Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Tonight our words are forming boundaries, coercing us into this silhouette of blatant fiction. It wavers. Oh, just then you threw your arms around me effectively inducing Looking Glass derived refractions.
So don�t wait for us. The season�s perfect. Hold on, be still. The shadow�s coming. And we�ll sing, we�ll sing like murderers in choirs. When we shelter these infractions I�m in love. The curvature of prose completes us. There�s no substance in our lungs.
But now this condescending grandeur will seize our rhetorical cries. I�m here my sweet Madeline. And write me off like I�m a child I�ve used up my newness in stride. I�m here my sweet Madeline. Because the infraction in decency accents your perception of what we imply, you fabricate your affections tonight. And your makeshift compassion�s affectively placed when it suits you and their compliments seem to run dry. I�ll be your default tonight. So take my kindness as a weakness; I am benign. But still I�ll hold on. I�ll hold on!
You are the consummate motion of dilated inhibitions. Improve your net worth by negating your constraints. You�re the malevolent rupture in collective progression. I am your sense of achievement. I�m a fallback, I�m your failures, but you are the one I would die for.
So don�t wait for us. The season�s perfect. Hold on, be still. The shadow�s coming. And we�ll sing, we�ll sing like murderers in choirs. When we shelter these infractions I�m in love. The curvature of prose completes us. There�s no substance in our lungs.
But now this condescending grandeur will seize our rhetorical cries. I�m here my sweet Madeline. And write me off like I�m a child I�ve used up my newness in stride. I�m here my sweet Madeline. Because the infraction in decency accents your perception of what we imply, you fabricate your affections tonight. And your makeshift compassion�s affectively placed when it suits you and their compliments seem to run dry. I�ll be your default tonight. So take my kindness as a weakness; I am benign. But still I�ll hold on. I�ll hold on!
You are the consummate motion of dilated inhibitions. Improve your net worth by negating your constraints. You�re the malevolent rupture in collective progression. I am your sense of achievement. I�m a fallback, I�m your failures, but you are the one I would die for.
Lyrics submitted by Wheresyourhope
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ahh. i love it. :]
someone who uses taht person, but in turn, they use that person for confidence
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"i'm here my sweet madeline!"
i love shelly's backup vocals in this song. very eerie. :)
i don't understand what this song means, we just read the story in english, "hills like white elephants" and i was hoping that knowing what the story means would help me understand the song, but it didn't, or maybe i just don't get it. in the story a man and his lover are waiting for a train to take them to madrid, and in madrid the girl will be getting an abortion.
i don't understand what this song means, we just read the story in english, "hills like white elephants" and i was hoping that knowing what the story means would help me understand the song, but it didn't, or maybe i just don't get it. in the story a man and his lover are waiting for a train to take them to madrid, and in madrid the girl will be getting an abortion.