| The Goo Goo Dolls – Black Balloon Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The womb thing is just referencing that wombs in general are usually considered the last real time we, as humans, get to be safe and sins-of-life free. The heroin was like her womb, it was her safe, happy place. The spoon on which she is cooking her drug is her womb, it's her promise of safe and happy to come. | |
| The Ropes – Civil Lanterns Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree. And, maybe it's media saturation, but this song makes me think of vampires (but really, any monster) hiding from a mob of people. But it makes sense... when things are artificially bright (ie, the brightness of a bunch of people in one place with a bunch of lanterns and torches creating an ambient light), then they know to run. A shining intercom (maybe the gov't) saying that they'll overcome whatever this mob is angry about, and that they will be the civil lantern (the light that is coming from a legit source, and not just angry people, keeping safety intact). But the mob has none of it and just gets angrier... Love this song. |
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| Snow Patrol – What If The Storm Ends? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think these lyrics are slightly incorrect, or the version I have is different. On my super-clear headphones it sounds more like this: What if the storm ends? And I don't see you As you are now Ever again The perfect halo Of gold hair and lightning Sets you off against The planets last dance Just for a minute The silver-forked sky Lit you up like a star That I will follow But now it's found us Like I have a found you I don't wanna run Just overwhelm me What if the storm ends? And leaves us nothing Except the memory A distant echo I want pinned down I want unsettled Rattle cage after cage Until my blood boils I wanna see you As you are now Every single day That I am living Painted in flames A pealing thunder Be the lightning in me That strikes relentless What if the storm ends? And I don't see you As you are now Ever again The perfect halo Of gold hair and lightning Sets you off against The planets last dance Just for a minute The silver-forked sky Lifts you up like a star That I will follow But now it's found us Like I have a found you I don't wanna run Just overwhelm me |
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| The Format – On Your Porch Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't know why, but this song reminds me of one of my best friends. He graduated from high school and joined the army straight out, went to Iraq and after three tours, he's finally home. Before he left, he told me how he felt about me, but also told me that he didn't hold me obligated to return his feelings (I do, but I'd been dating someone at the time, and I am still with them). But it just reminds me of the last six or seven years, with him coming and going, and only being here for a few months at a time, and now finally being home and trying to reclaim his old, civilian life. To me the "get out of the desert and into the sun" means it's time for him to pull his mind away from all the crappy stuff he saw over there, and get into the sun and start living his life, but being afraid to because he hasn't done the stuff that some of his friends have done at home, and he didn't get the "normal" college experience the rest of us did. But I told him basically just that, he did something super extraordinary instead, and if he doesn't do the same things now, well so what? He did enough, more than most people do in a lifetime and he should be proud. I think he finally is adjusting and he's starting to realize that if he fails, then whatever, he can do something else too... Anyway, it just reminds me of all the turmoil of him leaving and coming back and... how emotional we all got. | |
| Anya Marina – Satellite Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well, they haven't said if the song was written for New Moon specifically, but it definitely resonates with the book perfectly. At some point in the book Bella equates her situation (pining for Edward, living her life circling the void he left) to a rogue moon, still circling the place where a planet once existed, despite the lack of gravity. That's the sad part of the metaphor, that she (or her heart) is a satellite, circling helplessly, caught in the gravity of someone or something else. And worse, she's unable to pull away, doomed to circle forever, or until something finally knocks her out of the sky and sends her burning to the ground. Also, I don't remember if this is true or not, so physics people correct me, but in theory, if a force that is exerting a gravitational pull on another object (such as the earth to the moon) suddenly ceases to exist, wouldn't that object be flung out of its orbit and into space? It's such a beautiful and tragic metaphor. With or without the Twilight/New Moon reference, it's just a beautiful way to equate the pain and loss of being left behind by someone that you still revolve around. Whether it's being left behind in a long distance relationship, or being left behind for good... Sometimes, you just find it hard to stop circling the life you once had, and move forward. |
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| Angie Hart – Blue Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I vaguely remember Joss talking about the song at a convention. He said that each refrain represents a different aspect of Buffy's past, and it's sort of a way to bring the audience around to the present of Conversations with Dead People. The Night falls/I fall/And where were you?/And here were you? Represents Buffy's general life, Night comes, she goes to fight, someday she'll fall, it's inevitable, and she'll be alone, as always. Warm skin/Wolf grin/And where were you? I think it's supposed to represent her brief-but-lasting love with Angel, and how she'll always remember how he made her feel human and warm and safe, and even their passionate night together, and his wolfishly-charming grin, but in the end, even he can't be with her. She was and will be alone when it comes to him. I fell into the moon/And it covered you in blue Her descent into darkness around the fourth season, realizing that she will be alone and it's impact on her relationship with Riley, how it made him sad that she separated herself from him, distanced herself. Can I make it right?/Can I spend the night? How she tried to solve the problems by opening her body and soul to him, but in the end, even her physical closeness couldn't solve the emotional distance. Riley leaves. High tide/Inside/The air is dew/And where were you? Her "relationship" with Spike, which Anya would probably have called an "orgasm" relationship. I'm guessing the air is dew is some reference to sweaty skin and probably also the tension between them and Spike's sadness (hanging in the air between them like dew) as he could not breach the distance that Buffy kept between them. Wild eyed/I died/And where were you? Her death, her sacrifice, and probably the last image before she jumped of Dawn, looking shocked and confused that Buffy was taking her place. Maybe the "and where were you?" is even a reference to her mother. Maybe she never found Joyce in whatever heavenly dimension she ended up in. But in general, she's beginning to realize that she will ALWAYS be alone at the end. I crawled out of the world/When you said I shouldn't stay Directed at Willow, mostly but also her Xander, Anya and Tara. Literally she crawls out of the dirt. But I also think she means it metaphorically too. They brought her back, but she still rolled in the "dirt" of the world because she hated the fact that her peaceful afterlife, her "gift" was taken away. Until the end of S6, she finally began to "crawl out of world" when they insisted that she needed to get on with living. I crawled out of the world/Can I make it right? I think this is about her not only wanting to fix what is wrong within herself, but fix what is wrong with her friends and with Dawn. In general, she's realizing that the people she fought so hard for, fell apart in her absence, and in order to gain her own sense of stability again, she needs to fix the holes. I also think this represents when she "crawled out of the world" and out of the "dirt" (the dirt being Spike, and her moving on from their abusive-cycle of violent sex) she also wanted to make it somewhat right with him. Can I spend the night/Alone The ultimate question that Buffy now faces in CWDP. She's done everything she can do up until that point to bring her normal life back around. Willow is home and on the mend, Xander and Anya are figuring their crap out, and Dawn is almost normal and not a total thief and whiny-child anymore... Buffy's life is finally coming back together, and she is piecing herself back together... Now she is wondering if she can stay that way. Can she spend her nights alone? Can she grow accustomed to knowing that she will, despite the people she loves, always die alone? Which, really, is what her Conversation With Dead Person was about. Her inferiority complex about her superiority complex and her realization that, in the end, all the men will leave, she'll never allow her loved ones to die next to her, so she will be alone. This song is brilliant, and an excellent way to open up that scene with NO real dialogue. :D JW is SO brilliant in this episode of BtVS! |
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