In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
There was a game we used to play
We would hit the town on Friday night
Stay in bed until Sunday
We used to be so free
We were living for the love we had
Living not for reality
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination, it was
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination, it was
That was a time I used to pray
I have always kept my faith in love
It's the greatest thing from the man above
The game I used to play
I've always put my cards upon the table
Never be said that I'd be unstable
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination, it was
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination, it was
There is a game I like to play
I like to hit the town on Friday night
And stay in bed until Sunday
We'll always be this free
We will be living for the love we have
And living not for reality
It's not my imagination (my imagination)
It's not my imagination (my imagination)
It's not my imagination, it was
Not my imagination (my imagination)
Not my imagination (my imagination)
Not my imagination, it was
Not my, not my (my imagination)
Not my, not my, not my (my imagination)
Not my, not my, not my
My imagination, my imagination
My imagination, my imagination (not my imagination, not my imagination)
My imagination, my imagination (not my imagination)
We would hit the town on Friday night
Stay in bed until Sunday
We used to be so free
We were living for the love we had
Living not for reality
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination, it was
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination, it was
That was a time I used to pray
I have always kept my faith in love
It's the greatest thing from the man above
The game I used to play
I've always put my cards upon the table
Never be said that I'd be unstable
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination, it was
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination, it was
There is a game I like to play
I like to hit the town on Friday night
And stay in bed until Sunday
We'll always be this free
We will be living for the love we have
And living not for reality
It's not my imagination (my imagination)
It's not my imagination (my imagination)
It's not my imagination, it was
Not my imagination (my imagination)
Not my imagination (my imagination)
Not my imagination, it was
Not my, not my (my imagination)
Not my, not my, not my (my imagination)
Not my, not my, not my
My imagination, my imagination
My imagination, my imagination (not my imagination, not my imagination)
My imagination, my imagination (not my imagination)
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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I feel a little sad every time I hear this song, regardless of how beautiful it is.
We all grow old and we all end up yearning for times as careless as such in this song, when one feels the youngest one could possibly be. I do not know if I will ever be able to live for love again, and leave responsibilities to be a duty that goes on and not a burden, but faith is all you have sometimes.
I think the line is actually "And stay in bed ON TIL Sunday". Many Irish use ON when talking about staying in bed. For example, "I'll be lying on" means you plan to sleep late (or as in the US, we say "sleeping in"). Also there is a bit of a gap between the ON and the Til, when Dolores sings this line. BTW, I visited her grave when we were in Ireland this past May (2018).
This song is my life, and currently I am at the stage where this awesome life of "hit[ting] the town on Friday night and stay[ing] in bed until Sunday" is just coming to an end. It is now just my imagination. And I fear that I will never get it back, but this song gives me hope.
I cannot wait for the next stage in my life when it is not just my imagination... And I can stay in that bed until Sunday...
Great song.Cool video too.
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Huh? Relevance?
Oh, yes, the initial phrases of vocal lines sound somehow alike, but not to the degree of copying. It could be pure coincidence as well. You try to play various sequences of notes and some sound good, so you use them. And sometimes two people hit on similar one.
This song is really really good. I love it and I felt this way once.
Could almost be a wedding song...
Hey, that's "zombie". Where tha fck are the real lyrics?
as The Cranberries were founded as an indirected rock band at their starting,then they became of the Irish Folks' needs and after being 'weary'o the weary civil war thing that was it that they now gave their irish ones a bit courage with reminiscencing their old do-s.as you could definitely see the countryside where there were ambushes of their ancestors against the shitty anglos army.but they survived it and now it's the time for them to enjoy it while in the background of those struggling days...
It's real meaning doesn't hit you until the song is altered to reflect a present tense. It's about how your life can be just as happy as it always has been if you shift your head space back to the way things were before whatever tragedy or trauma occured or just the way the years and there responsibilities have beaten you down. It is a very positive, intentionally therapeutic song.