| Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Been there my friend! I dated a Christian girl. It didn't work out! But this song resonates with me so well at the moment. I'm seeing a girl that has dated arseholes in the past and is very wary of a new relationship. If I could I would sing this to her, tell her to forget everything bad that has gone before, look up at the stars and know that there is the potential for that amazing bond that mere words can't express. |
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| Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Every once in a while, a song comes along that touches something deep inside me and triggers that amazing feeling when every hair stands on end and beings on a powerful rush that makes me think my heart and mind are going to explode. This is one of those songs. How is it possible that Snow Patrol have produced THREE of the most heart-acheingly beautiful songs written in modern times? Run, You Could Be Happy and this. For me this song is about someone who just wants to forget the world, if only for an instant, and lie staring at the sky with the woman he loves. A return to childhood innocence, of long summers and friendships, forgetting the problems of responsibility for a short while. It's a very humbling song and the main character realises that he needs others in his life to be fulfilled. It speaks of a love that cannot be expressed in any words. And the video is incredible. I've been known to lie on my back in the middle of a room with some music playing, staring at the ceiling and forgetting everything else. I can completely relate to this. Utterly gorgeous song. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Gunner's Dream Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I've just got back from cycling and came across a very humble and simple shrine to 7 Polish airmen that lost their lives in a Wellington Bomber in 1943. I came home and put this song on. It has always been one of my favourite Roger Waters songs and this is my interpretation. The gunner in the song is falling to earth and he knows that he is going to die soon. However, he hopes that the sacrifice he made will somehow improve the lives of future generations. He hopes that 'old soldiers', his comrades, can walk safely down the street; he hopes that the jackboots of fascism kicking in the doors of the innocent will stop. He hopes that children will stop being killed and that terrorist bombs will stop (though, I suspect these last two are Roger's wishes). Furthermore, I think that this unknown gunner is remembered by Waters as perhaps he escorts his mother to a Remembrance Day service and he implores everyone not to forget the Dream. I always get very emotional when I hear this song and I think of all the men who gave their lives so that ours might be better. However, I have to agree with the overall theme of the Final Cut, which i think I think is this: millions have died for our freedom, yet, what's changed? |
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| Uriah Heep – The Wizard Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| When I listen to this song I can imagine myself walking with Gandalf, before sitting down by a warm fire, sharing wine and talking. He's telling me that we are all one people. He tells me not to hate but to love my fellow man and that if we all have love then the world can be a truly beautiful place... | |
| Dire Straits – Wild West End Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Just about the hustle and bustle of the hip West End of London and a man walking the streets and commenting on the people he meets. Perhaps it was Mark Knopfler's take on London when he and Dire Straits got their record deal? A lovely song though.. | |
| Dire Straits – In The Gallery Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I was revisiting sme Dire Straits earlier today, music that I have not heard since my youth and I wondered what the take on this song was. I agree with gianchi66. Harry is a sculptor from a working class background. Mark Knopfler is from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (to our American friends, a city in the industrial north of England that grew from coal mining, steel and ship building) so Harry is probably from there. He sculpts in clay and stone but is ignored by the art illiterati in London (and Leeds which is another northern city but south of Newcastle. An in-joke there!). He's not considered a good artist until he dies but is obviously not around to see his success. I see the song as a depiction of snobbery in art, or more widely as an illustration of the English "North/South divide. Northern artists are often overlooked by the "trendy boys" until they're dead and then fawned over as being "gritty" and "ignored in their own time". Basically it's about the hyposcrasy of art. |
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| Roger Waters – Perfect Sense, Part I Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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There are two very powerful metaphors in this song. First is the monkey on the pile of stones. Monkey indicates man and the scene of this song is definitely drawn from Arthur C Clarke's 2001. The Viennese Quartet is the orchestra that plays The Blue Danube from the movie. What many people have missed however is the similarity of the black monolith of the book to the black slab of the TV that influences the monkey's (man's) development. What is interesting is the line "memory is a stranger". a recurring theme throughout ATD. In the novel 2001, the ape's mind became "switched on" from the influence of the monolith. Everything up until that point - memory, self-awareness, etc. was alien to the monkey. Therefore, history and past deeds perhaps is for fools because it is irrelevant. This idea is extended in the line "and he cleaned his hands in the pool of holy writing". This line, I think, is derived from Lady Macbeth, who after helping kill the king felt an unimaginable quilt; a guilt that could not be washed away. The blood on her hands was permanent and could not be removed. Here however, the monkey (man) can absolve himself simply by washing his blood-stained hands in the words of religious dogma, the pool of Holy Writing. This idea of absolution though is confused because of the various interpretations of God. Each religion's God tells his followers to do different things, to kill the infidels: those that do not share the same ideas. Ultimately, the monkey is confused because isn't there only one God? One Creator? Amused to Death is perhaps one of the most intelligent, most insightful works I have ever heard and confirms my opinion that Roger Waters' is one of the greatest lyricists that ever lived and this song for pure imagery is perhaps one of my favourites. I'd be interested to hear anyone else's take on this? |
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| Embrace (UK) – Gravity Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard in recent times. This was my ex-girlfriend's song. It was playing when we broke up and it played when we got back together. I was scared of commitment, of being hurt but i was falling in love with her (it's been a long time coming / and I can't stop now). We finally split up for good a few weeks ago and this is the first time I've heard it since. It's more poignant to me now because I've realised what I let go. And I miss her... Sorry, not very manly of me but there you go... |
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| Alanis Morissette – That I Would Be Good Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I just love the flute solo at the end, beautiful! | |
| Marillion – Forgotten Sons Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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A fantasically powerful song about the troubles in Northern Ireland when the media focusses on the war but not the young men that gave their lives to it. Still very relevent for the times we find ourselves in now (fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves?) I love the instrumental piece halfway through which has the flavour of machine-gun fire (a live performance of this had Fish "shooting" the audience with the mic stand) and then into a rendition of Psalm 23 (a tribute to Pink Floyd's Animals perhaps?) and the Lord's Prayer. A song that talks about the loss of innocence, a common Fish theme I think and sends a shiver down my spine every time I hear it. |
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| Marillion – The Web Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is based around The Shroud of Laertes (Penelope's web), a Greek myth. Penelope waited for twenty years for her husband Odysseus to return from the Trojan war. During this time she had many male suitors and she made the decision that she would marry one of them once she had completed the Shroud of Laertes. However, she would weave it by day and unpick it by night, therefore never completing it. The Web is about a man who knows that he needs to move on after the breakup of a relationship but makes excuses forbidding him to do so: his own web or shroud. I can toitally relate to this song. How many times have we clung on to the hope that our love would return and putting off the time when we have to accept that it's time to let go and move on? But the song does end on an optimistic note as the narrator burns his shroud, he conquers his fears and moves on. One of my favourite early Marillion songs... all the more poignant now as I am currently going through this period of my life... ;) |
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