| Iron & Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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i agree with most all of these comments, and i think there's definitely some heavy symbolism about growing up / the dissolution of the american dream / etc but personally: ive always liked to imagine it was about someone (a girl maybe?) this 'boy' knew that kills themselves / goes missing. to me the song always encapsulated the feeling of mortality. but it could really be anything. |
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| Voxtrot – The Start of Something Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I agree with sarapaia except maybe not so literally. I think it's about a smothering ex boyfriend who's obsessed with his ex girlfriend to the point of still writing love letters / poems about her "poetry is not a luxury / it's how I'll break this home" however, i find it interesting that he says "You think I'm eager to shut your eyes" and later he says "Shut your eyes and burn the past away" hmmm. thats it. i just wanted to point that |
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| Against Me! – Black Me Out Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think with Paralytic states implying the characters death - Black Me Out is more of an anthem from Laura herself. We're to believe Rebel dies at the end of the last song, I think Black Me Out is like honoring the fictional transsexual sex worker, and kind of providing an anthem of "we will not be defeated" | |
| Wilco – She's A Jar Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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You know, each interpretation of this I feel is definitely valid. It's interesting the different meanings everyone can get from this song, personally I believe it's about an abusive relationship. But I'm usually twisting between the female in the song being scared from past abuse or being currently abused. also mixed in with heroin references - brilliant. |
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| The Mountain Goats – Lion's Teeth Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This meaning is really on point! And makes sense. You're right about the end part. Abusers are victims of themselves, like you said. | |
| Joanna Newsom – Good Intentions Paving Company Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| You are so right. This song + Your analysis woke me up. | |
| Voxtrot – Steven Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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it seems like a high school / college sweet heart that an older house wife remembers as she falls into the boring routine of motherhood / being an adult / a parent. It seems really sad to me but a real jam. |
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| Joanna Newsom – Only Skin Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The part where it picks up and goes "all my bones they are gone, gone, gone take my bones, I don't need none" nearly makes me cry |
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| Best Coast – No One Like You Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| it reminds me of an abusive relationship. | |
| The Weakerthans – This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I think this song is about a failed marriage. Makes all the lyrics pretty somber | |
| Panic! at the Disco – Girls/Girls/Boys Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Everything that can be said has been, but I think that the boy in this "story" isn't supposed to be a good guy much less brendan. I think it's about a boy who wants a girl to shove aside her feelings for another girl and by extension, her sexuality. the line "love is not a choice" just backs this up. You can't shove aside your sexuality for anyone just because they want you to :) | |
| The Weakerthans – The Prescience of Dawn Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I don't know if this has been said but I think it's about a guy living in a post apocalyptic world. Possibly war torn, but natural disasters are in there somehow. "The sirens woke me up again. I know they're coming for me someday, just a matter of when. " I think there's possibly a war going on that's lasted awhile and maybe even torn apart society. The sirens coming for him could mean him having to go fight in the war, or the sirens could be coming from the enemy's planes. In which case, he means it more as an oncoming attack. When it says "hope for that one dream of hardware stores with checkered floors, and buckets full of nails." I believe this is him thinking about what he would have done had the world not ended up this way. Or maybe that was his old job before everything happened. I think a natural disaster has occurred at one point as well when he says "Or floating, effortless, over the apartment in a boat, and rowing past the office windows." This to me obviously refers to a flood, which makes me think that maybe the chaos stemmed from natural disasters? "Mother, mother may I cry. Father will you teach me how to die the right way someday. I don't want a second chance to turn my stuttering reluctance into romance" To me this verse is about war and love. He asks his mother if he can cry, meaning that he's trying to look brave even in the face of adversity, even when it's tough. He asks his father if he will teach him how to die the right way, which I think refers to war. He wants to die a brave hero, something his father may know a lot about. Fathers tend to give talks about bravery and integrity in war times. Teaching their sons how to be heros. The next line to me tells me that he isn't searching for romance, doesn't want it. Sometimes finding romance in hard times can distract from the catastrophe at hand, but sometimes love is found through struggle. He wants to die a hero, and he doesn't want romance because he doesn't want to hurt anyone or be attached when he dies the "right way" "Tune the FM in to static, and pretend that it's the sea" This line just serves to highlight my theory, perhaps he hasn't seen the sea because of road blocks, lack of cars, resources, time. Overall I think it tells the story of a boy in a post apocalyptic war torn society and yearns for a simpler less chaotic time. He doesn't want to fight, but he wants to die a hero. He wants to die for a cause. Maybe I'm looking to into it. I really like end-of-the-world scenarios but that was just my right off the bat thought. |
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| Frank Black – In The Time Of My Ruin Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| does anyone ever think to indent for goodness gravy! | |
| Ben Lee – We're All In This Together Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| your anger seems pretty unreasonable for just a casual peaceful song | |
| The Killers – When You Were Young Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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(trigger warning) I always thought this relationship was about an abusive relationship, emotional or physical I don't know. Just my right off the bat thoughts. Because it says "You sit there in your heartache Waiting on some beautiful boy to To save your from your old ways You play forgiveness Watch it now, here he comes" She's waiting for that prince charming, but she settles for someone who isnt perfect (and hurts her) and instead of leaving she "Plays forgiveness" the singer is warning the girl by saying "Watch it now, here he comes." "He doesn't look a thing like Jesus But he talks like a gentlemen Like you imagined when you were young" To me means that the man isn't perfect, but she has to settle because at least he has this one quality she wanted from her childhood. "Can we climb this mountain I don't know Higher now than ever before" I believe the mountain is some physical trauma from her early life that caused her to have toxic relationships. (Maybe abused as a kid, maybe lack of a maternal or paternal figure or any parents at all?) Either way, this verse to me talks about emotional baggage. "We're burning down the highway skyline On the back of a hurricane that started turning When you were young" This reinforces the childhood trauma, I think the "hurricane" is the scarring from the traumatic event and it's tearing apart her life/relationships or the relationship itself "They say the devil's water - it ain't so sweet You don't have to drink right now But you can dip your feet Every once in a little while" I think this part is about how she's trying to convince herself that the man she is dating actually IS perfect or that she is trying to deny he isn't good for her. Putting off doing anything and incurring his wrath hence the "Don't have to drink right now" Just an idea. A good song can mean lots of things or even nothing so, I'm really up for believing anything \m/ |
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| Chris Garneau – Not Nice Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| It's about an alcoholic who is a belligerent drunk to the singer and how they feel about it or deal with it | |
| The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I think it's about a guy who wants his girlfriend or friend to pull through the breast cancer but it looks unlikely. The robots are pink, which is a symbol for breast cancer, and he says "They don't believe me" which means Yoshimi may have a small chance of recovering |
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| The Decemberists – Red Right Ankle Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Maybe it's because my dad always played these songs for me, but I honeslty thought this was about a father singing about his girls life. The leg coming together just being the fetus forming the legs in the wombs and such, the red right ankle being how red it looks in womb i guess yaknow? then i just thought it was singing about how honest and trustworthy she was with the gypsy uncle, and then in the end her various lovers but how she moved on from it |
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| The Decemberists – Dear Avery Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I always thought Avery was a missing son, and that this song was the Father's point of view begging for him to come home. At one point he describes Avery and towards the end he says please come home. Almost like those news broadcasts with the parents begging for their kids to be found safely when they run away/go missing. | |
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