Revelate Lyrics
to me this song is about loss. somebody you need so much has left. it's about the pain you feel. how you try to get them back (with the lucky charms and open arms). i love this song and it reminds of my friend. i love the apin in his voice and the music is amazing. "sometimes its easy just to hate you" - amazing line. i was annoyed not to see so many comment for The Frames, but it makes this song more special to me
i agree with you hideme28. its nice to find a little song like this that only a few people feel is worthy of looking up. i have absolutely no idea what this song means and thats why im here
It's about a destructive relationship. She is his 'revelation' but they run through the same arguments all the time ('my simple slant, this broken chant'). In the second verse he's trying to get her back with his open arms' and his 'lucky charm' (perhaps the charm in his nature that attracted her to him) but he's f**ked it up, and it's too great to fix. The chorus is about how he needs her, but the hurt that he gets from the relationship is all too much to take. The third verse is pretty self-explanatory, they've finally self destructed as a couple and he'd go back to her if he could ('I would ride to you this day, but it's all too great'). The final rendition of the chorus has a slightly different meaning, it's how he's saying he needs her now, even though he knows they hurt each other, and that 'sometimes it's easy just to hate you'.
go on chaka!! youre in the fucking zone man!!!
yay me. :)
savage when its played live!!
I agree. With CHAKA. and sammy hansard. Who last posted last year.
Glen once explained some time ago that this song was written to himself, whilst he was looking for a record deal.
The "my number eight" line refers to a pool ball - a number 8 ball in fact, that was given to Glen as a lucky charm whilst he was over in the USA looking for a deal. The day after he was given the ball, he and the band got a deal. And thus it's become his lucky charm.
The "Does this mean we're through? Does this mean it's gone?" refers not to a relationship, but to his career and the band.