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I accidentally touched my head
And noticed that I had been bleeding
For how long I didn't know
What was this, I thought, that struck me?
What kind of weapons have they got?
The softest bullet ever shot?
I stood up and I said yeah!
I stood up and I said yeah!
I stood up and I said hey yeah, yeah, yeah!
From this moment on
Playing like a trumpet
Coming from a bus
Someone to love
From the confidence of knowing
Struggle to believe us
Struggle to believe it's so
I stood up and I said yeah!
I stood up and I said yeah!
I stood up and I said hey yeah, yeah, yeah!
And it seemed to cause a chain reaction
It had momentum, it was gaining traction
It was all the rage, it was all the fashion
The outreached hands had resigned themselves to
Holding on to something that they never had
And that's too bad
Cause in reality there was no reaction
I accidentally touched my head
And noticed that I had been bleeding
For how long I didn't know
And noticed that I had been bleeding
For how long I didn't know
What was this, I thought, that struck me?
What kind of weapons have they got?
The softest bullet ever shot?
I stood up and I said yeah!
I stood up and I said yeah!
I stood up and I said hey yeah, yeah, yeah!
From this moment on
Playing like a trumpet
Coming from a bus
Someone to love
From the confidence of knowing
Struggle to believe us
Struggle to believe it's so
I stood up and I said yeah!
I stood up and I said yeah!
I stood up and I said hey yeah, yeah, yeah!
And it seemed to cause a chain reaction
It had momentum, it was gaining traction
It was all the rage, it was all the fashion
The outreached hands had resigned themselves to
Holding on to something that they never had
And that's too bad
Cause in reality there was no reaction
I accidentally touched my head
And noticed that I had been bleeding
For how long I didn't know
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Noticing that you're not as fulfilled as you could be. Wondering how long you've actually felt this way, and who/what exactly caused you to accept it as reality, instead of fighting for who you are or what you want.
"From this moment on..."
Deciding that from that point forward, you're going to live your life knowing that you should "stand up and say 'Yeah!'." Life is worth living, not necessarily because there is or isn't some kind of magical force holding it all together, but because you've experienced something that makes your life feel worth living, now, in the present moment. You're not living to get into heaven or avoid hell, you're not living to glorify some kind of invisible parent figure, you're not living to repent of your past sins or transgressions, you're living your life to the fullest because IT IS WORTH LIVING, RIGHT NOW.
"And it seemed to cause a chain reaction..."
Everyone seems to appreciate the act of "standing up and saying 'Yeah!'," but in reality, they're not reacting to him at all. They've "resigned themselves to holding onto something that they've never had," i.e. a REAL spiritual experience. Since they've never had a REAL spiritual experience, they have to hold on to something prescribed for them by their church/temple/mosque etc., which is CALLED a spiritual experience by the members of the church/temple/mosque, but is actually suppressing the real human spirit, which is by nature very celebratory and socially inclined.
Instead of "standing up and saying 'Yeah!'" to the human spirit/experience/condition, they're holding on to something masquerading as real life, but in their ignorance, they think they've got the real thing. This is "too bad," because as long as they hold on to that simulacrum, they'll never hold the reality of human existence, only low-grade copies of the real thing, created by people who have never actually held (or even seen) the real thing.
"I accidentally touched my head..." (second time)
Realizing that you've probably ALWAYS known that most people don't ever have a real spiritual experience. This was most likely what caused you not feel as fulfilled as you could be to begin with. It's a vicious cycle. In the end, the answer is to stand up and say Yeah!, regardless of how many people are joining in with you, regardless of how many truly understand why you're standing up at all.
Your life is worth living, right now. Let the dead bury their own.
Many people have seen television evangelists/any evangelist say, "Are you sad/depressed? Do you feel there is something missing in your life? Don't know where you are going in life?" Basically exploiting people's emotions. I think this is the bullet that struck Wayne, and when he touches his head he realizes he has felt this way for awhile but doesn't know exactly how long.
So he joins up with this group/religion and gets excited and euphoric about the whole thing, talking about heaven and hell (Coming from above us / And somewhere below) and the idea that you can know instead of guess that there is a heaven/after life.
Then he goes on to an evangelical phase in his spiritual life where he tries to spread this experience, but somewhere along the line he realizes that all of this is just phony stuff and the group/religion is holding on to something that isn't real.
The last stanza to me completely different from the first. Without the last three lines, to me it is saying that he realizes again that what originally got him into religion is true, that he is sad/depressed/scared of death/whatever, but this time he doesn't have religion to hold on to. The reality that these groups and the belief in god really don't heal these wounds but maybe only allow you to ignore them.
One question: what caused his pimple-popping expedition to create such an extraordinary reaction?
...cause when I pop MY pimples...