Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Yeah, hey

Well I'm moving kind of slow
Down that same old path
Wasting time inside this hour glass
She's coming up ahead now
And I feel, yes I feel
My head turning like a race car wheel
Maybe I'll try to say hi another time
I've gotta find a way to get inside your mind
I'll talk smooth and walk one step closer
Be real cool, real cool, real cool, real cool
Dang, real cool

Say what you want, say what you mean
Question yourself, are you really what you seem?
Say who you are, say what you mean
Question yourself, are you really what you dream?

Now here I come one more time
But she slides on by
Not even a second look
She took the bait right off that hook
I've got my blinders on tight
I pull my cap a little lower
I can't hide, hide away

You might think that this is easy for me
But there's a lot of things you don't know
You don't care, you don't want to see
Long while since I've got myself across
But maybe there's a reason for that
Even if I caught you I'd throw you back

Say what you want, say what you mean
Question yourself, are you really what you seem?
Say who you are, say what you mean
Question yourself, are you really what you dream?

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Well, I really don't wan to fall back
'Cause you don't seem like you care
And if I would fall back (fall back)
You don't seem like you care
Fall down your back, fall down your back
Fall down your back, fall down your back
You don't seem like you care
I will not, I will not hold, hold you back
You don't seem like you care

Fall back, you don't
Fall back, you don't (hey, hey, hey, hey, hey)
Fall back, you don't (hey, hey, hey, hey, hey)
Fall back, you don't
Fall back, you don't
Fall back, you don't
Fall back, you don't

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey


Lyrics submitted by dragonflower44

Hey, Hey Lyrics as written by Chad Stokes Urmston Bradley Joseph Corrigan

Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

Lyrics powered by LyricFind

Hey, Hey song meanings
Add Your Thoughts

29 Comments

sort form View by:
  • 0
    General Comment

    For me, and this may be all interpretation based on personal life events, this song is about resolving certain conflicts. He is trying to define himself and learn who he is and express that outwardly, while at the same time dreaming and fantasizing about at love life. but how can you love and reciprocate love without knowing and loving yourself? He wants to rely on someone, have some support (fall back) but he doenst know who that can be. Is it the one he loves? Can she do that for him?

    BrandoCommandoon May 10, 2002   Link

Add your thoughts

Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.

Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!

More Featured Meanings

Album art
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Led Zeppelin
This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
Album art
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Album art
No Surprises
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Album art
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
Album art
Page
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.