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| Melissa Etheridge – Breakdown Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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One of my favorite songs of hers. The best in fact. I read in her autobiography she had stated clearly what this song meant and it holds meaning for me also. She said that it was written at a dark period in her life and it's about as she puts it the collapse or end of every relationship with every woman who's had any significant impact on her psyche from her mother to julie cypher she had made references to julie cypher and how her relationship with her could have come apart at any given moment. "Plastic and stone" but that she would be fine all alone. |
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| Joan Osborne – Poison Apples (Hallelujah) Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think that she's thinking of a temptation or memory or person that has come back to haunt her with its sweet taste and saying that god would never be that cruel to make her live without the persons face but now that she has made this person crawl or leave her it's almost as if they are happy only to see her fall back again into temptation " like poison apples from a tree" something that she cannot have but wants. She's rejoicing singing "hallelujah" but saying "I gave you away so easily it makes me wonder why" doubting why she may have given the temptation away so quickly. "Moving through you every night the lovely girls in dresses tight the angels dancing on a pin the people we are downing in like a needle going in into the shining city skin oh I recall the moment when you ruined me for other men." This means the man or person moves through her metaphorically speaking through every attractive woman that he sees however she recalls when he left her and ruined her relations with other men. Reminding him if she dies before he does she will come back to haunt him and give into her desire "drown you in a kiss so deep." |
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| Joan Osborne – Fingerprints Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think that the general meaning is that she is not over the guy that she was seeing or dating and everything that he's left behind is a painful reminder "but your kiss has left its taste with me and your hands have left their mark my ears are full of whispers and murmurs in the dark" and she's wishing that she could fight the feeling but there's nothing she can do since he's left his " fingerprints" on her heart even though she thought that she could handle him and almost wondering why she can't forget him since from her perspective he didn't "matter that much" also thinking that the only way would be to find another man to "wash away his touch"or hold on her. That's the best I can come up with. |
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| Melissa Etheridge – Precious Pain Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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The meaning that I get from this is everybody has a hunger or scar or deep pain that they cling to and from her perspective even though it's "empty and cold" it still keeps her alive because its all that she has is this pain and in a sense it keeps her " safe in these chains" as she puts it since it's the only thing she has to rely on since there is nothing or nobody else. |
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