| The Fray – How To Save A Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I've always thought this song was about someone who blames themselves for their loved one's suicide. "Step one, you say, "We need to talk"/He walks, you say, "Sit down, it's just a talk"" Have you ever tried talking to someone about their health when they're obviously mentally ill? They don't want to talk about it. They just want to curl up in themselves, and whenever you confront them about their well-being, they try to walk away. "Let him know that you know best/'cuz after all, you do know best" They try to convince their loved one to get help, get better, etc. To me, this line always sounded a little sarcastic. Maybe they didn't know what was best, maybe their advice actually made their friend even more depressed, or, if they weren't already, suicidal. "And I would have stayed up with you all night/had I known how to save a life" If they had only known what their friend had been attempting, they would have stayed up and talked them out of it, or at least tried to. Instead, they either didn't know what was happening, or didn't know how to deal with it and let their friend slip away. "As he begins to raise his voice/You lower yours and grant him one last choice" The loved one gets angry and defensive, and an argument ensues. The two choices they give him--"driving until he loses the road" or "breaking the ones he's followed"--may have been taken wrong and the loved one was driven to suicide. This is just is my take on it, it's probably actually about drug use. But with my past, this is how I've always interpreted the song. Suicide has always been an unfortunate factor in my life, and this is all I can think about when I hear this song. It makes me cry every time. c': |
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| Regina Spektor – Man of a Thousand Faces Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think of this as a song about an older person, who has dementia or Alzheimer's. It shows him as having more than one personality; knowing the moon at one point, and not recognizing her at another point. The song also talks about things that he used to do; going to his favorite book store, and ripping out his favorite pages. People whose brains are losing function often stop doing things that they loved to do at one point. Now, he has a different habit; sitting near the window and eating a lump of "sugar". I think this may be referencing to a pill, or possible drug abuse. And when she gets to the chorus; "And I'm crying for things that I tell others to do without crying" may be talking about taking care of this elderly man, who is at the end of his life. She may be telling her family to be strong and not show remorse in front of him, when it's something she can't do herself. |
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| The Smiths – Asleep Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I adore this song. I also heard it from "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". I read it about a year ago, and decided recently to look up this song, out of all the others mentioned, for no particular reason. And I'm so glad I did... I've been listening to it for three days almost nonstop. It probably isn't good for me... music changes my emotions a lot, and this song can make me pretty depressed. But I just can't help it... this is such a gorgeous song. |
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| Modest Mouse – Blame It on the Tetons Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is showing how selfish society is. We all worry about our own troubles, take the credit of others, and hide from things we did wrong. I think he's talking about the Tetons mountain range, not breasts. Blaming a mountain is ridiculous, but people hate being at fault, so we will do anything to remain innocent. Thus, we blame the Tetons, which is absurd, but everybody goes along with anyways because they still want something to blame. Blaming the weekends. Blaming the spider webs. "All the eager actors gladly take the credit for the lines created by the people tucked away from sight" means that although we do not like being blamed, we will take the credit for things people too shy to stand up for themselves do. So although we won't admit to spilling that pop, we'll lie and say we got another soda for the person who's pop it was, although somebody else had it sitting out in the first place. "Everyone's a burning building with no one to put the fire out" means we are all too worried about our own troubles to look at everyone else's and help others. We only think for ourselves. Because everybody is too busy thinking about themselves, nobody can help one another, and it all just gets worse and worse. "Everyone's an ocean drowning, with no one really to show how. They might get a little better air if they turned themselves into a cloud." The ocean part is similar to the burning buildings. But if we evaporated and turned into a cloud, if we put ourselves above our issues and the issues of others, we would be happy and carefree. If we didn't worry about the insignificant crap we'd all do fine. |
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