Lyrics for I'm Waking Up to Us as interpreted by michaelbondy

I'm Waking Up to Us Lyrics
I need someone to take some joy in something I do
You need a man who is either rich or loose in a screw
You know I love you, here's the irony
You're going to walk away intact
I think you never liked me anyway
You like yourself and you like men to kiss your arse
Expensive clothes, please stop me there
I think I'm waking up to us
We're a disaster
You don't want to know me
Because you move in circles of the brave
Where art defines their lives

She was the one love of my life, and I let her go
And if I look like death today
Then please let her know
I never wanted to do harm to her
I only wanted her to see
The beauty of the world surrounding her
But when she opened up her eyes

It's much too late
Our chance has gone
She's with a guy
Who takes the prize for everything I ever showed her
Digging all the fun
Because she's older
I fed her with a spoon
I made her mother smile
I helped the kid survive

She was the one love of my life
She showed me the road
I loved her dog, her steady gaze, the chapter is closed
I always wanted all the best for her
The best thing was to stay away
She grew up and she left the rest of us
And now the understanding's gone

I haven't changed, how could I?
I'm pretty much the same person
I cannot keep the anger hidden anymore
But lucky for you, you are not around
My anger turns to pity and to love
The season has arrived



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proxima
12-20-2005

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i heard a rumour this is about isobel campbell (founding b&s-member). anybody know what's up with that?

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DTO
03-11-2006

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stuart has said this was the only song he ever wrote for someone specifically, and it was in fact written about isobel.

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carollev
06-19-2006

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Well despite all the anger we hear this is a song for love, I felt it so surely and desparately and it turned my day into tears. Stuart seems to have never really recovered.

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yaywhoowee
06-30-2006

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seems like isobel wrote a song in response to this called "monologue for an old true love'

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delial
10-19-2006

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this song makes my heart hurt every time i listen to it. it makes me want to either throw myself on a fire, jump off a bridge, lay in front of a speeding train, fall out of a window, or climb a tall metal pole in a thunderstorm. interestingly enough, it's one of my most-often played songs! i guess i like to torture myself and dwell on memories of past failure. =P

musically, it's quite beautiful and the end bit becomes lilted and spring-like, which pleases me immensely. i really love how all of the instruments come together towards the end. the lyrics...man. i don't even know where to begin.

my favorite portions of the lyrics:

"you know I love you, here's the irony
you're going to walk away intact
I think you never liked me anyway,"

"I fed her with a spoon / I made her mother smile,"

... damn. i feel more pathetic with each song i realize i relate to. anyway, this reminds me of failed relationships i've had with people, be it romantic or friend-types. the relationship i relate this to the most though... yeah i'm still struggling with that right now. "THE SEASON HAS ARRIVED" sure, but I have no idea what that even brings.

*kicks a wall*

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paccy
05-30-2007

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the lyrics here are quite brilliant.

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shewouldnt
07-11-2007

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this is truly the story of my life.

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Nowrfl
02-24-2008

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Only 7 comments? This lyrics are like the best I've ever seen. Think so many can relate to them. I know I can.

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veritykindle85
08-28-2008

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I see this song as being both about Isobel leaving Stuart and about leaving Belle & Sebastian (in, at that time, a purely spiritual sense, since it would be another few months before her actual physical departure). "Because you move in circles of the brave / Where art defines their lives," "I only wanted her to see / The beauty of the world surrounding her / But when she opened up her eyes / It's much too late..." and "She grew up and she left the rest of us" [note the plural] really make me think the romantic and career issues are just all tangled up here. It seems that he's saying that *she's* saying she's grown, she's changed, she's a different person and a different musician from who she was when the band was founded, and she's ready to try new things, move on with her life -- without him, and without B&S. And *that* is why this might just be their finest song; so much meaning and emotion (and instrumentation!) packed into a little under 4 minutes.

And, yep, Isobel's "Monologue for an Old True Love" is very much a response to this -- it includes the lines "Talking so self-righteously / About everything you showed me, boy" and "Say you're angry now / I wonder why / You've got them round your little finger." I suspect she realized IWUtU's popularity...

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Mind
10-22-2009

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"I need someone to take some joy in something I do"

I think that's a very strong opening line, like bang, here's my point.

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devilsdaughter
02-24-2010

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I might make enemies with this comment, but Stuart sounds like my ex when he was whining in this song: you're supperficial for leaving me and i want you and everyone else to know how you distroyed me. Of course it may be all true... Love Belle and Sebastian either way.

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