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Gayngs – Faded High Lyrics 15 years ago
so happy these lyrics were posted.
this song moooooves me.

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Lady GaGa – LoveGame Lyrics 16 years ago
love gaga

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Iron & Wine – Passing Afternoon Lyrics 16 years ago
i spent a great deal of time thinking about this song.
Sam compares the narrator of the song to the different seasons
summer, autumn, spring and winter = the narrator
also, the Bougainvillea flower is a metaphor for the woman's heart.

according to me, this is what the song is saying

There are times that walk from you
Like some passing afternoon
there are instances in your life where things escape you

- he then proceeds to retell his personal experience with that


Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon
And she chose a yard to burn
But the ground remembers her
Wooden spoons, her children stir her Bougainvillea blooms

-he meets a married woman and has an affair with her
she chooses to end it
but he still remembers her
their love (children) moves (stirs) her heart



There are things that drift away
Like our endless numbered days

-he restates that there are things that drift away (this love in particular)

Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made
And she's chosen to believe
In the hymns her mother sings
Sunday pulls its children from their piles of fallen leaves

-he complicates her life/marriage (messes up her bed)
and she chooses to believe
in the morals/beliefs of her mother (ie: trying to salvage the marriage)
so she tries to pull out the love that was once in her marriage


There are sailing ships that pass
All our bodies in the grass


Springtime calls her children until she lets them go at last
And she's chosen where to be
Though she's lost her wedding ring
Somewhere near her misplaced jar of Bougainvillea seeds

he (springtime) holds onto their love (children) until she lets it go
and she chooses where she wants to be (with her husband)
even though she lost her wedding ring (her love for her husband)
somewhere near her misplaced heart (which is currently dead/dormant)


There are things we can't recall
Blind as night that finds us all


Winter tucks her children in, her fragile china dolls
But my hands remember hers
Rolling around the shaded ferns
Naked arms, her secrets still like songs I'd never learned
There are names across the sea
Only now I do believe
Sometimes, with the window closed, she'll sit and think of me
But she'll mend his tattered clothes
And they'll kiss as if they know
A baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone

he tucks the love to sleep
but his hands remember hers
he doesn't understand why she chose to go back to her husband
but out of everyone she knows
even though she's now faithful to her husband (the window has been closed) he still hopes that she thinks of him
but instead she tries to mend the marriage with her husband
and she'll kiss him
but they'll both know they're together only because they're afraid of being alone.


well that's my interpretation.. this song is simply beautiful.

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Paolo Nutini – Candy Lyrics 16 years ago
the man desperately wants to make love with this woman and he's willing to do anything - bathe her skin, wash her clothes, kiss her eyes, ect.

his feelings for her are sincere but naturally he wants more - he wants sex. candy=sex.

"Oh, and I'm often found explaining
But to her it plays out all the same
and although I'm left defeated
It gets held against my name
I know you got plenty to offer baby
But I guess I've taken quite enough
well I'm some stain there on your bed sheet
You're my diamond in the rough"

- these lines sum up the situation. he's trying to explain to her that his feelings for her are true, but to her, it doesn't matter, he's like every other man and she wont give up her virginity because she's afraid that's all he's after. she says no, and tries to tell him "i've got more to offer than just sex".

so he says to her, I'll be here waiting for you - you're worth it.

the last lines are all the possible reasons that the woman is waiting.. the things that are keeping him from having sex with her.
cut throats/jagged ends = surrounding world,relatives, judgemental people, ect
cheap and sugary philosophies= old fashioned values/morals that people live by such as the saying "waiting till marriage"
angels and their halos = one's religion

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Passion Pit – Sleepyhead Lyrics 16 years ago
wow, i had never thought about it in the way of an emotional breakdown like DecemberSun said, but now it makes complete and total sense.

And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going

- I love that this song is so happy. It gives you almost a euphoric feeling while listening to it. when he says 'everything is going to the beat' i think of it as " let the beat of the music erase all of your worries" Almost as if, you'd be listening to this song while you're going to sleep and it's TELLING you, "let it go and enjoy the music". It's also beautiful the way that at the end the lyrics become almost unrecognizable, almost what it would probably sound like if you were actually drifting off into sleep. anyways sorry about the rant on that little bit, it's my favorite part of the song!

And you said
It was like fire around the brim
Burning solid,
Burning thin, the burning rim.
Like stars burning holes right through the dark
Flicking fire, like saltwater, into my eyes
You were one inch from the edge of this bed
I drag you back a sleepyhead, sleepyhead

-I see this part of the song as a specific scene. A couple lying in bed, the lights are turned off, and the man hears his significant other crying. he asks her what's wrong and she describes to him what it feels like. The fire is a metaphor for the burning sensation she feels as tears form in her eyes. It's the slightly painful burning around the brim/rim of her eyelids. when he says "like stars burning holes right through the dark" he's talking about her tears spilling out from her closed eyes. saltwater is a reference to tears because that's what comes out from your eyes. He then describes how when she was finished crying/half asleep and at the farthest end of the bed, he pulls her sleepy body closer to his. So comforting and romantic.


They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst
With all their lions and all their might and all their thirst
They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin
Against the walls against your rules against your skin
My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors
Of your eyes, begonia skies like a sleepyhead


Your head

- I see this part of the song as him describing how others reacted the day she broke down. no one was able to say the right thing to comfort her. when he says "with all their lion with all their might with all their thirst" i feel as though he hold some resentment towards these people. he says that they are lions, strong, and have a reason( thirst=desire) to say something reassuring to comfort her. He speaks as though these people hold some sort of responsibility to her (possibly her family?) and should have SOMETHING to say to her, yet they're silent. He then says that these people crowd her thoughts and everything around her (home, mind, skin) yet they're silent. He becomes the only one that can comfort her -so he lies with her in bed and passes the time with her ( "his beard grows, to the floor, and out the door"). Then they, together, drift away into their dreams.


That's my personal interpretation of the song. Hope that made sense.. Truly beautiful. As for what the girl is crying about, i feel like it might be the death of someone close to her/possibly a family member, and the the people that are "crowding" her may be her family and friends that are worried for her but can't seem to find any words to say to comfort her. that last bit might be a long shot. who knows? hope that helped!


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