| Arcade Fire – Afterlife Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Having posted what I did above, I think you also have a beautiful description of what this song is about. It is about losing a true love and being desperate and lost. I kinda want to revisit the lyrics a bit, because I really like your post. "Afterlife, I think I saw what happens next It was just a glimpse of you Like looking through a window or a shallow sea, could you see me?" This little verse is so powerful to me. He sees what happens next, and he realizes that this girl he loved so dearly will fade to a memory. A glimpse, and likewise she will not fully see him. "And after all this time It's like nothing else we used to know" I would say that this is also very important. He has experienced true love and he is losing a way of life in the process of losing the girl. It's never going to be the same. As for the chorus, or refrain, or whatever: "When love is gone, where does it go?" I love the shit out of this line. He had an immense love, and it is gone. So, what the hell is the deal? Where did it go, and can he get it back? "And where do we go?" To me this is the entire song put into a single line. The love is gone, so what now? What do you do when a love that defined your life is gone? Where do you go? How can you find it again? At the end, he accepts it, as you mentioned. Probably one of the most beautiful parts about the song is that there is no resolution. It is just true to the real feeling that occurs when you lose, as you say, the future you envisioned. This song captures the desperation and sadness, but also offers a catharsis through all the expression of these things. From really coming to understand the meaning of this song in a personal way, I think the Spike Jonze directed music video for this song at the youtube music awards is amazingly spot on. The awkward, cathartic dancing expresses exactly what the song is about. It's about honesty and fighting your way to the realization that things will not be the same, and trying to feel okay about that. |
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| The National – Cardinal Song Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Just a brutal song. It's obsessive and dark, but for some reason it resonates with that part of a lot of people that's been deeply hurt and angry. Or at least there's a part of me that has felt that. It's not rational, and from one perspective it's almost silly, but on the dark end of the spectrum, this song is one of my favorite National songs. The song is musically very strong, which helps make it so effective as a whole. The wordless middle section becomes calming, but the violin kicks in as the narrator stops thinking about the situation and begins his confession. Brutal honesty. Jesus Christ, you have confused me... |
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| Arcade Fire – Afterlife Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Actually listening to the lyrics, it seems like a love song more than anything. When love is gone, where does it go? and where do we go? It's when something is over, but you don't know what the hell to do with yourself. If you were ever really infatuated with someone to a painful degree, it's easy to see what the song is pointing to. There is a desperate sense of hanging on and demanding to know "can we work it out?" The point is that no, it doesn't work out. This song is just the desperation of losing love and trying to figure out what the hell to do afterwards. A different type of afterlife. I think this sort of says it all: "It was just a glimpse of you Like looking through a window Or a shallow sea Could you see me?" Could you see me? The lover doesn't even see you or recognize you, though you're hanging onto their image still. It's a great song, really. |
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| Arcade Fire – Cars and Telephones Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This song is a gem. Shame most people have never heard it | |
| Arcade Fire – Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| First listen to this was just now... I like it a lot. New album is definitely different, but I suppose that's a part of the greatness of the band. Will always be a fan. | |
| Jackson Browne – Late for the Sky Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Just thought I'd mention how perfect the music is in this song, since the lyrics already get the credit they deserve. David Lindley's slide guitar is indispensable in this song, though. Beautiful music to go with beautiful lyrics. Gives it that feel of airy desperation, but hope for something new. You can see it as a very sad song, but sometimes I just listen to it and enjoy it. It doesn't even have to be sad, though the theme is heavy as can be. It's so perfect that you can just enjoy it |
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| The Cribs – Be Safe Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| there have been times where that describes me so well. I'll be alone and my head is just racing with nonsense, and I start to feel so alone and like I'm trapped in the rush of emotions or pain I know are not rational. Then I'll wake up and it's all gone. | |
| The Avett Brothers – I and Love and You Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'm very sorry, man. I met a girl once that had those eyes that shine, and everything else too. I knew her for a year before I ever went after her, but once I got to know her it was impossible to deny my attraction. I was unsure for a long time, and honestly tried to bury the way I felt about her due to fear, but eventually she seemed to come after me. And with the way she seemed interested, I had to go after her. It's just that she had a bad experience like your girl did. Before much ever happened between us (though I had known her a year and a half, and had around 6 months of getting to really know her), she started distancing herself and was clearly afraid of letting something happen. To boot, I was very unhappy with myself at the time, and I felt like she was the only one that could take me in and make me happy with myself. And I just wanted to make her happy. It's just that I had apparently reminded her of her abusive ex-boyfriend, and I never got a chance. I never did anything to her, but she got trapped in her head about it and just shut me out. I watched her slip away from me and seem like she hated me, and I hated myself too. Soon after she told me the truth (not in person, because she didn't trust me), I was still normal on the outside I guess, but I was miserable in my head and when I was alone. I was depressed and just didn't know what to do. I had never met someone that made me feel like she did, and I had never wanted so badly to be validated by someone whom I felt I could make truly happy. I had never been willing to just drop everything and do whatever so I could be with a girl. She was just better than all the girls I had ever met, and I couldn't control myself. I still see her everyday (college... not due to choice), and this all started almost a year ago. Around when you posted this comment was the end of the major depression and me helplessly trying to get a chance with her. I was angry for a few months, but eventually asked for forgiveness. I'm still embarrassed at the way I was pathetic and depressed and said a lot of dumb things to her, but I can't change any of it. We're friends and act normal around each other I guess, but I know that I've given her plenty of reasons to not want to be around me. I had no way of handling the fact that she just let go of everything after seemingly validating the idea that I had a reason to really like her. I thought she really liked me. And the idea that I was similar to someone that hurt her so badly just killed me on the inside for a long time. If you're crazy about a girl and she tells you you're similar to a piece of shit, it's hard to just ignore the feeling that you really are one. I really hated myself for awhile. Even if I knew I did nothing (and had a friend back me up that I never did the thing she said I did), it still just made me feel guilty and even angry at her, all when I just wanted to see that smile of hers every day, and be the one that made it the brightest. I felt different about this girl in a way I had never felt, and I was just a dark spot. I haven't really thought of this in months, but your comment rang home a bit. I guess there's a part of me that wishes I could have a chance with her, but I know I can't. I also know that I'll probably never be able to even be a real friend that she wants around. I've accepted that fully, and I've been fine for close to 6 months about all this. It's just that there's a part of me that wishes I could have gotten to this day without all the pain. I wish she could trust me and actually want me around, but I know I'm shit to her on some level, even if she would never say that. She was always too nice to call me out. I've never been one to get attached to anyone, perhaps because part of me is afraid, but also because I'm just a particular person. I just wish I knew how to find someone that could make me feel like she did. I wish I could be in love with someone who loved me back. It's hard to be open to someone when you've had something backfire so devastatingly hard on you. It's hard to act like you don't still want that person deep down or that you don't wish you actually meant something to them. It's hard to accept that you won't even mean something to them. |
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| Coldplay – Amsterdam Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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To me this song is about depression and regret. He says he should have waited, but not what he should have waited for. Obviously it could be any number of things. Personally, I was in a situation where I tried to force a relationship and I ended up in a hole because of it. I was very depressed and it felt like time was indeed pushing me around because I needed to wait and I didn't know how to. My own inability to control my desire to be with this girl was more or less what led to me losing her, and I lost my head over it. If you've ever been depressed, you'd identify with the following line: "And I know I'm dead on the surface But I am screaming underneath" It's so unbelievably true for me, at least. I don't show my troubles or make them obvious, and no one knew what I was going through. On the inside I was so miserable, and I hated myself. I'm not in any way suicidal, but on a figurative level I can understand the part about being on the edge tied to the noose. Unfortunately for me, she left me hanging and I had to learn to cut myself down. But that's how life goes. It's still a beautiful song. You never think that you'd swerve out of control over someone like that, but then you do and it's like you really do need someone to cut you down. It took a long time for me to realize that I was the one who put myself in that position and that only I could get myself out. If only I'd waited |
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| The National – You Were a Kindness Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It was just something I felt like putting into words. I guess people read it after all. I appreciate the kindness. I'm a lot better now, but there was quite a long time there where I hated myself and I tried to hate her too. She's so normal with everything else, and it seemed like she was over it by the time she even told me. It was just such a messed up situation. I basically just choose not to think about it anymore, because there's no way for me to be okay about all that happened, my actions included. Hating yourself isn't worth it. | |
| The National – You Were a Kindness Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I never listened to the lyrics closely in this song before... I never realized how true it was. I just went through this damn situation. This line in particular: "I'll do what I can to be a confident wreck can't feel this way forever, I mean" Is very striking, along with this: "wanting not to want you won't make it so" It hurts just listening to it. There was this girl that I knew for awhile, that I somewhat randomly got to know better through weekly lunches set up by a mutual friend. I liked her after awhile, but I got the feeling I wasn't going to be with her, so I tried to shut it all down. The problem was, she did like me and I saw it more and more, and soon enough I felt like I needed her. I was pretty stressed and busy at the time, and I didn't realize that I was running myself into the ground. She seemed like such a kindness, like the only way to make everything better. It was like she was the only way for me to have any meaning, to have anything besides emptiness. But she had an abusive boyfriend once, and she got freaked out by something she thought I did, and that was it. She never told me why she went cold on me until way later, and by then I was coming apart completely. She went from liking me and being such a bright spot to lying and avoiding me, and I was shattered completely. She was very kind when she finally told me the truth, but it was too late because there was no way for me to stop wanting her, and she no longer wanted me in the slightest. Just black and white like that, over something I never actually did. I feel terrible that something happened to her in the past, but she ended up being something I simply had no way to deal with. I've been feeling better, but I'm no more than a confident wreck. I never got a real chance with girl I felt like I was in love with. I'm not an emotional guy, and love and affection have never been something I'm very forward about, but everything was different with her. And ever since it really has felt like I got left alone, even though I know it's not true. Anyways, I almost broke down listening to this song and actually paying attention to the lyrics, so I felt compelled to rant a little bit. I doubt anyone will ever read this anyways |
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| Jackson Browne – Your Bright Baby Blues Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song is incredible. I heard it a lot when I was younger and my parents listened to it. One day recently it just came into my head, even though I hadn't heard it in years. The bit I remembered was the "there's just one thing" motif. A quick google search brought me to the song, and it really is incredible | |
| The National – Secret Meeting Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| pretty damn good interpretation, imo. nice | |
| The National – Slow Show Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| wtf | |
| Arcade Fire – Suburban War Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Anyone who grew up in the Suburbs and came back from college to find their old friends with a different crowd, or just not the same, knows what this song means. Sure, the song exaggerates the point, but it's a beautiful way of conveying something so real. When you go back to the suburbs, it's not the same as it once was. | |
| Arcade Fire – Wasted Hours Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm not sure the "wasted hours" are necessarily a bad thing in the song. For example, in the Suburbs (continued), the lyrics read "all the time that we wasted, I'd only waste it again." I feel like there's a lot of truth to that statement. Spending time blowing in the wind and doing what you want are two things synonymous with "longing to be free." It seems to be a connection between the dull suburban childhood and adulthood. Just because one grows up doesn't mean it becomes enjoyable to be trapped in a bus (in a different sense). The kids in buses longing to be free are the ones that spend their summers staring out the window. As adults, they turn those wasted hours into life that they can live. However, the fact that they're "still kids in buses longing to be free" suggests that nothing has really changed. They long for the wasted hours staring out the window, rather than being caught in the fuss of daily life. Or at least that's one way I think you can look at it. |
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| Arcade Fire – Suburban War Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Win Butler is actually from the Woodlands, a suburb outside of Houston. I'm from a different Suburb outside of Houston that's essentially the same thing, so I find this especially interesting. Probably my favorite song on The Suburbs | |
| Zac Brown Band – Who Knows Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Great song. Also the lyrics should be "sing until the darkness it is lifted" I'm fairly sure, at least |
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| Zac Brown Band – Knee Deep Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Pretty much an improvement on the Jimmy Buffet-esque "Where the Boat Leaves From" ... it has Jimmy on the track! Seriously, though, very catchy song that's just easy to listen to |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Put You On Game Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Assuming that the Game is the equivalent of a modern devil, of course. I forgot to add that | |
| Lupe Fiasco – The Die Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Funny enough, I got both "The Cool" and Tupac's "All Eyez on Me" today, which has Life Goes On and the line "there's a heaven for a G." This song is obviously about the death of the Cool, and during the ending segment where he gets shot up, you can even hear the song "The Cool" from Lupe's previous album, which is The Cool himself talking about his death. Lupe says "It's a heaven for a G," which obviously turns out to be wrong, both by The Cool's testimony in his song on the previous album, "no heaven for a gangster," and the next song in the album, "Put You on Game." "Put You on Game" features Lupe as the devil talking to The Cool after he was killed and went to hell. A notable line goes "I hope your bullet holes become mouths that say my name" This and "Put You on Game" are some of my favorites by Lupe. They go together chillingly well and are fucking fantastically dark |
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| Lupe Fiasco – Put You On Game Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song and the song before it, "The Die," are some of my favorites by Lupe. Put together, they are quite chilling and powerful. Obviously, he's the devil talking to "The Cool," who was killed in the previous song. | |
| Corey Smith – Better Place Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Shame this song has no feedback other than this comment. It's a great piece, and Corey clearly shows his ability to write serious songs. The bare acoustic track provides a great atmosphere, and the lyrics speak for themselves. the song has so much truth in it: "It's crazy but it's true, she doesn't have a clue" |
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| Pink Floyd – Pigs (Three Different Ones) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I love the guitar solo at the end. Brilliant song overall. | |
| Corey Smith – I'm Not Gonna Cry Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This really is the quintessential graduation song. It captures so much that literally everyone can identify with when they think of graduation, although I imagine many do cry when they hear it. | |
| Bruce Springsteen – The Ghost Of Tom Joad Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Beautiful song. If you guys haven't heard it, you really need to listen to the live version that has Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine (who made their own version of the song) playing with Bruce and the band. Hell, I'll just post the Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-c6GphpAeY It's a brilliant performance, you guys should check it out. |
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| Collective Soul – The World I Know Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| And I laugh at myself as the tears roll down, because it's the world I know. Wonderful song, whether or not you feel depressed. It's about finding yourself and learning to make the best of things. | |
| Zac Brown Band – Highway 20 Ride Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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A great song about Zac's split-up family and his dad having to drive to visit him afterward. The first part of the song, I believe, is Zac singing as if he's his father. That's why it's "I'll drive" and "your mom and me." The last verse is Zac telling his dad that it's okay; he has nothing against his dad at all for what happened. In the video, it shows Zac hugging his dad after the last verse, so I think that's the gist of things. Anyway, Zac has some impressive vocals and seems to have a never-ending series of great songs coming out. Much respect |
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