I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Hey you, big star
Tell me when it's over (cloud)
Hey you, big mood, guide me to shelter
'Cause I'm through
When the two hits the six and it's summer (cloud)
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Aside (shove it aside)
I think God is moving its tongue
There's no crowds in the street
And no sun
In my own summer
The shade is a tool, a device, a savior
See, I try and look up to the sky
But my eyes burn (cloud)
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Aside (shove it aside)
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Aside (shove it aside)
I think God is moving its tongue
There's no crowd in the street
And no sun
In my own summer
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Aside (shove it aside)
Tell me when it's over (cloud)
Hey you, big mood, guide me to shelter
'Cause I'm through
When the two hits the six and it's summer (cloud)
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Aside (shove it aside)
I think God is moving its tongue
There's no crowds in the street
And no sun
In my own summer
The shade is a tool, a device, a savior
See, I try and look up to the sky
But my eyes burn (cloud)
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Aside (shove it aside)
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Aside (shove it aside)
I think God is moving its tongue
There's no crowd in the street
And no sun
In my own summer
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Aside (shove it aside)
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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Page
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There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
Plastic Bag
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“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
"My Own Summer" is the perfect world in where no one cares to see everything and be out and a part of the normal society. They'd rather be in the dark, and they wouldn't care about the way a person looked because they wouldn't see them. Everyone would get to know the real person before they were judged. And they also wouldn't be a part of this fake happiness that the sun symbolizes. They would find their own happiness by just being themselves. And if they tried to "look up" (do their own thing, be happy with themselves and set goals, etc.) the sun wouldn't be there to "burn" them and say that that isn't what they're supposed to do, and that it isn't right. In summary I guess the summer, the perfect world is one where everyone is equal and can do whatever they want to without getting criticized for it. And by the way...I think when the two hits the six means (going back to the clock thing) 6:30. Two hands are on the "6". And what happens around 6:30 in the summer? The sun rises. That's when Chino says he is through, and he wants to find shelter. That's when "summer" starts. Makes sense doesn't it? Hope it wasn't too bad...
im not sure if this is correct but i heard that the two hitting six was representing 2:30, which isnt that the point where the sun is highest in the sky in summer?
I interpreted 2 hits the six as 2:30 - which could mean when the sun is the highest, or when school gets out, i.e. the beginning of summer vacation.
I think your interpretation is spot on, although your guess may be just as good as mine. But nevertheless, I can see the theme here. The summer is a time of revealing mostly because people wear less clothes and such, he uses this as an allegory for people judging off of school and summer in general. People judge heavily on appearance in the summer, during winter months and autumn, people are in school and mostly focusing on intellect. The act of looking up at the light may be those who attempt to change or embrace the light may get burned, such as the form of being ruined by the ridicule of the people by basking in the "light" or attention. Perhaps somebody stands too long in the sun to attempt to look better, instead they get burned? This is why he asks for "big mood; guide me to shelter" to escape the light and hide for the summer.
@Sage865711916 This is written about me :D I'm not the guy of regular people, I better be alone. not only the meaning. I hate sunny days a lot, like right now :c when it's sunny i feel like nauseated or something like that.
@SOADeftool, @oxysean, 2:30 is definitely not the point when the sun is highest in the sky. That is the definition of noon, or more precisely solar noon.
These Deftones songs can have a lot of meanings ...here's one of them : it makes me thing of a person closed in himself , constructing his own world : no crowds on the streets , no sun... pretty autistic :P
I love the line "God is moving its tongue", but I think he means that God is the one tormenting everyone w/the heat. And b/c God is so powerful, just a move of his tongue can cause torment throughout the world. In other words, God's not using much effort, yet Chino is experiencing the harsh consequences. Its kinda like God could just move his tongue and it could be earthquakes across the earth, he could move his finger, and devastate the masses.. something like that. I like that fact that he uses "its" too. It demonstrates a certain unknown about God. We don't know what God is really like contrary to existing religions.
Yeah, and the "its" gives a sense of the inhuman and alien nature of the god of the world depicted in this song.
I think when he says that god is moving its tongue, he means god is mocking him about the heat, perhaps by sticking his tongue out at him.
'no sun' in my own summer. The sun is oftenly associated with happiness, because light is. Darkness is associated with sadness. No sun means dark, which makes me kinda think of depression when he says 'no sun' in my own summer. I hate summer....
"i think God is moving it's tongue" it may mean tongue as "language"
like, he thinks God is changing his way of expressing like, the world seems different now, to Chino
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I think that it's the rejection of god and the acceptance of a godless existence.
It's a Christ diss actually most of the band is wicca. they also diss the sun god minerva but they atone for it with minerva
I'm pretty sure this song is about albinism