| Tove Lo – Habits (Stay High) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| "tasting kind of lonely" | |
| Tove Lo – Habits (Stay High) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I feel pretty certain that she sings "And I drink up all my money, testing kind of lonely" instead of "days get..." | |
| Darren Hayes – Ocean Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| What a gem this song, shame it's buried in such a rare release and was not featured in any album.... It's got a very Savage Garden feel to it, such a beautiful ballad. I love the imagery, he uses the ocean as a metaphor for having to carry something heavy and overwhelming, like the pain of an ended relationship. He wishes he could become one with the ocean, drown his heart, his pain and re-emerge new. | |
| Bon Iver – Skinny Love Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Like others pointed out, I too think that the song refers to a girl with health problems, an eating disorder or maybe even drugs? Hence her skinny body, the blood imagery and him reprimanding her to be more balanced, patient, kind (to herself?). He tries to cut the ropes from this relationship as her condition makes it hard for him to stay (the "tall order"), and promises that he'll demand a change in her behaviour/lifestyle soon, "he'll be holding the tickets and she'll be holding the fines" Also how he wants to cut the bridges at the end of her lines could be another reference to her making use of cocaine, how the drugs can make her say irrational thing to him, telling him that his attention and care are not needed... to which he responds "all my love was wasted? who the hell was I?"... Definitely open to many interpretations... beautiful songs, I too discovered it through Birdy.... I like her piano rendition but such lyrics sung by a 15 year old really make little sense... Bon sings them so raw emotion as they are personal to him... |
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| Everything but the Girl – Single Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Having been in a toxic/failed relationship myself I can relate to every word of this song.... the desire to set yourself free from that other person, so that you could be "more yourself", but every time you try you are obsessed with whether they "want you back" or not... In order to represent the state of confusion that a situation like this can set you in, I think that the writer is describing in reverse the different stages of this attempt at liberation: in the second verse she has just arrived at the hotel, she left her partner and feels proud of herself. But then the doubts start creeping up, is being alone really better than being unhappy but with that someone? Will I disappear? So finally (regressing back to the beginning), she gives in and calls him. |
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