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I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images
And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
That God Himself did make
Us into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay
And true it may seem like a stretch
But it's thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
And when I am missing you to death
And when you are out there on the road
For several weeks of shows
And when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now" they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now" but we'll stay
I tried my best to leave
This all on your machine
But the persistent beat
It sounded thin upon the sending
And that frankly will not fly
You'll hear the shrillest highs
And lowest lows with the windows down
And this is guiding you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now" they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now" but we'll stay
They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now" they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now" but we'll stay
(They will see us waving from such great heights)
(Come down now)
They will see us waving from such great heights
(Come down now)
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images
And when we kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
That God Himself did make
Us into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay
And true it may seem like a stretch
But it's thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
And when I am missing you to death
And when you are out there on the road
For several weeks of shows
And when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now" they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now" but we'll stay
I tried my best to leave
This all on your machine
But the persistent beat
It sounded thin upon the sending
And that frankly will not fly
You'll hear the shrillest highs
And lowest lows with the windows down
And this is guiding you home
They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now" they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now" but we'll stay
They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now" they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now" but we'll stay
(They will see us waving from such great heights)
(Come down now)
They will see us waving from such great heights
(Come down now)
Lyrics submitted by rjbucs28, edited by straightconcrete
Track duration: 04:26
"Such Great Heights" as written by Benjamin D Gibbard James Scott Tamborello
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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Ben and James would send each other material via "The Postal Service" and then work on it before sending the results back......
I tried my best to leave
This all on your machine
But the persistent beat
It sounded thin upon listening
And that frankly will not fly
You will hear the shrillest highs
And lowest lows with the windows down
When this is guiding you home.
So there is a parallel story of the song and the creation of the song and of the oneness of the characters in the song and the creators and the narrative tells you how The Postal Service came to be as a sub text.
The line about the radio reminds me of a guy I knew who's father was a very well know ballad singer in France. They had fallen out with each other and hadn't spoken for years, when he heard his dad's new song on the radio and realized he was singing about him and asking him to leave their issues behind and have a reconciliation.
Most of the song is the singer idealizing this long distance relationship, saying he wants her back, that he misses her so much, and that they're entirely perfect.
He makes this song for her, and he tries to sing it to her on her answering machine, but he makes the excuse that it won't sound right that way and doesn't want to.
And then the chorus. "They will see us waving from such great heights" gives the image of two people on separate mountaintops, trying to communicate to each other by waving.
Everyone else (or at least everyone else in the singers mind, like a pressure from society) thinks they should just get together instead of having this long distance relationship ("'Come down now', they'll say"), but as it goes on "But everything looks perfect from far away/'Come down now' but we'll stay". They know that their love won't meet up to their idealizations, and they'd rather awkwardly keep the fantasy going than find out they're not as in love as they thought they were.
I tried my best to leave this all on your machine but the persistent beep sounded thinly condescending. That frankly will not fly, you'll hear the shrillest highs, etc.
In other words, I couldn't tell you all this in a message because it's too clinical that way; we need to be interacting for real, hearing the emotion that doesn't come out in a recording.
I heard it was about that girl in rilo kiley or whatever the hell that band is called
but yeah, pretty song, i love ben's voice.
"I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images and when we kiss
They're perfectly aligned"----Talking about how he thinks that the relationship he is in is so perfect.
"And I have to speculate
That God himself did make us
Into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay"----furthermore talking about the perfection in their love.
"And true, it may seem like a stretch
But it's thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
When I am missing you to death"----could be how while he's at home, and his love is away, no matter what runs through his head, something always seems to reassure him if he's doubting her commitment to him, or any decision she makes will be the right one for THEM, and not just for her own selfish reasons while she's away.
"When you are out there on the road
For several weeks of shows
And when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home"----well, I take this the literal way. No metaphor in my view here. So as it says, she's out on the road for several weeks, and he writes this song, and hopes that when she hears it, she'll be reminded of him, and everything about them.
"They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now," they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now," but we'll stay . . ."----personally, I think this is beautiful. I think the lyrics "such great heights" are a reference to the feelings you get when you're in love, as mentioned by one of the fellow users above me. The feelings you get when you are in love are like no other. I have personally been in-love twice, and I'll tell you, the feelings are tremendous and un-like any other. So together, they're at "such great heights". I think when he sings "They will see us waving from such great heights, 'come down now,' they'll say" he is trying to say "friends, family, and everyone else will look at this love and try to tell us it's not good for us, to stop and break up.". But the 2nd part of the chorus says "But everything looks perfect from far away, 'Come down now,' but we'll stay" I think this means that, from afar, just looking at the couple may seem perfect. But everyone that was listed in part 1 of the chorus is trying to break them up, so they're trying to get into the personal shit of it all, and they're starting to see it's not "perfect" as they want it to seem from far away, out of everyones business. "'Come down now,' but we'll stay" . I think the "come down now" this time isn't from everyone in part two. I think it's the couple telling everyone to come down. Kinda telling them to fuck off and get out of their business, that they're in the way of their love for one another, and they'll stay up there in the heavenly high of love with another.
"I tried my best to leave
This all on your machine
But the persistent beat
It sounded thin upon listening"----I think while she was gone, he really missed her, and called her up to remind her how much he loved her..but she was gone on tour and busy.. so he left a voice mail on her machine.
"And that frankly will not fly
You will hear the shrillest highs
And lowest lows with the windows down
When this is guiding you home"----he thinks that while she's always busy away and won't be able to talk all the time.. he'll write this song. That way she can listen to it whenever. "You will hear the shrillest highs and lowest lows with the windows down, when this is guiding you home." shrillest highs and lowest lows would be vocals in a song. Hearing the song would be on the radio, as mentioned in verse one. A radio is most commonly found in a car, and a car's window's can be put down, as mentioned in this little second verse. So all in all, I think it's the feeling that he wrote the song to remind her that while she's out on the road doing whatever, know that he'll always love her no matter what comes between them, whether is be people or just life itself.
They will see us waving from such great heights
"Come down now," they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
"Come down now," but we'll stay . . . (chorus is explained above.)
and that's just my take on it.
I see 2 lovers young and in love, happy to be together, and nothing can bother them, no one. They're waving from such a great height, an airplane, and as the others want them to stop their joyride in the sky, the too say no, not caring what others think, because they are too in love to care..
I've been seeing this since middle school, and don't think the infinite reel will ever stop, its beautiful. :,)
That God himself did make us
Into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay
This part always reminds me of Paradise Lost (Which I remember only because it's the epigraph to Frankenstein):
"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?"
This song is perfect!