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When You're On Top Lyrics
I need a bed
That nobody’s slept in
I need some air
Nobody’s been breathing
I need a thought
That I can believe in
Is this fog
Or is the building really burning
I need you now
Much more than ever
I’m making new friends
But none of them matter
Maybe now
We don’t fit together
But you’ve got your arms around
No one but strangers
I feel fine
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I’m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
I want to wake up
And just start running
Into a ditch
Or straight up a mountain
I want to get
Where no one's been getting
Make it deeper than hell
Or make it higher than heaven
I need someone whose price hasn’t been met
When everybody’s disappearing
By the minute
There isn’t anyone left
I haven’t meet yet
Well I remember
When they hadn’t gotten to you yet
I feel fine
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I’m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
I feel fine
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I’m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
When you're on top
Half way up
And over this rainbow
I heard a shot
Fire up from a ghettos
As I drop
I didn’t think you’d follow
Just didn’t know
The sky was this shallow
I need a garden
Where nothing’s forbidden
I need an apple
That no one’s been eating
I want to start again
Back at the beginning
I had a vision
That this feeling maybe has an ending
I feel fine
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I’m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
I feel fine
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I’m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
When you're on top
I need you now much more than ever
I want to start again back at the beginning
I feel fine
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I’m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
That nobody’s slept in
I need some air
Nobody’s been breathing
I need a thought
That I can believe in
Is this fog
Or is the building really burning
I need you now
Much more than ever
I’m making new friends
But none of them matter
Maybe now
We don’t fit together
But you’ve got your arms around
No one but strangers
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I’m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
And just start running
Into a ditch
Or straight up a mountain
I want to get
Where no one's been getting
Make it deeper than hell
Or make it higher than heaven
When everybody’s disappearing
By the minute
There isn’t anyone left
I haven’t meet yet
Well I remember
When they hadn’t gotten to you yet
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I’m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I’m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
When you're on top
And over this rainbow
I heard a shot
Fire up from a ghettos
As I drop
I didn’t think you’d follow
Just didn’t know
The sky was this shallow
Where nothing’s forbidden
I need an apple
That no one’s been eating
I want to start again
Back at the beginning
I had a vision
That this feeling maybe has an ending
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I’m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I’m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
When you're on top
I want to start again back at the beginning
With the sun in my eyes
The wind in my hair
When I’m falling out of this sky
I’m doing better than I thought I would
But nothing’s ever as good
As when you’re on top
Song Info
Submitted by
planetearth On Apr 10, 2004
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is it just me or does this song sound a lot like a bob dylan song? i know bob dylan doesnt have a song with these lyrics, but it sounds like how bob dylan sings, and a song he would make.
@thinkinghurts Sounds like "Hard Rain" melodically and it mirrors the scan of the wording though not the words. I think he\'s talking about his dad here and that\'s why he used this song form.
@thinkinghurts Sounds like "Hard Rain" melodically and it mirrors the scan of the wording though not the words. I think he\'s talking about his dad here and that\'s why he used this song form.
This song is the one I play on a sunny day. I love it.
and i know its his son who sings it.
Aww this song is cute. And, yeah i agree that this is a song you would play on a sunny day, sometime in the summer when everthing is nice, and just calm and perfect. Good song. :) And i guess it just kinda means i'm fine without you, but i still want you, because its not as fine, as when you were with me.
I kind of have two different takes on it.
1) He's fine without this girl. He misses her, nothing's ever as good as when they're together, but he's recovering.
OR...
2) By this time, he's experienced fame and being popular, and so nothing's ever as good as when he's on top, and everyone loves him...
I was discussing this song yesterday, actually, and those are the theories we've proposed.
it sounds more likely to be the second one (well, i think so)
He is talking about the idea of a Utopian existance he can't quite reach or describe except in the abstract metaphors throughout the song. I could quote him, but you can read. "On Top" is somewhere he hasn't quite reached.
This song makes me happy. It's sort of how I feel right now, too. Like, my summer is going good, fine, better than expected... and I miss this person tons. Everything is fine, though, really good. Yeah, even though we are away from one another, I feel like everything is going to be okay with us. Eh, I still wish that he was here, but it'll be alright. I am going to try to have a good time without him... just missing him. xsigh. All well.
this sounds nothing like a bob dylan song. NOTHING! lol sorry i am a huge dylan fan and i can'tlet that fly. as for the meaning, i think just because of jakob's personality it is about a girl. also in the video there's a girl but i suppose it could be about fame, that is the more obvious explanation but the wallflowers were never really famous...
I think the Wallflowers had brief fame with the songs One Headlight and 6th Avenue Heartache.
I think the Wallflowers had brief fame with the songs One Headlight and 6th Avenue Heartache.
@jassss You must get awfully disappointed when you find out you\'re wrong. I immediately heard the connection to "A Hard Rain\'s Gonna Fall". I guess I didn\'t hear that so my bad.
@jassss You must get awfully disappointed when you find out you\'re wrong. I immediately heard the connection to "A Hard Rain\'s Gonna Fall". I guess I didn\'t hear that so my bad.
@jassss In fact, it\'s a clever reply from the blue-eyed son who Dyland questioned in A Hard Rain\'s A Gonna Fall --\r\n\r\nOh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?\r\nAnd where have you been, my darling young one?\r\nI’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains\r\nI’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways\r\nI’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests\r\nI’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans\r\nI’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard\r\n...
@jassss In fact, it\'s a clever reply from the blue-eyed son who Dyland questioned in A Hard Rain\'s A Gonna Fall --\r\n\r\nOh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?\r\nAnd where have you been, my darling young one?\r\nI’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains\r\nI’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways\r\nI’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests\r\nI’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans\r\nI’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard\r\n