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| Sleater-Kinney – The Size Of Our Love Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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I lived this. This song came out in 1999 when I was 18. I really think it came out before August b/c that’s when my fiance died (Fri 13th). For some reason this used to happen to me a lot. i would hear a song that would describe my circumstances exactly. My fiance Gary had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. I lived with him and his family for the last 9 months of his life. Let me explain this song at dace value which is how I lived it: It overshadows everything. Especially when they’re in the hospital. And you do feel sometimes that you want to run (“put this ring on my finger/so tight it turns blue/a constant reminder/I’ll die in this room if you die in this room”j which is something I did a week before he died. I blew off seeing him to go to a party. When he confronted me on it, I said the truth: I was scared. He yelled “don’t you think I’m scared?” and he was so right. But there’s still that sickness “I gave it a home” inside you whether or not you are “fight[ing] for [your] own heart.” I could go out with my friends like a normal person to a party but not a minute went by that I didn’t feel the hourglass sifting. The sad thing? He was my soul mate. I’m 41 now, I’ve never found anyone else I wanted to marry. He was everything. Ao the sad part is that last August it was 23 years (older than either of us were when he died) and the size of our love was so huge that even today “our love is the size of [that] hole in the ground, where my heart’s buried now.” (For Gary Michael Jacobs 11/10/78 to 8/13/99) |
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| Bikini Kill – False Start Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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This song is, if you are familiar with (BK’s drummer) Tobi Vail’s band, The Frumpies, a kind of sister song to Deliberate Indifference. While the Frumpies song is about an old friend who you feel nostalgic about but they are like a different person now and their new friends are the reason, this song is also nostalgic about an old friend who has changed. However, it isn’t an outside influence but their own mind that keeps this person from going out of the house, seizing the moment. (Incidentally, I am almost positive that it’s not “situation statistical” but “situation statical” which makes a lot more sense. She’s saying “see yourself as others see you.” As someone who they want to be around (“I’ll wait for you outside”). I could write 2000 more words but this is incredibly difficult on an iphone. I guess if you want to hear more or want me to dissect another song (i have an M.A. in English Lit and this is literally all I did for 6 years: dissection of words strung together) let me know. |
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