| Wyclef Jean – Sweetest Girl (Feat. Akon, Lil' Wayne, Niia) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Okay, I've explained this to a lot of people when listening to this song. So, in case anyone missed this: "Never thought she would come and work for the president, Mr. George Washington" Presidents are on US currency and so this means she is working for cash. But, it also carries the meaning of being rich old white dudes at the top who rule everything. "All the beautiful women getting' money Washin' them dollar bills like laundry" Money laundering. |
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| Bastille – Flaws Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think the song is all about the perspective of the singer with regard to his and his partner's flaws. Let's start with the line, "you have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve and I have always buried them deep beneath the ground." To bury something means to hide something where nobody has to see it, and only you can find it. The singer has always pushed his flaws out of the foreground, out of his perspective. On the other hand, he notices that his partner (romantic or not, called only by "you") allows their flaws to be seen—they are up for conversation, everybody can access them. But the song itself presents an abrupt change in perspective. The singer now wants to lay out all of his flaws, analyze them, and figure out how to fill the hole in his soul. But it seems like by taking this first step toward becoming aware and up front about his own flaws, leaving nothing undone, the singer starts to take his self improvement and self awareness seriously, beginning a journey on which he never could have embarked without the grace of the other person, who, by wearing their flaws on their sleeve, brought the singer to want to uncover his own. Finally, and this is more of a question, there's a strong motif of holes in the song. First with the idea of burying flaws, digging them up, and then the hole in the soul of the singer which must be "filled." Does anybody have an idea of what to make of this? |
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| Bastille – Flaws Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[Jaybird1217:7179] This may well be what it makes you think about, but I don't find this very true to the lyrics themselves. Where you you get the idea that he has been ridiculed? Or that the other person doesn't want him to be perfect or convincing him of anything? | |
| Tracy Chapman – Telling Stories Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[Professor:2746] M Exactly. This song does not apply to a single situation. In fact, to me it seems much more general. The "you" that Chapman addresses is not a specific person but rather the listener, and thus every individual. The song gets at what is lost in translation between us—the "space between" our perception and our expression of these perceived realities. The song isn't about fiction, then, so much as it's about the nonexistence of non-fiction. People tend to think of everything as fact or fiction, but this is a false binary. Hence, "you write the words and make believe/ there is truth in the space between...but in the fiction of the space between/ sometimes a lie is the best thing." If you acknowledge the fictional nature of the space between everybody, the place between where one person's conception of the world ends and another's begins, sometimes a lie is the best thing. Sometimes a lie keeps two people's realities from violently crashing down; sometimes a lie can protect someone's positive outlook from the negative realities of another person; sometimes a lie can cover up the ugliness of your own past to highlight the generosity of someone else. |
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| Bastille – Pompeii Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Love this interpretation. I totally agree. This song poses a strong connection between an apocalyptic situation and daily life. The line "if you close your eyes does it almost feel like you've been here before" explains this. In other words, if you forget just what you're sensing and focus on what you're feeling, this isn't the first time you've felt doomed, hopeless, lost. Really, it's exactly this feeling that impacts and determines your reality, less so than the actual situation. "Where do we begin, the rubble or our sins?" echoes this idea. After a tragedy, how does one begin to recover—rebuilding the physical destruction, or making amends for the personal damage one has caused to both themselves and others. Furthermore, it shows the panic and confusion that results, but that despite this panic, using "we" suggests that the intent to rebuild and learn has brought the victims of tragedy closer. (Not saying you specifically said this, but nonetheless) I don't think it makes sense to interpret the apocalyptic/life-shattering event that seems to be the focus of the song as a punishment or retribution for "sins" or for being "caught up in lust and all of our vices" so much as it highlights how in this kind of event can cause one to alter their priorities toward more collective, humanistic goals. |
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| Florence + the Machine – Shake It Out Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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And I've been a fool and I've been blind I can never leave the past behind I can see no way, I can see no way I'm always dragging that horse around All of his questions, such a mournful sound Tonight I'm gonna bury that horse in the ground This is my favorite part of the song by far. She's always dragging her past behind her, but tonight she's going to bury it because it's gone now anyway. Live in the present and don't regret too much. |
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| Tinie Tempah – Written in the Stars Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| i like the reference to teardrop by massive attack. | |
| White Lies – Death Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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music video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTh9IuSTOY0&feature=relmfu I think that based on the music video, the song isn't just about fear and death. It's also about taking risks and being impulsive. In the video there is an immense contrast between the adults, who are always at a standstill, faceless, lifeless, and the teenagers who are trying to break away from the routine of it all. The main character at one point is nearly drowning in the milk his mother is pouring, showing that he is being suffocated by his parents and the routine of suburban life. The song is basically saying that the only way to feel alive is to risk dying. |
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| Pendulum – Crush Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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my biggest issue with this and encoder is that the second halves are short-lived. =(. they could have added more to the amazingness that comes after the transitions in both those songs. that said those 2 are probably my favorites on the album. |
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| Pendulum – The Other Side Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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???? where... i doubt hed say that |
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| Pendulum – Genesis Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| think encoder is a phil collins salute too? i think it sounds like one of his songs | |
| Pendulum – Encoder Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| i also LOVE the 2nd half... I love the mid-song transitions pendulum does-- especially in its closing songs like this and the tempest. | |
| Pendulum – Encoder Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This might be wrong... but I think Kitsune was right about inner struggle's place in the song. My opinion is that the song is about the band redefining itself through the album Immersion and its predecessor In Silico. "For everything that could have been, But at least we took the ride. There's no relief in bitterness, Might as well let it die." Pendulum is saying that they know they could've kept producing cookie-cutter D&B, but that it introduced other genres into its music and that this has been a success. Fans of the old pendulum should stop being bitter over that. Former fans are so angry that they haven't just jumped off the pendulum bandwagon, but have constantly spewed hate instead of coming to terms with the change for themselves. |
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| Wyclef Jean – Sweetest Girl (Feat. Akon, Lil' Wayne, Niia) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Never thought she would come and work for the president Mr. George Washington (where my money at?) ironic stripping reference I thought I'd point out (despite its being obvious) |
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