| Idiot Pilot – Elephant Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this might have something to do with the story "The Elephant Vanishes" by Haruki Murakami. You gotta read it first to understand why it's closely related to the song. First of is this line from the lyrics: "Conversation works to expose how heavy is the burden of your soul. Enough to disguise all you might've said. The Elephant dies." In the story, the narrator seems to have a love interest on the new editor and flirts with her by conversing with her. "Although the conversation flows smoothly at first and the narrator recalls being drawn to the editor, he notes that things took a turn when he brought up the topic of the elephant. He immediately regrets bringing up the subject, but the editor presses him for more details when he says he was probably not shocked by the elephant's disappearance. And the second verse: "I felt damnation in all its throes-- A complication when confronted with the sight unknown." Towards the end of the story, the narrator says that that was the last time he saw the editor. Although he considered asking her out for dinner, he ended up not doing so due to a sense of emotional paralysis that he experiences after the elephant's vanishing. The story ends with the narrator describing his unease following the incident and how in spite of succeeding more than ever in his job, he feels bewildered and permanently unsettled. "The sight; unknown" referred to in the song might have been referring to the person witness the elephant vanishing. Or in other meaning, something big and so obvious that just slips from your sight. The elephant is a symbolic character in the story, representing an old way of life. The narrator is an isolated and quirky person who seems bewildered by the absurdity of his daily life. He also meets and thinks about courting a young magazine editor. However, following the elephant's disappearance, the narrator finds that he has become so unsettled by the loss of balance in the world that he cannot act, and he never bothers to ask the editor out. Throughout the story, Murakami subtly reveals how the vanishing of the old ways leaves people feeling disoriented and how the new ways of being create a sense of disconnection and unease. Source: http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/ssfs_0000_0023_0/ssfs_0000_0023_0_00016.html |
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| Idiot Pilot – Wolves Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Here are the correct lyrics to this song; you also forgot the last bit: Whisper, hiding words under your breath. But I would dig them out with a knife, if so inclined Makeshift, but it's still alright Good enough to make the spark light Sunken pushed aside under your desk. but I would pull you in with a smile, if I could try makeshift but it's still alright Good enough to make the spark light it's true that wolves never really attack people. I kissed her with my mouth And now she's dead. |
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| Idiot Pilot – A Day in the Life of a Poolshark Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I could relate this to my young life completely. This is how I interpret the song: "I never could see past the skin They make you believe beauty's found within Don't know why, 'cause it's just not true" When I was a child, I was usually picked on due to my looks. My mother once told me that "Real beauty's found within." and I questioned anyone who told me that and stated that people can't see what's under the skin; so is there such a thing as real beauty? Of course as I grew up, it came to my attention that the saying was referring to a person's personality and morale though until now I still have my doubts `bout it. "I could never be a part of something I did not help to start Don't know why, it's just how I am When I want something all I do is smile" I was actually never involved or counted in anything I did not contribute to, making me appear as the "poolshark", someone isolated alone from the rest, forced to watch everyone from the sidelines. I wanted to be out there doing what I wanted to do without being held back by anyone or anything. But I just sat there, hoped and smiled, hiding all the angst underneath that upward curl on my mouth. "I never did understand the lie You can tell if someone is telling the truth by their eyes It's just not true" A common saying stating that you can tell if someone is lying by looking into their eyes. I believe that isn't all true when I witnessed a man on the news claiming that he did not kill the person was looking straight into the officers eyes. A few days later, solid evidence proves that he is in fact lying. I too have lied whilst looking at my parents in the eye and got away with it. So I doubted heavily on that very saying. If the person who came up with the saying "You can tell if someone is telling the truth by their eyes" made it up and still looked at the person straight in the eye, then the saying itself is a lie. "Don't know how long the fallout will last But we'll find the higher ground (love, hate, it's all the same)" I was helpless-- but I always had hoped things would turn over to the bright side. But every time, reality would slap me in the face and tell me that it's never going to happen. Taking it psychologically, it's the thought of 'hope' that drives people to push on, even if it was only 'false hope'... The benefit of a doubt. They're deceiving you, playing with your mind for the whole length of your life. |
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| Idiot Pilot – Mercury Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I found it hard to decipher the words to the song since no legit lyrics have been printed so I kept repeating the last verse and heard the lyrics as this: "Where to run? Wither with a frozen smile That night was true Where to run? Lowered into something I am not Given the chance to break I would be Someone who has passed Someone who has passed (My time will pass on) Someone who has passed" Also some corrections at: "I will eventually end up for good" Should be "I will eventually end up forgone", depicting that the person might disappear or end up as someone who has "passed on" soon. |
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