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.
Seeing you here it makes me smile
I hear you laugh and all day I am waiting to be next to you
Hoping that you feel the same way
It seems like you're moving away
If it's the end I need to know before I have to let you go
I'm just not ready to be alone
Say it say it now
You're not in love with me no more
I'll try my best to catch up with you
say it say it now
You're not in love with me no more
I'll try my ebst to catch uip with you
Say it say it now
Say it say it now
Say it say it now
Say it say it now
Say it say it now, you're not in love with me no more
I'll try my best to catch up with you
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
(Do do do)
We're like fish in the sea
And I thought you were the one for me
Baby I'm afraid of change
But I think it's more that I still like you
Just as much as when we met
I don't' want to sleep alone and think of you with someone else
Holding them when I still want to reach for you and hold you close in the night, you know I still love you..
Say it say it now
Say it say it now
Say it say it now
Say it say it now you're not in love with me no more
I'll try my best to catch up with you
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
(Do do do)
We're like fish in the sea
And I thought you were the one for me
(Do do do)
We're like fish in the sea
And I thought you were the one for me
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
I hear you laugh and all day I am waiting to be next to you
Hoping that you feel the same way
It seems like you're moving away
If it's the end I need to know before I have to let you go
I'm just not ready to be alone
Say it say it now
You're not in love with me no more
I'll try my best to catch up with you
say it say it now
You're not in love with me no more
I'll try my ebst to catch uip with you
Say it say it now
Say it say it now
Say it say it now
Say it say it now
Say it say it now, you're not in love with me no more
I'll try my best to catch up with you
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
(Do do do)
We're like fish in the sea
And I thought you were the one for me
Baby I'm afraid of change
But I think it's more that I still like you
Just as much as when we met
I don't' want to sleep alone and think of you with someone else
Holding them when I still want to reach for you and hold you close in the night, you know I still love you..
Say it say it now
Say it say it now
Say it say it now
Say it say it now you're not in love with me no more
I'll try my best to catch up with you
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
(Do do do)
We're like fish in the sea
And I thought you were the one for me
(Do do do)
We're like fish in the sea
And I thought you were the one for me
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
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Cut and Run Lyrics as written by Mia Clarke Emma Gaze
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I think it should be
enough fish in the sea but I thought you were the one for me
That's the way I always heard it (and still hear it) anyway, and it makes more sense.
This song breaks my heart.
also:
MAYBE I'm afraid of change
it could also be:
we're not fish in the sea but i thought you were the one for me
I think petite is right. I came to the same conclusion.
i love this song.
helped me get through the end of a relationship, before it was even over.
I love this song. It always makes me really happy, for some reason, even though it's about break-ups. You don't find very many songs like these - without guile or malice or bitterness or much anger. Also it's reeeeeeeeeeally catchy. I've been singing the "fish in the sea" verse all day. ^_^"
It just sort of blithely breaks your heart and then goes on like nothing ever happened.