Lyrics for Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) as interpreted by PuNkJaSo

Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) Lyrics
I heard it from a friend
The Revolution never happened
Sigh
A little die
No more a child
Goodbye

Now where's the woolen sweater
You mentioned in the letter?
Imply
The other guy
Amd scandalize the lion

A clean shave in the morning
And a full beard with no warning
Time has gotten by on alibis and wine

Success is so forbidding
But it makes me think I'm winning
Quiet
Dim the lights
Adopt another lifestyle

You look like David Bowie
But you've nothing new to show me
Start another fire
and watch it slowly die

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fou
12-07-2005

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you forgot the: "come on, come on..." part!!

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Heather200408
12-19-2005

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whee

I love this song..it's a definate "ear worm"

haha

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crawdad
12-27-2005

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word, it is an earworm, but i'm stumped as to what it's about

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positive_tension
01-01-2006

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I think maybe it's about getting older and how time goes by quickly? I don't know most of the lyrics don't really fit with that except for the first part and the beard part a little.

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bloc_party15
01-23-2006

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What a cool song!! CYHSY are so great, cant wait to get their album

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x_Heather_x
02-10-2006

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Aw wow :) this song is great.

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acerola
02-13-2006

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It's just about relationships is it not?? A kind of dejected boredom about the whole cycle of starting and finishing with people... "start another fire and watch it slowly die"

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duggah
02-13-2006

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Could be a relationship, or just life. No more a child. Goodbye (to childhood or a relationship though?). Song title is over and over again (lost and found)... so it's kinda like Built To Spill's line "finally I don't mind endless tries at finding something else". Adopt another lifestyle. (cause you're tired of this one, been there, done that). Find another passion, just to watch your passion for it fade.

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fou
02-19-2006

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i love the themepark vibe i get when i'm listening to this song..

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justaguy81
02-20-2006

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I think it's about a life passing by. In the first verse the youth revolution that every generation is expected to have never occurs and the singer doesn't realize it until a friend points it out to him. The singer has let his youth pass him by, hence "no longer a child"
I think the second verse encompasses relationships, both the formation and destruction thereof. To me, he's talking to an exgirlfriend who has found somebody else ("imply the other guy")
"A clean shave in the morning/ A full beard with no warning" means that he's getting older. He no longer has the childlike face of youth, and time has gotten the best of him without him realizing it.
The last two verses deal with success at work, but no joy in it. Adopting another lifestyle again is indicative of aging- most people change lifestyles throughout their lives, otherwise we'd have way more old hippies running around. Finally, I think the fire is dealing with the beginning and end of each stage of life (childhood, yound adulthood, middle age, etc.) and the singer's moving into the next phase of his life.
That's just my take on it, could be way off

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Toru
04-08-2006

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Just like most of their songs in this album: about history of Rock and music in general.

This song seems to be dedicaced to bands that just try to make something new out of somethig old and eventualy fail to realy do something new.

That's what i understand.

(but i'm french so... maybe i don't understand everythig ;) )

Most of the songs in this album are related to music (The skin of my yellow country teeth, Upon this tital wave of young blood, gimme some salt, heavy metal... well maybe all the songs in this album...)

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sam samson
04-10-2006

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i read it was reported that Bowie showed up to a show in NY which played some part in their hitting it (somewhat) big - was this song written before or after that?

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sam samson
04-10-2006

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i read it was reported that Bowie showed up to a show in NY which played some part in their hitting it (somewhat) big - was this song written before or after that?

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stupid_name
04-12-2006

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justaguy pretty much got the meaning, at least in my opinion... I love this song so much... I love songs that make me happy.

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sammy_mendel
04-28-2006

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I agree with Toru: I reckon this song is about the path of music. 'The Revolution' could refer to the hippy movement that thought it was going to 'change the world' (Beatles song) and petered out in the 70s. The 'woollen sweater' could very well refer to grunge, or any number of songs from those years (such as the Pixies' "Cactus"). 'Scandalize the lion' may refer to 'Pedro the Lion', a derivative indie/emo band who contrast grunge's revolutionary aims: i.e., by implying the other guy wrote their songs, you take such bands down a notch.

'A clean shave ...' refers to the way fashions change overnight; again this directly refers to both periods of revolution above, 1. when the hippies began to grow their hair and beards after the Barbershop period, and 2. when grunge fans started growing their hair and beards after the stadium rock era. 'Time has gotten by on alibis': the art of alibis is to say you were in another place when something happened. The history of rock has been about 'being there when it happened' (for example, Woodstock) ... but the phrase also refers to how things haven't really changed very much at all.

The next verse is pretty much self-evident. The final verse refers to David Bowie, who was on the cusp of several revolutions in music (but mainly spanning the death of the sixties to the late eighties): now certain bands try and LOOK revolutionary by trying to adopt something revolutionary that has already happened, therefore 'you look like David Bowie but you've nothing new to show me'.

'Start another fire' reminds us how every few years the press tells us of the next big thing that will change the face of the world, and how it always dies. All in all, a pretty bleak view of rock music, repetitively ('over and over again') losing its way and then finding its way again ('lost and found'). Bleak, but not untruthful when one considers that every major movement has essentially died: the only thing that remains is an artist's individual achievement on a singular basis. We enjoy Jimi Hendrix's music, but we don't trip out on acid listening to it; and if we do, we do it with a sense of irony. Contexts change, and meanings along with it, certain things integral to the original music are lost, then found by a new generation of artists ... over and over again.

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KidUncommon
05-29-2006

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I disagree about the capitalized "R" in the Revolution - either it's double meaning, a play on words, but i think it directs people's thinking away from the relationship theme in the song.

If it's just a regular revolution, then it coincides with the title of the song - over and over again, like a revolution.

If it applies to relationships, relationships usually are cycles and go up and down. A revolution that didn't happen, means the relationship has stopped it's cycles.

A lot of the lyrics deal with confidence. The speaker is questioning and doubtful. His success makes him doubt himself, and the fire of the relationship is now dying.

It's just much more relatable when this great song is about relationships.

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The_Specialist
09-18-2006

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I think this song is about a guy who went off to war and his girl that he left back home in the states or wherever has pretty much forgoten about him and hes pissed and the song kinda says how that happens a lot. but i dunno, thats just my opinion.

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octoberist
10-09-2006

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It's about growing up and about everything starting to go wrong and when you finally have success, it's forbidding because you're not used to it, you're not used to winning. And you wake up every morning, thinking you'll have a clean shave (forget about the bad that happened the day before and start over) but it's not that easy.

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satansaiddance
04-08-2007

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it seems to be about sex. "sigh, a little die (un petite mort is french for an orgasm), no more a child, goodbye." then the whole dimming the lights stuff, "have you nothing new to show me?", and starting fires. of passion. i don't know.

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Relapser
04-13-2007

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You guys are reading wayyyy to much into this song. It's just a nice song, who cares what it means. It's to ambigious to derive these silly interpretations from. Just enjoy it, and stop trying to tie it to a chair and beat a confession out of it.

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acerola
07-21-2007

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I think it's amazing how many interpretations people seem to have had about this song, many of which make sense when you go back and think about them.

Having said that though I've got a sneaky feeling that some words and word-combinations may have been chosen purely for phonetic reasons alone, i.e. "sigh, a little die, no more a child, goodbye" and "imply the other guy and scandalize the lion". The word choices in these lines in particular seem to fit in perfectly with the dreamy, laid-back sound of the song. It's almost as if lyrics are used as an instrument in their own right. So if the song is actually about musical history or relationships or anything else then I think the way that the theme is combined with the actual sounds of the words makes this song even more special than we might think it is.

Who knows though. Whatever it all means I know it sounds brilliant and that I'll be listening to this song for the rest of my life

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jessepence
09-24-2007

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Yeah, like acerola said, the vocals in CYHS!Y always seem kind of flexed to fit the music, but I don't think that means they are entirely devoid of meaning, exactly.

I think this song is just about the cyclical, unsuprising nature of modern music(at least, at the time this song was written), and how music fans are never really satisfied with the next turn in an artist's career. or something. I don't know. It sure sounds awesome, though.

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girlmontag
10-10-2007

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you look liked david bowie
but you've nothing new to show me


i really really love that line.

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theethicalkirsten
02-26-2008

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i love it too, i have great memories of my brother and i dancing around crazily to it.
i like the fact that it's random and obscure and can still sound good. that's hard to pull off.
:D

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fanglefish
02-26-2008

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I love how the vagueness of their lyrics go with the vagueness of the voice singing them... you can make their songs mean anything you like and I love that. It's like having a tailored band all to yourself that you can share with others.

If you get what I mean.

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