| Bon Iver – I Can't Make You Love Me/Nick of Time Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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The song is essentially about couple, a pair of lovers. One is still madly in love with the other, while the other doesn't love them in return. The one still in love can see this and knows their love is coming to an end but holds on just for another small moment, knowing they will have to give up this fight, as love isn't worth it and isn't real, if the other person isn't in love as well. So sad. |
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| The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Essentially, it's a guy visiting an ex-girlfriend. And he realizes, upon entering her apartment, seeing she has a new life and friends that he is not a permanent person in her life, and will never be. By the tone of the song, this indicates that he is quite saddened by this but he comes to a realization after seeing her new life why he was "worth leaving." Her life and their life (as most coupleds) don't match up. And he sees that with her gaudy apartment and new friends. If anything, he sees her "out of context" which means he doesn't see her like her knew her to be for so long. Either a) she changed or b) this is what she always wanted and he was just a pit stop along the way and never knew it. | |
| The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Essentially, it's a guy visiting an ex-girlfriend. And he realizes, upon entering her apartment, seeing she has a new life and friends that he is not a permanent person in her life, and will never be. By the tone of the song, this indicates that he is quite saddened by this but he comes to a realization after seeing her new life why he was "worth leaving." Her life and their life (as most coupleds) don't match up. And he sees that with her gaudy apartment and new friends. If anything, he sees her "out of context" which means he doesn't see her like her knew her to be for so long. Either a) she changed or b) this is what she always wanted and he was just a pit stop along the way and never knew it. | |
| The 1975 – You Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I'm going out on a limb here but The 1975's songs are very inconspicuous in their underlying meaning, the songs themselves are very conspicuous in the sense that they are inconspicuous. They make you think and analyze, which is refreshing in today's music industry when most music is so forward and lacks attention to detail. Song is poetry set to music, literally. So, my interpretation might be a little foggy. Interpretation: An off and on again romantic relationship. The first verse sounds like a confrontation, and I'm going to guess between a girl and boy or any relationship really. It sounds like a destructive relationship since they are both percieved as liars and have done so much wrong to one another that they don't know what's true or false anymore. And the drowning in his car could be a reference to doing drugs (a lot of people smoke pot in their cars), which is how he probably deals with the turmoils of their relationship and doesn't care how much she doesn't like it. And she obviously gets back at him by going after his friends. The next couples lines he stresses that it's going to take more than just her to piss him off. She's going to have to do more than that, which I imagine hints that he doesn't resent her as much as he should. The next verse goes on with him claiming she's living but that's as far as he can tell (guessing that she is a cold individual) and he says he is too. They both have obviously hurt one another in this relationship. They fight with each other and she tries to push him away but they end up back in his car (having sex or making up). As for the part where it's only been a year, I imagine they've been broken up for a year and it's unbelievable that even after a year of being broken up they're back to where they started. And he says because of this he says it's not his fault alone he slept around with everyone, since they were broken up. And he says again it takes more for them to hate each other, to not be near each other even though they aren't good for one another. And the song continues with him asking her to dance, which I understand from a metaphorical stand point that he's saying do you want to be an 'us' again, as asking someone to dance means two people doing it together. And it ends with him proclaiming it takes more for them to not being together. It takes more than her (or 'You') to keep them apart. She can do all the terrible things in the world to him, but it doesn't matter. |
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| The Unlikely Candidates – Follow My Feet Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Great interpretation. It's so good, no one has ever bothered to try and interpret themselves. Thanks! | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Behold! The Night Mare Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I've faced the fathoms in your deep withstood the suitors quiet siege pulled down the heavens just to please you appease you the wind blows and I know I imagine the song is about a relationship, a romantic one. And I'll take that it's in the POV of a guy but it could be a girl as well. Stanza 1: He's saying that he has faced the darkest, ugliest parts of her, withstood from his own jealousy of people trying to take her from him, like other guys (aka - suitors) or she could've been cheating on him with other guys - either way, he doesn't trust her anymore, did everything to make her happy, even it sometimes didn't make him all that happy. And then something changes... (aka - the wind blowing) Stanza 2: He realizes that it's impossible to keep their relationship, to continue loving her, that he can't exist singularly and as well with her because the true depths of their relationship is sad and stagnant (willows weeping and whirlpools sleeping). Anger and resentment is now the center of their emotions, or at least his. Stanza 3: A night mare seems like it would translate into a black horse and throughout literature and lore a black horse is a symbol of death or the end. This is ending of their relationship, the night mare rides on, taking their relationhip with it. And what he fears has happened, their relationship is lost and the wind blows. Stanza 4: He's telling her that all she has to do is run away from the massacre that is their relationship. She isn't as connected to it as he is. He tells her to take herself from him because he doesn't want any part of her and everything that she is is because of him. If you refer to stanza one, it sounds like he built her up, that he was dating someone with serious self-esteem issues. Now she is someone he doesn't recognize and he realizes she is a very cold person and everything she does is selfish and cruel. But, even past all of that he believes somewhere deep down that she is good. Stanza 5: Here, she could be resisting him to leave her. As heartless as she seems she needs him, even though she mistreats him or takes him for granted. Or should could be attacking him, trying to manipulate him he says she can't have him and he blames himself, asking what he can do to fix this? As every ending relationship, one person always takes the blame (typically the person who shouldn't be taking the blame, because they are the ones who actually care). And he asks if he can fix it. Stanza 6: He reminds himself that he can't salvage their relationship. There is nothing left of it. Stanza 7: And the relationship ends and the death of their relationship can't be turned around, it can't be resurrected. Stanza 8: He reflects that he did everything to love her, to be strong for their relationship, to make her happy even when he wasn't just to hold the piece of her that he can't keep (here it's a flower but surely he means her heart and devotion) |
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| The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Great interpretation. I agree with you. Definitely about the essence of what love really is. | |
| Saosin – Nothing Is What It Seems (Without You) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Ament revealed that he wrote "Nothing as It Seems" about his childhood growing up in a rural area of Northern Montana.[3] In one interview, he called it "a dark, heavy tale" and stated, "For me, it's a song about judgment and not always understanding what is going on with another person."[4] In another interview, he elaborated further: It's a little bit reflecting on where I came from...I grew up in really rural area in Northern Montana, and ["Nothing As It Seems" is] looking back at [that]. I think until two or three years ago, I looked back at my childhood as being a fairly utopian situation where I had the freedom to ride my bike around town when I was five years old, and my parents didn't have to worry about anybody taking me and killing me or whatever. In the last couple of years...there have been some things that have kind of allowed some darker things to come to the surface of my childhood, seeing things that I had kind of selectively forgotten for my own mental health or whatever. I had just seen Affliction and I had just read Nine Below Zero by this guy, Kevin Canty, all very kind of rural things that unearthed a lot of stuff. ["Nothing As It Seems"] is just kind of what came out. I'm just now starting to actually really analyze what I was talking about...because I still don't really have a grip on that. |
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| Barbara Dickson – I Know Him So Well Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Nothing it so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me, Wanting far too much for far too long. Here she is saying that nothing good last forever, eventually, with everything wonderful in life it must come to and and that even means love. But, even though the idea is out there is hasn't stopped her from believing in eternal love. She wants so much out of life and has so many expectations for such a long time that she is love is this idealistic haze. Looking back, I could have played it differently, Learned about the man before I fell, But it took time to understand the man, Now at least I know I know him well. Here is she reflecting on how she could've prevented the failed relationship from playing out too long. Instead of just wainting for love to knock on her face, she should've been really getting to know the person before she fell in love because once that happened, there was no seeing reasonably any longer. But, it took such a long for to finally grasp him. But, she takes with her that she knows him well, possibly better than most because she seems to pride herself on that (because he was such a hard person to crack). Wasn't it good (Oh so good) Wasn't it fine (Oh so fine) Isn't it madness He can't be mine. But in the end he needs a little bit more than me (More security) He needs his fantasies and freedom I know him so well. Here she is saying that the entire love/relationship was wonderful and crazy and perfect and wondering why she can't have him. But, she realizes he needs more than her. He needs to live in his dream world and having many different things. He isn't the type of man to find the woman of his dreams and happily settle down. He lives at an outrageous pace and has his only completely different idea of happiness. And that's why she knows him so well, so well that she does understand why they aren't together any longer. It's coming the acceptance of why the relationship failed and accepting it openly and regretting nothing. No one in your life is with you constantly No one is completely on your side, And though I move my world to be with him, Still the gap between him is too much. Here, she says no one in your entire life is with you from beginning to end. People do come and go (whether because they choose to, move away, pass on, whatever). But, she believed she could defeat this great odd and shifted her entire world for his comfort, so he could still have his life and have her. And still, it wasn't enough for him Looking back I could have played it differently, One or a few more who can tell, But I was ever so much younger then, Now at least I know I know him well. She reflects again and realizes she could've been different and prevented the relationship from furthering even more. She claims that even back then people said the relationship didn't seem right but she hadn't listened. And she blamed on her youth and inexperience with serious relationships (true love). And she realizes she at least knows him well. She stuck with the longest and is possibly the only ex-girlfriend of his to understand and not be angry with what happened. She is upset that it didn't play out the way she imagined it but she understands that these things happen and though they're terrible she at least learned from it. Wasn't it good (Oh so good) Wasn't it fine (Oh so fine) Isn't it madness He can't be mine. She cherishes how good it was and perfect but absolute madness and chaos. And she realizes that they could never be together. As wonderful as the time was that they had together it would only ever be that small fraction of time. They were never going to have more because they both were hopeless romantics in their own way. Didn't I know, How it would go from the start If I knew, Why am I falling apart. Here she questions herself on why she didn't stop herself, why she didn to see this all from the beginning. She knew better than all of this and fell for it like everyone else. She hates that she's falling apart from a bad love. She hates that she fell for the trick of falling in love because now she was hurt from it - the very thing she feared most. Wasn't it good Wasn't it fine Isn't it madness, He can't be mine. But in the end he needs a little bit more than me. (More security) He needs his fantasies and freedom. I know him so well. Here, she ends with saying it was wonderful while it lasted but he can't be mine. He needs his life and I know that for sure about him. It took time to understand him. I know him so well Here, she says finally that for her to understand everything she did about them, as a couple and even him alone, it took a great deal of time, so much time that it gave them enough time to fall in love with one another. And now, AFTER the fact of the relationship ending she knows him better than anyone else. |
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| A Great Big World – Say Something Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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To me, this song is about a break up and is in a very conversational tone. To me, it sounds like it is at the end of the break up. Honestly, this sounds exactly like the last relationship I got out of. Say something, I'm giving up on you. I'll be the one, if you want me to. Anywhere, I would've followed you. Say something, I'm giving up on you. In the beginning, it is (let's say the guy) and he is telling his girlfriend or lover that she needs to say something to keep him to stay in the relationship because he's giving up on the them, the relatioinship and their love. He goes on to say that he'll have the courage to do it if she doesn't want to and can't. Even though he has obviously gotten the short end of the stick in this relationship he is williing to do one last thing for them and be the one who breaks it off, to take on that responsibility. He goes on to tell remind her during the initial break up that he was willing to do everything and anything for her, to follow her to end of the world. And then he tells her to say something because he wants to be that person but he can't if she isn't willing as well. And I am feeling so small. It was over my head I know nothing at all. Here, the boy is claiming that he feels so defeated in this relationship. That maybe he loved too much and hoped too much for them and their love and maybe he was a hopeless romantic and the notion of them not working out went right over his head. He didn't even think about it because he was so in love and he thought she was too. And because that love consumed him, now that HE is the one realizing it has to end he doesn't know anything, he is confused about them and where he stands as an individual in love. Relationships make us question and relationships ending make us question even more. And I will stumble and fall. I'm still learning to love Just starting to crawl. And he realizes that he is going to fail in love, that there are going to be times (such as this break up) where love doesn't always work out. And he admits he is just starting to be IN love with other people, she was obviously his first TRUE LOVE. Say something, I'm giving up on you. I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you. Anywhere, I would've followed you. Say something, I'm giving up on you. Again, the boy reiterates that she needs to say something to keep him or he's leaving. He apologizes that he couldn't be the one for her, and deep down he swore he was. But, he realizes no matter how much he loves her that he isn't the person to break down her walls and he wanted to be. He continues as before claiming he would do everything and anything for her. The reiteration makes me think that he's trying to argue with her, claiming, "Why wouldn't you want someone willing to do anything for you? Out of selfless love?" And I will swallow my pride. You're the one that I love And I'm saying goodbye. Here, the boy is saying he is willing to admit that he was possibly wrong about her and their relationship. That, even though he told her loved her and would always be there he can't any more. He is saying, "I love you, I really do, but I can't do this anymore." It's quite obvious they don't love each other in the same way. It can be guessed that the girl loves him but isn't willing to do as much as he is for her. The relationship seems unfair to him because he is always willing to give and she is always taking. He seems very drained of the relationship at this point and is strong enough to leave her. Say something, I'm giving up on you. And I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you. And anywhere, I would have followed you. Oh-oh-oh-oh say something, I'm giving up on you. Say something, I'm giving up on you. Say something... And it ends with the boy asking one final time for her to say something. It's bittersweet for the boy. He doesn't want to leave, there is a small part of him that feels he is losing something but he knows deep down that she isn't even willing to say something to keep him around and he has to leave. He's given up because he realized she wasn't even trying from the beginning. The song is pretty much a one-sided interpretation of an ended relationship. It sounds like the person breaking up doesn't want to break up. The boy was so in love with the girl but he realized that she wasn't good for him or that she wasn't doing enough for him. There relationship lacked on her part and he was done trying for both of them when they both needed to be trying. He was 100% into the relationship whereas she was 50% and he knows he deserves more than that. So he leaves, even though he loved her. |
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| Robert Pattinson – Never Think Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I've noticed with Rob's songs he tends to be simplistic in the way he explains and states them. He has an attitude of "what I say is what I mean," so I took these lyrics quite literally. It's a relationship at its end. I should never think What's in your heart What's in our home So I won't Within the first verse it's from the guy's point of view. He's tellin himself that he shouldn't bother thinking about her heart and their relationship or 'home' together so he won't because he realizes he's too selfish for her love and their relationship. That looking into it only hurts so he won't. You'll learn to hate me But still call me baby Oh love So call me by my name And because of this fact (as stated earlier) he knows she is going to learn to hate him because she'll slowly realize he isn't in love like she is. But, she'll still love him and call him 'baby' because she loves him so much. But, he's telling her call him by his first name, because maybe she won't hurt as bad. And save your soul Save your soul Before your to far gone Before nothing can be done Then he is telling her to save herself, to run while she can, to dodge the bullet before she falls so far in love with him that the damage is too far gone. Because from this statement, he is saying in a way, you're going to end up more hurt so save yourself. I'll try to decide when She'll lie in the end I ain't got no fight in me In this whole damn world So hold off She should hold off It's the one thing that I've known Here, the guy is saying he's going to have to be the one to decide to end their relationship because she will just lie to herself, that they're okay, that whatever is wrong can be fixed. But, whatever is wrong (and it seems to be his fault for all the self-guilt he is expressing through the lyrics) he doesn't have the fight in him to save their relationships and isn't going to try. He is a selfish lover in this sense while she is the selfless lover and he sees this about her and it kills him. He tells her to hold off because he knows deep down that she deserves better, she deserves someone who will love her just as selflessly. He's known it all along but now it's time to end it. It sounds like he can't live with the guilt any longer of leading on their love. Once I put my coat on I coming out in this all wrong She standing outside holding me Saying oh please I'm in love I'm in love And he realizes once he's leaving he will be the wrong one in this relationship because he knows she did nothing wrong, that she loved him selflessly. And while he is leaving she holding on saying she loves him and that it doesn't make sense they're not going to be together. Girl save your soul Go on save your soul Before it's to far gone And before nothing can be done And he tells her that she needs to save herself, to not waste her time with him. To save herself because the damage is irrepable. Cause without me You got it all So hold on Without me you got it all So hold on Without me you got it all Without me you got it all So hold on Without me you got it all Without me you got it all So hold on And here he is reassuring her because he realizes that she is strong, beautiful and deserves more. And he knows he has wronged her and broke her down in a way that she is begging for their love. He reassures her that she can continue on without him because she is that strong and that she doesn't deserve him and doesn't need him in her life because he can't love selflessly. To me it sounds like a relationship that was full of love but the girl loved selflessly and surely while he remained selfish in their love. And because of this, because their love for one another isn't mutual and she is such a wonderful person he can't put himself through hurting her any longer. It seems that he realizes what he is doing to her and how he is hurting her by being a selfish lover when she deserve a selfless lover. So, he lets her go even though it hurts her. It's literally falling in love with the wrong person. And the wrong person realizes that he is the wrong person for her while she is totally in love with him and he hates that such a loving creature loves a person like him who isn't very loviing (not in the selfless way anyhow). |
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