| Amanda Palmer – The Point of It All Lyrics | 4 years ago |
|
@[EphemeralFortress:32134] You're mostly right but Amanda Palmer is singing about herself. She frequently refers to herself in her songs as someone very good at standing still. She is singing about her own fears of getting out in the world. However, she does get out in the world some. She is creative and she does create "sewing machines out of common industrial wastes". Her song is not that she never gets out but that her attempts to get out are often misunderstood. People call themselves friends "in jest" (not "and just"). The fakeness of some people is what drives her back into her shell. The needle symbolizes many things, not just one thing, but I think it mostly symbolizes the pain in her own heart, a pain that both drives her creativity and a pain that causes others to not be comfortable around her so they keep trying to take the needle away. But without that needle, she would be as fake as everyone else. The needle keeps her real and that is the point. |
|
| Erykah Badu – On & On Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[annelansberry:30921] Not exactly. It depends on your definition of god. She is saying that there is the divine within us but it isn't the same concept of god that monotheist religions have. | |
| Twenty One Pilots – Not Today Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[MyPilots21:25969] This song isn't chronological. It's cyclical. You're interpretation is correct except that he keeps going back and forth between fighting and apologizing. The friend is God but Tyler is singing about suicidal depression. | |
| Tom Petty – Refugee Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I'm not sure but I think this song is about Stevie Nicks. She had some issues with her boyfriend and she left him. Then she and Tom started making music together and maybe there was the idea that the two of them would get together. I don't know if they actually did get together but the thought of getting together was the something they don't talk about. Although Stevie left her boyfriend, she couldn't completely stop having feelings for him and that prevented her from a relationship with Tom. That's why she has to fight to be free and why she couldn't be in a relationship with Tom until she felt it to be true. He's basically saying she hasn't really suffered since she wasn't beaten or kidnapped but she needs to fight to be free of her emotional ties to her former boyfriend that caused her to live like a refugee. | |
| The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
I've had an inspiration about the meaning of this song and joined specifically so I could share my inspiration. I have not read all the comments because there are a lot but I read most of them and none of you got this. A few hinted at it but none of you got this. I'm going to come right out and say that this song was directed at the church. This song was directed at Christianity in general. Singing about Father McKenzie was not singing about a random individual who happened to be a church leader. For the purpose of this song, Father McKenzie =IS= the representation of Christianity. "Ah, look at all the lonely people" and "No one was saved". Yes, there is a hint of a connection between Father McKenzie and Eleanor Rigby. But the song is not saying that they did anything together. The two might never have even spoken outside of the usual church banter. What the song is suggesting is that there should have been more of a connection between Father McKenzie and Eleanor Rigby. But "No one was saved" because Father McKenzie was too busy being self-righteous, too busy "writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear." This song is a bold-faced accusation against the self-righteous and overly religious that refuse to reach out to the all the lonely people and then wonder why so few come to church. This song is saying that it isn't enough to be friendly. This song is saying that as long as people, especially religious people, remain cold and aloof, the Eleanor Rigby's of this world will continue to die and be "buried along with her name". A person's name is very important in Judeo-Christian values. |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.