| Sandi Thom – What If I'm Right? Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm confused. If all of you hate Sandi Thom so much then why are you wasting the time to comment on one of her songs? Anyway... on to the analysis... The song reminds me of my relationship with my ex-pseudo-boyfriend. He was the epitome of the perfect boyfriend and I liked him a lot. However, there was this little voice in my head that was telling me that he wasn't what I wanted, that I wouldn't be completely happy with him. After a few months of unofficially dating he finally asked me out and I made the mistake of saying yes. Lucky for me, we quickly ended up going our separate ways before our relationship really had the chance to go anywhere. Had it not I have the very strong feeling that it would not have ended well, mainly because there would have been a part of me going "What if I'm right?". Sandi Thom's song reminds me of that, someone who is in what seems like the perfect relationship but is secretly going "What if I'm right? What if this isn't what I want?" |
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| Sandi Thom – I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I love this song, it reminds me of a friend of mine who is like a modern day hippie. This is one of those songs that you have to take at face level and not look for alternate meanings. It seems like Thom says what she means and means what she says: she wishes that she had been born in a time when the civilized world wasn't as sterilized as it is today and playing meant going outside and playing on the street with the other neighborhood kids, hence the: "kids were wearing hand me downs, and playing games meant kick around, and footballers still had long hair and dirt across their face". My point is that while the 60's and 70's had many things wrong with them, they are romanticized because they represent what people today are trying to do: bring around change in a world that is going to fight you every step of the way. |
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| The Four Seasons – December 1963 (Oh What A Night) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is awsome. The guy it's about has sex the first time with a prostitute and how it changed him. In the musical "Jersey Boys", which is about the Four Seasons, the song begins: "It's a season of firsts: John Glenn is the first American to orbit the moon, the lable's raking in in so they send over a few girls when we hit Chicago. And that night... I rack up a personal first...." | |
| John Mayer – Waiting on the World to Change Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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John Mayer meant this song as a commentary on his (our) generation's political beliefs, in that sense yankeelove07 is right: In an age where the older generation does not believe that we have anything valuable to add to society either because we are to young, too inexperienced, or both it is hard for any of us to stand up and say that we believe in this or that we think that that is wrong. But by saying "one day our generation/is gonna rule the population/so we keep waiting on the world to change" he is also saying that eventually we are going to have the power to run this world and when that time comes we will change it, or not change it, however we wish. Another one of, what I think, John Mayer's key points is this: "Now if we had the power/to bring our neighbors home from war/they would have never missed a christmas/no more ribbons on their door..." With 3125 coalition casualties and counting, one has to wonder what would happen if our generation was to come to power tomorrow. With everything that we have seen and with an entirely new wave of people eligable to vote in the next presidential election what will the verdict be? Can we prevent another 3125 from dying before we acknowledge that the war in Iraq has become a disaster? To those who don't like "Waiting On the World to Change" because of its political undertones, how do you expect our country, our society to change and evolve if those who have the power to speak out and be noticed choose not to? Because other artists chose to speak out we don't have children under the age of ten working twelve hour days in extremely hazardous conditions (in America people, we're not going to start arguing social justice issues here), and one of the most famous changes brought about by artists is the Watergate Scandal. If it wasn't for the reporters who broke the story would we have ever found out how deep it went? Would Nixon have been re-elected? He could very well have. |
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