Pull the blindfold down
So your eyes can't see
Now run as fast as you can
Through this field of trees
Say goodbye to everyone
You have ever known
You are not gonna see them
Ever again
[Chorus:]
I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors
Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
How can we wear our smiles
With our mouths wide shut
'Cause you stopped us from singin'
[Chorus]
Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
Now someone turn us around
Can we start this again?
We've all been changed from what we were
Our broken parts left smashed off the floor
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
(We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor
We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor)
Someone turn me around
(We've all been changed
From what we were)
Can I start this again?
(Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor)
Now someone turn us around
(We've all been changed
from what we were)
Can we start this again?
(Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor)
So your eyes can't see
Now run as fast as you can
Through this field of trees
Say goodbye to everyone
You have ever known
You are not gonna see them
Ever again
[Chorus:]
I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors
Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
How can we wear our smiles
With our mouths wide shut
'Cause you stopped us from singin'
[Chorus]
Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
Now someone turn us around
Can we start this again?
We've all been changed from what we were
Our broken parts left smashed off the floor
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
(We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor
We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor)
Someone turn me around
(We've all been changed
From what we were)
Can I start this again?
(Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor)
Now someone turn us around
(We've all been changed
from what we were)
Can we start this again?
(Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor)
Lyrics submitted by dustfinger
"Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors" as written by Edward Owen Lay Christopher Dominic Urbanowicz
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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The chorus, he can't shake this depressive feeling, but he's questioning how it could be when there is nothing really wrong with his life: "have I been in the wars?", and he hasn't really been exposed to true misery: "The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors"...
The first two verses are maybe some kind of attempt to get some emotion/feeling- like a test to bring it out- like in Fightclub where people kick crap out of each other just to feel something.
This song is full of irony. It's basically the story of a man in his hospital bed, knowing that he's going to die. When he reviews the things everything that he did in his life, he feels like he has wasted his life away for doing bad things ("dirty hands"). He has been living his life recklessly, not caring how the bad things that he did affected people around him ("blindfold down..eyes can't see..run as fast as you can.."). He is frustrated with his regrets, and he gets even more sad when he realizes that there are people out there wasting his life away ("smokers outside the hospital doors"). He only wants one more chance to live so that he can change the way that he's been living. He wants to "wear his smile" which means sharing his message to people so that they will believe him and won't waste their life away just like he did. But he knows that people can't believe him because he's going to die (mouth is "wide shut" and "i cant hear you")
The irony is, this man in the hospital really wants to change his life, but he has no more chance. While the smokers outside the hospital doors have the chance to change their lives, but they don't want to.
I'm not sure about how the singer intended this song's meaning, but we can interpret it positively. The end of this song is the main part of the song:
"we've all been changed from what we were
our broken parts smashed off the floor"
In this life, maybe we started as good people. But because of the hurts and pains we got in the past, we've been changed to someone who is bitter. We're not good anymore, just the way we used to be. But regardless of all our broken parts, let's not be like this man who regrets everything that he did in his last moments. We should check ourselves, are we being who we wanted to be? Are we proud of our lives? Are we good? Are we going to end our lives with regrets? For sure, I don't want to die a broken man.
Oh and btw, the video's really beautiful, although i'm not sure yet how it connects to the song. :)
-Thanks to SparksOfGold, Dale Sundstorm, and chadhappens for inspiring me in finding the meaning of this song. This song really inspires me.-
Say goodbye to everyone
You have ever known
You are not gonna see them ever again - Refers to nameless patients that die.
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars? - In my opinion could refer to the blood that you have on your gloves while treating.
Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
Now someone turn us around
Can we start this again? - Begging to have another shot at saving the patient's life, just to have a redo.
We've all been changed
From what we were - Seeing people die, changes you.
Our broken parts
Left smashed off the floor - There is always blood (broken parts) on the floor of the ER after a hectic case.
Probably not what they tried to convey, but hey, this is what makes poetry so BRILLIANT!
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
and
Say goodbye to everyone
You have ever known
You are not gonna see them
Ever again
refers to a person who kills themselves by continuing to smoke while being treated.
I'm an ex-smoker and sometimes I miss it. But if you think about it, the human body is not designed to inhale smoke into it. Cigarette Smoke containing 4000 toxic chemicals which damage the human body, including 43 known cancer-causing toxins.
For someone working in a hospital you've missed the point.
The song finishes with the person in question wanting to move on, "someone turn me around can i start this again?"
Its such an amazing song, may have a lot of meanings to it perhaps.
this song rocks though..!!!!!!!
but "Pull the blindfold down/So your eyes can't see/Now run as fast as you can/Through this field of trees" appears to be a play of irony with the old joke of 'what's the definition of tightness?'
someone being told to do something which is clearly beyond their capability.. so, oppression is in there somewhere, as we see again with "How can we wear our smiles/With our mouths wide shut/'Cause you stopped us from singin'"
this really is a sad song :(
love it lots though, very poetic