The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
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The Night We Met
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
I don't know the true lyrics, but this is what I hear:
Close my eyes Feel me now I don't know how you could not love me now You will know, with her feet down to the ground Over there, and I want true love to grow You can't hide, oh no, from the way I feel
Turn my head Into sound I don't know when I lay down on the ground You will find the way turn hearts to love Never cared, and the world turned hearts to love We will see, oh now, in a day or two You will wait See me go I don't care, when you're head turned all around You will wait, when I turn my eyes around Overhead when I hold you next to me Overhead, to know the way I see
Close my eyes Feel me now I don't know, maybe you could not love me now Here alone, and I feel down too Over there, and I wait true love for you You can hide, oh now, the way I do You can see, oh now, oh the way I do
This is a song about a guy who wants this girl. But the girl doesn't love him("how you could not love me now "). She doesn't dream about him like he does("with her feet down to the ground over there").
He then says how quickly you fall in love("You will find the way turn hearts to love"), then when she least expect it. She would fall in love with him("Never cared, and the world turned hearts to love ").
She would hold all her feelings. Without saying a word.
So, he is about to depart("See me go "). And when he is about to leave, she would see him("when you're head turned turns all around you will wait"), and he would see her, and then they would finally be together("when I turn my eyes around overhead, when I hold you next to me"), and then she would finally know how much they love each other, and how they are meant to each other.
But nothing like that happens.
He still loves her, but she doesn't, and he accepts it("maybe you could not love me now "). So now he hopes for her to find true love("and I wait true love for you")
I just love that song.
Sofia Coppola's use of this adn Kevin Shields in 'Lost in Translation' was genius.
I think this song is about unrequited love.
Dream pop isnt the same thing as shoegazing
There's not a single moment in my day to day life where i won't stop whatever i'm doing and listen to this song, if it comes on. and i put it on, whenever i'm feeling nostalgic. i just love this song.
Completely the same here<br /> <br /> This has happens to me many times: iTunes on shuffle, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip..., "oh, sometimes, sure why not, let this one play"....<br /> <br /> 15 sec in song and I'm caught... swept away, everything else fades...<br /> <br /> Remarkable...
feels like the moment you discover you love someone
this song means everything.
I love this song. No idea what hes going on about!
shoegaze is a derivative/sub-genre of dream pop.
Towards the end of the song it came to me. It might have been a relationship gone bad but what i see is. A guy is incredibly in love with a girl who really doesn't love him back. The girl loves someone else and the same situation happens to her. So the guy is saying "you can see, oh now, oh the way i do." Their pretty much just lost in love over someone.
No matter what it truly means, this song is by far the most amazing song i've ever heard.