| Vance Joy – From Afar Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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To me this has a different meaning than most. I will be taking my interpretation from both the lyrics and the music video. The first verse sounds like it is coming from a dad/pastor/youth minister. It sounds exactly like what an authority figure would tell someone who wants a relationship with someone who they--the authority figure--deems unhealthy. It's exactly what a dad/pastor/youth minister would say to a boy who is falling for his friend, who happens to be another boy. "Look away" = try not to be tempted by the sin by looking away "Hide your hands" = do not show anyone else this sin The chorus is definitely him being played by this friend. It could be that his friend knows that he loves him so he played him. But then he fell for it and got hurt. "I always knew I'd love you from afar" = knowing he couldn't openly express his love for him, he has to hide it now and love him secretly. "It shouldn't come as a surprise" = To me this verse has a broad interpretation. He has finally opened up about being gay. They are shocked and condemning. But he really doesn't care what they think. "She has darling eyes" = I do not think "she" is actually a person. I think he is referring to love when he says "she." All he wants is love and it shouldn't be a surprise to everyone that all he wants is love and to be loved. It just happens to be that this love isn't traditional. I'm not quite sure if this made 100% sense. If you have questions, please ask them. |
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| Vance Joy – From Afar Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[aussiemusicrules:12179] This is exactly what I was thinking. To me this song is about him falling for someone that everyone around him didn't want him to be with. Aka a homosexual relationship. | |
| Ruth B. – Lost Boy Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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*trigger warning* I believe this song is about the things we turn to when we are severely depressed. "Peter Pan" can be seen as cutting, drugs, alcohol, etc. These artificial fulfillers entice us by telling us "Run, run, lost boy away from all reality." The second verse and the rest of the song, to me, is about suicide. The term "lost boy" becomes a person who has committed suicide. Please. If you feel like hurting yourself or even committing suicide please call the suicide hotline (800) 273-8255! Suicide isn't the answer! It gets better! |
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| Troye Sivan – Fools Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This song is about a person wanting so much from a relationship, but in return they get nothing but disappointment. The person feels manipulated, and blames no one but themselves. | |
| Daughter – Smother Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I believe this song is just basically about a person who is depressed, and this depression has led them to smother people. This has left the person feeling very depressed, and just thinks it would be best for everyone if she just died, and gave her body back to nature. They just feel like they have been a horrible person on this earth, the person even says "What a mess I leave to follow." This really shows how they feel about their life, and now they just wish they were never born so that none of this had to happen. | |
| Mumford & Sons – Believe Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I believe the song is about a relationship; whether parent and child, romantic partners, or even just friends; in which one person found out something about the other person and now they are questioning everything they had ever shared together. The person now is in shock and doesn't know if they even want to accept, himself, that this other person has actually done this thing or is this thing. | |
| Mumford & Sons – Believe Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[ColinE92:3720] When I first listened to the song that is what I thought the song was about, but as I listened to the lyrics more I began to think the song was actually about a relationship of some sorts; parent and child, or a romantic relationship; in which one person has found out something that they never knew about this person and they are questioning everything that they had before. | |
| Pet Shop Boys – Pandemonium Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song is simply about sex. I believe this is sort of a friends with benefits situation, but the man wants a relationship out of it. The whole chorus is about sex. | |
| Kacey Musgraves – Merry Go 'Round Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song just simply isn't a slam on southern culture it is a slam on the american dream. "If you ain't got two kids by 21, you're probably gonna die alone. At least that's what tradition told you. And it don't matter if you don't believe, come Sunday morning You best be there in the front row like you're supposed to." -This is a slam on the southern small town culture. You are told to have kids before you're twenty-one and you are told to go to church every Sunday even if that means you don't believe. It is pretty literal here. The southern way of life is to marry young and have kids young, if that doesn't happen well then your shit out of luck. And you must go to church or else you make your family and your families traditions look bad. It's all traditions... "Same hurt in every heart. Same trailer, different park." -I love these two lines. Every one is forced to do this and everyone is supposed to be the same. The second line, although it may not make sense, is one of the most powerful lines out of her whole CD. Same house with your parents but you are in a whole different place. You have the traditions passed down to you but you don't want to keep them. "Mama's hooked on Mary Kay. Brother's hooked on Mary Jane Daddy's hooked on Mary two doors down. Mary, Mary quite contrary. We get bored, so, we get married Just like dust, we settle in this town. On this broken merry go 'round and 'round and 'round we go Where it stops nobody knows And it ain't slowin' down This merry go 'round." -This where the "American Dream" comes in. Although you go to church, your mother is hooked on makeup and other material items, your brother is hooked on drugs, and your dad is having an affair on the girl down the road. These traditions that are passed down turn into addictions to worldly things. The "American Dream" of having a perfect family that goes to church and doesn't have problems and having a great house with a white picket fence, well that gets called out. The family in the song is the exact opposite of the "American Dream" but on the outside they all seem like a perfect christian family. And they are all stuck in the cycle of "Addiction." Addiction to material things. "We think the first time's good enough. So, we hold on to high school love. Sayin' we won't end up like our parents. Tiny little boxes in a row, ain't whatcha want, it's whatcha know. Just happy in the shoes you're wearin'. Same checks we're always cashin' To buy a little more distraction." -Again the pressure to marry young and to marry the first person you have sex with. And although the house with the white picket fence isn't what you really want it's what the "American Dream" is so hey let's go along with it and it doesn't matter what you will cash the checks and get the little more luxurious items even if you don't need them it is the image you want in order to live the "American Dream" "Jack and Jill went up the hill. Jack burned out on booze and pills. And Mary had a little lamb. Mary just don't give a damn no more." -You strive to have the perfect family but drugs and other things get the best of it. And all these traditions used to mean a lot but now they don't mean anything anymore. I'm sorry if this doesn't make complete sense. I'm extremely tired and a lot of my topics probably got mixed. I hope you like it. |
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