The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Get over the sorrow, girl
The world is always going to be made of this
You can trust in it
Unless you breathe in
Bravely
I, I
I adore how you simply surrender to high
And your lungs
They're mourning
Teepee style
All the still born love that could've happened
All the moments you should have embraced
All the moments you should have not locked up
Understand
So clearly
To shut yourself up
Would be the hugest crime of them all
Hugest crime of them all
You're just crying after all
To not want them humans around
Anymore
Get over that sorrow, girl
Get over
The world is always going to be made of this
You can trust in it
Unless you breathe in
Bravely
I, I
I adore how you simply surrender to high
And your lungs
They're mourning
Teepee style
All the still born love that could've happened
All the moments you should have embraced
All the moments you should have not locked up
Understand
So clearly
To shut yourself up
Would be the hugest crime of them all
Hugest crime of them all
You're just crying after all
To not want them humans around
Anymore
Get over that sorrow, girl
Get over
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"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
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No Surprises
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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.
American Town
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Ed Sheeran shares a short story of reconnecting with an old flame on “American Town.” The track is about a holiday Ed Sheeran spends with his countrywoman who resides in America. The two are back together after a long period apart, and get around to enjoying a bunch of fun activities while rekindling the flames of their romance.
Yeah, she did write it after seeing Pan's Labyrinth, but she also said the title is "Pneumonia" because she had pnuemonia for awhile and the lyrics of the song reflect the sickness and how it seems to suck the life force out of a person. To me, this song symbolizes courage, being brave enough to face the world instead of running away from it into a fantasy world like the girl from Pan's Labyrinth. Sometimes, the world is an ugly place, but we all have to be able to face up to it and live in it despite the horrors. Also, it's urging us to speak out and voice ourselves instead of hiding our feelings and being willing victims. It's basically saying to LIVE.
Björk questioning her own philosophy of shutting herself away from people (in place since the letter bomb incident), wondering how much you miss by "shutting yourself up", even as she contemplates doing it even more.
AMAZING!!!
Björk said this is about Pan's Labrynth :?
love this - but what is it about?
sorry, but i have to say it again, beautiful!
She wrote it after seeing "Pan's Labrynth"
I've had my moments of misanthropy and hopeless. This song speaks of this.
I cannot even begin to comment on this song. I suppose I'll start with the beautiful and subtle musical crafting of it's form. Without using much more than rain sounds and a structurally repetitive accompaniment, she uses only her voice and chordal tension to produce the ebbs and flows of this song.
There seems to be no end to the topics that the lyrics cover. Regret, love, survival, depression, freedom...It speaks so well about life that I could write an essay on it. But it's all about forgetting about the sadness that isn't yours and living your life in such a way that regret cannot touch it, taking every chance and speaking every belief you have, even when it becomes so bad that you can't even stand the sight of people. The lyrics are actually not lengthy, but they speak so much in every line that this has become my favorite bjork song; maybe my favorite song of all time.
amazing