Moving

I believe its about keeping going in the daily grind of life - possibly being on tour - just taking each day as it comes and carrying on as best you can. I think i read that it was abotu being on tour.

That fits well - the sections about:

"where i feel i'm home again and when it's over i'll see you again "

Its a good general song about the constant grind of life and always moving in a mudance phase of your life - whether that be being on tour - or going through something like medical treatment (I went through this and related to this song then) - especially comments like:

"i've been moving so long the days all feel the same"

First of all, I think everyone has gotten it wrong, or at least mostly wrong. So allow me to interject.

From the very beginning, we have an unreliable narrator: "moving just keep moving / 'til I don't know what I'm saying." Clearly confused. I don't think it's as simple as wanderlust, otherwise why the lines: "I've got to find somebody to help me / I'll keep you in mind"? If simply "moving" were the answer, then they wouldn't want or need anyone to help them, they would just move.

I think what others have said about depression is correct, as it tends to cause one to make unhealthy decisions that go against what they know is best for them. Self-destruction, etc. I think the "stone cold feeling inside" is caused by the self-imposed isolation that makes one push others away, and "wasting time" by shutting themselves off to those who, deep down, they know can, and probably want to help.

"moving keep on moving / where I feel I'm home again / and when it's over / I'll see you again" It's obvious that moving is not necessarily the answer, since feeling like home is to see this person again. Why leave in the first place? Again, self-destruction. The unreliable narrator knows that staying in place is the best course of action, yet is not in the best of mindsets, and so pretends that moving away from what feels like home is best.

The fact that the song ends with "I'll keep you in mind" pretty much solidifies the idea that this song is more about wanting to come out of the box they've locked themselves in to allow someone to care for them. Or at least let someone in the box.

It seems like a depressing song, but the fact that there is recognition of the need for someone's help, and that there is someone in mind, suggests hope. So I think this qualifies as a cheerful song, in a somewhat twisted sense.

what's the song about though? is it that the narrator is stricken with wanderlust (the need to travel or as joni mitchell put it an urge for going) or is it just about life on the road.

i think this is about those times when everything goes wrong.. nothing much you can do besides moving on... very positive song.

It's about life on the road, how you feel lost as you're always moving about...

Its about feeling really numb and finally not caring what\'s ailing anymore.... I watched Fightclub n could relate to this song

and i just can't stop messing my mind up or wasting my time

The story of my life.

I absolutely love this song...I was in a particularly shitty mood there and somehow listening to it and singing along made me feel a whole lot better. =)

Anyway Supergrass are a really cool band, I've liked them since i was 8 (well, i was young anyway) when "alright" came out, I think this is my favourite song by them though. They've not had the comments they deserve! A lotta great bands have hardly been commented on on here actually, it's weird...

This song is amazing; it makes me want to cry because it's so so personal!

I think it's about depression, self loathing- moving, searching to find yourself. The song is a journey; you have this bi-polar fluctuation betweem the verses and the chorus- and you have the perfect, light ending, drifting off. Moving but not being....

Man, I love Supergrass

The lyrics to this one remind me of a musician I know who moved constantly, always running away to a new town, a new crowd and a new place to fit, but never staying in one place long enough to get care much about anything there. After a while the newness of everything grated, when nothing seemed to matter anywhere... I think this song addresses that kind of social person's loneliness very well for a throwaway bit of brit-pop. (In the end, she found gardening and it all worked out OK amid the daffs.)

Weirdly, until I came here, I always thought the lyrics on the chorus were "there's a LOVE-LOVE feeling around me" and that it was just being all bitter and sneering and sarcastic (I've seen the band live a few times, and still never twigged to this, doh).

Anyway, I kinda like my misheard lyrics better.