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I Feel It All; Feist

I feel it all I feel it all

I feel it all I feel it all
The wings are wide the wings are wide
Wild card inside wild card inside

Oh I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one to hold the gun

I know more than I knew before
I know more than I knew before
I didn't rest I didn't stop
Did we fight or did we talk

Oh I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one to hold the gun

I love you more
I love you more
I don't know what I knew before
But now I know I wanna win the war

No one likes to take a test
Sometimes you know more is less
Put your weight against the door
Kick drum on the basement floor
Stranded in a fog of words
Loved him like a winter bird
On my head the water pours
Gulf stream through the open door
Fly away
Fly away to what you want to make

I feel it all, I feel it all
I feel it all I feel it all
The wings are wide, the wings are wide
Wild card inside, wild card inside

Oh I'll be the one to break my heart
I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll end it thought you started it

The truth lies
The truth lied
And lies divide
Lies divide

     

    

     It's always better to have more than one opinion, right? So I decided to pick a song that I myself love, and see how other people interpret it. I asked my friends, Emma and Meaghan, to listen to the song, and answer a few questions for me. Emma already was a Leslie Feist fan, while Meaghan had never heard of her. Both of them loved the song equally. First I asked the two of them (at different times) how they interpreted the song. Surprisingly, the two answers were remarkably similar. Mind you all songs have many ways you can interpret them, and this particular one is a bit difficult. Emma answered saying this, "I think it’s about a guy, who she [feist] loves, but she’s breaking up with him because he doesn’t even like her." Similarly, Meaghan said, "I think that it's about this girl who loves a guy, and wants to be with him, and she's breaking her own heart because the guy doesn’t love her back." It was interesting to hear them BOTH say this because I had interpreted it differently. Now that I heard them say this, I do see how this can be taken away from the song. But this made me want to ask them more about why they thought this. So I decided to ask Emma and Meaghan their favorite line in the song and why they liked it. After deep thought, Emma answered, "'No one likes to take a test Sometimes you know more is less' because it’s true in real life which makes the song more powerful." I liked this answer because as I've professed before, music is very powerful, and I felt that Emma's answer brought up the other point in saying that the lyrics of a song make it that much more powerful. Meaghan's answer was a bit simpler, though very true. She said, "'Oh I'll be be the one who'll break my heart.' Because it captures the point of the song." When I heard this lyric and the one following it, I was able to make my interpretation on the song. I thought that it was more about Feist going back into an old relationship and saying that she is now wiser and now ready for it.

     It's really interesting to hear how music can be shaped just how you want it to be. The ways I interpreted the songs in the other posts could have easily been wrong, but based on my mood that day and the lyrics, I morphed it to fit me. Next time you listen to a song, try to interpret it yourself. You'll find that not only will it make the song more powerful to you, but the song will most likely lighten your mood or make you feel better. I know I say it so often, but I just can't say it enough; the power of music is greater than we'll ever know.