Lyrics for Hints as interpreted by mrpeachum

Hints Lyrics
While the crowd is waiting for the final kiss
The one which allows them to sleep well
We walk along a wrong path
The one which will lead us to a wrong place

We need hints
Before we get tired
But we need hints
Before we get tired

Now we need hints before we lose pace
We need a hint to know we're on the right track

We need hints
Before we get tired
We need hints
Before we get tired

Now we need speed before we lose pace
We need a hint to know we're on the right track

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un_intended
03-29-2006

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Can't believe there's no comments on this. I think it's gorgeous. I'm not sure what it means but I love it.

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CrayonDrawnCat
04-05-2006

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this is one of my favorite songs on the album, his voice has a completely tone on this song. it still has that same haunting quality, but its nice to hear the full capacity of his voice.

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replica8715
05-02-2006

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this might be wrong but i've always thought of it as needing a 'hint' from God to know that 'we're on the right track' and that he really exists 'before we get tired' i.e. lose faith and give up?
I think the first stanza might be referring to all the people who have lost faith and turn to other things 'which allow them to sleep well' and the 'wrong path' is all the wrong places we look for hope or some way to get by...? I'm not an ardent Christian or anything but it's just what the lyrics suggest

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Mortonium Ice
05-18-2006

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I reckon you might be on to something Replica, the final kiss could be Judas kissing Jesus and betraying him. Jesus made some people feel uneasy, right or wrong. They wanted him gone. This was the wrong thing to do. The wrong path etc...
thus, I love you.

often.

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Bearded
06-09-2006

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I know this isn't a lyric comment, but this is probably one of the most difficult song to play on the guitar I know. And clearly the hardest on this album.

Very good number.

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PeachyKeen
11-21-2006

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i didnt see a religious theme in this song at all. to me it describes when your 'getting intimate' with someone. how you need a hint to whether the other person wants the same thing you do. i like how it changes from 'we need hints before we get tired' to 'we need speed before we get tired', or maybe i just have a dirty mind.

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ranger101
02-13-2007

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"While the crowd is waiting for the final kiss
The one which allows them to sleep well"

Like the end of a movie - the happy ending in a fantasy setting e.g. play/movie etc.

"We walk along a wrong path..."

It's happy endings of what we see or what we want, and the relative ease that always seems to be the case in movies and dramas, versus what real life is like.

This song to me sounds like it's like a cry for help, or atleast a need for acknowledgment in a period of pain/growth. If we don't get that, if there's no respite in the pain, then we give up and become the crowd waiting for the final kiss, just so we can sleep well hoping that some day that this will happen to us, instead of us making it happen.

This is a song of the ideal (2 lines) versus the real (14 lines) hard work needed for life/relationships/desires to be fulfilled.

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freedomishonesty
11-19-2007

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We are all here on Earth, until the kiss of death allows us to sleep forever. We live a wordly existence, heading down a path shrowded in darkness, towards a sure end. We need help along the way. We need encouragement to stay motivated. We need someone to guide us in our decisions, example-setters and advice-givers.

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freedomishonesty
11-19-2007

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We are all here on Earth, until the kiss of death allows us to sleep forever. We live a wordly existence, heading down a path shrowded in darkness, towards a sure end. We need help along the way. We need encouragement to stay motivated. We need someone to guide us in our decisions, example-setters and advice-givers.

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comeonsteven
08-10-2008

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According to the artist himself, you'll all correct!! I personally asked José González himself what this song is about (Toronto, November 2006), and he replied "It's open for personal interpretation."

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thoushallnotfall
09-19-2009

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I find that Jose, in his beautiful but exhausted and mumbly voice, seems to intentionally make his lyrics difficult to hear/ understand- i always assumed he wanted to leave certain words ambiguous, so that listeners can interpret them in their own ways. By the same vein, I figured that's why the lyrics themselves are so vague.

When I first listened to this song, I heard "hints" as "hits". The desperate urgency of the music itself, coupled with, what I heard as:

"we need hits
before we get tired
but we need hits
before we get tired
now we need speed
before we loose pace
now we need a hit to know we're on the right track"

led me to believe this was a song about his desperate need to keep going. With drugs. Eh?

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beezybeast
11-04-2009

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Why would the song be called HINTS if he was saying hits???

When i first heard the start of this song i instantly thought about
a shakespearean play plus the first word i hear is...
WELL the crowd is waiting for the final kiss,
the one which allows them to sleep well...

This is epic one way or the other,
especially the studio version where he drums on the guitar...

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