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First with your hands, then with your mouth
A downpour of sweat, damp cotton clouds
I was a fool, you were my friend
We made it happen
You took off your clothes, left on the light
You stood there so brave, you used to be shy
Each feature improved, each movement refined
And eyes like a showroom
Now they're spreading out the blankets on the beach
That weatherman's a liar, he said it'd be raining
But it's clear and blue as far as I can see
Left by the lamp, right next to the bed
On a cartoon cat pad, she scrached with a pen:
"Everything as it's always been, this never happened
Don't take it too bad, it's nothing you did
Just once something dies, you can't make it live
You're a beautiful boy, you're a sweet little kid
But I am a woman"
So I laid back down, wrapped myself up in the sheets
And I must have looked like a ghost
Because something frightened me
And since then I've been so good at vanishing
Now I do as I please, and I lie through my teeth
Someone might get hurt, but it won't be me
Should probably feel cheap, but I just feel free
And a little bit empty
No, it isn't so hard to get close to me
There'll be no arguments, we'll always agree
And I'll try to be kind when I ask you to leave
We'll both take it easy
If you stay to long inside my memory
I will trap you in a song tied to a melody
And I'll keep you there so that you can't bother me
A downpour of sweat, damp cotton clouds
I was a fool, you were my friend
We made it happen
You took off your clothes, left on the light
You stood there so brave, you used to be shy
Each feature improved, each movement refined
And eyes like a showroom
Now they're spreading out the blankets on the beach
That weatherman's a liar, he said it'd be raining
But it's clear and blue as far as I can see
Left by the lamp, right next to the bed
On a cartoon cat pad, she scrached with a pen:
"Everything as it's always been, this never happened
Don't take it too bad, it's nothing you did
Just once something dies, you can't make it live
You're a beautiful boy, you're a sweet little kid
But I am a woman"
So I laid back down, wrapped myself up in the sheets
And I must have looked like a ghost
Because something frightened me
And since then I've been so good at vanishing
Now I do as I please, and I lie through my teeth
Someone might get hurt, but it won't be me
Should probably feel cheap, but I just feel free
And a little bit empty
No, it isn't so hard to get close to me
There'll be no arguments, we'll always agree
And I'll try to be kind when I ask you to leave
We'll both take it easy
If you stay to long inside my memory
I will trap you in a song tied to a melody
And I'll keep you there so that you can't bother me
Lyrics submitted by i rock
Track duration: 03:20
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{ First with your hands, then with your mouth
A downpour of sweat, damp cotton clouds
I was a fool, you were my friend
We made it happen }
The next verse gets more interesting as the narrator continues to recount the events.. However, he again does it in a way that places himself back in time to when the events were happening, and even re-imagines her existence in front of him "YOU took off your clothes". He may be realizing things about the event as he is recounting it, as he makes it a point to say that she left on the light. This is evidence for the second line of the verse stating her metamorphosis from a shy person to a brave person.. And this metamorphosis I believe he really enjoys, because he goes on to say that it is a marked "improvement" and that her movements are now "refined".. Unfortunately, the sad foreshadowing is in the final line that simply states "And eyes like a showroom". Like a showroom, he is able to see and experience a little of the new, improved her.. but the showroom is just that: a place of temporary residence for one's viewing pleasure. Real relationships are not showrooms.
{ You took off your clothes, left on the light
You stood there so brave, you used to be shy
Each feature improved, each movement refined
And eyes like a showroom }
This is the rising action of the song :) I particularly like this one because the narrator COMPLETELy detaches himself from the events. Notice in the first line how he has shifted from 2nd person and 1st person vantage point, to the 3rd: "Now THEY'RE spreading". At this point, the narrator is viewing his life together with her and not seeing a damn thing wrong. The beach is probably symbolic of changing tides and uncertainty.. the weatherman could be anyone from people outside the relationship commenting inward, to the woman herself, saying the relationship-jumpstart is not going to work (said it would be raining). The irony here is rain, as a symbol for rejuvenation, would be a GOOD thing! In the previous verse, the narrator is really happy with the new, improved her and is thus happy with their coming together again, so he sees no problem… On his end (clear and blue as far as I can see).
{ Now they're spreading out the blankets on the beach
That weatherman's a liar, he said it'd be raining
But it's clear and blue as far as I can see }
This… this part of the song is just a gut-wrencher, especially for the narrator. Where they came back together (first verse), in FULL light right next to the lamp that she (purposefully?) left on earlier, completely spelled out for him, she basically takes a two-by-four and rams it through his heart. Almost like an adult stepping on a little kids dreams of being an astronaut, she comes out and calls him a "boy" and a "sweet little kid", and tells him he did not do anything wrong, but that he is not what she wants. At least not anymore :(
The relationship they had that was alive at one point before.. it is over. She just is not feeling it anymore, and it is dead. Her reason is plain-ish as day…ish, in the third line "Everything as it's always been". He was happy with her change, but she probably feels that the reasons why they broke up before are still there in relationship they are in now. The worst thing about it is.. she may be claiming to be a "woman" who has outgrown(?) him.. but she "scratched" that shit on a "cartoon cat pad"? WTF. She took no care to write it well ("scratched") or even on a decent medium ("cartoon cat pad"), so that calls in to question whether she really has grown up or not.. If she thinks she is better than him because she is a woman, that would make it even worse, because she would be leaving him for a reason that isn't even true.
The last two lines are evidence that she has not really grown up, in that if she really WAS a woman, she would not have wrote it in such a condescending way.. she would have been much more compassionate and caring in the way she went about ending it, because she would have that innate understanding that people are delicate things. The worst part about this is she tries to tell him to forget that it ever happened ("this never happened"). Yeah, she is really a woman, right. We are the things we do, the thoughts we have, and the sum of our given experiences.
{ Left by the lamp, right next to the bed
On a cartoon cat pad, she scrached with a pen:
"Everything as it's always been, this never happened
Don't take it too bad, it's nothing you did
Just once something dies, you can't make it live
You're a beautiful boy, you're a sweet little kid
But I am a woman" }
If anyone wants me to do the second half, I will gladly do it.. the first half of this song is mad deep.
Someone might get hurt, but it won't be me
Should probably feel cheap, but I just feel free
And a little bit empty
"
DAMN! i was thinking of my top 5 fav bright eyes songs...
this isnt one of them. but i was debating it for sure. so hard to choose.
and.. its about him having a wonderful relationship, but being afraid to get hurt, he is expressing his intimacy issues. by not investing feeling he wont get hurt.
To me, this song is about a young guy that is friends with an older woman and one night things went too far and when the woman woke up the next day she realized it was a mistake. It meant a lot more to him than it did to her. It ultimately ruined them and broke his heart so he decided to try and be heartless after that, not letting anyone close enough to screw him over again. Great song.
"they're spreading blankets in the beach"
is also in the song First Day of my life. I listened to that song first so had no idea until I listened to this song and, with DeeKofsky's help, cleared it up. :)
to me it's about losing a love and being turned into stone or something because of this. after losing something you found to be so real and deep and seeing how it really didn't mean everything you thought it did you toughen yourself up so that you don't have to feel this pain again.
"So I laid back down, wrapped myself up in the sheets
And I must have looked like a ghost
Because something frightened me
And since then I've been so good at vanishing"
-that (in my opinion) is him after the first shock, or realization, of the love he felt being a lie or not being real. he's been good at vanishing, as in he's been good at not feeling anymore making it easy for him to deal with relationships.
"Now I do as I please, and I lie through my teeth
Someone might get hurt, but it won't be me
Should probably feel cheap, but I just feel free
And a little bit empty"
-i think that this is how you feel when you turn your heart into stone and build walls in order to avoid the pain you felt before. but as he said, it leaves you feeling sort of empty in the end because to be able to deal with the pain of relationships, you have to give up the good feeling of them too.
"No, it isn't so hard to get close to me
There'll be no arguments, we'll always agree
And I'll try to be kind when I ask you to leave
We'll both take it easy"
-we'll both take it easy is basically not getting too close, ending anything you might feel before it really starts.