| Cat Power – The Greatest Lyrics | 4 months ago |
| What you all said, but not so dark. Wise, with a sad recognition of a former, misplaced exuberance. Peaceful, poetic resignation. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Warehouse Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| @[randland:48363] great breakdown. Would just add a bit to the somewhat dramatic ending... "there's blood down there, seems poured by the hands of angels." This is the actual death he's been expecting. Here at last. And we are the very Angels who pour the blood that brings death about.. We, the divine beings who dreamed ourselves here, and who equally dreamed our common end. Like a quizzical and surprised acknowledgement. The final paradox. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Warehouse Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| @[randland:48362] great breakdown. Would just add a bit to the somewhat dramatic ending... "there's blood down there, seems poured by the hands of angels." This is the actual death he's been expecting. Here at last. And we are the very Angels who pour the blood that brings death about.. We, the divine beings who dreamed ourselves here, and who equally the | |
| Dave Matthews Band – The Space Between Lyrics | 8 months ago |
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@[peppermint:48073] and @[Saggitari:48074] Thank you both for your beautiful interpretations. I would add the idea that the "space between" might be the antidote to the painful misunderstandings that arise in a relationship. The space between is the "love that's hiding here" to borrow a line from another song. Its the everpresent truth that opposes the lies and mental exaggerations that bring so many relationships down. In this song, one party seems to notice this and is making a plea to the other to notice it as well. When he says "the space we'll fill with time" I think he's saying "lets return to love and in time we'll be as one and the space will be filled. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – JTR Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[spanky98c:44909] Dave is a genius, I beleive an awakened being. Yes, he draws much on his Christian indoctrination but he always tells the truth ???? | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Out of My Hands Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[kanoonthephone:44908] I was looking for this interpretation. This was exactly my immediate take. Very chilling indeed. | |
| Primitive Radio Gods – Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| This is my sonic interpretation (I have not studied the lyrics).The protagonist has suffered a traumatic experience. A deep personal loss haunts him. The BB King sample repeats the tragically sad, dreamlike refrain of his suppressed subconscious. In the third verse, the subconscious voice is finally superceded by the emergent healing voice of the protagonist. The sadness does not disappear, but the confusion of the suppressed trauma is now missing. A hopeful and even joyous twist to this beautifully haunting song. | |
| Built to Spill – Randy Described Eternity Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Built to Spill – Randy Described Eternity Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[Yrtlzmo:43478] Randy = Buddha | |
| Built to Spill – Randy Described Eternity Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[eap2nn:43477] Randy = Buddha | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Warehouse Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Its about the incredulity of death. Even the Buddha apparently said how sweet life was and that he could understand wanting to live for another hundred years. But someday it all comes to a crashing end like the disappearing white dot on an old TV set. Our body will then become the empty warehouse of our former self. The most striking part is the ending where this divine light of consciousness somehow, incredibly, comes to an end by the very agents of divinity from whence it came. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Too Much Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| It\'s about looking for love in all the wrong places. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Funny the Way It Is Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Amazing, poignant, deep. This song is about our human condition.\n\nBoy chase the bird is human striving... no matter, we can\'t stop trying, as when the stars in a telescope recede the deeper we look.\n\nThe oceans and rivers and winters and stars are a stepping stone - just as they were there before the bridge, what was there before them?\n\nCrazy deep and seems to me, spot on.\nOur job is to love it all cuz it\'s our human condition and we "can\'t do a thing about it." | |
| The Sugarcubes – Mama Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Surprised to find only one comment on this song. Agree that it's definitely a strange song coming from a female, but its such typical Bjork. When I first heard it decades ago it seemed very Freudian, but now I mostly hear the Picasso-like juxtapositions and guitar-keyboard trippiness. In the same way the characters walking their dogs in the beginning of 101 Dalmatians stereotypically resemble their pet breeds, this song captures one stereotype of a mother in a visually perfect way. Amazing if you can appreciate the beauty amongst the harsh edges of the Sugarcubes. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Beach Ball Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I see this song as a fun homage to life as love and the universe as our playground. As the child first awakens into his life he discovers that we seem to be adrift (Heaven won't you answer me and why) but also that we seem to be in a sea of misunderstanding (wickedness). In the face of life's seeming injustice, the protagonist decides to stand for love for as long as it takes for this wickedness to awaken and subside (ring the bell til someone listens). He devotes his life to virtue (his gold, for wisdom and grace) and is clearly not afraid of using wickedness when needed (their wicked wit and when I use it). But he will do so only to fight wickendness itself (dashing the hopes of haters). Along the way he proclaims his true nature: Union with the eternal and divine itself (melt your words and smile into my skin) and (through your veins my river flows). And also his devotion to love itself (From the mountains I will sing to you). In the end he returns to the beach ball theme, asserting Love's victory over wickedness and restoring the rightful place of life as love and the world as a playground. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Typical Situation Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| I think there's an element of karma here. "We can't do anything about it" is like the law that makes it all so. The law of karma. But we can have individual responses: happy and free, or different and segregated. But in the end all beings are destined to awaken, so it all comes down to nothing... | |
| Yes – Heart of the Sunrise Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Resolution1:34194] Didn't mean to patronize. If I could restate my sentiment I would say: May we fulfill our heart wish to return to that place. | |
| Yes – Heart of the Sunrise Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[Isabela96:34177] What an inspiring account. Thanks for sharing. I think this song describes coming down from an ecstatic experience. A place where we're utterly connnected to the truth if all that is... nirvana. Coming from drugs, or spiritual experience. Then feeling once again separated from it. I would like to beleive this is our true nature and the place to which we all eventually return. Peace |
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| The La's – Way Out Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| My experience with this song goes back to a time in my life when a beloved pet was suffering with a tumor and I had to put her down. It was a very emotional time and I was struggling with the decision when out of nowhere this song played and the lyrics seemed to be my sweet friend asking me to help her out. I cried so much, but this song helped me to be a peace with the inevitable. To this day, Way Out holds a special place in my heart and is a beautiful reminder of love and compassion for all creatures. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Out of My Hands Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| The GWB explanation and link to Everybody Wake Up sounds about right. What I initially thought was seeing it from the pov of the innocents who had to jump from the towers. Terrifying but it works. The pigs and their supporters can be the hijackers. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Digging a Ditch Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Digging a ditch is a metaphor for our life-long toiling, and laboring. We seek happiness continually, but instead experience anguish and confusion throughout much of our lives... coming from our distracted and unskillful habits of mind. Where silence lives is our spiritual place, where we can learn to transcend our struggles, and get on with seeing this thing all the way through; get heavy on with digging our ditch. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Louisiana Bayou Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[Me2:31841] Me2, I see what you mean, but dont think so much the thread is theological as much as spiritual. I see a lot of buddhistic ideas is Dave's lyrics. Song that Jane Likes and Water into Wine suggest reincarnation. Bayou is regrets wasting our precious opportunity through ignorance. Some songs are just for plain fun though, but always Dave seems to return to meaningful spiritual concepts. |
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| Talking Heads – With Our Love Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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David Byrne is a bodhisattva. Just listen to to Good Thing to see how his arrow was pointed, so ealiy in his life. There he says "watch me work." In this song he says "I've got to get to work now." This song is about recognizing the difference between ordinary / everyday things and the ultimate true nature of things (who \ what we really are). The example in the lyrics is love. If pure love is untainted by ego and self-serving interests, when the boys get "the look" their ordinary / everyday interests take over and all else is forgotten. But the songwriter "won't look." He won't be distracted from his straight line to the good thing... He has purity in his heart and work to do to get there. He remembers instead the bodhisattvas that paved the way (accomplished higher states off mind). They: set an example for us, I see it It can happen to me too But continually remembering to do this work requires some effort, or "trouble." And forgetting it, becomes in a lyrical twist, the very trouble with our love. Forgetting, then, becomes love with strings attached, or tainted, self-interested love. Then we hear ordinary words, like "You're really special" and we get confused because we can't really tell in the miasma of the mundane. After all, realizing pure love is a very subtle state that requires some profound reflection. When he looks out the window he sees all the products of the ordinary world. All pretending to be sofisticated, but none of it seemingly on the path of authenticity (not so busy). And even as he sees this ordinary world, he also sees its impermanence (things come and go). But despite all of it, he "won't be neglected, not this time"... He "won't look." He has other things to do. |
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| Pixies – Tame Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| This song is a relationship with an obstructed, passionless person, who for better or worse, becomes a sexual partner. Traumatized, she can only pretend and lie there, defeating the entire point of it. TOTALLY LAME and never flourishing, she drives the passionate partner to inner RAGE. Genius to tap into such a deep vein of feeling. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Digging a Ditch Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| This song is about having a practice that stills the mind from distractions and brings peace. Turning off the TV and phone are metaphors for stopping our distractions. We use any practice (digging a ditch) to escape the madness and disappointments of the world, and the bad habits of the distracted mind. By digging (practicing), we return to the stillness found in repetition. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Digging a Ditch Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Digging a ditch is a metaphor for doing the work that leads us to achieving our highest potential. When we're alone, turn life off, and get on with the work of learning how to develop inner stillness and peace. Because our mind creates madness, practice stepping into silence and mindfulness, realizing that someday we will be old and lose everything that we take so seriously. And through this work, our bad mental habits will die. |
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| The Moody Blues – Watching And Waiting Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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An utterly amazing song from the deepest part of our longing for connection. The person watching and waiting is our self, yearning for freedom from a sense of isolation. Mole is a powerful metaphor for our drive towards fulfillment and meaning. Our wish to accomplish our highest potential; to become enlightened. From such attainment (enlightenment) comes freedom. Knowing that we have always been connected to a divine self that experiences unconditional love (lots of room for doing the things you've always been denied). (Soon you will see me...) Soon we will attain this freedom and experience all of creation as one, and we will want to share it with others. (Watching and waiting For someone to understand me) - This is our separate, isolated self again, suffering with the illusion of aloneness. The ordinary view of the world. (I hope it won't be very long) - This is a prayer for enlightenment. |
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| The Moody Blues – Have You Heard (Part 2) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Agree with JuliaDreamer. Looking back on the experience, the tripper feels connected to all things, sharing how we "Belong to the same world," as the illusion of separateness melts away. Even though things appear as illusions, the tripper says we are nonetheless "Real" and that there is freedom in these realizations. In Part 2 the tripper tells us that the path revealed by the experience is through virtue: "scatter Good seed in the field." and that we can chose this path if we want: "Life's ours for the making." When he says "Eternity's waiting" he reveals his insight about patience and cosmic time scales that we don't ordinarily perceive (perhaps also this is a reference to rebirth). When the tripper urges "Show your friends that you and me..." he's saying that we should convey the experience of this freedom to others, that they too may live peaceful, harmonious lives. Finally, in the gentlest act of love, the tripper asks "Have you Heard?" |
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