This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Fish that don't drown, Life in a bubble jungle
I wouldn't frown, Not short another chuckle
Snake in the ground, But I was in there for you
Now leaving town, Life in a bubble jungle.
(Chorus)
Seeing you believing, Us adhering
We're the power struck.
Believing, then kneeling, Appeasing,
The power struggle.
We're left with no arms, Right in the power struggle
We're left with no arms, Right in the power struggle
Wearing a crown, Life in a bubble jungle
Chasing the clown, Not short another chuckle
Snake in the ground, But i was waiting for you
Now we have found, Life in a bublble jungle.
(Chorus)
Left with no arms, In the power struggle (x2)
May I remind you (x13)
Your life is in a bubble jungle,
(Chorus)
Left with no arms,
In the power struggle,
Left with no arms,
Right here in the power struggle.
I wouldn't frown, Not short another chuckle
Snake in the ground, But I was in there for you
Now leaving town, Life in a bubble jungle.
(Chorus)
Seeing you believing, Us adhering
We're the power struck.
Believing, then kneeling, Appeasing,
The power struggle.
We're left with no arms, Right in the power struggle
We're left with no arms, Right in the power struggle
Wearing a crown, Life in a bubble jungle
Chasing the clown, Not short another chuckle
Snake in the ground, But i was waiting for you
Now we have found, Life in a bublble jungle.
(Chorus)
Left with no arms, In the power struggle (x2)
May I remind you (x13)
Your life is in a bubble jungle,
(Chorus)
Left with no arms,
In the power struggle,
Left with no arms,
Right here in the power struggle.
Lyrics submitted by PrettyTrainCrash
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Snake in the ground, But I was in there for you -- Politicians will often express to some individual that they are fighting on their side, while really having nothing to do with their side, acting as a snake in the ground.
Now leaving town, Life in a bubble jungle. -- Politicians are on a quest to move higher up the political ladder, one doesn't ever stay in the same place too long. Mayor in one town, Gov., Congress. President. Such is the life of one who lives in the bubble jungle.
(Chorus) Seeing you believing, Us adhering We're the power struck. -- The general populace is unaware or doesn't care that politicians are liars, we willingly buy into the hype they feed us, and then are striken by their actual beliefs once they are in office.
Believing, then kneeling, Appeasing, The power struggle. -- Many offer their money and time to help these politicians get into office, thusly helping the power struggle.
We're left with no arms, Right in the power struggle We're left with no arms, Right in the power struggle -- This is a possible ref. to Left and Right politics, it attributes the power struggle itself to the Right and points a finger at the Left for not putting up a real fight. Like a fist fight where one person attempts to argue their way out.
Wearing a crown, Life in a bubble jungle Chasing the clown, Not short another chuckle Snake in the ground, But i was waiting for you Now we have found, Life in a bublble jungle. -- New images in these lines are crowns and clown, the crown is an obviously mocking ref. to kings and their self-appointed power, while the chased clown might symbolize a child hood dream of being the president or perhaps expressing how silly politicians seem when the do what I described in the mirror line of the first verse.
(Chorus)
Left with no arms, In the power struggle (x2)
May I remind you (x13) -- I am not sure the 13 is meaningful or not, but...
Your life is in a bubble jungle, -- It is the band pointing out to the public that they are part of the bubble jungle too. We are the end cause of the whole situation, we shouldn't pick our leaders based on what they say, but based on their track record. What they did in the past.
(Chorus)
Left with no arms, In the power struggle, Left with no arms, Right here in the power struggle.
Thats just my 2 cents, though.
Bubbles is about the government and how they lie to their citizens. The politicians and rich are out for themselves. They don't listen to the common people or care about their problems, what they want, or need. Like many SOAD songs they are bringing to light injustice and encouraging people to fight these injustices. Be free thinkers and question things. Don't go through your life blind.
Anyone else notice Darin in the back ground saying "Left...Arm...Power-struggle"
I'm pretty sure he says something like "Send me to the bubble jungle"
I always wondered too. Then i messed with the speed and equalizer and one of the noises turned out be a prerecording of Serj, repeating "remind you, did you." Now that doesnt make much sense, until i realized that after Serj (in the foreground) says "may i remind you" 6 times, Daron yells in a nasal voice "send me to the bubble jungle." So then it lines up, and should look like this...
May I remind you(remind you, did you) May I remind you(remind you, did you) May I remind you(remind you, did you) May I remind you(remind you, did you) May I remind you(remind you, did you) May I remind you(remind you, did you... send me to the bubble jungle? May I remind you(remind you, did you) May I remind you(remind you, did you) May I remind you(remind you, did you) May I remind you(remind you, did you) May I remind you(remind you, did you) May I remind you(remind you, did you) [rasping] Your life is in a bubble jungle! (send me to the bubble jungle!)
This is most likely wrong, but I assumed that this song is about the Burger King vs. McDonald's war. How? Well, they constantly sing about a bubble jungle, which could be interpreted to be the "Play Lands" filled with the bubbles and slides and such. Why McDee's and BK, though? The two lines:
Wearing a crown, Life in a bubble jungle Chasing the clown, Not short another chuckle
Wearing a crown = BK. Clown = McDee's. Chasing the clown means that BK is always trying to catch up to McDee's in the popularity category.
Another two lines:
Left with no arms, In the power struggle,
McDee's is always beating BK at most things (not food quality of course), including toys, licenses, technology, availability, comfort, and so much more. You see, McDee's has practically cut off BK from important selling-points.
That's it, take it with a grain of salt.
System should just tell us what all of their songs mean, because there are so many ways many of their songs can be interpreted.
May have something to do with the African Civil War going on at the moment, since many soldiers do drugs and "bubbles" is a slang for pills.
"Left with no arms in the power-struggle" has something to do with the UN's departure from the country and the lack of help from other countries.
"Life in a bubble jungle" enforces the drug problem, and Africa's location (jungle)
@Carrotttt Also, "Snake in the ground" emphasizes the wildlife found in Africa (snakes)
Wooohooo! One of the catchiest songs on the entire album!
this song is about the power stuggle in America and how the averige citizen having apsulutly no power
Yeah, it's definetly about how average joe has no say in any matter (left with no arms in the power struggle) and how we all bow down to the government and it rules us (Beliving then knealing, appeasing)
Can anyone else prove me wrong??