| The Killers – Mr. Brightside Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[pjs1111:6814] Good interpretation, I respect that. Looking through these comments, it's actually pretty hard to decide which one I prefer the most. They're all pretty valid, I wish I was smart enough to come up with my own... But all in all, this is a great song, the tones and heavy kicks in the song really match up with Flowers' voice to deliver the jealous mood perfectly. | |
| Jeff Buckley – Lover, You Should've Come Over Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[hellofoghorn:5172] I agree with the line "My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder", and I believe this is probably an allusion to Richard's famous line from Shakespeare's Richard III: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" Actually, just those four superlative metaphors "My kingdom... All my riches... All my blood... She's a tear..." just so meaningful and perfectly capture those feelings. | |
| Jeff Buckley – Lover, You Should've Come Over Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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- Stanza 1: The organ at the beginning symbolises a funeral, which Buckley is watching: "Looking out the door I see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners". This seems sad, but to Buckley, all he feels sorry for is himself because of the pain left behind from a previous break-up. - Stanza 2: We learn that Buckley's relationship ended as a result of his own disloyalty. He realises his mistakes now that he's "too old to just break free and run", and consequently he realises "really, he has no one". - Stanza 3: He wants his ex (lover) to come over "'cause it's not too late". - Stanza 4: Buckley creates depressing imagery, metaphorically describing his life as a lonely room with an open, inviting window. He describes his pain superlatively as "burning" and can't sleep because of it. - Stanza 5: Buckley repeats that his pain is "never over", and he describes what he'd do to have his lover come over with four hyperbolic metaphors. "My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder" is an allusion to Shakespeare's Richard III: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" This really is, in my opinion, the most meaningful and beautiful stanza of the poem. It's also a sort-of pre-climax where he lets out his Romeo-esque thoughts before stanza 6. - Stanza 6: The climax of the song coincides with where Buckley lets out his frustration with himself for causing the break-up, describing himself metaphorically "too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage I've done." Buckley finishes the song with the unanswered invitation, meaning that he'll never believe it's too late for his lover to come back to him, and will never get over it. The song ends with the sound of the organ, recapping the sadness from the beginning and relating the loss of a relationship to the passing of a loved one. This structure is the reason I love this song. It's not the sort of structure that gets you hooked on the song like a 2000's/2010's pop song structure does, because unlike said pop songs, it is slightly more through-composed, meaning the music follows the nature of the poem rather than the music being basically the same for every stanza. It is in the form A-A-B-A-Coda, but the B and Coda sections are fairly long and that's really where the through-composed style of the piece shines. The A sections really just describe Jeff's sadness, and are thus suitably softly played and sparesly textured. |
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