This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
so the man was tired and the car was starved
and the sun was setting
no the moon was tired and the cow was carved
i remember every second
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
yes i saw the way you talk to your cell phone
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
then i thought about the man with the shotgun
so the man took a shotgun out of the trunk
waited on the hood with the headlights on
radio was playing christmas songs
later on he thought he saw something
realized he never saw anything
now he drives with his headlights off
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
yeah i saw the way you climbed out the window
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
and now you never answer your cell phone
and the sun was setting
no the moon was tired and the cow was carved
i remember every second
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
yes i saw the way you talk to your cell phone
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
then i thought about the man with the shotgun
so the man took a shotgun out of the trunk
waited on the hood with the headlights on
radio was playing christmas songs
later on he thought he saw something
realized he never saw anything
now he drives with his headlights off
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
yeah i saw the way you climbed out the window
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
forget what you don't know yet
and now you never answer your cell phone
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I can't tell exactely what this song is about... I do know it's quite visual to me, especially: "So the man took a shotgun out of the trunk, waited on the hood with the headlights on, radio was playing christmas songs". This line gives me a very strong image and the overal feel of the song is almost melancholic. Something has happened to this person, but you don't know exactely what and why. Maybe the mantra of "forget what you don't know yet" means this person feels paranoid, scared of the world without really having a valid reason, or maybe having a reason but it's a secret to the rest of the world. The idea of paranoia is stenthened by the lines: Later on he thought he saw something, realized he never saw anything, now he drives with his headlights off."
Really love this song... it's calm, but there's a lot of stenght hidden in that calm, like the calm before a storm sort of feeling.
The songs about forgetting what you don't know yet, but what your bound to find out about through experience. (not cheating the natural process of relationships)
The individual must have had a relationship with someone that he thought was close to him, then after turning off his cellphone he realized this person was distant the whole time, and in the end wasn't someone who loved him or wanted to see him. The driving of the car is symbolic for how when his lights were on, people could see him from a distance. But when he turns it off (headlights symbolic for the cellphone) he realizes only the people close to him see him.
In other words ask yourself in the crisis of any relationship, would they visit you if you didn't have a cell phone or just had it switched off?
@TheProfitSong <br /> Scrap the above, after listening to this album many more times i feel the above meaning is incorrect as i misinterpreted the headlights and what they represent.<br /> <br /> New accurate meaning:<br /> The headlights simply look at what you have your eyes set on, and what your trying to see in better detail. Once you understand the way he uses it as a simple allergy of what is happening you can see the songs aren't very cryptic and they are all very universal and easy to relate too.<br /> (this is what makes this album my favorite break up album)<br /> <br /> So to summarize, its suppose to be a song to cheer up those who had feelings for someone who led them on and never ended up returning the favor. <br /> Disappointment is the key here. The moral is even if you know this person is gonna crush your heart and your gonna be disappointed they don't have the same feeling for you as you do for them, Forget the negativity or the positive... Destroy all expectations that way: you have the most opportunities by not being negative and having bad mantras, without any of the burdens of unrealistic and overly positive viewpoints which creates allot of pain when things don't go well or according to how you thought they would.<br /> <br /> The message of the song is save yourself time in life by not wasting it thinking about what something is or could be in a relationship (or could have been for that matter). You could use that time to journey in life or do things you always dreamed of doing. or just simply develop and move towards your goals. So just MOVE FORWARD and get over this relationship or situation that has made you stop and have to think about things. You can't see things very clearly in life when it comes to relationships so best just not go out of your way to see clearly and just let someone become more clear the closer they get to you, or you to them. If your heading their way or their heading your way (think two cars on the road) Having headlights is not going to change weather your going to see them or not. If your going to them you will see them eventually when you get close. Its another allergy for a relationship and by far the most clever i have ever come across in music.<br /> Kevin moore has a talent for making complicated things seen in a really simple way. There is a monstrous amount of wisdom in some of his songs.<br /> <br /> <br /> The rest of the song that i left out is pretty self explanatory:<br /> The man was giving more in the relationship and not getting enough back from the other because they didn't feel the same way as him (so the man was tired)<br /> At this point in the relationship he was running out of ways to keep the relationship going (and the car was starved)<br /> But then the way he uses "no" to break up the first two lines from the second is as if he isn't too sure himself what was the reason they broke up.<br /> So upon thinking about it thinks the cause for how they where both feeling was actually the absence of mystery he would of noticed one evening over a meal, The moon representing mystery just like the lyrics of walking on the moon by the police, and the carved cow being a simpler way of describing a meal with beef.<br /> (no the moon was tired and the cow was carved)<br /> <br /> This hook line chorus part just reinforces the moral of the song which i talked about above with the "saving yourself time" by not thinking or focusing on what is unclear until that person is close enough to you in a relationship for those things to be naturally revealed through the superior communication that comes with stronger relationships. (Forget what you don't know yet)<br /> Then he mentions the fact we talk to people on our cell phones and this is another allergy as the person on the cellphone unless an emergency will end up telling you what you choose to speak to them about over the phone when they see you in person next time ... Or for analogy sake, when they get close to you they will end up telling you the same thing with more clarity so no point in being inpatient and doing it pre-maturely like someone spilling their whole life story or something really personal over the phone (yes i saw the way you talk to your cell phone)<br /> <br /> Then they get on subject of the man with the shotgun, who is impatient and is putting so much effort in seeing more clearly even though it can't be seen clearly until it gets close to him. He thinks he understands the person really well.<br /> He has acted with hostile intention against that person during a time he thought they where close. <br /> <br /> The person he was hostile to has not forgiven them as they where never that close to them to begin with. It usually takes a really really strong relationship for two to be able to apologize and forgive each other after hostilities. This person would not have had the reason to act with hostility if he didn't misread the person to begin with thinking they are really close to them. Moral of the man with the shotgun's story:<br /> He thinks wayyyy to much about things he doesen't know that well yet and because of this makes assumptions and puts thoughts into his head that turn him into a hostile man who see's things that aren't there in people. <br /> Due to all this he winds up spending Christmas's alone without a family. <br /> <br /> As time goes by he thinks this person was close to them and that this justified his behavior. However after more time i think it becomes clear that person (victim of the hostilities) was not that close to them and the reason for the hostilities was because he was seeing things that weren't there in the person at the time of the incident.<br /> <br /> Now this person has learnt from the mistake and doesen't use the headlights anymore as they made everything outside the headlights much more blury and less clear. As no one is close to him he finally realizes the headlights are a waste of energy to try see things that aren't there.<br /> (later on he thought he saw something<br /> realized he never saw anything<br /> now he drives with his headlights off)<br /> <br /> Finally the last tow stanzas reinforce the original theme of the song NOT the story of the man with the shotgun but rather the main story which is the song writer or us (if we can relate) and the women that realized things weren't going to work out before he did. Why i can safely say she realized before him is because of the last two stanzas :<br /> yeah i saw the way you climbed out the window<br /> and now you never answer your cell phone<br /> <br /> This means the women unlike himself wasn't close enough to tell him at the end of the relationship when she realized it wasn't going to work out. So she just jumped out of the car or so to speak. Because that way the the man (or we if we can relate to his story) would think they are trying to put a stop to them not getting any closer by not calling the man (or us) to arrange any more meet ups or anything.<br /> The women did it so if we where too close (worst case scenario), continuing to peruse them (getting close enough to their car to realize you can't pursue them anymore this is as far as you will get) then realizing after trying to speak to them in their house (because you don't jump out of a car window) that they would rather take the unconventional approach of avoiding you so you don't even know they are there. This is usually not answering the phone, not calling back, and hanging up on them when they call. (sort of like when you go to someones house every day and they don't want to see you they will not answer or reply doorbell ring and they would probably jump out the window if they didn't want to listen to you knocking on the door) This all means that the women can forget what they don't know yet even if its trying to get close to them, while the song writer cannot. <br /> If someone clearly doesn't want to speak with you in person (going back to the window and him visiting obviously they won't want to speak to them over the phone.<br /> So this person clearly found out the hard way by doing both and finally realizing that he he never saw anything... JUST LIKE the man with the shotgun.<br /> <br /> So in a way it connects two men who are victims to their own ignorance with to two other victims (one a women) of ignorant peoples behavior.<br /> <br /> ABSOLUTELY anyone can relate to this song because of the way it connects up both a women and an unmentioned sex of a person being victims to men's ignorance of this wisdom and life lesson, which is to forget what you don't know yet.<br /> <br /> Men and women can listen to this song from the main perspective because although Kevin Moore wrote it after reminiscing on the bad relationships he had with women , he wrote it without any he or she references in the main story of the song which always seems to be a mistake people make with love songs these days.<br /> They write it from their own sex's perspective. This song can be visualized from anyone's perspective which makes it a great song to share with anyone you love man or women because it was sung in third person about his own experiences.<br /> <br /> To me its a special song because no one has chosen to write a song about this theme/life lesson. The fact its third person when he makes the only "he" reference in the first stanza to the main story is remarkable and very unique in any love/relationship songs. As it saves itself from being a song everyone hears as being about a man. <br /> <br /> I wish more women wrote love songs like this. Maybe then i would listen to artists like Lana Del ray (who FYI only write music for females from the female perspective in first person). <br /> <br /> I rate this song a 10/10 lyrics wise because you can only learn lessons the hard way after experiencing something for the first time then reflecting on it a specific sort of way that enables you to discover a self evident answer that's as true as love.<br /> Unfortunately we humans can only learn the hard way and this song enables me to reflect on this lesson so i don't forget it. In my opinion all lessons can be forgotten briefly or entirely. Such is the value of the finest music reminding you of these lessons. Far back in time when there was no lyrics in music, composers would recognize and place the most value in compositions because to them it would be worth the most reminding themselves of lessons only they can understand being composers themselves. This is assuming they can learn something from the piece.<br /> This is what the movie Amadeus was about. I highly recommend you check that movie out if you haven't already. Every artist or person who appreciates art should see that movie. That movie reminds me of why i originally decided to spend so much time understanding lyrics to share my knowledge with others to help them better their skills in understanding it themselves.
I just watched a video of my late grandmother and my grandpa and my mom and my dad when they were still together a year before I was born. And it was surreal because my grandma died when I was 3 or 4 and I never really see any videos of her also my mom and dad were together and if you knew my mom and dad this video would be weird for you too. Anyway they're all down in the holler with the rest of my grandma and grandpas family in West Virginia celebrating Christmas. You can see that my grandma loves her whole family with all her heart and (me at least) want to just walk through the video and warn her that she's going to die of cancer in just a few years. She had cancer twice and I don't know if this was before the first time or not but I also know that she adored me wen she was alive so if it was I think that her leaving her sickness behind to enjoy her grandchild was an irrefutably good decision. This song (to me) is about how much love humans are capable of and how ironic it is because it's intangible and eventually washes away. To me it's a coincidence because It reminds me of the spirit of Christmas (although I don't believe in god) all of the memories I have of my family being together and being happy seem so much better because I was young and I didn't know any better. We all don't know any better and I think this song is saying to savor that while you still can because there's always gonna be more to know but it will only make those past memories even sweeter when you do. That's why I put this song on immediately after watching that video and I didn't even know it yet. Soon enough you will become apart of the naivety of the past so you might as well live the part and capitalize on your existence if not just in the name of the ones you love or once loved who aren't around anymore
This seems to be about a man that wants to talk to someone but this person never answers his calls. So he fantasizes about kidnapping them, telling himself the story and changing it as he goes along. (He confuses the first two lines, then say's he's certain).
In the story there's this man whose car is running on fumes, and is waiting to ambush someone with a shotgun. He's paranoid and the headlights makes him see things, so he turns it off. There's a bit when the other person is already inside the car, trying to escape.
The chorus seems to be him repeating to himself to stop imagining theses things (or maybe stop anticipating things in a negative way - maybe the person will eventually answer the phone).
The lyricist is a master at describing thoughts visually.
Ok so previous comment was wrong. After listening this song a few times more, last week the true meaning of this song hit me real hard when a bunch of my texts and calls went unanswered.
so the man was tired and the car was starved (man was tired- implies its most likely the evening) (car was starved- His body needed fuel) and the sun was setting (setting of the sun signifies the falsity and evil in which they are who have no charity and faith- that is from the bible) no the moon was tired and the cow was carved (correcting himself by not changing what he said but by adding more relevant details) ( moon was tired implies the mystery of the individual he is having dinner with has fizzled out) ( cow was carved implies the beef was carved ready to be served) i remember every second (he can still see it being replayed in his mind)
forget what you don't know yet ( Forget these assumptions you make forget what you don't know yet try to get to know the person more forget what you don't know yet stay positive) yes i saw the way you talk to your cell phone (EVEN IF you see evidence of the worst in someone)
forget what you don't know yet forget what you don't know yet forget what you don't know yet ( the message "Forget what you don't know yet" is directed at the listener: It promts us to forget things we don't know yet for certain as its a waste of time thinking about these things, escpecially when it usually means getting our hopes up about something we don't even know is genuine AKA our relationship with someone we just met that could very well be non existent. This line is a fractal of the whole songs meaning. You can tell its directed at ourselves AKA the listener based on the way the last line of the stanza is about "I" instead of "you") then i thought about the man with the shotgun (ponders about another mans story) (this story is a story of tragedy)
so the man took a shotgun out of the trunk (the man is willingly looking to hurt someone) waited on the hood with the headlights on (doesen't want to go anywhere with the relationship, just wants to hurt someone- headlights represent the intension to see someone AKA he is seeking a women) radio was playing christmas songs (Its a time where families are together and he is alone AKA no family connection: seeking a women to fuck and hurt)
later on he thought he saw something (This line talks about all the people that play along to get you out of their faces, AKA giving you fake phone numbers and giving you the false impression they welcome you or approve of you) realized he never saw anything (man finally realizes that was his assumptions making him think these women took an interest in him, He didn't know anything for certain yet HE DIDN'T FORGET WHAT HE DIDN'T KNOW YET) now he drives with his headlights off (as a result of him not forgetting what he didn't know about these people yet, he now took this to heart and lives his life lonely without the motivation to seek women partners)
forget what you don't know yet (This stanza is directed at us AKA the listener) forget what you don't know yet (for those that don't understand from the break down last stanza of this line: it literally means don't think about something you don't know for certain or you will waste time thinking about something you haven't even spent much time on) (think your first interview for a job, After about a hundred interviews since your first suddenly you don't get excited anymore getting a first interview for a job: you don't even think twice about making it to the interview stage until you actually score the job: this is a perfect example of forget what you don't know yet) forget what you don't know yet yeah i saw the way you climbed out the window ( Even if you notice someone trying to get away from you without you knowing, or purposely avoiding you AKA not answering your calls, Walking away from you in a party or bar/club the moment you get distracted with something else or take your eyes off them, or maybe even the way someone goes the other direction once they see you gaze at them)
forget what you don't know yet (repeat of the above again But this time the message is directed at the opposite sex: I say this because if a women listens to this song it can be interpreted from her point of view as well there is no HE OR SHE the only male is the one we all learn from because he is a prime example of tragedy: You can tell its directed at the opposite sex the way the last line of the stanza switches from "I" to "you") forget what you don't know yet forget what you don't know yet and now you never answer your cell phone (this last line is actually pointing out the irony: We know some of them will dodge your calls and avoid you, or manipulate you by giving you their number so you can walk away and leave them alone: This last line is sort of ending in such a way as to tell you that they are doing this purely as a result of forgetting what they don't know yet as they have been through it before as well. It can also mean that someone who thought they knew you can suddenly come to the realization they don't know much about you at all. This can also end with them deciding to forget what they don't know yet: hence the "now you never answer your cell phone". Its either someone you knew for a while or someone you just met. So that last lines meaning is very broad and open to interpretation in that sense.
Overall song meaning summary: This is very ironic the very thing the singer is telling us to do , other people wind up hurting some of us because of. The moral is one will not be hurt by people forgetting us (or doing their best to forget us) because they don't know us: If one forgets what they don't know yet.
This song is one to definitely think about if you have previously been hurt by people forgetting you because they didn't know you well enough yet. Generally i don't let those situations get to me. Its not going to turn my head lights off that's for sure. But on days when i am tempted to turn them off, I put this song on and crack open a beer.
Hope you enjoyed the analysis!