| SikTh – When the Moments Gone Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Well, I think this song has a lot in it. I think that it's about two people, and they are separated by a long distance, and that the person it is about is in Britain (reference to a grey climate). He is obsessed by this woman who is now very far away, for some reason Australia springs to mind, and their only contacts are fleeting - for example, an aswering machine message. The bit about it taking "so long to find you" could mean that he had been looking for someone to have for a very long time, and then that period of the relationship was brief before she went. This is the most interesting bit IMO, as it says about the answering machine message, and it says he regrets not listening more cleary when he was drinking. Now, for me this means that they said a lot in a goodbye maybe, about how it was going to work, and although it seemed explicit at the time, when he reflects upon it, the words could mean something else entirely, and he regrets not clarifying it. The next bit hurts tbh. He says about "sinking in your sand I saw my heart still weeping for your lure". I think this means that although he knew maybe it wouldn't work for whatever reason, he couldn't help but become infatuated, as he says, she is the clover he warms to. With so much time to think on it, I get the idea that he works out what he wants to say when she comes back, and that he longs just for her presence. However she's five thousand miles away from "the gravy smear". I think this could mean two things, either that Britain could look like a smear from the height of a plane, or that the whole country is now dirty to her or him because of what's happened in it. The rest is a bit less abstract I think, he looks in the mirror and sees a vagabond, he has changed because he is completely stricken by the whole thing. Then, he finds himself asking how someone could ever even want someone like him, "a beast like me", and then he asks "Do you feel alright?" because he wants to know that she is going through the same pain he is, that she must because surely it's as painful for her as him. It then says that he wants to try and walk out, but there is no ground beneath his feet. He's trapped because he still believes that maybe it could work, but the logical part of his head says that it won't and he should just move on. But it's not that easy. This could also be a reference to some sort of subconcious suicide by walking out a window? I don't think so though. Finally, it says "Do you feel alright? as we sail through this dream of summer love?". I don't know. This song is amazing. It hurts. |
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