| Editors – When Anger Shows Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Hmm another interpretation could be that its a person who is aging and about to die who has laboured all his life. "Think of all the things your hands could make"--maybe arthritis or another debilitating illness that comes with age that doesn't let him work anymore---working may have been his purpose in life and now that he can't he knows he's dying? | |
| Editors – When Anger Shows Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hmm well while some of the interpretations you all mentioned seem quite interesting, the feeling i get from this is a bit different. Someone else picked up on the whole dealing with anger issues, I think this might have to do with an abusive situation? Perhaps an abusive parent or relative? The lines that clinch it for me are when he says, 'the change in your face when anger shows' and 'think of all the things your hands could make'---It sounds like someone who gets to anger pretty quickly and this is a friend or relative (or maybe also a victim) who is recalling that person, and telling them what a waste it was---their hands, instruments for making things, used to hurt and inflict pain instead. Other parts of the lyrics that sort of point to that is the whole dreams that he's trying to forget---maybe the childhood abuse? It might be that this abuser has died yet the memories just keep coming back---the dreams, the wolves at the door, and 'we all must learn to hate you'---perhaps a family trying to deal with moving on from a life of pain? However, the 'how can you know what things are worth if your hands won't move to do a day's work' part stumps me as it doesn't fit in with the rest of the song---unless its some sort of memory he has of his father complaining that he doesn't work? I don't know, a bit of a long shot. It also happens to be one of my most favourite lines from any song. I love the lyrics in almost all Editors' songs (along with their sound obviously). It's a shame more people don't know about them. |
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