| De-phazz – Roses Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Additionally, "a mirror is the label of the silence" to me sounds more like "a mirror is the label of a silent person" and seems to be consistent with other lyrics sources on the internet. |
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| De-phazz – Roses Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Not sure about the lines "guilty is a label of lives... live is a label of future." I'm also hearing: "beauty is a label of lies... hope is a label of future." |
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| Thunderball – Solar Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Lyrics should be: Quisiera ver el sol En soledad En soledad En soledad Quisiera ver el sol Quisiera ver el sol En soledad En soledad En soledad |
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| U2 – The Troubles Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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As with most U2 songs, there is a whole range of meanings. Here is my interpretation, based upon what I read elsewhere - that this song has some undertone of domestic abuse issues. My background: I've been in love with two different women at different times in my life, both of whom had been sexually assaulted or abused by someone, before we met. Both women try and tried to direct their suffering, abuse and blame at me. This song rings so true with the psychology behind the suffering stemming from sexual abuse or assault, and on secondary victims (the partners of those in relationships with people who have been abused in the past). To me therefore it is a song about how abuse can create more abuse, it can perpetuate itself, but hopefully does not. It even asks for the strength to go on, despite. "Somebody stepped inside your soul Somebody stepped inside your soul Little by little they robbed and stole Till someone else was in control" Somebody overstepped your boundary, and took advantage of you, again and again, and you gave up defending (and then someone else controlled you). "You think it’s easier To put your finger on the trouble When the trouble is you And you think it’s easier To know your own tricks Well, it’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do" You can start to think that it is easier to direct the blame at someone, or at a failed relationship, when the issues are in also your own thought patterns created by past bad experience - this is true for the person having been abused, and somewhat to partners of people who have been abused. Trying to understand what makes you tick, finding out about yourself and your motives, needs and issues by introspection or professional help may reveal a lot of undesired, dark topics - it may be the hardest thing you ever do, and there is a natural resistance to overcome your own experience. Overcoming that resistance may be pretty hard. But: "I have a will for survival So you can hurt me And then hurt me some more I can live with denial But you’re not my troubles anymore" There still is some desire to continue, despite bad experience. There is a desire to keep going as someone in an abusive relationship, or someone facing a past abuse, but any work you do with or on yourself may be futile, and you may feel that getting better just opens up new possibilities of being abused. It is possible to deny all of this, to just forget about it, to split, in order to obtain some peace of mind. Or to be glad, when a bad relationship ends - then, the abuse may not be my problem, my troubles anymore. After a relationship ends, the issues of that other person are not my issues anymore, hopefully. "God knows it’s not easy Taking on the shape of someone else’s pain" As someone living with someone who has been abused in the past, sometimes you become associated with the abuser, simply for expressing your own perfectly normal desires and needs. In that case, the person having been abused projects their bad experience on you, you can become "the shape of someone elses pain" . And you take on that projection, that bad image, to continue in the relationship, you assume guilt, even though there is no reason to feel guilty - because you try to be understanding, to try to help that other person having issues with themselves. "God now you can see me I’m naked and I’m not afraid My body’s sacred and I’m not ashamed" can be viewed both from the point of view of someone who has been abused in the past (1), and from someone who is living with someone who has been abused (2): (1) This is me. my body is mine, I'm not afraid or ashamed of standing up for myself. I'm not ashamed of what happened to me, I'm not ashamed to carry on. (2) This is me. my (body of) desires and needs are mine, and I'm not ashamed to acknowledge them. I'm not afraid to voice my needs. This last part is like a prayer or appeal to a higher being to be given the strength to voice needs or to have the strength to carry on, to be one with yourself again, to overcome the experience stemming from abuse. Again, this is just one interpretation of many, and certainly coloured by my experience. |
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