| Pilot Speed – Alright Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| @[cesarofsparta:48808] "My interpretation of this song is based solely on my life experience" - oh, ditto to the nth degree. This song hits way too close to home for comfort, but whenever in need of a good cry to let off some emotional steam, this song is on such a playlist for good reasons. | |
| Elvis Presley – What Now My Love Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| @[ileatrekkie:48807] Exactly, and I firmly believe that most fans somehow tune out just how suicidal this powerful song is in its essence [been there, done that, so to speak, and thus skipped listening to it for a long while, i.e. a year+], like on a subconscious level, them tuning out its severity. The end note reminds me of an Elvis documentary where Bono, speaking of his last ever performance of Unchained Melody said something about how incredible his voice always was "...and in the end, he did opera.", which is spot on 'cause Pavarotti at his greatest is the only one I'm reminded of when it comes to this amount of audible and emotional power. | |
| Robbie Williams – These Dreams Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[Gabigs:43449] I think you hit the hammer on the nail so well it went straight through and out the other side as if using a nail gun on a way too thin piece of wood. Emotionally open, sincere, thoughtful, lengthy, and insightful, or the really short version: Perfection. Thank you. 2006! Wow, that’s a couple of days ago, huh? Instantly thought “I wonder how she’s doing now, hopefully, happy or at least content which reminds me of the following. Now 43, I’ve been a Robbie fanboy since Take That hit the big time on MTV (back when they actually played music), read a biography in ~2005. His darker songs have always been some of the most relatable songs I’ve ever heard since my life hasn’t been all sunshine and rainbows either. I follow him and Aida on Instagram. Makes me feel hopeful on my own behalf and more than anything feel all warm and fuzzy inside seeing him finally happy and then some. I took a glance thru your comments to see if something recent was there, hoping for something from the sunnier side of life. Oh, you’re definitely a Robbie fangirl like me, except for the girl part, obviously. November 13, 2020, on Melalie C’s Reason you wrote: “How great to get a "rate up" after more than 15 years that I wrote that comment. Wow. It's always nice when somebody reads and reacts to what I wrote about a song so long ago. Specially since life has changed so much since then!!” I think I can safely assume you’ll appreciate this here more than a meager upvote or “Great comment!” comment, and clearly, your time and effort spent writing this comment on “These Dreams” makes me think of a certain L’Oreal slogan, just minus the lotion bit. All the best, and thanks again. Peace. PS: Have you seen these two on YouTube? “Robbie Williams - Angels - Etihad Manchester 2 June 17” “Michael Jackson - Will You Be There | Live at MTV's 10th Anniversary Special, 1991” which I just found yesterday (saw him in concert on his 39th birthday in 1997 at 18). If you’re anything like me, do bring tissues for both of them ;-P |
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| Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[Rod962:43308] @paedophageeplayground 2nd class citizens? Regarding the Church of Scie... whoops, Church of Feminism, It will never cease to fill me with a sense of wry amusement similar to how I feel about other known types of mind-viruses, better known as religion aka bronze-age sheepherder fairytales. A void where knowledge of history is meant to be but instead tightly stuffed with victimization fibers. "But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed." ~ Warren Farrell FREE QUICK HISTORY & SOCIOLOGY LESSON [excerpt] "Perhaps the art that best reflects life is film. In the chapter on man-bashing, I review the way films bashing men reflect our culture. But 1998 did at least see two films that were masterpieces in their empathetic representation of the male experience: Saving Private Ryan and Life is Beautiful. I review them on my website but suffice it to say here that part of their significance is that they were both commercial and critical successes, representing, therefore, holes in the Lace Curtain. Unfortunately, these films were more the exception than the rule among recent films. Titanic is the rule. No reality-based film had a greater opportunity to allow the world a clearer look at men’s willingness to sacrifice their lives for women and children than Titanic, on which men died more than women at a rate of more than 9 to 1. While we know Titanic had a fictionalized storyline, it developed a reputation for being meticulously researched with many characters based on reality. In some ways that was true. But one of the most fascinating stories behind the movie is the story revealed by what is and is not fiction. When we uncover how we fictionalize reality, we discover ourselves. And we also discover the methods used by the Lace Curtain to fictionalize reality. (Which is what distinguishes this analysis from the previous chapter’s look at man bashing in films.) So welcome aboard. Titanic Fiction: A woman saves a man at the repeated risk of her life. Titanic Fact: There is no record of a woman risking her life to save an adult man, no less repeatedly. Titanic Fiction: Men in charge decided to lock third-class (steerage) passengers below the decks. Titanic Fact: Public Record Office documents in London show that this never happened—in fact, a higher percentage of men from second-class died than from third class (92 percent vs. 88 percent), and 55 percent of the third-class women lived, which would not have been possible had they been locked below. Titanic Fiction: Being poor made one even more disposable than being a man. Titanic Fact: Being a man and being poor both increased disposability, but being a man increased it significantly more than being poor. First-class men were 22 times more likely to die (66 percent vs. 3 percent) than first-class women. The richest men were significantly more likely to die than the poorest women. Theoretically, there were three classes on the Titanic. Practically, though, men were more likely to die than the citizens of the first, second, or third class. In reality, the men were the invisible fourth-class citizens. Here is the breakdown by class and sex. “Titanic and the Invisible Fourth Class” Class: % of men dying and % of women dying. 1st class: M: 66% W: 3% 2nd class: M: 92% W: 16% 3rd class: M: 88% W: 45% Finally, the multiple scenes of men as cowards (“Men first! Leave the women and children behind") negates the reality, especially regarding First Officer William Murdoch, who was portrayed in the film as taking a bribe, shooting a third-class passenger, and then killing himself. In real life, “Murdoch behaved heroically, sacrificing his life after laboring frantically to save others." Twentieth Century Fox did apologize for their distortion, but all the scenes of his corruption and cowardice remain. In brief, the mandate: of masculinity, to be more disposable than a third-class citizen, was diluted by three methods, all fiction: (1) Showing a woman also willing to die to save a man; (2) Turning a heroic man (William Murdoch) into a coward and killer, and (3) Sensationalizing class disposability (via the lockout scene and the portrayal of Murdoch killing a third-class passenger while accepting a bribe from a rich man). When disposability is falsely made a characteristic of both sexes and class disposability is played up, it leaves us downplaying the true disposability of masculinity - only 8 percent of the second-class men saving themselves while saving 84 percent of their wives and 100 percent of their children." |
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| Guns N' Roses – Estranged Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[Timurati:43262] Nail, I'd like you to meet Hammer. I have a strong feeling that the two of you will get along great. | |
| The Rumour Said Fire – The Balcony Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[Joachim_Moeller:37356] Annoyingly, one can't delete or correct submissions, so here's my little correction to one part of it: 'Cause the kids In the yards Stop playing with their toys [and the kids outside hear our passionate lovemaking through the open windows] |
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| The Rumour Said Fire – The Balcony Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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First a line by line [interpretation], written as if in a way substituting the lyrics. Secondly an overall interpretation adding more depth and thorough explanation. So your mouth tastes like sunshine [Your kisses are so sweet] Baby but your eyes Are all cool [but your eyes reveal that you’re distant] Buried in my arms [as I hold you tight] And the breeze takes us deeper and further into [and this moment now, it pushes us further towards] The heart of the moment that is gone [feeling precisely what’s been lost between us] And the scent of your heartache [and your feelings of heartache] Baby and the taste Of your blood Run within me [and your passion, they both feel like they’re my own] And there are red flowers in your spit [and you’re very passionate] When you enter my mouth [when we make love] Under the bed [under the bed] Down on the floor [down on the floor] So take me under the floorboards [So make me lose myself in that moment] I would love to feel like wood [I would love to feel strong again] And take me back to the retards [and take me back to the time when stupid romantic love felt real] 'Cause this world just makes me sick [because now the whole world just sickens me] There are colours in the air [All is colorful wonder] When I fall to the ground [when I fall in love] How we’d love to fall more often [How we’d all love to fall in love more often] There’s a band in our cellar [Our life has its own background music] Baby and they’re playing a song [and that song now] Of the drunks in the street [is a dysfunctional disharmony] And I can hear when they’re playing their lovesong [and sometimes it turns into a sweet love song] 'Cause the kids In the yards Stop playing with their toys [and we both notice and stop just going through the motions] So take me under the schoolyard [So take me way back to the beginning] There are kids there who got lost [to before we lost our innocence] Their mouths all shouting asphalt [Now we’re just yelling at each other] And the bodies torn apart [and we’re broken inside] There are colours in the air [All is colorful wonder] When I fall to the ground [when I fall in love] I can sense a world of heartache [I can sense a coming world full of heartache] But I love the sound [but I love the sound] Of your hair when it falls down [of your hair when it falls down] From the pillow late at night [from the pillow late at night] On the brink of illusion [I’m on the brink of believing the illusion of love] It’s the devil in my eyes [It is the devil inside of me] Waiting for the moment to kill me inside [just waiting for the right moment to kill me inside with disillusionment] How we’d love to die more often [How we’d love to more often feel like dying wouldn’t even matter] So, take my hands love [So please love, reach out to me] There is a burst inside our minds [There’s an explosion of emotions within us] Oh, feel my hands love [Oh, love, please touch me] 'Cause I'm numb from the neck down [‘cause I need you to awaken what our past troubles have now made numb] And there is fire love [and there is fiery passion engulfing us] On the balcony right here [just as we stand here right now, looking at the world outside] And I can see our bodies burning but sense no fear [and I can see us getting incinerated by that passion but sense no fear in either of us] And your mouth tastes like sunshine [and your kisses are so sweet] Baby but your eyes Are all cool [but your eyes reveal that you’re distant] Buried in my arms [as I hold you tight] And everything matters [and everything means something] For seconds we fall [during the seconds while we fall] To the floor [to floor] INTERPRETATION: The song is about a couple that we are passionately in love but have lost the original romance due to conflicts. They have hurt each other and keep doing so, but despite those original loving feelings and the closeness having died, there is still a carnal passion, which gives flashbacks to when it was new and sweet. “Under the floorboards” means deeper than the floor they make love on, as in deeper into the feeling of the moment than just the carnal part. To feel strong like wood instead of weak. “Take me back to the retards” means take me back to the time when I, which now seems retarded to him, believed in “true love”. The retards bit also shows that he is not at all convinced that believing in true love is not just believing in a stupid illusion. His life now just feels sickly pointless with such love, and he desperately wants to believe once more and assumes that we all want to be true believers in love and fall in love. The band (in our cellar, as in their own personal band, present at all times) is a metaphor for how their relationship is going. Drunks in the street represents the disfunction in their relationship. Drunks in the street are loud and reckless, as are the two of them – most of the time. “Playing their love song” means that at times the relationship briefly seems rosy again. They both notice and possibly also gets noticed by others around them like their neighbors, friends, or family. “…take me under the schoolyard”. The under bit is like the “under the floorboards” bit, as in deeper into it. The schoolyard represents the now seemingly distant past. Kids getting lost is the two of them losing their way. Shouting asphalt is them spewing harsh words to each other and fighting. Bodies torn apart means they have wounded each other very deeply. The hair on the pillow means noticing tiny little odd and sweet things as one might do when deeply in love, especially in the beginning of a relationship. Read the lyrics from verse 1 and 2 of “Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.” by Simon & Garfunkel to get exactly what I mean and believe me, the band knows this song well. There are so many similarities between their music and Simon & Garfunkel’s music (and that is a great thing) and anyone familiar with both bands know what I am talking about. Lying in bed, watching her sleep, he is aware of the all too real risk of further heartbreak. He starts to feel romantic optimism once more. The devil represents the part of him that probably knows better yet still sets him up for more heartache. The balcony represents them standing outside, looking out over the city, over others and them living their lives and in gazing into the distance, imagining their future together. |
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| Foreigner – I Want To Know What Love Is Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[IRONCAT68:34677] Nope, it's about someone who's been in a serious relationship (In my life there's been heartache and pain) but it's never been "true" love, more like relationships he thought was love, that it was what he needed, but now he's finally "seen the light" and seen what he truly wants, no more second bests. | |
| Erasure – Oh L'Amour Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[Franniebaby23:34676] Agree more than you know and here's why: You're not alone in your intense love for this song. This song so perfectly expresses my soul-destroying and still fiery burning love for my first love, and to be honest, forever strongest love since I was with my French girl, now 19 years ago, and just about every love song I've heard since then reminds me of what should have been. Like a few days after we first met I started imagining how our, no doubt beautiful, children would look like, how we'd welcome our grandchildren someday and everything else. Listen to Elvis' Tender Feeling and you'll get it 100%. The whole French L'Amour thing just makes it all the more powerful since she's French. I was born in 1979 so I was a bit late to the 80s music party, but it is by far my favorite decade, followed by the 60s. | |
| Céline Dion – Ashes Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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This song is clearly about a relationship burned to ashes aka breaking up forever is a matter of time if something major doesn't change. Celine did not write it btw, so don't read into it anything relating to her life. What's left to say? (Haven't I said and tried to say anything possible to mend this? I'm sad and I'm losing hope that anything I say can change anything) These prayers ain't working anymore Every word shot down in flames (I told/tried to tell you but you refused to listen to me) What's left to do with these broken pieces on the floor? (It all just feels so hopeless and are any of the remnants of our once great relationship good for anything anymore? Can it be put back together somehow?) I'm losing my voice calling on you (I tried telling you endlessly but you just don't listen) 'Cause I've been shaking (I've been trembling from uncertainty and heartbreak) I've been bending backwards till I'm broke ("Bend over backwards: To exert a lot of effort towards some end. This phrase is often used to express frustration when one's efforts go unrecognized." meaning "I have tried so hard to mend things and I'm desperate and broken inside like our relationship is now. I've been reduced to ashes. I'm an emotional wreck) Watching all these dreams go up in smoke (I had all these dreams of how wonderful our life together would be) Let beauty come out of ashes (Our relationship is in ruins now but please, please let us rebuild it, like a phoenix from the ashes, let it be reborn and gloriously fly towards the sun, the beauty of our love restored and let my love no longer be unrequited) Let beauty come out of ashes And when I pray to God all I ask is Can beauty come out of ashes? Can you use these tears to put out the fires in my soul? (Can you recognize, sympathize with my pain and use it to remember when we were so open and so close to each other. Can you use that to water the withering plant that is, or now rather was, your love for me? Please make it bloom again and extinguish the fire in me, please end the torment that I feel) 'Cause I need you here, woah 'Cause I've been shaking I've been bending backwards till I'm broke Watching all these dreams go up in smoke Let beauty come out of ashes Let beauty come out of ashes And when I pray to God all I ask is Can beauty come out of ashes? Can beauty come out of ashes? |
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