| James Blunt – No Tears Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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For me, it's a conversation between two soldiers - and one of them is about to die. Let's call them A and B, B being the one who's dying. B is extremely religious. He believes in God and just feels that he's right. A is an ordinary soldier, a friend, but he doesn't believe or love God. For A, God makes no difference or doesn't even exist. B is deeply wounded and about to die. Probably, he sacrificed himself, in order to save A. A is calling him "crazy" and doesn't understand his sacrifice. So, with that in mind, let's talk about the lyrics: "Don't I know it? Nobody has to say" A is probably calling B stupid for being such a nice person, because he sacrificed himself for someone else. And B answers, telling A that he knows that, but he's ok just like that. "I've been lucky. Guess I was born that way" B tells A something about him. For such a gentle soul, he could get that far in the war. So he's been lucky, he could be one of the first deads. "I thank my father, His absence has made me strong" B doesn't know his father, or at least he was left with his mother when he was a child. I don't think his father is actually dead, it sounds to me like they were abandoned. "And I love my mother But she had troubles with God" He loves his mother, she raised him, but she didn't believe in God. Or were angry with God. Or she thought it could be a waste of time believing in such a thing. "For the life that you've led You've had angels in your head Did you hear them singing in the end" A still cannot believe that B is dying. He was a nice and pure soul. A is angry because he couldn't do a thing to save his friend, B. So he says that B was so positive and what the fuck he thought at that moment? He believed in angels, so A asked angrily if B heard them singing in the end/air?. "All the things that you've seen All the things that could have been" This is still A telling B that he could've been so much, he deserved a better life than that. "Well I've been everything I want to be So no tears, no tears for me" B tells A that he had been everything he wanted to be. B had no regrets, he made that for loving his comrades. "Yeah, I've bathed in sunshine But cherished the fading light And I heard my heartbeat faulter On a winter's night I loved a woman She didn't hear my prayers So Lord, oh Lord, I'm yours" B tells A some of his memories (people says that when we're about to die, we can see our life right before our eyes) and tells that he loved deeply a woman, but she didn't believed in God neither, or didn't respect his beliefs. So he has no regrets, he's asking God to take him away, finally. "Because someone somewhere's going home tonight Try to understand the sacrifice So save your tears for those left behind" At this point, A's crying. B asks him to not cry, because there's someone, somewhere (maybe his mother or a relative) who can't understand why B sacrificed himself for the others. So B's asks A to save all his tears for those who lived (the other soldiers and their relatives), because B was kinda happy, he would finally reach God. Maybe, for the first time, B was entirely happy. |
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| Keane – Silenced By The Night Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Such a pretty song. :) All Strangeland is perfect. To my mind, this song is all about making up. Or trying to do it. It can be a couple trying to be in love with each other again after a few years of relationship too, like they used to be. |
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| Black Kids – I'm Making Eyes at You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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That's exactly my thought. This song is about platonic love, when you 'love' a person who you don't even know and you have the idea of how that person is and most of the time, the person is totally different. So he doesn't wanna 'kill the mystique' of that platonic love. |
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| Keane – Disconnected Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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No comments for this perfect song? This song is self-explained. It's about a ruining relatioship and they don't really know what to do. They're far, even when they're together. There's a wall between them and they can't break it, they're disconnected, they're not walking in the same direction anymore. This song is followed by 'Watch how you go', so it sounds like a prequel of Watch how you go, which cleary talks about breaking up. |
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| Keane – Watch How You Go Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The last part is not from this song, it's from 'On the Road', also from Keane. This song is cleary about breaking up. There's no one to blame and there's no angry in that, so the person says to her to keep living and don't make reckless decisions in anything that she's gonna do. I reckon there's something about distance. In "I wish that I could be the journey's end But you are only passing through, yeah", could mean more than just a period of life. Maybe they meet in a business travel, enjoyed each other, but they need to get back to where they came from, to their lives. And it hurts, because they really had a good time together. But memories are made frequently, specially in a relationship, so all the things that they've been through and shared will fade someday, in a few years. I found this song pretty sad, but it gives a good message. Be gracious with your life, even if this isn't important to you, it's important to someone else. |
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