| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Signed up JUST to comment on this song! ;) To me, this song is about a life left and a new beginning for a new one. The song speaks to me through the eyes of a child who as been stripped away from a life and brought to a new unrecognizable place filled with memories of another family. "Where are we? What the hell is going on?" - Just arrived at the new house, still can't believe what's going on, that they left a life and are starting a new... "The dust has only just began to fall / Crop circles in the carpet" - The previous family have left not to long ago (from the dust that has just started to settle), but have lived there a long time, so long that the furniture has left imprints in the carpet... "Hide and seek / trains and sewing machines" - Hide and seek symbolizes the hiding from the new life as well as seeking out to begin it... or possibly, what we did as kids in a new place... seeking out the hidden cracks and cubby holes and hiding. Trains and sewing machines; trains being how they arrived, and sewing machines, not in the literal sense but "fixing" machines that will attempt to repair the old life they once lived. "All those years / They were here first" - All those years they lived here before "Oily marks appear on walls / Where pleasure moments hung before" - Again, evidence of a life lived here before in the house... "The takeover / The sweeping insensitivity of this" - this speaks of the takeover of the house and how insensitive it is that one can just strip another of a life once lived in a house filled with so many memories... "Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm, That you only meant well / Well of course you did / Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm, That it's all for the best / Of course it is Mmm, What'd you say? Mmm, That it's just what we need / You decided this" - This is expressing that the child never wanted to leave and that the parents made all the decisions without thinking about how the child would feel... anyhoo, I didn't mean for this to drag on... just thought I'd express my two cents. I guess this song touched me this way because I went through this and the sinking feeling she speaks of is exactly how I felt and that I didn't feel my folks cared about how I felt at all. Funny how songs can tell the story of our lives so sweetly sometimes... Cheers |
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