| A Day to Remember – Why Walk on Water When We've Got Boats Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Actually, to be a christian, you DO indeed have to be psycho about God. Numerous quotes from the bible will back that up. You have to be willing to do anything for God and be at the complete and total mercy of him, for instance if he asked you to kill your son you would HAVE to. Otherwise, you wouldn't love God. The bible says that only those who put him above all else will go to heaven. A Day to Remember aren't christian, and this song is CLEARLY anti-religious. Everyone needs to just accept it. "I know more than you think and your words are empty." He denies the truth in the Bible right there, he is saying to the christians / any dumb religion (all religions), "You may think that i know nothing because i am not religious, but i know plenty about science and the reality of things are, you just use lies from books that have only been around about 3000 years tops" he even goes OUT OF HIS WAY to make FUN of christians with the line "Of all the heavenly host's!" that is a common phrase associated with religions all, he is mocking them. "You've dropped every line, but they don't mean a thing. You'll never, you'll never save me. You live your life in the saddest way I've ever seen. You are the reason i don't believe. " All the scripture in the world couldn't convert him because he sees that it is all bullshit. and it is also pathetic the way that people cling to it as a crutch just so they will feel comfort. |
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| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yeah i know it's so long, most people will probably overlook it. Which is really lame, because I really love this song and feel really emotionally connected to it and truly think that is what it means. | |
| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Sorry guys, this is REALLY long, but i think this song conveys SO much emotion I can't really compact it into a couple of sentences. "Where are we? What the hell is going on?" - I think that this is about reaching a point in a relationship whether it be love or friendship but, it reaches a point where it doesn't even resemble what it once was. Like one of the people in the relationship just said something that means the end of it. And the other person just can't believe that that is happening, so much so that it seems like it's a whole other life and place and the situation is happening to other people, because that would NEVER happen to them. "The dust has only just began to form crop circles in the carpet, sinking feeling." - I think this is about how maybe the people have only been dating a couple years. Maybe they've lived with each other for 5 or so years, and the furniture that they've put into their house has only just now started to be old enough to collect dust. She is basically feeling that this is too little time, how could this end and they JUST showing signs of age. "Spend me round again and rub my eyes, this can't be happening." - the person just doesn't want to accept that the relationship is actually over, she can't. in her life and her existence she cannot imagine it not being the way it is. "When busy streets a mess with people would stop to hold their heads, heavy." - Not sure about this one, but perhaps her heartbreak is taking place outside. and people can see how upset she is and they hold their heads, showing that she is SO upset and this is so sad that busy city people notice it. "Hide and seek, Trains and sewing machines. All those years they were here first." - She is saying this to him, i believe the whole song is one side of a conversation but specifically this line. She is recalling things they did and happy times, like playing games and sewing clothes. And she is saying this new idea of being apart, and being broken up. it has just come. Their happiness was there long before these new ideas of separation, and that it deserves the right to be there because they were there first. "Oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before the takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this still life." - This is about how she is taking down pictures and sees that theyve been there so long, that the paint is oddly colored where the "pleasure moments" (pictures of happy times) once hung. Before this new life (which is cold and still, not at all like their old life together which was happy and joyous) came through and struck all the old away. "Oh you wont catch me round here, blood and tears they were here first." - this is him trying to say "We can still be friends" and her coming to terms with what has transpired but becoming angry and saying she is leaving. Her metaphorical "Blood" and her literal tears being there first are about the fights they've pulled through. The battles leaving battle scars on their relationship ("blood") and the tears that were shed by him and her throughout the fight. They once again, were their before this new idea of separation. "Mm what'cha say? Mm that it's all for the best - This is here being sarcastic saying "who are you to decide whats best" Of course it is" Mm what'cha say? Mm that it's just what we need - She is saying "who are you to decide what we need, what she needs. You decided this? Mm what'cha say? Mm what did you say?" - Now he starts to choke up and can't speak because she is making him see how he is hurting her and she just keeps verbally attacking him to the point where he stops talking. "Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth Mid-sweet-talk newspaper word cutouts (paper word cutouts) Speak no feeling; no, I don't believe you You don't care a bit You don't care a bit" - Words that hold her hostage like "we're broken up" or "This is the end" is what he says. Im not entirely sure about the "Mid sweet talk" line, but i think he is telling her something harsh and bold and usually not good (Which is what comes in newspapers, things like "20 killed in plane crash" or "Children die of lead poisoning") but in a voice that is opposite, a somewhat sweet voice. He's telling her something horrible (like the people dying in the paper) but in her case it's their relationship being over, but in a voice to give her hope which is the opposite of what she feels he is doing. Then she says that he speaks with no emotion in his voice, playing him about to be a cold person and that he probably never loved her all along. And he says something to the affect of "I still care about you and hope you end up okay" which he may actually feel, but she is past the point of believing anything he says after he has brought her so much hurt. Thats the way I see it happening, and the song has built kind of a story in my head. |
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