Spring and a Storm

this is probably my favorite TH song.

the first couple times i heard it, i didn't make it much past the first verse because i got bored..... but the first time i heard the Mr. Moon part, i giggled to myself for maybe 5 minutes straight.

They are SUCH goofballs.

I always thought the meaning was something along the lines of:

One time I tried to sing About spring and a storm But you know How it goes

I think that means they tried to think of something to write about, but it's all been done before...

Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah All along

Won't you please stop complaining I'm playing a song

...but then he decides he will anyway, and picks a topic for the song...

But all the rain comes down the same Falling to from where it came On the ground then back around Up into the sky

...he spontaneously goes on a rant about the water cycle...

I wish you could have heard the music When the clouds growled overhead I finally felt enthusiastic I finally felt alive

...then says about how inspired he was when he wrote it...

Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah So you said

Would it please you to listen To thunder instead

I think this bit is about people saying the song isn't original. So he askes them if he talks about thunder.

Man the rain came down that day And it drained my soul away And I wondered why I even Bothered to try

Then he talks about losing inspiration after being critisized.

Mr. Moon? Yeah? Tell us about the sky. The sky is deep and dark and eternally high Many people think that's where you go when you die Do you? Well I think you return to obscure Or wherever you were Before you were But I won't let you lose yourself in the rain

It seems he decides to change the subject, and puts foreward theories about life after death, while asking people not to think too hard about it all they'll go mad

We have so much left to sing There's a storm for every spring

He says that despite being uninspired, he can still do a song about every subject

All you see and you and me Became from a star

Then he goes back to the point about life and talks about how the entie solar system came from the sun.

You're a star Yes you are

He then repeats this idea, so it sounds like he'ds saying it with double meaning, as in when somebody helps someone, and when they thank them, they say 'you're a star' sometimes.

(Silent explosive and Silent explosive and)

This bit might mean how people have 'quiet anger', sometimes, and its repeated as this type of anger lasts a long time.

Create until nothing is left to create and

I think this means how humans will keep on advancing tecnology.

The universe bursts with an overworked sigh then

I think this is about how the universe will end in 'heat death', a 'sigh' rather than an explosion.

Pretend to pretend to re-crown the creation and

'recrowning' the 'creation' might mean doing songs that sound like other ones, or covering them.

Sing the same thing 'til the clouds start to cry and then Over and over and over again and then Over and over and Never again

I think this last bit may be about pop songs being repetetive, and that life is like this too. The 'never again' is representing death.

Correct me if you have any better interpretations.

I think this is about life, and the sort of sweet existential outlook on it. It basically says, our life is going to have a lot of bad scary things (storm) but a lot of beautiful things as well (the spring). I feel like the first while people are trying to dismiss this sort of outlook, and he tries to get them to stop complaining by making them realize that if we don't need both we can't have only one.

All you see and you and me Became from a star

This actually means how we are all made out of the same energy as stars. Niel Degrasse Tyson put it best, "The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.”

It's sort of a sweetness in this song that says you don't need religion to feel connected (I have no idea about Tally Hall's religious orientation, I personally am athiest). This trace backs to the line about the sky, 'many people think thats where we go when we die' 'i think we go to obscure or wherever we were before we were'.

This song is about the fact that the world can be harsh but it can be beautiful as well, and what makes this song wonderful is Tally Hall is saying, "Look what I'm doing! I'm writing this wonderful, childish song, I'm so happy despite it all!"

At least that's what I think.

It's definitely "blah blah blah" and not "love love love." Get it right.

Yeah, and I'm pretty sure it's "tell us about the sky" as well.

Correct lyrics (straight from the CD booklet!):

One time I tried to sing About spring and a storm But you know How it goes

Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah All along

Won't you please stop complaining I'm playing a song

But all the rain comes down the same Falling to from where it came On the ground then back around Up into the sky

I wish you could have heard the music When the clouds growled overhead I finally felt enthusiastic I finally felt alive

Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah So you said

Would it please you to listen To thunder instead

Man the rain came down that day And it drained my soul away And I wondered why I even Bothered to try

Mr. Moon? Yeah? Tell us about the sky. The sky is deep and dark and eternally high Many people think that's where you go when you die Do you? Well I think you return to obscure Or wherever you were Before you were But I won't let you lose yourself in the rain

We have so much left to sing There's a storm for every spring All you see and you and me Became from a star

You're a star Yes you are

(Silent explosive and Silent explosive and)

Create until nothing is left to create and The universe bursts with an overworked sigh then Pretend to pretend to re-crown the creation and Sing the same thing 'til the clouds start to cry and then Over and over and over again and then Over and over and Never again

I love this song. He can spin such pretty words.

this is the best song ive ever heard about the water cycle. i like how it basically says that everything is a cycle and eventually we will all return to how we began but that there is someone there watching out for us and wont let us get lost.

my fav line is the end when its hard to understand but when you hear it is is basically restating that everything happens over and over until nothing is left to create and then there will be nothing.

Basically

"Believe what you want to believe. Just don't let others lose themselves"

And like yeah, religious freedoms and whether or not someone believes in something makes them no diff from another basically

The cycle of life from an existentialist\'s POV.