Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
I broke my crown while kissing little flowers
I floated up the stairs and fell through the tower
You drew the sparkle back into my eyes
With your colored pencil
Tracing the years of my hunger like a
Plastic stencil
I'm still enchanted
You're still implanted in me
I'm still enchanted
The clouds carressed my sky and smoke
Dried my tears up
My viens are sweetly singing while
Blood drains from my cup
I blink my eyes and I am so
So enchanted
There's so much beauty that we take for
Granted
I'm still enchanted
You're still implanted in me
I'm still enchanted
I floated up the stairs and fell through the tower
You drew the sparkle back into my eyes
With your colored pencil
Tracing the years of my hunger like a
Plastic stencil
I'm still enchanted
You're still implanted in me
I'm still enchanted
The clouds carressed my sky and smoke
Dried my tears up
My viens are sweetly singing while
Blood drains from my cup
I blink my eyes and I am so
So enchanted
There's so much beauty that we take for
Granted
I'm still enchanted
You're still implanted in me
I'm still enchanted
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i think this song shows the attatchement someone forms to their first sexual partner, broke my crown and implanted in me both seem sexual references but also references to emotions and the way that first love is "implanted" in your heart forever, its a gorgeous song with so much meaning reminds me of my ex
I agree with you, Vox pd. I also kinda get somethin else from this song.. The first time I heard it was like a few days after the first time I saw Thirteen Ghosts.. If you've seen it. I can just like picture the Angry Princess saying some of the quotes from this song. ("My veins are sweetly singing while blood drains from my cup.") I don't know why. You might have to know her story (how she died) to get that. I love this song though. I love any of Katy's songs. She has an amazing way of spilling thoughts into songs, especially for a teenager.
If you ask me whats the most powerful line in a song ive ever heard it would be "you drew the sparkle back into my eyes with ur coloured pencil tracing the years of my hunger like a plastic stencil"
i dont really see it as a sexual song, i see the first 2 lines as something close to the "im fucked up"situation and then u came and drew the sparkle...
and theres another contradiction in the later lines when she says "my veins are sweetly singing while blood drains from my cup"...to me, its like she is close to happiness, she actually IS satisfied yet is not willing to change herself for her partner because shes basically saying "ur makin me happy, but it doesnt mean im healthy mean" (the whole blood thing)
i adore this song, "theres so much beauty that we take for granted"
I see it as both things, actually. But not all at once. Sort of sexual, yes. But things like that are known to happen in a relationship. It looks like it may be about life in general when you're in love.
I think this song is about a guy she can't get over. He leaves her a while ago and then he comes back and the yearning she has had still is there. The lines in the chorus describe the entire relationship. No matter what has happened between them he would always be "implanted in her" and she would always be "enchanted" by him.