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The National Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More
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The National Lyrics, Songs, Albums And More at SongMeanings! song lyrics, song meanings, albums, music and more.
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The National - Lucky You Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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The National - Sorrow Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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The National - Brainy Lyrics
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The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just ...
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The National - Slipped Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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The National - Lit Up Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older ...
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The National - Ada Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get ...
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Radiohead - The National Anthem Lyrics
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"Everyone has got fear"-either means the citizens suspect something of their government or are ruled by fear (common in most societies). The sudden trumpet is ...
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The National - Available Lyrics
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I think this song is about a relationship between a woman and man where the woman isn't able to attract the man's attention in the way that she wants. She then ...
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The National - Blank Slate Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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The National - Wasp Nest Lyrics
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Wasp nest women are irresistable, they're all honey and needles (broken bottles, live wires). This is a song about the last moments of luring and the first ...
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The National - Graceless Lyrics
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This song for me is about facing one's own mortality, contrasted with the complications of being alive here and now. It takes a bold and conscious change in ...
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The National - Son Lyrics
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More Featured Meanings ... This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping. ... This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, ...
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The National - Conversation 16 Lyrics
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It's a man commentating on the effects that his marriage and middle age are having on him. This could almost be 'Slipping Husband' from the husband's ...
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The National - Rylan Lyrics
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It is about how a shy and introverted person (seems to ba child or teenager in this song, but you can easily expand it to all timid or withdrawn people) can ...
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The National - City Middle Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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The National - Fireproof Lyrics
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My personal interpretation is about being with someone that definitely is a hard shell. I can relate to this, being with someone who doesn't openly show ...
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The National - Heavenfaced Lyrics
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It seems to be about a soldier or someone who is facing death - wanting someone to go in his place. Not ready to die when he's in love (heavenfaced). Comforted ...
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The National - Runaway Lyrics
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This song is about standing up for one's beliefs in society. It's tough to speak up against those in power and would be safer if we didn't ("We don't bleed when ...
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The National - Humiliation Lyrics
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This song is about being really drunk... he drinks because of the social anxiety--- "I'm the moron who dances I was teething on roses I was in guns and noses"..
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The National - Slow Show Lyrics
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This song is about feeling inadequate in every area of your life except your relationship. It's about being in love with the way the person you love makes you ...
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The National - England Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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The National - Lemonworld Lyrics
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So I took it to mean that the people he sings about live in a superficial world. At a glance a lemon you'd imagine to be sweet since it is a fruit however that ...
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The National - Looking for Astronauts Lyrics
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"We're out looking for astronauts, looking for astronauts" This one means that we're stuck in searching for unreal, abstract meaning of life, for something ...
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The National - Start a War Lyrics
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'walk away now, and you're gunna start a war' is refering to what he really wants to do with the problem, just walk away and ignore it. Although if he doesn't ...
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The National - Mr. November Lyrics
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november" is his way of saying he's saving his best effort for last. i think i read that this song was actually the last one written for this record. the line " ...
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The National - Green Gloves Lyrics
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While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a ...
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The National - Think You Can Wait Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He ...
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The National - Cardinal Song Lyrics
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Cardinal refers to direction and "don't let her see your cardinal eyes" means don't let her see all those things on your mind. If she knows your cardinal ...
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The National - About Today Lyrics
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In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
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The National - Fake Empire Lyrics
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"The song is a commentary on a generation lost to disillusion and apathy. Vocalist Matt Berringer explained to The Quietus that it is about "where you can't ...
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The National - Light Years Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get ...
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The National - This Is the Last Time Lyrics
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Each time they get together it's great - "you feel a hundred times yourself," "wish everybody knew what's so great about you" - but a long term relationship is ...
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The National - Sea of Love Lyrics
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This song, like so many on the album, is about a casual relationship that evolves into a lopsided one. I love this theme personally, as The National continues ...
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The National - Guest Room Lyrics
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That they're in the guest room means that they're no longer in their bedroom: they've become strangers, the intimacy is gone, they're visitors in their own home ...
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The National - Cherry Tree Lyrics
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This song is obviously about a person who can't hold his tongue behind his teeth, telling the bitter truth to anyone without caring if this truth hurts ...
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The National - The Perfect Song Lyrics
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It wasn't a one night stand, but rather an awkward, unsuccessful attempt to woo someone that didn't work out. And he's ashamed of his failure. But he remembers ...
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The National - Terrible Love Lyrics
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Like So Far Around The Bend, it's about watching people you love lost in self destruction. Spiders catch prey in webs. So, whatever he's taking to sleep, it's ...
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The National - 29 Years Lyrics
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All he has left is the dreams of the the woman he loves 'and now I wear the wings'. By comparing himself to the swan he is showing his own imaginary world, the ...
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The National - I Need My Girl Lyrics
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Fleeting thoughts, moments, observations, memories... So the yearning for home, nostalgia, where everything is familiar and simple, is what keeps him sane when ...
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The National - The Rains of Castamere Lyrics
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It is a song referring a battle of Castamere, between the disobedient Lord Reyne of Castamere and his liege lord Tywin Lannister. The history here is that Rayne ...
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The National - You Were a Kindness Lyrics
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My interpretation is basically what is happening to me - At a time in your life where you're so completely unavailable and coming apart at the seams when ...
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The National - Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks Lyrics
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Its a reference back to the first verse "Leave your home, change your name". A person can undergo these transformations but the superficiality of them doesn't ...
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The National - Pink Rabbits Lyrics
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
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The National - Gospel Lyrics
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In this song, the speaker seems to be experiencing the same feeling of suburban disregard-- he is hanging holiday rainbow lights, he wants to come over because ...
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The National - Anyone's Ghost Lyrics
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I'll take a stab. His girl is cheating or at least dodging him ("say you stay at home with the flu/ find out from friends/ that wasn't true"). Dares or hopes ...
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The National - Quiet Light Lyrics
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A song lamenting the end of a long term relationship ('used to fall asleep..'). The singer is lying awake in the early morning ('I watch the sky go from black ...
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