| Low – Don't Carry It All Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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You don't have to carry the whole world upon your shoulders. Try to take it more lightheartedly. After all you have done, after all the hard work, after all the suffering: don't carry it all. I like the crescendo... it has some positive, releasing vibe for someone that has been having it really dark and under pressure. The singer's voice brings a real relief. Right there. |
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| The XX – Angels Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I feel this music is about loving someone and being fully aware that this means taking a road with no known end. It means taking risks, the risk to stand alone at the end, because the other party wasn't ready to commit. It's about full awareness that loving someone implies the painful uncertainty of reciprocity. "And with words unspoken A silent devotion I know you know what I mean And the end is unknown But I think I'm ready As long as you're with me" I will commit if You commit. The willingness to endure through an intimate relationship must come from both parties. / / / I feel really touched by listening to this song... it remembers me of the very moment I was willing to commit, but the other person wasn't ready yet. We broke up... |
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| Radiohead – Lotus Flower Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I get it quite like Derp described it. Just the part referring to poverty and injustice differs a bit: for me Thom refers to something much closer than that --- it's about overcoming the sleep that each and everyone of us of us carries inside (habits, manias, identifications, weaknesses, lies, addictions, ignorances, time-wasters). Many relate the "shape myself into your pocket" part to a partner. It could be, but for me it is about humbleness, about letting go of ego control (which is an illusion anyway) and definitely surrending. This can happen through a lover, through hard work, through having a child, through fighting for a cause... the object of inner delivery doesn't really matter, what matters is honest surrender: the ego shrinks over and over, and disappears. That is real freedom. Not freedom to do a thousand different things, but freedom from the confusing inner kicks that appeal to us searching fulfillment in the outside world, where we won't ultimately find it. "Listen to your heart". Only there we'll be able to find it. |
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| Incubus – Dig Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Brokendown, that's the best comment on this music! It meets the point with accuracy and sensibility. | |
| Judee Sill – The Kiss Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| She says before playing the music in London in February of 1973: "And this song is about the union of opposites that we all have. And the kiss is a symbol of the union". Judee knew what she was talking about: a true master. | |
| The Silver Jews – How Can I Love You? (If You Won't Lie Down) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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It's kind of annoying that I can't edit spell errors here. So I am doing it in the reply: I had to sign in only to comment on this song, which I really like. "Fast cars, fine ass These things will pass And it won't get more profound" The song is pure wisdom. He means by this that everything is just as it is. Like the zen monk. They don't keep looking for the meaning of life or for deep explanations, they just live things through experiencing them directly, without falling in the labyrinths of the mind with its concepts of right and wrong, the worries about past and future. "Time is a game Only children play well How can I love you If you won't lie down" Only children play well the "game of time". This means, they live in the present. They are just as they are, without worries about what happened or what will happen. They concentrate fully and completely in that, what's going on in the present moment. Everything else doesn't exist. They are free. When it comes to love, so the singer wants to be sincere and direct as a child. He looks this women and his body says he wants her. As highface said above, bringing flowers and all the courtship thing, which is nothing else than the speculation of getting sex at the end, is all cut out and he wants to get directly to the point where the body wanted to go from the beginning: lie down and we can make love. Why bother with an adult game of calling, not calling, doing wrong or doing right, making oneself more interesting for the other? Let's just do it like the kids and show ourselves as we are, without theaters and all these complications. Let's show what we want and what we came for. But how can I do that, if others won't take away their masks? = How can I love you if you won't lie down? "My youth for a bell Who's who in hell My kingdom for a crown" I am not so sure about this line. With "my youth for a bell" he could be saying he is willing to give all his youth pleasures away to wake up and be in the moment. The bell, in many religions, stays for awakening, for being pulled out of the automatism in order to dive inside oneself's soul. Who's who in hell? I googled this one and found: "Who's Who in Hell is a compelling, uproarious, and achingly moving story about what happens when our plans for life meet its plans for us." This fits to the music, as I understand it: I want to be myself and open for the moment and for what life has reserved for me. I want to awake and live the present. My kingdom for a crown: The crown, in my perception, stands for loyalty to quality, for something of real value. In this case it stands for the inner essence and its richness. In the Kabbahlah, the crown stands for the first sefirah, which is the emanation of God's hidden essence, it is infinity, it is oneness and the eternal: that, which was never born and will never die. The kingdom stands for material possessions, and this he gives away. Just as fast cars and fine ass, the kingdom will pass. The crown, the inner light, that will never pass. And despite we are all running away from it, it is exactly that, what we are secretly looking for. |
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| The Silver Jews – How Can I Love You? (If You Won't Lie Down) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I had to sign in only to comment on this song, which I really like. "Fast cars, fine ass These things will pass And it won't get more profound" The song is pure wisdom. He means by this that everything is just as it is. Like the zen month. They don't keep looking for the meaning of life or fore deep explanations, they just live things through experiencing them directly, without falling in the labyrinths of the mind with their concepts or right and wrong, the worries about past and future. "Time is a game Only children play well How can I love you If you won't lie down" Only children play well the "game of time". This means, they live in the present. They are just as they are, without worries about what happened or what will happen. They concentrate fully and completely in that, what's going on in the present moment. Everything else don't exist. They are free. When it comes to love, so he want's to be sincere and direct like a child. he looks this women and his body says he wants her. As X said, bringing flowers and all the courtship thing that is nothing else than the speculation of getting sex in the end is all cut out and he gets direct to the point where the body wanted to go from the beginning: lay down and we can make love. Why bother with an adult game of calling, not calling, doing wrong or doing right, making oneself more interesting for the other? Let's just do it like the kids and show ourselves as we are, without theaters and all this complications. Let's show what we want and what we came for. But how can I do that, if others won't rap away their masks? = How can I love you if you won't lie down? "My youth for a bell Who's who in hell My kingdom for a crown" I am not so sure about this line. With "my youth for a bell" he could be saying he is willing to give all his youth pleasures away to wake up and be in the moment. The bell, in many religions, stays for awakening, for being pulled of the automatism and dive inside oneself's soul. Who's who in hell? I googled this one and found: "Who's Who in Hell is a compelling, uproarious, and achingly moving story about what happens when our plans for life meet its plans for us." This fits to the music, as I understand it: I wan't to be myself and open for the moment and for what life has reserved for me. I want to awake and live the present. My kingdom for a crown: The crown, in my perception, stands for loyalty to quality, for something of real value. In this case it stand for the inner essence and it's richness. In the Kabbahlah, the crown stands for the first sefirah, which is the emanation of God's hidden essence, it is infinity, oneness and the eternal: that, which was never born and will never die. The kingdom, which stands for material possessions, he gives away. Just as fast cars and fine ass, the kingdom will pass. The crown, the inner light, that will never pass. And we are all running away from it, although it is exactly that, what we are secretly looking for. |
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