Sunday, November 16, 2014

Analyzing Song Lyrics (Riptide by Vance Joy)

This is my favorite song at the moment. It has such a beautiful tune to it and it's just one of those songs that make you want to dance like nobody's watching, that put aside I've listened to these lyrics over and over again trying to understand what Vance Joy is actually trying to say with "All my friends are turning green, you're the magician's assistant in their dream and they come unstuck" or "lady running down to the riptide, taken away to the dark side, I wanna be your left hand man".
He's obviously talking about a woman he has interest in because he sings "I just wanna, I just wanna know. If you're gunna, If you're gunna stay. I can't have it, I can't have it any other way" but from aside from that the lyrics make no sense to me.
My theory is he's just another hipster writing a song because it's ironic, doesn't make obvious sense and it just sounds nice. Any other theories out there?

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