| Silversun Pickups – Surrounded (Or Spiraling) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Ok, this is going to be long and I'm going to go from verse to verse, but this is my interpretation of the song. To begin, I think that he's talking to someone he had been in a relationship, or someone that he was still in a relationship, and he's reminding them and thinking back to all the times in their relationship. "Remember when you were the hunted/remember how I swallowed you in/remember the rewards shimmering on the floor/off the plastic chandelier" Here, he's looking back at the beginning of the relationship. It implies that he was "hunting" or chasing the girl, trying to get her to be with him and that he eventually swallowed her in, or in other words, got what he wanted. I'm not sure about the plastic chandelier part, but obviously they got a reward. "Remember when I saw you in orbit?/Remember when I pulled you back in?/remember looking on, blinking into the dawn/Thinking how this will never end?" Ok, so here I'm not quite sure what's going on. Perhaps she was on cloud nine or "in orbit" and he somehow pulled her back down to reality, perhaps making her realize that this is for real. The "blinking into the dawn" part might signal the beginning (dawn) of their relationship, the time when everything is all blissful happiness, and she believes that it will "never end." I'm going to skip the chorus for now. "Remember when I played assassin?/Remember when my joking turned grim?/Remember how we thought if we followed the dots/It would stop all the accidents?/Remember when you broke my halo?/Remember how I tied your wings in?/Remember how we slipped on the lies we equipped/Just to bring back the goods again?" Here he starts to talk about the bad parts. When he played assassin: when he started killing the mood, perhaps. When his joking turned grim: when he stopped seeing the good and funny anymore. If they followed all the dots it would stop all the accidents: if they did everything right, nothing would go wrong anymore. This next part is one of my favorite parts: "remember when you broke my halo/remember how I tied your wings in?" This is just screaming at me that they took each others innocence. And their innocence could have been anything: first time having sex, realizing that relationships aren't all they're cracked out to be, cheating on each other, etc. And then they got lost in all the lies that they told and perhaps came clean to make everything the way it was before or "bring back the goods again." "Is it perfect/In our little hell?/Are you dancing/Or stumbling beside me?/Well this might not be/We'll just wait and see" This has always been my favorite part. But I think here he's realizing that they aren't in a blissful state anymore and he's wondering if their relationship is perfect or if it's hell. He asks "are you dancing or stumbling beside me?" implying that he can't tell if she's happy or trying to keep up. Is it perfect and are you dancing or are we in hell and are you stumbling? And then he says that it might not be hell or perfect in our hell, but they will just have to wait it out to see either way. "So now that we've stopped hearing echoes/And now that the replay wore thin/Just remember who held you/Remember who held you/Remember who held you/Remember who held you" I actually don't get this part. Before I read the lyrics I thought it said "Now that the Reaper walked in" meaning that someone was going to die, but obviously I can now see that's not what it means at all. I think maybe it means that now that everything is gone and out in the open, now that they aren't pretending or trying to make everything the way it was before, he's reminding her that he did love her once and that he was there for her before and she shouldn't forget that. "Surrounded/Let's romanticize our beloved memories/Surrounded/Let's demonize our softest injuries/Surrounded/Can we get behind distortion and liberties?/Surrounded/We're surrounded or spiraling" Here in the chorus it's pretty easy to see what he's saying. He's pointing out that what they're doing is making the good memories better than they really were and making the bad memories worse than they really were. "Can we get behind distortion and liberties?" Either he's asking if they can put it behind them and be real or he's asking how long they can hide behind all the lies and distortions they're making. And the surrounded or spiraling part I think is just him saying that either they're surrounded by all of their lies or they're spiraling toward an end or a hell that they don't want to get to. I'm not sure why it can't be both. So overall, I think this song is about the end of a relationship and looking back on how the relationship progressed to where it is now: in their perfect hell. |
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