Amazing song, thanks for trying at the lyrics! They look pretty accurate.
I think this song is about what effects they fear their possible future success in indie music might have on them. Some of the lyrics seem to be making fun of the process your average indie band goes through on their way to the "top": you fit a passing trend, hipster mags hype you up, and you're briefly cool until something new comes along and no one cares enough to remember the chorus to your big single anymore. It's making fun of the shallowness of the whole process.
"If you've got the looks, then the rest just works"
-90% of success in music is superficial. If you look cool enough and pose right, who cares if you kind of suck?
"Another record shop story that was born to die."
-Referring to the ephemeral nature of success?
"We're too young to understand.
All there is to know,
if you're gonna lose your soul."
-Obviously, this is about them being young, inexperienced, and worried about the future. I think the "lose your soul" part means that they're afraid of selling out, or of getting too caught up in the pursuit of being a "cool" band. Will success change them? They'd like to think not, but they have no way of knowing.
Who knows. A lot of the lyrics in here are just nonsense, but I think my interpretation kind of makes sense. If I'm right, it's kind of interesting that they were pretty accurate in their prediction of what would happen to them.
If you look closely at the quotes you have used for examples, they could be interpreted both ways: Love/music industry critique. I naturally heard it as a dreampop romance with the stars, with a girl, through the stars and history. But maybe that's just easier to relate to.
If you look closely at the quotes you have used for examples, they could be interpreted both ways: Love/music industry critique. I naturally heard it as a dreampop romance with the stars, with a girl, through the stars and history. But maybe that's just easier to relate to.
There are some beautifully poetic lines in this song:
There are some beautifully poetic lines in this song:
"And the one has changed forever more, with you.
It's why Ive got to know the truth.
Was it you, who sang in Xanadu?"
"And the one has changed forever more, with you.
It's why Ive got to know the truth.
Was it you, who sang in Xanadu?"
It would be sublime to be lucky enough to write something as nice as that one...
It would be sublime to be lucky enough to write something as nice as that one day.
Amazing song, thanks for trying at the lyrics! They look pretty accurate.
I think this song is about what effects they fear their possible future success in indie music might have on them. Some of the lyrics seem to be making fun of the process your average indie band goes through on their way to the "top": you fit a passing trend, hipster mags hype you up, and you're briefly cool until something new comes along and no one cares enough to remember the chorus to your big single anymore. It's making fun of the shallowness of the whole process.
"If you've got the looks, then the rest just works" -90% of success in music is superficial. If you look cool enough and pose right, who cares if you kind of suck? "Another record shop story that was born to die." -Referring to the ephemeral nature of success? "We're too young to understand. All there is to know, if you're gonna lose your soul." -Obviously, this is about them being young, inexperienced, and worried about the future. I think the "lose your soul" part means that they're afraid of selling out, or of getting too caught up in the pursuit of being a "cool" band. Will success change them? They'd like to think not, but they have no way of knowing.
Who knows. A lot of the lyrics in here are just nonsense, but I think my interpretation kind of makes sense. If I'm right, it's kind of interesting that they were pretty accurate in their prediction of what would happen to them.
If you look closely at the quotes you have used for examples, they could be interpreted both ways: Love/music industry critique. I naturally heard it as a dreampop romance with the stars, with a girl, through the stars and history. But maybe that's just easier to relate to.
If you look closely at the quotes you have used for examples, they could be interpreted both ways: Love/music industry critique. I naturally heard it as a dreampop romance with the stars, with a girl, through the stars and history. But maybe that's just easier to relate to.
There are some beautifully poetic lines in this song:
There are some beautifully poetic lines in this song:
"And the one has changed forever more, with you. It's why Ive got to know the truth. Was it you, who sang in Xanadu?"
"And the one has changed forever more, with you. It's why Ive got to know the truth. Was it you, who sang in Xanadu?"
It would be sublime to be lucky enough to write something as nice as that one...
It would be sublime to be lucky enough to write something as nice as that one day.
I like the interpretation but this was the 90s back when indie was different than it was today.
I like the interpretation but this was the 90s back when indie was different than it was today.