I'm advancing, nothing to lose Disclosure (Ft. LION BABE) – Hourglass
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As the old adage goes, “There are more fish in the sea.” Yet we see the complications with this ideology that will be explored later in the song.
If there is possibly someone out there that’s better for you, then why stay in your current relationship? The entire notion of “star-crossed lovers” or “fate” becomes obsolete.
As we sink into the sand
Hands up, there's nothing we can do about it
It's fine, love, 'cause I don't wanna live without it
Eyes on the hourglass
As we sink into the sand
Hands up, there's nothing we can do about it
It's fine, love, 'cause I don't wanna live without it Disclosure (Ft. LION BABE) – Hourglass
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“Every Open Eye” is of course the title of the album, and this is a clear reference to it.
In a metaphorical sense, “every open eye” could refer to the eye of a hurricane, representing Lauren’s clarity about her relationship’s problems.
The open eye shelters both of them from all of their conflicts, and just barely preserves their love. It happens again and again, in song after song on the album. No wonder it’s the album title.
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“Fell in the Sun” is the first single released from the Big Grams EP. It premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 Radio Show September 10.
But there is no first or a last chance Troye Sivan (Ft. Tkay Maidza) – DKLA
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Green sometimes is the color of envy. This association started with the Greeks.
Tkay’s (or Troye’s) lover had green eyes, but that color lost its attractiveness after the breakup. Their partner went to someone else and made them jealous in turn.
Vino tinto is for drinking
I hate when you get too high sometimes
And forget about existing Empress Of – Water Water
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“Water Water” is a single off of Empress Of’s debut full-length, Me. The song revolves around falling out of love, because a once-intelligent lover has succumbed to drugs.
The world ain't give me much, I'm positive that's a fact Avicii – Pure Grinding
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He almost rides on his own “started from the bottom” phrase – but he refrains from posing. He has most of nothing because he has almost nothing. That nothing’s his lack of stardom and even money.
He personifies the world because it’s almost cosmic how he grew up in poverty. It’s a fact of life to him, but he won’t let that defeat him.
To when you traced your fingers, drew my spine Troye Sivan (Ft. Tkay Maidza) – DKLA
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The relationship has either fallen apart or is falling apart, and Troye feels helpless because he can’t do anything to fix it. So he reminisces about better times.
Once upon a time, they were intimate, with Troye’s lover tracing his back—a close-and-personal act.
Troye wants his boyfriend to envision his own memories as a tape, so they can both see how their relationship went from happiness to their current situation.
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An hourglass, unlike clocks, measures a set amount of time (however much sand it has). It makes the passing of time visual.
She relates the temporary and fixed nature of the hour glass to the ephemeral and fleeting relationships. The relationships fall apart, sinking into despair and ending.
Yet she knows that she’ll make it through, so the broken romance is not a need to worry.
Hourglass may also be a double entendre, describing the shape of her lover’s body, which would link to the line in Verse 1 “hi, mini, fat, skinny”