It was me on that road
But you couldn't see me
Too many lights out, but nowhere near here

It was me on that road
Still you couldn't see me
And then flashlights and explosions

Roads end getting nearer
We cover distance but not together

I am the storm and I am the wonder
And the flashlights, nightmares
And sudden explosions

I don't know what more to ask for
I was given just one wish

It's about you and the sun
A morning run
The story of my maker
What I have and what I ache for

I've got a golden ear
I cut and I spear
What else is there?

Roads end getting nearer
We cover distance still not together

If I am the storm, if I am the wonder
Will I have flashlights, nightmares
And sudden explosions

There's no room where I can go and
You've got secrets too

I don't know what more to ask for
I was given just one wish


Lyrics submitted by royksopp, edited by pavelkomarov, vind

What Else Is There? Lyrics as written by Tony Macaulay Roger John Reginald Greenaway

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    There are more interpretations right, but non of them where finished or there are holes in there story

    Introduction: This song is about dissicions of a sad mid-life-crissed woman who looks back at the moment of her big-love-of-the-past and life. The clip is all about emotions you cant share and de lycris is the story behind that. Its about constant pressure and anxiety in life but no one to turn to. So the video clip is shaped by the womans emotions and the lycris is the story behind that feelings. It is in a dream-state becaus dreams are reality of emotionel expressions(=explosion) of thinks we asking are self in real life this dream (= "nightmare") is a deriorating relationship. A well knowin love story:

    Main story: The road of life(=light, seeing or knowing where to go in life) together into the dark (dark=whitout knowing where to go in life(=light)) She just wants his attention, because she feels ignored (=look for the man on the road, even the dog(moste love giving creatures)

    "I've got a golden ear, I cut and I spear" The only thing left for her(=because anxiety) asking for more attention through the wrong way (saying spiteful, jealousy, etc) So she has just "given one wish" be him, a wish of basic trust. To be with a man she cannot have annymore.

    "It's about you and the sun, A morning run" A reference to HIM (sun=light in here life). "I don't know what more to ask for" "The story of my maker, what I have and what I ache for" He is the maker, he is shaping her live in different ways. He knows he has potential to succeed this relation, knowledge to pursue a further understanding of the logical side of the outsiders perspective, but his intuition is consuming his mind. An unforeseen future clouds his thoughts. He aches for an answer and cries out, "What else is there?" But there is no apparent answer. Only a void that plays with his emotions.(=exploisions)

    So the outsiders bring only more suffering, because they only projecting all of the problems of their own lives. Their good memories are clouded by memories of a bad experience of their own. She becomes jealous because he listning more to the outsiders(=people that brings light into the dark besides her own) then her. They've drifted apart (=houses floating away) and taking slowly different roads. "Road's end getting nearer We cover distance, but not together"

    Conclusion: You see a floating-state-of-mind (=unwilling freedom, pressure, anxiety), where she tries to toughing the ground (=touching tree in clip), meaning get her shit together. When she tough the ground she takes a good look at herself and snaps. Moments later there is a moment-of-clearity; She is the storm, the wonder of nature that would burst out all of her emotions (=explosions), not because see realist her wrong doing in the past(=nightmare), but because her life is decayed(=X) by asking the same question (=reference to "why"=the last lycris) as he did: "What else is there?"

    X:

    • The fruit is molding
    • she is spilling her milk (losing her ability to bear children)
    • smoking mushrooms(=translation of royksopp) on the tree (Using drugs)

    "There's no room where I can go and, You've got secrets too" She has drivin herself years in isolation (=blanket=feeling of closure) as a spinster In the video jou see the puritan collar(English Protestant from the 16th and 17th centurie) of celibacy around her nek when see sitting on the table.

    So the main life-lesson is: Dont compare the bad moments of your life. Dont think of the future. Live in the moment, trust your own feelings. Just jump together into the dark!!

    rensmaon December 27, 2010   Link

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