Both as a standalone and as part of the DSOTS album, you can take this lyric as read. As a matter of public record, Jourgensen's drug intake was legendary even in the 1980s. By the late 90s, in his own words, he was grappling with massive addiction issues and had lost almost everything: friends, spouse, money and had nearly died more than once. "Dark Side of the Spoon" is a both funny & sad title for an album made by a musical genius who was losing the plot; and this song is a message to his fans & friends saying he knows it. It's painful to listen to so I'm glad the "Keith Richards of industrial metals" wised up and cleaned up. Well done sir.
Yeah I'm your lover, I could scale your city walls,
Though there were others, you never left me at all.
Love paved our way with initialled sidewalk streets,
But here comes September and we both know what that means.
Sometimes it's out of our grasp, not everything's made to last.
(CHORUS)
If that's you way you wanna remember, well that's the way you gotta remember,
But I won't cry now, here comes September.
It's gonna be winter but I guess you'll never know,
Coz in California, it doesn't snow.
Sometimes it's out of our grasp, not everything's made to last.
Chorus x 2
Here comes September...
Mud, I can hardly sense among us who will hurt me,
Is it necessary to fight with brutality.
Maybe one day you will see the sense in crying,
Maybe one day you will see the waste in fighting.
With your hands, and not with your eyes,
Well it's a sad, sad day, for the people inside, well it's a sad, sad day, I...
Though there were others, you never left me at all.
Love paved our way with initialled sidewalk streets,
But here comes September and we both know what that means.
Sometimes it's out of our grasp, not everything's made to last.
(CHORUS)
If that's you way you wanna remember, well that's the way you gotta remember,
But I won't cry now, here comes September.
It's gonna be winter but I guess you'll never know,
Coz in California, it doesn't snow.
Sometimes it's out of our grasp, not everything's made to last.
Chorus x 2
Here comes September...
Mud, I can hardly sense among us who will hurt me,
Is it necessary to fight with brutality.
Maybe one day you will see the sense in crying,
Maybe one day you will see the waste in fighting.
With your hands, and not with your eyes,
Well it's a sad, sad day, for the people inside, well it's a sad, sad day, I...
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Holiday
Bee Gees
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
damn great song, have no idea what its about i wouldn't mind knowing actually!!
The only memorable thing about this song for me is that Ben Lee is in the film clip.
I think this is about two lovers, and they loved each other a lot. I think he left to go to America (yeah Australian band) and this is sort of a song to tell herself, 'I'm alright now, here comes September' which in Aus is spring so symbolic of a happier season? I'm not sure I just kidn of thought that up. It's certainly a sweet song like a sort of defencive song or 'don't cry anymore' song.
You have to look at WHEN this song was made: 2002.
The last time the world had had a September, it included a single day where the entire world gathered as one to watch 3000 innocent people die and when the world changed for the worse and forever. The remainder of tht month was dominated by fear and confusion, for everyone all over the world.
In this day and age, younger people might be inclined to think that 9/11 was just another terrorist attack; an occurance that, unfortunately, seems to be a dime a dozen in this day and age. But it wasn't. It was THE terrorist attack. It changed everything. the pre-9/11 world was a differant, safer, brighter place.
In fact, it had such an impact that, for AT LEAST the 12 months that followed, "September" was a word that had dark vibes attached to it. As we approached September, 2002 the memories of what had happened the previous year grew stronger, in many ways, we "went back" to the sense of horror we'd felt the previous year. Profound discussions about our memories of "that day" and about what our world had morphed into in the subsequent year abounded in the first 11 days of September, 2002. I remember having dozens of serious conversations about it.
Considdering the date of release, it's hard to imagine that Waikiki wasn't thinking about 9/11 when they wrote a song about "September". Especially when they talk about "remembering" and say "I won't cry".
Searching around, I've found other lyrics pages for this song that include a third verse - though I can't find a version of this song where it's actually sung, so the lyrics might be fake.
But if they aren't, then they all but clinch it that this song is about 9/11. They are lightly veiled criticisms of war and brutality, and a lament for a "sad, sad day"...