| The Ghost Inside – White Light Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's about his brother Ryan who passed away in an accident. "I used to be the fearless one Living life like death would never come" He realised how life can end within the blink of an eye, he who always was convinced he a whole life in front of him. "I am so lost at sea Ryan, shine the light for me I'm sinking, I can't swim I need you here to pull me in I am so lost at sea Ryan, shine your light for me I'm sinking, I can't swim I miss you brother. You will never dim." He's drowning in his grief for his brother. He wants him back so desperately. The pain of the loss will never lose its scalpel edge. Without him he's lost. Poor Jonathan... :( the loss of a loved one can cut so deep. Hope he finds strength x |
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| Caliban – Memorial Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song speaks for itself really. The most obvious interpretation is that it’s about his dad. But it can depend on the context you’re in yourself. If you were very close to your grandfather or another father figure in your life, you could also relate to this song. “This is a memorial to honor the long gone” His father must be gone for a while, because a memorial is not held just after a funeral. A memorial is held to honor the memory of a loved one who has passed. It’s to “honor the long gone”. “This is a burial my heaven has gone wrong” He’s holding a psychological second burial, hoping he could finally let it go. “Those times we had so long ago Like yesterday I miss ‘em so much I can’t let go” Though he’s so long gone, some things he can still remember as if it were yesterday. The heartache is still very vivid. “My heart, is full of hate its bleeding love. Father, I have to say goodbye to keep myself alive.” He hates it that his beloved father had to go. Why him? But he knows he has to let it go, because he can’t keep living in this pain, it’s killing him. “I can still see you you’re fading away but I can still feel you though you’re drifting away from me Away from me You’re drifting away” With all this time that has passed, he’s afraid the majority of his memories of him are fading, though some things he will never forget. And even though he’s not around anymore he can still feel his presence wherever he goes, but then again it hits him that he’s gone. “Are you still here still in this place What’s left behind, where is god’s grace You broke my faith” He wonders if the souls of the dead still wonder around on earth after they’ve passed. He wonders if it’s true what they say, that you’re passed loved ones soul’s still with you, watching over you, when their body has given up on them. And again, why HIS father, he was a good man right? Doesn’t God keep that into count? The death of his father has broken something in him. “My heart is aching that’s all I know Hope is fading I’ll let you go” His heart has been aching since the day he was gone, it’s all he has ever known since then. His hope of ever letting it go is fading, but he has to, because it’s not a way of living. “This is a memorial This is a burial” This song is like a memorial for his father. The official video of this song is also really touching, and very beautiful. A little boy emptying an urn, which, I think, refers to the fact that his father died when he was a young kid. In the beginning you see a typewriter falling on the ground, and later on they’re doing something with a book. That could mean couple of things. His dad could’ve been someone who loved to write or maybe he held a journal. The book and the writing could also be a metaphor for the story of the life he led, or life itself. At one point the older man rips out a page out of the book and eats it, that reminds me of a song from Bring Me The Horizon, suicide season. At one point Oliver Sykes sings “Death is only a chapter, so rip out the pages of yesterday” so I think it’s could also be connected with the letting go of a loss. |
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| Bon Iver – Blood Bank Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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First I read all these different interpretations, and afterwards my head was so full with different points of view, I got a headache. There's one short comment that was stuck in my mind. Someone said it could be going about old lovers meeting again. I just couldn't be satisfied with the pregnancy theory, so I dug in this comment, and it all made sense to me. “Well I met you at the blood bank We were looking at the bags Wondering if any of the colors Matched any of the names we knew on the tags” The blood bank —an actual place, not metaphoric- could be the place they first met, and regularly bump in to each other, don’t ask me why. Maybe they donate to do good? They could be working there? Maybe they are both sick and need blood transfusion? “You said "See look that's yours! Stacked on top with your brother's. See how they resemble one another Even in their plastic little covers”” “And I said I know it well” She recognizes his name on one of the tags, a sign that they must already know each other. When she says 'stacked on top of your brother’s', it could mean a couple of things: his actual biological brother? or as a metaphor for all the people in the world? I think the blood bags are stacked alphabetical, and it’s meant as a little joke because there’s a bag underneath his with the same name, but no biological connection. And it’s funny to notice that even though they’re not actual brothers, how much they look alike when it comes to the essence of their being. “That secret that you know But don't know how to tell It fucks with your honor And it teases your head But you know that its good girl 'Cause it’s running you with red” The secret that she doesn’t know how to tell is the fact that she’s still in love with him. She knows it, but somehow she doesn’t want to admit it to herself. It’s like her inner self is saying: “Been there, done that. Am I stupid to wanna try again. What will the people think.” Her heart and her head are not balanced. But the love feels good, because she blushes every time she sees him, it runs her cheeks with red. “Then the snow started falling We were stuck out in your car You were rubbing both of my hands Chewing on a candy bar” It’s a very sweet scene here! Very romantic. She is rubbing his hands, which is a very familiar thing to do. And he recognizes her old banal ways, like always having candy with her and chewing it in every suitable situation. He thinks it’s adorable. “You said "Ain't this just like the present To be showing up like this" as the moon waned to crescent We started to kiss” “And I said I know it well” This is the peak of the tension between them two. She says: ain’t I just like the present, to be showing up like this. The present is something unreal. We never realize what’s been happening to us until we can look back to it, and the present has become the past. So the present is something overwhelming really. It never waits for you, it always just shows up like that. And she’s mocking with it, like she’s saying “yeah, typical isn’t it, it’s like we’ve always known her, just always showing up like that.” Could be a wink to the blood bank, where she’s just joking around about his ‘brother’ where he’s stacked upon. Referring to her as a nice and funny personality, someone who’s hard not to love. “That secret that we know That we don't know how to tell I'm in love with your honor I'm in love with your cheeks What's that noise up the stairs babe? Is that Christmas morning creaks?” “I know it well” They obviously still love each other, and admitted it to one another, but the world can wait. Before they let others judge them, they’re keeping it as their secret, so they can enjoy it just a bit longer without others noses in their business. The Christmas scene was very strong proof that it was about a pregnancy. But look at it more general. Christmas is an intimate event with loved ones. They are celebrating it with just the two of them, because it’s all they need right now. They are very looking forward to it, like a kid who’s excited to open its presents. The moments where he says “I know it well”, it’s vague. It depends on what has come before it. The first time it could be: I know how much people are alike without really knowing it. The second time it could be about: yes, I know it’s not going to be easy. And the last time he sings it, it most likely: yes, I definitely know this is love. And if you look at the full EP, you could just put the songs in a different order and you have a full story. 1. Beach Baby (Season: fall) About a girl he loved, but cheated on him. He doesn’t want anything to do with her anymore and kicks her out. He wants her to be out as soon as possible, but then he also doesn’t want her to rush, because when she’s out, it over. It’s done. Why season fall? Because he says ‘once a time I put a tongue in your ear on the beach.’ Which indicates making love. And in the transition from summer to fall, it could still be warm enough outside to do that. 2. Woods (Season: fall) About being alone, pretty down and getting drunk. What most of us do after a break-up. To ‘delay’ reality. Why fall? Because forests and woods are at their best, and most beautiful then, with all the colors. 3. Blood Bank (Season: winter) About old love reviving. Winter? Obvious I think. 4. Babys (Season: summer) About making babies. "Summer comes, to multiply" |
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| Parkway Drive – Dark Days Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Dark Days is obviously an apocalyptic song. It’s an angry reaction, a response on what we think we’re doing. It’s a hard, unvarnished mirror they are holding in front of us, the cold truth. “What will you tell your children when they ask you: What went wrong? How can you paint a picture of a paradise lost To eyes that know only a wasteland” -It’s a reproach to the past and the current generation. Blaming them for the beautiful world we’ve lost. How could we do this to the future generation? How will you explain yourself when they ask you how the good old days were, while they live with the consequences we caused, due to ignorance, indifference and selfishness. “How will you justify Justify, watching the world die” -Again, how will you explain yourself. Because no matter what you’ve done, you’ve participated to this perished world at one point in your life. “The clock is ticking, can't you feel our days are numbered Head first into disaster from which there will be no return With narrow minds, we decimate our one true home Cast into oblivion, judgment is calling” -Everybody knows we’re damaging and destroying the world and it’s nature. And when we will reach the worlds limit, there will be no turning back. All we will be able to say is ‘what if…’. With our selfish minds we’ve been destroying the planet we live on piece by piece (decimate = thinning out, chopping of). Our indifference for the state of our mother nature will backfire, resulting in destruction. “Behold the pale horse This is the funeral of the Earth Behold the pale horse This is the funeral” -I’ve done some research on this ‘pale horse’, and it appears to be a reference to a chapter in the Book of Revelation (last book of the new testament). The Four Horsemen of the apocalypse. One by one the riders came. First the White Horse, representing ‘false peace’, the antichrist gaining strength and conquering the world. Second came the Red Horse, who brought war and slaughter. Third came the Black Horse, who let the crops die, what led to failing harvest, and resulted in famine and diseases. Last came the Pale Horse, bringer of death. So this pale horse represents the death of the earth, what led to its funeral. “The blind eye can no longer be cast The clock is ticking, there is no second chance” -When the world ends as we know it, you will no longer be able to act like you had no idea what was going on all this time. If the so-called apocalypse will happen it will be beyond recall, definite. We won’t be given a second planet Earth. “The blind eye can no longer be cast There will be no future if we can't learn from our mistakes The clock is ticking, there is no second chance There will be no future if we can't learn” -If we continue to live like this, there will be no hope for the next generation. And they’ll have to live with the mistakes we’ve made. “A forced extinction closes out the age of apathy The final act– sacrifice the world's ecology The death of beauty, the death of hope Cast before the throne of avarice, judgment is calling” -We will be forced into a world’s ending due to our indifference. We are sacrificing the Earth’s nature for our own good, which results in the destruction of it. Death of the beautiful nature we have and we should cherish. We are sitting on a throne of greed, and eventually we’ll pay the price. “I can't watch it burn!” -Horrible to witness what’s happening to our planet. “Behold the pale horse!” -Behold our ending |
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| Parkway Drive – Blue and the Grey Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I follow your interpretation. But I wanna add some things. 1. He's feeling lonely, isolated. 2. He identifies/compares himself with the sea 3. The sky is a past love 4. He's not only talking to himself and his past love, I think he's also just talking to the elements, the sky and the sea. "Dear sky, Dear sky don't cry for me be the hope I could never reach Cold sea, please don't let me sink Wrap your arms around me and carry me home" [Talking to the element] Oh innocent sky, you have nothing to do with this, don't shed your tears for me. Stop the rain if it's for me, I'm in no need for your pity. [Talking to his past love] Don't let life stand still like mine. Go on, and have another chance on love. [Talking to himself] Please don't let me lose myself in this empty void. Let me find myself again, so I can feel comfortable again, safe again. (referring to a safe haven, your home) "I stood at the shore and spoke to the ocean I stood in the water and let my guts spill I said "You and me, we're not so different, I see my reflection in all that you do" I think now he's talking to the sea as element and comparing himself with it. He stands at the shore, and lets everything out what he's feeling, telling everything what's on his mind. I picture myself this as a man screaming to the ocean, standing all by himself, where no one can hear him. "We both keep our secrets We're both, oh so blue My heart is full of darkness I know that yours is too" Again comparing himself to the element, the sea. Both blue, both mysterious, and dark in its depths. "I sat on the rooftop and screamed at the sky I sat on the edge until I knew deep inside Like the sky, I will always be empty The horizon, my love, forever just out of reach" [Talking to his past love] Screaming at the thought of you, out of regret? Out of anger? [Talking to the element] Like the sky is empty, so is he, without this love he has known. This horizon he sings about, that was the first thing I initially didn't really know how to interpret. But after a little thinking... the horizon is where the sky and the ocean meet each other. But the horizon will forever be out of reach no matter how hard you try to get to it. "Distance was born when the sea and the sky grew apart Loneliness was born the day I let you go I let you go" He's saying the same thing but in other words. As he identifies himself with the sea, and his past love with the sky. The distance represents the loneliness when they grew apart from each other. Like I said, this song is Pure Gold! It's a poetic piece of art! |
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| Parkway Drive – Blue and the Grey Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This song is pure Gold! Nice thinking on the lyrics! | |
| Parkway Drive – The River Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| There can be an 's' missing every once in a while, my 's'-key can be a bitch sometime | |
| Parkway Drive – The River Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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After reading these lyrics, this one thought haunted me, the thought there had to be some mythology behind it. So I did some research. "Follow your heart to the water Fill your pockets with stone" This verse refers to the suicide of Virginia Woolf, British author and feminist. he was a very unstable person due to certain life experiences. At the age of 59 she commited suicide by filling her pockets with stone and walking into the river Ouse, nearby her house. She left a suicide note to her husband saying it was for the better if she weren't there anymore because she felt like she was a burden to him. She wrote she thought she was going crazy, that she was hearing voices and couldn't bare the weight on her shoulders anymore. She followed her heart into the water, because her gutfeeling said it was for the better. "Throw your arms around me Never let me go" Water is often used to refer to a new life or a loss. Her death awaited her in that river, she was searching for peace. She wanted the water to wrap it's arms around her, and let her find the rest she deserved. All by all, I don't think it's a song written for Virginia Woolf. Most likely the story was used as a metaphore for a suicide. What comes after the first verse, supports the interpretation of the suicide. "It's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years" My interpretation of this one sentence is that it doesn't count how long this person has lived, but obviously all that has happened in that persons life. 'It's the life that happened to you in these years you've lived' Also I think there are 2 people speaking in these lyrics. "Follow your heart to the water Fill your pockets with stone Throw your arms around me Never let me go" Could be referring to voices in the victims head, telling her to end it all. Telling her to let the water embrace her until her final breath. "You were the first; you wouldn't be the last. What the river took, we could never replace And as the pain set in, so did the realization That you were never coming home..." The second verse is the one who suffers from te loss. Not comprehending what just happened, having the greatest heartache he's ever experienced. "Sink into me Hold our your hands, sink into me Hold out your hands, I'll take you away Hold out your hands, surrender the weight of this world" Again her inner voice, letting the river speak to her. The river saying to her, it's okay, sink into me, I'll take you to the place you want to be, I'll be the one taking your burdens of your shoulders. Just hold out your hand and give them to me, I'll take you away. I'm truly intrigued by this song, and certainly now I've analized it. Once you realize the story behind the words, it's like a kind of magic blowing your mind away and turning a gold song into a true diamond. |
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| Of Monsters And Men – Little Talks Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This totally makes sence. I was reading previous interpretations and I wasn't really convinced about those, but with this one it all comes together. Nice thinking! |
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| Harry Manx – Coat of Mail Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I've been analizing this song together with my brother and we unanimous came to the conclusion it's about a suicide. "There’s an honest man I know In a welfare alliance There’s some stairs in the air You can call him a good friend of mine Good friend of mine" I think the stairs he's talking about refer to the song of Led Zeppelin, stairway to heaven. Also as you listen further into the song, 'a good friend' seems to be an understatement, because it's obvious they have a really close and unique bond. The welfare alliance is a mystery to me. "He was taken down by the man at his door Cloak of desperation Yeah got wrapped round his soul" The man at his door I think is the reaper, death itself. The cloak of desperation is referring to the ultimate act of desperation... a suicide. I've broken my brains over the coat of mail, and what he means by it. I know it is what knights used to wear in combat, and I think he wants to give this dear person a certain kind of protection, a kind of strength, but I wouldn't have an idea why. Sending him the wind to sail in, I think it means he accepts and somehow tries to understand the death of this good friend. And he grants him the peace of the afterlife after whatever he's been trough. "I stood below your window You know some things I understand Out in the world’s a struggle Every man needs a plan Every man needs a plan" This part is a little blurry to me. I don't know what he's referring to with "I stood below your window, you know some things I understand." But out in the world is a struggle, and he probably gave up the struggle because he was desperate for some rest. Maybe he didn't have a plan B left, or any plan at all. Having a plan, having goals is mostly the thing that keeps people alive sometimes. "You listen without words You know its not everyone can see And recognise your eyes Yeah they once belonged to me Once belonged to me" It was obviously a dear friend, someone who recognizes your pain by just looking at you. He could've been someone who didn't let many people get very close and always puts on a kind of mask, so others wouldn't have to worry about what's bothering him. But the writer of these lyrics was a dear person to him, and also he could say he was in pain, he was the only one who could recognize those eyes, that's also why he says that these eyes once belonged to him. "Yeah you walked the street at sunrise No matter where you turn There’s questions without answers And they continue to burn Continue" This man wasn't a person who you'd expect a suicide action from, because he walked the street at sunrise, most likely a metaphore for an optimistic person, no matter what he faced. And that's why his sudden death is a mystery, that's why there are so much questions, which can obviously never be answered. "It’s a fine thread can keep you in this place I see you’ve found yourself some place Because its written on your face Written on your face" The fine thread reminds me of the animated movie of Hercules, where the three witches wanted to cut his thread of life. So it must refer to some kind of (greek) mythology. And at the sight of his face at his funeral he must've also seemed at peace. This place he talks about must be heaven, also referring to the stairs in the first verse. This is one of my favorite songs, and if I never analized it, I would possibly never discovered it was about a suicide. And because I now know what it means, it has made this song so much more beautiful than it already is. |
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| August Burns Red – Pangea Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Most of the lyrics are a vage blurry mess, I don't really understand. I know Pangea was the ancient super-continent, and this is used here as a metaphore for a united place. "I would give back everything just to be back... back home. This is a bittersweet dream I’ve dreamt. Oh Pangaea, where have you gone?" Here it seems to me he's using Pangea as a metaphore for a united, stable, and safe home, that maybe fell apart. Like the continental drift split Pangea into the continents we now know. Fascinating lyrics, difficult though. |
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