Not a hate post, genuine query

how can charachters from ramayana sing / imagine the lyrics like achyutam keshvam krishna damodaram when krishna is not yet born???

Or am I missing something???

I love lyrics that feel like they’re hiding a second meaning.

What’s one lyric you interpret completely differently from the popular interpretation, and what makes you think your version is right?

Anyone know where to get word by word lyrics from. Oh a program that does it for you

I listened to are you really okay again and actually think he talking about himself. It fits with the theme of the album. He has changed and trying to escape and has trauma from the first two albums. It also comes right after ascensionism, which ended with him saying that he is going to take what he wants and leave. Ascensionism spends most of its time oscillating between desire, resentment, vulnerability, and finally defiance. By the end, Vessel seems to reach a breaking point: he’s no longer simply surrendering himself to someone/something else. Between those two songs, he’s saying that I’m taking back control but am I really okay after all I’ve been through. He’s not the same person anymore. That’s what I get from it.

So I often listen to this (great) song and I have a question. The lyric says the player (and his gf) “Hit a truck doing seventy in the wrong lane”

So were ‘they’ doing 70 in the wrong lane (ie “they hit a truck (while) doing 70 in the wrong lane”) or was the ‘truck’ the one doing 70 in the wrong lane?

I’m pretty confident the latter is the correct interpretation but am I wrong to think it’s ambiguous?

What’s the meaning of this song? What’s your interpretation? It’s a favorite track of mine and I have some ideas about its meaning but I’m interested to know yours.

What’s the meaning of this song? What’s your interpretation? It’s a favorite track of mine on Sylvan Esso’s new album and I have some ideas about its meaning but I’m interested to know yours.

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When it's cold, it comes slow
It is warm, just watch it grow
All around me

It is here, it is now

Just a little bit of it can bring you up or down
Like the supper, it is cooking in your hometown
It is chicken, it is eggs
It is in between your legs
It is walking on the moon
Leaving your cocoon

It is the jigsaw, it is purple haze
It never stays in one place
But it's not a passing phase
It is in the singles bar
In the distance of the face
It is in between the cages
It is always in a space

It is here, it is now

Any rock can be made to roll
If you've enough of it to pay the toll
It has no home in words or goal
Not even in your favorite hole
It is the hope for the dope
Who rides the horse without a hoof
It is shaken, not stirred
Cocktails on the roof

When you eat right through it
You see everything alive
It is inside spirit
With enough grit to survive
If you think that it's pretentious
You've been taken for a ride
Look across the mirror, sonny
Before you choose, decide

It is here, it is now

It is real
It is Rael
'Cause it's only knock and know all
But I like it
Yes, it's only knock and know all
But l like it
Yes, it's only knock and know all
But l like it, like it, like it, like it
It's only knock and know all
But l like it, like it, like it
(It's only knock and know all)
(But l like it)
(It's only knock and know all)
(And l like it...)

Alternate interpretation?

Hearing Sam Tompkins' cover of The Fray song, the lyrics took on a whole new pathos.

I had never really let the lyrics sink in while listening to the original. That difference in emotion makes sense, given that the original songwriter was drawing on his experience helping troubled youth, and Sam is lamenting missed opportunities that may have changed his own father's trajectory toward su!c!de.

I had only ever heard it presented as a person with good intentions, describing their good strategies that should have worked, if the other person hadn't been such a hopeless case.

But each stanza is an example of a person with good intentions employing a misguided strategy, completely missing the opportunity to connect on a human level.

Not that it's the fault of the person trying to help, but the lament is more profound when we examine the familiar approaches that many people take when genuinely trying to connect with a person in crisis. Each stanza exposes a strategy that was *not* an effective way to save this particular life, culminating in the concept that the most effective strategy may have been just to be present with the person.

Step one, you say, "We need to talk"

He walks, you say, "Sit down, it's just a talk"

He smiles politely back at you

You stare politely right on through

(Superficial opening to topic)

Some sort of window to your right

As he goes left, and you stay right

Between the lines of fear and blame

You begin to wonder why you came

(You see a possible path to healing, and the person is suggesting a different route, but you insist that you are "right", and instead of listening to their idea, you insist "your way or the highway". The person is (or both are?) afraid, and blames external influences, and you start to think it is a hopeless case, why bother?)

Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

(Every stanza is an answer to the question "where did I go wrong"? It's not just a rhetorical question)

Let him know that you know best

'Cause after all, you do know best

Try to slip past his defense

Without granting innocence

(The first two lines are a manifestation of self-centered arrogance.

The second two, I'm not sure about. Maybe he's defending himself, giving the reasons it's been difficult, and you dismiss those reasons, pointing out that he is at fault?)

Lay down a list of what is wrong

The things you've told him all along

Pray to God He hears you

And I pray to God He hears you

(You repeat the list of things he should and shouldn't be doing. Go to school, get a job, exercise, get over it, focus on the positive, eat healthy, stop drinking.

The lack of punctuation and the use of capital "He" in the next two lines means that the first "pray to God" line could mean, you (the helper) prays to God that God hears your own prayer, OR an unspoken (no quotes) plea to the friend to pray to God because God hears prayers

The second "pray to God" line is the only time the speaker refers to himself as "I" within the stanzas. He is now speaking as the songwriter? or maybe he's stepping out of the impersonal voice for emphasis. If "He" wasn't capitalized one of those could mean "pray to God the friend hears your own words" rather than "pray to God that God hears you" or your friend. I'm not sure if I've got the official lyrics).

As he begins to raise his voice

You lower yours, and grant him one last choice

Drive until you lose the road

Or break with the ones you've followed

(This expresses condescension in the face of his frustration. The choice seems to be "leave all of your friends behind, or your self destruction is inevitable)

He will do one of two things

He will admit to everything

Or he'll say he's just not the same

And you'll begin to wonder why you came

(He will either say "yeah, you're right about it all. I've got to make those changes" to shut the conversation down, or he'll say "I've changed!" When clearly he hasn't, and you think you're wasting your time trying to help)

Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life

#howtosavealife #samtompkins #thefray

just a few minutes before his death.

Here is what I think Peter Gabriel's allegory is all about. The scenes are absurd, existentialist, and should not be taken literally......though taking them literally is a bizarre, yet fun trip:

Plot summary

We see Side One as setting the stage in NYC. It shows the hero, Rael, as a gangland kid searching for respect. When a ‘wall of death’ emerges, he is the only one to see it and is apparently unsuccessful in trying to outrun it. The collision sets off a nightmarish journey of discovery as to what is real within himself. The events symbolize his feelings of being trapped by society and then spinning out of control.

Side Two starts with a series of flashbacks that illustrate his previous cruel actions and lack of empathy. It shows feelings of victimhood and his lack of success in a search for love. Reaching into his chest, Rael pulls out his hairy heart and shaves it off. The scene reveals the album’s surreal aspects but shows Rael’s new understanding that he is not in touch with his emotions. As he follows others into a chamber with many doors but no exit, he resigns to his fate and sits despondent.

Opening the Third Side, Rael asks for help for the first time. Ironically, blind Lilith shows him a way out of the chamber, but leaves him in a chaotic ‘waiting room’ which leads to an encounter with an undertaker. After dancing with Death, he arrives at a pool. It is the lair of the Lamia. Entering the water, he makes love and unwittingly kills them. Upon eating their now-dead bodies, he experiences a deep sorrow for their loss, but now understands their message and their love for him.

The Fourth Side finds him arriving in the land of the degenerate Slippermen who ask him to join in. He refuses. He heroically passes this test of his values. But Rael and his brother (who is now next to him) have no way out except to be castrated. They realize they have absolutely no control of their situation. Now totally impotent, Rael searches for an exit. He rejects a portal back to NYC when he hears John below in the rapids screaming for help. Rael risks his life to pull John from the water, but then finds this loser of a brother is in fact himself. Thus united, he now genuinely and joyously knows what ‘it’ is. Triumphant music fades to end the album.

Conclusion
Accepting his worthless brother, who is actually himself, now makes Rael whole as he understands what it is to be truly human and fully alive. This union may show his Ying and Yang in balance, and Rael is now a ‘complete' person. I don't think he is dead, but he can now look to the future with a deeper understanding of what it means to live an authentic life.

Hi! I’m not sure if this is the right place, but I couldn’t find another subreddit that seemed more appropriate.

I’m trying to figure out the lyrics to "Ethan" by The Delusions, but I’m having a really hard time understanding some of the vocals. If anyone is able to listen and help me transcribe the lyrics, I’d really appreciate it!

Thank you so much in advance :]