| Sugarland – Tonight Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song is about studying calculus. Jennifer Nettles is inviting a friend over to study for her calculus exam the following day, and she thinks about it always. (Side note: doesn't it sound like she sings "I think about it all the way"? Just sayin') When is she doing it? TONIGHT! She's been waiting for it. "A lifetime for a day ... would be an even trade" Here, Jennifer is telling us that all the hard work she put it would be justified if she received an A on the exam; if she just did good that one day. "I know how it feels to breathe ... with you beside me" Jennifer chose her study partner carefully. She always wanted to sit next to each other in class so they could share answers during tests. So part of the reason she wants her girlfriend over to study is because she's used to hearing her breathe the answers to her in class. This is the most accurate interpretation of this song, and (at the time I'm writing this), is the only interpretation. |
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| John Parr – St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[bfurtado:11761] This is the true correct answer, yet nobody has ever given it a +1. http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4047 |
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| Trisha Yearwood – This Is Me You're Talking To Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The song is about exes who aren't together anymore. But in a small town, you keep bumping into each other. You can small talk all you want ... "how's the weather?", etc., but in your mind, you're thinking something totally different. She's saying to be yourself. This is me you're talking to; you don't have to talk fake, and act all fake. It's me. Talk to me like you know me, not like some stranger you just met. |
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| Zac Brown Band – Colder Weather Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I thought the interpretation of Zac's brother on meth ("ice") was the correct interpretation, but I just read this (from http://theboot.com/zac-brown-band-colder-weather-lyrics/): The Boot sat down with songwriter Wyatt Durrette to discuss the Zac Brown Band‘s hit single, ‘Colder Weather.’ Wyatt started the song, but it soon turned into a group collaboration with ZBB members Zac Brown and Coy Bowles, as well as Southern Ground Records artist Levi Lowrey. There was a girl I was seeing, who lived in Kansas City. We really liked each other, but geography and timing just wasn’t working for us. She was getting pretty frustrated with the whole thing and wanted me to slow down, as far as traveling so much and all those things. I wasn’t willing to do that because we were just getting started, and I’m chasing my dreams. I was going to see her. We were in Green Bay, Wisc., playing a show with Little Big Town, and it was pouring down snow. We were supposed to go to Kansas City the next day for some radio thing, but the radio people canceled. Instead, we just went on to wherever we were going next. I had to call her and tell her that I wasn’t going to make it. She was not a happy camper. She let me have it. I hung up the phone, walked on the bus and wrote the chorus and the melody to the chorus. Me and Zac worked on the first chorus together. I knew the song was special. You can just tell as a writer when you’ve written something that has a chance to be big or special. I knew that one was. I sat on the song for six months after that. I did what I always do: sing it to the guys and say, “What do you think of this?” And they’ll go, “Oh yeah, that’s great!” Levi Lowrey is one of the best artists I know. He’s a poet. I felt like this song needed the way he wrote, so I invited Levi over to my house one night, and we wrote the rest of the verses. It turned out great. It was so weird because that same night, Coy, our guitar player, stopped by. He was just coming by my house to say hey. He didn’t know we were writing. He sat down and was listening to us write the verses, and he said, “How about a bridge?” He read one to us, and we were like, “Hell yeah! That’s perfect!” [Laughs] So we stuck that in there, and I brought all that to Zac. Zac and I finished writing the alternate chorus in the end. That one’s special to all of us. It holds a spot because of what we do and being away and all those things. For those guys, I think that song rings on missing their family. That’s the beauty of art: Everybody has their own take on what the song can mean. As for me, it’s a story of impossible love, where geography or timing gets in the way of it, and it’s just not possible. |
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| Zac Brown Band – Colder Weather Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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@[truss007:961] After Zac graduated from University of West Georgia, to make that clear. It was then his brother (purportedly) died of a meth (ice) overdose. |
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| Zac Brown Band – Colder Weather Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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@[truss007:960] This answer is actually the correct answer. I have heard this through multiple sources, and also that the brother passed away from his addiction to ICE after he graduated from the University of West Georgia. |
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| Zac Brown Band – Colder Weather Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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@[bbuffax09:959] It's "She'd TRADE Colorado if he'd take her with him" and it's about Zac's brother (who purportedly died after he graduated from the University of West Georgia) and his addiction to meth, as one user said, which is sometimes referred to as "ice" (colder weather). |
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| Brandi Carlile – The Story Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The reason this interpretation works is because Brandi is from Seattle, and she would have to go over the Rocky Mountains and Atlantic Ocean to get to Chris. Good catch! | |
| Brandi Carlile – The Story Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| While this may be true, it's still a beautiful song, as I'm sure you'd agree. It's the only Brandi song that I know of that crescendos into a hard rock ballad -- which works perfectly for her voice and persona. | |
| Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight? Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The "kings and vagabonds" line really makes this song, to me -- along with "restless warrior" and "wide eyed wanderer". I like the way you parsed the last 2, but am still curious about "kings and vagabonds" ... | |
| Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight? Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The "kings and vagabonds" line really makes this song, to me -- along with "restless warrior" and "wide eyed wanderer". I like the way you parsed the last 2, but am still curious about "kings and vagabonds" ... | |
| Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight? Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| hehe ... it's 2014 and some people can't accept that there are lifestyles other than their own that others live. I don't have a homosexual bone in my body, but I realize gays are no different than you or I, and should be treated equally. Yet somehow, whenever an "out" gay person writes a song, it must be about sexual deviance. *SMH* | |
| Augustana – Sweet and Low Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Now that Augustana has broken up, perhaps this song gives us insight as to why. By no means am I passing this off as a fact, but here's a possible interpretation of this song: Lead singer Dan Layus struggled with pedophilia: "Remember that your eyes can be your enemies" Just 'cause he seems good looking to you, remember, you're young and illegal and he's in his 20s. Don't let your eyes be your downfall. "Hell is so close, and Heaven's out of reach" Layus knows he's in the wrong and his sin is unpardonable. "But I ain't givin' up just yet, I've got too much to lose" He's going to do everything in his power to stop this sinful relationship. He knows he's got too much to lose -- yes, like 30 years in the clink and a lifetime on the sex offender's registry. "Hold me down, sweet and low little girl" He's talking literally now. The next time he tries to physically touch her inappropriately, he wants her to literally to hold him down until he's regained his wits about him. "The rain is gonna fall, the sun is gonna shine" Like any struggling person, he'll have good days where Dan's behaving, and he'll have off-days where he can't resist calling her, leaving her a raunchy Facebook msg, and even sneaking into her parent's window at night. "You say you're fine, but you're still young and you're out of line" She tells him he'll never be reported to authorities; she's fine with the relationship, but he's having a moment of clarity and admonishing her that she shouldn't be doing this. "I don't wanna make the same mistakes that put my mama in her grave" His mom obviously committed suicide when she found out about this relationship -- or she was a victim of pedophilia herself and took her own life; this is unclear. "I don't wanna be alone" He repeats his struggle. He knows he has to leave her, but he doesn't wanna be alone, and might not be attracted to girls /- 5 years his age. Again, I'm not saying this is fact, it's just a possible interpretation of this song, and a reasoning behind the band's breakup. |
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| Augustana – Sweet and Low Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It sure looks to me more like a letter from him -- and his perspective -- to his girlfriend or wife while he's on the road. I don't see her writing the letter -- I see HIM writing the letter (or thinking those thoughts). | |
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