| A Perfect Circle – A Stranger Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| you nailed it. damned if I didn't know these lyrics the first time I felt them. | |
| A Perfect Circle – A Stranger Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Okay, I'm a Toolhead and all around Maynard fanatic. I was born in his sign and alot of the crazy shit he goes on to write about strikes me in a very profound way. I feel he's a prophet but that gets into another area all together. The first verse is the one that creates the most confusion Cast the calming apple Up and over satellites. To draw out the timid wild one To convince you it's alright And I listen for the whisper Of your sweet insanity while I formulate Denials of your effect on me [I know they say Denials, but I always here "In My Oath", I'm wrong but art is subjective, eh?] - The first part I've heard more confusion and has been a point of contention between friends of mine. It is looked upon as meerly gibberish by most but it's there to envoke a certain subliminal imagery. Apples have a subconscience tie to Adam and Eve, and the fall of man, but the image of innocence as new love knows no bounds because the fruit that would spell demise has been cast aside, with tremendous force if its over the moon and stars. Indeed. To draw out the timid wild one is a reference to that wild passion sense you get when love is new and naive. I've been so drunk on love with a woman (in public even) that the whispers of her sweet insanity were putting me over the edge why I myself sat there struggling to tell the lady fare across from me how much I loved and lusted at that moment. And the next two verses show the decent, when that relationship loses that "New Relationship" smell: Your a Stranger So what do I care You vanished today, Not the first time I hear All the Lies That is the veil coming off. You know, that side in the relationship that was pure, and honest, and would cause shivers of excitement when you were touched, well that honeymoon has to be over sometime... Perhaps then you discover the habits of your love. Lies. Drugs. Big black dongs. Whatever. That much is there to make it personal to you and when that love became false to your own sensibilities. Moving on ----------------- What am I to do with all this silence? Shy away, shy away phantom, Run away, terrified child Won't you move away, you fucking tornado? I'm better off without you Tearing my will down... I would think this is self explainatory. The silence of knowing that the person you are with insn't the same person that you fell in love with. people can get emotional and hostile quickly in a relationship. Silence in a dead relationship where one is pretty much waiting on the other to sleep around or move out... well that's something I've known before. it's painful. Epecially when that woman is a "Medicated Drama Queen" or a "Suicidal Imbecile". [Won't you] move away you fuckin tornado I'm better off without you Tearing my will down. She left destruction in his way, and his will, for sobriety, for sanity, for whatever, has been damaged because of a woman totally wrecking his life. ------ Well, that's my take on it. I hope someone that might be lost in the words to this song can find some insights. Yes ladies, it means what you thought it did, and yes, if you ever get this sung to you it's because you are wrecking some mans life and you just need to be what he fell in love with or leave him be. |
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