| Robert Plant – Little By Little Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| Reading the lyrics it certainly fits with the grieving process one would experience losing a child... or anyone you love. | |
| Electric Light Orchestra – Mister Kingdom Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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For me the subject in the song has Passive suicidal ideation. The whole album seems to have a theme of general and specific dissatisfaction with life. Two things about the song bring me to this conclusion. 1) The Chorus "Help me, such a lonely soul, in dreams, to leave behind the world". They want to leave the world but notes/qualifies it by saying (in dreams). 2) The Shakespearean reference "Oh to sleep, perchance to dream" has an established interpretation of longing for death in the hopes that there will be the ability to dream about pleasant things. I "suspect" that Mister Kingdom in this sound would be God. |
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| Joni Mitchell – The Priest Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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This is a song about a conversation Joni Mitchell had with a priest in an airport. Back in the 70s there were countless articles that touted Ms Mitchell as one of the queens of the "confessional" (i.e., Song based on actual occurrences). People wasted decades trying to figure out the symbolism of "Little Green" as it was unknown for decades that Joni Mitchell had given birth at 19 and gave the child up for adoption). This, and the fact that the very first line says "the priest sat in the airport bar, he was wearing his father's tie"; serves as foundation on which the rest of the poem lays. His father's tie being a metaphor for the white collar. |
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| Rickie Lee Jones – The Unsigned Painting/The Weird Beast Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Question: The Meaning of Life Answer: "The day where you first heard your heart beat Listens for you still So I think it’s not so much the painting As it is what you give yourself By what you leave Your signature..." Why any of us act, create, destroy, continue from day to day. That innate knowledge that our days ARE numbered; and the subsequent desire to make some kind of make; to matter... celebrated.... and mourned if lucky. |
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| The War On Drugs – Disappearing Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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The economy of words and beat the mimics a weary march, would not let me let this song go. I was left grasping a straws, but here goes. The Title: Disappearing, set the tone, tinting it with an expectation of loss, sadness, and tragedy. But there was too little verbiage for me to find a foundation to even begin. In cases like this I turn to researching the poet. That's when I came upon this: Hannah EllisPetersen @HannahEP · Sep 23, 2014 This is a pretty brilliant @[pitchfork:35004] interview with Adam Granofsky The War on Drugs: Inside Man How Adam Granduciel beat back crippling anxiety and isolation to come up with one of the year's most inclusive—and best—rock records. By David Bevan. pitchfork.com" If you have never suffered from crippling anxiety, count your blessings. I believe this song is in response to a bad bout with anxiety. Based on this assumptions my thoughts about the song are as follows: First I think each line is a key sentence from more in-depth paragraphs. The person checking in with him came "All this way to connect" When the author does good to make it "All the way to the corner everyday" "You were there for me... But will you wait for the one that disappears." Few understand what the clinically anxious are going through. If you've seen depictions of a dog so abused and scared that it gives up on fight or flight and just freezes with it's head in a corner even after the threat is passed. The clinically anxious, like the abused dog, can't reason it's way out of the corners. The fear is crippling because they loose the ability to do some of the most basic and necessary things for living. When he says "But will you wait for the one that disappears?" He's recognizing that this person will soon give up on him too, eventually coming to the false conclusion that "He could do better if he wanted to." Disappearing (under this scenario) is the appropriate title. The narrator is disappearing in every way possible; mentally, physically, socially, emotionally, even financially. He is not seen and has given up hope of being seen. Thus the lyrics end a quarter way through the song. The beat wearily marches on like the passing of time. Guitars and harmonica effects wail in lament as the music slowly disappears down the road. Not really ending as much reaching the end of he horizon and fading into oblivion. This is a horrible hellish way to exist. I hope my interpretation is wrong! |
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| Patrick Watson – In Circles Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Everyone should love and be loved like this. | |
| Radiohead – Videotape Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| It should not be lost that this Funeral Dirge is about someone experiencing a moment of cosmic peace in relation to their placement in the universe. | |
| Cat Stevens – Moonshadow Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[gnosis:25826] Pretty much what I came here to type almost a decade later. I whole-hearted agree he is "playing" [respectfully] with tragedy/fate when he addresses it directly: "Did it take long to find me? (I asked the faithful light.) Did it take long to find me ...And are you gonna stay the night?" He doesn't complain "Oh why me?" he stops short of apologizing to the dark event for being hard to find and seems ready to prepare it a bed if needed as any gracious host would. What an ULTIMATE way to achieve some semblance of peace in the clutches of despair. |
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| Tom Waits – Goin' Out West Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| The song is about a hyper-masculine prison-jacked brute who running away to California to ultimately star in porn. | |
| Tom Waits – Jesus Gonna Be Here Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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The song is a commentary on mentality of the uneducated poor who claim and cling to religion like a child clings to the belief of Santa Claus. "Hollywood be thy name" is making light jest of faux religious scholarship. People quoting and hiding behind scripture with meaning they don't understand. |
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| The Smiths – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[desijames:23327] Thanks, I was hoping someone would make the point about the "Send me your pillow" line. It is the actual cadence of the song melodically and metaphorically. From a poetic standpoint I find it brilliant. The raucous repetitive hook dominates the song only to have the true gist of the song delivered as a subtle aside at the end. |
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| Tom Petty – You Got Lucky Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Even back in 1982 when I first heard this song, I felt the backdrop of a romantic relationship was being used to communicate a deeper truth about "casting your pearls before swines". Now, 35-years later we have a profound and poignant example of this 'deeper truth' when the American people replaced Obama with a psychopath. The things Obama endured for eight years with Grace and dignity were disgusting. Now with a deranged hate-monger in the White House, every other day when he does something dastardly and outrageous EVERYONE is openly lamenting how they miss having a dignified president, while Obama sits next to his sailboard on a sandy beach. But this song also speaks to the ingratitude and disrespect that transpires between friends, neighbors, and even family members on a daily basis. It goes beyond 'the grass being greener on the other side, because at least in that scenario, there is grass on the other side. |
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| Robert Johnson – Hellhound On My Trail Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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There is an old term "nv'r-do-well" that refered to men who for one reason or another alway find themselves in dire situations. They usually live transient lives, that often include past enemies or debts that could one day catch up to them. Often, others will recognize these traits in a person. Thus the saying "trouble follows him around". Some of these men at some point recognize the cycle in their lives. When they do they adopt a life-style where they don't try to plant roots or plan for the future. When they arrive at a new home it is not with the intention of it being temporary; but the suspect something will eventually cause them to have to leave. It doesn't have to be their fault; it could lost job; cultural bias; addiction, depressions, even being duped. These are the elements that would define a person as 'having a hellhound on their trail'. It is worse than just having a string of bad luck. General bad luck wounds the individual. Having a hellhound on ones trail ponders seemingly random string of life destroying events. The hellhound is a what some would call being cursed. This line of belief fits with the lore of Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil (where fugitively or literally.) Given that Johnson, and many of his peers, traveled in circles that placed some weight in the powers of the occult; and that because of his lifestyle (described above) he was likely repeatedly told that he was going to hell; the meaning of his lyrics [for me] fall neatly into place. |
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| Robert Johnson – Hellhound On My Trail Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[NoahRose:15370] Thank you, this was the level of interpretation required for an artist of Robert Johnsons' history and demograpic. | |
| Mental As Anything – If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too? Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| What a beautiful and witty way to tell someone you love them enough to change for them. | |
| Vonda Shepard – Don't Cry Ilene Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| After all these years it has occurred to me that this song is two voices; Ilene, saying the verses throw her weeping, and the singer/Vonda, trying to comfort her in the chorus. | |
| Emmy the Great – Swimming Pool Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| For me: the singer is in a new relationship which (s)he finds emotionally, culturally, physically and socially stimulating; a type of relationship that (s)he had never imagined was a personal option. | |
| Joni Mitchell – Yvette In English Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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... and sweetly in english she says, 'please have this little bit of instant bliss'... Was she merely trying to say "thank you"? |
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| The Cure – The Walk Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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It literally took me decades of hearing and being mesmerized by this song to come to this "Interpretive Platform". References: 1- The Walk: Buddhism - Walking meditation - related to walking on water. 2- After Midnight: sleep, rest, death, 3- The Howling Woman: the ancient legend of the woman who kills her children later to become inconsolable and spends eternity in torment. 4- Japanese baby: a representation of the newly- or reborn-Buddha For me this song is about how two souls (any two) come together resulting in exponential growth, redemption, and rebirth that neither could achieve without the benefit of the other souls experience. I kissed you in the water (Non-sexual love) And made your dry lips sing (rejuvination) I saw you look Like a Japanese baby (Soul one recognizes the buddha essence in soul two) In an instant I remembered everything (Soul two briefly glimpses his/her God-self) |
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| John Mayer – Come Back To Bed Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[ms:2245] abbey, I interpreted this as a double entendre, with the use of 'and' instead of 'point' between 98 and 6. 98.6 degrees being the temperature of the human body (physical); and 6 degrees of separation referring to people who have a connection but do not directly know each other (mental). At its most basic meaning he is pleading with her to close the physical and mental distance between them by coming back to bed and communicating directly to him what she is experiencing. |
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| Ben Howard – Small Things Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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[Yes Ben, the world has gone mad. It is not you!] For me, the narrator is commenting on the hundreds of absurd, frustrating, ignorant, and hateful "small things" that happen everyday. If they were infrequent or only happened one at a time... The "small things" when taken individually might only be minor annoyances that one could easily brush off... But as he says; "all these small things they gather around me." They, the small things, can pile up in ones mind... at time overwhelming. He asks, "has the world gone mad, or is it me", Because you can't articulate the negative feeling that is the product of the sum of these "small things." "The words kaleidoscope inside my head." When you kvetch about any one small thing it comes out with the sum force of ALL... you come off as one big over-reaction. If you try to kvetch about the sum total, you can't... They are small disparate things... you'd sound like a rambling mad person. It makes you begin to doubt your ability to reason. One small thing happens... the proverbial straw that broke the camels back. You end up asking yourself... "has the world gone mad? Or, is it me?" I realize I'm mixing my genres but It's like Depeche Mode sang long ago... "Everything counts... in large amounts" |
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| Wang Chung – To Live and Die in L.A. Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This version of "To Life and Die in LA" was written and performed by "Wang Chung". This is not the lyrics from Tupac Amaru Shakur | |
| Banks – Change Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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What is entered above is not the correct words to this song: Always cold While you'd self-incriminate By avoiding all my questions And calling me an instigator Cut me down Always calling me unstable You so easily can make me cry Just cause you are in a mood And you'd say Call me out You would say I need attention Just because I put on makeup To ironically look good for you Cut me to pieces While you watched me disintegrate Because you like to tell me how you hate All the ways I'm not enough for you Then you'd say [Chorus] Baby don't go I didn't know I'll change I swear I'll change I swear Baby don't go I'll make you wait I promise I'll be better All of these things they will change Baby don't go I didn't know I'll change I swear I'll change I swear Baby don't go I'll make you wait I promise I'll be better All of these things they will change Never guilty Say it ain't your fault Because you had an emotionally abusive daddy And cause of this you don't know how to act Poor poor baby Say you can't help the fact that you're so crazy And you're so good at making me feel guilty For trying to walk away Because I'm tired of being mad Then you'd say [Chorus] |
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