Leave It Alone Lyrics
And where I was complete
We found you scattered by the highway side too
Soon to be released
Gathered the pieces up and clean the places
Where you were undone
And washed the wreckage out unfinished all the
Thoughts that we'd begun
The beauty that it sows
If I could rape the day and find the things I thought
I'd always known
And shaped what I could find
I made the most of it and then left the rest
The parts unrecognized
My reconstruction was the only way
For one last look at you
I lost the sense of absolution
That we never knew
Leave it alone again tonight
It takes me back from this place here
The beauty that it sows
I came to rape the day and find the things
I thought I'd always known
From this place here it takes me over
And it might be lost in this place here
From this place here it takes me on
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.
My favourite song of all time. Has been since 1997 so I don't think that's ever going to change. in highschool i wrote a paper analyzing the lyrics.
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