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Topic Started: Mar 22 2011, 06:05 AM (588 Views)
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Shake me down by Cage the Elephant from their new album Thank You Happy Birthday. I just got my hands on their album today. Went to the mall, bought it. I love this song.



Shake me down
Not a lot of people left around
Who knows now
Softly laying on the ground, oooh
Not a lot of people left around, oooh
Ohhhh
In my life I've seen
People walking to the sea
Just to find memories
Plagued by constant misery
Their eyes cast down
Fixed upon the ground
Their eyes cast down
I'll keep my eyes fixed on the sun
Shake me down
Cut my hair on a silver cloud
Broken sound
Softly laying on the ground, ooooh
Not a lot of people left around, ooooh
Ooooh
In my past, bittersweet
There's no love between the sheets
Taste the blood, broken dreams
Lonely times indeed
With eyes cast down
Fixed upon the ground
Eyes cast down
I'll keep my eyes fixed on the sun
Turn back now it's time for me to let go
Way down had to find a place to lay low
Lampshade turned around into a light post
Walk around the corner
Never saw it coming still
I try to make a move
It almost stopped me from belief
I don't wanna know the future
But I'm like rolling thunder
Even on a cloudy day (repeat seven times)
I'll keep my eyes fixed on the-
I'll keep my eyes fixed on the-
I'll keep my eyes fixed on the sun

Shake me down
Not a lot of people left around, Ooooh
Ooooh

The video really helps put the song into context, and I want to explain this video seperately to help make the song itself understandable.

The video shows a man, probably in his 50s-60s, reminiscing about his life. All the great things and all the regrets. He's dreaming this right before he dies. Kinda like the saying that everything flashes back right before you die.

Which brings me to the song itself.

Live your life before you lose it. Don't have regrets, be able to wake up every day and smile. That's what I see.
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Next is Die Alone by Ingrid Michaelson

I randomly found this song on Pandora, fell in love with it.



I woke up this morning with a funny taste in my head.
Spackled some butter over my whole grain bread.
Something tastes different, maybe it's my tongue.
Something tatstes different, suddenly I'm not so young.

I'm just a stranger, even to myself.
A re-arranger of the proverbial bookshelf.
Don't be a fool girl, tell him you love him.
Don't be a fool girl, you're not above him.

I never thought I could love anyone but myself.
now I know I can't love anyone but you.
You make me think that maybe I won't die alone.
Maybe I won't die alone.

Kiss the boys as they walk by, call me their baby.
But little do they know, I'm just a maybe.
Maybe my baby will be the one to leave sore.
Maybe my baby will settle the score.

I never thought I could love anyone but myself.
now I know I can't love anyone buy you.
but you make me think that maybe I won't die alone.
Maybe I won't die alone.

What have I become?
Something soft and really quite dumb.
Because I've fallen, oh, 'cause I've fall- fallen, oh 'cause I've fall-fall-fallen
So far away from the place where I started from.

I never thought I could love anyone.
I never thought I could love anyone.
I never thought I could love anyone.
But you....
But you....
But you....
But you....
But you .... but you ...make me think that maybe I won't
die alone.
Maybe I won't die alone.

Best quality quality video I could find...

I think this song is about a girl who is has problems keeping herself in a relationship, turning down people she may possibly love ("I never thought I could love anyone but myself.") who finds someone who changes her completely ("Now I know I can't love anyone buy you, but you make me think that maybe I won't die alone. Maybe I won't die alone.")
She doesn't recognize herself anymore, and is afraid of the outcome, but is pushed on by another side of herself, and at the end, begns to believe in herself.

That's pretty much it. I love the song..
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oh my X.x
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You posted right after I went to sleep. I just woke up, crying. No, I don't know why.
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Still awake, still feeling like crap.
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Still awake. I feel better...sorta.
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Been awake for..... jeez, 21 hours. I don't think I'll be able to sleep.
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Lyn told me that you won't have internet for a while... -sadface-

Still unsure why.
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Also, I'll be playing vindictus a bit, if I'm not on mabi, note me or say something here, or both. Either way.

Btw, I will be moving back to Arkansas. Very soon. I'm....annoyed.
Edited by Sylrinia, Mar 25 2011, 07:01 AM.
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I'll be in Arkansas by next week. Something about my parents being sick of the cold, so they want to move us all back there. My mom has been thinking of this for a long time, just never felt like telling me or my sister. We're apparently moving starting tomorrow, and if everything goes right, have everything including power, internet, etc set up by Monday.

I hate my mom so much. I don't want to move. Sure, I'll see some of my old friends again, but something tells me she only did this because I just lost one of my best friends who lived there. She's a complete bitch.
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