Is this what you meant?
Is this
What you dreamed of?
When you were making
Your plans
Shaking the dirt off?
Do you feel like you
And I belong?
(Oh, ah, oh)
Just keep your eyes
On the road
And nothing can go wrong
You could do so much
Better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
I've been checking my sums
Oh where did the time go?
Holding my photograph up
To the window
Through the paper
A refracted sun
(Oh, ah, oh)
I can see all the things
I wish that I'd done
You can hang your hopes
On the bedsits masses
You can put your faith
In the foreign
You can tell yourself
You can do your best
You could do so much
Better than this
Get a grip on yourself
Get a grip on yourself
Could have been something
But you're too late
And you
Wouldn't want it anyway
Just a photograph
From the wrong time
'Cause there
Is no soap star
Holding your hand
You can see yourself
In a freeze-frame
Must be someone else
Using your name
And everyone
Will be the same
And everyone will glow
And everywhere
You'll see your name
In every shop window
It's better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
Is this
What you dreamed of?
When you were making
Your plans
Shaking the dirt off?
Do you feel like you
And I belong?
(Oh, ah, oh)
Just keep your eyes
On the road
And nothing can go wrong
You could do so much
Better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
I've been checking my sums
Oh where did the time go?
Holding my photograph up
To the window
Through the paper
A refracted sun
(Oh, ah, oh)
I can see all the things
I wish that I'd done
You can hang your hopes
On the bedsits masses
You can put your faith
In the foreign
You can tell yourself
You can do your best
You could do so much
Better than this
Get a grip on yourself
Get a grip on yourself
Could have been something
But you're too late
And you
Wouldn't want it anyway
Just a photograph
From the wrong time
'Cause there
Is no soap star
Holding your hand
You can see yourself
In a freeze-frame
Must be someone else
Using your name
And everyone
Will be the same
And everyone will glow
And everywhere
You'll see your name
In every shop window
It's better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
You could do so much
Better than this
Lyrics submitted by Runaway Muse
Better Than This Lyrics as written by Timothy James Rice-oxley Richard David Hughes
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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You could do so much better than this
You could do so much better than this
i guess the meaning is so clear ...
thank you keane ,,,,
best band
Great chorus!! =D
Keane forever!
I get the impression it's someone looking at someone else saying look at the mess you've made of your life, you could have been so much more? Dunno.. Good song, anyway :)
its ironic in that the message to "set your goals high" is there but there is also a "be realistic about your goals and don't live your life wishing for the impossible and forget your true self because YOU WILL be disappointed" - which is the case with many of us today....wanting to live like celebrities and wishing for eternal wealth..etc
"Is this what you meant?
Is this what you dreamed of?
When you were making your plans,
Shaking the dirt off?
Do you feel like you and I belong?
(oh ah oh)
Just keep your eyes on the road and nothing can go wrong"
A relationship obviously is going wrong. the other party had hoped for the best relationship ever and now that reality hit the fan, the cant face it but still live like everything is okay.
"I've been checking my sums
Oh where did the time go?
Holding my photograph up to the window
Through the paper and refracted sun
(oh ah oh)
I can see all the things I wish that I'd done"
again...time has gone by and the person comes to realise that they have lived a lie all along and didn't really do the good things they wanted to do.
"You can hang your hopes on the medicine
You can put your faith in the phone-in
You can tell yourself you doing your best
You can do so much better than this"
reference to how we always turn to things like medicine and phone ins (possibly some money winning TV phone in stuff ??? ) to sort our problems out instead of sorting them out our problems and being realistic about it!
"Get a grip on yourself
Get a grip on yourself
Could have been something, but you're too late
And you weren't invited anyway
'Cause the photographs show the wrong man
'Cause there is no soap star holding your hand
You don't see yourself in the freeze frame
Must be someone else using your name"
wished for a life in the lights and now alas, life has passed by and there hasnt been that BIG break yet.....there never was going to be one right from the word go!
"And everyone will be the same
And everyone will glow
And everywhere, you'll see your name
In every shop window
It's better than this
You can do so much better than this"
last verse I interpret it as "if everyone wanted to be celebrity, rich and famous...then everyone would be the same, everyone would glow, rich and famous" but because of variety how we are all unique in our own good and equally special ways, life is better than what we see on telly, in the magazines etc!
So lets have better hopes and aspirations!
(thats my interpretation!)
"Is this what you meant?
Is this what you dreamed of?
When you were making your plans,
Shaking the dirt off?
It's not the kind of questions a boyfriend asks, u know. It seems like the guy's talking to himself.
"Do you feel like you and I belong?"
This phrase may confuse you, but who hasn't talked to himself as to a another person or hasn't talked to his inner voice? And this inner voice replies as conscience:
"Just keep your eyes on the road and nothing can go wrong"
And this phrase just illustrates all the previous sentences:
"Holding my photograph up to the window
Through the paper and refracted sun
I can see all the things I wish that I'd done"
So what do we got? The guy's driving a car, or just drives by, sees his own picture somewhere on the board, maybe with friends, dunno, and thinks of his life, playing with a picture and watching the sun through it.
---
Is this current life situation what was supposed to happen? Am I supposed to be in this situation?
I could have a better life.
I've lived a while now, but I haven't accomplished very much. I have many regrets.
I've taken measures to feel better about my life, and not having to achieve everything. I take medicine for it, I talk to people about it, I try and tell myself I'm doing alright. But I know I can do better.
Too bad, it's too late, what my life is is what it is and I can't change what has happened already.
I was expecting to fall in love with some beautiful star, maybe. But I can't see myself with the star. It's almost like that was someone else's expectations for the future, cause there's no way I could have done that.
I could have been something big. I could have been socializing with stars, my name could have been known by everyone.
I could have a better life.