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.
Open up your heart, let me slip inside.
Such determination always tries to turn the tide.
Open up your arms, let me dive into the big, big blue.
Try losing this chromosome,It's my choosing down to the bone
Open up your heart, let me slip inside.
Such imagination always helps the feeling slide.
Open up your soul, folding back into, the big, big blue.
Try losing this chromosome,It's my choosing down to the bone.
Blood(dive in)
Blood(drowning)
Blood(dive in)
Blood(drowning)
Blood(dive in)
Blood(drowning)
Blood(dive in)
Blood
Open up your heart let me slip inside.
Auto Flagellation allways helps the ghost to hide.
Open up your arms let me dive into the, big, big blue.
Try losing this chromosome, It's my choosing down to the bone.
blood(dive in)
blood(drowning)
blood(dive in)
blood(drowning)
blood(dive in)
blood(drowning)
blood(dive in)
blood(drowning)
blood(dive in)
blood(drowning)
blood(dive in)
blood(drowning)
blood(drowning)
blood(drowning)
blood(drowning)
Such determination always tries to turn the tide.
Open up your arms, let me dive into the big, big blue.
Try losing this chromosome,It's my choosing down to the bone
Open up your heart, let me slip inside.
Such imagination always helps the feeling slide.
Open up your soul, folding back into, the big, big blue.
Try losing this chromosome,It's my choosing down to the bone.
Blood(dive in)
Blood(drowning)
Blood(dive in)
Blood(drowning)
Blood(dive in)
Blood(drowning)
Blood(dive in)
Blood
Open up your heart let me slip inside.
Auto Flagellation allways helps the ghost to hide.
Open up your arms let me dive into the, big, big blue.
Try losing this chromosome, It's my choosing down to the bone.
blood(dive in)
blood(drowning)
blood(dive in)
blood(drowning)
blood(dive in)
blood(drowning)
blood(dive in)
blood(drowning)
blood(dive in)
blood(drowning)
blood(dive in)
blood(drowning)
blood(drowning)
blood(drowning)
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mh, I'm a bit clueless here
"try losing this chromosome" reminds me of men having XY and women XX. Maybe he's in love with a man for the first time and doesn't really want to realize it and wishes that his guy could lose the Y chromosome and be a woman.
"such imagination always helps the feeling slide" could mean that it's easier for him to love his guy when he imagines he's a woman... :-/ sick interpretation
anyway.... did anyone realize that the part "such imagination always helps the feeling slide" is almost exactly like in "Without you I'm nothing"??? --> "such imagination seems to help the feeling slide"???
i guess this song has something to do with greenaway film with the same title.
my favorite part is when he's singing drowning, it's sooooooo gooooooood :D
my favorite part is when he's singing drowning, it's sooooooo gooooooood :D
man...bo one's commented on what this song means just yet....its been up for 3 years! well I personally don't quite know what brians trying to say here but I think it might be about love and drowning in the emotions and sacrifices towards love......thats just my thought.......anyways yeah....more poeple should comment cause this is an awesome song and Placebo and Brian Molko ROCK!! :D
yer Brian re-used the lyrics. (similarly in Kitsch Object to Peeping Tom).
i agree, the best part of the song is when he's saying 'drowning'
Hm, I really like this song, but I'm not too sure what it means. Maybe the 'big, big blue' is like the gene pool, and he wants to come back as a woman... or genderless... or maybe the person he speaks of he wants this to happen to. A song about changing peoples minds and perceptions of the roles of genders? Hell I don't know, but I really like the 'Open up your heart, let me slip inside. part. Great song Auto-flagellation always helps the ghost to hide.'
"Such determination always tries to turn the tide" "Such imagination always helps the feeling slide." i just love those lyrics so much. & i think everyone can relate to them tbh, we've all been in that situation where the person we're craving just aint interested & we've still kept trying, ignoring the fact they're not. mm. agree with Luna about the rest of the song.
"Try losing, this chromosome. It's my choosing, down to the bone." he was veeery androgynous when he wrote this song... maybe it means like the XY chromosones, losing one of them, becoming female, more androgynous... how it was his choice alone...
I love how 'such imagination always help the feeling slide' is sung in Without You I'm Nothing as well.