I watched the clip to this song and loved it! I really enjoyed trying to disect the meaning of the song in conjunction with the clip... I may be faarrrr off. But it's my abstract interpretation that I'm putting out there ready for criticism ;) (also English is my second-language so please be kind :P hehe)
I think this song is as much about the process of falling in love as the creation of those feelings inside you physically. You have to watch the clip to get what I'm going on about below :P
It's in your eyes, a color fade out
Looks like, a new transition
In the clip, the girl seems like she's in another world, below water, like her subconcious. As the beat of the music intensifies, you see her waking up, every cell, every microscopic detail of her biology/existance - it pulsates through her whole body to her spirit, soul, heart until she opens her eyes to love... "it's in your eyes, a color fade out" it's in all of our souls, buried... also her innocence is symbolised in her wearing white in the clip, though you soon see black clothlike streams shooting towards her as the song progresses as she inevitably falls in love (all I believe symbolise the death of her as she falls in love and it's beyond her control or resistance/her new transition (new self when she comes out of it all is in the final scene))... she is about to be fully consumed and it'll be a "new transition" falling in love.
It's starting up, and shaking your ground
Turning your head to see a new day calling
"It's starting up, and shaking your ground" Love is risky and it can ruin and mess with your emotions, but everything in your life as it stands at that instance, point of time will soon be shaken out of place... yet you can't resist it. You want to face it, you want to see the possibilities... you want it to ruin everything because something in you hopes that if it's true (if it's love), if that word even exists in this world, then it can't ruin you forever but make you stronger, transform you (and the beat intensifies in the clip like adrenaline puslsing through a persons vain - curiosity).
Does it feel like a head to lean on?
A snapshot from where you were born
I'm looking for your hand in the rough
You're caught in the wire
Well I'll lift you up
The second paragraph, starting with "does it feel like a head to lean on? A snapshot from where you were born" I think of how many women fall in love for the temporary sense of peace it brings. As for the "snapshot from where you were born" deep down you subconciously want or bring/take from the relationship what your parents had... maybe you also want to idolize the other person like all that you grew up believing was love, or love is supposed to be like (and not believe in some chemical reaction happening in your brain). But I really think in this instance it's just refering to struggles of her past. Leading to the 'I'm looking for your hand in the rough. You're caught in the rough... I'll lift you up" To me all this is just sounding like the guy's knight-in-shining armour disguise (notice I say 'disguise' because as the song progresses you come to realise the selfish motives that ends it al( with the perfect excuse of feeling trapped by it all. '"we" gotta get out...')
Bleeding on reaction
Caught on a cell phone's rays
Pleading on the sofa, staring at the wayside
The whole of the third paragraph is really the lovey-dovey phase where you're looking into every detail of that person, dying for their reactions, 'caught on a cell phone's rays' (pretty sel-explanatory = all the sms's and texting and waiting on calls). Now "he's coming and she knows it" She's all excited by his pursuit of her... by his sudden interest, by her constant longing and wanting to believe this is true love (when it's just the intense euphoria of love) where her heart is really trying to win against her head... the sad part of love, the realisation that as much as you want the person to love you and pursue youuuu, you don't want to face the truth that he's only after one thing... and we all know what that becomes at the very passionate stages...
He's coming and she knows it, even if she knows why (*sad reality)
Footsteps in the hallway, girl, you haven't got time
But it's too late "footsteps in the hallway" means he's already set foot in the empty halls of her heart and nowwww she finally realises that she has to run, that it's not really love - it's attraction (but it's almost too late - she thinks she's in love...)! Wake up!?! "girl, you haven't got time" He's out to get her and it's not for love. Thus the chorus.Reminds me of that feeling where you want to break free from all that's been created and just run away... to save whatever part of you that's left (apart from the relationship)... the innocence, your childhood dreams of love, your immaturity... where you're not ready... ready for love and sex.
You gotta get out
Go far away
You gotta get out
Come far away
Darkness in the bedroom
Maybe she's resting up, maybe she was out late
Just came back from the club, I can't hear her breathing
Something doesn't seem right, killer in the hallway
We're leaving on the same time
On to the last paragraph... "Darkness in the bedroom" I think these are the final stages of this fatal attraction where it's finally a little about the guys feelings. Where the guy begins to suspect their relationship from her signs of reluctance physically, "maybe she's resting up, maybe she was out late" Then he thinks of what she's been doing, where she's been? "Just came back from the club, I can't hear her breathing" He starting to worry because he's only now beginning to have feelings of attachment for her (after the physical side of their relationship). In his state of adrenaline and panic (in the music as well), he too begins to find some answers "Something doesn't seem right, killer in the hallway" Through his suspicions, I bet he either finds her unfaithful with the whole "killer in the hallway" meaning there's another guy... or it could be worst, that he's actually discovered he's fallen in love with her, remember "footsteps in the hallway" previously when the girl first fell in love, and now it could be his turn and he can't handle it "killer in the hallway symbolising, having the other person in your heart... and at the same time being so totally attracted to them that you're willing to do anything for them... you know they have total control over you... they have your life as long as they are in your heart... they become the "killer in the hallway" the assissin of your heart/life literally. Naturally you start thinking...
We gotta get out
Go far away
We gotta get out
Come far away
So finally - it becomes a mutual agreement to leave/part ways... as they are both affraid of this love/attraction. "We're leaving on the same time" They somehow know their attraction and this kind of love is impossible and come to a mutal agreement to depart (together at the same time).
so it ends with "we gotta get out... go far away" and in the clip you notice... the girl is no longer (dressed in) white (pure) and in a deep unconcious state... innocence, purity and dreams of love... this relationship he sings and urges forward... changes her... all the shattered pieces are fixed in her and together again (as she gains a greater sense of reality)... but she's no longer the same... she's fixed, she's black (mysterious) and no longer the damsel in distress type... and with that there's no longer the reason he pursued her in the first place - no sign of vulnerability (with that great black wall built behind her - her walls are up - she'll gaurd her heart next time). As for him, he was the killer all along, he was never going to stay but he couldn't kill her heart/life... he made her better (or at least a part of her (before they parted)).
@anonymous2010 either you're exceptionally perceptive or you're Rob Swire in disguise lol ;) Yours is the most fitting interpretation so far, by miles. Makes everything clear, and explains the video and title too. Love is itself bewitching, and when in love you are said to be under a spell. Love transforms you, whether for good or bad, but it's witchcraft in all but name ^^
@anonymous2010 either you're exceptionally perceptive or you're Rob Swire in disguise lol ;) Yours is the most fitting interpretation so far, by miles. Makes everything clear, and explains the video and title too. Love is itself bewitching, and when in love you are said to be under a spell. Love transforms you, whether for good or bad, but it's witchcraft in all but name ^^
@anonymous2010 It's a nice theory. But, in the actual video clip, what you see pulsing is the black rocks on the ground that end up forming that black rectangle. The only reason the woman looks inhuman is because the name of the song is "Witchcraft". I personally talked to the lead singer and asked him what the song was about. He told me that he knows a lot of people who are a victim of women violence, and that's why he wrote it. Sort of like another Pendulum song "Blood Sugar". The title is catchy and has almost 0 meaning...
@anonymous2010 It's a nice theory. But, in the actual video clip, what you see pulsing is the black rocks on the ground that end up forming that black rectangle. The only reason the woman looks inhuman is because the name of the song is "Witchcraft". I personally talked to the lead singer and asked him what the song was about. He told me that he knows a lot of people who are a victim of women violence, and that's why he wrote it. Sort of like another Pendulum song "Blood Sugar". The title is catchy and has almost 0 meaning to the song.
I watched the clip to this song and loved it! I really enjoyed trying to disect the meaning of the song in conjunction with the clip... I may be faarrrr off. But it's my abstract interpretation that I'm putting out there ready for criticism ;) (also English is my second-language so please be kind :P hehe)
I think this song is as much about the process of falling in love as the creation of those feelings inside you physically. You have to watch the clip to get what I'm going on about below :P
It's in your eyes, a color fade out Looks like, a new transition
In the clip, the girl seems like she's in another world, below water, like her subconcious. As the beat of the music intensifies, you see her waking up, every cell, every microscopic detail of her biology/existance - it pulsates through her whole body to her spirit, soul, heart until she opens her eyes to love... "it's in your eyes, a color fade out" it's in all of our souls, buried... also her innocence is symbolised in her wearing white in the clip, though you soon see black clothlike streams shooting towards her as the song progresses as she inevitably falls in love (all I believe symbolise the death of her as she falls in love and it's beyond her control or resistance/her new transition (new self when she comes out of it all is in the final scene))... she is about to be fully consumed and it'll be a "new transition" falling in love.
It's starting up, and shaking your ground Turning your head to see a new day calling
"It's starting up, and shaking your ground" Love is risky and it can ruin and mess with your emotions, but everything in your life as it stands at that instance, point of time will soon be shaken out of place... yet you can't resist it. You want to face it, you want to see the possibilities... you want it to ruin everything because something in you hopes that if it's true (if it's love), if that word even exists in this world, then it can't ruin you forever but make you stronger, transform you (and the beat intensifies in the clip like adrenaline puslsing through a persons vain - curiosity).
Does it feel like a head to lean on? A snapshot from where you were born I'm looking for your hand in the rough You're caught in the wire Well I'll lift you up
The second paragraph, starting with "does it feel like a head to lean on? A snapshot from where you were born" I think of how many women fall in love for the temporary sense of peace it brings. As for the "snapshot from where you were born" deep down you subconciously want or bring/take from the relationship what your parents had... maybe you also want to idolize the other person like all that you grew up believing was love, or love is supposed to be like (and not believe in some chemical reaction happening in your brain). But I really think in this instance it's just refering to struggles of her past. Leading to the 'I'm looking for your hand in the rough. You're caught in the rough... I'll lift you up" To me all this is just sounding like the guy's knight-in-shining armour disguise (notice I say 'disguise' because as the song progresses you come to realise the selfish motives that ends it al( with the perfect excuse of feeling trapped by it all. '"we" gotta get out...')
Bleeding on reaction Caught on a cell phone's rays Pleading on the sofa, staring at the wayside
The whole of the third paragraph is really the lovey-dovey phase where you're looking into every detail of that person, dying for their reactions, 'caught on a cell phone's rays' (pretty sel-explanatory = all the sms's and texting and waiting on calls). Now "he's coming and she knows it" She's all excited by his pursuit of her... by his sudden interest, by her constant longing and wanting to believe this is true love (when it's just the intense euphoria of love) where her heart is really trying to win against her head... the sad part of love, the realisation that as much as you want the person to love you and pursue youuuu, you don't want to face the truth that he's only after one thing... and we all know what that becomes at the very passionate stages...
He's coming and she knows it, even if she knows why (*sad reality) Footsteps in the hallway, girl, you haven't got time
But it's too late "footsteps in the hallway" means he's already set foot in the empty halls of her heart and nowwww she finally realises that she has to run, that it's not really love - it's attraction (but it's almost too late - she thinks she's in love...)! Wake up!?! "girl, you haven't got time" He's out to get her and it's not for love. Thus the chorus.Reminds me of that feeling where you want to break free from all that's been created and just run away... to save whatever part of you that's left (apart from the relationship)... the innocence, your childhood dreams of love, your immaturity... where you're not ready... ready for love and sex.
You gotta get out Go far away You gotta get out Come far away
Darkness in the bedroom Maybe she's resting up, maybe she was out late Just came back from the club, I can't hear her breathing Something doesn't seem right, killer in the hallway We're leaving on the same time
On to the last paragraph... "Darkness in the bedroom" I think these are the final stages of this fatal attraction where it's finally a little about the guys feelings. Where the guy begins to suspect their relationship from her signs of reluctance physically, "maybe she's resting up, maybe she was out late" Then he thinks of what she's been doing, where she's been? "Just came back from the club, I can't hear her breathing" He starting to worry because he's only now beginning to have feelings of attachment for her (after the physical side of their relationship). In his state of adrenaline and panic (in the music as well), he too begins to find some answers "Something doesn't seem right, killer in the hallway" Through his suspicions, I bet he either finds her unfaithful with the whole "killer in the hallway" meaning there's another guy... or it could be worst, that he's actually discovered he's fallen in love with her, remember "footsteps in the hallway" previously when the girl first fell in love, and now it could be his turn and he can't handle it "killer in the hallway symbolising, having the other person in your heart... and at the same time being so totally attracted to them that you're willing to do anything for them... you know they have total control over you... they have your life as long as they are in your heart... they become the "killer in the hallway" the assissin of your heart/life literally. Naturally you start thinking...
We gotta get out Go far away We gotta get out Come far away
So finally - it becomes a mutual agreement to leave/part ways... as they are both affraid of this love/attraction. "We're leaving on the same time" They somehow know their attraction and this kind of love is impossible and come to a mutal agreement to depart (together at the same time).
so it ends with "we gotta get out... go far away" and in the clip you notice... the girl is no longer (dressed in) white (pure) and in a deep unconcious state... innocence, purity and dreams of love... this relationship he sings and urges forward... changes her... all the shattered pieces are fixed in her and together again (as she gains a greater sense of reality)... but she's no longer the same... she's fixed, she's black (mysterious) and no longer the damsel in distress type... and with that there's no longer the reason he pursued her in the first place - no sign of vulnerability (with that great black wall built behind her - her walls are up - she'll gaurd her heart next time). As for him, he was the killer all along, he was never going to stay but he couldn't kill her heart/life... he made her better (or at least a part of her (before they parted)).
Dramatic? Yes I think so too... :P hehehe
I so need some sleep right now.........
@anonymous2010
Amen
@anonymous2010
Amen
The first interpretation showing more than blatant reading of words. Nothing should/could be added/removed to/from it. Very original and fitting.
The first interpretation showing more than blatant reading of words. Nothing should/could be added/removed to/from it. Very original and fitting.
You Sir earned the my 3S : Sophisticated Subtle Sentence.
You Sir earned the my 3S : Sophisticated Subtle Sentence.
@anonymous2010 either you're exceptionally perceptive or you're Rob Swire in disguise lol ;) Yours is the most fitting interpretation so far, by miles. Makes everything clear, and explains the video and title too. Love is itself bewitching, and when in love you are said to be under a spell. Love transforms you, whether for good or bad, but it's witchcraft in all but name ^^
@anonymous2010 either you're exceptionally perceptive or you're Rob Swire in disguise lol ;) Yours is the most fitting interpretation so far, by miles. Makes everything clear, and explains the video and title too. Love is itself bewitching, and when in love you are said to be under a spell. Love transforms you, whether for good or bad, but it's witchcraft in all but name ^^
@anonymous2010 It's a nice theory. But, in the actual video clip, what you see pulsing is the black rocks on the ground that end up forming that black rectangle. The only reason the woman looks inhuman is because the name of the song is "Witchcraft". I personally talked to the lead singer and asked him what the song was about. He told me that he knows a lot of people who are a victim of women violence, and that's why he wrote it. Sort of like another Pendulum song "Blood Sugar". The title is catchy and has almost 0 meaning...
@anonymous2010 It's a nice theory. But, in the actual video clip, what you see pulsing is the black rocks on the ground that end up forming that black rectangle. The only reason the woman looks inhuman is because the name of the song is "Witchcraft". I personally talked to the lead singer and asked him what the song was about. He told me that he knows a lot of people who are a victim of women violence, and that's why he wrote it. Sort of like another Pendulum song "Blood Sugar". The title is catchy and has almost 0 meaning to the song.
Points for effort though :P