| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Curse of Millhaven Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I think @[Straylite:29068] is right. The fifteenth year of someone's life is indeed the one between fourteen and fifteen, so if she's "closing in on her fifteenth year", that means she's thirteen going on fourteen. When you turn fifteen you've already completed your fifteenth year. | |
| Lady GaGa – Bloody Mary Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I also think this song might be about Mary I of England, aka Mary Tudor, who became known as "Bloody Mary" because of her cruel persecution of Protestants. All the religious imagery in the song really fits her as she was known for her piety. After she became queen, Mary Tudor married King Philip of Spain. The marriage was highly unpopular and caused a rebellion (“When Pontius comes to kill the king upon his throne“), but she married him anyway, although the people hated her for it („I'm ready for their stones“). She was deeply in love with him, but he seems to have married her solely for political and financial reasons. Much to Mary’s grief, he spent most of their short marriage away from England, leaving her heartbroken and depressed. To make things worse, there were many rumors about Philip’s affairs with other women which made her extremely jealous. Despite the pain he caused her, she still loved him, so she might have prayed that God would “forgive him before he's dead”. She desperately tried to get him to return to her, but he didn’t and she pretended she no longer cared (“I won't cry for you, I won't crucify the things you do”) and told herself she didn’t need him (“when you're gone I'll still be bloody Mary”). The reference to Michelangelo also fits, because he was a contemporary of Mary Tudor. She was never actually in Paris, but Paris is known as the city of love, so “I'll wait on mountain tops in Paris cold” could be just a metaphor for her unrequited love for her absent husband. “Je ne veux pas mourir toute seule“ is French for “I don’t want to die alone”. When Mary became gravely ill and realized she was dying, she hoped that Philip would come to see her one last time, but he never came. |
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| Dillon – Thirteen Thirtyfive Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I'm sure that wasn't Dillon's intention when she wrote this song, but it reminds me of Mary Kay Letourneau, the teacher who fell in love with a 12-year-old student when she was 34 and was later sentenced to eight years in prison after she tried to run away with the boy. "Gone to find a place for us to hide Be together, but alone As the need for it has grown" That definitely sounds like it's about a forbidden affair, rather than a mother-child-relationship, as some people suggest. "I can say that you look pretty You turn my legs into spaghetti You set my heart on fire" This part also suggests romantic attraction. |
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| Marianne Faithfull – As Tears Go By Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| I think it's about a lonely older person who watches children play and becomes wistful about the loss of their own youth. | |
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