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The Fox & The Rabbit Lyrics
I like people who are wrong
could you then feel like I do
Collossus bestrides the haves and have nots
go softly this is being sung for you
wake up wake up
the wish you made is plucked
go out get up
you've done enough enough
wake up wake up
to take the time to cuss
go out get up
you've seen enough enough
do you think that you deserve it?
I am waiting here for you
looking out across the brooke
my hands resting on my chest
but still I stare into the night
when the fox hears the rabbit cry
he comes running but not to help
could you then feel like I do
Collossus bestrides the haves and have nots
go softly this is being sung for you
the wish you made is plucked
go out get up
you've done enough enough
wake up wake up
to take the time to cuss
go out get up
you've seen enough enough
looking out across the brooke
my hands resting on my chest
but still I stare into the night
he comes running but not to help
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Well this song has always come off from the point of view of someone who has been hurt by another through having hope, only to be let down.
I like people who are wrong could you then feel like I do
He is aware that his hope is false rooted but cant help it
Collossus bestrides the haves and have nots go softly this is being sung for you
this song is directed to a dominating person with quite a bit of influence over the singer who has gone back and fourth on their word before
wake up wake up the wish you made is plucked go out get up you've done enough enough wake up wake up to take the time to cuss go out get up you've seen enough enough
this is the singer reasoning with himself telling him not to put faith in this person, about how its hopeless and he needs to stop letting them control him. he needs to check with reality but cant force himself to do so.
do you think that you deserve it?
questioning if this person is worthy of his trust.
I am waiting here for you looking out across the brooke my hands resting on my chest but still I stare into the night
the singer is waiting for this person to change, to make everthing right as they had promised. Nothing changes. this person is making no effort.
when the fox hears the rabbit cry he comes running but not to help
When the singer talks to this other person the other person seems to care for him, but in reality it is not out of compassion but out of the sadistic joy of watching the amount of pain one can cause another
thats just what I always got from the song. I may be wrong but it makes sense to me
Your interpretation made me cry... This is the first Xiu Xiu song which I heard about 3 years ago and loved it immediately and completely, from the first to the last sound. I fell in love with this band, but at the same time I fell in love with the person who got me acquainted with Xiu Xiu by sending The Fox & The Rabbit. At that time I didn't care much for the meaning of this song though - all I got was "I am waiting here for you", sounding so hopeful at the beginning of my infatuation... I...
Your interpretation made me cry... This is the first Xiu Xiu song which I heard about 3 years ago and loved it immediately and completely, from the first to the last sound. I fell in love with this band, but at the same time I fell in love with the person who got me acquainted with Xiu Xiu by sending The Fox & The Rabbit. At that time I didn't care much for the meaning of this song though - all I got was "I am waiting here for you", sounding so hopeful at the beginning of my infatuation... I had been keeping silence for the next 2,5 years, hiding my feelings, because I wasn't sure that it's reciprocal and above all 'cause I'd already had a boyfriend. So we - me and that Xiu Xiu fan if I may call him so (even though it's not fully correct)had been writing each other for a couple of years, meeting so rarely (for we live in different cities) and only about half a year ago revealed how a strong crush we had on each other. There, the next chapter of this story starts: "violently happy" at its very beginning, I eventually became more and more messed up with the quick and inexplicable changes of his mood, his estrangement showing up more and more often... He was hurting me so much without even noticing... And at last weekend it was so painful to see him indifferent, that I decided: I just can't take it anymore. Now the song which was the start of this unhappy story opened to me fron another angle: I realised that it fits with our situation so well, almost like another adorable Xiu Xiu song - Bunny Gamer. I was really waiting and waiting for his messages so long, saying myself to stop believing he could change - but still hoping so stupidly. I couldn't do anything with my obsession. He truly had a control over me, and when he seemed to care sometimes it really was a kind of "sadistic joy", not a real feeling. Even though all of this started so fantastic and promising, it ended up like hell for me - and he still doesn't care... Sad, sad irony! Next week we are going to Xiu Xiu concert: me - for the first time, he - for the second (by the way, he send me this song after the first concert). God, how I waited this for years and how it turned out...
PS: "I like people who are wrong/Сould you then feel like I do?" are one of my favourite lines ever. In my opinion, it can be a kind of epigraph to all Xiu Xiu's work.
*I've been waiting for this for years...
*I've been waiting for this for years...
Sorry for my English.
Sorry for my English.
"When the fox hears the rabbit cry He comes running but not to help."
... I love them. So much.
I really would like to try and figure out the meaning to this song, it's one of my favorites off the Air Force. With Xiu Xiu songs I'm almost always wrong with the lyrics, I feel if I attempted to decipher the meaning I'd just stray farther away from the real meaning. But does anyone have a guess?
the main lyric is paraphrased from the film 'hannibal' Mason Verger: "When the fox hears the rabbit scream he comes a-runnin'... but not to help" (unless that is in turn a quote from something else)
This reminds me of a murderer, the fox being the murderer and the rabbit being it's prey. "I like people who are wrong, could you then feel like I do" is his feeling of disgust with some people which justifies his murders. The chorus is telling of the murderer thinking about the person who he's about to kill, they've done enough. Do you think you deserve [to live]?
I think it is all about this being the second last song from the album.. it's time for the listener to go out and take time to cuss, because jamie thinks they've seen quite enough selfhate when listening to the album, "do you think that you deserve it" is to make the listener question themselves, whether they should listen or not.. I think jamie does very good, listenable music, but that doesn't mean he doesn't feel the hate in his songs much more strongly himself.