| ABBA – The Winner Takes It All Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[mkjustice:17943] 1- `The winner takes it all` - love is a zero sum game, you can't half-win in monogamous relationships. They walk away with someone else, or you keep them. 2-`The loser standing small Beside the victory` - Think Olympic podiums - 1st is above 2nd. Its probably also metaphorical of feeling diminished when losing love. 3- `The gods may throw a dice` - It is a remark probably emphasising the cruelty many may feel when bad things happen to them like losing love - it may as well be a careless diety throwing it to chance. No reason, simply the number that the die lands on. 4- `Spectators of the show Always staying low` - I understand this as meaning those around us who try to stay arms length when relationships fail. They may be there to support you, but want to avoid the flak. LOL at the late response to your q. I am listening to ABBA today and thought to satiate your long-awaited curiosity. |
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| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Secret Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Perhaps due to personal significance I've always seen this as a song about coming to terms with a truth about oneself, bursting to escape but socially constrained due to the perception that it may not be readily accepted. An awesome classic from an awesome band. Very much the essence of the 80s. |
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| Bel Canto – Picnic On The Moon Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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First to comment. I understand this to be a story of an adult looking back at their inner child vis-a-vis an old diary. While they remember being cautious: Ever since I was a little kid I've been cautious and I've sealed my lips ...upon further inspection they remember their head was in the clouds, dreaming of an escape to the moon and watch their world from above: one day, we will fly Together in a baron's balloon Straight up into the air And when er have arrived We'll take a little picnic on the moon And watch the earth below Realising this, the narrator may be looking around at their present day to find that this magic has long been extinguished and they feel alone: I'm lost again Needing a friend 'Cause I'm so alone So alone. But it is not yet too late, as they seem to be confiding in someone and it seems it is possible to still revitalise this sense of awe: I have a feeling It's time we talk about it 'Cause I'm still on my own This achievement, in my view, is reflected in the final repetition: it is less a desperate plea as it is confiding of their sense of anguish. I only recently discovered Bel Canto, but wowie. They are incredibly atmospheric, and a sense of existential peril runs throughout their music. |
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| A-Ha – Solace Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Think seems to be about findings and cherishing those moments of 'solace', comfort and consolidation, that we each need: Some sign of forgiveness Some form of release Is all that she asks for Is all that she needs She waits for the day when She feels more at ease Some time to be careful Some time left in peace despite also feeling the pressure of the rat race... You're wasting the moment Biding your time No one got ahead Standing in line There is also the sense that the subject wishes that everyone else would also stop and take the time to appreciate life: You're hoping for solace Well, just look around Everyone here is Standing in line The core moral, for me at least, is that because life is so precious (yet precarious) and beautiful (yet finite, liminal and mortal), we need to make the most out of it: Cold stars of the future Burn bright in the past These moments of solace They don't last They cannot last Truly beautiful song, interwoven with some stirring orchestral violin in the background. Possibly the most evocative quality of the song for me is its memories for me. I was lucky enough to see A-Ha in their final farewell tour a few years back with my parents, at a time where life was very different. It is indeed a moment of solace that I can look back to then with fond memories. |
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| The Lightning Seeds – Sense Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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A song about falling in love. Contrary to appearing cheesy, it seems to characterise the discomforting tendencies of living with being in love. There are instances where the reliance of the lover giving the 'fix' is reminiscent of an addiction. A 'bed of splinters' - like a withdrawal symptom; 'closed fown for winter' - isolation, no one knows how it feels; 'the more you get, the more you want' - greed and desire; 'standing high on tiptoes looking over fences' - waiting for the next fix; 'I want to jump deep into tides of loving madness' - wanting to experience the euphoria again. It sounds happy in melodic terms, but in lyrical structure it seems to characterise love as something less joyous and more torturous. A fascinating combination. |
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| The Lightning Seeds – Pure Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| It is a song of integrity, of returning to 'nature' in its simplest and most pleasurable forms; of not letting one's morality become embroiled in the contemporary machinations of capitalism; of remembering that there are indeed 'purer' moments in life which we should cherish and always return to when we can. To me, it is a song reminding us of what it means to be human. | |
| The Lightning Seeds – Don't Let Go Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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A beautiful song. It invokes the idea of a 'last night together', like one shared by lovers before parting for a long time. They are together, enjoying the time they have, seemingly ambivalent about whether they are trying to forget that time is liminal and will soon usher the morning, or whether they are so into each other that time no longer even matters. One of those moments which demonstrate the power of an artist's capability. To construct such an array of some of the powerful feelings we can have - caught between love the paralysing fear of loss - is truly an art not shared by us all. |
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