Wow! First review!
This song could mean a billion things to different people, but here is my interpretation of it.
This guy is really messed up in his mind that he can't seem to diferentiate what's real and what's fantasy in life. He prefers to be stuck in the fantasy life and enjoy the artificial beauties he encounters (nights like these I only read/dreamt about) and as I read the lyrics on, I found out that the genius of Mr. Ashcroft had written one line on the lyrics about fantasy and the other about reality.
For example, "drink the water to ease my pain" - reality, the guy is in a lot of pain and cannot bare the real world.
"Nights like these..." now he is in a fictional life, in another world deep in his mind.
"As we turned, as we rolled I felt... you" - his is again back to reality and he doesn't feel too good about it
"Saw little lies, something so bright, I think it was the real thing". Very tragic, he is back to fantasy world once again and he can now tell real from fantasy, but he wants to stay in the world of beautiful, bright lies and tries to convince himself that it is real so desperately that he wants to stay in this ideal world.
"Come back and get me a life... falling in the endless life" - back to real world he's just begging for an ideal life in fantasy world because he feels he's falling and his life is endless and he keeps suffering, therefore there is a tragic ending in the song and the song "ends" in an open ending.
Really a tragic song of abstractism, like many other Verve songs. This is a really good song that makes you think pretty hard about existence.
Wow! First review! This song could mean a billion things to different people, but here is my interpretation of it. This guy is really messed up in his mind that he can't seem to diferentiate what's real and what's fantasy in life. He prefers to be stuck in the fantasy life and enjoy the artificial beauties he encounters (nights like these I only read/dreamt about) and as I read the lyrics on, I found out that the genius of Mr. Ashcroft had written one line on the lyrics about fantasy and the other about reality. For example, "drink the water to ease my pain" - reality, the guy is in a lot of pain and cannot bare the real world. "Nights like these..." now he is in a fictional life, in another world deep in his mind. "As we turned, as we rolled I felt... you" - his is again back to reality and he doesn't feel too good about it "Saw little lies, something so bright, I think it was the real thing". Very tragic, he is back to fantasy world once again and he can now tell real from fantasy, but he wants to stay in the world of beautiful, bright lies and tries to convince himself that it is real so desperately that he wants to stay in this ideal world. "Come back and get me a life... falling in the endless life" - back to real world he's just begging for an ideal life in fantasy world because he feels he's falling and his life is endless and he keeps suffering, therefore there is a tragic ending in the song and the song "ends" in an open ending.
Really a tragic song of abstractism, like many other Verve songs. This is a really good song that makes you think pretty hard about existence.