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By Pages:   1    2    3    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Friend is a Four Letter Word (page 1/ 3) ------ performed by Cake "Let's just be friends" | Reviewer: HaveYourCakeAndHearItToo | 9/27/09 The singer and the girl were lovers and she ended it by saying "lets just be friends", or something similar. He hears friend in this situation and realizes shes saying its over between them ("End is the only part of the word that I heard"). He doesn't want it to end, so the word friend (meaning end of the relationship) is a four letter word to him, as in it is a curse word / bad word. Breaking up | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/11/09 As for me, it makes me think of a split since when she - if we admit it is a woman - since when she calls him "friend", he hears the end of his love. I think she is dropping him by telling him they could be/stay friends which sends him back to his own feelings. So he tries to make her change her mind : it is revealed at the end of the song when he sings "I'm really only praying... you feel about me". The word "friend" is associated to the idea of "end" by sonorities. It appears that he loses something. Firstly, the bitter loss he feels is rendered through the tonalities of the song once we listen to it and the lexic he chooses tallies too : "morbid", "absurd". These two adjectives are peculiar here since they described the way he thinks he is seen by fellows. It comes from his reaction to the word "friend". It is not in essence a pejorative term but in this case, it means the end of what he feels for her so he just can't stand this idea. He is the one that suffer for the word is addressed to him : "to me, coming from you". But I agree there must be other interpretations because of the many four letters words the english vocabulary contains. justme | Reviewer: . | 8/9/09 "to me, coming from you" so someones saying it to him. "friend is a four letter word" which i interpret as 'love' "end is the only part of the word that i heard" maybe meaning that since he was a 'friend' with a particular person. that friendship is over becasue the four letter word got involved --> love. ?? thoughts? he he he | Reviewer: Cheesy | 3/4/09 I don't mean this to be rude, or mean, as I LOVE Cake, and John McCrea is one of the best lyracists I have ever listened to. This song is written so ambiguously that it can be interpreted any which way one chooses. McCrea does an excellent job wording his propositions in just the right way so that anyone can relate, regardless of their circumstances. For example, there are countless four letter words in the english dictionary, including love, hate, kill, life, gone, and (of course) f@$k. "end is the only part...that I heard" He doesn't specify whether "end" is the only part of the four letter word, or is the only part of the word friend. You must jump to that conclusion on your own :) The end could be interpreted as follows: Call it the end of a romatic relationship (possibly but not certainly leading into the beginning of a friendship), or call it the end of a friendship (possibly but not certainly leading into the beginning of a romantic relationship), "morbid or absurd" simply states that he disagrees with his companions conclusion, and his companion disagrees with him enough to call him "morbid or absurd". "The words you'll soon be saying might betray the way you feel about me" No matter what the context, he is simply hoping that she will change her mind, and he is "fishing" for any words which might help her reconsidder. The thing I love most about this song is regardless of how much meaning it holds for me on a personal level, technically it is a type of infinite regress, and means absolutely nothing without your own personal interpretation! (So we can get a taste of what kind of movies have influenced your personal values based on your various interpretations) Neat! McCrea is the man! --Never forget the possability that life (and this song) may have no meaning whatsoever! not the opposite? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/25/09 Absolutely not. There's no way this is about him only liking her as a friend. "when I go fishing for the words i am wishing you would say to me, i'm really only praying that the words you'll soon be saying might betray the way you feel about me." I can only think that he means he's hoping that someday she'll admit to him that she feels like he does about her. He loves her. That's what he's getting at with the other two parts. To him, whenever she refers to him as a friend he thinks of it as "love" rather than only as "friend". He realizes this but hates it. "end is the only part of the word that I heard" These lines show what he's really thinking. He believes he can never win her over as more than a friend if she only thinks of him in the sense of friendship. This, like any guy, angers, confuses, and saddens him greatly. I suppose that it could go either way, but that's the beauty of this song. It can be interpreted in so many ways. the opposite. | Reviewer: ash | 2/21/09 I think it's about a friend of his (obviously). And he only thinks of her as a friend, and they may flirt and mess around, but he still only views her as a friend. But she views it as more, and is falling love. Because her feelings are stronger, he feels that he needs to end it and walk away. "when I go fishing for the words i am wishing you would say to me, i'm really only praying that the words you'll soon be saying might betray the way you feel about me." He's hoping she'll revert back to having only friendly feelings for him. He wants to be friends, but in the end he knows it's not possible because she's in love with him. Four letter word | Reviewer: Curses | 9/5/08 Four letter word refers to a "bad" word, a curse word. Like "I don't love you but we can still be friends." "COMING FROM YOU" friend is a four letter. NOTICE THE "COMING FROM YOU" he isn't being literal when he says its a 4 letter word. thoughts | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/27/08 i dont think that this song has to do with the "iend" thing that everyone thinks. i think teh word is love because in all poetry and writing the word described as a little 4 letter word is love. i agree with one of the reviews that there is a "friend" of the opposite sex that he fell in love wih. and so when they say they are friends he is saying he actually loves her. The end part of it has to do with that she doesnt feel the same about him and because of it, thats the end. If it was "iend" then the name of the song would be Friend is a Three letter word, not four Happy and confused | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/21/08 I love this song, it has to be one of the best by Cake. I am also happy now that everyone else is just as confused as I am about what it means. I kept asking myself "why don't I get it?" Well, after reading all of these responses, I don't get it anymore than before so that is OK and that is still one cool song. Not my friend | Reviewer: charlotte | 2/10/08 I understand this as the imposibility of having real real good friends of the opposite sex, because you're always kind of fall in love with them or at least having a one night stand with them. So for me friend=love, and it s the end of the friendship... Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3