| Counting Crows – Anna Begins Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I have looked at the lyrics of this song so many times because it's so hard to get through. I love that about it :). I am personally convinced (probably because everybody reads into a song as it applies to their own lives) that this song is about a man in a relationship--perhaps a marriage?--and he knows that it is wrong to love someone, Anna, who is not his wife. He believes as his friend implores that it's all or nothing (either with the wife or the girl). But he realizes there are "shades of gray" and is in denial about "love" because if you say it isn't love, then it isnt. But throughout the song he is convinced that what they have goes much deeper and the potential "consequences" rattle both of them---keep her shaking for days, tossing and turning at night. They are obviously spending nights together because it keeps him awake. But as long as it isn't love, it's not worth worrying, bending, breaking. Wouldn't it be so easy to admit the love without the consequences? Sweep Anna up in a butterfly net and keep her in an album for safekeeping. Moral of the story, don't marry rashly and understand that it is possible to love more than one person, but the second you say your vows, the world becomes a much more complicated place... |
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| Damien Rice – Cannonball Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's not hard to grow...when you know that you just don't know. Great line. If you can just go through life saying "I dunno what's going on, but I'm going to learn from every fucking moment" That's the only way to grow. You stay in one place, stagnant, when you convince yourself that you know all there is to know about yourself. We never stop learning about ourselves until we die. | |
| Damien Rice – Cannonball Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's not hard to grow...when you know that you just don't know. Great line. If you can just go through life saying "I dunno what's going on, but I'm going to learn from every fucking moment" That's the only way to grow. You stay in one place, stagnant, when you convince yourself that you know all there is to know about yourself. We never stop learning about ourselves until we die. | |
| The Goo Goo Dolls – Name Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This has been my favorite song for a long time. It's funny, I'm adopted and I really didn't think that this song was about being orphaned but maybe that's why I like it so much on another subconscious level :). I suppose it's possible, but what I love about this song is everyone seems to have a different interpretation of it. It means anything to everyone. The most resonating line in this song to me is "you grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe and reruns all become our history." It's almost as if he's saying people who grow up too fast by force or choice get to a point in their lives where they constantly play reruns of the events that brought them there. The same thoughts are analyzed repeatedly without conclusion: "a tired song keeps playing on a tired radio...." The "name" theme throughout the song is the best and most ambiguous aspect. It could be about a biological mother as some have suggested, or about a person from the past that the narrator in one way or another feels influenced them greatly. No matter what it means, its a secret that only the narrator knows and it's a secret worth keeping just to have some more time with this person in thought or in actuality..."come back down and I won't tell them your name" As for being "grown up orphans who never knew their names"---it applies to us all. We all enter adulthood with a sense of ambiguity about who we really are. We are on our own, starting an independent life and the decisions we make effect us even more than they did in our youth. Often all we have to cling to or all that is holding us back are the scars we carry as souvenirs from the past. It's easy to dwell on these scars as they are never far away, usually only a memory away. Overall, I just think it's about the events in ones life leading them to the point they are at now and reflecting on that past and perhaps longing to find some closure with a person or event. "And even though the moment passed me by, I still can't turn away" And let's be honest, there will always be that person from our past--who will remain nameless--that creeps into our thoughts. I've got someone like that who this song reminds me of. |
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