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Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Murderers, you're murderers
We are not the same as you
Genie let out of the bottle
Funny how, funny how
When the walls bend, when the walls bend
With your breathing, with your breathing
When the walls bend, when the walls bend
With your breathing, with your breathing
With your breathing
They will suck you down to the other side x4
To the shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells, your alarm bells
Shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells, your alarm bells
They should be ringing x12
This is the gloaming
Shadows blue and red
Shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells
Shadows blue and red
Shadows blue and red
We're alarming
We're alarming
And the walls bend, and the walls bend
With your breathing, with your breathing
And the walls bend, and the walls bend
What is he doin' what is he doin'
This is the gloaming [Repeat: x 4]
This is the
It is now the witching hour
Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Murderers, you're murderers
We are not the same as you
Genie let out of the bottle
Funny how, funny how
When the walls bend, when the walls bend
With your breathing, with your breathing
When the walls bend, when the walls bend
With your breathing, with your breathing
With your breathing
They will suck you down to the other side x4
To the shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells, your alarm bells
Shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells, your alarm bells
They should be ringing x12
This is the gloaming
Shadows blue and red
Shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells
Shadows blue and red
Shadows blue and red
We're alarming
We're alarming
And the walls bend, and the walls bend
With your breathing, with your breathing
And the walls bend, and the walls bend
What is he doin' what is he doin'
This is the gloaming [Repeat: x 4]
This is the
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No surprises, to me, is about giving up on changing the world ("I'll take a quiet life... with no alarms..."). Giving up putting the world to rights so you can have your own "pretty house" and "pretty garden".
Compare that to this song ("they will such you down to the other side... your alarm bells should be ringing")
To me this song is about standing up for what's right. MLK Jr. puts it elegantly: "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."
haha.
to me this song is very spiritual and brought to the surface childhood experiences i had in the dark, thinking about how big the world is, and if there is another realm out there operating at the same time.
so.. back to times in my room as a young kid, and i would see this spiral of electricity. moving after images. almost like it was drawing my soul or spirit out into the void of something much greater than i was.
this song would be the artistic expression of these experiences that climaxed in my teen years. i would press in deeper in this void and have seen shit that you wouldn't believe if i told you.
the phrase in the song i would like to expound on is "they will suck you down to the other side, shadows blue and red" it is a scientific fact that when you gaze into the void blackness, small pixilated images appear. you can see them with your eyes open in a completely pitch black room. these are called afterimages. similar to what you would see if you glanced at the sun and shut your eyes - you would see a reverse negative circle that would be a blue/purple/red colour. shadows blue and red.. to any one looking for these with a clear mind, they are just scattered and meaningless. it is my own belief that many people have had this intimate experience on multiple occasions... and that if you could read the stories of these experiences, they would reflect whether the person has a lot of evil and is connected with the occult or if the person has a desire for goodness and is curious about the 'light' side of the supernatural.
now whether or not thom wrote the song about the same tunnel or portal into the spiritual realm.. uhh.. i dunno.
<3 this song!