Come On Let's Go

What are you doing, wasting time looking for others to be friends with/fall in love with, when I've been here the whole time? Can't you see I'll always be here for you? Well if you ever need someone I was always here for you.

God this describes my relationship with a girl so much.

Fantastic "60's style" abstract pop. Sounds like it should be the soundtrack to a 'modern day' cult action film, invloving the vulnerable and the french secret service (much like Nikita). A must for anyone with the psychological room to think.

Rest in Peace Trish!

I love this song. Her voice sounds beautiful. This is probably my favorite from Broadcast, right now.

The song is about a person willing themself on a journey of self-discovery (“come on, let’s go”) from the perspective of that persons idealized self. The transition to the new world in the hero’s journey is described by the line “now everything’s changed”. One can adapt by reconciling the self and the ideal self, which is how one holds themself responsible for their thoughts and actions, the same way they would hold others accountable for “saying things”. There’s a certain level of autonomy that is gained through self-knowledge, the part of your awareness that that can’t be defined by others; answers that can’t be found in “everyone’s face”. This self-sufficient quality is what keeps them from being helpless and alone when others aren’t around, or when faced with the prospect of inauthenticity from “people that you’ll never know”.

great song!

This song reminds me of the 80's John Hughes teen-angst classic, Some Kind of Wonderful. Artsy-fartsy dork Eric Stoltz is in love with fiery redhead Leigh Thompson, the most popular girl in school. What he fails to realize is that he's already got a perfectly serviceable, if greasy babe, his gearhead tomboy best friend, Mary Stewart Masterson. I never understood what the hell was the matter with Eric Stoltz, Masterson was cool, played the drums, and in my opinion, was even prettier than Thompson. Anyway, this song is some kind of wonderful, and so is Broadcast!

I would go with her. She died a few years ago, which makes me feel sad.

I think there's a parallel meaning as well as the clear one about a party and looking for yourself and love in other people. How about this? It's about a man's journey, with the woman leading (like in dante's divine comedy where his love Beatrice leads him though she leaves him towards the end to go it alone). She's saying I'll tell you what people are saying and that you won't make it alone and that it's hard to tell what's real and what's internal madness voices. What that implies to me is that there's a kind of source of information. It is best described by two things. That it's a general opinion on what direction not to take and therefore which to take (what people are saying) and that I'll tell you if you change, i.e. if you start losing your core sense of positive difficult journey and become dark. That line is perhaps the one that suddenly doesn't make sense in the story of it being about a party, but in the deeper alternative level version it makes perfect sense, which might suggest that it's right, or at least that there is an alternative understanding of the song.

Strange to see the interpretations here, as I\'ve always thought it was very straightforward. There\'s one person involved here, and the voice in their head is talking to them. It\'s a socially anxious person at a party tipping over into genuine mental illness.