Something For Kate

Manmade Horse

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Ask me how I am
Ask me how I've been
And then stand and watch and hope and wait
And with any luck
I will be an earthquake
And I will clear a space here
Where you can put pictures and silence and sleep
And you can stop asking
Cos you'll be
You will be
You will be
You will be
Down in the centre of the earth with me
Now you see me
Now you don't bother looking twice

I picture myself like a column of smoke
When questioned I see myself
Riding around forever on a manmade horse
And you
And you
You will be
You will be
You will be
Moving randomly
You will be
Yeah you'll be
And now you see me
Now you don't bother looking twice (don't bother looking twice)
So you can
go through all
Keeping secret
Try to crawl
You can do it
Do it
Do it

Yeah
Yeah you will be
Riding round forever
You will be riding
Riding
Riding round
Forever
forever
Riding round forever

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jenster On Apr 19, 2002

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Pinstripe (acoustic)

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by EmotionSickness13

19y ago

So many great sfk songs don't have comments yet! Crazy... Anyways. It seems like the person's depressed, unhappy with their life, but is hiding it. They want people to realise, to ask (ask me how I am, ask me how I've been), but no one's noticing at all. They're furious as people for not realising, but when people ask at all, they deny anything's wrong. But, they still think people should realise and keep asking (now you don't bother looking twice). This is such a great song, Paul Dempsey is amazing!

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by In_November

18y ago

Manmade Horse could mean a bus, a car, a train. You get on it and just want to be borne - not knowing and not caring what your destination will be... It means being afraid of making decisions, i guess. "And I will clear a space here, where you can put pictures and silence and sleep, and you can stop asking, Cos you'll be down in the centre of the earth with me" -doesn't that mean that you want to escape the pressure that your environment is applying against you?

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