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Originally Posted by Rody!
Judging from the lyrics only, my favorites are:
1. Teddy Bear
2. Moments
3. Memorial address
4. About you
5. HAPPY ENDING
Really. Teddy Bear is a REAL masterpiece! It's about when she's in bed with her dearest one. He has his arm around her and she's stroking her hair, and he says to her: "If you wake up tomorrow there'll be a present for you from me at your pillow"... So then you think: aaaah what a sweet happy song. But.... Then she wakes up, and she sees a wonderful present.. But the present is located exactly where her dearest should have been. He had left her.... And then she repeats the first paragraph and the end, which makes the refrain change from very sweet to very ironic.
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Teddy Bear is an absolute masterpiece, but I don't agree with your asessment... It is actually more brilliant than that.
I reckon it's actually about how her father walked out of her family when she was little.... You'll have to read her interviews, and how she mentions that she was especially hurt since her father lied about leaving her.
If you don't believe me, consider how Teddy Bear and Memorial Address (about her father's death) are performed consecutively in Arena 2003/2004... And how the lyrics and music of Memorial address strongly reference Teddy Bear.
Teddy Bear is an incredible song coz the three choruses are identical in wording yet very different in meaning. It's especially special due to the key changes F maj, Ab major and A maj... With the betrayal occurring AFTER the switch from Ab to A major (music theory suggests that a semitone transpose up usually gives an uplifting, happy effect).... which is also perfect to represent betrayal.
Five other great songs she wrote... hahaha I probably could easily write 5 pages on each one.
A Song is Born (the inspirational masterpiece she wrote after 9/11)
Who (This one is still a mystery to me, of who the song actually refers to - possibly her grandmother who died during the recording of Poker Face)
Memorial Address
Appears
Endless Sorrow