This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I heard a word from on high
Glare like a light in the sky it said
"quit blowing each other up"
A voicing so crystalline clear so
Somethings unclear in your ear
When only blood will fill your cup
Hello I'm trying to focus
But my eyes deceive me
Focus I'm witnessing history, repeating
It fell like a tear from my eye
Flying machine so up high well,
There goes the neighborgood
A scene set to singe innocence
Up heave unhinge and pit against
Like every made for TV should
Hello I'm trying to focus
But my eyes deceive me
Focus I'm witnessing history, repeating
Focus
We are
We know
We see
We think
For you
The who
The what
The when
The where
The why
We build your young
We built you too
Wee see you all
Hello I'm trying to focus
But my eyes deceive me
Focus I'm witnessing history, repeating
Glare like a light in the sky it said
"quit blowing each other up"
A voicing so crystalline clear so
Somethings unclear in your ear
When only blood will fill your cup
Hello I'm trying to focus
But my eyes deceive me
Focus I'm witnessing history, repeating
It fell like a tear from my eye
Flying machine so up high well,
There goes the neighborgood
A scene set to singe innocence
Up heave unhinge and pit against
Like every made for TV should
Hello I'm trying to focus
But my eyes deceive me
Focus I'm witnessing history, repeating
Focus
We are
We know
We see
We think
For you
The who
The what
The when
The where
The why
We build your young
We built you too
Wee see you all
Hello I'm trying to focus
But my eyes deceive me
Focus I'm witnessing history, repeating
Lyrics submitted by prayingmantis84
Made for TV Movie Lyrics as written by Brandon Boyd Ben Kenney
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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The Night We Met
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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,
No Surprises
Radiohead
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Just A Little Lovin'
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
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:
"'Just a Little Lovin’ is a timeless country song originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1954. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives." https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-just-a-little-lovin-by-eddy-arnold/
Magical
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How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
maybe because today we see real wars on tv as if they were movies, hence the name of the song. "Im witnessing history repeating" because its hapenning today like it has happened before (Vietnam).
Um... somehow this song got put up twice...
Sorry...
Kind of obvious, isn't it?
Anti-war, all the way.
I needn't say a thing, the lyrics speak for themselves.
Totally agree with AzWeThinkIam- anti-war, anti-iraq, and putting forward the similarities betwen 'nam and Iraq. Its kinda the same message as Rage's "No Shelter," with the lyric "Thin line between entertainment and war."
We see everything going on in the world the way the media wants to show it.
I actually used this as inspiration for a poem I had to write for english class. A great song & I agree completely. Anti-war.
you all got it down, antiwar, just like me, makes me love incubus that much more, great song
Latest incubus album is incredible, I really see a parrelel to the late 60s how music is progressing politically. Give musicians the right climate and they can make amazing songs about society. Way to go Incubus. I am a fan for life now.
Well i definitely think war is part of it, but i dont think that its exclusively about that. i think he is also referring to the awesome power of the media (like in Talk Shows on Mute) - 'we think for you, we built your young' (BTW "we build your hill" should be "we built your young" which makes much more sense doesnt it?) the media is so all-corrupting and distorts everything we see or read; history is repeating and we are all passively sitting by and letting it happen, because the media makes it so hard to 'focus'.
people with too much power deciding whats right for someone else and using force - the depressing reallity that mankind is still blowing itself up and we mightnever have new skin...
I personally think that this song is anti-murder, anti-killing, however you want to word it. It is an awesome song also.