| A-Ha – Take On Me Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I'm just amazed that this song is like so old. It sounds like it was made yesterday. | |
| A-Ha – Take On Me Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[GrungyBeatle:12375] I think he's only in town for a couple of days and hit on a girl and wants to have sex with her. He's trying to convince her to do it. I think this is right because in the video he is undeveloped drawing, representing an undeveloped relationship. But she is real. He is not quite real. He's not asking for anything more than taking him on - having sex with him before he's gone from her life, in a day or two. She's thinking about it, but shying away, but he comes for her anyway. In the end they have sex because it's no better to be safe than sorry. | |
| Vance Joy – Riptide Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It's definitely NOT a break-up song. It's about a woman's fears of loving a "cowboy who's running away from himself", and of a man who's afraid he isn't worthy to stand in the presence of a pretty woman. They are both stuck in these fears, in these darksides. The riptide is a division of ways, a decision. The woman asks him whether he's going to stay or not. "I just wanna, I just wanna know If you're gonna, if you're gonna stay" - he's remembering when she said it, how she looked. He answers that he will be her "left hand man", marry her. And it transforms their relationship from one of fear to one of hope. They become unstuck - it's a reference to a song by The Cure called "Doing the Unstuck" - a couple in love are about to break up, but then decide to start over again. It's a very positive and moving song, and its reference shouldn't be missed. |
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| Vance Joy – Riptide Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Yours is the closest to what I interpreted for this song, except I think it's more positive. I think he's remembering the day he proposed to her and she said yes. 'I wanna be your left hand man' he wants to marry her. (because the wedding ring goes on the left hand). "I just wanna, I just wanna know If you're gonna, if you're gonna stay I just gotta, I just gotta know I can't have it, I can't have it any other way" -- I believe that SHE said this, it's her ULTIMATUM. He remembers how beautiful she looked to him when she said it, like Michelle Pfeiffer. Lady, running down to the riptide Taken away to the darkside, I want to be your left-hand man. He answers her with these words. She had run down to the riptide - a divided place between two opposing currents, because she was afraid the love wouldn't last (to the darkside). She was wondering if he was gonna stay, because he's the cowboy that's always running. He answered that he's ready to marry her. "and they become unstuck" They were definitely stuck. Neither one knew where the relationship was headed. But now they do. It's headed down the aisle. |
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