The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
We were playing in the sand
And you found a little band
You told me you fell in love with it
Hadn't gone as I'd planned
When you had to bid adieu (ooh, ooh, ooh)
Said you'd never love anew (ooh, ooh, ooh)
I wondered if I could hold it
And fall in love with it too
You told me to buy a pony
But all I wanted was you
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm (ooh-ooh-ooh)
(Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh)
And you found a little band
You told me you fell in love with it
Hadn't gone as I'd planned
When you had to bid adieu (ooh, ooh, ooh)
Said you'd never love anew (ooh, ooh, ooh)
I wondered if I could hold it
And fall in love with it too
You told me to buy a pony
But all I wanted was you
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm (ooh-ooh-ooh)
Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm (ooh-ooh-ooh)
(Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh)
Lyrics submitted by MXMissles, edited by AlastorZL1, hsbsbsajaja
Hidden in the Sand Lyrics as written by Joseph Hawley Andrew Horowitz
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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:
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i love how the last line brings the whole thing together. a short and sweet song.
I feel as though the first part is about a girl he meets, falls in love with, and has a child with.
"I wondered if I could hold it and fall in love with it too"
This is referring to a baby, holding it and falling in love with it.
"You told me to buy a pony But all I wanted was you"
This part's talking to the kid, how after the woman left him, he still has his child there to love and that's enough for him.
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@TristynS that is what it sounds like btw i didnt know this was made in 2005 i just now saw people making fnaf sfm videos to the song
"We were playing in the sand And you found a little band You told me you fell in love with it Hadn't gone as I planned"
So, the singer is playing a band on the beach. The lady fell in love with their music and the band. She is a complete stranger and never planned on falling in love (haha see what I did their?)
"When you had to bid adieu Said you'd never love anew I wondered if I could hold it and fall in love with it too."
They fell in love, but for some reason, she had to leave (That's what bud adieu means if you didn't know: leaving). She promised to only love him and him only but when she left, he fell out of love, hence the "I wondered if I could hold it, and fall in love with it too."
"You told me buy a pony But all I wanted was you" She called him for the first time, probably manipulating him, asking for things years later. and just by hearing her voice, he remembered the things they did and fell back. I honestly think this song is just about hopeless love.
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@sex1119218 oh my god why did it ruin my formatting i\'m going to punch holes in my wall\r\n
@sex1119218 oh my god why did it ruin my formatting i\'m going to punch holes in my wall\r\n
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@cadman1357 Pretty sure it says meth
@cadman1357 Well we should
TristynS, I like your interpretation, but it means something else to me. It's about a girl. The one I'm in love with, we were together, and she left for college, and refuses to speak to me. She hates me. Honestly, I cry about it every once in a while.
"You told me to buy a pony, But all I wanted was you"
Get it?
The bit at the end
"You told me to buy a pony, But all I wanted was you"
I think it is about a girl who wanted her boyfriend to buy her things(pony because its one of those stereotypical things girls want)but he was happy just with her there.
Note that no where in the lyrics that it's interpreted that this was a woman he was talking about. This is also how I interpreted the song, the lyrics can have many different meanings.
We were playing in the sand And you found a little band
Two people were playing in the sand, the songwriter one of them as he is narrating the song. The other person had found something in the sand while they were playing. I think they were bestfriends or lovers at the beach. The little band was shells at sea washing away into the sea. I think signaling death. Sea shells washing off the beach and disappearing.
You told me you fell in love with it Hadn't gone as I planned
The person told the narrator that they had fallen in love with the shells ( the band ).The person was suicidal and wanted to leave like the shells disappearing in the water and that wasn't what the narrator had planned.
When you had to bid adieu Said you'd never love anew
The person was going away and wishes happiness to the other. The person told the narrator that they had no one else they loved like the narrator.
I wondered if I could hold it And fall in love with it too
The narrator is wondering if they could hold the shells, and fall in love with them like the person had. Therefor leaving the earth.
You told me to buy a pony
The person had told the narrator to love someone else before ( before they were gone ) But the Narrator had interpreted it differently and as "to buy a pony" which is sort of a sub phrase of the phrase "i want a pony". "i want a pony" usually means they want something impossible, so here I think the narrator was thinking that the person was wishing something impossible on them.
But all I wanted was you
The narrator only wanted them. "was you" is important here. I think it would be "but all I want is you" if the other person was alive or present in the narrators mind/life. The narrator had only wanted the other person.