You're funny and you don't know why
You're funny and you can't even cry
You're funny and you don't know why
You're funny and you don't even try
(chorus)
Cause your head's shaking cause your arms are shaking
And your feet are shaking cause the earth is shaking
Cause your head's shaking cause your arms are shaking
And your feet are shaking cause the earth is shaking
You're hungry and you don't know why
You're hungry and you can't even cry
You're hungry and you don't know why
You're hungry and you don't even cry
(repeat chorus)
You take a walk and you try to understand
Nothing can hurt you
Unless you want it to
There are no answers
Many reasons to be strong
You take a walk, you take a walk
You take a walk and you try to understand
You're in love and you don't know why
You're in love and you can't even cry
You're in love and you don't know why
You're in love and you don't even try
You're funny and you can't even cry
You're funny and you don't know why
You're funny and you don't even try
Cause your head's shaking cause your arms are shaking
And your feet are shaking cause the earth is shaking
Cause your head's shaking cause your arms are shaking
And your feet are shaking cause the earth is shaking
You're hungry and you can't even cry
You're hungry and you don't know why
You're hungry and you don't even cry
Nothing can hurt you
Unless you want it to
There are no answers
Many reasons to be strong
You take a walk, you take a walk
You take a walk and you try to understand
You're in love and you can't even cry
You're in love and you don't know why
You're in love and you don't even try
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It's a Pylon cover innit?
A good song. I can barely remember what the Pylon version sounded like (Pylon isn't the easiest band to find albums from).
Vanessa Briscoe always said that Pylon's lyrics don't mean anything, it's the sounds and rhythm that matters.
But what's really odd about this song is how well it describes the bizarre symptoms of intracranial ependymoma (shaking hands, trouble walking because your feet rotate the wrong direction, balance problems described as "feeling like the ground is titled but it keeps changing the direction it's tilting"), which she was diagnosed with 14 years later.
In one of the other songs, she sings something like "I can dance if I want to. I can dance even when I don't want to." (The first line is in half their songs in some for or another, but the second one is pretty weird...)
I find it really hard to believe that someone could have this tumor, with symptoms occasionally flaring up, for a decade and a half before anyone discovered it, especially a woman who was under psychiatric treatment, and who was studying to be a nurse practitioner.
On the other hand, it's pretty hard to believe it's a coincidence.
So... what other possibilities are there?
I think this song is about being aloof,naive and clueless at the same time.
I think it's about being schizophrenic.
Michael would often change the lyrics of this song when he first started playing it. The first line had such variations as "You're in love and you don't know why" and "You're homeless and you don't know why."