| LP – Muddy Waters Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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To me it is about how painful life can be. "We are kneeling at the rivers edge and tempting All the steps to follow closer right behind Is it only when you feel a part is empty That it’s gnawing at the corners of your mind" It is only when you feel at your lowest, when you feel lost and alone, like no one understands you that it starts to remind you that it most likely isn't the first time, or the last time. The chorus to mean represents how all you can do is beg and hope blindly that it takes sympathy for you, but even then you acknowledge that it won't be the last time you'll ask for some respite. "It is not clear why we choose the fire pathway Where we end is not the way that we had planned All the spirits gather 'round like its our last day To get across you know we’ll have to raise the sand" We make stupid choices, or hard choice that go wrong. When we fail, we are judged for it and the only way to get across is an impossibility. The last sentence had a Moses vibe for me. He split the oceans apart, but another likely alternative would have been to raise the land; make a land bridge. Obviously we cannot do that and if we still choose to walk through, we'll likely drown. The last chorus is the only part that makes me feel whether she is talking to life or some other figure, vs talking to a loved one or some literal person they are asking for help. It could quite easily just be a personification of life. In the end she asks for help and feels like life sold her out and hung her out to dry. |
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| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Danilus' meaning for the song is almost spot on, but it needs to be combined with Kitsin's. The song is being interpreted along with its video, but the song came first. When I heard the song first I immediately connected to it as a heterosexual, but from having many homosexual friends, I was able to note how it would connect with them too. Ultimately it is about submitting oneself to the spiritual and almost religious experience that is sex with your significant other, whether straight or gay. If you type in "define religion" into google, the first result (keep in mind google returns the most accepted definition from a collection of sources) is: the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. To me my lady is my queen, she is my God, because in the bedroom, I submit myself to her completely. The song than lampoons the church's critical views of sex and whoever it is we choose to partake in it. It points out the hypocrisy they partake in, how they sit on their high horse while holding back from the needy the riches that they hoard: "That's a fine looking high horse What you got in the stable? We've a lot of starving faithful" In the end he says it straight: "There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin" |
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| Lana Del Rey – Young and Beautiful Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think most people forget certain parts of the song. Besides it being a self contained song, "Will [he] still love [her] when [she's] no longer young and beautiful" it has the part about the aching soul. Love is love. Attraction is attraction. Two separate entities all together. I look at me and my girlfriend. 60 years from now, will she be "attractive" having aged and all? Probably won't be the definition, or even remotely close, of attractive, but I will still love her. This is where the aching soul part comes in. You have the physical attributes that make you want someone. Then you find their person, their soul to complete the rest. You fall in love. But we all have issues, mistakes, regrets, etc.. When the beauty fades, all you still have left with you are said issues, mistakes, regrets, etc.. We all have to be realistic in the overall mating ritual that is man, we see first, then we approach and then we get to know them. That's just he way it is. So that said, without the first thing that made them approach you, that drove them to you, all gone, and you are left with just mistakes, memories, regrets, maybe some hurting that you did to them, or hurting that they did to you, will there still be love? Narrator, LDR, understands it so too."All that grace, all that body All that face, makes me wanna party" I do find it fascinating though that she want him to be that way into death. Maybe without those good looks, the shell that remains no longer make her want to party? | |
| Imagine Dragons – Radioactive Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's a paradigm shift. You can choose to view it based on your perspective, something you want to get out off, drugs, oppression, depression, etc.. but in the end it is about the shift. Whatever his reasons were, he chose to better be radioactive than live in whatever prison that he was in. Sometimes that is a choice one has to make. It does not mean that both choices are bad, but that one is seemingly harder because you are not used to it, but in the end, the sun's still out and why not enjoy it outside of your captivity? | |
| Florence + the Machine – Dog Days Are Over Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| She found happiness in someone that she did not expect and she finds it hard to come to terms as it was unplanned. This happens to all of us at one point or another, you don't plan it, but when you realize it you want to high tail it out of there. Dog days are colloquially known to mean leisure and for someone that just wants relationships with not strings attached, whether sexual or just friends, when you cross over it is a decisive point as you want to stay but you may get hurt and lose it all or you can run and lose it all but not get hurt. Horses come into play because to someone in this situation it is like an apocalypse, mini one at most. | |
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