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.
Welcome to your life
You better watch your steps
Well, they could turn to fire
That could sear through your shoes
And through your feet
Move up your legs and eat away your heart until you
You walk a path with love
Then you could be happy
And your feet and hands and head and heart will
Get along comfortably
And you might even breathe easily
Albeit obvious
We hardly seek
But hope to find you there
Makes no difference how hard you try for any
Period of time or length or distance
Under any pressure, in any environment
Walk your path, but, man,
You better watch your step
They'll burst to flames
If you don't pay the ground just a bit of respect
And walk your path with love
And thank the air above
Albeit obvious
We hardly seek
But hope to find you there
Albeit obvious
If we don't speak
No one can lend an ear
With anyone
Or with anything
Or underneath a budding tree
No matter how much you've thought
Or how much you've grown
Or how much you've learned
Or how much you think you know
Or how much you've grieved
Or you've forgiven
Or how much you love
You will never know
Albeit obvious
We hardly seek
But hope to find you there
Albeit obvious
We'll never die
We'll merely disappear
You better watch your steps
Well, they could turn to fire
That could sear through your shoes
And through your feet
Move up your legs and eat away your heart until you
You walk a path with love
Then you could be happy
And your feet and hands and head and heart will
Get along comfortably
And you might even breathe easily
Albeit obvious
We hardly seek
But hope to find you there
Makes no difference how hard you try for any
Period of time or length or distance
Under any pressure, in any environment
Walk your path, but, man,
You better watch your step
They'll burst to flames
If you don't pay the ground just a bit of respect
And walk your path with love
And thank the air above
Albeit obvious
We hardly seek
But hope to find you there
Albeit obvious
If we don't speak
No one can lend an ear
With anyone
Or with anything
Or underneath a budding tree
No matter how much you've thought
Or how much you've grown
Or how much you've learned
Or how much you think you know
Or how much you've grieved
Or you've forgiven
Or how much you love
You will never know
Albeit obvious
We hardly seek
But hope to find you there
Albeit obvious
We'll never die
We'll merely disappear
Lyrics submitted by christsizeshoes
Campfire Lyrics as written by Carmine Coppola
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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i dont know what it means, but great song
hmmm i saw these guys in concert and then met them. they are truly amazing
our words can do 2 things to people:
1) tear down, or 2) build up
this song sounds like an attempt at encouraging us to reach out and build someone up
I feel like it's talking about how in life, we don't really have a good life, until we have some kind of love in it, no matter in what form.
Albeit obvious We hardly seek But hope to find you there
i think it talks about happiness/love in general, we don't look for it, but yet we still hope to find it there by chance, but if we don't speak out, no one will hear and we won't find it. What gets me though is when it starts saying that no matter what you do, say, feel, etc., you'll never know.... i don't know what that could mean :/
i think it just means that no matter how much you learn about the world and all that is in it and how it "works", you can never really be sure about what will happen in the future. <br /> <br />
!!This is the way I like to think about it, not necessarily what it's actually about!!
I think the song is talking about walking a life with Jesus. When it says, "We hardly seek, but hope to find you there," a lot of Christians don't read there bible often, or seek at Jesus. 90% of Christians have never lead someone else to the path of god, they don't seek people out who need him most. so they hardly seek. Yet when the time comes they hope to find him there. When it says, "If we don't speak No one can lend an ear, If we don't preach the word, no one can hear it, and no one is saved. I also think the begging part is about how easy it is to fall into sin, and how you need to walk with love and god to fix that.