OK so basically just post up a song that you connect to or have an idea of what it means. And this is your opinion, so there is no right or wrong answer!
OK, I'll start with Square One by Coldplay:
Start You're in control, is there anywhere you wanna go? You're in control, is there anything you wanna know? The future's for discovering The space in which we're travelling
From the top of the first page To the end of the last day From the start in your own way You just want somebody listening to what you say It doesn't matter who you are It doesn't matter who you are
Under the surface trying to break through Deciphering the codes in you I need a compass, draw me a map I'm on the top, I can't get back
Whoa whoa
The first line on the first page To the end of the last page From the start in your own way You just want somebody listening to what you say It doesn't matter who you are It doesn't matter who you are
You just want Somebody listening to what you say Oh, you just want somebody listening to what you say It doesn't matter who you are It doesn't matter who you are
Is there anybody out there who Is lost and hurt and lonely too Are they bleeding all your colours into one? and if you come undone As if you've been run through Some catapult it fired you You wonder if your chance will ever come Or if you're stuck in square one Stop
The intro makes me think of some girl who breaks through the security on a spaceship and his holding the pilot at gunpoint, and the pilot calmly says, "You're in control, is there anywhere you wanna go?" So the pilot starts to reason with her with what he says in the song, trying to connect with her with the fact that she's a lost and wounded soul. I dunno. Don't ask. Thats just the image I get with this song.
So, feel free to post your opinion/interpretation of any song you like.
American Motor Over Smoldered Field There will not be a tender fire Upon your postcard mountains. No golden children Will write hymns about The slow defeat of your reckless destiny.
Bullets in the bellies of babies Sleeping in the strangest places, Indifferent to the blinding grace of The vapour-trails and burning waste Of your Baptist skies.
Oh! To live! In a burning house With burning children eating dust And finger-painting flags. Smoke pours out of their eyes. They're praying and saluting. They're all hanged up.
Hey! Okay! Kiss me slowly Beneath the dripping leaves Of our train track trees. Though sickly and diseased Some weeds thrive anyways.
This fence around your garden won't keep the sky from falling.
where are we? what the hell is going on? the dust has only just begun to form crop circles in the carpet sinking feeling
spin me round again and rub my eyes, this can't be happening when busy streets a mess with people would stop to hold their heads heavy
hide and seek trains and sewing machines all those years they were here first
oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before the takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this still life
hide and seek trains and sewing machines (oh, you won't catch me around here) blood and tears (hearts) they were here first
Mmmm whatcha say, Mmm that you only meant well? well of course you did Mmmm whatcha say, Mmmm that it's all for the best? of course it is Mmmm whatcha say? Mmmm that it's just what we need you decided this whatcha say? Mmmm what did she say?
ransom notes keep falling out your mouth mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs speak no feeling no I don't believe you you don't care a bit, you don't care a bit
(hide and seek) ransom notes keep falling out your mouth mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs
(hide and seek) speak no feeling no i don't believe you you don't care a bit, you don't care a (you don't care a) bit
(hide and seek) oh no, you don't care a bit oh no, you don't care a bit
(hide and seek) oh no, you don't care a bit you don't care a bit you don't care a bit
I think this song is about the Holocaust. please give it a listen when you have time. it's a really epic song. but it was sampled by Jason De Rulo (Whatcha Say) and gave it a cheap and shallow meaning than what it's supposed to mean. ugh.
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