| Snow Patrol – Chocolate Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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I'm sure this isn't what the songwriter meant, but here's where my thoughts are today about this song. This played on the radio today, I hadn't heard it for a while. It came on just as I was dropping my only kiddo off at his dad's house, my ex-husband's. His younger brothers came out to say hello to me, and I talked to them briefly. Then his brother said "come on, let's go play pokemon cards!" And I watched them run into the house. I felt super bittersweet listening to this song at this moment, and came home and watched the music video a couple of times - I don't think I ever saw it before. To me, the video shows everyone thinking the world is going to end- but it doesn't. He resets the timer, and we're counting down again- people's world's end over and over and over. My world ended when my marriage ended, and I had to share custody of "the only thing I ever loved" (yes, I loved my ex, and I love my new husband, but not in the visceral way I love my child). Expect, it didn't end; I share custody; he plays pokemon cards with his brother; I am happy in my new marriage. Like saving the lady bug in the video; there's moments of beauty even in a sucky situation. Anyway, this whole song makes me think of my kid, and the life that I handed him by growing up in a divorced household. So many lines make me think of my marriage - "goodness knows I saw it coming, or at least I'll claim I did; but in truth I'm lost for words"- I always knew we had issues in our marriage, and I'll definitely tell people that, but man, I couldn't believe our marriage failed. It's also really hard to talk about my first marriage with my kid, or with my new husband; I don't want to tell my kid the bad parts, and I don't want to tell my husband the good parts. I think the lyric "Just because I'm sorry doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it at the time" explains it well. |
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| Pearl Jam – I Got Shit (I Got Id) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I have a different take than everyone else- I think he could have had the girl that night, but he didn't- he walked the line (I do think that is a Cash reference). His id wanted to do it, which is "ugly", and he feels alone ("paper cup") because he wants this girl but can't tell anyone ("who the fuck I'm gonna ask"). For whatever reason he feels he can't ever have her in this life (does he have a wife? is she someone's wife?) but he dreams about it being a different situation, they can be together without it being ugly. | |
| Better Than Ezra – This Time Of Year Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love hearing this song in the fall. Even though it's been 10 years since I was in high school, I get this feeling every fall that there's something I need to be doing- I should be at marching band practice! I should be buying school supplies! School is starting. I wonder if this feeling willl come every fall for me. I also know that while I get lost in the nostalgic feeling, it never lasts long- it fades too soon. To firefighter751- enjoy your senior year! Time goes so quickly. | |
| Tori Amos – 1,000 Oceans Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I used to think this was about a breakup, but now I feel sure it is about death. The little blue ball never made sense to me, but she's talking about the earth and all of us still here- do the dead think about us, watch us, or does your memory of this blue ball just fade away? And the rules say when you're dead, you're gone, but if I could, I would follow you forever. And even though you miss them- want to follow them, want to bring them home- we have to admit we shouldn't keep their spirits from flying and being free. | |
| The Connells – '74-'75 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it's about kinda wanting something you used to have, or almost had- and you kinda regret not going for it back then (high school?) when you had the chance. So, instead of "happy ever after" you're "sorry ever after". You're wanting your youth and your options again, but maybe not necessarily the exact same thing you wanted then- when that person tries to rekindle what you had- ie gives you more- you defy, because you know it isn't really what you want, you're just sorry you didn't have it when you could have. | |
| Tori Amos – Strange Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I was obsessed with the Laci Peterson case, and this song always made me think of her: She kinda knew things weren't right with Scott, but that she "had enough love for the both of" them. She had signs things weren't right- she knew of a past affair, I think- "when will I learn". In the song, really, I think the woman leaves the man- but you can also hear a haunting, beyond the grave message, "woke up to a world that I am not a part of", Laci is dead, but seeing things as they happen. The whole last verse is about her finding peace and leaving, ie, her spirit is at rest. I'm not usually into the supernatural so much, but Laci's death was such a shame; this song isn't about her, but to me, it fits well. Just what I think about when I hear it. | |
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