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
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.
@TheProfitSong
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.
New accurate meaning:
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.
(this is what makes this album my favorite break up album)
New accurate meaning:
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.
(this is what makes this album my favorite break up album)
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.
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.
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.
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.
The rest of the song that i left out is pretty self explanatory:
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)
At this point in the relationship he was running out of ways to keep the relationship going (and the car was starved)
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.
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.
(no the moon was tired and the cow was carved)
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)
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)
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.
He has acted with hostile intention against that person during a time he thought they where close.
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:
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.
Due to all this he winds up spending Christmas's alone without a family.
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.
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.
(later on he thought he saw something
realized he never saw anything
now he drives with his headlights off)
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 :
yeah i saw the way you climbed out the window
and now you never answer your cell phone
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
@TheProfitSong
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.
New accurate meaning: 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. (this is what makes this album my favorite break up album)
New accurate meaning: 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. (this is what makes this album my favorite break up album)
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. 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.
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. 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.
The rest of the song that i left out is pretty self explanatory: 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) At this point in the relationship he was running out of ways to keep the relationship going (and the car was starved) 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. 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. (no the moon was tired and the cow was carved)
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) 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)
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. He has acted with hostile intention against that person during a time he thought they where close.
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: 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. Due to all this he winds up spending Christmas's alone without a family.
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.
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. (later on he thought he saw something realized he never saw anything now he drives with his headlights off)
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 : yeah i saw the way you climbed out the window and now you never answer your cell phone
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. 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. 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. 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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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).
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. 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. 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.