This is definitely one of if not best of Beck's albums. It has so much meaning to it, and the verses are simply beautiful, Beck's amazing lyric skills at its peak potential.
At the beginning it describes how much this girl means to Beck, and how her image remains in his head as happy memories and good times although she hurt him, he stills remembers those times as the best of his life and he feels them drift away from him like sand escaping his hands.
Beautiful imagery throughout the song, he finds himself desperately holding onto these joyful memories and realizes he has nothing without her and things are completely different, the mood of this narrative has completely changed when he thinks about the present times.
I believe the line "Already dead to me now, 'cause I feel like I'm watching someone dying", is a reference to the love between him and his ex girlfriend slowly withering and drying out until nothing is left of it and he is forced to move on with his life and perhaps the main reason why he doesn't want to move on is because he feels like if he does move on he will be forced to forget those good memories and will never experience such joy again.
This is definitely one of if not best of Beck's albums. It has so much meaning to it, and the verses are simply beautiful, Beck's amazing lyric skills at its peak potential.
At the beginning it describes how much this girl means to Beck, and how her image remains in his head as happy memories and good times although she hurt him, he stills remembers those times as the best of his life and he feels them drift away from him like sand escaping his hands.
Beautiful imagery throughout the song, he finds himself desperately holding onto these joyful memories and realizes he has nothing without her and things are completely different, the mood of this narrative has completely changed when he thinks about the present times.
I believe the line "Already dead to me now, 'cause I feel like I'm watching someone dying", is a reference to the love between him and his ex girlfriend slowly withering and drying out until nothing is left of it and he is forced to move on with his life and perhaps the main reason why he doesn't want to move on is because he feels like if he does move on he will be forced to forget those good memories and will never experience such joy again.