| Paolo Nutini – Pencil Full Of Lead Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I don't know if this is true, but I hear 'pencil full of lead' is a euphemism for something else! :) | |
| Paolo Nutini – Pencil Full Of Lead Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I don't know if this is true, but I hear 'pencil full of lead' is a euphemism for something else! :) | |
| This Mortal Coil – Song Of The Siren Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is the song I associate with my first and only love. When we met I didn't really believe in 'love' and dismissed it as a load of sentimental nonsense. Then when I met him, I know what to do with my feelings, I was foolish and he left me after a few months. Towards the end of our relationship, I heard the Mortal Coil interpretation of this song, with the vocals by Elizabeth Fraser, and it was like it was written for me. In the months to come, I would listen to it over and over, and it never lost significance. Now, I suspect that nobody is interested in reading a line-by-line analysis of what this song means to me, but the beauty of the internet is that I can do it anyway, and those who don't want to read it don't have to :P 'Long afloat on shipless oceans, I did all my best to smile / Till your singing eyes and fingers drew me loving to your isle.' This is how I was before I was in love. Going about my life, unaffected and detached. 'Did I dream you dreamed about me?' I love this line. This was all the more meaningful to me after our split. Wondering if the other person still wants you. 'Were you hare when I was fox?' or 'Were you here when I was flotsam' or 'full-sail' or whatever it is. Either way, I feel like it's questioning whether the other was noticing and watching for much longer than the narrator has realised. 'Now my foolish boat is leaning.' I'm starting to change my ways... 'For you sing / Touch me not, come back tomorrow / Oh my heart shies from the sorrow.' Elizabeth Fraser sings this line so beautifully. The fact that when one person is fickle and doesn't seem to know what they want, the other's heart is breaking. 'I'm as puzzled as a newborn child.' Seeing the world afresh... 'Should I stand amid the breakers, or should I lie with death my bride?' for me, this felt like a reference to my two states of mind... should I face up to the pain, or should I act as if it doesn't hurt? 'Swim to me, let me enfold you, here I am waiting to hold you.' I love how the invitation is turned around in this song. First it is one person and then the other who is offering the love. This is just how it was with me and my partner. No other version of this song moves me, really. The original I find pretty dull. Fraser's voice is magic, she could take any lyrics and make them significant. After many months, the person I associate this with came back to me, and we're still together now. But this song still moves me just as much as ever. :) |
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| Enrique Iglesias – Escape Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Whether or not there's a comma in the actual official lyrics (which doesn't really matter to me), personally when I hear this song I feel like he's saying: 'You can't escape, my love.' like saying 'you can't escape, darling.' rather than: 'You can't escape my love.' as in 'My love is something you can't escape.' Which makes it all the more creepy to me, because it could have all kinds of different meanings. The character in the song may not have ever even been in a relationship with the other person, and just be deluding themselves. None of these things make it a bad song, or anything, it's on my mp3 player! |
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| Enrique Iglesias – Escape Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Whether or not there's a comma in the actual official lyrics (which doesn't really matter to me), personally when I hear this song I feel like he's saying: 'You can't escape, my love.' like saying 'you can't escape, darling.' rather than: 'You can't escape my love.' as in 'My love is something you can't escape.' Which makes it all the more creepy to me, because it could have all kinds of different meanings. The character in the song may not have ever even been in a relationship with the other person, and just be deluding themselves. None of these things make it a bad song, or anything, it's on my mp3 player! |
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