| Alex Turner – It's Hard To Get Around The Wind Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I also think that this song is about depression and contemplating suicide. It's like you're trying to get to heaven in a hurry, And the queue was shorter than you thought it would be, And the doorman says, You need to get a wristband. As already mentioned, it's about this person thinking about suicide, and then realizing how easy it would be if one just committed to it. But at that point, he just doesn't have the guts to go through with it, and thus he gets rejected by the doorman. I think that the wristband is a metaphor for slitting your wrists, and the person can't come back without actually intending to kill himself, without a bracelet. You got a lift between the pitfalls, But you're looking like your low on energy, Did you get out and walk, To ensure you'd miss the quicksand? Even though there are people to help and give a lift between the pitfalls, the subject still is robbed of energy because of the depression. The speaker wonders whether the suicidal person is deliberately postponing death, the quicksand, because he doesn't want to to die or if it's just a matter of time. Looking for a new place to begin, Feeling like it's hard to understand, But as long as you still keep peppering the pill, You'll find a way to spit it out again. The person in the song just wants to escape his current situation but doesn't know whether he should keep struggling to fight off his depression or if suicide is the way to go. But as long as he can remind himself about the bitterness of death, he can manage to spit out those pills with which he intends to end his life. And even when you know the way it's gonna blow, It's hard to get around the wind. He knows which two paths lies ahead of him, and what's expected of him if he chooses them; he can't go on the way he does, so he either has to get himself together and go on with his life or commit suicide. But although he knows what he has to do, he just cannot get himself to do either of it - he can't get around the wind. Stretching out the neck on your evening, Trying to even out some deficits, But it's sabertooth multi-ball confusion. In bed at night, he's still trying to decide what to do by weighing the pros and cons and then decide which alternative is better, but he can't reach a decision because there are too many things to bear in mind, and he risks doing more harm than virtue. And you can shriek until you're hollow, Or whisper it the other way, Trying to save the youth without putting your shoes on. It means that he can act it out whatever way he wants; by shrieking it, or keeping his sadness to himself, but this doesn't change the fact that in order for something to change, he has to take measures. It won't just go away all by itself - the narrator realizes this, and points out that it's just wishful thinking from the depressed person's side to believe that he could save his youth and straighten things out without even having to put his shoes on. I can hear you through my window, But I'm never quite sure who is who, But they want the world on a dessert spoon. There is this struggle going on inside of the person in the story. He's got two voices - one telling him to let go, and one to keep going, but it's hard to tell one from the other because they are both so dominant and have so much to say. However, both of the voices simplifies the situation by insinuating that it's either black or white. The world just is a lot more complicated than that - it doesn't fit on a dessert spoon. It always sounds like they're fighting, Or if that's what they are about to do, It might not hurt now but it's gonna hurt soon. It sure sounds as though the two voices are fighting with each other, but "Or if that's what they are about to do" implies that it might have only started and that there's even more to come. It think that the last line is expressed by both voices, trying to convince the other of their own opinion on the matter. The voice that encourages suicide means that he might feel quite alright at the moment, but he will feel bad again soon. The second voice on the other hand, means that he might feel ready to commit suicide right there and then, but he doesn't really know the pain that comes with it. It's a quite good song, especially when you look into it like this. |
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