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Rhymes of an Hour Lyrics

cannot hear what you're saying
could i tell you so
and i can't leave my troubles
and i'm going home

lie and sleep
under deep
you now know

while the cold winter waiting
while i stand very close
and these things we were certain
now we just don't know

lie and sleep
under deep
i think you now know

for the rhymes of an hour
now i'm going home
and i can't believe i'm nothing
'cause i'm coming down

lie and sleep
under deep
do you now know?
Song Info
Copyright
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
Writer
David Roback, Hope Sandoval
Duration
4:10
Submitted by
numb On Jun 21, 2001
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Cover art for Rhymes of an Hour lyrics by Mazzy Star

I think it's about crisis... and someone thinking about a way to deal with the situation, and NOT struggle with it '[...]cannot hear what you're saying', NOT to run '[...]can't leave my troubles', and NOT to work things up '[...]i'm going home'... For me, it's all about that particular times when you're stuck, incapable of doing anything... and begging for a quiet moment, a pause in the crisis, just to breath and think clearly...

Cover art for Rhymes of an Hour lyrics by Mazzy Star

this song is so ambient and peaceful, i love mazzy star and portishead oh what talent

Cover art for Rhymes of an Hour lyrics by Mazzy Star

i'm listenng to it right now and i must say, its beautiful. Ah I love Mazzy Star!

Cover art for Rhymes of an Hour lyrics by Mazzy Star

..I'm going "home" (into my bed), I lie and sleep under deep...(deep =intensive meaningful)...for "the rhymes of an hour" I listen music then...lieing in bed, floating away with music...how reliefing in those times we live in these days

Cover art for Rhymes of an Hour lyrics by Mazzy Star

i love this song for some reason, a quite, sad but sweet sound to it.

just heard it the other dqay at the end of an episode of House, really kinda striking the context it was put into, and really fit into the end of the show.

Cover art for Rhymes of an Hour lyrics by Mazzy Star

This song is amazing, it reminds me of a girl struggling with self confidence while being a drug addict. "And I can't believe I'm nothing,'cause I'm coming down", she's loosing her friends, her family and her self belief because of drugs, yet she still isn't sure she wants to stop them.

Cover art for Rhymes of an Hour lyrics by Mazzy Star

Think it's about start seeing suicide as a possibility, wondering about the afterlife

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Cover art for Rhymes of an Hour lyrics by Mazzy Star

Perhaps some of the best, craziest music ever recorded. Sounds like every 15-year-old crisis I ever experienced, from both sides, surely round a campfire, with tambourines and a simple guitar line and harmonica and a real stoned bassline. Who turned Bertolucci onto this?