This song is timeless, and nearly 20 years after its creation, still possesses the mystique it did the first time i heard it ~1994. To me, at first blush, all those years ago, it had some kind of homo-erotic allure. The line "so that the others may do" tells of something which must be done for others to follow suit. It felt like like some kind of roxy-glam-pop invitation to sexual liberation.
Upon further introspection I think the song may not have an intrinsic meaning, but simply represents a sort of "holding open the door" for people who otherwise might be affronted by this song/band's unusual style. I know, as a sort of armchair rock-historian, that there have been few bands so daring and so true to the sound that wanted to emerge from within, whether the creator wanted it or not. This band handled it with elegance and grace seldom, if ever, seen.
There must be something I can do to push this pressure off into
Motion for the moment simplify what cannot be justified.
There must be something more now that echo’s past the still.
But wait,
What is with you?
What is with you?
Imitate the mistake gives a lasting impression of you.
There must be something more I can do to relieve the intention implied.
I learnt to see through the lies.
I took a chance trusting you with this.
My mistake in the promise of bliss.
With no meaning you gave away those things which you could not keep.
Chorus
Watch it all fall apart somehow.
Melodrama with no crowd.
Now there’s nothing left to see below the surface in me.
Watch it all fall apart somehow.
What you say must make you proud.
But there’s nothing left to say.
You gave your promises.
Why waste that sympathy on you?
The cause of nothing special new but for the notion.
Never realise what stands to reason to find.
There must be something more now beyond this mortal coil – prove!
What is with you?
What is with you?
Confirm/deny what you never had to lose.
There must be something more I can do to relieve the intention implied.
I learnt to see through the lies.
I took a chance trusting you with this.
My mistake in the promise of bliss.
With no meaning you gave away those things which you could not keep.
Chorus
Even in the games you played you couldn’t fulfil those promises.
I paid attention while I swallowed all that’s sold to me.
Even in the games you played you couldn’t fulfil those promises.
Although you sold them to me.
Although you sold them to me.
Although you sold them to me.
Although you sold them to me.
Although you sold them to me.
To me.
Motion for the moment simplify what cannot be justified.
There must be something more now that echo’s past the still.
But wait,
What is with you?
What is with you?
Imitate the mistake gives a lasting impression of you.
There must be something more I can do to relieve the intention implied.
I learnt to see through the lies.
I took a chance trusting you with this.
My mistake in the promise of bliss.
With no meaning you gave away those things which you could not keep.
Chorus
Watch it all fall apart somehow.
Melodrama with no crowd.
Now there’s nothing left to see below the surface in me.
Watch it all fall apart somehow.
What you say must make you proud.
But there’s nothing left to say.
You gave your promises.
Why waste that sympathy on you?
The cause of nothing special new but for the notion.
Never realise what stands to reason to find.
There must be something more now beyond this mortal coil – prove!
What is with you?
What is with you?
Confirm/deny what you never had to lose.
There must be something more I can do to relieve the intention implied.
I learnt to see through the lies.
I took a chance trusting you with this.
My mistake in the promise of bliss.
With no meaning you gave away those things which you could not keep.
Chorus
Even in the games you played you couldn’t fulfil those promises.
I paid attention while I swallowed all that’s sold to me.
Even in the games you played you couldn’t fulfil those promises.
Although you sold them to me.
Although you sold them to me.
Although you sold them to me.
Although you sold them to me.
Although you sold them to me.
To me.
Lyrics submitted by Harry Manback
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