"Watch out, the world's behind you", man that is such an amazing lyric. Sometimes you're just sitting there and you feel the weight of everything, from all the years that have flown by too fast too make sense of anything, like life is just too incomprehensible. It's as if "the world" is sneaking up on you, like you can't escape time and you will never get a chance to figure it out, what any of it means or who you really are. I think thats how Lou was feeling when he wrote this, like this great big world was gonna get the better of him.
@zepkid5678 posted in 2007, yes, but it's a timeless topic....wtv:)) ok, so coming down from a drug-induced party night (Saturday), one has a restless feeling and one is a bit paranoid, irascible, but it's really nothing at all, don't worry about the thoughts, it's illusion, it'll pass, your friends are there for you, the world's behind you, someone will call, supporting you, they're 'behind you' in that sense... so, i don't agree with the 2007 interpretation and the upvoters.
@zepkid5678 posted in 2007, yes, but it's a timeless topic....wtv:)) ok, so coming down from a drug-induced party night (Saturday), one has a restless feeling and one is a bit paranoid, irascible, but it's really nothing at all, don't worry about the thoughts, it's illusion, it'll pass, your friends are there for you, the world's behind you, someone will call, supporting you, they're 'behind you' in that sense... so, i don't agree with the 2007 interpretation and the upvoters.
from songfactsdotcom (online, 2b verified) "Lou Reed wrote this on a Sunday morning around 6 a.m. Andy Warhol ... suggested he...
from songfactsdotcom (online, 2b verified) "Lou Reed wrote this on a Sunday morning around 6 a.m. Andy Warhol ... suggested he write a song about the paranoia associated with the effects of a drug wearing off." it's uplifting/reassuring
@zepkid5678 Hanna is correct.
People seem unaware of the fact that Reed does offer an explanation of this songs meaning in the live album Max’s Kansas City. “This song is about when you wake up on Sunday and you’ve done something oh so bad and you remember it.” In other words Reed would engage in lamentable activity on Saturday night (drugs and sex for certain) and both praise the fact it was over and lament his behavior on Sunday morning thus:
@zepkid5678 Hanna is correct.
People seem unaware of the fact that Reed does offer an explanation of this songs meaning in the live album Max’s Kansas City. “This song is about when you wake up on Sunday and you’ve done something oh so bad and you remember it.” In other words Reed would engage in lamentable activity on Saturday night (drugs and sex for certain) and both praise the fact it was over and lament his behavior on Sunday morning thus:
sunday morning
praise the dawning
it's just a restless feeling
by my side
sunday morning
praise the dawning
it's just a restless feeling
by my side
And
And
sunday morning
and I'm...
sunday morning
and I'm falling
I've got {a} feeling
I don't want to know
As for the chorus:
watch out the world's behind you
(This is the fear of gossip from the act done the night before).
And
there's always someone around you
who will call
it's nothing at all
(This is the optimistic resolution to his mind’s worries. A friend will call and tell him it was nothing which helps put the incident into its proper perspective. Shame resolution was a common theme of Reed’s songs
"Watch out, the world's behind you", man that is such an amazing lyric. Sometimes you're just sitting there and you feel the weight of everything, from all the years that have flown by too fast too make sense of anything, like life is just too incomprehensible. It's as if "the world" is sneaking up on you, like you can't escape time and you will never get a chance to figure it out, what any of it means or who you really are. I think thats how Lou was feeling when he wrote this, like this great big world was gonna get the better of him.
@zepkid5678 posted in 2007, yes, but it's a timeless topic....wtv:)) ok, so coming down from a drug-induced party night (Saturday), one has a restless feeling and one is a bit paranoid, irascible, but it's really nothing at all, don't worry about the thoughts, it's illusion, it'll pass, your friends are there for you, the world's behind you, someone will call, supporting you, they're 'behind you' in that sense... so, i don't agree with the 2007 interpretation and the upvoters.
@zepkid5678 posted in 2007, yes, but it's a timeless topic....wtv:)) ok, so coming down from a drug-induced party night (Saturday), one has a restless feeling and one is a bit paranoid, irascible, but it's really nothing at all, don't worry about the thoughts, it's illusion, it'll pass, your friends are there for you, the world's behind you, someone will call, supporting you, they're 'behind you' in that sense... so, i don't agree with the 2007 interpretation and the upvoters.
from songfactsdotcom (online, 2b verified) "Lou Reed wrote this on a Sunday morning around 6 a.m. Andy Warhol ... suggested he...
from songfactsdotcom (online, 2b verified) "Lou Reed wrote this on a Sunday morning around 6 a.m. Andy Warhol ... suggested he write a song about the paranoia associated with the effects of a drug wearing off." it's uplifting/reassuring
@zepkid5678 Hanna is correct.
People seem unaware of the fact that Reed does offer an explanation of this songs meaning in the live album Max’s Kansas City. “This song is about when you wake up on Sunday and you’ve done something oh so bad and you remember it.” In other words Reed would engage in lamentable activity on Saturday night (drugs and sex for certain) and both praise the fact it was over and lament his behavior on Sunday morning thus:
@zepkid5678 Hanna is correct.
People seem unaware of the fact that Reed does offer an explanation of this songs meaning in the live album Max’s Kansas City. “This song is about when you wake up on Sunday and you’ve done something oh so bad and you remember it.” In other words Reed would engage in lamentable activity on Saturday night (drugs and sex for certain) and both praise the fact it was over and lament his behavior on Sunday morning thus:
sunday morning praise the dawning it's just a restless feeling by my side
sunday morning praise the dawning it's just a restless feeling by my side
And
And
sunday morning and I'm...
sunday morning and I'm falling I've got {a} feeling I don't want to know
As for the chorus:
watch out the world's behind you (This is the fear of gossip from the act done the night before).
And
there's always someone around you who will call it's nothing at all (This is the optimistic resolution to his mind’s worries. A friend will call and tell him it was nothing which helps put the incident into its proper perspective. Shame resolution was a common theme of Reed’s songs