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Let's get drunk
You can drive us to the harbor
Wish upon a star but
Do you know what stars are?
Balls of fire, burning up the black space
Falling from the landscape
Exploding in the face of God
Let's get crazy,
Talk about our big plans
Places that you're going
Places that I haven't been
Build my walls up
Concrete castle
Keep this kingdom free of hassle, yeah
Yeah
Yeah
I hear sound echo in the emptiness
All around but you can't change this loneliness
Look what you've found, I've fallen down
Taste the saline rolling down your cheekbone
Tell me that you're alone, tell me on the telephone
Feel your heart it breaks within your chest now
Try to get some rest now, sleeps not coming easy for a while, child
Child, yeah
I hear sound echo in the emptiness
All around but you can't change this loneliness
Look what you've found, I've fallen down
Down, down
Down, down
I hear sound echo in the emptiness
All around but you can't change this loneliness
Look what you've found, I've fallen down
Look at what you've found, I'm falling down
Look at what you've found, I'm falling down
You can drive us to the harbor
Wish upon a star but
Do you know what stars are?
Balls of fire, burning up the black space
Falling from the landscape
Exploding in the face of God
Let's get crazy,
Talk about our big plans
Places that you're going
Places that I haven't been
Build my walls up
Concrete castle
Keep this kingdom free of hassle, yeah
Yeah
Yeah
I hear sound echo in the emptiness
All around but you can't change this loneliness
Look what you've found, I've fallen down
Taste the saline rolling down your cheekbone
Tell me that you're alone, tell me on the telephone
Feel your heart it breaks within your chest now
Try to get some rest now, sleeps not coming easy for a while, child
Child, yeah
I hear sound echo in the emptiness
All around but you can't change this loneliness
Look what you've found, I've fallen down
Down, down
Down, down
I hear sound echo in the emptiness
All around but you can't change this loneliness
Look what you've found, I've fallen down
Look at what you've found, I'm falling down
Look at what you've found, I'm falling down
Lyrics submitted by prayingmantis84
Track duration: 03:35
"Down" as written by Michael/williams More
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Let's get drunk
You can drive us to the harbor
Wish upon a star but
Do you know what stars are?
- i don't really know how to explain this. she sees something as bing beautiful and mysterious, and he ruins it by telling her that they're just fire balls.
he's breaking up with her, but he's doing it gently.
and it seems like it actually makes it more painful and hard for her.
Taste the saline rolling down your cheekbone
- she's crying, obviously.
Tell me that you're alone, tell me on the telephone
- he wants to hear that she hasn't moved on yet
Feel your heart it breaks within your chest now
- she's heartbroken
Try to get some rest now,
Sleep's not coming easy for a while, child
- having a hard time falling aslepe, because she's so upset
I feel infinite when I listen to it... especially the beginning.
"Let's get drunk, you can drive us to the harbor..." makes me think of friends and all of the spontanaiety that comes with being young, and able to act on an impulse and just go have fun for a night, and block out every care or worry in the world.
Yea, that "wish upon a star, but do you know what stars are" has a bit of bitterness in it-- I see that after reading through everyone else's commentary-- but I think it can be interpreted as the kind of spiteful that comes with being young and carefree as well.
"Balls of fire burning up the black space, falling from the landscape, exploding in the face of God"...
I see bright yellow balls of fire illuminating a black, dark, space, as if to fill it somehow, or dress it up. I see a GOOD kind of explosion. Like a way a mischevous teenager would brag about doing something slighlty off color (not a terrible life altering deed, but you know, something a bit daring), one of those "haha look at me, I'm invincible" moments.
"Let's get crazy, talk about our big plans, places that you're going, places that I haven't been." I sense that same "I'm invincible" tone in this too. It's like they're living in the moment, acknowledging what's to come, but not letting it bog them down-- I see it as them joking about the future.
For this reason, I think this is an amazing graduation song. A happy one, though. It's a song to play and listen to during that summer after you graduate high school, right before you go away to college... when you're living in the moment and making the most of time that you have left to spend with your high school buddies. You know you're gonna have to grow up, you know that time is coming... but at the same time, it seems like it's a galaxy away.
"I hear sound echo in the emptiness" -- I don't see this as a BAD thing. I see it as a postive thing... even though the singer feels lonely, he hears sound. There's still SOMEthing there, there's still a memory to cling to. Yes, definately, I think that he is missing someone. But he can still sense them, and that is okay. To me, when he says ,"Look what you found, I've fallen down" it's like he is saying "I've fallen back to memories... memories in which I've felt infinite."
The next verse is the saddest. But yet, it still somehow comforts me. I'm not sure why... I guess I get the impression that the "you" he is singing to/about, misses him too, but that it isn't a depressed kind of missing eachother. I see it more as a "homesick" feeling... temporary. They still are close, and they still have their memories of togetherness. They might want to be back there in that moment for a little while, maybe that's why there's crying? But they're communicating, so that tells me they are just as close. Missing eachother, but the happy kind of missing eachother. They will see eachother again, and make more happy memories.
andrew went to my highschool and i've been to the harbor he is talking about :)
i go jogging there every day
kind of cool
Tell me that you're alone, tell me on the telephone
Feel your heart it breaks within your chest now
Try to get some rest now,
Sleep's not coming easy for a while, child
so.co nevers fails to write the BEST lyrics ever