| David Gray – Babylon Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I agree on the Tower of Babel interpretation. To me the general sense of the song is melancholic. It is about a man reflecting on his past relationship with a woman. He realizes now their love was true but his 'ego' (jealousy etc) was in the way. Probably in a jealous mood he said something like "I never loved you anyway" to her and their lives went different roads. (which he tries to rectify now > "the love I was giving was never in doubt") Now he misses her horrbibly (I conclude this from him describing 3 days in a row in detail - Friday-Saturday-Sunday- which already seem to feel like a very long period without her) I tend to interpret the chorus as: "I let go of your heart, I let go of your head and I feel the pain now, I see how stupid I have behaved" He sees now how silly he has behaved and he is surrendering to (the feeling of love for) her and his own miscomings. He lets go of his pride and admits (crying) out loud that he was wrong. I think her smiling on the stairs in the end of the song is just his imagination. He lost her and realizes they were trapped in the Tower of Babel effect: loved each other, but didn't find a way to reach each other in words. Literally the chorus could be read as an encouragement to people to let go of their heads and hearts and simply feel. To rise and shine just like the people of Babylon did before God decided to shatter them by language. To reach for heaven like they did by building the tower. (But somehow I keep on hearing a melancholic undertone in the song, a feeling of frustration and powerlessness, so I don't quite believe the optimism of the literal words) |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Ship Song Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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when you love someone you give this person wings (often used expression) so when you let this person go, you remove their wings... |
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| Grinderman – Go Tell the Women Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I don't think this is a man against women song at all. Although he does want to create this impression to fool the listener. For me it is about being a typical male in the sense of being rational, scientific, well balanced etc But he questions this being male. What is it worth to be macho, to be free but feel lost? To be that rational that you don't believe in anything anymore? He's tired of it and wants to leave (this type of life or whatever, for sure not just the women) |
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