Where are we?
What the hell is going on?
The dust has only just begun to form
Crop circles in the carpet
Sinking, feeling
Spin me around again
And rub my eyes
This can't be happening
When busy streets
A mess with people
Would stop to hold their heads heavy

Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
All those years
They were here first
Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before
The takeover
The sweeping insensitivity of this
Still life
Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines

(You won't catch me around here)
Blood and tears
They were here first
Mm, what'd you say?
Mm, that you only meant well
Well of course you did
Mm, what'd you say?
Mm, that it's all for the best
Of course it is
Mm, what'd you say?
Mm, that it's just what we need
You decided this
Mm, what'd you say?
Mm, what did she say?

Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cutouts
Speak no feeling, no, I don't believe you
You don't care a bit, you don't care a bit
Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cutouts
Speak no feeling, no, I don't believe you
You don't care a bit, you don't care a bit

(You don't care a bit)
Oh, no, you don't care a bit
Oh, no, you don't care a bit
Uh-uh, you don't care a bit
You don't care a bit
You don't care a bit

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Signed up JUST to comment on this song! ;)

To me, this song is about a life left and a new beginning for a new one. The song speaks to me through the eyes of a child who as been stripped away from a life and brought to a new unrecognizable place filled with memories of another family.

"Where are we? What the hell is going on?"
- Just arrived at the new house, still can't believe what's going on, that they left a life and are starting a new...
"The dust has only just began to fall / Crop circles in the carpet"
- The previous family have left not to long ago (from the dust that has just started to settle), but have lived there a long time, so long that the furniture has left imprints in the carpet...
"Hide and seek / trains and sewing machines"
- Hide and seek symbolizes the hiding from the new life as well as seeking out to begin it... or possibly, what we did as kids in a new place... seeking out the hidden cracks and cubby holes and hiding. Trains and sewing machines; trains being how they arrived, and sewing machines, not in the literal sense but "fixing" machines that will attempt to repair the old life they once lived.
"All those years / They were here first"
- All those years they lived here before
"Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before"
- Again, evidence of a life lived here before in the house...
"The takeover / The sweeping insensitivity of this"
- this speaks of the takeover of the house and how insensitive it is that one can just strip another of a life once lived in a house filled with so many memories...
"Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm, That you only meant well / Well of course you did / Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm, That it's all for the best / Of course it is Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm, That it's just what we need / You decided this"
- This is expressing that the child never wanted to leave and that the parents made all the decisions without thinking about how the child would feel...
anyhoo, I didn't mean for this to drag on... just thought I'd express my two cents. I guess this song touched me this way because I went through this and the sinking feeling she speaks of is exactly how I felt and that I didn't feel my folks cared about how I felt at all.

Funny how songs can tell the story of our lives so sweetly sometimes...

Cheers
Signed up JUST to comment on this song! ;) To me, this song is about a life left and a new beginning for a new one. The song speaks to me through the eyes of a child who as been stripped away from a life and brought to a new unrecognizable place filled with memories of another family. "Where are we? What the hell is going on?" - Just arrived at the new house, still can't believe what's going on, that they left a life and are starting a new... "The dust has only just began to fall / Crop circles in the carpet" - The previous family have left not to long ago (from the dust that has just started to settle), but have lived there a long time, so long that the furniture has left imprints in the carpet... "Hide and seek / trains and sewing machines" - Hide and seek symbolizes the hiding from the new life as well as seeking out to begin it... or possibly, what we did as kids in a new place... seeking out the hidden cracks and cubby holes and hiding. Trains and sewing machines; trains being how they arrived, and sewing machines, not in the literal sense but "fixing" machines that will attempt to repair the old life they once lived. "All those years / They were here first" - All those years they lived here before "Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before" - Again, evidence of a life lived here before in the house... "The takeover / The sweeping insensitivity of this" - this speaks of the takeover of the house and how insensitive it is that one can just strip another of a life once lived in a house filled with so many memories... "Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm, That you only meant well / Well of course you did / Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm, That it's all for the best / Of course it is Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm, That it's just what we need / You decided this" - This is expressing that the child never wanted to leave and that the parents made all the decisions without thinking about how the child would feel... anyhoo, I didn't mean for this to drag on... just thought I'd express my two cents. I guess this song touched me this way because I went through this and the sinking feeling she speaks of is exactly how I felt and that I didn't feel my folks cared about how I felt at all. Funny how songs can tell the story of our lives so sweetly sometimes... Cheers

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AHHH EXACTLY THE SAME OVER HERE!!!!!!!!

ValyPoohon March 31, 2009

i signed up just for this too :) i love how you interpreted this... thats what i like about music is that it can mean one thing to the artist and then every single person that listens to it, it can mean something completely different to them, but it can still make sense. 

hmwhatyousayon October 13, 2009

this is the first reply i have ever written, but i wanted to agree with you on "Funny how songs can tell the story of our lives so sweetly sometimes..." its wierd how i personally cannot put my feelings into words, but this song perfectly orchestrates how i feel.

asauveon October 20, 2009

this is by far the best "break-down" of this song, i honestly believe that it could be the true meaning of this. GREAT JOB! (it really opened my eyes about the crop circles part, i was always like "there cant be crop circles in carpet!")

shelbs305on November 20, 2009

i definately think its interesting to hear some of the ways people portray songs.. because it is all different, and i think it means something a little different to everybody becasue not everybody is at the same place in life and each person is going through different changes and trials so each one of us takes it a different way depending on whats going on your life.. but i would still like to know exactly what the artist was feeling or what it meant to them because then you can take it into a whole new perspective of a different person..

tj957on January 31, 2010

excellent. your interpretation is well supported and very insightful. i think the mmm...what'd you say analysis is a little shaky but very plausible. i love this sight because you get such a wide range of interpretations that are all well supported. dont make this your last song you comment on!

nckjmsmllron December 31, 2010