| Paul McCartney – No More Lonely Nights Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is exquisite... I love the lyrics. They're beautiful, especially the "may I never miss the thrill of being near you" line. I love it! | |
| Collective Soul – The World I Know Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"All the words that I've been reading Have now started the act of bleeding Into one." Huh, I'm surprised some people find this line confusing, or read very deeply into it. Surely it simply means he has started crying as he is reading? Tears are welling up in his eyes, so the words on the paper (or whatever) seem to blur together. |
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| Butthole Surfers – Pepper Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The singer most definitely says "Holly", not "Pauly". The "h" sound is very clear. I just googled it and Holly *can* be a boy's name though it is not very common at all. So maybe the singer is calling Holly by his last name? I know a lot of guys who refer to themselves by their last names. The lyrics posted are indeed wrong at this part, though. It should be: "Holly caught a bullet, But it only hit his leg Well, it should have been a better shot And got him in the head" As for what this song is about I have no clue. It's pretty awesome though. |
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| The Cure – The Caterpillar Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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mimirandmemory, I can see where you could compare the two. Actually it fits kind of creepily well :P But I don't actually think this song has anything to do with pedophilia. I believe it's simply about someone coming into his unhappy life and making it magical. His "lemon lies" are his bitterness and cynicism... maybe he even literally lies, claiming to not want love and happiness. She dusts his bitterness with "powder pink and sweet"- her beauty, femininity, love, kindness. She's changing the whole "flavor" of his life for the better. The girl changing/flying away refers to his fears she will someday leave him, or "change" somehow and disappoint him. He's been hopeless and apparently miserable after all, so he doesn't believe he can hang on her. Actually I think that is the song's true theme. I'm sure anyone who's been lonely/hopeless and then found love can understand it... that feeling of being happy, but afraid to completely accept the happiness for fear of losing it. It's such an amazingly sweet song, I can't imagine it having any kind of ugly undertones. |
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| The Sundays – Wild Horses Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Might sound weird, but I think this song could be a parent singing to her older, troubled daughter. Sounds dumb at first maybe, but bear with me: "Childhood living is easy to do, the things you wanted, I bought them for you." When the subject of the song was young, the parent could placate her with toys and "stuff", maybe at the expense of being an actually good parent. But now that the child isn't actually a child, it doesn't work any more. "Graceless lady, you know who I am. You know I can't let you slide through my hands." The daughter is fighting against the parent (as teens/adolescents often do), and the mother is telling the daughter that she loves her unconditionally and won't abandon her, no matter how badly the daughter acts. The daughter also knows deep inside that her mother will always be there. "I watched you suffer a dull aching pain. Now you decided to show me the same." The parent was helpless to solve the daughter's emotional problems, and now the daughter is acting out because she "blames" them for not helping her (again, as adolescent often do). The mother is suffering watching her child suffer. "No sweeping exits or off stage lines could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind." Again, the parent is professing their unconditional love, no matter what the troubled daughter does or what she says they are going to stick with her. They aren't going to get angry or blame her for what she is doing and going through. "I know I've dreamed you a sin and a lie. I have my freedom but I don't have much time." This makes me think (again) that maybe the singer wasn't the best mother when the daughter was young. The mother "has her freedom" (she didn't spend enough time/energy on the child when she should have, and now the child is nearly grown)- but the mother is regretting it. Now the parent wants to make up for it, but she doesn't have much time because her child is growing up and growing away from her. "Faith has been broken tears must be cried. Let's do some living after we die." The mother has disappointed the daughter and wasn't there for her in the past. The daughter has to get her issues out of her system and move on. The second part doesn't mean "die" literally, but more die to the past. In other words, the daughter and mother moving beyond the pain of the past and "living" again in new happiness. "Wild horses, couldn't drag me away. Wild, wild horses we'll ride them someday." Unconditional love again. The wild horses are the daughter's issues. The mother is promising that someday they will overcome, and be in control of those problems, and the relationship will be mended at last. Well, that is my interpretation. It might sound weird but it makes a lot of sense the way I look at it :) It also adds a lot more bittersweetness to the song than if it were just about plain old romance, in my opinion. |
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| The Cure – Jupiter Crash Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree with what Mtha Fckn G said above. Also, I think this song speaks of the fact that no matter how huge and overpowering your love seems at the time, it can fade out just the same. And the other person can leave you like it was nothing, no matter the pull you once had on each other. "Yeah, so much for gravity". |
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| The Cure – Lullaby Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song is about a creepy nightmare (and being in bed, scared in the dark, like you were as a kid). Robert Smith has said so. It doesn't have anything to do with abuse or rape or sex or whatever. (Ugh, incidentally, why do people always think every song is secretly about sex or romance? Sometimes songs are just as simple as they seem; there's no reason to go digging for convoluted meaning in every little thing!!) |
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| The Cure – One More Time Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is supposed to be about dying, and being afraid to die. I'm pretty sure I read it in an interview maaannny years ago, shortly after Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me came out. Robert Smith said "this song is about the fear of dying, which everyone has" or something along those lines. (It was like 20 years ago so I admit I could be remembering wrong >_<) |
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| The Cure – A Letter to Elise Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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And every time I try to pick it up Like falling sand As fast as I pick it up It runs away through my clutching hands But there's nothing else I can really do There's nothing else I can really do There's nothing else I can really do At all... God the lyrics of the last verse are so beautiful! I think this song is about how sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, you can't make it work because they are just too emotionally distant. Sometimes it is a lover or friend or even a family member that you have to let go of and it sucks... even though you don't want to there is nothing else you can do with them anymore. |
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| Squeeze – Up The Junction Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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esie32, I don't think this song has anything to do with advocating abortion. The song isn't saying the couple would have been better off without their baby. It actually seems that the daughter is a *happy* event for them, as evidenced by their happily selling the tv and the father gladly working hard to support his new little family. Also I don't see any indication that the couple are teenagers. I think what actually drives them apart is the man's drinking: "She left me when my drinking Became a proper stinging The devil came and took me From bar to street to bookie" The missus left with the baby when his drinking got so out of hand it was hurting the family. Anyway I find this song really depressing, because it starts so hopefully and ends with the singer in ruins thanks to his choosing drink over his family. To me, this song is about being your own worst enemy. The guy realises he has ruined their happy life and lost his wife and child, but "Begging's not my business"- he's still too proud to change his habits and beg them to come back, but just the same he knows deep inside what he is missing. |
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