| Grouplove – Tongue Tied Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| i thought it was "my eyes are your eyes" rather than "my eyes and your eyes" like they share a vision together "up in the sky" | |
| Thievery Corporation – The Time We Lost Our Way Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| so good | |
| Simon and Garfunkel – The Only Living Boy In New York Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| yep this is def my favorite simon and garfunkel song | |
| The Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| if you watch wilfred (us version), the ending of the episode entitled "anger" is a perfect fit. made me cry instantaneously and others (commentators on hulu) | |
| Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| i didn't read (or watch the movie) the road when i wrote this nor have i read it now, i just wiki'd it haha | |
| Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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For my writing class last year, we had to write an essay on a song, interpreting the lyrics and i chose this song, here's my essay: Music tends to create a sort of ambience when listened to. The words that accompany the music are what give the melody meaning. In the song “White Winter Hymnal” by Fleet Foxes, the lyrics are very short accompanied by a very soothing melody and voice. The main idea in this song focuses on being confused as a child, and also relates to the novel “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, which focuses on a post-apocalyptic society in which a father and a son duo journey together in order to avoid “bad guys” and find warmth. As a child, one tends to follow whoever is older and do what is told. The lyrics of “White Winter Hymnal” talks about how the narrator is “following the pack” even though he cannot see them clearly since they are all “swallowed in their coats” (lines 1-2). During my childhood, I remember following my older brother’s every move and listening to his every word. Even though I questioned why sometimes, with his immediate “because I said so,” I ceased my questioning and obeyed. In this song, the narrator explains that the “scarves of red tied around their throats” stood out to him (line 3). Then it is revealed that when he turns around, there is someone behind him that he knows, Michael, who falls turning “the white snow red as strawberries” (line 8). From my point of view, the speaker embodied in these lyrics refers to his childhood when he realizes that following the older children was, in fact, not a good idea after all. He figures this out when the white turns to red, awakening his childhood conscious. These lyrics represent a point in his life where he grew up a lot, learning to turn “around” and reflect on his behavior. Also referencing childhood, the novel The Road follows a boy who tries to escape from the barren landscape of his lonely and grey world. It is actually the father who attempts to find a place where he and his son live because he had experienced life before the apocalypse, a time of warmth, the sea, and no differentiation between the good and the bad. Though I think that the narrator in this song realizes that he should not have followed those “with scarves of red tied around their throats,” the relation between this song and the book is the other way around. The boy obeys his father who means well. On the other hand, perhaps the boy is also following his father because he trusts him, and because he is incapable of thinking for himself at this point. Disregarding the reason, the boy can only use his imagination to conjure images of the previous world in which his father live. The most important verse in this song comes at the end, “And turn the white snow red as strawberries/In the summertime” (lines 8-9). There is such a contrast in the “white” of the snow and the “red of the strawberries. Since the boy in The Road has never seen strawberries or summertime due to his birth being post-apocalyptic, he experiences such vividness of color rarely seen. Though his father may not have bled during or after his illness, the red upon the white is a metaphor for a first-time experience the boy goes through which is death. His first-time experience correlates to the realization of past mistakes represented as a stain, the color red, upon worry-free lives, represented by the “white snow” (line 9). The colors in this song have universally recognized connotations. The red exemplifies blood from a killing or an impurity of a stain whereas the white symbolizes purity and innocence. In this Fleet Foxes song, the theme is expressed as confusion during childhood, not knowing whether or not to follow the actions of others. Since a child has experienced so little, there is barely a concept of what is right and what is wrong. Personally I was once a child, so I understand the need to fit in with the older kids while feeling conflicted about whether I should imitate their actions. Though this song is short, the lyrics convey a strong collective meaning about this experience of childhood. |
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| Cass McCombs – Dreams Come True Girl Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| is this not a cover of some old song? wow it's good | |
| M83 – We Own the Sky Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I wrote an essay for my music class on this song last year and this is a part of the essay where i interpreted the lyrics: The lyrics of “We Own The Sky” are very cryptic. The album’s title is “Saturdays=Youth” and the artist himself is a big fan of John Hughes movies such as “Sixteen Candles” and “Pretty in Pink” so drawing from this, I concluded that the song is about teenagers. It seems as if the teenagers in general are not afraid to dream big with “Each shade of blue…kept in [their] eyes,” even if they fail, represented by the weather which “Keep[s] blowing and lightening.” Teenagers continue to dream because they have a sense of invincibility, “because [they] own the sky.” The next part of “Secrets from the winds/Burnt stars crying” represents how easily teenagers can be inspired or influenced to do something new. The “winds” and “stars” are each romanticized with a personifying quality. It links the way teenagers romanticize situations, not realizing what is completely realistic or unrealistic. However, as quick as teenagers get an idea, they can abandon it even quicker — “We kill what we build.” The juxtaposition of “soft and “cruel” exemplify how young minds can suddenly adjust to the abandonment of an idea once so firmly set. “Can’t we change out minds?” is a question to all the adults who cannot remember back to their youth and understand why sudden droppings of aspirations can occur out of the blue without needing reason, only to move on to new aspirations. When it is night -“So many moons here” - time for sleeping, which comes dreaming - “Lost wings” — the “wings” represent dreams that are from one’s rarely used subconscious. The subconscious surfaces lost thoughts, giving meaning to conscious thoughts, hence “floating me.” The last few lyrics indicate that something is “coming… from the sky…from the wind.” These words, in addition to the song building up, exaggerates the unearthly power that teenagers think they wield, the essence of invincibility. It is as if there is something rising within which feels right, natural, and calming. This moment in the song seems to assert that this is the moment a teenager has been waiting for all throughout life. It may be a painting of how falling in love for the very first time feels. Though the whole song is electronic, there is not a feeling is superficiality. within this song lies what we have all felt before, our teenaged years of invincible sentiment. |
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| M83 – Run Into Flowers Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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i'm fairly positive that he says "grace" when the song is not so heavy but then when there's more layering to it, it seems like it changes to "peace." i mean, just because anthony gonzalez wrote that it's "peace," doesn't mean that it is/is always "peace," even einstein said "the important thing is to never stop questioning." but now that i've quoted einstein, feel free to question his quote as well but i choose to apply it. i feel like anthony extends the last syllable of "into" so it sounds like "you," as to promote the meaning of grace/peace/chemicals to getting high so one won't be as inhibited/socially or sexually anxious and can then "run into" the person they have a crush on: "i want to run into (you)." and from what i hear, the electric voice says "flowers." |
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| Chairlift – Amanaemonesia Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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the parts i didn't interpret previously: i think at first an experienced drug user is talking to her, trying to persuade her into the lifestyle, selling it as you lost your focus but i got a plan for it with a secret ingredient (the drug or drugs) just leave along the geminis two of them and four of eyes is the most cryptic to me. i just can't really make out an interpretation of this. maybe twins (two of them) so a total would be four eyes. haha i don't know, i can only provide a concrete interpretation of that. but it reminds me of the twins in the shining, maybe don't mess with them because they're really creepy like that's when things start to go wrong. perhaps everyone using this drug is just stuck on this phrase that's just an idea that makes sense to them, maybe they always hallucinate these twins and get really scared when high. the system of symbols part makes me think the geminis has something to do with astrology though. since astrology is a pseudo-science(no one believes) like it has no proof or evidence (no one will vouch for) but it appears in most newspapers, magazines etc (everyone uses). it also makes me think of freemasonry but i don't exactly have too much of an explanation for that, just that they were a secretive group with secretive doings like maybe they set up cities (i forget what open space exactly, WA DC?) in a way that is meaningful to them but we dont really know what it means or believe it |
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| Chairlift – Amanaemonesia Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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the only part i can clearly interpret in my opinion is the chorus. silver hours are the times that used to be cherished, past memories perhaps that keep on being re-thought about by someone because something like a war maybe has happened (the other lyrics; germany, flames, dangerous, they've come for you and me). i'm not too clear on that, it's probably not a war but like an idea like all good things pass, the good times seem like a dream because they're so distant. anyway i feel like the chorus is talking about drugs like chasing the rabbit who are all too fast for you to catch so you keep upping your dose to live in those silver hours and it's becoming a habit. the person thinks it's magic but those are just the effects of drugs, hallucinogenic maybe because you are infinitely invited maybe means that you'll always have a party in your head when you're high, and if you're addicted, then it's unanimously decided that you're definitely getting high. maybe the person starts to get really paranoid and thinks they've come for you and me, that we are dangerously surrounded, their boats are full of flames,they paint their grasses green. the dog in the yard that's rough probably has rabies or something and the person is walking in the street without drugs so he/she is suffering and irritable as well so he senses similar emotions emanating. this part: the girl at the window covered in ashes smiles grotesquely in the light of day singing in German the cold summer warning but I can't remember what I meant to say; it changes from "the girl" to "I" so the protagonist is talking about herself the whole time which is now revealed. she's probably just started to feel more herself again after being off whatever drugs she took, even though her appearance is ratty, she is smiling that she can care about a simple pleasure like sunlight again but she's screwed up from all the drugs that she forgets stuff ok so i guess i interpreted more than just the chorus but yeah i that's what i got |
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