Song meanings (find some out. It's interesting)

[Metal Lord]

I've recently dicovered this website which allows you to discover the meanings of your favourite songs.

 

So, leave some interesting meanings and discuss them. It is interesting, so have a go.

 

Here's one:

Song name- Sleep well tonight

Artist- Fightstar

Meaning- Ok, I realise this is a way-out there interpretation and it is by no means complete or without fault...but I'm interested to hear what you think about this.

 

I think the narrator here is dead and is looking down on his ex-girlfriend from heaven. I think his girlfriend is very near to death. She is having nightmares and flashbacks of an accident that perhaps they were both involved in, causing his death? Or maybe she has attempted suicide and that is why she is near death. I think the narrator is telling her to 'sleep well tonight' as death is nearby and 'the light' will eventually come and take her away into heaven to join him.

 

'All you've seen has gone, if you dream the truth it will all come clear' - he says that what she is dreaming and having nightmares about is not how it really is. He is reassuring her that death is not so bad, that she will see for herself.

 

'If you could take a lifetime away...' - he says, if you could take back my death, and make me return from heaven maybe it could have been different.

 

'We fell like everyone else has, our mark will show where we were for our last time' - we made mistakes like everyone else, but we also made a difference and left our mark on the world.

 

'If we could take a lifetime away. and make us come down' - the use of the word 'us' implies that the girlfriend has now died too.

 

'If you could take the hours then maybe we could fall apart, I could stay here' - if we could turn back time, to the time when we were both still alive, maybe he could do something different to make her live and that he would be the one to remain in heaven, whilst she continued to live her life on earth.

 

What do people think? I am more than likely talking absolute rubbish!

 

 

 

Leave links, meanings and even lyrics. See what we get...

[Quicksilver]

where's the site?

[Lazer Yoshi]

Here's some meanings I know.

Three Little Birds my Bob Marley - Three Birds eating the Pot on your Front Porch.

Testify by Rage - Government Sucks(DOY)

Hid the Skids by Local H - Try to Fit In

Molly's Lips by Nirvana - I have a Girlfriend because I stopped doing Drugs.

[Azuh]

Citizen Erased by Muse

 

Now many of you may call me insane but i think this song has a deeper' date=' darker meaning than what most of you have thus far been able to articulate. To me the song appears to be about the effect of human frailty on a persons view of themselves, at birth we are new to the world, free of any outside influence, from that moment onwards our lives, our personalities are moulded and dictated by the actions of those who surround us, it is from them we learn everything from morals and values through to speech patterns and getures. When Matt sings "break me in, teach us to cheat

and to lie, cover up

what shouldn't be shared?" he is documenting the unfortunate effects that experience can have on the human soul, the morally clean slate gifted at child birth, is slowly and surely disolved as one becomes consumed by the fatal instincts of modern life, lie, cheat steel, emotionless sex( what shouldnt be shared)

 

The chorus is Matts appeal to the creator, whoever that may be according to his personal beliefs, he is wishing to hold his stage, to be able to manipulate the hands of time, so that his soul is cleansed, cast back to the pure state of infancy.

 

The last verse is an emotional appeal for all the madness in the world to stop, a plea to whomever or whatever is responsible for his decaying moral and physical identity, as matt sings

wash me away

clean your body of me

erase all the memories

they will only bring us pain

and i've seen, all i'll ever need

 

he is pleading that the faults that he has learned through life in this modern world be stricken away, and that the moral decline our society experiences is having nothing but a negative effect on the mental well being of the planets occupants, that is we the people of earth. In many ways Citizen Erased reminds me of the poetry of the great William Blake, in particular his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience collections, in which Blake studies the effects of the outside world on the minds of London's inhabitants, taking in the optimistic, unlearned view of Innocence felt at childhood, and contrasting it with the stagnant, depressing view of one whom has learned from the experiences of the world. Whether or not Bellamy is a fan of Blake's works i am unaware, but the connection is almost uncanny.

 

The awesome power of the lyrics are only further entrenched into the listeners pysche through the faultless mixture of technical prowess and emotional cleansing that make up the songs structure. The music is nothing short of majestic, the soundscapes so diverse it transcends definition.

 

Citizen Erased is Matt Bellamy's depiction of the effects of the state of inocence and experience on the human soul, much like other visonary artisits before him, particularly William Blake, he has chosen unparralled power in his expression, only Matt's guitar,falsetto vocals and intricate piano, when coupled with the mystical abilities of the rythm section, screams a hell of a lot louder than poetry and etchings ever did.

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THis guy knows whats hes talking about lol

[Metal Lord]

where's the site?

 

 

It's a link. Click it and you'll go to www.songmeanings.net.

 

Great website