| Alexisonfire – Thrones Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Not gonna lie, I'm horrible with lyrics and deciphering meanings, however a few things occurred to me when I was listening to this song today. It's been one of my favourite songs of theirs since they released Crisis and it kills me that it's relegated to a B-Side that only a handful of fans probably know about. Anyways, everywhere I've read the lyrics for this song, it says the line "If I were you, I would defend my innocence. visually." I've always sung it as such, because hey, sure it doesn't make any sense but not all lyrics are straight forward. However for some reason listening to it for the 1000th time I noticed that it seemed a lot more like he's saying "If I were you, I would defend my innocence VIGILANTLY." Makes a lot more sense and I'm surprised at myself for not picking it up earlier, but anyways.... The other thing is that while I believe everyone else here has the right idea, I think that Dallas seems to be playing the role of opposition to George in this song. "When you awake alone with no one left to hold, you wont need to know all the things I know." Out of context this could really mean a number of things, but if you relate it to George's line of "If I knew then what I know now I'd stay six years old" it seems to make a lot more sense contextually, almost as a kind of counter argument. I think he's basically saying if you were to remain six years old and blissfully ignorant to the world forever, then you'll never learn anything or become attached to anything, you'll never have anyone to hold, you wont NEED to know anything. "If you lost everything in a moment, would you notice? Could you rebuild something so hopeless, are you hopeless?" Seems to support my theory and suggest that being young and oblivious and devoid of attachment to the things that matter makes everything lack a whole lot of depth and subsequently mean very little when they're taken away, however they are for the most part things that everyone needs. You're essentially "hopeless" without them. "Relax, patience people, there's no need to react, so desperately tonight. In fact all of you will be sleeping with honesty intact so just give up tonight." It almost seems to me as though he's insinuating that loss of innocence is necessary in life, and that often times honesty will precede it. Anyways, I've probably butchered all the points I've tried to get across because I seem to be struggling to formulate the ideas in my head into text, so I hope it wasn't too confusing! |
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| Alexisonfire – Control Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think everyone is looking a tad too far into this... Ever consider that it's not specifically about anorexia, but more about issues in general? I'm sure everyone knows someone in their life who just always sees the bad in everything and always brings others down with their negativity... I just think the song is more of a plea, for people like that to just look past the negativity and try to be happy. The reason for this is that well, the impression I get when Dallas and George take turns in singing is they sing from different sides of the story, so for instance: This burden's not a heavy one, But I assure you its present Is perhaps the negative person, who takes everything no matter how small and just drills the negativity of the situation into you to the point that it's not dismissable, it's present. And the rest of the song is Dallas trying to get that person to look past it. Anyway, that's just what I think. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – The Union Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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A few things I'd like to point out.. I do think this is about Shaun and John, but also about Fred and the new bassist (sorry, his name has totally slipped my mind at the moment.) Did anyone notice the song is called The Union? Obviously referring to the new line-up. Louie said: "i never made a scene, they came to me" i read in an interview with john and shaun after the breakup and the ywere saying how adam tried to attract attention to himself wherever he went, ect. I also read in an interview that Fred was pressured into contacting Eddie when he was having financial problems and applying to join the band. This is significant because as Louie said Adam never "made a scene/they came to me". Notice how Fred is singing "I didn't have to, I didn't have to"? (join The Union/band) |
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| Hidden in Plain View – The Point Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I read in an interview that one of the songs in this album is about standing on top of a building pondering suicide. I'm going to assume this is it. I wish people would quit relating every single song to a girl, it's driving me insane. I'm not saying this song isn't, but near every "songmeaning" I've read on every band is about a girl or relationship, even ones that clearly aren't. Anywho, that's my rant, and the songmeaning associated with this song. |
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| The Used – Take It Away Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"I wish I had a boyfriend that I could just fall asleep next to." - omghayitskay // kayla Go cry yourself to sleep again you moron. |
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| The Used – Take It Away Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Just something to add to my post above, the references to "Chemical Romance" etc also brings to mind perhaps the song may be about a near death experience with drugs? I remember him saying he witnissed a friend die off drug abuse, and that's what shook him out of it, so that's what it could be about. | |
| The Used – Take It Away Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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There's two things people haven't thought of that I just want to open up. When I read the lyrics, I think that perhaps this song is more along the lines of breaking up from a relationship, and feeling empty, and like you want to die. "I must have caught something In the heat of all these dances I'm a worm with no more chances And I've lost all doubt In a chemical romance I can't stop itching Over thoughts of tarnished hope Kinda funny Lonely feeling I'm not in love You know it's not love To me it looks so pretty burning" But he knows he doesn't want to die. He doesn't want to see the "light" at the end of the tunnel. Or, perhaps it could be death in general. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Ghost Man on Third Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Fuck what I said 4 or 5 posts up, that's a load of shit seeing the song was written before that whole incident. I was watching a live clip of this song and during the line "Headlights dressed in a fashion that's fitting to the inconsistencies of my moods", he speeds it up to add more to the end in which he says, "and when you walk home alone you remember what the fuck was keeping you awake." Or something along the lines of that. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Ghost Man on Third Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| kirch, on the whole jinx thing, I always wondered about those couple of lines, and now that you've brought it to my attention, I think you're kind of right. "Thinking if it's three" (you have to say the person's name three times before they can talk) or something like that, but I dunno what relevance that has to being as smooth as the small of someone's back. ^o) | |
| Taking Back Sunday – Ghost Man on Third Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I was reading into the whole Taking Back Sunday/Brand New thing, with "Seventy Times Seven" and "There's no "I" in team", and I ended up reading about Adam cheating on Michele Nolan, (former lead singer of TBS, John's sister,) about how John left with one of the guitarists and formed Straylight Run with him and his sister, and I was thinking maybe that that was this song was about, whether it be his addiction to alcohol or drugs leading him to cheat on her, or cheating on her leads him to start doing drugs or drinking alcohol. Either way, it's something else to look at. | |
| Taking Back Sunday – Ghost Man on Third Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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First of all, no one came onto www.songmeanings.net to read about how you went and saw TBS and that they're amazing and you should go buy their CD. No one FUCKING CARES that this song is the most amazing song you've heard. This site is as it's name implies, a "Song-Meanings" site. Talk about the meaning of the song. I can almost guarantee you no one is benefiting from reading about how you're going through a similar experience to this song, or how a friend made you listen to it and it made you fall in love with TBS. Anyway, rant over, does anyone actually know what this song is about? Has the band commented on it before, or has anyone come up with a fairly accurate breakdown/representation of what this song is about? |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Great Romances of the 20th Century Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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by FiveLineConnection on 04-10-2003 @ 01:37:09 AM I agree with every single thing you said. I love you. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Great Romances of the 20th Century Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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by pinkblink32 on 07-08-2002 @ 04:56:27 PM I hate when people always say how evil girls are. Not all girls are evil. I for one know that I'm not evil, I do not manipulate, so don't typecast all of us as bad. :) Guys are evil. Obviously not all of them, but all of the ones who I seem to encounter are. I have had my heart broken more times than I can count. If you need proof of this, check out my journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/pinkblink32/ Both sexes are equally evil. It depends on how the other person percieves the evil. Yeah, you cop it sweet. :rolleyes: 9:24 pm - I love your boot Tonight, Josh did the cutest thing for me. I lent him my perks book and when he gave it back to me he had a CD put in it and it was called, "music to make you infinite" O gosh! I must say I almost cried for the sixth time this year. It was soooo cute! And we watched Kill Bill Vol. I too. That was a swell movie, very enjoyable! And Jena licked all ten of my fingers tonight too. Very, veeeery pleasurable, HAHAHAHAHA! That's all. |
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| Thursday – Steps Ascending Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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If it's the same show I'm thinking of, yeah, I "aquired" it from some legal internet download thing.... yes... *runs* |
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| Thursday – Tomorrow I'll Be You Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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www.thursday.sh5.net They don't have all the songs off War..., but all the ones they do have off War I've posted here anyway. |
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| Thursday – Steps Ascending Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song is about when Geoff had a fist fight with one of his best friends, and he got so mad at him that he didn't speak to him, and a year later he was shot and killed, and Geoff never got to say goodbye. This was his way of doing it. | |
| Thursday – For The Workforce, Drowning Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I take no credit for the interpretation of this song, I found it on a website. This song is about losing your identity in today's world of work, eat, sleep, repeat. It's feeling like now you know what you parents have to go through day in day out and how lucky Thursday feels to have a job that they love doing. Also this song is about friends who have jobs that they hate every day, but have to go through just to keep living. |
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| Thursday – Between Rupture and Rapture Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I take no credit for the interpretation of this song, I just found it on a website. Between Rupture and Rapture is a song about how Geoff sees the world and about his friend who killed himself. His friend would always tell him that "Life is just a short hallway that your running through" and that sometimes he feels like he is getting lost in that hallway. Also, Geoff is scared that love wont fill a void he feels. |
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| Thursday – Tomorrow I'll Be You Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I take no credit for the itnerpretation of this song, I found it on a website. Singer Geoff Rickly is cured. He always has been, but it was only recently that he realized this. He writes the song in the present tense, but he is actually looking back at a point in his life when he could find no answers. He did not know why the bad aspects of his life were piling on top of each other, making it seem as though the "wheels" of Hell would never stop spinning at a speed so exhausting that he could barely keep up. He looks back to a point where he was near resignation, but did not resign because he knew that he could not "stop these intersections" at which his life was crashing. While near the point of resignation, Rickly has a cathartic experience. He realizes that it was not what happened in his life, or even the order in which they happened that is making him feel this way, but that he was looking at his life wrong. He realizes that he is cured, and always has been. To purify his life and his feelings, he learns to look at the good parts of his life, not the bad ones. He learns that in order to survive in this world, he must "cut the jet black," or the bad parts of his life, from his "hair" of tangled memories. In order to survive in this world, he must "pull out the shards" from the lens of life, and deal with the problems that periodically get "caught in your throat," even if it means choking on them from time to time. He realizes that the only reason periods of a life seem bad is because we have such good periods, such bright days, to compare them to. Finally, he realizes that he has been cured. He has always had bright periods as well as dark, but only needed to learn how to cope with the bad while focusing on the good. Rickly examines what other people, people from "another room," may do when faced with the same problem that he has recently faced. Some may give up on life, but this solves nothing. Even when the "piano player" gives up and is hanging from "piano wire," the "player piano", a symbol for both a higher being and other peoples' lives, carries on. Nothing changes in the majority of others' lives when this happens, and the daily routine of life continues. The music played at this point illustrates both emptiness and the repetitive routine of life. Other people may pretend to be someone else. These are people that do not try to deal with their problems, but set them aside. Once they realize that no matter who they pretend to be they will have problems in life, they begin to go mad. They do not live life, but lie to themselves and say they are perpetually dreaming. New Year's Day is used as a symbol of renewal. When Rickly cuts the "jet black" from his hair, he is renewing his way of thinking. He begins to think not of the bad, but of the good. The flame is his realization of the cure within. By realizing that he has always had the cure, he can renew himself. He does this "in the dawn of New Year's Day," and changes back to himself, rather than the negative person he was. The song is written in the present tense to show action. In order to change, Rickly needed to take charge of his life. To fix his feelings, he had to act upon it. By writing in the present tense, he recreates this action that he was required to use. This also makes the song more exciting, more suspenseful, and more interesting. To change his life and heal himself, Rickly needed to find the cure within. He found the cure by examining himself and teaching himself how to be inwardly happy. He taught himself to replace the "I" in "live" with an "O," and to not just live his life, but to love his life. |
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| Thursday – M. Shepard Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I take no credit for this interpretation, I found it on a website. On October 7, 1998, Matthew Shepard was murdered by two men. He was tied to a fence post, then was continuously beaten, tortured, and left to die in the near-freezing temperatures. Eighteen hours later, a man rode by on his bicycle. He first mistook Matthew for a scarecrow, but on further investigation discovered that it was in fact a human being. Matthew's face was covered in blood, except for where his tears had washed it away. He was murdered because he was gay. Geoff Rickly is outraged, frightened, and disgusted by the murder of Matthew Shepard. He is so moved by this death that he cannot even disguise his feelings. This death, to him, shows the dehumanization by society that is becoming more and more popular, frequent, and life-threatening. He believes that eventually, no one will be unique or have identity - the world will be filled with robots. In this song, he gives a cry for unification and for revolution. The song starts off on the night Matthew was murdered. "The stage is set to rip the wings from the butterfly" refers to Matthew, a unique and delicate butterfly, tied to the fencepost, about to be ripped apart, both mentally and physically. This sets a serious tone for the rest of the song and causes everything that is said to relate to Matthew. Next, Rickly gives his thoughts on the subject. He feels that it will never be safe to express ourselves or to "take the stage" unless "the whole world dies," or society learns how to accept and cope with differences. He says that these kinds of crime will continue, and graveyards will grow to enormous sizes, near that of a "landing strip." He explains that when the whole world dies, "we won't have to be afraid anymore. But this is not the case, not yet at least, and in the meantime, people are scared. There is a "gathering storm" of hatred, and when it nears, everyone must "grow silent." The "curtain" separates those hated by members of society, like Matthew Shepard, from those faceless robots that are accepted by everyone else, loathed by no one. When this curtain falls, it becomes a game of survival. You must try to be caught on "the other side," the inhumane side, and "keep up the act" in order to survive. However, Rickly feels that it is worthless to live as a dehumanized soul, and refuses to put on an act for anybody. Instead, he chooses the other side of the curtain, and feels that he will soon find himself "in the back of black cars," of hearses, adding to the success of these fierce souls and joining their "procession of emptiness." Rickly points out that in today's society, many people are scared to voice their personal opinions. If they work up the courage to do this, they are immediately regretful and terrified. They hold their breath in anticipation, even though they know that eventually their planes "are going to crash" and they will become another martyred soul. To help stop this, Rickly cries out for a revolution. He suggests to the listeners that they "don't have to be alone ever again." He calls for them to unite against the faceless and start a riot in the theatre. He imagines a brawl between those who are unique and have opinions and the "murderers," who are waiting to do to them exactly what they did to Matthew and carve the same "M" in their sides. Rickly yells out that even if it comes to standing alone against the dehumanized, you must fight. If not, the world will become dull, monotonous, and full of robots. Rickly then goes back to the night that Matthew was murdered. Once again, "the stage is set to rip the wings from the butterfly." Then, there is a silence. Breathing. The helplessness of Matthew, the dullness of the world that will become of us, our inability to express ourselves, perhaps even Rickly's perception of the sound of death. Next, there is no singing, but talking. Singing would make the death of Matthew too unique. But it is not unique, not in today's world, because crimes like these have become almost as routine as talking. Rickly talks, describing Matthew's death. The mention of a "curtain" brings the listener back to the image of the brawl. Matthew, as Rickly instructed, is standing alone, defenseless against these two murderers. With the mention of lotus flowers and silk, we are reminded of a Chinese culture, of Buddhism, of reincarnation. Rickly hopes and prays that Matthew is reincarnated. He hopes someone else will come along to swim upstream and fight the worsening society. In the last lines, Rickly worries about himself and takes a stand. Suddenly, he finds himself "under the spotlight." He is the next target. He is "on display with the butterfly and the scarecrow," two images of Matthew Shepard. He then yells at the murderers, viciously accusing them of their crime. He says to them, "With smiles like picket fences you tie us all up and leave us outside." They then reply, speaking of Matthew, "That voice is silent now, the boat has sunk." Rickly then screams his final line, a final plea for help, for unification, for the betterment of today's society. He yells to anyone that is left from the brawl in the theatre, anyone willing to fight the murderers, anyone wanting to retain their opinions and their individuality. He tries to give these people confidence with his last line, while he also tries to make the murderers frightened. He yells, "We're on our own, but we're not going to run." |
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| Thursday – This Song Brought to You by a Falling Bomb Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I take no credit for the interpretation of this song, I found it on a website. In this song, singer Geoff Rickly creates a sense of isolation from the world. We get this sense of isolation from the beginning, when we hear only a piano playing. In the first three lines, he notices small things that make him frustrated with the world. He finally breaks, and has had enough. He says "shut the window, love. Keep the world outside," to show that he no longer wants to be associated with the outside world. Soon, he finds out that it is extremely difficult to shut yourself off from the world. He loses unity with himself when he begins to notice the world again, and hears that "the footsteps are getting louder." He emphasizes their intensity by singing this line in a louder voice. This also shows that the footsteps have broken his concentration and that the outside world is pounding away at him - he can no longer even sing in the same manner. He cannot concentrate on anything to keep himself isolated anymore, such as the rain that "knocks on the windowsill." Despite this, he still attempts to stay free and look inward - by not answering the phone. In the following lines, he breaks a second time. The world has kept pounding away at him. He is now to the point of self destruction, as he becomes a "falling bomb." As he gets closer to the ground, closer to self destruction, the sky chases him. The closer that the sky, or the outside world, comes to him, the closer he is to self destruction. In the last lines, he examines himself. He shows us, and himself, that this is not his usual attitude. We knew that this was true from the beginning because the music played during this song is unusual. It is different from the music played in any other song the band has made. He has trouble referring to himself as "a falling bomb." He hesitates, and repeats the line "This song has been brought to you." Even when he does admit this attitude and his feelings to himself, he is still unsure. He whispers almost inaudibly when he says "by a falling bomb" and repeats it in disbelief of the reclusive person he has become. |
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