| Ben Howard – Bones Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Whooauw I'm so amazed I can actually agree to totally different interpretations of this song. It just proves how powerful and universal this song is. I'd say this song is a reflection on the nature of love, life and longing. I don't believe this is one concrete story about him and one other person. He's rather pondering different situations and experiences, both his own and others', using them to kind of come to a conclusion. His conclusion being all of this is in our bones. The searching, the grasping, the losing, the longing, the opening up again even if you planned never to do that again, how close things can get when somebody gives his or her all to you and you don't know if you can meet the expectations...And he's alright with that. Alright with these movements in others and alright with these movements in himself. He kind of honours all polarities. It's got a deep spiritual touch to it in my sense. With regards to the lyrics I'd like to consider that he might actually be singing "boys that look for love in your womb" instead of 'room'. Maybe it's only my personal association, but I cannot clearly hear him sing 'room', can you? Could it be womb? Let's say it is womb. Then it could be womb, as in your girlfriend's lap that you might sometimes lay your head on to rest upon, but also the place of deep feminine energy. In the end, isn't every man looking for that feeling of deep security and warmth that he remembers from so very long ago...? Aren't we all, both men and women? It might also refer to boys that say or think they are aiming for love, but are actually just aiming for sex or some kind of fulfillment of their personal desires. He's asking her to cover them all, protect them somehow by leaving them behind, teaching them. Understanding at a deeper level why she leaves them burning and longing. Then the next sentence "lust is just a child's game but you were always late to bloom" might rather suggest that this girl might not be looking for the physical kind of sex, which is rather easy and a child's game, but rather sex with a spiritual dimension to it, which most men and women forget about. Maybe she was late to bloom, not having sex with all those men who came to search for her, because she always felt there was something more to discover and she was aiming for the highest love and unity possible. Well, this interprettion could also do if it were 'room' btw. Then, I'd like to add something to the lyrics in the last verse "leave me here with this bird and this song". I think this is referring to a poem by Charles Bukowski: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bluebird/ At least I find this poem breathes the same atmosphere as the Bones song. Ben is left here in the end with his bluebird and his song. The longing that is ever in our hearts and that we decide how to relate to it. Well, I don't know, maybe I am into deep. Maybe it's just a simple love song. But noticing how it affects us all very deeply, it must be a very true and pure one. |
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| Daughter – Youth Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Generally, I think this song is about growing up and the pain this brings along. It's a scream of pain directed to all those adults who think that young people have nothing to worry about and don't take youngsters seriously. She is opposing strongly to this general illusion of a carefree youth. "We are the reckless we are the wild youth" to me is meant in an ironic way and is the bottomline of the song, cause clearly this person doesn't feel reckless and wild. At least not in a carefree way as young people are generally supposed to be. She is painting an image of her generation: young people who have no clue where to go and how to live life. They (want to) die before they grow old (be it by suicide, traffic accidents, drugs,...). They set fire to their insides for fun (literally by smoking sigarettes, but also metaphorical by revolting and experimenting with extreme opinions) They don't understand love. They are just trying...and hurting. The way of life doesn't seem to make sense. She lost her home (=childhood or feeling of safety) and some particular event or person caused it. She blames this person for it. No matter how dark the song is, somehow I feel she knows this is just how life goes and that's why she is not keeping the song on a strictly personal level, but is also reaching out to others with sentences like "if you're still in love than you are the lucky ones". She does know love or a feeling of home is possible, but at this moment she just doesn't believe it is meant for her, because she is aching too much. |
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| Daughter – Lifeforms Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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In the official cd booklet there are only band pictures and on the cover these lyrics: "You will always find another place to go You will always find another womb to grow to grow a new home" The future tense and the last words kind of change possible meanings. Also because these are the only lyrics the band cared to publish in the booklet, they get extra meaning. To me these lyrics are comforting words, something like: no matter how bad your childhood or youth was, you can later find other places and people to get what you need from ('another womb to grow a new home'). Even if your parents failed (or left) you can still become happy. And more in general "feel your suffering and grieving but let go of it in the end cause life goes on and nature's ways are hard, survival of the fittest" ('clean up the dead you leave behind'). |
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