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Innocence (Live Intro) Lyrics
I wanna disappear
I just sleep all day
These spots on my hands
My skin just like sand
And the air so cold
I shudder and I can't sing
The carpet on my feet
The sweat stains on the sheets
Cough syrup and drugs
Bandages and gauze
The razor's dull
The water, cold against my skin
The radio lull
The static buzzing around like tin
And all these empty plans
The ink stains on my hands
And everyone saves
The best words for the grave
Oh, these weary morning tones
I'll probably save mine too
If heaven's just the long ride home
Tell me it's true
I'll go too
I'll go too
I'll go too
I just sleep all day
These spots on my hands
My skin just like sand
And the air so cold
I shudder and I can't sing
The sweat stains on the sheets
Cough syrup and drugs
Bandages and gauze
The razor's dull
The water, cold against my skin
The radio lull
The static buzzing around like tin
The ink stains on my hands
And everyone saves
The best words for the grave
Oh, these weary morning tones
I'll probably save mine too
If heaven's just the long ride home
Tell me it's true
I'll go too
I'll go too
I'll go too
Song Info
Submitted by
xfunkadelicx On Mar 30, 2009
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Sometime Around Midnight
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Wishing Well
Innocence
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Well it's a pretty classic description of depression, first of all. Mikel references his medical condition, which involves Vitiligo, i.e. patches of lost pigment in the skin: "These spots on my hands" and again, "The ink stains on my hands" (which I think is the secondary meaning, the first being, of course, how he works so hard to write, and in context, how he's not sure it has any real purpose). At the end of this "intro", he's saying when he feels like this, that if he knew that it was true that the dead went home to heaven, then he would gladly, well, go. As in, suicide.
I have a hard time connecting this to Innocence, which as far as I can see is about loss of innocence, probably through loss of virginity, and how it pretty much ruins their romance. I know they play them together in some live sets, but I would hardly consider them part of the same song.
I think the term "innocence" in this song is used to portray an actual person or girlfirend. He got dumped. He lost a very virtuous girlfriend. Thus he lost his optimism in life.
Well, I lost my innocence today I could feel her in my bones My bones, my bones, my bones My blood, my blood, my blood, my blood
I do not think "virginity" could be symbolized by "innocence" in this song. It just doesn't connect with the first half.