| Tom Petty – Time To Move On Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I think it's written from his perspective at the end of a break-up, and then "sometime later" when he's speaking to the woman again and trying to win her back. "Broken skyline" is the woman. In that part, he's conjuring the image of her walking off into the proverbial sunset as he watches her leave. "She's an honest defector / Conscientious objector / Now her own protector" = She's the one who ended the relationship. And now his role of "protector" in their relationship is over. She's decided to be on her own. "Which way to love land" is him asking her in the lyrics what he needs to do to make her love him again, and how he can get her to forgive him for something he did. But "Sometime later, getting the words wrong / Wasting the meaning and losing the rhyme" is about a conversation they have days or weeks later. He still wants her back, but the phone call doesn't go the way he hoped, then it devolves into a fight. He starts to realize she's not coming back to him. It really is over, and he knows he needs to move on. The chorus throughout the song is him trying to motivate himself, because he knows moving on is the only healthy thing to do. |
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| James Taylor – Never Die Young Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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First of all, I think this is a great first track for an album. It starts the entire album off with a cymbal crash and an inspirational electric guitar riff. Just great. When I first heard this song, I thought it was about two people breaking up. But after listening to it quite a few times now, I think it's about two people who were always perfect for each other and who were able to make it through every hardship that they encountered. He talks about being "ring around the rosy children" while they were "circles around the sun," evoking the thought of two people who grew up faster than those around them. He and his friends were concerned with trite games of children (probably meaning "young adults") while the two subjects of the song were onto more important things "Synchronized with the rising moon. Even with the evening star" symbolizes their unwavering connection and his point of view that there is something special about this couple. And as the turmoil of the world around him and his friends leads to jealousy they allow pessimism to take over and won't "believe they might make it." Instead, they "cut up their losses into doable doses" and "ration their tears and sighs" (quite a poetic way of saying that they were still dealing with the day-to-day struggles in life while this perfect couple lived in blissful union). (I initially thought he was singing "And we who had been led to believe they might make it, we had to close our eyes," which is the main reason I thought the song was about breaking up.) "Everyone used to run them down. They’re a little too sweet, they’re a little too tight. Not enough tough for this town" again describes the envy he and his friends felt as they watched these lovebirds continue their happiness. "We couldn’t touch them with a ten-foot pole. No, it didn’t seem to rattle at all. They were glued together body and soul" is pretty self-explanatory, and "That much more with their backs up against the wall" means is saying they seemed to grow even closer during tough times. "Prey to the dust and the rust and the ruin that names us and claims us and shames us all" is confusing to listen to, and you can't really understand what he's saying unless you READ the lyrics. He uses the word "prey" rather than "pray." So, he is not saying they "pray to" or worship the dust and the rust, etc. Instead, he's describing himself and everyone else he knows as the "prey" of this unnamed beast (boredom? selfishness? human nature?) that seems to be stalking them all like the lion stalks the gazelle. "I guess it had to happen someday soon" is referring to them getting married. (I originally thought he was talking about them breaking up here, but he's not) "Oh yes other hearts were broken" is talking about the other people around him (and himself as well) who suffered from broken hearts, breakups and hardships throughout the relationship of "out golden ones," and he may even be alluding to the fact that other people (he and his friends) secretly loved these two people and that their hearts broke a little bit when the two got married, and it became obvious that no one else could ever have them. But by the end of the song, he's let go of any jealousy or pessimism that might have endured and instead expresses hope that this perfect couple will make it, because, if they can, it gives everyone else the hope that they too will find happiness. |
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