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The voices that did comfort me
At furthest from my sanity
Come from places I had never seen
Even in my darkest recollection
There was someone singing my life back to me
The life you learn from someone else
That you can only trust yourself
Sometimes that is still too much to want
Morality won't get you through the mazes
You can never travel by the way you've come
I could never choose the ones to love
And the ones who took the credit left me reeling
But I owe much to the nameless
And all the surrogates
Those who're singing my life back to me
Life is not a constant thing
It's only made of short stories
I couldn't even tell you where I'm from
Guided by the voices I've perfected
Guided by electric wires' hum
I could never choose the ones to love
And the ones who took the credit left me reeling
But I owe much to the nameless
And all the surrogates
Those who're singing my life back to me
Well I'll see you in the future skipping time
While the eyes of all the faithful rest in peace
And tonight I see the highway
Like a cheetah underfoot
And someone's singing my life back to me
Someone's singing my life back to me
At furthest from my sanity
Come from places I had never seen
Even in my darkest recollection
There was someone singing my life back to me
That you can only trust yourself
Sometimes that is still too much to want
Morality won't get you through the mazes
You can never travel by the way you've come
And the ones who took the credit left me reeling
But I owe much to the nameless
And all the surrogates
Those who're singing my life back to me
It's only made of short stories
I couldn't even tell you where I'm from
Guided by the voices I've perfected
Guided by electric wires' hum
And the ones who took the credit left me reeling
But I owe much to the nameless
And all the surrogates
Those who're singing my life back to me
While the eyes of all the faithful rest in peace
And tonight I see the highway
Like a cheetah underfoot
And someone's singing my life back to me
Someone's singing my life back to me
Song Info
Copyright
Lyrics © Bmg Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Writer
Joel Trueblood, John Ramberg, Neko Case, Sacott Betts
Duration
3:21
Submitted by
ecila On Feb 05, 2002
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I love this song. It's Neko singing about how she's always been supported by the songs she hears on the radio, so she's never felt like no one understands what she's going through, because someone is "singing [her] life back to [her]." Also, she's said that she learned to sing by listening to and singing along with older artists, so her career as well as her life has been "guided by the voices [she's] deflected."
This is an great interpretation and I think you're absolutely right. I've read that music was always there for her and never let her down, unlike some of the people in her life when she was young. Thanks for posting this.
I also think the line is "guided by the voices I've perfected"