| Phish – Friday Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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first off, it's "i crash, i cry, i burn but I" not "burn my eyes" nonetheless, this is one of my favorite phish songs because it is classic Phish in that the song actually does have a meaning if you think about it. In my opinion, this is about a guy trusting a girl that he likes to lead him to better things, but she never steps up and does it. He reflects with questions that don't really seem to fit in with the rest of the song like "Why is the sea cold?" or "Why can't the burden we carry go away?" It's almost as if he's asking God all these questions as a result of this girl not wanting the same thing that he does. He always comes back to the fact that he wishes it was friday(either in a literal sense or friday in the sense of things looking hopeful and getting easier). Finally, he says that although he has crashed, cried, and burned, he will continue to seemingly blindly follow this girl. |
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| David Gray – Please Forgive Me Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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No matter how many times you hear this song, it has a way of invoking a lot of emotion. I think that it's definitely a great love song, but I agree with whoever said that it is about one person telling another who just isn't on the same level. I think that when he says "he has half a mind to scream out loud" he is almost asking this girl what he has to do to get her to his level. I heard this on the first episode of Scrubs, and I think it was a little out of place there, but the background music can be used to convey just about any sad, yet at the same time hopeful situation |
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| John Mayer – Stop This Train Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I hadn't really listened to the lyrics on this song a lot until one day I put this on and realized how emotional this song is. The concept of how the train that is life just keeps on rolling no matter what it happens. It's so funny how we take for granted our family when they're younger until we start to age a little and realize that our time with them is quite limited. Anyone else see that he kinda goes from begging for someone to stop this train to accepting that he cannot and it would not be good to anyways. In the end, beautifully written lyrics. | |
| Audioslave – Be Yourself Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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In my opinion, this is the best song by Audioslave. The message, as stated before, is that you are going to face easy and hard times in your life, and all you can do is be who you are through all of it. I love the contrasts that this song uses, especially in the second stanza where he focuses on how people can have such different views of a flower. Despite the circumstances(whether it be the beginning of something great or the end of something great), all you can do is be yourself. |
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| The Killers – Mr. Brightside Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is really a pretty common concept, jealousy, phrased very beautifully. Obviously, coming out of my cage is about the beginning of the relationship and he says he has to be down at the start of the relationship. We have all been there, acting cool to try to get the attention of a girl that we find attractive in the start. It goes from that nice little feeling to one of reflection when he says "it was only a kiss" meaning that a simple kiss started this whole mess that the two of them are in now. However, she doesn't appear to be taking their breakup too harshly("he's having a smoke and she's taking a drag" is a perfect two lines for this) as she is out seeing another guy. Obviously, as he says, he gets jealous, but after his jealousy he always runs right back to her("destiny is calling me") and as someone stated before, mr brightside always refers to him finding a way to try to put the good in the relationship despite what she does. As all really well written songs do, this song connects to people on many different levels. There are a few really solid interpretations that can come from this song. Everyone has been in the situation after a breakup when one person wants to revive the relationship while the other wants to move on(my interpretation of the song) and that is why it is such a good song. |
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| Coldplay – Clocks Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Not to be totally unoriginal, but the lyrics to this song are incredible. The central theme of this song is time, no doubt. Clcoks is an incredible title because if you think about it, time is very difficult to measure without clocks(and sometimes still difficult to measure). I believe in the opening stanza the writer of the song realizes that he is mortal and that the one truth in his life is that he will die(tides that i tried to swim against). However, this realization of his own mortality forces him to try and do great things(the tiger's waiting to be tamed). The begining of the second stanza refers to the fact it's only a matter of time before the walls "close in" on us(death) and take us back home(heaven, reincarnation, whatever you believe in). The line "I could not stop that you now know" is kinda tricky in my opinion. In one sense, he could be referring to the fact that you just can't stop living because you know that you are going to die. Also, he could be referring to the fact that he couldn't just end the song right there without further explaining himself. The last two lines of the stanza strike me as this: he wonders if this song will be good for people because now they will want to live to the fullest knowing that the walls are always closing in(part of the cure) or if it will deeply discourage them because nothing we do can change the fact we will die(part of the disease). All in all, this is just a fabulously written song. It's up there with "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce and "Wish You Were Here" by Floyd as songs that use very few words to say so much |
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| Secondhand Serenade – Vulnerable Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Very good lyrics. I'm pretty sure that it's referring to a guy trying to convince a girl that he's the one for her. However, I see that this could be referring to him getting her pregnant. When he says "I know you may be scared and we may be unprepared" could refer to it being unexpected. Also, he repeats her thinking she is invincible and him thinking he's very vulnerable. At the end he also says "I can be anything and anyone" referring to the fact that he can be her boyfriend and a good father as well. Although I'm leaning towards the first one, it could also be the second explanation. |
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| 50 Cent – 21 Questions Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love the song, it has a really good flow to it. For anyone that says that all rap is terrible because there aren't instruments involved, look at it this way: rappers don't need instruments to improve their whiny voices and make up for their poor lyrics. | |
| Boston – Foreplay/Long Time Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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RIP Brad Delp first of all. Whoever said that this should be played at graduation instead of Vitamin C is absolutely correct. This song is much more inspiring to the 95% of the graduating class that doesn't feel the need to reflect back on every waking moment of high school. This song is about moving on with anything in general. It's great because the theme is very general and we can all relate on having to move on in one way or another |
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| Green Day – Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is very, very well written. Sometimes a few words can be worth a lot more than just the actual words themselves. This song always reminds me of Seinfeld, which I felt was the perfect song to end that show. Like the show, the song is about a change that is happening and the writer is reflecting back on all the things that happened. As goodgolly said, the name of this song is actually "Good Riddance" which says, hey whatever this was(a career, a relationship, whatever it may be) was incredible but you are equally happy to be rid of it because it was worn out and wasn't going anywhere particularly. | |
| David Bowie – Changes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i think this song can be summed up pretty well: stanza 1- he can't understand why he wasted so much time as a youth and now at the end of the verse he cannot understand how other people see him as a "faker" because he has changed himself(seemingly for the better) stanza 2- for the first half of the verse he is saying that once again, he may have changed but he is saying that he is not a fake person because he has changed. The second part of the verse is a direct message to the authority figures that teenagers can find their own way in life and that no matter how much you "think" you know about their lives, they are living quite differently. end of chorus 2- I believe that "where's your shame you've left us up to our necks in it" is referring to the terrible american political landscape that these so called "wiser" adults left the younger generation to deal with(something we're still dealing with) chorus 3- In my opinion, the best line here is "you better watch out you rock n rollers", because bowie feels the shift coming from the "glory days" of rock and roll to a new type of music(as evidenced by the emergence of pop and hip hop music in the 80's and 90's) Just my interpretation of the song. Whatever it does indeed mean, it is an incredibly well written song. |
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| Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I always understood this song as the lady "buying" her stairway to heaven by committing suicide(the fastest way to heaven she believes). The first two stanzas are peaceful because they refer to this lady who is "buying" her way there. The song begins to pick up because the subject matter changes from the lady to this "piper"(who I believe referes to Jesus earlier in the song and Satan later). The middle of the song really focuses on choices, namely the good(Jesus, heaven, laughter) and bad(Satan, hell, unhappiness). I think this pretty well explains the "two paths you can go on" and obviously, we can always change the road we're on before it's too late. The last stanza is definitely an enigma of sorts, but I believe that it is combining the first two parts of the song. "As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls" refers to getting older and beginning to make our mark on the world, we must decide whether we join the lady who has "bought" her way to heaven, or we choose another path. The last few lines suggest that if we let the choice come to us rather than search for it ourselves, it will be much easier to choose. The end is obviously open to interpretation as are the other stanzas though, as we can see by the 54 pages already on this topic. Just my two cents, maybe this will make a part of the song more clear to someone. | |
| Kansas – Dust In The Wind Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| the line "just a drop of water in an endless sea" is about the best and most realistic position on life that I have heard. It's simple, yet if you think about it, it's a microcosm for the huge country, planet, universe of ours. Everything you have done or want to do has already been done by someone. Somebody mentioned that this reminded them of Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost and there are definitely some similarities there. However, I believe that song is more about the passage of youth while this is about realizing your own mortality at any stage of life. | |
| Avril Lavigne – Keep Holding On Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'm constantly impressed by Avril Lavigne's range of voice, even in her past albums. There have been quite a few mainstream songs in the last year about hope(Augustana's Boston, AAR's Move Along, Daniel Powter's Bad Day), and this is another one of these kinds of songs. The thing that I don't like about Avril is that she isn't the greatest of songwriters ever. There are so many cliches about the theme of holding hope in you, and almost all of them are in this song. Seriously, I'm not sure there are words in this song that weren't repeated somewhere before. So far away- staind song about keeping hope wish you were here- great floyd jam about missing somenoe or something together we stand- sounds like lee greenwood's 'god bless the usa'. |
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| Phish – Round Room Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure this song refers to the method in which they recorded "Round Room", which was in a circle. It's about how their creativity comes out best when they are with each other in a circle rather than trapped in some "square room" trying in vain to write a song. | |
| Yes – I've Seen All Good People: Your Move/All Good People Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I would agree that this song is about not being too much into yourself and not taking yourself too seriously. "I've seen all good people turn their heads" refers to people not caring about anyone's problems but their own, and the writer says that these people appear satisfied and that he is on his way to try it. From there, he makes several chess references and I believe that he is comparing himself to the player in the chess game and the many people he associates with are the pieces on the board that he moves and that "Just remember that the goal/Is for us all to capture all we want" which I think confirms this. As the song progresses, the use of the words "time" and "didit" are said faster and are repeated more frequently to represent the confusion and insanity that goes on when one person only focuses on themself. Finally, the song(and perhaps the author) reach a breaking point where the free flowing anthem begins again and this perhaps represents the author being free of him focusing on just himself. | |
| U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think that this song is incredibly well written for a few reasons. Being Irish, Bono could have taken the perspective in this song crying for revenge on his fallen Irishmen, but instead he suggests a more radical solution to killing: peace. The line "I won't heed the battle call" is one of the finest by U2 because it purports to people that peace is a simple concept: nobody kills each other and the problem is solved. However, he begins to find that the problem is more complex than that by saying "There's many lost, but tell me who has won?" meaning that people are dying, but no progress is made as is often the case in wars. At the end of the song, Bono makes one final plea to stop the killing with the line "To claim the victory Jesus won". This shows that Bono believes that Jesus died for us equally and that we are ridiculous to continue to kill each other when Jesus died for all of us(just what I got out of the song, not necessarily my belief). |
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| My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black Parade Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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itsfruit, I would say that I agree that this is a concept album. I would argue that the concept of this album is the unheard voices of many people in the "Black Parade." Also, I think the one thing that ties all these songs together is one word: despair. Just my take on it |
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| Five for Fighting – 100 Years Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Beautifully written, in my opinion one of the 5 best written songs of all time(up there with Wish You Were Here, Stairway, Wonderwall, and Bittersweet Symphony). Even after listening to it countless times, one line always jumps out at me and that is: 15 there's still time for you Time to buy and time to lose. If you think about it, when you get older, you would love to "buy" some of the time that you wasted as a young man. It's typical of FFF to do very reflective songs, but this is by far my favorite. Perfectly chosen words and beautiful instrumental, just a great song overall |
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| Five for Fighting – Superman (It's Not Easy) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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In my opinion, this song has two meanings. First, it has the surface meaning about Superman and the fact that while he seems to have sub-human strength to many of us, he actually has flaws like the rest of us. Second, I think that a somewhat deeper interpretation of this song is about America itself. If you look at the name of the album, it is America Town. The name "America Town" seems to be a contradiction of sorts, because many foreigners see America as the commercial giant with megalopolises, yet they fail to realize that at one time America was a country that was comprised of many towns. That being said, I believe that this poem also focuses on what happened on September 11th. His references to "bird" and "plane" in the second stanza refers to the images that people outside the US saw of what happened here. The third stanza is the the most important(in my opinion). Here, Ondrasik says "even heroes have the right to bleed" and "even heroes have the right to dream". When you think of America, you think of an untouchable country, but blood was indeed shed that day. Also, having the "right to dream" is another interesting concept. I interpret this as saying that as big of a corporate and economic powerhouse that America has become, it still has the right to be a kid and dream sometimes. That's all for this song. A great song no matter what way you interpret it. |
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| Neil Young – Only Love Can Break Your Heart Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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indeed a good song I think the "friend" he refers to is himself in happier times. I believe this is so because he refers to the "down" that this "friend" is experiencing. How true is this song though? In the end, the loss of money, power, and status are irrelevant unless you are truly in love with these things. The loss of true friendship or true love is the most painful feeling there is. |
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| Neil Young – Helpless Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is surely about him missing his hometown, in my opinion. Think about it. "With dream comfort to spare In my mind I still need a place to go All my changes were there." "The chains are locked And tied across the door." He's referring to the chains of time that have been locked on his past. He is "Helpless" in this song because there's nothing he can do to revert himself back to an earlier age. The only place where his childhood lives is in his mind. I think he's referring to the place he grew up in. He can't go back there because time has changed him, so the place only lives in his memory. |
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