| The Moody Blues – I Know You're Out There Somewhere Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[scottthehunter:43974] Sublime, just sublime. | |
| Bruno Mars – If I Knew Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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This wonderful song addresses a rarely-admitted affliction called retroactive jealousy. Even more unusual, it comes from the perspective of the partner NOT afflicted by it, yet he empathizes and wishes he could change his own past so that his lover wouldn't have to be haunted by it. He even calls one of the hallmark issues with RJ, which is mental images: "I know it breaks your heart / To picture the only one you wanna love / In someone else's arms" I have searched for YEARS for songs on this topic. This seems to be the only one that satisfies, a beautifully song with high production value. There may be other examples but they are either vague or dodge the topic a bit (John Lennon - "Jealous Guy"), or are just C-grade spotify backfill. Hope to be proven wrong with some other songs. |
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| Albert Hammond – Rebecca Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Could this be the purest example of an unrequited crush, ever? It lasted all of five minutes - only in his head - and he never knew her name. What\'s more, whoever it was may have even heard this song on the radio and had no idea it was about her!\n\nNot only was she too young for him at the time, but the trajectory of her life was going to be a mismatch even if he\'d had a time machine. This ephemeral moment would be the apex, and yet it still was enough to create this song.\n\nI think it is magnificent.\n\nBy the way, if "brushing your hair with the wind" seems just a bit odd, compare it to the second to last line of the song. | |
| Dan Fogelberg – Ghosts Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Designit4me:34347] You are definitely correct, "ghosts" isn't in the usual sense. I think the memories that haunt us can also be positive ones. That longing for another place and time that you know can never return. I visit to my hometown every 5-10 years deliberately, and there are places I won't go because the memories are sacred and I don't want to see changes to buildings, etc. It also leads to regret of "what could have been" as you compare your refreshed memories with what you know now. | |
| Randy Newman – I Miss You Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| You really feel the loss on this one because, at 20 years, you aren't only missing the relationship. You're missing the whole memory, the existence of person and place and time that are past and shall never be again. | |
| Janis Ian – At Seventeen Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I love this song and wish this topic would come up in society - it rarely if ever does. As a late-blooming glasses-wearing guy faced with abuse at home and bullying at school I didn't get around to asking a girl out until the spring of my senior year...and she politely declined. The lost lessons of high school turned into fumbles and fear of rejection in college and I didn't have a girlfriend until 23. Then, for 20 years, I considered myself "over" this earlier pain. But in midlife, it came back. With everything settled - and settling down - in life, you cast your gaze fondly to the past. I found myself bankrupt...my peers, the "jocks" and early bloomers who aged quickly and not nearly as well as me, could still draw on all the good and bad capers of their past. I have nothing. I'll sit up late at night after the family is at bed, listen to this song, and ponder if that girl in high school had said "yes" 3 decades ago. |
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| Prefab Sprout – I Remember That Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| I've been listening but glossing over this gem for years. The music is weak by Prefab standards and a mismatch with the lyrics. But those lyrics...they ache. I was one who missed out on so many chances to build memories. Now all gone now. | |
| Keane – A Heart to Hold You Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Another great "B" track from Keane. In this one there's the classic transposition/irony of the artist offering up to the past lover what he actually wishes she would offer him. Sadly it shows him as the suffering one - and to speculate, its likely the lover has left and forgotten him just as "A Bad Dream" offers so plaintively: "Wouldn't mind it If you were by my side But you're long gone Yeah you're long gone now" |
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| Keane – The Night Sky Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Like so many of the finest Keane songs, this one gripped hold of me and presented a puzzle with few clues as to the reason for the personal impact. Ostensibly it tells the emotional side of a civilian war, perhaps in a hometown, perhaps from an adult’s perspective as a child. Perhaps I feel I bit guilty co-opting this message, for War Child, but perhaps my interpretation will resonate with others. For the past four years, culminating with the death of my mother a few weeks ago, I have really come to grips the extremes of the abuse I suffered growing up. I was bullied relentlessly at school – and then when I fled to come home – the endless emotional and physical rage and abuse of my mother that lasted my entire childhood. There was no war in my hometown, but how I quietly and with no one’s knowledge I suffered nonetheless. Worse, this merely seemed “normal” to me as I knew no other way of life. In a sense, I was also a “war child.” Still, memories are purified and bring back such cravings amid the disappointments that the words of this song evoke. I remember waiting at the bus stop in the seventh grade, and the book store on Main street in my hometown – and I want to go back in time to experience it again. I would give anything for this! I would only ask that I could bring with me a 3 x 5 card with the lessons of past 30 years so that as I relived the hell, I could somehow fix it and change my present outcome. Once again, Keane is my muse and constant companion for deep meditation. |
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| Prefab Sprout – Goodbye Lucille #1 Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Love this. It plays as if an older, wiser man is giving advice to a young man on getting over a girl...at first. But then the singer is taken in his own thoughts of lost love, and how, he, too can never turn back the clock. You can't get over lost love. You can forget it for a decade or two, or three...but the pain returns when you least expect. |
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