This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Will those feet in modern times
Walk on soles that are made in China?
Feel the bright prosaic malls
In the corridors that go on and on and on
Are we blind - can we see?
We are one - incomplete
Are we blind - In the shade
Waiting for lightning - to be saved
Cause love is noise and love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again
Love is noise and love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again, again
Will those feet in modern times
Understand this world's affliction
Recognise the righteous anger
Understand this world's addiction?
I was blind - couldn't see
What was here in me
I was blind - insecure
I felt like the road was way too long, yeah
Cause love is noise and love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again
Love is noise and love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm feeling again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again, again, again, again, again, again
Cause love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that you're feeling again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again, again, again
Will those feet in modern times
Walk on soles made in China?
Will those feet in modern times
See the bright prosaic malls?
Will those feet in modern times
Recognise the heavy burden
Will those feet in modern times
Pardon me for my sins
Love is noise
Come on
Walk on soles that are made in China?
Feel the bright prosaic malls
In the corridors that go on and on and on
Are we blind - can we see?
We are one - incomplete
Are we blind - In the shade
Waiting for lightning - to be saved
Cause love is noise and love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again
Love is noise and love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again, again
Will those feet in modern times
Understand this world's affliction
Recognise the righteous anger
Understand this world's addiction?
I was blind - couldn't see
What was here in me
I was blind - insecure
I felt like the road was way too long, yeah
Cause love is noise and love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again
Love is noise and love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm feeling again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again, again, again, again, again, again
Cause love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that you're feeling again
Love is noise, love is pain
Love is these blues that I'm singing again, again, again
Will those feet in modern times
Walk on soles made in China?
Will those feet in modern times
See the bright prosaic malls?
Will those feet in modern times
Recognise the heavy burden
Will those feet in modern times
Pardon me for my sins
Love is noise
Come on
Lyrics submitted by MangoCucumbers
Love Is Noise Lyrics as written by Peter Salisbury Nick Mccabe
Lyrics © Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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I agree with you all. When I first heard this song, I didn't really apprecieate it as much as I do now. I guess after listening to it on repeat, it not only grew on me, but it made me realise how simple it is, yet but a big meaning it carries. & they say it's the simple things in life that matter in the end.
To me I interpret it as acknowledging, understanding and coming to terms with the terrible state and condition some parts of the world are and the many world issues that have yet to be reslolved. Even though there is so much suffering, and problems in our world today, and instead of focusing on the negativity, I guess he's managed to find some peace through himself. He's realised that even though he doesn't have the power to change the world for the better, he does however have the power help the world by change himself for the better, one less person whose adding more suffering and pain to this world. I think the chorus in the song is also sending out the message that living is loving. To live is to love. The reason why we continue to journey towards the end of the road, figuratively speaking, is to love and be loved. To attach and to be attached to things, people, emotions, places etc that are on earth. I also feel it's about seeking redemption through love, there's a lot of repitition and conjunctive meanings, especially in the final verse:
"Will those feet in modern times Walk on soles made in China? Will those feet in modern times See the bright prosaic malls? Will those feet in modern times Forgive me all my sins Love is noise" This makes me think of going through the world's entire history, and the greatest and worst moments in time. & He's wondering if people will accept him and look past his sins, that he has committed through his lifetime, just as though they have with many terrible things that have happened throughout the history of the world, such as wars.
It's an beautiful song, and I'm kinda disappointed in myself that I disregarded it a little at first. Change is important and just because it carries a style of sound different to their other songs, it shouldn't under value it's worth. Priceless.