I don't understand the song Only the good die young, because everyone dies, can you explain what they mean?
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It is an early Billy Joel song, where he is telling a girl to "come out Virginia don't make me wait". In other words he wants her to have some "fun" with him. To hep with his message he tells her that "He'd rather laugh eith the sinners, than cry with the Saints" and that only the good die young. \n\nIf you can't read between those lines - he is trying to loosen up a girl that has apparently strict parents for some fun and action.\n\nIt is a light fun song with no deep meaning
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This really is a tough question.  Music Critic ( http://www.music-critic.com/rock/deathcabplans.htm ), explains that in the song, "Gibbard ... contemplates the confusing nature of religion."  I think that's the best way to explain it.\n\nAs troubled sinners, all of us, trying to figure out life, we will explore variegated choices, including music, for figuring out life and the afterlife.\n\nHowever, personally I believe the references "if Heaven and Hell" and the part about Catholic school are an extension of Post-modern assumptions.  The song becomes less about the lyrics and what is being said, but more so the emotion that comes from this combination of words.\n\nBut, I would consider both references questioning of the importance of religion, which is minimized, for him, by love.  He disregards the nun's qualification of her beating him, where she says that he should fear her, and that fear is the base of love.  I should include here a parallel to Machiavelli: being better to be feared than loved.\n\nAnd indeed, I believe the song is a comment thusly, on the failings of organized and public religion.  When Heaven and Hell, considerably the understanding of afterlife in a religious fashion, close their gates to the singer's loved--the "singer will follow his love after she dies '…into the dark', no matter where that might be."  Arguably, an afterlife without religion.
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Wow, This is came straight from the heart, I wish we don't have to imagine this...\n\nThe part-whales were out committing suicide?\nI think this is about water pollution?\n\nThe part-Even if it's a crime to imagine.\nI think this is about no freedom of speech?\n\n==============================================\nThis is John Lennon:\n\nImagine there's no heaven\nIt's easy if you try\nNo hell below us\nAbove us only sky\nImagine all the people\nLiving for today...\n\nImagine there's no countries\nIt isn't hard to do\nNothing to kill or die for\nAnd no religion too\nImagine all the people\nLiving life in peace...\n\nYou may say I'm a dreamer\nBut I'm not the only one\nI hope someday you'll join us\nAnd the world will be as one\n\nImagine no possessions\nI wonder if you can\nNo need for greed or hunger\nA brotherhood of man\nImagine all the people\nSharing all the world...\n\nYou may say I'm a dreamer\nBut I'm not the only one\nI hope someday you'll join us\nAnd the world will live as one\n\n=============================================\nJohn Lennon's lyrics has no directions, after all John is only a dreamer Living a very illresponsible way in the 70's hippies era\nHis lyrics an't solve any problems.\n\nJohn Lennon said, "Imagine all the people\nLiving for today..."  \nWell, I think we should all have something to look forward like tommorow like hope, joy, peace. We should sometimes live for the benefits of others.\n\nThe lyric of John Lennon is like a baby rhyme, perhaps asking for more milk, he doesn't know where he's heading.\n\nI think the Iranian has more meaning in a sense that it is closer to reality and a dream that we can all realistially work on.\n\nIran-"Imagine it.Even if it's hard to imagine" \nMe=Trying to imagine in a war torn country, this takes a lot of faith.\n\nIran"All world-wars have been included to cease fire"\n\nMe- We still live in a world of wars and wepons, we can't imagine this away but we an all cease fire..\n\n \nMe=I am just glad I don't have to imagine anymore, because I have Jesus, and his the truth the way and the life.\nYou can have omplete peace if you believe in him too, and that is a promise.\n\nGod Bless You
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I think its about the emptiness of life. its written in a flow of consciousness so maybe he was confused and lost while writing the song. try listening to tori amos's version of it.
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Hello there....I know exactly what she is saying...or do I?\n\nMy interpretation is....she is a snob around everyone except one man....who makes her heart melt every time she sees him...\n\nSo she wants sex with only him...he is the only guy for her...and she does not understand her own feelings for him.\n\nThere you are I do love the song its fun!..thanks
754773
After learning of his illness, reflecting on his life, and dealing with all the issues of mortality, the Patient's own mortality is quickly coming to an end. This illness could be cancer, referring to the song "Cancer", but the doctor tells the Patient that he has two weeks to live after finding a complication in his heart, so he probably died of a heart problem. Here the Patient is drifting between life and death, and so death is coming for him in the form of his strongest memory. The Patient's fondest memory is of his father taking him to town as a boy to see a parade ("when I was a young boy, my father took me into the city, to see a marching band"). The Patient's father asks him as a boy "Son, when you grow up, would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten, and the damned?", perhaps preparing the Patient for his future illness, and asking him if he will have what it takes to mentally overcome it and be an example for others who follow in his footsteps to be strong. The Patient's father also tells him "someday I'll leave you a phantom, to lead you in the summer, to join the Black Parade." This hints that the Patient's father most likely died before the Patient, and will help him join the Black Parade (in other words be there when he dies to help him in the afterlife). The song also shows that the Patient most likely had a very good relationship with his father, since his fondest memory in life occured when he was with his father. This may be the opposite of the relationship he has with his mother, which is further detailed in the song "Mama". However, the band has stated that "Mama" represents Mother War, a mother who lost her child(ren) in war. She also represents loss, and so may simply be another figure in the Black Parade.\n\nThe Patient passes into a realm of life and death, and sees the Black Parade. The Black Parade seems to take place in the city that he saw the marching band in his youth, only now the city is barren, and more macabre. He sees the performers of the Black Parade, only they too are more macabre than those of the parade he saw in his youth, and seem to represent emotions and other parts of his life. The Black Parade tell him of "the disappointed faces of your peers", which have no effect on the Patient, as he states he "could not care at all", showing he will no longer let anyone dictate his actions, and hasn't quite repented yet (as he does in Famous Last Words). He still doubts himself ("I'm just a man, I'm not a hero" in reference to his father's question at the beginning of the song). He is still firm in his doubt of the world ("you can try, you'll never break me"). Finally The Black Parade assures him that his "memory will carry on", and though he may be dead and defeated his "weary widow marches on." Thus trying to encourage him that he isn't as evil as he thinks, and that if he joins them what he leaves behind in life will be fine.\n\nThe song visually represents the entire story (somewhat) in its music video (one flaw, if the Patient did die because of cancer and not a heart problem, is that the Patient has hair, when a cancer patient suffering from chemo would be bald and the character in the album art is bald and paler).
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It's a good song about how life is hard and even when there's good you are dealing with bad and you just have to get through the days.  That's why it's bittersweet.\n\nWant other opinions?  See the site below.
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The band dedicated this to Barbara Lewis, one of their high school friends who was killed by a drunk driver around the time this song was written. Her brother in-law explains:\n"The song's lyrics are mostly an analogy. Barb donated several organs, including her heart. She was close with Ed and the guys and died in a car collision with a fleeing armed robber. These lyrics are constantly misunderstood! Yes, Ed is speaking to the circle of life, but specifically to how Barb's life gave new life to many. The angel, the baby down the hall, the pale blue eyes (of Barb), the pain ("confusion")... the lyrics are wholly Ed's interpretation of his experience and perception of Barb's impact. Our family has become close with the most genuine and caring man who is still alive today (over 10 years later), who has Barb's heart beating in his chest! "Lightning Crashes" literally lives on.
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A girlfriend or friend that died in a plane crash.  Actually:Taylor has related different versions of what the song is about. In a BBC interview he stated that the song chronicled his experiences in mental institutions and the suicide of a friend. More recently, on the VH1 series Story Tellers, Taylor said that the song was, indeed, about Suzanne MacKenzie, a friend of his who died suddenly while he was away from home. According to that account, he had been in a deep depression after the failure of his new band "Flying Machine" to coalesce (the lyric includes a reference to "sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground"; the reference is to the name of the band rather than a fatal plane crash, as was long rumored). As he was wondering what to do with himself, he received word of MacKenzie's death, and the song explains that her death was a check for his own worries, a way of realizing the transience of life and his need to get back to his old friends. In other interviews Taylor has also indicated that a battle with drug addiction figured into the song.\n\nThe song was originally written several years before its release and was refined over time; it appears probable that all the elements referenced by Taylor over time went into the final version.
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The song is possibly about a first love, and about the end of relationship between lovers.Great song,by the way!
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i think this song deals with a couple things..i think this guy singing..was supposed to marry this girl..but things got all messed up and she ended up being like a bride girl..so they like separated or whatever and cancelled everything and he says.."would you be depressed if i attend that wedding but only as a guest"..i think that means like would you be mad if i went to the wedding as a guest and just watched the bride girl..with no one there as her groom..bc hes the one thats supposed to be the groom...like i dont know how to put it. .. so then ..you got "Such an unfaithful bride draped in dress Spun with threads of my regret"...i think that means well..you can already tell what that means. \nMake eye contact so you know I care \nYou know I care \n\n^ i like that right there. how they have one thing, that means something then the next thing has the same format of words but it means a different thing.. like so you know i care..then its like ..you know i care.
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I believe it refers to death.  The term is the title of a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, about dying.  You can read it at the url below.
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Latin would not express the meaning with words for "occasion" and "death" in the way that English does.\n\nThe phrase really means "When I will have died..."  "After I have passed away..." \n\nThis can be translated by "Ubi mortuus ero.."  "Ubi decessero.."
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Hi!\n\nFirst, it sense. Secondly it would mean that someone always makes your day bad...maybe a lover..maybe a cowoker. It actually sounds much like a song lyric to myself. Hope your ultimate bad day turns good.
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Its a general spiritual song about life. Throughout the song, the singer hears (what I presume to be) the voice of God telling him to carry on through hardship and high points. "I was soaring ever higher" perhaps signifies the high points in the singer's life and the following "but I flew too high" may suggest a fall from grace. "Tossed about like a ship on the ocean" suggests being out of control and at the mercy of life's hardships and "I set a course for winds of fortune" could mean the singer's picking himself up out of a down period and moving on to a brighter future. The bridge (and the ending) "Carry on, you will always remember. Carry on, nothing equals the splendor. Now your life's no longer empty. Surely heaven waits for you." suggests that life was worth living through all of the experiences since, if the singer had not 'carried on' then life would have been meaningless. \n\nThat's just my interpretation though. Its a rockin' song even if it means nothing ;-D
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I only figured out a little from:\n\n"Living in my own world; \nGACADA\ndidn't understand\nGADAD\n that anything can hap-pen\nDEDDCCA-G\n when you take a chance..."\nGACAE\n\nHope this helps! Have a nice day! \n\nOh, sorry! New modification: I could find out the notes for "When There Was Me and You..." Well actually, I already know a little of them, you can give me 10 points and then I'll tell you! Just kidding... I really will though :)
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Supposedly, it comes from the Dylan Thomas poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" which is about fighting death and not just accepting it.  \n\nDo not go gentle into that good night, \nOld age should burn and rave at close of day; \nRage, rage against the dying of the light. \nThough wise men at their end know dark is right, \nBecause their words had forked no lightning they \nDo not go gentle into that good night. \nGood men, the last wave by, crying how bright \nTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, \nRage, rage against the dying of the light. \nWild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, \nAnd learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, \nDo not go gentle into that good night. \nGrave men, near death, who see with blinding sight \nBlind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, \nRage, rage against the dying of the light. \nAnd you, my father, there on the sad height, \nCurse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. \nDo not go gentle into that good night. \nRage, rage against the dying of the light.