| Brandi Carlile – I Belong to You Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| By far Brandi's best. Beautiful, vulnerable, honest, haunting, pure. | |
| Wilco – Wishful Thinking Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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In the verses we see imagery from low points in life - regret ("How to unring the bell/it's just as well"), pain ("Hell in a nutshell"), hopelessness ("Is any song worth singing/if it doesn't help"), embarrassment ("an embarrassing poem/was written when I was alone/in love with you"). The line "Fill up your mind with all it can know/Don't forget that your body will let it all go" is a dismal one. We spend our lives learning, experiencing, feeling, studying, memorizing, etc. until death, when it all nearly becomes useless. And yet!... after all this melancholy recollections and revelations, Tweedy poses the question "What would we/love be without wishful thinking?" I think in the end, Tweedy has seen all the bad in our world/his life and has come to question life and existence. He knows that if humanity viewed life in this very, very dark light, well... we probably wouldn't be here. Wishful thinking keeps humanity going. Ignoring and avoiding the bad and hoping for better days has kept our morales up and our lives worth living. We keep experiencing, learning, memorizing, etc. because wishful thinking encourages us to. And at the end of the song, Tweedy finds his own wishful thinking - "I got up off my hands and knees/to thank my lucky stars that you're not me." He is thankful that a special someone/humanity does not see life and question our existence in the way he does, and that wishful thinking has blinded them/us from this revelation. He finds a little bit of positivity (read: wishful thinking) among the bad - which is that wishful thinking exits. Ironic. Brilliant. |
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| The Beatles – Think for Yourself Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think it's about getting so frustrated with someone for whatever reason and then getting to that moment where you finally cut them off and no longer care about what they say or do. | |
| The Beatles – Run for Your Life Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I would just like to point out how this the last track of the album and it's tag line is "that's the end." Maybe I'm the only one, but I just really get a kick out of artists adding those subtle yet thoughtful details in their records. Totally irrelevant, but amusing. |
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| Ingrid Michaelson – Wonderful Unknown Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I always thought this was about the beginning of a new marriage. "Inside this house we've never known" - moving into a new house together; "we make bread on sundays and the little ones are climbing up the walls" - the picture of a family life. But the biggest evidence would be in the repititous line "in the best way, you'll be the death of me," or a beautifully rephased "til death do us part." | |
| Pink Floyd – Eclipse Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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If you consider "Brain Damage" that is placed just before it (a song obviously about insanity and what it is and how society defines it), the song is basically saying if you are insane/are considered insane by others, "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon." I think that song considers both the truly mentally insane, such as Syd Barrett, and what society sees as abnormal or "insane," such as a fellow walking on a lawn that has been so perfected, no one is allowed to touch it. So what is the dark side of the moon? This could be interpreted several different ways, but the general idea is that it is a divider from us and life. The song describes seeing every aspect of life, everything under the sun, all that we perceive and expect to perceive, but then the moon blocking the sun and we no longer can see or experience what we had previously witnessed. Is the moon symbolizing death? Insanity? Is it reality in a sunny world of perfect societal expectations? Well now, that's up to you to decide. |
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| Lights – Heavy Rope Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song... well, first and foremost, if you aren't listening to the acoustic version, you're doing it wrong in my opinion. You don't her the emotions in her voice quite like you do in the original. It's a story of losing yourself, losing who you are, who you want to be. It's feeling helpless and needing someone to be there, to fix what's broken. It's so beautifully vague that I find whenever I'm in a dark place, for whatever reason, this song articulates my situation and emotions perfectly. Just imagine the state Lights was in to write this song. Her struggles were so great that she couldn't help herself anymore, and I imagine that there was no one to be her savior. The only she could do was write this song, perhaps with no one specifically in mind, calling out into an abyss for a heavy rope that might not even exist. |
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| Dido – See The Sun Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Considering the mood and story behind this album (her experiencing extreme heartbreak and eventually having coming to terms with being single and being ok with it), this final track seems to be the final stage of what she had experienced - passing down her knowledge. She sees a friend going through a really tough break up and this her way of letting him know that she's been what he's been through and she knows that it gets better if you just allow yourself to move on. | |
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