Don't call dumb lyrics when you don't understand the lyrics in the first place. Fireflies is a deep song
I like the song as much as the next guy, but I don't understand the lyrics. Please explain the depth of crying swarms of fireflies?
i wouldnt say it's *deep*, since to me *deep* usually means it has a meaning that you cant explain and only other *deep* individuals can understand. however the lyrics to fireflies do have a meaning, the singer adam young is singing about his insomnia. + Show Spoiler +
"Adam Young told the story behind the song to AntiMusic: "It was 2AM and I was sitting on the floor in my parent's basement with a MicroKorg on my lap. I built this synthy legato, 'ping' sound routed through a lowpass filter and ran it through a bunch of guitar pedals. I come up with a little cascading part that wound up as the intro and verses of a song called 'Fireflies.' I have insomnia and I've always had a tough time falling asleep for as long as I can remember. I wanted to sing about my inability to sleep in a whimsical way that portrayed the condition as lighthearted and almost more of a 'blessing' than a curse. It's ironic that when sleep and I cannot bring ourselves to meet is often when inspiration strikes hardest. I'd just been on vacation to Iowa the week before I wrote the song and was amazed at how many fireflies came out at dusk. I didn't really have to think about making a connection between insomnia and lighting bugs, it just sort of happened and the song basically wrote itself. It was a lot of fun.""
break a mirror, roll the dice run with scissors through a chip pan fire fight go into business with a grizzly bear but just don’t sit down cause i’ve moved your chair
find a well known hardman and start a fight wear your shell suit on bonfire night
fit them a circular hole with a peg that’s square but just don’t sit down cause i moved your chair
(ohhhh yeah yeah yeah) (ohhhh yeah yeah yeah)
bite the lightning and tell me how it tastes kung-fu fighting on your rollerskates do the macarena in the devil’s lair but just don’t sit down cause i’ve moved your chair
just when things are getting complicated in the eye of the storm she flicks a red-hot revelation off the tip of her tongue it does a dozen somersaults and it leaves you supercharged makes me wanna blow her candles out just to see if you glow in the dark shalalala shalalala shalalala shalalala home sweet home, home sweet home, home sweet booby-trap i took the batteries out my mysticism and put 'em in my thinking cap she's got a telescopic hallelujah hanging up on the wall for when it gets too complicated in the eye of the storm shalalala shalalala shalalala shalalala oh... and in a hellcat spangled cavern when your judgement's on the run and you're acting like a stranger cause you thought it looked like fun well did you ever get the feeling did you think she set the fall her steady hands may well have done the devil's pedicure what you waiting for? to sing another fuckin' shalalala shalalala shalalala shalalala
Can't decide if these songs are ridiculously pretentious or just plain retarded. Don't get me wrong i love the arctic monkeys but this latest album is just full of crap lyric wise.
On September 08 2011 02:27 Alay wrote: Anything by Slayer.
Geez, their lyrics are horrible compared to their music.
Deftones also have a high good music : shitty lyric ratio.
Oh my god. Please state an example. "Bored" is fucking awesome. I was just browsing through this thread not really intending to post anything, but since I was forced by this guy to do so, I would direct peoples attention away from 30 Seconds to Mars' The Kill: Come break me down Bury me, bury me I am finished with you Look in my eyes You're killing me, killing me All I wanted was you Compared to their debut, this is shite.
Doesn't take a genius to figure that 90% of the things she sings about in that video are NOT ironic at all. It's annoying. I kind of like the song as it throws me back to the 90s so it's got that nostalgia factor, but I can't listen to it without thinking "oh my god you fuckin stupid bitch!!!!!"
It's really a play on words. Its not ironic if its not the opposite of expected. The fact that is not ironic is ironic. Pretty retarded and clever at the same time.
Don't call dumb lyrics when you don't understand the lyrics in the first place. Fireflies is a deep song
I like the song as much as the next guy, but I don't understand the lyrics. Please explain the depth of crying swarms of fireflies?
i wouldnt say it's *deep*, since to me *deep* usually means it has a meaning that you cant explain and only other *deep* individuals can understand. however the lyrics to fireflies do have a meaning, the singer adam young is singing about his insomnia. + Show Spoiler +
"Adam Young told the story behind the song to AntiMusic: "It was 2AM and I was sitting on the floor in my parent's basement with a MicroKorg on my lap. I built this synthy legato, 'ping' sound routed through a lowpass filter and ran it through a bunch of guitar pedals. I come up with a little cascading part that wound up as the intro and verses of a song called 'Fireflies.' I have insomnia and I've always had a tough time falling asleep for as long as I can remember. I wanted to sing about my inability to sleep in a whimsical way that portrayed the condition as lighthearted and almost more of a 'blessing' than a curse. It's ironic that when sleep and I cannot bring ourselves to meet is often when inspiration strikes hardest. I'd just been on vacation to Iowa the week before I wrote the song and was amazed at how many fireflies came out at dusk. I didn't really have to think about making a connection between insomnia and lighting bugs, it just sort of happened and the song basically wrote itself. It was a lot of fun.""
I don't think it is particularly deep, just really artful imagery.
Honestly, it could have very deep meaningful lyrics, but it's just how I perceived it at first listen.
I thought to myself, "What is this, the rantings/ravings of an autistic 4 year old? Someone please turn this sissy crap off!"
That first impression just really stuck with me. I could write songs with meaningful lyrics without trying to sound like I'm going out of my way to sound like a sissy, so why can't he? Personal taste? How old is Adam Young?
Don't call dumb lyrics when you don't understand the lyrics in the first place. Fireflies is a deep song
I like the song as much as the next guy, but I don't understand the lyrics. Please explain the depth of crying swarms of fireflies?
i wouldnt say it's *deep*, since to me *deep* usually means it has a meaning that you cant explain and only other *deep* individuals can understand. however the lyrics to fireflies do have a meaning, the singer adam young is singing about his insomnia. + Show Spoiler +
"Adam Young told the story behind the song to AntiMusic: "It was 2AM and I was sitting on the floor in my parent's basement with a MicroKorg on my lap. I built this synthy legato, 'ping' sound routed through a lowpass filter and ran it through a bunch of guitar pedals. I come up with a little cascading part that wound up as the intro and verses of a song called 'Fireflies.' I have insomnia and I've always had a tough time falling asleep for as long as I can remember. I wanted to sing about my inability to sleep in a whimsical way that portrayed the condition as lighthearted and almost more of a 'blessing' than a curse. It's ironic that when sleep and I cannot bring ourselves to meet is often when inspiration strikes hardest. I'd just been on vacation to Iowa the week before I wrote the song and was amazed at how many fireflies came out at dusk. I didn't really have to think about making a connection between insomnia and lighting bugs, it just sort of happened and the song basically wrote itself. It was a lot of fun.""
"'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs From ten thousand lightning bugs As they tried to teach me how to dance
A foxtrot above my head A sock hop beneath my bed A disco ball is just hanging by a thread"
Look, I understand the chorus may have something to do with insomnia, and the fireflies may have something to do insomnia, but...
...what? And why do the numbers of fireflies keep changing!?
Don't call dumb lyrics when you don't understand the lyrics in the first place. Fireflies is a deep song
lol no its not. its a shitty pop song that tries way to hard to be deep. it actually has very little depth. For example, the very first line:
"You would not believe your eyes if 10 million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep" No I guess I wouldnt believe my eyes. Cool. Let me try to make deep lyrics too! "You would not believe your ears if 10 million little deers serenaded the world as I woke up." derp
The rest of the song pretty much follows the same line of thought. That is, "Wouldnt it be cool if *insert random improbably occurrence*? That was be aweseom!!" There is no deeper meaning. Its obvious they made the lyrics purposely vague and without direction to get people to think "wow thats so deep!"
Then theres the chorus:
"I like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly. Its hard to say but Id rather stay awake when Im asleep, cuz everything is never as it seems"
What makes it hard to say that he wants to stay awake? Why would inconsistency in the world make him want to stay awake? Why would the earth turning slowly have any significance at all for him? Its just a load of flowery, pseudo-metaphorical bullshit that has no meaning in and of itself. Rather, its just more vague wording to incite random dreamy thoughts in the listener and to hopefully get people to think that this song is actually deep
But wait, maybe I just dont understand it right? Since you understand it so well, please enlighten me as to why the lyrics are a load of bullshit
EPT
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