I think the song is about youth and about 'time'..... and also about the writers resistance to time about his desire to stay young.
The title is almost literal - I hear motion is a reference to time moving forward, references to Xmas and birthdays etc are references to mile stones that the writer fears... "Shout to the night, and so it goes I hear motion ..."
Most pointedly the writer refers to youth slipping out of his hands, " You can waste it when you've got it ". I think the 'baby' in the song is the writer himself... Telling himself to grow up, and resisting that calling. " You can stop your baby crying, and babies dream is coming true."
The chorus is a circular lament, almost a nursery rythme..." And so it goes
I hear motion. Just count it out shout in your sleep and so it goes I hear motion.."
I was 17 when I first heard the track. AM radio. I was in the back seat of a neighbors ford as we were driven home from school with a whole bunch of kids.
The song made me feel excited to be young. A tough dark techno song with a dance beat. Custom made for young hormones. In a way it help to define me as apart from my parents and my peers. As unique and underground.
Retrospectively, at 47; I feel what the writer was saying. Oh yeah...I do hear motion...
I think the song is about youth and about 'time'..... and also about the writers resistance to time about his desire to stay young.
The title is almost literal - I hear motion is a reference to time moving forward, references to Xmas and birthdays etc are references to mile stones that the writer fears... "Shout to the night, and so it goes I hear motion ..."
Most pointedly the writer refers to youth slipping out of his hands, " You can waste it when you've got it ". I think the 'baby' in the song is the writer himself... Telling himself to grow up, and resisting that calling. " You can stop your baby crying, and babies dream is coming true."
The chorus is a circular lament, almost a nursery rythme..." And so it goes I hear motion. Just count it out shout in your sleep and so it goes I hear motion.."
I was 17 when I first heard the track. AM radio. I was in the back seat of a neighbors ford as we were driven home from school with a whole bunch of kids.
The song made me feel excited to be young. A tough dark techno song with a dance beat. Custom made for young hormones. In a way it help to define me as apart from my parents and my peers. As unique and underground.
Retrospectively, at 47; I feel what the writer was saying. Oh yeah...I do hear motion...