All I do is sleep all day and think of you
A memory of the cushion life, I'm clinging to
The image of a mutual one, our haven
The somber chords of our song, the fading
Love is no big truth
Driven by our genes
We are simple selfish beings
A symphony that's you
Joyously awaking
The ignorant and sleeping

Passion and its brother hate, they come and go
Could easily be made to stay for longer, though
Many people play this game so willingly
Do I have to be like them, or be lonely?

Love is no big truth
Driven by our genes
We are simple selfish beings
A symphony that's you
Joyously awaking
The ignorant and sleeping

I'll never need it again, again, again
I'll never need it again, again, again
I'll never need it again, again, again
I'll never need it again, again, again
...


Lyrics submitted by ericaerica, edited by cbetanco7

Love Is No Big Truth Lyrics as written by Erlend Otre Oeye Eirik Glambek Boe

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  • +4
    General Comment

    "do I have to be like them, or be lonely?" --society revolves around love, and maybe it's not the big deal that everyone makes it out to be. it's no big truth, it's just our genes. so why should i be like the rest of the world just to escape lonliness?

    yellowstaron April 08, 2005   Link
  • +2
    General Comment

    He's in love but he's cautious. He understands that love exists because of actual biological reasons, that it's "no big truth".

    Love isn't as spectacular or magical as we have imagined or bought up believing it was.

    Imperialiston March 02, 2006   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    I love this song. I think he's trying to say that love isn't want we always imagined it to be. It's no big truth because it is hard and can be quite painful. Love has its amazing heights but you have to remember the lows as well.

    SomethingCleveron February 17, 2005   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    "Another view, of what there is to it. Getting me through it."

    that comes before "I'll never need it..."

    precipitateon February 20, 2005   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    my view- this is about somebody who just got out of a relationship and now feels sad. he takes on a new view of love to downplay what he lost, or to feel better until the love he still feels for them has faded.

    Love is no big truth love isn't as special as people think Driven by our genes, we are simple selfish beings love is just a product of our genes, we aren't capable of what people think love is

    nikolaion July 08, 2005   Link
  • +1
    My Interpretation

    This amazing song speaks to me as follows:

    The singer has broken up from a relationship that was very significant for him. In the first verse he describes working through a painful realization: that the promise of security the relationship offered to both parties was an illusion.

    "Love is no big truth Driven by our genes We are simple selfish beings"

    This seems fairly self-explanatory - he's reiterating that whatever he believed love to be is clearly falsified by their break up. I think he's trying to comfort himself, and guard himself from ever regarding it as having any deep spiritual meaning and getting so hurt in the future.

    "A symphony that's you Joyously awaking The ignorant and sleeping"

    To me, this is the singer still feeling love for his ex-partner and feeling the pain of jealousy towards the next person she starts a relationship with (the ignorant and sleeping). He equates the whole concept/ emotion/ experience of "love" with "you" (the ex-partner) because for him, all aspects of that special person represent what he understands love to mean (hence the "symphony of you" - not necessarily just certain qualities).

    The instrumental interlude reflects time passing.

    "Passion and its brother hate, they come and go Could easily be made to stay for longer, though"

    For me, the singer, rather than is making the observation that emotions are fleeting, is actually describing how he is flipping between the extremes of love and hate for his estranged love, and that he is in real danger of ruminating on them and becoming stuck or psychologically blocked from ever moving on.

    "Many people play this game so willingly Do I have to be like them, or be lonely? "

    The singer is struggling to understand how lightly other people seem to enter into, and cope with the failure of relationships. The implication of the question he asks is extremely poignant: "Am I destined to be alone if I continue to be my authentic self?"

    "Another view, of what there is to it. Getting me through it."

    As in verse one, he's recognizing that he takes comfort in balancing the magical/romantic beliefs he held about the nature of love with purely biological ones. It hurts less if it means less.

    The repetition of,

    "I'll never need it again, again, again..."

    is almost like a child-like mantra he is trying to force into his unconscious in order to protect himself in the future. It highlights the tragic truth that no matter how logically we can diminish the significance of love, we can't escape our biology.

    musicnmeaningon September 18, 2016   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    Does anyone know what this song means? Is it saying that love sucks?

    untiedon February 07, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    I think its kind of cynical really. It seems to bounce around though. "A symphony that's you" seems to me like a wonderful way of thinking of someone as a collection of music. But then again, he seems to be having some kind of revelation during the chorus. So my conclusion is this: Love is abound and we don't really know much about it. It seems like Love is his demise. I don't know. I jus t love the song.

    testemunhaon February 09, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    he loves someone but he doesn't know how to love. he doesn't know what Love is. all he knows is what everyone else thinks love is.

    he just wants someone that's like music, beautiful & when he meets them, he'll know how to love, and by his example, everyone else will too.

    i think.

    sebharperon March 14, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    oh, and that everyone loves differently. it's not universal. that's why it's "no big truth."

    sebharperon March 14, 2005   Link

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