This is a heartbreak ballad about drowning your sorrows in alcohol and the inability to get over your ex-partner. A Song Inspired By Frustration This song's approach to its subject material is in part owed to what was happening in the world at the time: the COVID-19...
This is a song about the desire for a particular lover's touch and embrace. Verse 1 "You're the light, you're the night / You're the color of my blood / You're the cure, you're the pain / You're the only thing I wanna touch / Never knew that it could mean so much, so...
This song is about God's love for the people he created. The lyrics to "Reckless Love" are fairly clear-cut, but there's still more going on beneath the surface than you might realize. What Cory Asbury is saying with these lyrics is rather astounding and sets itself...
The song is a satirical look at the commercialism of both Hollywood and the music business, Macklemore makes a terrific point: $50 for a T-shirt is a swindle. This is particularly true when equally good shirts at the thrift shop can be had for $0.99. Although the song...
According to the English translation of the lyrics, the song is about a man trying to pick up a woman and promising to change his ways. In English, the words don't truly exist to differentiate the terms "bebecita" and "bebsota." The dictionary says that they both, in...
The song is about the confusion of finding oneself in a world of strictures that seek to control people. Avicii, even as the performer, did not write "Wake Me Up." Aloe Blacc did. Avicii offered input to the song, and so did Incubus's Mike Einzinger. The song tells...
The song is about Legend's love for Chrissy Teigen, and he married her in 2013. The song is an outright love song. Legend met Teigen in 2006 when he was filming the video for "Stereo." Teigen was only 21 at the time, but he was enraptured anyway. He asked her to marry...
This flirtatious song is about gathering up one's courage to approach a stranger and to give that person your phone number. Most people have fantasized about seeing someone attractive, going up to that person, smiling, and handing over their phone numbers. Carly Rae...
The song is about a couple that experiences a brutal breakup and sees each other as the driving force behind that breakup. Gotye and Kimbra have a wonderful interaction during the song. The first 2/3 of the song comprises Gotye saying all the things that she did that...
The song is about Lady Gaga's bisexuality and how, when she had sex with one boyfriend, she fantasized about other women. Lady Gaga is bisexual and has been an LGBTQ2IA+ advocate for years. In "Poker Face," she talks about how she thinks of women while having sex with...
The song is mysterious without clear meaning, but it mostly hints at the black feelings someone feels inside at having suffered a great loss. Before the release of "Aftermath," the group's breakout album in 1966, The Rolling Stones were doing mostly cover tunes and,...
The song is about both gun violence and the tortured mental state of many American teens in the 21st century. The singer of Foster the People, Mark Foster, was working as a jingle writer in California when he composed the lyrics for "Pumped Up Kicks." From jingles for...
