| Bic Runga – She Left On A Monday Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"Go to her foolish man What's the use of having pride if you don't have her?" The essence of this song |
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| Lene Marlin – Flown Away Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I agree that there is an Icarus analogy in the first verse, but I don't think this song is about Icarus. I think this song is about being in a situation so wonderful you feel that a) you don't deserve it, and b) it will all be over to soon. In other words it's about trying to grasp onto those best feelings we have ever had, to enjoy the present that is right now, but at the same time feeling like it won't last. |
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| Brooke Fraser – Better Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The video clip tells the story of a girl with a drunken abusive father, and her search for a way out. It is not about her Dad, but was written for a friend who had an alcoholic father. Overall, it is a song about being in an abusive relationship and realizing that you need to get out, but still feeling guilty about leaving them behind and hurting them, even though the have hurt you so much more. Victims of abusive relationships often blame themselves, and feel they have to fix the problem. |
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| Brooke Fraser – Arithmetic Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Brooke Fraser is one of my favourite singers, and though she is a christian I usually assume that the song is about a romance, and then work towards it being about God, and this song I am sure she wrote with God in view. Someone argued against this by saying she would still want him after she died, when she would have him, but this is interpreting it wrong. When you marry someone you have them, but does that make you stop wanting them? If it does, your marriage won't last long. From my experience this song is about how we Christian's so often get caught up in rights and wrongs that we lose track of what we really want, which is to gain more of Christ, the one who is greater than all writes and wrongs, the one who is grace and love. I guess there is nothing wrong about non-Christian's interpreting this as normal love, but to a Christian, it is so obviously about our relationship with God. |
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| Bic Runga – Beautiful Collision Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is about the apparent randomness by which a romance can start. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Uninvited Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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After reading your post I read the song again, and your explanation makes perfect sense. Food is being personified as a person who is tempting her. To someone with an eating disorder, some foods which they find tempting they must find it is as if that food is taunting them. Of course, it equally works for a woman being tempted by a man she knows she mustn't/shouldn't have. |
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| Crowded House – Nails in My Feet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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| Fiona Apple – Get Him Back Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I love the lyrics of this song, and how they are, what's the word, ah. I'll explain instead "He lived to put things in their place He did a commendable job He put himself so low he can hardly even look me in the face" When not being taken literally "putting things in their place" usually means putting others down lower than you, because you think you're better then them, but then it says "He put himself so low he can hardly look me in the face". Which is the last thing you would expect from such a person. But then if you then take the more literal sense of puting things were they belong, it means his proper place was much lower than her. And if, his putting things in their place is a reference to a director, as some suggest it just adds more meaning to this part. I also like that "I'm gonna get him back" in this song seems to both mean "I'm going to get my revenge" and "I'm going to get in a relationship with him again" And I love this line "I think he let me down when he didn't disappoint me" |
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| Crowded House – Everything Is Good For You Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is a song about how things that seem to be awful at the time can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you. "And if you come undone it might just set you free" It's how I feel about my life right now. I got sick and had to give up what I was doing for health reasons. At the time I felt quite despairing that I was giving up something I enjoyed doing. Now I'm at a point where I'm starting to plan what I will do instead, and now I'm getting excited about this new future for me, one that may never have happened if I had not gotten so sick. |
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| Fiona Apple – Never Is a Promise Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song seems to be about how the singer wants to tell something important to someone close to them, but feels that they can not because that person would say all the right things, without really meaning them, or without the ability to truly carry them out, and so in the end she realises that they are too far apart and that she can't go on living in their presence, the way that they want them to live, and that she must pave her own way, even though the other one will not understand. I think people are right in saying that she wrote it with her mother in view. In many ways it is about growing up, and realizing our parents are not perfect, and they do not always understand us or know what's best for us. |
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| Split Enz – I See Red Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| My school house colour was red, so we used to sing this song (usually just the chorus) a lot during house competitions. | |
| Natalie Imbruglia – Smoke Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The term "hung out to dry" denotes the idea of being abounded in a time of need, especially by someone you thought was going to protect you/should protect you. I think this song is about a girl who was sexually abused, either by her father or step-fatehr depending on how you interpret "where are you Dad?" The talk about bleeding, "you're hurting me" and "you're pushing me" also make me think it is about sexual abuse. Smoke is a reference to the lies and illusions created by the father and step-father to cover up what she is doing |
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| Jewel – Adrian Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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They way she sings this song and some of the lyrics make me feel like its a child's perception of perhaps an older brother being in an accident and being severally brain damaged. I do believe that he wakes from the coma "He's awake but still not there", but the brain damage means that he will has reverted to a child like state he will remain in forever. |
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| Jewel – Pieces of You Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The first three versus fit well with the idea of hypocrisy and our hating others because they are what we are or what we wish we were. But the last verse does not fit so well, that seems to be just pure prejudice. I've always been bothered by the last verse. |
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| Fiona Apple – I Know Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Have none of you been in a situation where a friend or a loved one is going through a hard situation, but are unwilling to admit that nothing is wrong? And all the time you are watching them knowing that something is wrong, perhaps even knowing what is wrong, but you want them to come to you first, to confess to you that not eveything is fine. And all this time you are watching them perform for others. |
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| Fiona Apple – Waltz (Better Than Fine) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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No, I don't believe in the wasting of time But I don't believe I'm wasting mine These two lines describe my life at the moment. My health has forced me to stop and just do nothing for a couple of months, and while I haven't really been doing anything I don't feel like I've been wasting time. Sometimes we just need some time out to work out who we are and what we want in life. |
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| Crowded House – Into Temptation Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"Knowing full well the earth will rebel" I love this line. It's a bit of a hyperbole, but it shows the thoughts of a man tempted to have a affair, but paranoid that if he does he will be found out. |
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| Sarah McLachlan – Fallen Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this is more about the tensions between the talker and an authoritative figure in her life such as a parent, then about cheating on a partner. I think most likely she was warned about starting a relationship with someone because of something they did in the past, but she did anyway, believing that the person would change. "We all begin with good intent Love was raw and young We believed that we could change ourselves The past could be undone" However, the person did not change and perhaps because that person was emotionally abusive, she finds that when she finally wants to leave this relationship she has no one to turn to, except this parent figure who is sure to say "I told you so". All she wants is someone who will help her out of this abusive relationship and get back on her feet again. Probably you will disagree with this interpretation, but I think it fits with the fact that victims of abusive relationships often blame themselves, and isolate themselves from others. |
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| Flight of the Conchords – Inner City Pressure Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Not slang. It's a common word used in NZ for breakfast cereal. We also have muesli bars, which is a snack made from similar ingrediants to the breakfast cereal. |
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| Flight of the Conchords – The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I actually think this song is a bit of a commentary on the way some people give compliments they don't actually mean, by writing a song with a guy who gives compliments he actually means. I can't believe I'm sharing a kebab with the most beautiful girl I have ever seen with a kebab" |
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| Crowded House – Fall At Your Feet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think of all the interpretations I like this one best. She has past issues she needs to deal with, and he is the one who is there to help her. |
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| Crowded House – Nobody Wants To Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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While I agree that this song is about how no one wants to deal with the issues of mental illness, it also seems to me to be a reference to the taboo of talking about suicide in New Zealand. Or rather it is the not talking about the issues that can lead someone to be suicidal, including mental illnesses such as depression. The media does very little coverage of suicides, usually all the clue that it was a suicide is "police are not looking for anyone in their inquiry" or something like that. A coroner recently came out criticizing this, and stating that while the media does not need to report how the person committed suicide, there needs to be more coverage on the events leading up to people committing suicide, so that we may better help others in the same situation. |
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| Crowded House – Transit Lounge Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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These are the lyrics exactly as from the album cover. Grammar mistakes and everything Talk to her, thats right it could mean more than you think talk to her, thats right you don't have to lose a thing leave your boots & saddle outside you could make her happy again laugh about the time she threw the dinner at you and in the coconut grove you can imagine the scene another bus unloads we're still waiting to leave talk to her, thats nice or you could make a murder begin breathe on her thats right once more you will be her friend she's the only one who knows where you're from and where you've been what remains unsaid could leave you hanging inbetween I spent a lot of time in the transit lounge and I wasn't sure where I was going now the papers I read were all yesterdays news not a 100% sure what I did with my shoes lying on the floor of the transit lounge there'll be no announcements made better make sure you don't sleep to sound there'll be no announcements made and you can dream about the things you meant to do before you die break him out, the one who's waiting for his moment to shine all the stupid things I said will haunt you, will linger I guess and in the coconut grove you can imagine the scene another bus unloads we're still waiting to leave the camera flash goes off see the tallest man alive and Thai message his feet before his long plane ride bre |
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| Crowded House – Not The Girl You Think You Are Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I love the line "He won't deceive you or tell you the truth" with its seeming contradiction. It's like it's saying he'll tell you lies, and you will know he's lying, but you'll pretend you don't. To me this song seems to be about a girl who has found a "good catch", but in order to make the relationship work she has to act like she's a different person. The singer is telling her that she deserves better, she can find someone whom she can be herself with, not someone she has to pretend isn't lying to her. |
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| Crowded House – You Are The One To Make Me Cry Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is based on the case of Robert Hewitt, a diver who was lost at sea, and very lucky to survive, and how he hallucinated about his wife and children. The song always makes me think of someone lost at sea, and the rise and fall of the music seems to imitate the waves caused by the currents. However, as basket said, Neil's lyrics work on many levels. While this song is from an album dedicated to Paul, it is not one of the songs which puts me in mind of Paul's suicide. That's not to say it is not one of the meanings Neil meant it to have. Haha, the song "Elephants" just started to play, it has the same kind of feel to it. Up and down to a 3/4 beat. |
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| Crowded House – You Are The One To Make Me Cry Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Correction to Lyrics: Line 3 should be "Will fasten the LINES" not lights, as it is a reference to the diving lines. Chorus is: "You ARE the one to make me cry" not were. The whole song is in the present tense, the person is currently at sea, thinking about their life. |
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| Gary Jules – Mad World (Tears for Fears cover) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere" This half of the verse is about the routine of life, how everyone is doing the same thing everyday "daily races", and things never seem to change "going nowhere". It reminds me of the song "Such a rush". "Their tears are filling up their glasses No expression, no expression" This line is about how everyone feels forced to hide their dissatisfaction with life, and so they put end up not with no expression, but no expression of that dissatisfaction and sorrow. "Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow No tomorrow, no tomorrow" These lines are his personal experience of the previous pair of lines, in which he feels that there is no tomorrow, or that nothing tomorrow will be different from today. "And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had" I think this is because death is something he has never experienced, and this is what he is searching for, something different from the routine of his life. "I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in circles It's a very, very Mad world" Again, people running in circle, the endless cycle of everyday life. "Children waiting for the day they feel good Happy birthday, happy birthday Made to feel the way that every child should Sit and listen, sit and listen" I think this verse is saying that we are all like children waiting for the day when something special will happen to make us finally happy. I'm not really sure on the last line, and wonder if it fits in with the next four lines. "Went to school and I was very nervous No one knew me, no one knew me Hello teacher, tell me, what's my lesson? Look right through me, look right through me" I think this is about starting new experiences hoping for that thing, the lesson, that will finally give the purpose that he is looking for. But when he searches it he can not find it, everyone is looking right through him. |
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| Fiona Apple – A Mistake Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I don't think this song is about doing the right thing or the wrong thing, in the sense of committing a crime. I think this song is about the demands of society to fit into a certain mold, and how she is breaking free from these constraints, to do something which most people would consider "a mistake", and living the life that makes her happy. Particular lines that back up my meaning "All the advice I shunned And I ran where they told me not to run But I sure had fun" "And when I find my way back The fact is I just may stay Or I may not" (This line says that later she might do what society says she should do, but if she does it will be her own decision) "Why can't I make a mistake?" "I'm always doing what I think I should Almost always doing everybody good" "Do I wanna do right? Of course But do I really wanna feel I'm forced to answer you? Hell no" |
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| Fiona Apple – Criminal Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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First off, should the line "Of all these lies till I'm good Enough for him " instead be "Of all these lies that I'm good Enough for him" To me the song is about the guilt of a woman over having cheated on her partner. I also agree that it is partly about the double standards of society in how the guilt is always placed more on the woman than the man. The whole song reminds me of a court scene/talking to a lawyer, which seems to me that it is not only her partner judging her, but society judging her. "What I need is a good defense" She needs a way to justify her actions because society is making her feel like a criminal. |
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| Fiona Apple – Window Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I guess my interpretation is similar to others. To me the windows (there appear to be more than one) represent relationships, and how these effect her perception. There are at least two windows in this song. The "breaking of the window" is to me a violent, or dramatic act, which results in the complete destruction of the relationship. I saw this because breaking a window is not a normal act, but either an act of anger or of desperation (to escape). I go more along with desperation for this song. The man keeps going on and on, that she has to do something to make him stop, so she can tell him what she has to say, before she violently hurts him, or goes insane. In the first verse we have the "filthy pane". To me filth symbolises the wrong doing in the relationship. In this verse the man keeps talking on and on, these are his excuses, lies and sorries, because he has obviously cheated on her. But the more he talks the more she can only see the fact that he has cheated on her, the filth. The second and third verse I don't think is on a particular relationship, but perhaps an observation on her relationships in general. I'm not sure exactly how to interpret the second verse, perhaps on her being unable to settle with one person, to others it appears that she knows what she wants in life, but actually she is "asleep", just going along with her dreams. ??? I think the third verse is about how when one is in a relationship it is much harder to see what is really going on in that relationship, then when you are outside it. (This is my experience anyway). The fourth verse is first about her not regretting "breaking the window". However, the second part of this verse is the most interesting. To me it seems to be another relationship, another window, in which her partner never appears to do anything wrong (which is why the pane is so clear), but whom she feels she never gets to know properly. |
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