Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
The fact that you think you can
Speak to me the way you do
Bleeds me to believe that you
Never stepped out of the
Skin you live within, but when
And if this day occurs
Your tongue the taste will imitate
A battery the anti-equilibrius
Your stomach becomes the floor
The look on your face was priceless
A light goes on upstairs
The attic ablaze
This island isn't big enough
For both of us who will swim
In ell infested oceans
Kiss the sand goodbye because
The tide is coming up and in
Ya water water water everywhere
And every chance to sink
Its an amalgamation of the things
You aren't the ways you wish you were
A split second perceiving of the way
You really look to everyone of them
I wish that you could get a glimpse
I wish that you could see because
The look on your face was priceless!
Speak to me the way you do
Bleeds me to believe that you
Never stepped out of the
Skin you live within, but when
And if this day occurs
Your tongue the taste will imitate
A battery the anti-equilibrius
Your stomach becomes the floor
The look on your face was priceless
A light goes on upstairs
The attic ablaze
This island isn't big enough
For both of us who will swim
In ell infested oceans
Kiss the sand goodbye because
The tide is coming up and in
Ya water water water everywhere
And every chance to sink
Its an amalgamation of the things
You aren't the ways you wish you were
A split second perceiving of the way
You really look to everyone of them
I wish that you could get a glimpse
I wish that you could see because
The look on your face was priceless!
Lyrics submitted by prayingmantis84
Priceless Lyrics as written by Brandon Boyd Ben Kenney
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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This song is about someone who thinks they can do anything to a person, that they control someone, and the other person would not even react, just let them control them. then one day they react so the other persons face was "priceless". Well.. thats what i think.
It seems to me that it's a song about getting what comes to you. "Eel-infested oceans"... "Water, water, everywhere, and every chance to sink!"...
Both allusions to "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", an 18th-century poem about a seafarer that kills an innocent albatross and repents for his sins with his crew's instant death and loneliness on a sea infested with serpents. Eels. Yeah.
Make the connection, that's an easy one.
nice connection
@The Cheat up on Outside Irony's comment ... :p
A truly rocking song witht some great sounds. The guitar solo is mind blowing! As to what it is about...I guess maybe finally showing someone who has always looked down on you that you are great. Like you just won when everyone said you were going to lose. Peace
The verses according to the inlay on the album:
The fact that you think you can speak to me the way you do it bleeds me to believe that you have never stepped out of the skin you live within But when and if this day occurs Your tongue, the taste, will imitate a battery: the anti-equilibrium your stomach becomes the floor
A light goes on upstairs the attic is ablaze! This island isnt big enough for both of us so who will swim in eel-infested oceans Kiss the sand good-bye because the tide is coming up and in yeah water, water, everywhere and every chance to sink!
Its an amalgation of the things you arent the ways you wish you were a split second perceiving of the way you really look to every one of them i wish that you could get a glimpse (Not sure if he actually DoEs say this) i wish that you could see because
i think its about people who are just so uneducated (in the life sense) that they just go about their daily lives like they are the centre of the universe - but one day its going to hit them, just how insignificant in the greater scheme of things they actually are, and they are going to 'drown' in the realisation. Like Outside Irony says, they'll get what comes to them. i dont know if anyone has read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series... in one book theres this machine that in effect destroys peoples souls by showing them to paraphrase, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot with a little arrow that says 'You are here'. this sing kind of reminds me of that!
i wish that you
I read in Kerrang! magazine in an interview with Mr.Boyd himself that this song was written by brandon about brandon. i cant remember exactly what was said but it was something along the lines of a time in his life where he stepped out and attempted to look at his life from and outsiders point of view and suddently realising how idiotic he must seem to other people and how shocked he was to see the truth. i thought that was pretty intresting but in my opinion it is definately one of the weaker songs on a crow left. =o)
I find it so funny because he is mocking people who don't have a grip on reality. You've probably seen these people. Mostly, they are stern authority figures or just tradition obsessed old people. The day they realize that the world is much more important than anything they can imagine is incomprehensible to them so they look shocked! They think they have the world planned out to the T and then once they hit reality, they are totally helpless.
interesting to think he wrote this one about himself. i guess it wud b a pretty big confession that he thought he was getting far to up his own arse and taken in the flow of fame. Like ths song tho not a fave on the album
i like this song i don't know what the hell it's about, i love the beat jose does at the beggining it fits perfectly and the solo is fucking awesome
I started not to like this song that much but, God damn the guitar after the second chorus is so tight that it's worth listening to...And I like the way he says the verses...The fact..that you..you think..that you..can talk..to me..the way..you do..it bleeds..me to..believe..that you've never stepped out of that skin you live in.
But mostly that guitar after the second chorus.