In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
(Regret, regret)
(Regret, regret)
First you'll see me on the news, then never again
(Regret, regret)
I'm rolling in my grave
(Regret, regret)
Feeling like a grenade
(Regret, regret)
Maybe you're the coldest
(Regret, regret)
If you've never felt it
(Regret, regret)
Maybe you're the luckiest
(Regret, regret)
If you never did it
(Regret, regret)
But did you imagine it
In a different way?
Did you imagine it
In a different way?
Did you ever watch your life slide out of your hands?
(Regret, regret)
You wish it never had
(Regret, regret)
But all of that's in the past
(Regret, regret)
Maybe I'm a human
(Regret, regret)
The "trying to click 'undo' man"
(Regret, regret)
Or maybe an automaton
(Regret, regret)
Oh how'd it all go so wrong?
(Regret, regret)
But did you imagine it
In a different way?
Did you imagine it
In a different way?
Did you think that everything, everything would change?
Did you imagine it
In a different way?
(Regret, regret)
(Regret, regret)
Maybe you're the luckiest
(Regret, regret)
If you never felt it
(Regret, regret)
But did you imagine it
In a different way?
Did you imagine it
In a different way?
Did you think that everything, everything would change?
Did you imagine it
In a different way?
(Regret, regret)
(Regret, regret)
First you'll see me on the news, then never again
(Regret, regret)
I'm rolling in my grave
(Regret, regret)
Feeling like a grenade
(Regret, regret)
Maybe you're the coldest
(Regret, regret)
If you've never felt it
(Regret, regret)
Maybe you're the luckiest
(Regret, regret)
If you never did it
(Regret, regret)
But did you imagine it
In a different way?
Did you imagine it
In a different way?
Did you ever watch your life slide out of your hands?
(Regret, regret)
You wish it never had
(Regret, regret)
But all of that's in the past
(Regret, regret)
Maybe I'm a human
(Regret, regret)
The "trying to click 'undo' man"
(Regret, regret)
Or maybe an automaton
(Regret, regret)
Oh how'd it all go so wrong?
(Regret, regret)
But did you imagine it
In a different way?
Did you imagine it
In a different way?
Did you think that everything, everything would change?
Did you imagine it
In a different way?
(Regret, regret)
(Regret, regret)
Maybe you're the luckiest
(Regret, regret)
If you never felt it
(Regret, regret)
But did you imagine it
In a different way?
Did you imagine it
In a different way?
Did you think that everything, everything would change?
Did you imagine it
In a different way?
(Regret, regret)
Lyrics submitted by brucemikey
Regret Lyrics as written by Jeremy Pritchard Alex Robertshaw
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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"It's not actually [about girls going to Syria]. Someone wrote that in one of the early interviews, and everyone else copied it, which is understandable, but it's not the crack. I wanted the album to be littered with predictions and clues that I was going to become a terrorist... become the other. I wanted people to piece the album back together after it'd finished and find these clues, and one of them is in "Regret" - this feeling that I'm going to do something soon and you're all going to hear about it. I wanted that threat to open the song and be a constant unnerving thing throughout the record. I can see how does work in the context of girls going to Syria, or that kid that just went and got killed though.
All that feels so local to me. This recurrent issue with ISIS, there's people like Jihadi John... he's from England, some of the people he's killed were from very near me. Those guys, very ordinary guys, were just thrust onto the world stage, and it's fucking crazy... "Regret" is about the importance of the individual, as in one guy's knife against one guy's neck becoming global news. The power of that is insane. It's the most powerful thing you can do on Earth, apart from kill yourself, I suppose.
Lots of things go into the song, but it comes out quite benign in the end. I think about all this a lot more when I actually write lyrics down. It's more a song about regretting mistakes and wishing things were different."
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@qwertyfox that makes sense with the clues he is gonna do something soon because of the 'did you think that everything everything would change'. get it? "everything everything" would change' ?
Regret. This is what the song is about. Regret and how it changes everything. It could mean something deeper but I really dont know. Everything everything rulz!