So Glad To See You

an old friend of mine died last year, who i hadn't seen in a very long time, so obviously it was a shock but i didn't feel personal bereavement like his family and close friends, but it was nonetheless something i thought about a lot at the time and still think about now. he was very young - eighteen - but he had already become a man, someone who could talk and listen and understand things in a way that seemed beyond his years. his family's reaction to his death was absolutely incredible - they started an annual festival in his name with proceeds going towards helping the environment... anyway, at the festival this year, his sister had everyone light enormous lanterns and launch them into the night, with this - his favourite song - playing in the background, and it was amazing, the sky looked beautiful - it should have been in a film. but the really poignant thing about it was the line "please let me go... please let me go" because lighting the lanterns felt very symbolic of that - as if we were properly sending him off. i love how music can resound like that. it's incredible.

Way to not put all the lyrics...

To me, this is the best song on "The Warning." I'm not usually a fan of minimalist computer-generated music, but Hot Chip strikes me as an alternative to a genre troubled by terrible lyrics and awful singers. Most critics find that Hot Chip's music is either (1) not music at all or (2) is a bit pretentious. And to those naysayers, I say, listen to this song. We are definitely missing the lyrics at the end of this piece, but the poetry of such simple words here:

I have but one true friend She sings to me In my solitude And I know her name I tried to know her In all her changes ...but I don't know her

It asks a good question. With so many changes occuring in the world, will we ever fully know someone? It's difficult, but we can try.

Like all birds together we will squawk and we squeak The joy comes from all our beaks And ringing bells is our fun Now our ass is moving as one If we are forgetting all the rules that we learnt As all the rule books are burnt They're just as aimful as me Our chorus must always be

So glad to see you, glad you came We had nice times We hope you come again Please come and see us sing If you come we have nice times again And now its time to go, time to go

I have but one true friend She sings to me In my solitude And i know her name I tried to know her In all her changes And I don't know her place And I dont see her face

When we come together then we forget ourselves And just as night follows day The beginning must become the end As though we will start again

When we come together and we need other songs And then we bake up the pie And we lay your bones to rest As birds we dream of the sky

Please let me go (x8)

So glad to see you, glad you came We had nice times We hope you come again Please come and see us sing If you come we have nice times again And now its time to go, time to go

I did these myself so they may not be 100% accurate but I think they are

I think it's "Then just as A follows B" instead of "They're just as aimful as me"... it's what I hear. But thank you for the rest of the lyrics! Every single site has the same incorrect unfinished ones... I adore this song, it's so strangely soothing.

This song is really beautiful.. and I, reluctantly, admit that I didn't like this song at all when I first listened to it. Anyway, to me it means pretty much what Somebody2Love has already said -- Only I also think it means that the singer knows someone very deeply; Knows things about them that no one else couldn't even begin to imagine that that person would like/have seen/been through/ect. ect. And this person also knows a lot about him. Hence why he calls her his one true friend.

He doesn't see this person (and I don't see her face), but he knows their name (and I know her name). Perhaps it's a long distance relationship? He speaks to her in solitude.. I don't know about everyone else, but when I'm on the computer I'm usually "in solitude"; By myself.

The beginning really confuses me.. But maybe all that really means is that, as one, even though we are exercising that great big American Dream of Unity, we are becoming less and less diverse; Less distinguishable from everyone else..

Ahh.. Perhaps I'm looking into this way too much. 8D I just really enjoy this song. It's some what gloomy.. Very pensive.

i really love this song.. and i really love the "please let me go" part aagh

the moment when..

I have but one true friend She sings to me In my solitude And i know her name I tried to know her In all her changes And I don't know her place And I dont see her face

..im entranced. listen to it over and over :)

I think the "one true friend" might be one of the band's synths. I know the band are really fond of their equipment (including several very expensive vintage synths). And the strange vocal effect on the chorus makes it sound like they are presenting this synth as a kind of mystical object.

Just a thought.