| Beach House – Wishes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Also thought about it. The whole "one in your life, it happens once a rarely twice" part comes in so strong and inconsistent with the rest of the song. It's as if the writer is trying to convince himself that what he's contemplating is inevitable anyway. That considering suicide isn't bringing in some negative experience to his life that wasn't going to happen anyway. And of course, this "pep talk" is followed by him talking about being forever still on the hill, as an escape. | |
| Beach House – Wishes Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I took this song to be from the perspective of a suicidal student who questions if life is even reality. "The roses on the lawn Don't know which side you're on" Is he asking on which side of the roses you are on (left right) or on what side of the lawn you are on (above or beneath, meaning dead) " In a daze it will change" Saying "It will change" means that the changing of sides will not be optional. It's going to happen (Death), and the kid's perspective that the transition from life to death, from this reality to this "other" reality will happen in a daze, thus there is no ending but merely a transition. " Wishes on a wheel" or perhaps bullets in a gun. Wishes on a wheel "The voices in the hall Will carry on their talking Carry weight you can't take" Referring to the pain he is experiencing from gossip, peer pressure, bullying, or whatever. Notice he said in the hall, which leads us to believe this is happening in school. " Wishes on a wheel" Is it even real?" Again questioning this reality as the true reality. Alluding that there may be something more elsewhere. "The contact that you make The moment when a memory aches" Expressing that pain is the result of his connection with life. Literally contact creates memories that result in pain. " Who can tell? You do it well" In spite of this pain, others around him can't tell that he is suffering because he is putting on a great face in spite of how life is impacting him. Wishes on a wheel " How's it supposed to feel?" Life is "supposed" to be good and living a joy, but this person is asking "how are these painful experiences supposed to feel, because they aren't feeling like how life is being advertised. In other words, he's asking how should I be interpreting what's happening to me, because I just interpret pain. "One in your life It happens once and rarely twice One in your life It happens once and rarely twice" This one is tricky because it says it happens once, meaning that it is not optional. It's not that it can happen, but that it will happen. And yet it is possible to happen twice. I thought of growing up physically (which will happen once) and perhaps growing up in maturity (which happens rarely), but that didn't fit the rest of the song. I'm left with him talking about death. It does happen once, and rarely twice for those who have the "near death experiences" where they are legally dead and yet come back. "The roses on the lawn Won't know which side you're on" Again referring to not sure of reality, being dead or alive. "On that hill Forever still" This line clinched it for me. On the hill, forever still. In a word dead. But listen to his voice and the music at this point. It is so beautiful, as if this person is imagining the peace and tranquility that will be found in death. An escape from the things he mentioned before. The weight he can't bear, the aching memories from each contact with life. Wishes on a wheel How's it supposed to feel? Wishes on a wheel Wishes on a wheel Really wish I had a different interpretation but I can't get away from this one. |
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