| Bear's Den – Don't Let the Sun Steal You Away Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Wow. I've loved this song forever, but it really hit me hard today. It's about being with someone who you care for and want to be with but they're just in it for the sex. Once morning arrives they don't care anymore. Two people on different pages about the relationship. "you mistook my love for desire" particularly kills me, it's a misunderstanding, but one that can really hurt you deeply. | |
| Aidan Knight – Margaret Downe Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. It details a love that burns incredibly bright before tragedy strikes. He falls in love with her even though he knows she leaves broken hearts behind. They get married and have children, only to lose one of them, and the grief of the loss causes their relationship to wither and they grow apart, she leaves him for another man. Many years later, after she is given 6 weeks to live, he returns to her and they forgive each other for moving on and losing their love, before she ultimately passes. |
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| Bear's Den – Magdalene Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I feel like it is a song about a man getting his heart broken. He loves this girl and he wants to do right by her. He ends up sleeping with her, and then she leaves him. "You took my love and now you celebrate. When the morning comes, no I don't believe In my God, oh my God how could you take her from me?" He wakes up in the morning and begins losing his faith in god. "So I told, and the sisters of mercy came by your school just yesterday. I never meant for to cause you any pain I wanna make it better, make it go away." He tells the sisters what happened and they confront her My guess is that Magdalene is the catholic school the girl he loves came from, I would also guess this is a story from experience going to a private school in England. I don't know that for sure, but I do know a couple of people who might have written a song like this if they were writing music, based on their experiences. |
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| Parker Millsap – Central Pacific Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I think the song is pretty self explanatory, it's a man who has gone out to work on the railroad and left behind his lady in order to make money to give her a good life. | |
| Bon Iver – Roslyn Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[RemyCiel:8877] I think you have the idea correct but I have two points. The first is the cocked to the undertow line to me is a reference to a weapon. You cock a gun, so the waves are cocked to the undertow like a gun, that will kill her. Then the next line about nodes, nodes are the most stable points of waves. As the nodes (the point where the water would be flat) pass there is more and more destruction. | |
| Sufjan Stevens – Drawn to the Blood Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[k4zoo:7059] So he said, it was a relationship he was involved in that this song was written about. I do wonder though if the relationship might be his relationship to mental illness or his mother's mental illness or something less tangible and more conceptual than a man. | |
| Bear's Den – Stubborn Beast Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[masonmcconell1:6486] wow I really appreciate that interpretation. I think a lot of the song is better explained by that idea. Not all of it but most. That's the incredible beauty of music I think. Something can be so clear and so relatable to someone for one thing but so clear and relatable to someone else for a completely different reason! Thanks for sharing! | |
| The Neighbourhood – R.I.P. 2 My Youth Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I have trouble deciding if this song is really about the death of youth as the song title would dictate or if it's about the loss of innocence causing actual suicidal tendencies. I think it might be a combination. He has lost his youth, and this song is the funeral for the loss. With the loss of youth/innocence he has decided that he wants to die. It starts here: "When I can't breathe, I won't ask you to stop When I can't breathe, don't call for a cop" where you see that he really does want to die. and then you see: "I was naive and hopeful and lost Now I'm aware and driving my thoughts" where it becomes pretty clear that he has lost his naivete and that has caused him to want to die. The reason I really don't think it's just a metaphor for the loss of youth/innocence is in the lines: "And you can play this at my funeral Tell my sister don't cry and don't be sad I'm in Paradise with Dad Close my eyes and then cross my arms Put me in the dirt, let me dream with the stars" which clearly dictates a funeral, joining his (presumably) dead father and then being buried. The other part of this song that I find extremely interesting is the Kurt Cobain references in the video - He goes to pretty great lengths to look like Kurt growing out and dying his hair to his exact shade, the facial hair, even the sunglasses. Some people maintain a myth of many of the major members of the 27 club having white bic lighters with them at their deaths. While this can't be true, the myth is still alive enough that the using white lighters to see could either be just a general wish for bad luck/death to great him or it could be a reference to the idea of wanting to join the club combined with the Cobain references. There are some parts of the song - like his mother needing to worship him and him not believing if he doesn't keep proof that don't have an obvious correlation with this interpretation but I think that the rest of the song really explains it all. |
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| Hozier – Cherry Wine Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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He said at a concert I saw him play that this song had a similar sentiment to "he hit me and it felt like a kiss" which was a song documented a girl believing that her boyfriends abuse was motivated by his love for her. It was a brutal song meant to show why people don't leave abusive relationships, despite thoughts of it's satirical nature the writer of he hit me maintained it was a song about truth. To me that proves this song is about someone in an abusive relationship who has grown to believe that the abuse is love. The subject says they want it. I hope this isn't autobiographical, but if it is then I'm happy that he obviously realised that it wasn't love. |
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| The Neighbourhood – Sweater Weather Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song is definitely about a really shallow physical summer love. It's all about the physical. There is another girl, but it seems like just a girl he digs but isn't dating. "she knows what I think about" followed shortly by "No shirts, no blouse Just us, you find out nothing I really wanna tell you about no" as in, she knows me, you don't find out anything I would want to talk about because it's all physical, one love two mouths, a summer love. |
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| Bear's Den – Bad Blood Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This feels like another song by them about mental illness. He is running away from someone because he is sick and knows that he will hurt them. I think the whole song cane be summed up by these lines "Forgive me for I am not acting myself But these bees in my breath have to come out" He isn't himself, but he needs to get all these negative emotions (the stinging bees) out. You feel bad for the author at first, but them you have to think about the person he is doing this too. He needs to get rid of the bad blood, but at what cost to the person on the other end. |
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| Bear's Den – Stubborn Beast Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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To me this song feels like a song written by a person with anxiety or depression who hates himself. They are missing who they used to be "Such beautiful words But you just can't remember who they're for" they wrote things or said things to people before but now they can't access those emotions. "As you wander your island Unborn and unloved You set fire to the bridges That you were carried across" shows that they have created this island isolation and then burned all of the bridges, something that I and many others have done while suffering with depression. "By your window there's a picture filled with strangers Always looking down on you" the strangers are people they once knew, family probably. They don't know them any more because of the isolation and the disease. "Always sticking around for you They were always looking around for you But never able to find you" is the most powerful part of the song. These strangers who you built an island to get away from and burnt all the bridges have always been there, they just couldn't find you because you were hiding in your disease. They have always loved you. |
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| Bear's Den – Above the Clouds of Pompeii Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song to means feels strongly of a boy who lost his mother or possibly grandmother at a young age. The father is talking to the sun about how he misses her to but that she wouldn't want them to cry and would want them to hold their heads up high. My favourite line in this song is roses red come lilies white. From romance to death symbolized in such a succinct poignant way. This song makes me feel so many emotions. Based on this and most of the songs from the Agape EP I feel like at least one member of this band had a unimaginably bad childhood and you can hear it in their voices. |
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| Bear's Den – When You Break Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think this song is about an abused child who begins to blame himself for everything that goes wrong in his life. It eats at him as he cries out silently for so long, and by the time he breaks down from the weight of it, it seems like it's too late. Then he meets someone who tells him beautiful lies, or maybe the truth, that he can't accept. He just fucks his way into forgetting things and pretending he isn't struggling, pretends that fucking and listening to what he believes are lies is a real relationship. This EP is by far the most heartbreaking piece of music I have ever heard. It's a journey from innocence to ultimate breakdown. It's the story of how abuse destroys people from inside out and by the time it gets out it is too late. This song is a great bookend to explain the destruction it leaves as an adult and explains why some people can't feel love if they can't love themselves. |
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| Bear's Den – Isaac Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think the song is about abuse - especially when you place it in the context of the EP. The whole thing is VERY obviously a commentary from a child of abuse whose father abused him, his brother and his mother. I think the bible references serve as a metaphor to the situation it is surrounding. Abraham was going to sacrifice his son, and the son knew it. He had to live the rest of his life knowing that his father valued god more than him, feeling that he has to earn his fathers love. Other than the name isaac and the minor allusion to that story the song pretty clearly details the relationship of a younger brother who has seen his older brother abused and is now seeing what happens later in life. He is saying that he worships him. They relate together in feeling that a fathers love must be earned while a mothers does not, when obviously that should not be true. The brother is saying that he is going to give him all of his love, because he is alone and without love. I also wonder if it's what happens after their mother is dead - Isaac's head pressed against the (tomb)stone. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Good Help (Is So Hard to Find) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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My immediate reaction to this song was like "ooooooooh" the gauntlet was thrown down, it definitely seemed a little bitter and insulting. "You'll never have to hear the word "no" If you keep all your friends on the payroll" like snap. The only thing that makes me question if the song is maybe written as a sort of reminder to himself to stay grounded is the line "But if I start to levitate Pull me down with all your weight" The rest of the song pretty clearly is saying that someone can get wrapped up in los angeles and the high life and start thinking they are untouchable and better than everyone else. Eg: "High above the city from where you came Don't you know the air's so thin? It starves the brain of oxygen" better get some ice for that burn. I'm totally open to other interpretations but honestly I'm having a lot of fun imagining him just insulting high and mighty traditional "Los Angeles~~~" People (maybe his ex wife oops) |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Grapevine Fires Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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To me this song seems like someone who is depressed in a relationship where their partner is sort of the light in the world. "As she laughed and danced through the field of graves" and it seems like everything is getting worse but all he cares about is the girl. Someone pointed out the parallel in black sun where he sings about death in the vines which could be a reference to this song, wherein the death has finally happened, as in the death of the relationship (of which black sun is fairly obviously about the end of a relationship) |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Black Sun Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[jah1976:3316] wow. I would never have picked up on the grapevine fires reference but I'm listening to acoustic version of black sun right now and crying thinking about that. I think you really nailed the interpretation. The only thing i think could be interpreted differently is that I think Ben might be the black sun. It could be thought of either way, but I think it's meant to be he revolved his life around her and she was cruel to him. |
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| Hozier – Foreigner's God Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think it's a song about using sex to get over grief, I mean I think it's pretty obviously a song about sex - "All I do is crave to her / Breaking if I try to convey it /The broken love I make to her" I feel like the reason that the god is foreign because of the grief she is feeling. She is screaming the god's name while sleeping with the man. I've not thought this through too deeply but this is definitely the feeling I'm getting from it. |
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| Hozier – To Be Alone Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[AMusicalSoul:735] It's part of a whole phrase "But I don't know what else that I would give Than try to kiss the skin that crawls from you Then feel your weight in arms I'd never use It's the god that heroin prays to" He doesn't know what he'd give to kiss her skin and then hug her (feel her weight) in the arms that he never uses. It's basically him saying he's lonely and he'd give anything to have intimacy, and that intimacy is so great and so immense that the feeling of heroin would pray to it. So basically it can't compare to the (good) feeling that comes from heroin. |
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| Hozier – Arsonist's Lullaby Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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It's a song about destruction for sure, but I think it's up for interpretation if it's self-destruction or destruction of people around him. I knew that something would always ruin me I knew the scent was mine alone He feels guilty about the bad things he's done, likely in anger. When I was a man I thought it ended When I knew love's perfect ache But my peace has always depended On all the ashes in my wake He found love and then he ruined it because he could never feel peace when he was happy. It's the classic self-destructive relationship scenario where someone feels like they don't deserve the happiness. |
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| Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think a lot of people miss that the kid is abused by his father Daddy works a long day He be coming home late, yeah, he's coming home late And he's bringing me a surprise His dad comes home late, presumably like always, and brings him a surprise but not a good one - abuse, physical or sexual or both presumably Because dinner's in the kitchen and it's packed in ice Dinner is revenge, it's best served cold. I've waited for a long time Yeah, the slight of my hand is now a quick pull trigger I'm guessing this line has something to do with magic and card tricks and the relationship he had with his father - maybe he tried to learn magic to impress him. I reason with my cigarette And say your hair's on fire You must have lost your wits, yeah This leads me to believe the father had burned him with cigarettes before and followed with witty comments, so he burns his hair with the cigarette in retaliation. |
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| The 1975 – Me Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I read that his mother had an abortion and tried to kill herself after he was born which makes me think this song could be written partially to the child she didn't have. If it is, I'm not sure I appreciate the anti-abortion sentiment but I digress. Post-partum depression is very common after child birth and I think the first half of the song could be written to the writer's mother. The line about doing something terrible to her body could be physically true but also mentally. "I'm sorry but I'd rather be getting high than watching the family die" the writer hides in drugs instead of facing the divorce and separation of their family. The second half could be written to the child she didn't have. "I put your mother through hell" he blames himself for what she is feeling "I hate your brother as well" could be a mutually shared brother or the writer himself. and then saying "I was thinking about killing myself" is sort of a weird twisted apology and "I love you" continuing that guilt. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Bixby Canyon Bridge Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It seems like a song about a guy visiting the place where someone he knew killed themself. and now he's thinking about himself and what's going to happen to him. He went there looking for answers from the person about why so that he didn't do it himself. He's talking about how it's hard to stay awake, read: alive, metaphorically and also literally, when everyone around him isn't. he doesn't get any answers. It's a sad song. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Someday You Will Be Loved Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This song feels a bit like a big old wank fest. Like he leaves her in the middle of the night, which is such a dick move, and then the whole song is about convincing him/her that everything will get better, making the assumption that his leaving is going to destroy her. | |
| The Lumineers – Stubborn Love Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| wow I never caught this but that is really interesting, I think you are right. They write a lot of stuff that seems relevant to the world wars and perhaps this is another example of that! | |
| Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Dinner's in the kitchen and it's packed in ice is talking about revenge. A dish best served cold. So he shoots his dad, and then when he says reason with my ciggarette he's probably getting revenge on his dad by burning him with a cigarette like his dad had done to him before. He says "your hair's on fire, must have lost your wits" to his dad while he's getting his revenge. It seems fairly straight forward, he obviously was abused, he found his dads gun in a box of "fun things" -little creepy- and then get's his revenge. It isn't really a hidden meaning. | |
| Mumford & Sons – Home Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| convert it from youtube. google youtube to mp3. shh. | |
| Mumford & Sons – Home Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I really like the idea behind OpinionatedPersuasion 's post as well. Whatever may have been going through their heads as the wrote it, it obviously contained a lot of emotions. I really love the way these boys write songs. | |
| Mumford & Sons – Home Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Everything you said, you put it so right. Everything you said is what I was thinking. I just love the emotion in this song. | |
| Mumford & Sons – Home Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'm fairly certain that this song is about suicide. It shows in lines like "Spin me round just to pin me down, I'll be gone by the nights end" and "I ran away in floods of shame, I'll never tell how close I came" and the home that he is thinking of, is heaven. Perhaps he's joining someone he once loved who died, and perhaps they also committed suicide. Either way, this song reverberates it me so much. It's fantastic. |
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