To me this song is about a woman that slept around. The line "we're out looking for astronauts" paints a picture of two lovers staring at a black sky with stars. Maybe this woman wasn't American maybe some European girl and he's admitting in a sort of mock of himself that she has a piece of his medium sized heart. I think "medium sized" refers to a lack of care or too much apathy. And he's in an argument with her telling her it's too late, and it's already gone. THen he tells her to take all her reasons away, like he doesn't want to hear any more excuses, take them out to the middle of nowhere so they could be left there to die, and while you drive back get rid of your horrible records (maybe he thought her taste in music was bad, maybe she was one of those French girls that listened to old records... haha, i dunno) or maybe throwing the record collection out of the window symbolizes anger or frustration, if it's going to stay consistent with my interpretation it would be that he's breaking up with her, telling her he doesn't want excuses and "by the way I never liked the music you listen to."
"they all run together and they never make sense" could be a reference to those records, at first I took this to mean that she has a shallow taste in music and all she's looking for is some cheap feeling from a song, and something to "hunt" like you find a song and kill it. Or it could mean that her arguments and excuses run together, don't make sense and that she just wants to argue, be emotional and accuse. But he still admits that she has his heart and he tells her not to wear the watch he gave to her as a present when she's around these sleazy guys she sleeps with.... or girls. and "You can break what you have but the rest of it's mine" may refer to the piece of his heart that she has, and he wants her to break it off, or it could also display a very selfish "have your cake and eat it too" attitude that she has.
And that's my crazy interpretation of this song. It's very visual, it paints a wonderful story.
To me, this song is about dreaming your life away.
To me, this song is about dreaming your life away.
"We're out looking for astronauts, looking for astronauts"
This one means that we're stuck in searching for unreal, abstract meaning of life, for something greater than us, something godlike above us, like astronauts. We dream about better things which are unreachable for us.
"Are we gone
Come on, yeah we know we're gone
bye bye bye
bye bye bye we know e're gone"
Those verses mean that we are perfectly aware that we waste our lives on imagination & dreaming thins, that we're gone in this dreamworld, but we don't care about it, because we like the situation we're in. We're comfortable with dreams.
And finally, the best lyrics in song:
"They all run together and never make sense
But that's how we like it, and that's all we want
Something to cry for, and something to hunt."
Last lyrics are about our wishes - all we want from life & arts is that they give something we could cry for, something romantic & heartbreaking, something what we'll hunt down in our memories for a long time.
To me this song is about a woman that slept around. The line "we're out looking for astronauts" paints a picture of two lovers staring at a black sky with stars. Maybe this woman wasn't American maybe some European girl and he's admitting in a sort of mock of himself that she has a piece of his medium sized heart. I think "medium sized" refers to a lack of care or too much apathy. And he's in an argument with her telling her it's too late, and it's already gone. THen he tells her to take all her reasons away, like he doesn't want to hear any more excuses, take them out to the middle of nowhere so they could be left there to die, and while you drive back get rid of your horrible records (maybe he thought her taste in music was bad, maybe she was one of those French girls that listened to old records... haha, i dunno) or maybe throwing the record collection out of the window symbolizes anger or frustration, if it's going to stay consistent with my interpretation it would be that he's breaking up with her, telling her he doesn't want excuses and "by the way I never liked the music you listen to."
"they all run together and they never make sense" could be a reference to those records, at first I took this to mean that she has a shallow taste in music and all she's looking for is some cheap feeling from a song, and something to "hunt" like you find a song and kill it. Or it could mean that her arguments and excuses run together, don't make sense and that she just wants to argue, be emotional and accuse. But he still admits that she has his heart and he tells her not to wear the watch he gave to her as a present when she's around these sleazy guys she sleeps with.... or girls. and "You can break what you have but the rest of it's mine" may refer to the piece of his heart that she has, and he wants her to break it off, or it could also display a very selfish "have your cake and eat it too" attitude that she has.
And that's my crazy interpretation of this song. It's very visual, it paints a wonderful story.
To me, this song is about dreaming your life away.
To me, this song is about dreaming your life away.
"We're out looking for astronauts, looking for astronauts" This one means that we're stuck in searching for unreal, abstract meaning of life, for something greater than us, something godlike above us, like astronauts. We dream about better things which are unreachable for us. "Are we gone Come on, yeah we know we're gone bye bye bye bye bye bye we know e're gone" Those verses mean that we are perfectly aware that we waste our lives on imagination & dreaming thins, that we're gone in this dreamworld, but we don't care about it, because we like the situation we're in. We're comfortable with dreams.
And finally, the best lyrics in song: "They all run together and never make sense But that's how we like it, and that's all we want Something to cry for, and something to hunt." Last lyrics are about our wishes - all we want from life & arts is that they give something we could cry for, something romantic & heartbreaking, something what we'll hunt down in our memories for a long time.