| Kate Bush – Room for the Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I've always taken this song as being somewhat ironic as opposed to some kind of ode to motherhood. | |
| Cat Stevens – Into White Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I always think of this song as a companion piece to 'Lilywhite'. Whereas in that song I feel he is describing his reaction to the death of another, in 'Into White' I feel he is describing his own death; or the dying dream before death occurs. Everyone hopes for a painless, peaceful death and I think the lyrics here are representing the various things a dying person might contemplate before succumbing. After all, every image eventually empties into white. | |
| Cat Stevens – Lilywhite Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I always think of this song as a companion to 'Into White'; I interpret those lyrics as being about someone experiencing death, whereas I think 'Lilywhite' is more about thinking about someone who has died whilst knowing that it is a road we will all take in the future, and when that time comes then we will again see the people we have loved and lost. "Back up on the mended road, I pause, taking time to check the dial" I view 'the mended road' as being a metaphor for the way we have to go on with our lives after someone has died; the path can never be new and whole, only pieced back together and mended. It could be said that we 'check the dial' of our own lives after someone has died, we take stock. "I never knew her name but she'll be passing my way sometime again." We can never truly know another person but when we die then the people who died before us will 'pass our way again' and we will know them in a different way. |
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| Snow Patrol – Make This Go On Forever Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Ha! You are so NOT the only one. I just came to check the lyrics on here because I was considering using some lines from this song to bookend a Spuffy fic I'm writing. It's so them. I love it! |
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| Snow Patrol – Run Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I too interpret Run as drug related. Something along the lines of a girlfriend/significant person killing themselves with drugs and the narrator having to watch them die. Like Suezzle says, Snow Patrol's other work has a lot of references to drug use and this interpretation seems to fit with the rest. A romantic view of the song is fine, of course, but I'm not convinced somehow. Plus what an artist says their songs are about means nothing because they often lie, for personal reasons or just for kicks or to be pc or whatever. Look at half the things Bob Dylan said his music was about. |
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| Pete Murray – George's Helper Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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LOL is this song really about George Bush!? I've listened to it countless times since I got the album and only thought about the connection today when I was writing my politics essay. Sometimes I really love Pete Murray. :p |
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| Enya – One By One Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I've always thought this song was about death. The whole 'she was aiming too high' and 'a love that won't die' lines just seem to be saying that. Also the repetition of 'adios, adios, goodbye' |
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