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Everybody's looking for the next in line to love
And then ignore
Put out and put away
And I'd be happy just to be
Relieved from duty right away
I know what's going to happen to me
When people talk about love
They're painting pictures of
Someone's pretty side
Go look yourself in the face
And watch the worlds collide
And watch the worlds collide
I'm waiting for a bus to take
My thoughts away from us
And drop me off far away from you
Because my feelings never changed a bit
I'm waiting to get over it
But I know what it is I have to do
When people talk about love
They're painting pictures of
Someone's pretty side
I look myself in the face
And watch the worlds collide
And watch the worlds collide
And watch the worlds collide
And then ignore
Put out and put away
And I'd be happy just to be
Relieved from duty right away
I know what's going to happen to me
When people talk about love
They're painting pictures of
Someone's pretty side
Go look yourself in the face
And watch the worlds collide
And watch the worlds collide
I'm waiting for a bus to take
My thoughts away from us
And drop me off far away from you
Because my feelings never changed a bit
I'm waiting to get over it
But I know what it is I have to do
When people talk about love
They're painting pictures of
Someone's pretty side
I look myself in the face
And watch the worlds collide
And watch the worlds collide
And watch the worlds collide
Lyrics submitted by ikefox, edited by ghost06, Mellow_Harsher
Watch the Worlds Collide (I Didn't Understand, early piano version) song meanings
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i think maybe it's about the naivety with love
and how people only see the good side of it
and he's realised that there is a bullshit part
and he just wants to forget this girl and get away
The link above has taken the song down, so I thought I'd lend a hand to anyone looking for this.
I love both versions honestly, but this one just seems so much more fragile - you can tell in the way he sings it. I doubt he could have been more perfect.
This version feels like it was written before he came to that understanding. It sounds like he's saying he can't wait to get away from the relationship [And I'd be happy just to be / Relieved from duty right away ... I'm waiting for a bus to take / My thoughts away from us / And drop me off far away from you]. He's sees relationships as false fronts, showing just the pretty side. He knows that there is an ugly side too so he wants nothing to do with covering it up. In this version, he doesn't yet understand.
I think these two songs show a beautiful progression of his understanding of relationships and love. It's awesome.
look yourself in the face
and watch the worlds collide"
About how people idealize each other when in love. You are only seeing the things you like and are attracted to- but he's asking you to look at yourself; and realize we are all imperfect and have our ugly sides. Looking at your face as yourself is colliding two worlds, your outward appearance (doesn't have to just be physical) and your mental perception of that appearance.
He's asking you to look and see the difference between your face (appearance/persona) and your thoughts(truthful existence), and then apply that to your relationships with others. You don't see everything there is to other people, we can't perceive the entirety of peoples existence, and so he's inferring that when people talk about love, a lot of it is foolishness and naivety- in the sense that you are in love with something idealized, imaginary, and likely not genuinely what you perceive it to be. Pretty depressing thought.