| Lead Belly – In the Pines Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This song is about a black slave girl in America in the 1950s who has run away from her master and spent the night sleeping under a pine tree. Her master finds her (supposedly dehydrated and weak) and tells her to give up running because she will not make it more than a mile and a half before dying. | |
| Alela Diane – Take Us Back Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think this song could be about people who's homes have been destroyed by a natural disaster, such as a flood, and the only thing they want is to be able to go back to their old lives and not have to live somewhere else. A natural disaster seems to be hinted at in the lines "windblown buildings, muddy ground, the srength of water can sink a man"; 'Windblown buildings and muddy grounds' are the effects of the disaster - strong winds have blown off rooftops and the streets are now like a huge puddle of muddy water from the flood, and 'the strength of water can sink a man' is literally stating that there is so much water that even the strongest men are swept away. A flood is also suggested again in the lines "when the higher hills have turned to blue, and the waves are lapping where the children grew"; the higher hills turning to blue means that the water is so deep that entire hills are submerged in it and so they look blue, and 'the waves are lapping where the children grew' could be referring to the playgrounds in the schools where the children grew up being flooded with waves of water. It is clear that the people want to go back to their old lives and don't want to live anywhere else because of the the lines "take us back, oh take us back", which sounds like them praying that they can go back to their former lives and just live happy. This is what I make of the lyrics, I could be wrong but there you go... |
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