| Travis – The Fear Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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My personal take on this track is that the narrator has just broken up, or is thinking about breaking up, with someone he was in a relationship with, because he didn't feel as in love with them as they did him; yet, he fears the unknown loneliness and uncertainty that being single would cause him. He would like to roll over in the morning and "have you there" to "make it easy for a little bit longer" - 'it' being possibly the meaninglessness of life, of which having a romantic relationship helps give you a stronger feeling of meaningfulness to your existence. I feel that "The Fear" is, ultimately, our fear of death; of dying alone; of being alone, and that the consolation of being in a relationship one isn't even emotionally involved in any more is more comforting than the idea of being alone in the face of a meaningless and lonely existence. Without a doubt, 'The Fear' feels existential in its nod to life's meaningless, and how it rests in the individual and his relationship with the world around him that creates that meaning in the face of the unknown abyss that is life - and death (the fear). |
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| Travis – The Humpty Dumpty Love Song Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This is a true post-breakup song; an artistic interpretation of what your mind ponders over at 3am when you're lying awake in bed, hours after a loving relationship comes to a close for the final time. All the memories, all the love, all the shared togetherness that has been taken away from you leaves your heart in broken pieces, and the only person who has the 'glue' that can put this broken thing back together again is gone forever. The orchestration on this track, plus its slow progression from its beginning, to its climax, then finally back down for its outro, is beautiful - and it ranks as one of Travis' strongest tracks about love. |
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| Travis – The Cage Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is about a relationship where one person has fallen out of love and wants to move on, while the other remains heavily attached to the partner: "I love you more than I". This relationship was founded on unrequited love, where the lover has strong feelings for the loved, but the loved does not reciprocate these feelings back. Possibly they agreed to try to sort the relationship out ("we had a deal that you would try... now that's a lie"), but after realizing that a relationship cannot live when only one half is in love, the lover decides to "draw the line", meaning, despite it being painful and not what they want, to break up with the loved one, as if they kept the relationship going (keeping her 'caged') it would "just delay the spring"; i.e. when the metaphorical 'bird' would fly away towards a new home. In the end, the loved is left with an 'empty cage', but can find some comfort in the idea that when someone leaves you, they were 'never meant to stay' - meaning that, despite the pain, perhaps many relationships were never meant to work out (for whatever reasons) in the long run. A beautiful song rich with metaphoric imagery. |
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