45 Meanings
Add Yours
Share
The Movement of a Hand Lyrics
You follow the footsteps
echoes leading down a hall to a room
There is music playing
tiny bells with moving parts
Here the shadows make things ugly
An effect quite undesirable
The bold and yellow daylight grows
Like ivy across the wall
And bounces off of the painted porcelain
Tiny dancing doll
Her body spins as she pirouettes again
The world suddenly seems small
On an off white subtle morning
You stretch your legs in the front seat
The road has made a vacuum where our voices used to be
And you lay your head onto my shoulder
Pour like water over me
So if I just exist for the next ten minutes of this drive
That would be fine
And all the trees that line this curb
Would be rejoicing and alive
Soon all the joy that pours from everything
Makes fountains of your eyes
Because you finally understand the movement of a hand
Waving you goodbye
Okay the end of this song is very important...."you finally understand the movement of a hand waving you good-bye." If you fast forward to An Attempt to Tip the Scales the first line is..."Did you expect it all to stop with a wave of your hand?"
@popnoir - good call !! Grandaddy (Jason Lytle) does that a LOT, having lyrics from different songs connect, sometimes across albums !!
@popnoir - good call !! Grandaddy (Jason Lytle) does that a LOT, having lyrics from different songs connect, sometimes across albums !!
this song makes me cry. right now.
hm. i know this isn't really what the song means, but to me it reminds me of my exact feelings as i was walking to school with a friend that i knew i wasn't going to see soon after, if ever. how i payed attention to every detail and was just putting off the moment we had to part. "So if I just exist for the next ten minutes of this drive That would be fine" it was such a prolonged walk and in the end we both knew that there were like 5 minutes of being together left, but it felt like those were the longest and most important moments of my life.
"Soon all the joy that pours from everything Makes fountains of your eyes Because you finally understand the movement of a hand Waving you goodbye " after he had gone, it still hadn't hit me that he actually left until i saw him turn around and wave again before disappearing from sight. it was kind of like closure.
this comment is probably pretty lame and not worded well, but i wanted to share. haha
that sounds good. your comments adds more depth to this song
that sounds good. your comments adds more depth to this song
AH.. I LOVE BRIGHT EYES SO MUCH!
sigh
Bright Eyes is ridiculously good
i think that this song is about the end of depression and the beginning of happiness. "you finally understand the movement of a hand waving you goodbye" refers to the death of the sadness which once ruled the life. it is so because he describes beauty in this song, and it's really nice. a nice message of hope, well, to me at least that's what it means. bright eyes is amazing in concert, despite all of the screaming little drunk girls. meh..it sort of fucks up the experience, though. not too much.
The road has made a vacuum where our voices used to be. Understanding seems inaudible, for Conor never writes of speaking at all in this song. It seems all very centered around clarity.. Soon all the joy that pours from everything makes fountains of your eyes because you finally understand the movement of a hand waving you good-bye. That for every good bye, there's a hello to some new aspect of life, and this joy and optimism found in new experiences is so overwhelming, yet welcome.
Does anyone else love the tune he has when he says "painted porcelain".. wow...
I honestly don't know the relation here, but listen to the ending of The Movement Of A Hand, and the beginning of Arienette...is that the same music, or is it just me? Love Bright Eyes to death.......and death.