Fight Test Lyrics
I thought it better not to fight
I thought there was a virtue in always being cool
So when it came time to fight
I thought I'll just step aside and that time would prove you wrong
And that you would be the fool
It's all a mystery
If it's not now than tell me when
Would be the time that you would stand up and be a man
For to lose I could accept
But to surrender, I just wept and regretted this moment
Oh, that I, I was the fool
It's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides what right for his own life
It's all a mystery
And there are things you can't avoid
You have to face them when you're not prepared to face them
If I could I would, but you're with him now, it'd do no good
I should have fought him, but instead I let him
I let him take it
It's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides what right for his own life
It's all a mystery
The song is about a relationship with a girl. At some point she was either going to go with the singer or the other guy and the singer decided to just step back and let her decide, thinking that she'd eventually chose him. But she doesn't.
I think the ironic thing about the song is the line "If I could I would but you're with him now it'd do no good". The whole song is about how he should have tried harder for this girl, but then he is still making excuses and refusing to try. I don't know if that's intentional or not, but I always thought it was funny.
IMHO, this is the best song on Yoshimi. Of course, I'm an idiot, so you can just ignore that.
No your right i love this song too. It is one of their better songs and i totally agree. And btw you cant possibly be any more idiotic then ME.
No your right i love this song too. It is one of their better songs and i totally agree. And btw you cant possibly be any more idiotic then ME.
This song means sometimes fighting is your only option. If you surrender, well, you will always be ashamed of it.
I think this song has a lot to do with the Flight or Fight stress response phenomenon. That is, when faced with a decision, you can either stand your ground and fight, or you can flee. The title "Fight Test" makes a pun out of the term "Flight Test." In a flight test, you are testing the aereonautical virtues of an aircraft, whereas in a fight test, your girlfriend (or object of your affection) is testing to see if you will fight for her. Or will you flight? In many situations, especially when dealing with physical violence, fleeing is the best choice, however, when your relationship or honor is at stake, you may have to throw down and fight. This song, I think, is the story of a guy who flees rather than fights for his girl. If he had fought, he may have been able to keep her.
It's about Neon Genesis Evangelion, obviously.
Yes. Heavyhoss has it down to the nail.
Yes. Heavyhoss has it down to the nail.
This is a complicated and beautiful song. I'll try to organize the breakdown chronologically but I am not sure that the song is written in linear time.
With the song and the official video it seems like a straight forward struggle for the love of a woman. He seems to be addressing his foe in the video but if you read the lyrics it seems that he is fighting his lover. He says that "to fight is to defend", but he did not realize that he was supposed to fight to defend the relationship from the anger of his lover. He did not realize that he had to fight her for her love and that "playing it cool" (letting her blow off steam/win) was not what she needed.
"I don't know where the sun beams end and the star Lights begins it's all a mystery"
Refers to the passage of time and his wondering where it has gone.
The song uses the chorus to show that the singer often revisits his memories of this breakup and that the woman he let go might have been more than just a girlfriend.
He did not fight to keep her, and he regrets not fighting for her as much as he regrets losing her. When he says that he is a man and not a boy, he tells us that he recognizes that he should have been more assertive and his ambivalence about the relationship is gone now that she left him. He wants to try again, but "you're with him now do no good"
Without the opportunity to fight for her, he slips back into indecision. He knows what he has done wrong but he is having trouble changing and moving on. He knows that he needs to stop thinking about her so he tells himself "the test is over, now"
The echo on the "now" feels like the these memories are not over and will continue to haunt him.
This is a great song and I've revisited it for years.
@madscience84 "I don't know where the sun beams end and the star Lights begins it's all a mystery"
@madscience84 "I don't know where the sun beams end and the star Lights begins it's all a mystery"
I always thought this is a reflection of how his views changed. He is reflecting in the moment he faced the choice, he was certain it was better to stay cool. But that turned out wrong. Now he's reflecting he should have done the opposite: Lost his cool, demonstrated he loved her, tell her to tell the other guy to get lost and pick him. Fight for her. But in the time, not fighting was choice that was clear as...
I always thought this is a reflection of how his views changed. He is reflecting in the moment he faced the choice, he was certain it was better to stay cool. But that turned out wrong. Now he's reflecting he should have done the opposite: Lost his cool, demonstrated he loved her, tell her to tell the other guy to get lost and pick him. Fight for her. But in the time, not fighting was choice that was clear as night and day to him. Now he can't trust himself to tell starlight from sunlight. Night is day, day is night and he's lost his confidence in even making the right choices anymore.
Wonderful track and band....about a man's struggles to find his way in life while he marches to his own drumbeat...
This song isn't about physical violence...stand up and be a man. Fighting for a girl is a lot harder than getting into an actual fight. I've lost fights and I've lost girls and I know which is harder.
i just saw these guys in philly... their show was amazing... so different from anything i'd ever seen... kinda weird, but respectable b/c no one else does these things.... i love this song and they totally blew me away with it
I first saw these dudes in '94 when they opened for Candlebox (yes, dating myself a bit). They started off kinda sounding tinny, but with the first real power chord, Xmas lights all over them and the stage went on. Spectacular. ANyway, this song is phenomenal. It's the kind of music I wanna make out with a cute girl to. Hats off.