| Five for Fighting – Superman (It's Not Easy) Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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To me this song seems to be about someone who is struggling to simply be who they are inside...to get away from the surface views that life and society generally base everything on. And to be allowed to do so, in spite of all that others have preconceived them to be already! On a personal level, I likened it to being placed on pedestals by others who never seem to get past the surface of looks and their own blinders...never seeing into the heart, into the humanism of the person they have so deemed to deserving of pedestalism and so boldly lifted them right on up there without ever asking or even considering how the person feels, REALLY, inside. Yet the other person is saying that they are more than meets the eye and NOT all the others view them to be. That they are simply on lifes journey just like everyone else is, in hopes of finding the best of all that they are, and are to become...knowing that others think it bonkers that they aren't content with all they view and think them to be already. Yet this person seeks, in spite of oposition and others views, something REAL...something better than being chosen as someones hero or role model. They seek something that no one can ever take from them unless they willingly hand it over...They seek...THEMSELF, and all that they are meant to be. |
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| Enrique Iglesias – Hero Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Incredible song! I believe the man does want to be her hero, but he's also posing questions to her that are very relevant to what a TRUE love relationship requires, yet doing so with an apparent vulnerability based on the alternatives he gives when asking the question that would make it something more than just "the here and now". The words... "Am I in to deep? Have I lost my mind? I don't care you're here tonight." Signify to me that though he's feeling vulnerable, he's also feeling that even if this is all he is to have...it's worth it to him because he truly loves her. You know...the old saying of..."It's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all". When you truly love someone you do cry inside when you see them crying, you would do anything to save their soul, you would die for them, (though not in a physical sense, but to self agandas and ambitions), you do tremble when they touch you in the way "touched your lips" comes across, you would swear that you'll always be with them, stand by them forever, yet at the same time...question if you are in too deep due to the overwhelming need you have to, for, and with that one person. Anytime something is that real, that much a part of you...there is an incredible sense of vulnerability at hand due to the risk you take of losing, not only that person, but also part of yourself which that one person carries with them always. To me, and I know words can be interpreted differently, when he says... "I will stand by you forever You can take my breath away" He is telling her that he is in it for the long haul, that he is totally and completely devoted to her and their love. That when he dies, it will be with her right there beside him, taking the last breath from his body. |
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| Cat Stevens – Father And Son Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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I agree with mercanfat to a degree, but I also believe that the son is frustrated by never being heard. feeling as though his feelings, thoughts, and needs don't matter to his Father. I have also at times, when listening to this song wondered if the son meant suicide when he says, "Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go."??? When you listen to the song and the passion with which he's singing the lines, "All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside, It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it. If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them you know not me.", it's obvious that he is highly frustrated by the way his life has been to date... He doesn't sing...keeping all the things I "THINK" inside...but rather..."keeping all the things I knew inside", referencing that he isn't swayed in what he knows by his father's words, nor attitude...only hurt and frustrated at never being heard. Anyway...that's my thoughts on it! |
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