In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Spilled our hearts our souls until it forced us to swim
But all the water pass
Was sinking fast
Gave our all until the saw was digging in
I watch it bleed
I let it be
Made me have to throw the looking glass
You you
Made it cold and made my summer pass
You you
The moon the dust the dreams the rust are shattered now
I let them pass
I let them dance
Stolen time the crooked line is pointing up
Were stars away blazing
Made me have to throw the looking glass
You you
Made it cold and made my summer pass
You you
But all the water pass
Was sinking fast
Gave our all until the saw was digging in
I watch it bleed
I let it be
Made me have to throw the looking glass
You you
Made it cold and made my summer pass
You you
The moon the dust the dreams the rust are shattered now
I let them pass
I let them dance
Stolen time the crooked line is pointing up
Were stars away blazing
Made me have to throw the looking glass
You you
Made it cold and made my summer pass
You you
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"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"
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Great version of a great song,
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Wu-Tang Clan
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On the surface, the chorus is Yukimi shattered a mirror because she was angry at her ex/distraught over her ex/went through a shitty break-up with her ex. The result of the break-up was a frigid emotional detachment, or she spent an entire summer depressed and lonely.
The second verse is beautiful. "The moon, the dust, the dreams, the rust." Everything that went into the relationship, from the moment they met until the day she was over him "are all shattered now." Even the bitterness that almost washed over the chorus is destroyed. She has reached closure by letting those feelings pass and dance. Referring back how her ex made her summer pass, Yukimi sings an exquisite metaphor about the nonlinear nature of time and how the experiences we engage in burn with cosmic intensity; as if our experiences with love immortalize us, yet are not unique in any particular way. That's the way I feel about stars. Everyone reading this will be dead before the light of distant burning balls of gas reaches Earth. They are eternal in the sense that we won't live to see them die. At the same time, on a clear night, how can you tell the stars apart from each other? So many of them are similar looking, and we humans share similar feelings.
In the end, the song feels like a cathartic experience for the singer and the audience. Definitely one of the most danceable break-up songs ever.