Ed Sheeran shares a short story of reconnecting with an old flame on “American Town.” The track is about a holiday Ed Sheeran spends with his countrywoman who resides in America. The two are back together after a long period apart, and get around to enjoying a bunch of fun activities while rekindling the flames of their romance.
She ionizes and atomizes
Then turns to sunlight
He realizes and itemizes
Pulls harder than gravity
She ionizes and atomizes
Then turns to sunlight
Flourescent lightbulbs will make
An absense of dark, but
The light just ain't there still and she said
"I am feeling empty
The real lights can make you heavy
But never ever really empty
(Flourescent lights will always equal empty)"
Then turns to sunlight
He realizes and itemizes
Pulls harder than gravity
She ionizes and atomizes
Then turns to sunlight
Flourescent lightbulbs will make
An absense of dark, but
The light just ain't there still and she said
"I am feeling empty
The real lights can make you heavy
But never ever really empty
(Flourescent lights will always equal empty)"
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American Town
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
Midnight
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Midnight” is a song about finding a love that is so true that it provides a calming feeling through every storm. Ed Sheeran reflects on his good fortunes in landing someone with such peace and support and speaks of not fearing the dark days because he knows they’ll all end in the safety nets of her arms.
“Well, good morning there / What a way to start the day / With everything laid bare,” Ed Sheeran sings in the first verse, enthusiastic to be waking up beside his woman. He apologizes for missing her calls in the second verse and promises to return them because for him, speaking to her is the most important thing. “Well, I get lost inside my head / In this chaos, you’re my calm / And I will find my feet again / ‘Cause еven the worst days of my life will always еnd / At midnight in your arms,” sings Ed Sheeran in the chorus, revelling in his good luck.
Somewhere Only We Know
Keane
Keane
Per the FAQ on Keane's website, Keane's drummer Richard Hughes, stated the following:
"We've been asked whether "Somewhere Only We Know" is about a specific place, and Tim has been saying that, for him, or us as individuals, it might be about a geographical space, or a feeling; it can mean something individual to each person, and they can interpret it to a memory of theirs... It's perhaps more of a theme rather than a specific message... Feelings that may be universal, without necessarily being totally specific to us, or a place, or a time..."
With the nostalgic sentiment and the overall tone of the song, I think Keane is attempting to express a Portuguese term known as 'saudade', which does not have a direct English translation but roughly means "that which we remember because it is gone."
Zombie
Cranberries, The
Cranberries, The
"Zombie" is about the ethno-political conflict in Ireland. This is obvious if you know anything of the singer (Dolores O'Riordan)'s Irish heritage and understood the "1916" Easter Rising reference.
"Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken
And the violence caused such silence
Who are we mistaken
-
Another mother's breaking
Heart is taking over"
Laments the Warrington bomb attacks in which two children were fatally injured on March 23rd, 1993. Twelve year old Tim Parry was taken off life support with permission from his mother after five days in the hospital, virtually braindead.
"But you see it's not me
It's not my family"
References how people who are not directly involved with the violence feel about it. They are "zombies" without sympathy who refuse to take action while others suffer.
this song means a lot to me because sunlight is the most beautiful mind blowing special thing there is. and i despise lights because they resemble sunlight in no way so i udnerstood exactly what eh was talking about.
its a girl whos maybe fucked up and shes dating a guy and she leaves. he tries so hard pulls harderthan grvaity but shessunlight and shes gone. and he gets another girl its distraction but its not real. this girl was sunlight beautiful and unbelievable.
you can turn on every light in the house but it will never be as bright or glow as much as sunlight will do. im feeling empty (shes depressed has problems?) the real lights sunlight can make you heavy but never ever really equal empty flourescent lights will always equal empty. sunlight as life hes messed up too but she choses to go out and experiences thigns anyway and he choses to distract himself. or maybe she is going out into the world and wont take any emdication for her problems and he does to solve them and acts like thigns are fine. because the real lights can make you heavy but never ever really equal empty. the most beautiful person can be a disaster- can make you heavy- but will never be empty like any random non descript normal person and also life can be havy but youll still feel things on mediation or with distractions youll never feel.
i dont know. i cant explain it. because i know the difference between sunlight and a light bulb. and it makes a world of difference to me.
the music in this song is also brilliant.
Reading these replies, I realized that there are not any people who are chemists or physicists. I know a bit about ionic and covalent bonds from college biology..
An ionic bond is when two atoms, rather than sharing one or more electrons, one completely donates an electron to another resulting in one strongly positively charged ion, and one negatively charged ion. This creates a strong bond between the two atoms or now, ions. It explains why salt crystals are so hard to break apart.
"She ionizes and atomizes" Makes me think that the couple forms, and she leaves him. "then turns to sunlight" could either mean that Brock is either realizing she's "the one" as soon as she leaves. Or that she turns to her own sunlight which is another guy, or just a lifestyle away from Isaac. I think it is maybe the latter. The rest is based on how you see the first part I guess.
@jpa23245 Thought: the first matter to form from the quark-gluon plasma of the early universe was ionic. Then "recombination" or atomization happens. This releases light associated the the cosmic microwave background, although "turns into sunlight" probably indicates the first stars forming given the language in the rest of this song.<br /> <br /> Anyway, when I listen to this song I always think that "she" is the universe.
Its comparing the girl to sunlight and calling her perfect. "she ionizes and atomizes then turns into sunlight"...."the real lights will make you heavy but never really empty flourescent light will always equal empty" hes saying shes the real thing, shes the sunlight and everything else is the flourescent light, empty. the sun is the source of life for every living thing in the world and isaac brock is saying this girl is the source of life for him. honestly brock is a fucking genius...to compare a girl in such a way that its so subtle and yet so beautiful without it sounding like a sappy love song...holy hell. modest mouse is god...although i do like bellyful of swans interpretation as well. but to me its not about trouble in a relationship hes saying he needs her or he will be empty like a flourescent lightbulb.
God I love this song. and Modest Mouse. I can't think of any other band that leaves people so speechless. To love someone so much that they are your sunlight, they make you full and complete inside. You are empty when they leave. I love how Isaac is using scientific diction to explain something so un-scientific like love. So god damn beautiful
I think I've finally understood the meaning of "She Ionizes and Atomizes" In chemistry, one atom can take the other atom's electron, giving the atoms a positive and a negative charge respectively. In transferred sense, this means that the girl takes his heart and then dissolves into atoms(she disappears from his life); these atoms turn into sunlight, representing love. Of course, as others have mentioned, only flourescent light, and not real sunlight, shines upon her, meaning that she's not in love with him. My take on it anyway :)
i believe the girl in this relationship wasn't over a past relationship or just got into things too quick.
so while Issac was completely in love, the girl feels pressured to give him back the same love, thus creating her fluorescent lights.
she makes these lights because she knows it isn't love, but she's too deep in the relationship to step out of it. she tries to make herself feel better by pretending it's love, but just isn't.
i think its a love song but the person is feeling empty about the relationship
Reading these replies, I realized that there are not any people who are chemists or physicists. I know a bit about ionic and covalent bonds from college biology.. <br /> <br /> An ionic bond is when one atom, rather than sharing an electron, completely donates an electron to another forming a strong bond between two nuclei, creating an ion.<br /> <br /> "She ionizes and atomizes" Makes me think that the couple forms, and she leaves him.<br /> "then turns to sunlight" could either mean that Brock is either realizing she's the sunlight or "the one" as soon as she leaves. Or that she turns to her own sunlight which is another guy, or just a lifestyle away from Isaac. The rest is based on how you see the first part I guess.
yeah i agree.... light is untouchable but its always there... probably like her. he pulls harder than gravity trying to get things together but light is unefected by gravity.... i dont know.... thats what i get from it.... its one of their best songs i think.... well... i cant decide what their best song is....
"he realizes and itemizes pulls harder than gravity"
he knows she's somewhat untouchable for the moment and he's "itemizing" i.e. getting his priorities in order. obviously she comes in high on the list since he's pulling harder than gravity.
"flourescent lightbulbs will make and absense of dark, but the light just aint there still and she said 'i'm feeling empty, the real lights can make you heavy but never ever really empty flourescent lights will always equal empty.' "
that's talking about no matter how many lightbulbs you have, artificial light is not even half as good or wanted or needed as actual sunlight.
I love how you can't even understand the first line at all. I remember listening with my dad and thinking Isaac said "Shit I (gibberish", as the first line. Then my dad got all pissed (he's strict about cursing in music), but when I checked the lyrics, I realized he wasn't cursing at all.
lol thats what i thouhgt he said too. but its an amazing song by an amazing band