Light globes wash up all along the beach
And they light me up with, and they light me up with certainty
But you calculate coincidence, and circumstance and turbulence
Gotta see what it is, and it’s everything, and it’s endless

'Cos baby can’t see through all this matter and make up and déjà vu
Yeah we drift here alone, with nothing to do
Until one of us makes the other one come true

She wants to meet her fate, but travel by free will
But you can’t have both and you can’t stand still, still, still
I’ll be the luckiest man in the universe if cause and effect doesn’t get there first
But she keeps looking for patterns and the world just happens

'Cos baby can’t see through all this matter and make up and déjà vu
Yeah we drift here alone with nothing to do
Until one of us makes the other one come true
Yeah one of us makes the other one come true

Yeah 'cos baby can’t see through, through all this matter and make up and déjà vu
Yeah we drift here alone, we drift here alone
Yeah we drift here alone, we drift here alone
Yeah we drift here alone with nothing to do
Until one of us makes the other one come true
Yeah one of us makes the other one come true
She said these questions don’t answer like other questions do
So just let me be here with you



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    General Comment:empire87
    3 years for a reply eh? haha
    To me these lines pretty much set the mood for the song. As in seeking reassurances through the notion of fate and all divinities or are we the true masters of our destiny? The light globes for me are about the relationship between moon and the waters rippling effect. This is abstractly reassuring as its like saying this is the way it is, always has been, always will be. Time and tide wait for no man. Bah, I fall victim to my own inarticulacy. Bollocks...




    [My Random Nothings...]
    Flag thesolemnhypnoticon August 07, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:when he says light globes wash up all along the beach, i think thats more like imagery than a metaphore, like it makes me think of a hurricane on an island and strolling along the beach a few days after that, and all the wreckage and shop fronts and light globes along a string of electrical wires. but thats just me
    Flag will752on April 10, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think it's about someone analyising a relationship too much and not going with the flow.

    'But she keeps looking for patterns and the world just happens'

    ie. He's waiting for her to sort herself out, and he sees She's complicating things,

    'I�ll be the luckiest man in the universe if cause and effect doesn�t get there first'

    and someone needs to brave enough to commit to make it work...

    'you can�t stand still, still, still''

    'Until one of us makes the other one come true'

    Finally,

    'She said these questions don�t answer like other questions do
    So just let me be here with you'

    She's realising she's not going to get any concrete guarantees and she'll never be sure of where she's going

    He says, that's ok, let's just work it through together.


    Flag Pikeyon March 05, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I agree with EmotionSickness13, got some good ideas there.

    Awesome song
    Flag Christine.on February 28, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:this is a pretty good song which makes not much sense to me
    Flag *nemelcy*on November 19, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:This song seems to be about a girl, & she keeps trying to figure everything out. She needs to find reasons for every little thing, coincedence & 'deja vu'. She can't accept that things don't work in patterns, & that "the world just happens".
    Flag EmotionSickness13on April 30, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Not so much for the lyrics, but that music...

    Gives me chills.
    Flag big timmyon March 22, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:the general meaning of this song is pretty clear but i always wonder what is meant by the first two lines.
    'light globes wash up all along the beach, and they light me up with, and they light me up with certainty'.
    i think it's just a really abstract way to explain a lonely walk on the beach where you're thinking about stuff. you know in cartoons and stuff a light globe symolises an idea coming to someone?
    'light globes wash up all along the beach' must just mean he's thinking while walking and ideas and theories are coming to him, and 'they light me up with certainty' must just mean he's more enlightened now because he's spending time thinking things through.
    anyway that's just my little ramble, does anyone agree?
    Flag empire87on August 28, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:I am a mad SFK fan, and I have to say this song is not one of their strong points...
    Maybe its just because all the dipshits I know that wouldn't appreaicate them like it. After this single was released heaps of mainstrmers bought their album...
    Flag Jordoon August 15, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:i saw them a few years back at a BDO and they were a little dissapointing but then i saw a paul dempsey solo show and it was awesome
    Flag Dressed2Depresson February 25, 2006   Link

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