| Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton – Crowd Surf off a Cliff Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I do believe this is about the fact that she didn't get to have a family, and she chose a different route. I think ultimately this song is about her lacking the courage to get away from the path she has so carefully paved already even if she had planned something totally different. When she says "Everywhere and every way I see you with me", she's obviously missing someone. And right after the statement, she says, "Crowd surf off a cliff Land out on the ice Crowd surf off to sea float towards the beach" When you land out on the ice, it can easily break. And when you float out to sea, you probably won't be coming back. I think that she's lost, and she's looking for a way out... of her stardom life. What gets me about this part of the song is the way she sings it... as if it's the best thing that could happen to her. Like a memory you would have with someone you love or a dream. She decides that she "Can't want out, the ending outlasting the mood" and she ends up "waking up lonely" When she says "If you find me, hide me, I don't know where I've been". I think this statement shows the child-like side of Emily Haines. It always makes me think she is thinking back like the way things used to be. Playful and fun. When she says "All the babies tucked away in their beds We're out here screaming The life that you thought through is gone" She imagined a life, a family, kids. With this song she justifies that it wouldn't be such a shame if she suddenly disappears by making every attempt to describe going away like a child-like fantasy or dream, but still she lacks the courage and every morning she wakes up lonely. |
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| Metric – Gimme Sympathy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is just my opinion but I think this is about taking an optimistic approach to life and death. When Emily says “Get hot, Get too close to the flame” I think she is talking about a person’s self destruction and how death is sometimes closer than we think. I think she is using this sentence similar to the familiar quote ‘a moth to flame’ The moth is always drawn to the flame because it’s so beautiful but it doesn’t know that it can hurt itself if it gets too close. We don’t always know how much we’re hurting ourselves. “Wild open space Talk like an open book Sign me up Got no time to take a picture I'll remember someday All the chances we took” This portion of the song I’m not too sure, but maybe she means that our life is already mapped out. We don’t do anything different or anything to add substance. “All the chances we took” can mean that we wasted time- passed up all the chances we had to do something good or add substance to our lives. When she says, “We're so close to something better left unknown” Again I think she means we’re so close to death. “I can feel it in my bones” Emphasizes on this point. “Gimme sympathy After all this is gone” does too. “Who would you rather be The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?” This speaks for itself. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones both influential artists and very important. I think she shows that there are two types of people in this world. :p The Beatles Fans and The Rolling Stones. These bands make people happy. So this displays the optimistic approach to death. “Oh seriously You're gonna make mistakes you're young Come on baby play me something, Like here comes the sun” Here is where she takes the other optimistic approach in the song. We are going to make mistakes- we’re human. So no matter how much life sucks we just have to learn to move on and look at the bright side- the happier side. “Come on baby play me something like here comes the sun” |
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