This song gets me every time, and I wanna share what I think the song is about.
There are beads that wrap around your knees
That crackle into the dark
Like a walk in the park, like a hole in your head
Like the feeling you get when you realize you're dead
This time we ride rollercoasters into the ocean
We feel no emotion as we spiral down to the world
And I guess it's worth your time
Because there's some lives you live
And some you leave behind
It gets hard to explain
The gardenhead knows my name
This part seems to obviously be about someone that he did drugs with. He would watch the Gardenhead come home at night, and so on. I've also heard that the Gardenhead was the guy that lived across from Jeff Mangum's house, so yeah. This part is just describing getting high (The effects of drugs, and afterwards). I also think he's called the Gardenhead because it's kind of like "Pothead", except he does a variety of drugs, making him a Gardenhead.
Leave me alone, for you know this isn't the first time
In fact, this is twice in a row
The narrator wants his Ex-girlfirend to leave him alone. She keeps trying to get back together with him, but this has already happened twice in a row. It's not working out.
That the angels have slipped through our landslide
And filled up our garden with snow
This means that their relationship was stopped. The landslide represents their rough and rocky relationship. And what happens to a garden when it gets snowed on? It stops growing, meaning the angels managed to get through and stopped their love from growing and getting any further.
And I don't wish to taste of your insides
Or to call out your name through my phone
I don't want to have get with you, have sex with you (oral sex obviously), or call you.
For the glory boys at your bedside will love you
As long as you're something to own
The guys that you're having sex with (one night stands and what-not) only want you for sex. Nothing else. They don't want a relationship.
Follow me through a city of frost-covered angels
I swear I have nothing to prove
Again, he's referring to the Angels preventing them from having a relationship, and he's trying to prove to her that he hasn't been seeing anyone else. Perhaps his ex is accusing him of seeing other people, even though they're broken up now.
I just want to dance in your tangles
To give me some reason to move
I only want to see you, or have sex with you, just because I can. Just so I can go out.
But to take on the world at all angles
Requires a strength I can't use
But to do something that we both know won't work out is hard, because I just can't do it. I can't make this relationship work.
So I'll meet you up high in your anger
Of all that is hoping and waiting for you
I'm coming over now. This isn't working out, but you continue to think and hope that it will.
This song gets me every time, and I wanna share what I think the song is about.
There are beads that wrap around your knees That crackle into the dark Like a walk in the park, like a hole in your head Like the feeling you get when you realize you're dead This time we ride rollercoasters into the ocean We feel no emotion as we spiral down to the world And I guess it's worth your time Because there's some lives you live And some you leave behind It gets hard to explain The gardenhead knows my name
This part seems to obviously be about someone that he did drugs with. He would watch the Gardenhead come home at night, and so on. I've also heard that the Gardenhead was the guy that lived across from Jeff Mangum's house, so yeah. This part is just describing getting high (The effects of drugs, and afterwards). I also think he's called the Gardenhead because it's kind of like "Pothead", except he does a variety of drugs, making him a Gardenhead.
Leave me alone, for you know this isn't the first time In fact, this is twice in a row
The narrator wants his Ex-girlfirend to leave him alone. She keeps trying to get back together with him, but this has already happened twice in a row. It's not working out.
That the angels have slipped through our landslide And filled up our garden with snow
This means that their relationship was stopped. The landslide represents their rough and rocky relationship. And what happens to a garden when it gets snowed on? It stops growing, meaning the angels managed to get through and stopped their love from growing and getting any further.
And I don't wish to taste of your insides Or to call out your name through my phone
I don't want to have get with you, have sex with you (oral sex obviously), or call you.
For the glory boys at your bedside will love you As long as you're something to own
The guys that you're having sex with (one night stands and what-not) only want you for sex. Nothing else. They don't want a relationship.
Follow me through a city of frost-covered angels I swear I have nothing to prove
Again, he's referring to the Angels preventing them from having a relationship, and he's trying to prove to her that he hasn't been seeing anyone else. Perhaps his ex is accusing him of seeing other people, even though they're broken up now.
I just want to dance in your tangles To give me some reason to move
I only want to see you, or have sex with you, just because I can. Just so I can go out.
But to take on the world at all angles Requires a strength I can't use
But to do something that we both know won't work out is hard, because I just can't do it. I can't make this relationship work.
So I'll meet you up high in your anger Of all that is hoping and waiting for you
I'm coming over now. This isn't working out, but you continue to think and hope that it will.
So yeah, that's my interpretation :)