Hiroshima

ok the people who said its true are right, end of story.

in an interview, Ben himself actually said something along the lines of "i know a lot of my music involves metaphors and double meanings but this song is not that, this song is nothing but a literal account of a true story that happened to me, and thats all."

RE: jonasrivers' comment: he also said in the interview that the "you wanna see whats in my head?" section of the song is also simply literal. he actually got CT scans of whats inside his head because of his concussion

I think that it's probably just about him falling off the stage. And I don't think it's egotistical, just silly and funny, like a lot of Ben's tunes.

And the America metaphor was probably something he threw into a show to be funny and goofy and to make a statement in a silly way.

I think this song is a big metaphor for him saying, "I'm falling in the music industry, and my only fans are in Japan. And when I am falling, can my fans in USA see what I am thinking? Do they want to know what's going on in my head, and why I am falling?"

Makes sense to me.

i think this song is about an experience in Hiroshima but i think he got the idea for some of the song at this gig he played live and he improved a song that sounded very similar to this song but differet lyrics, and it was a year before hiroshima was released

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAwuTuasGyo&playnext_from=TL&videos=qzntzIcDTC8

theres teh vid

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUomxBS0Yfo This video shows Ben Folds explaining the incident that happened in Hiroshima. This song has a literal meaning; Ben walks off stage, hits his head, plays the keyboard to find blood, goes to the doctor to take pics of his head because of his concussion.

This song is fairly self explanatory. It is the true story about one of Ben's shows in Hiroshima where he tripped and hit his head.

Reading into this a little too much xepfan221. He fell off of the stage in Japan.

Why else would he have an american flag at that exact part of the song that goes. They're watching me fall?

the song is self explanatory. but yeah, this really happened. I saw him play this last march or something and he said it was a true story and told us the story.

....and he literally says "it's true" in the recording.

This song is so similar to the way he did Rock This Bitch in Berlin.