In “What Happens in a Small Town”, the singers are lamenting their inability to get over their ex-lover. This is because they live “in a small town”. So even though they may not run into their...
Although it may read like an oxymoron, good as hell is actually a colloquial phrase which points to the idea of whatever it is being applied to being in an exceptional state. And in this particular song,...
The lyrics of Enya’s “Orinoco Flow” paint a picture where the singer is fantasizing about sailing around the world with the addressee. Most of the locations mentioned are real-life places that can be accessed via...
“Winter Things” is an Ariana Grande song based purely on a Christmastime fantasy. The singer (Ariana) is situated in someplace like a tropical environment. That is to say that her hometown doesn’t receive anything like frosty...
You will notice that in the title of this song, the word “love” is spelled out as an acronym. This is because each letter is meant to poetically symbolize a different aspect of the singer’s...
Elton John’s “Curtains” is very symbolic and even cryptic in its nature. But we will try to deconstruct its meaning based on the information that is readily available. In the first line Elton John references...
As detailed in the facts’ section, “Beautiful Ghosts” is actually a song that fits directly into the narrative of the updated film version of the popular musical “Cats”. It is relayed from the perspective of...
A trend in the modern era of pop music is artists making songs which are directly and bluntly related to what they are going through in real life. And such is supposedly the premise behind...
Khalid’s “Up All Night” is centered on the concept of the singer going through a phase in his life where he is inquisitive about the world around him. He has come to the realization that...
As we all know, Dr. Dre is one of the artists who helped put California – indeed the entire West Coast of the United States – on the hip-hop map. This occurred primarily in the...