| David Bowie – Chilly Down Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[Shiggy:28342] @[kps2420:28343] DUDE!!! I was actually just thinking about this the other day! Thank you so much for the link--that was amazing!! | |
| Peter, Paul and Mary – I Have a Song to Sing, O! Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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No comments? Really? I really love this song... It's so simple and lovely, and the story's straightforward. A man loves a woman, who's in love with another man... but she discovers that the guy's a jerk, so she goes to the guy who loved her in the first place. It's a story you hear constantly, but I just love the way they tell (sing) it in this song. |
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| Coldplay – 42 Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Not certain of what the band's meaning for the song is supposed to be, but this is how my sister and I interpreted it... I wasn't sure what to think of this song at first because I couldn't quite figure it out. But given what appears to be the theme of a lot of the songs on this album--war and whatnot--I thought it might have some connection to that. So... "Those who are dead are not dead They're just living in my head" The general idea of this part is obvious. People have died, but they live on in someone else's memories. But when I tried to apply this to a battle/war/what-have-you context, I thought that maybe it might be a soldier that saw his comrades die in battle. The tone sounds kindof sorrowful, but also almost kindof in shock... "And since I fell for that spell I am living there as well" ...so he's a little out of it; he's stuck in his thoughts and can't stop thinking about their deaths. "Time is so short and I'm sure There must be something more" Trying to think of what else there is to life. This is something you'll definitely think about after a loved one dies--time is short. "You thought you might be a ghost You didn't get to heaven but you made it close" This part confused me a lot when I first heard it. At first I was thinking it was referring to purgatory or something along those lines, but I wasn't sure if I was right. When I was discussing it with my sister, she suggested that maybe the narrator had a near-death experience. Going by what I interpreted from the song thus far, my idea was this--the soldier sees his friends die in battle and realizes that he just narrowly escaped death. The tone of the song changes here--it's a bit more frantic and whatnot. I was thinking it was something like survivor's guilt--"My friends just died but I'm still alive! I just narrowly escaped death, but why me?! I should have died instead of them! They should have been the ones to survive!" Then it goes back to a slower pace, repeating the first two lines... he calms down and goes back to reflecting on his friends. Could be totally off in my interpretation, like I said, but that's how I saw it. :P |
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| David Bowie – Chilly Down Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Heh, no explanation to this song? :P Ah well, guess it doesn't really matter what it means. It's a fun song and this scene was awesome in the movie. (Heck, the movie was awesome in general.) I guess I could give an interpretation a shot though. Seems like it's just about people who kindof waste their life doing nothing productive, but have a heck of a fun time being unproductive anyway. They don't let hard times get them down--they just smile their way through everything. Kindof a "you only get one shot at life, so have as much fun with it as you can" mentality. It's the kind of life the Fireys seem to live, anyway. |
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| David Bowie – Chilly Down Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This is an old comment, but where is that video? I swear Bowie did not sing this song... If he did, is he one of the voices of one of the Fireys, or is there another version of this song that he himself sings? | |
| John Mayer – Say Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I HATE this song. It's overplayed on the radio and hearing the phrase "Say what you need to say" THIRTY PLUS times over and over again gives me a horrible headache. Now it's on that stupid Hallmark commercial and I can't escape it! Here's a tip for song writers: If you can't think of what to put in your song, don't put the same freaking phrase in the song over and over and over again because it's just ANNOYING. I could care less about the message because this song is so ridiculously annoying. |
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| David Bowie – Underground Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Excellent song! One of my favorites. Oddly enough, I'm not usually one to say "Oh, this song is about drugs" (especially considering one of my favorite songs is "Puff the Magic Dragon") but for some reason that was the first interpretation I drew out of this song. I'm not sure why... I'm not sure if it's coincidence or if David Bowie meant for that to be one of the interpretations or what. I don't usually listen to David Bowie's stuff other than what he sang and wrote for the Labyrinth soundtrack, so I don't know if he usually writes drug songs or what. It took me a while to figure out how it actually links to the movie, but I THINK I've figured it out... If you take it literally with the movie itself, for some reason it makes me think that Jareth might have been a kid that was kidnapped and brought into the labyrinth himself, like Toby. He wasn't scared of the labyrinth, though; rather, he WANTED to go there. He didn't like the real world, so he went to the labyrinth instead where he became king. Once he chose to live there, though, he couldn't get out, which is why he wanted to lure Sarah there, so he wouldn't stay lonely. Something like that... Going with the theme of the movie, it could be talking about preferring to live in fantasy-land rather than the real world. Life can sometimes be easy, but a lot of times it's not. "Don't tell me truth hurts, little girl, 'cuz it hurts like--" Yeah, fantasy-land isn't real, which really sucks. "It's only forever..." I think maybe it's talking about how when you grow up, you can't go back to being a kid again, and you have to deal with grown-up issues whether you like it or not? I'm not sure... Hard to think clearly at 7:20 in the morning. But I think I got the general idea right... Only thing is, this song seems to be more about staying in fantasy-land. The theme of the movie was that you CAN'T stay in fantasy-land. You DO have to grow up, though you can still have your imagination. But you can't stay a kid forever. In the original script, this was made pretty clear, as there was a scene where Sarah was in the fake version of her room and looking at herself in the mirror, clutching Lancelot (her teddybear). The trash lady had said something along the lines of "You don't want to go out there! It's much safer in here!" As Sarah looks at herself in the mirror, though, she suddenly sees herself as an old woman hugging Lancelot and saying, "You don't want to go out there! It's much safer in here!" So, yeah... we definitely can't stay kids for forever. We DO have to grow up. Though we don't have to lose our imagination--part of what I love about this movie is that it brings up that! Almost every other story with a moral of growing up says we have to give up every part of being a kid, including our imagination... but not this one. Great movie! |
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| Taylor Swift – Love Story Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song has a pretty catchy tune... it's currently stuck in my head right now. But... Romeo and Juliet? Seriously? They're comparing the couple to ROMEO and JULIET and saying that it's just like some perfect love story? Uhh... Romeo and Juliet WAS a love story, but it was also a tragedy! They wound up killing themselves in the end... definitely not a perfect love story. The writer probably could have used some other well-known couple to compare the couple in this song to... |
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