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.
Whoa
I know you're trying to make me happy,
And I know you're doing it you're way, way.
And I don't always make it easy
To know the perfect words to say, say.
If you wanna give me what I want,
Listen, 'cause I'm gonna tell you what I need so bad.
If you wanna give me what I crave,
Hold me so I can feel your love.
[Chorus]
When the craziness begins to get to me,
Just need a hand to hold, just be that somebody.
It's your tenderness that's gonna make it right,
I want a piece of your heart, not a piece of your mind.
When the craziness begins to get to me,
Just need a hand to hold, just be that somebody.
It's your tenderness that's gonna make it right,
Give me a piece of your heart, not a piece of your mind.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
Ah, oh
Whoa, whoa, whoa
You're always trying to solve the puzzle,
And you always wanna fix what's broke, broke.
You keep searching through the rubble,
And never wanna let it go, go.
Sometimes it feels like I'm raining on the inside,
And all the things that I'm trying I don't get it right.
Yeah, sometimes, I fall but I get up,
And it takes a while but I get there in my own time.
If you wanna give me what I want,
Listen, 'cause I'm gonna tell you what I need so bad.
If you wanna give me what I crave,
Hold me so I can feel your love.
[Chorus]
Love is a very wide open door,
You can go through every time you want more.
Why do I feel like the glass is half full,
When I've got enough of it to feel, a swimming pool.
Listen, 'cause I'm gonna tell you what I need so bad.
If you wanna give me what I crave,
Hold me so I can feel your love.
[Chorus]
I know you're trying to make me happy,
And I know you're doing it you're way, way.
And I don't always make it easy
To know the perfect words to say, say.
If you wanna give me what I want,
Listen, 'cause I'm gonna tell you what I need so bad.
If you wanna give me what I crave,
Hold me so I can feel your love.
[Chorus]
When the craziness begins to get to me,
Just need a hand to hold, just be that somebody.
It's your tenderness that's gonna make it right,
I want a piece of your heart, not a piece of your mind.
When the craziness begins to get to me,
Just need a hand to hold, just be that somebody.
It's your tenderness that's gonna make it right,
Give me a piece of your heart, not a piece of your mind.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
Ah, oh
Whoa, whoa, whoa
You're always trying to solve the puzzle,
And you always wanna fix what's broke, broke.
You keep searching through the rubble,
And never wanna let it go, go.
Sometimes it feels like I'm raining on the inside,
And all the things that I'm trying I don't get it right.
Yeah, sometimes, I fall but I get up,
And it takes a while but I get there in my own time.
If you wanna give me what I want,
Listen, 'cause I'm gonna tell you what I need so bad.
If you wanna give me what I crave,
Hold me so I can feel your love.
[Chorus]
Love is a very wide open door,
You can go through every time you want more.
Why do I feel like the glass is half full,
When I've got enough of it to feel, a swimming pool.
Listen, 'cause I'm gonna tell you what I need so bad.
If you wanna give me what I crave,
Hold me so I can feel your love.
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by tonyxthrashdown
Piece of Your Heart Lyrics as written by Johnatahn Rotem Danielle Brisebois
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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