Leave It Alone

This song, like all of Moist, is true poetry. Like SOAD it has it's messages, but Moist hides them a lot better. The main effect of Moist is that you can listen to a song over and over, and your opinion on its meaning will change. Leave it Alone, first SOUNDS very serine and "nice" and usually you will have to have someone point out to you that the learics are very morbid. This "second shell" of the song tends to be very distastfull, being about cleaning up a car crash. But even that has it's poetry. The nest "shell" is that the song is a love story about the loss of ones loved one.

Once, I had deduced that the final "shell" was one of fate. That fate can take away what you truely love, and there is nothing you can do about it. Fate is just as final as the smear of a human body on the ashfalt after a car crash.

Lately however, there has been a certain part at the end of the song that gave me shivers in which I had to listen to over and over to see what it was. Finaly I discovered it was the diction. "From this place here it takes me OVER" The use of "over" implies a sense of uslessness and the controling nature of fate. "And it might be lost in this place here" The use of "it", being a pronown-antecedent error, gives an impression of not knowing exactly what is in control of your life. What is 'it'? What is fate? That is a scary aspect of life, which makes you "lost"? "From this place here it takes me ON" This is the line which I pinpointed my shivers to. When thinking of it I remembered it being almost yelled, but when I listened for it, it was just merely sang. This word demonstates what I know believe to be the last "shell", for as fate takes him "over", he rises up to meet it and forces fate to take him "on". This two letter word demands to take control of your own fate.

sorry for all my spelling errors, I didn't read over them. I simply wrote

it's good to see people who respect the music moist is making....i don't see enough of it where i'm from.

read Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen this song is very personal and extremely beautiful

This song is about a friend of the author(david) was abusing drugs and this is davids outlook and story on it. there it is

This song is just amazing. Like Yelraek said, the first few times I heard it, I never thought about what it meant. The lyrics are so poignant and so desperate. I really need to buy this CD. This is one of the best songs I've ever heard.

I thought I heard it was about AIDS....maybe I misunderstood or got it mixed up with another song

I don't know much about Moist; I heard this song on a sountrack, but it makes me want to listen to more of their stuff. I agree with Yelraek, at first this sounds like a calm, sweet song. I only recently started listening to the lyrics, and then it sounds like it's overtly about a car crash. I think it has more to do with a breakup or the drifting apart of two people, and the analogy of a car crash is used. I love this song--it's sung with such feeling. I think the chorus, "Leave it alone...again, tonight" is kind of about the person experiencing this hardship and sort of just making it through each day by not really dealing with the issue, not thinking about it, "leaving it alone" and obviously the "again, tonight" shows that they've been doing it for some time.