| Just Surrender – I Can Barely Breathe Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love this song!! The line, "Take it back, take it all back now" just kills me. It's like all the nice, lovey things she said to him mean nothing now because she betrayed him. Everything she ever said is now worthless and it hurts him so much. I can relate so much. | |
| Hole – Petals Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think the song is about how girls are treated by guys once they hit puberty. Suddenly they’re these sexual creatures and men think they can do whatever they want to them, treat them however they want. It’s essentially about how disrespected women are by men in today’s society. This then reflects on the women, the men tear the petals off of you, meaning your innocence, not in that they rape you but they make you feel dirty just by the way they look at you. The next line, “Make you tell the truth” forces women to have a look at themselves and their behaviour, as if saying they’re the ones who provoke men to act in such ways. It’s as if women are cornered into this ideal role of being pure and such and anyone who strays from that is, for example, a “sl*t”. It’s like it’s a man’s world and women are just here to serve men. Look at all the commercials with women displayed in a sexual manner as opposed to the ones on men. Very different. “All the lillies bloomed and blossomed Wilted and they're shivering I can't stop their withering, Oh, this world is a war” These once innocent girls who had such dreams and aspirations are now dead beaten by how society treats them, second to that of man. The world is a war to women as they have to fight for everything and it looks like there is nothing anyone can do about it. |
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