It is curious that no comments address the rather dark lyrics to this song - or even comment on the lyrics at all. Perhaps that's because they are rather hard to hear and that the lyrics available online are not entirely accurate. For example, in Soon, I don't hear 'have faith' or 'doll of pain'.
The pace of delivery of the song's vocals sound like someone making a confession, or perhaps composing a letter, one hesitant word at a time. Imagine someone telling you:
'Someone like you
Can find the reason
Of what I did to you'
I hope your response would be to stay away! It sounds from the hearable lyrics that this has already happened, with the 'you' being summoned back. It's up to the listener to decide what 'did to you' means but the 'to you' suggests it wasn't 'with you'... an ugly situation, but the narrator is not issuing a 'please forgive me' message.
I hear Soon it as the lyrical follow up to When You Sleep on the same album, eg
'And I'll sleep tomorrow
And it won't be long'
…from When You Sleep pairs with Soon's
'Wake Up'
and
'Afraid of me, soon'
…from Soon.
Also:
'Your eyes are blue' / 'Your long blonde hair'
…also seem to pair up.
A key question is what the narrator means by 'Wake up'. Does he mean 'please see sense' or literally to stop sleeping? If the two songs are paired, it might feel like the second interpretation is more likely, simply she is sleeping. But why then say 'come back'? She is either there or she isn't. The dark interpretation I made (back in 1992!) was that she has been killed and that 'wake up, come back' means 'come back to life'… the narrator can't accept she is dead.
'When you sleep tomorrow
And it won't be long'
…hence the title 'Soon'. Long term fans of the band know what MBV mean by 'soon'. When you say it's going to happen soon, when exactly do you mean?
It was interesting (for me, anyway) to see that the first song on the album MBV, 20 years later was called 'She Found Now' and this song lyrically seems to follow up questions raised by Soon:
'You come home
You come back and see I woke up
I wonder how that you find out
You wonder how that you found out
It is curious that no comments address the rather dark lyrics to this song - or even comment on the lyrics at all. Perhaps that's because they are rather hard to hear and that the lyrics available online are not entirely accurate. For example, in Soon, I don't hear 'have faith' or 'doll of pain'.
The pace of delivery of the song's vocals sound like someone making a confession, or perhaps composing a letter, one hesitant word at a time. Imagine someone telling you:
'Someone like you Can find the reason Of what I did to you'
I hope your response would be to stay away! It sounds from the hearable lyrics that this has already happened, with the 'you' being summoned back. It's up to the listener to decide what 'did to you' means but the 'to you' suggests it wasn't 'with you'... an ugly situation, but the narrator is not issuing a 'please forgive me' message.
I hear Soon it as the lyrical follow up to When You Sleep on the same album, eg
'And I'll sleep tomorrow And it won't be long'
…from When You Sleep pairs with Soon's
'Wake Up'
and
'Afraid of me, soon'
…from Soon.
Also:
'Your eyes are blue' / 'Your long blonde hair'
…also seem to pair up.
A key question is what the narrator means by 'Wake up'. Does he mean 'please see sense' or literally to stop sleeping? If the two songs are paired, it might feel like the second interpretation is more likely, simply she is sleeping. But why then say 'come back'? She is either there or she isn't. The dark interpretation I made (back in 1992!) was that she has been killed and that 'wake up, come back' means 'come back to life'… the narrator can't accept she is dead.
'When you sleep tomorrow And it won't be long'
…hence the title 'Soon'. Long term fans of the band know what MBV mean by 'soon'. When you say it's going to happen soon, when exactly do you mean?
It was interesting (for me, anyway) to see that the first song on the album MBV, 20 years later was called 'She Found Now' and this song lyrically seems to follow up questions raised by Soon:
'You come home You come back and see I woke up
I wonder how that you find out You wonder how that you found out
You could You could You could'