| Nichole Nordeman – Help Me Believe Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Beautiful song about asking God to help her to believe in the miracles He has done and can do in her life, instead of trusting so much in the things we can see and are seen as rational. Her lyrics and the music make a wonderful song. In the first verse, she has a desire to have her childlike mind back, where she could more easily believe in Him in contrast to what we tend to view as "silly dreams". The second verse is about the stories she has been told in the bible and how they actually make more sense to her and are easier to understand than science, which "crushes underneath". Then the bridge is about her being disappointed in the fact that what other people who think they are well-informed tell her she actually believes, but she knows that if she got rid of that God would give her the faith He knows she wants. The chorus is where she asks for God to take away the "grown-up skin" that seems to get in the way of their relationship and her faith in him. |
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| Nichole Nordeman – Tremble Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This is what every believer of the Most High should be saying to themselves. It's just so true and songs like these are why I rate Nichole Nordeman highly. | |
| Fiona Apple – Please Please Please Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Everyone's got the gist - stab at the music industry but also the consumers. First verse - she's fed up with the same old crap they're churning out. It's probably not at all what Fiona had in mind, but I love how she says "Please please please, no more maladies" - which are diseases or disorders - "I'm so tired of crying; you'd think I was a siren" and then I just imagine the siren of an ambulance in reference to the disease or health problem which requires the ambulance. But she describes it (the problem) as if it were a drug that your hooked on. "Me and everybody's on the sad same team" - she is just as or has been as immersed in it as we the audience are. On the contrary to xocouturecouture, I think the chorus is about the audience, not the industry. The chorus continues from the verse: "Me and everybody's on the sad same team and you can hear our sad brains screaming give us something familiar..." The mainstream industry is so rubbish yet infectious in the sense that people are fine with heartless music they're being sold because it's "familiar" and will keep them "steady going nowhere". Ignorance is bliss. Second verse - "Please please please, no apologies. At best they buy you time until you next step out of line" sounds like something the label would say. And then Fiona replies "Please please please no more remedies. My method is uncertain, it's a mess but it's working." To me, she's saying that she's sick of them trying to cure or tame her with their "remedies" and that what she's doing is fine thanks very much. But "And maybe if you wanna try it out, you won't like it when you're crying out..." sounds as though she's saying that the audience can't handle real music because in the end they still go asking for what's "familiar". |
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| Imogen Heap – 2-1 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's hilarious how we're all trying to interpret the song, yet Imogen even says "things are not always as they seem". A very intelligent songwriter. | |
| Imogen Heap – 2-1 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Honestly when I first heard this song, I had no clue what she was talking about. What's interesting is that everybody who first came across it seems to have been confused by at least one part; and that's ironic as I feel the song is talking about things in life which confuse us when we get carried away with our own personal beliefs and ideas. And not only when we believe things, but when we don't believe or understand things. The line that sticks out is "will you/we be ready" - I think she's talking about mankind and will we be ready when we find out that things we always thought were true and believed in are in fact "not always how they seem". First verse is so clever. It's on a large scale. What I gather from it is that she's basically telling us how we always get things wrong trying to fill in the gaps. How we first thought the Earth was flat, then we decided it wasn't, then we decided that we are in orbit and then it seemed our own surroundings supposedly told us of "billion galaxies". There she quite easily sums up the increasing knowledge we are gaining of our existence. Whenever I hear it though, it sounds as if she's almost making fun of our indecisiveness or our stupidity in trying to place things in boxes with labels and tags. Second verse is blatantly about personal beliefs which are on a smaller scale in comparison to the "billions of galaxies". "Interim of life" bleeds temporariness and that since we know we'll all die one day, just knowing that makes us clutch at straws to try to understand things. And then although polyfilla is used to fill cracks, she sounds doubtful of its purpose - "polyfilla way looks strong in the weakness of the gaps" - though it may look strong, the chorus goes on to say that "things are not always as they seem. What we use to fill gaps in our knowledge, whether it be science or religion (whichever side you're on) or anything else, isn't always sufficient enough - or one thing is sufficient and one thing isn't. Definitely agree with LUNASOL about the bridge. I also think that Imogen cleverly conducted the song and it sounds misleading - the beat and the instruments become racy and more intense and so when she starts asking the person she's talking to, "What's in your head?" and "How it all got in there", it sounds as if she's attacking them for what they believe. But then as the music calms, she asks, "Tell me, is it my fault?" pretty much asking whether their weakness in their beliefs or ideas is because she's spent so long trying to tear them down - (also making fun in the first verse of their belief perhaps). And then she says apologetically almost, "And I care about you darling". They're both in the same boat as we all are: trying to figure out what's fact and what's fiction; what's real and what's fake; what's truth and what's false. And I'm sorry, but who else ever says more about "being ready" than those who believe that the Son of God will return one day? I have no idea from what viewpoint Imogen says this -- (perhaps I can glean a little from the song "Oh Me, Oh My" where she asks: "God, are you there? If so where are you hiding, I'm having trouble in finding you") -- but it sounds hauntingly familiar of those so-called "Jesus freaks"... |
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| Imogen Heap – 2-1 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This has to be the most insightful interpretation. I agree with you one hundred percent. | |
| Nichole Nordeman – Crimson Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Great way to some up man's death and the life we can have again through Jesus Christ. | |
| Nichole Nordeman – To Say Thanks Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Sometimes it seems dangerous to write a song like this which questions the Almighty and His ways, especially as it doesn't seem very encouraging. But we've all been through it, so it's a necessary song. It's a simple frustration-filled song about the troubles she's facing in life and how she doesn't understand why it's happening to her if God is supposed to be good. And then the line "Why does it keep getting harder to say thanks?" really hits home. Normally she had things to thanks the Father for, yet in the midst of all the troubles she faces, she doesn't know what to thank Him for anymore. Love this song - the music and her voice is so lovely. |
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| Phil Wickham – Sailing On a Ship Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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A simple song about being on a path in life where you face problems, but you just keep going to reach what God has promised. This is what I get from the lyrics: "A voice is on the wind. It calls me further in. I'm heading deeper into Your heart." God's voice can be heard speaking to his heart. He's becoming more what God wants and finds himself surrounded more and more by God's love. "Your mark is on my chest. My sails filled with your breath" Chest to signify his heart and God's mark is on it. God's breath fueling his boat throughout his life. "You guide me by the light of the stars" This reminds me of the shepherds being guided to baby Jesus; how God finds many ways to guide us. "I'm sailing on a ship that's bound for life. I wrestle with the wind against the tide. I leave it all behind to reach for more. I'm sailing onto Your golden shore" He's on a path he chooses so he can live rightly, even though there are things (the wind) that make it hard. He's leaving the meaningless things and the struggles to gain something better: God's promise to him of eternal life, or in more immediate terms, the best person he can be on this earth. "Though skies go blue to grey. And I'm thrown from wave to wave. You still will hear these lungs singing hard" When things go from good to bad, in the midst of struggle, he'll still be hopeful and will continue to praise God. "With every storm I face I find a greater grace, That pulls me deeper into Your heart" God uses the bad things in life to make people who believe in Him, believe even more as they witness His grace. "I'm sailing on To where the water's running sweet and bright. The sun is rising in the eastern sky. I leave it all behind to reach for more. I'm sailing on to Your golden shore" Here, it comes across to me as the things he keeps on his minds to motivate and encourage him to keep "sailing on" into God's love and eternal life. From the first moment I heard this song, it touched me. It's about being optimistic and not losing sight of your goal. |
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| KT Tunstall – (Still A) Weirdo Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Cannot believe nobody has commented this yet. But I guess it's because there's not really much to say - painfully beautiful <3 You can just feel KT intertwined with these lyrics. I think it's just about her going through life and into each day, like we all do - blindly. And she's fine with the fact that things don't always go right and that she's "still a weirdo". |
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| Sheryl Crow – I Shall Believe Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| <3 made me cry. | |
| Coldplay – Talk (Alternate Version) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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way better than the album version in my opinion. it feels more meaningful, and the drums are heavy. |
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| Mary Mary – I Got It Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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...My heart tells me to rejoice [[after this, you missed out]]: *My faith in Him keeps telling me to hold on* Is life *just* failing me *But* when I call on you |
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| Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager (Part One) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Bum this song. It's even more amazing live to be honest, but yeah it's so good! | |
| Wakey!Wakey! – Dance So Good Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song makes me cry! "And I know you can't stay But I wish you would Yeah I wish you would Yeah I wish you would" :') awwhh it's just such a beautiful song |
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| Lissie – When I'm Alone Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| YUM. | |
| Josh Auer – Dear You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song makes me sooooo happy when I hear it. I just sway from side to side and it's just so lovely :) | |
| Out of Eden – I Am The One Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is almost magical. I can't believe how much it moves me, and makes me cry. The meaning of the song is pretty self explanatory, but to me it means that He is always going to be there, even if at times we wish He wouldn't. That is something you can't guarantee any earthly being will be. |
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| Regina Spektor – Bon Idée Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think it's just the fact that once your thoughts are said out loud, they no longer exist just inside your head, so they are no longer personal to you. and they actually exist in the real word, because they've been realized. And also to be careful because you can't take back what you say. Ever. |
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| Regina Spektor – Daniel Cowman Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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loads of it has probably already been said... i think it makes more sense that the lyrics are: "so now that we've got that straight, does it mean that i can fly? does it mean that i can go do whatever i please? now that we've got that clear, and you know that i'm not here does it mean that i can go do whatever i please?" because it's like he doesn't exist anymore, hence "and you know that i'm not here" so he just wants to be left to choose what he wants to do. hmm i think that the whole song is written from daniel cowman's point of view, as if he's talking about some events he can remember when he was alive. |
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