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Six Different Ways Lyrics
This is stranger than I thought
Six different ways inside my heart
And everyone I'll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside
I'll tell them anything at all
I know I'll give them more and more
I'll tell them anything at all
I know I'll give the world and more
They think I'm on my hands and head
This time they're much too slow
Six sides to every lie I say
It's that American voice again
It was never quite like this before
Not one of you is the same
This is stranger than ever I thought
Six different ways inside my heart
And everyone I'll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside
Six different ways inside my heart
And everyone I'll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside
I'll tell them anything at all
I know I'll give them more and more
I know I'll give the world and more
They think I'm on my hands and head
This time they're much too slow
It's that American voice again
It was never quite like this before
Not one of you is the same
Six different ways inside my heart
And everyone I'll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside
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I'm sure I read that it was about making up contradictory stories to tell to journalists to relieve the boredom of being asked the same questions in interviews.
I love how the movie Rules of Attraction uses this song. It makes me think of Paul doing yoga whenever I hear it.
I dunno, it feels like a romantic song, (i.e. six ways inside my heart) but Davros' thought is interesting.
@sakebox that's where I originally heard the song for the first time. It's one of my favorites, and just by the by, when I recently learned about the author, and that Sean from R.O.A. was the brother (in the same universe within which both take place) of Patrick Bateman, from American Psycho, blew my mind.
@sakebox that's where I originally heard the song for the first time. It's one of my favorites, and just by the by, when I recently learned about the author, and that Sean from R.O.A. was the brother (in the same universe within which both take place) of Patrick Bateman, from American Psycho, blew my mind.
This song is about multiple personality disorder or thats what lie Robert told that day.Yet one could argue that it's about someone coming into another person's life and the 6 steps it took to get there.
@beehaus There are snakes that are known by names (in the various local languages where the snakes come from) like "hundred pace snake" (a Chinese pitviper), "seven-step snake" (Bothrops asper Central America), and "father of ten minutes" (one of dozens of names for stiletto snakes/burrowing asps (Atractaspis; they have a lot of English names too) in Africa because that's how long someone is expected to be able to keep going after being bitten before succumbing to the effects of the venom. (Just had to mention that after I read your "6 steps" idea. [insert big, toothy...
@beehaus There are snakes that are known by names (in the various local languages where the snakes come from) like "hundred pace snake" (a Chinese pitviper), "seven-step snake" (Bothrops asper Central America), and "father of ten minutes" (one of dozens of names for stiletto snakes/burrowing asps (Atractaspis; they have a lot of English names too) in Africa because that's how long someone is expected to be able to keep going after being bitten before succumbing to the effects of the venom. (Just had to mention that after I read your "6 steps" idea. [insert big, toothy grin here])
I doubt Robert Smith has any personal experience of "multiple personality disorder" (which, though apparently not entirely a product of somebody's imagination, is very very rare), but he might suffer from bipolar disorder, i.e., manic depression. I have never experienced mania myself except for one possible incident where I was taking an antidepressant in what turned out to be too high a dose. Even though there was no memory loss or other symptoms suggestive of dissociation (which characterises MPD), looking back on that time, I was stunned by my own behaviour, which was extremely out-of-character (not to say extremely embarrassing!). I couldn't believe I had done certain things.
Gettng back to the song, though...another possibility is that perhaps it's about polyamourous relationships. I should include a disclaimer here: that thought may just be the result of wishful thinking on my part; way back in the Dark Ages when I was a teenager, I had already taken to what at the time was still an extremely novel perspective on romantic relationships, and I have no doubt that the idea that Robert Smith might share my opinions on the matter would have delighted me. Since those days I've learned a great deal through experience about the practical implementation of what at the time was only an ideology for me). I have found that three relationships at most (maybe four, if some of them are involved with one or more of the others as well as with me) is the upper limit before sheer excessive complicatedness sets in. I expect even Robert would find it difficult to juggle six lovers (not counting one-nighters).
The lyric that intrigues me that most is the line, "it's that American voice again." Robert makes quite a few references to a small number of foreign countries: America and Japan are, in fact, the only ones I can recall. I wonder what his opinions of these countries are and why they seem to make their way into so many of his songs.
(Even stranger, in my opinion is his use of an above-average number of references to ice-cream and flavours thereof; for example, "vanilla smile and a gorgeous strawberry kiss" ("Mint Car"); "as the river flowed, one more ice cream body [??!!!] / flowed underneath the bridge" ("La Ment" — this bit always struck me as rather disturbing, but perhaps I am being overly literal in my interpretation...the first time I heard the song, I heard it as "bunny" instead of "body;" I can only imagine how people here would interpret that!), "Smear this man across the walls / like strawberries and cream" ("Push" — true, it's not about ice-cream, but it's still got that fruity desert item connexion)...anyone have a clue (or psychoanalytic commentary or something/) what this means?)
high fidelity - dyou mean like 6 degrees of separation? yeah i thought about that but doesnt quite fit. i think its about having special unique connections with many different people, and its unsettling cause conventionally we're supposed to fall in love with one person.
i always thought this song was about meeting six different people that find six different ways into your heart, and the struggle that comes with trying to keep them all. but i also see it as some guy that enjoys juggling affairs with six different women. he knows not one of them to be the same as the other so he believes he's entitled to a relationship with each at the same time. i thought the movie was an okay adaptation of the book. and i thought the soundtrack to the movie was pretty damn good too :)
Six different ways might also allude to the time signature - 6/8. But it's most certainly about lying to the press about their inane questions, the same ones he would always have to answer.
I think he's talking about having feelings for multiple people. Six different ways different people attract him. He feels something for all of them, they each think they are the only one. "They think I'm on my hands and head" "They know I'll give the world and more" --each person feels like they're being worshiped by him (ie on hands and head), but this time they are much too slow. They don't understand he likes them all for different reasons, they aren't the only person he's with.
I heard about him saying this is for interviews, but I also heard him say that concerts are to him like an interview. Always thought this was about all the different characters and ways he tells stories at the shows. I'll give them more and more to me seems to be saying how much he is putting into all the internal characters the songs bring out in him during performances.
Come on you guys, you don’t actually take Robert Smith literally when he throws out skinning cats, do?!! lol. I like some of the other ideas about expressing different personalities to keep people on their toes. The cat skinning comment is a perfect example of him acting out the song!
i once heard online from a comment from robert smith that he and simon gallup were talking about how many dufferent ways ther were to skin a cat. and they said "there are definately six differnt ways." So thats apparently where it came from!
@curefanx13x Yeah, I read in one of their biographies that the genesis of this song was definitely a discussion of how many ways there are to skin a cat. Don't know if it's true. I kinda like the idea that it's about how Robert deals with the press.
@curefanx13x Yeah, I read in one of their biographies that the genesis of this song was definitely a discussion of how many ways there are to skin a cat. Don't know if it's true. I kinda like the idea that it's about how Robert deals with the press.