Spring and a Storm Lyrics

Lyric discussion by VJGanesh 

Cover art for Spring and a Storm lyrics by Tally Hall

I always thought the meaning was something along the lines of:

One time I tried to sing About spring and a storm But you know How it goes

I think that means they tried to think of something to write about, but it's all been done before...

Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah All along

Won't you please stop complaining I'm playing a song

...but then he decides he will anyway, and picks a topic for the song...

But all the rain comes down the same Falling to from where it came On the ground then back around Up into the sky

...he spontaneously goes on a rant about the water cycle...

I wish you could have heard the music When the clouds growled overhead I finally felt enthusiastic I finally felt alive

...then says about how inspired he was when he wrote it...

Blah blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah Blah So you said

Would it please you to listen To thunder instead

I think this bit is about people saying the song isn't original. So he askes them if he talks about thunder.

Man the rain came down that day And it drained my soul away And I wondered why I even Bothered to try

Then he talks about losing inspiration after being critisized.

Mr. Moon? Yeah? Tell us about the sky. The sky is deep and dark and eternally high Many people think that's where you go when you die Do you? Well I think you return to obscure Or wherever you were Before you were But I won't let you lose yourself in the rain

It seems he decides to change the subject, and puts foreward theories about life after death, while asking people not to think too hard about it all they'll go mad

We have so much left to sing There's a storm for every spring

He says that despite being uninspired, he can still do a song about every subject

All you see and you and me Became from a star

Then he goes back to the point about life and talks about how the entie solar system came from the sun.

You're a star Yes you are

He then repeats this idea, so it sounds like he'ds saying it with double meaning, as in when somebody helps someone, and when they thank them, they say 'you're a star' sometimes.

(Silent explosive and Silent explosive and)

This bit might mean how people have 'quiet anger', sometimes, and its repeated as this type of anger lasts a long time.

Create until nothing is left to create and

I think this means how humans will keep on advancing tecnology.

The universe bursts with an overworked sigh then

I think this is about how the universe will end in 'heat death', a 'sigh' rather than an explosion.

Pretend to pretend to re-crown the creation and

'recrowning' the 'creation' might mean doing songs that sound like other ones, or covering them.

Sing the same thing 'til the clouds start to cry and then Over and over and over again and then Over and over and Never again

I think this last bit may be about pop songs being repetetive, and that life is like this too. The 'never again' is representing death.

Correct me if you have any better interpretations.

My Interpretation

Well, I think most of your interpreation is alright, but I think the part where he sings "All you see and you and me, became from a star" is not about how we owe earth's life to the sun, but about the fact that our entire galaxy was created because of a red giant or the fact that all of the atoms in our bodies are traceable to stars from billions of years ago all across the universe.