English isn't the band's first language, but the lyrics can be so frank--"Always ready for a ride"--that it can, after many listenings, still make me blush. |
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| Symphony X – Egypt Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| The song mentions different places: Alnantees, Atlantis, and a Kingdom of Gold. Is this song based on myth and legend, or is it simply a fabrication that ties together different "famous" mythical elements? For that matter, how does the aforementioned apply to the whole album /V/? | |
| Symphony X – Candlelight Fantasia Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| Wow. I never would have interpreted it that way. I never attached such specific meaning to it--I thought it was another beautifully dark song about unfulfilled longing and the anguish of being strung along by destiny. | |
| Emm Gryner – Parting Song Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| This song is sad, because it's looking back and saying goodbye. | |
| Kamelot – Don't You Cry Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| Yes. I read an interview with Youngblood that mentioned it, and I recall that he said that the lyrics don't reflect the way he feels exactly, but it's a start to opening up, or something like that. | |
| Blind Guardian – Mies Del Dolor Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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I added this song after searching the Internet in vain. I finally came upon a text document that no longer exists--I found a cached copy, but its old address is http://www.angelfire.com/ok/speedandpower/bgl30.html--that has a mistake-ridden transcript of the lyrics. I tried to fix the lyrics as best as I could, although the words in brackets indicates uncertainty. For the most part, the contents are grammatically correct, but even though Hansi has great pronunciation for a non-native speaker, I still had trouble. Believe me, I would have never been able to figure out the lyrics without that copy I found. Hopefully someone can correct the uncertain parts. By the way, it's amazing that there are six versions of this song in four different languages. |
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| Blind Guardian – And Then There Was Silence Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| Sorry, I meant Hansi, not Andre. | |
| Bright Eyes – The Center of the World Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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Most of you seem to focus on the amorous aspect of the song, but I had never really seen it that way. It seems to have more to do with the metaphysical, in my opinion. The most important part of the song is when the speaker reveals the "horror of the truth", which seems to be that "we are far less than we knew." S/he then goes on to describe a funeral, for which men cut marble to commemorate the sweetness of life. However, as the song develops, one discovers that the real funeral does not occur after one's death. Instead, death is the 9-to-5 job and the grotesquely banal details of one's life, such as lost relationships or not being able to sleep at night. Towards the end, the speaker says, "This isn't happening", as if aghast at the horror of his/her life. As s/he points out, though, "[i]t is", which I think it refers to the earlier revelation that "we are far less than we knew". Even the reference to the girl at the beginning doesn't strike me as romantic. The center of the earth seems symbolic, though I know not of what. If we take the example of /Journey to the Center of the Earth/, it might be the archetype of a struggle to achieve something or go somewhere. Being at the center of the earth could symbolize the state of Knowing, and then being cast out (as the speaker's form is scattered onto a beach). Knowing --> Horrifying truth. The previous interpretation probably sounds like me going out (way, way out) on a limb, but I don't think that the lyrics adhere to the boy-can't-get-over-girl formula. It certainly hints at hidden complexities. In addition, the girl at the well could be a Bibilical reference. In the Bible, Abraham sent his servant to his hometown to get a wife, and the servant asked the god to give him a sign, which turned out to be a girl at a well offering to water his camels. And she's the chick who gets turned into a pillar of salt (perhaps a parallel between the sand and salt?). Tell me what you guys think. |
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| Bright Eyes – Lover I Don't Have to Love Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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I agree with Firefly: these lyrics are rough. They show an honestly cynical side that I would personally be ashamed to publish, and speaks of love/unlove. The references to hands and tongues and fucking underscore the sexual side of the two lovers' interaction--it's animal, not human. Later, when the lover says, "Love is an excuse to get hurt," s/he seems to add, almost as an afterthought or a confession, "And to hurt." S/he even chides him/herself: s/he calls him/herself a bad actor, someone who just "plays tragic." Perhaps I'm projecting my own feelings onto this song, but I feel it contains a lot of harsh self-criticism that is, perhaps, too harsh. And it's the kind that's shameful, that makes you grit your teeth and clench your stomach to say out loud. |
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| Bright Eyes – A New Arrangement Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| I think the swaying sort of rhythm of the song complements the lines "time still drags you forward/ although you keep resisting". It mimics the action of pushing and pulling. | |
| Bright Eyes – The Difference in the Shades Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| About the TV analogy. I think he means that their relationship or lives are f***ed up, distorted, irreversibly changed, perhaps due to the lover's sickness. His image of the two dancing is merely a memory, since he speaks in present tense throughout the song. | |
| Bright Eyes – Messenger Bird's Song Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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This lyrics of this song are beautiful, especially the comparison between circling the earth and looking for other relationships. Edited by mellow_harsher on July 1 2006, at 05:25PM |
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| Bright Eyes – Touch Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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A friend once quoted Benjamine Disrele, who said that "the magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end". After that, it's one failed attempt after another to open up and trust without fearing the fall which I, at least, have not ever achieved, and which I feel the person in "Touch" can't seem to achieve either. Perhaps why he has the image of him and his first love glowing, dripping light, and why he feels unable to break away from doubt and sadness. I love the way that first and last words of the muttered part of the song coincide with the part that's sung. |
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| Bright Eyes – Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| I think what really strikes home in this song is "And I sing and sing of awful things/The pleasure that my sadness brings". Isn't this why we listen to Conor's anguished voice, or any atrociously depressing music when we're at our lowest? The bittersweet, stomach-contracting masochism is beautifully expressed in these lines. | |
| Bright Eyes – Amy in the White Coat Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| I know what you mean by intense... sometimes I can't stand to listen to it, the way his voice is barely above a whisper as if singing a lover to sleep but uttering lines like "you're a bag of warm fluids" or "your older sisters, I've had them too". It actually makes me feel a little sick, but that's part of the beauty of the song. | |
| Blind Guardian – Nightfall Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| This is my favorite song by Blind Guardian. It's so fluid, so dark: a sonic tapestry. I love the thundering sound of Andre's voice. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Both Hands Lyrics | 24 years ago |
| I always thought that it said "the lawn mower/and the dial tone again." The real version is much more beautiful: a low moan --> grief, sex, frustration, pain <--dial tone. | |
| Bright Eyes – Something Vague Lyrics | 24 years ago |
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This is my first post, so I'm very bad at this. : ) Well, for me... the song contains feelings of alienation, grit-your-teeth hopelessness, and overall anguish. The first part of the song is depressing: going up the stairs to nothing but sadness, having nothing better to do but drink alone. The act of brushing off snow from his hair as if it's something he's done so much to the point that it's routine. It seems that his entire day, perhaps even his entire life, is like that. Also, he is making all that effort to climb up to a coffin, not a comforting homey space--there's hopelessness and resignation in those acts. The dream seems out of place in this environment. It's not good, nor bad, it's just... puzzling. And that increases its level of anguish. Thinking back upon childhood and family always gives me a feeling of nostalgia or regret, because it's something that wasn't necessarily good but I've idealized it and I know that. Not being attached to anything, with starving eyes all around: alienation. The fact that the end of the song is so inconclusive, that it ends with nothing more specific than "something more, like feeling" makes it even more anguishing, because nothing is solved and nothing is better. He's still in that apartment drinking by himself. |
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