Lyrics for I'll Believe in Anything as interpreted by FuneralCatering

I'll Believe in Anything Lyrics
Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Your blood, your bones
Your voice, and your ghost

We've both been very brave
Walk around with both legs
Wait for the scary day
We both pull the tricks out of our sleeves

But I'll believe in anything
And you'll believe in anything
Said I'll believe in anything
And you'll believe in anything

If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd share a life and you'd share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd share a life and you'd share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd take you where nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
Said nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn

And I could take another hit for you
And I could take away your trips from you
And I could take away the salt from your eyes
And take away the spitting salt in you
And I could give you my apologies
By handing over my neologies
And I could take away the shaking knees
And I could give you all the olive trees
Oh look at the trees and look at my face
And look at a place far away from here

So give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Your blood, your bones
Your voice, and your ghost

We've both been very brave
Walk around with both legs
Wait for the scary day
We both pull the tricks out of our sleeves

But I'll believe in anything
And you'll believe in anything

If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd share a life and you'd share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd share a life and you'd share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd take you where nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
I said nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn

I said nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn either way
About your blood, your bones
Your voice, and your ghost
Because nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn either way

And now I'll believe in anything
You'll believe in anything
Because nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn anyway

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miles11
10-01-2005

Rated -1 
amazing song. i think the part about "i'd take you to a place where nobody knows you and nobody gives a damn" is a tongue in cheek reference to the cheers theme song ("...where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came.") maybe the taking the fire out of the water reinforces this (isn't firewater a nickname for alcohol?) anyways, the song is much more complex than that, but upon a first couple listens, that strikes me as a funny little bit.

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couldBanyone
10-02-2005

Rated +1 
He says "if i could take the fire out from the WIRE" just a clarification.

This song is about wanting to see the world from the perspective of a loved one ("Give me your eyes"). It is about the naive nature of love, the desire to believe anything at any cost. He wants all of this person, blood bones, and ghost. It's a bit of an over-the-top love song but it is honest in delivery.

The section about "take the fire out from the wire" seems a bit confusing, but the act of "i'd share a life and you'd share a life" is simply a desire to live as one couple. The singer wants to leave all the familiar behind and start a new life where no one knows them and no one cares who they are. I'm sure everyone has had the desire to do this at one point or another. Brilliant song and an equally incredible album.

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mswer
10-04-2005

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i havent listened to this song enough to feel like i know what it's about but it's fucking amazing.

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deathcabdriver
10-12-2005

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Yeah I agree the song may be a little over the top. But in the time of war and natural disasters, I find such a song inspiring. This track alone should make Apologies.. the album of the year.

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the_extreme_potato
10-14-2005

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"If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd take you where nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn"

Perhaps, and as usual, this is merely an interpretation, and I have not really taken much time to contemplate the meaning of this particular line "take the fire out from the wire", but perhaps it is related to technology, or modernity, as several other tracks (i.e. modern world, grounds for divorce, dinner bells(perhaps???). Anyway, "take the fire out from the wire" may indicate some desire to remove, or decrease the emphasis on electronics(fire in the wire meaning the usage of electricity perhaps) and getting back to nature where: "nobody knows you", etc. Well, this is just a possibility, I might be wrong, gooday to all!!!

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the_extreme_potato
10-14-2005

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"I need sunshine" again, another line related to nature, possibly cannot experience nature, "the sun" in the modern world. Look at Plato, the sun represented "the good" in the cave alegory because it enabled people to see the truth - that is, figures in the material world as they really were(or really seem to be, this would be debated by many philosophers in the modern age). "Give me your eyes" - perhaps though the eyes of another, a lover perhaps, the world will be clearer, or at least, if not able to escape the modern world, with the lover he can at least cope with it better.

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evanreyes
10-19-2005

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my friend described this song best as simply "stunning." his voice is incredible, and the melody is heavenly.

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draculamountain
10-20-2005

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I'm pretty sure that it's actually "wait for the scary day" and not "fight", as well as simply "hand you over all the olive trees" instead of "hand you over my neologies". I've listened to 4 different recordings of the song, and I'm still not sure about one of the lines... you have it as "spitting salt in you" but I always hear it as "sweet assaulting you" or "sweat assaulting you". Who knows.

I still prefer the Sunset Rubdown version, though.

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rockbassart
11-07-2005

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i only have one correction:
"by handing over my neologies"
tell me if im wrong, but shouldnt it be:
"by handing over IDEOLOGIES"
what the hell is a 'neology'?

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sassyfrau
11-12-2005

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a neology is a new word or phrase or the creation of a new word or phrase...I looked it up.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/neology

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decenda
12-09-2005

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I think this song is just about being naive. He wants the girl so bad (her eyes are sunshine) and wants to do everything he can to save the relationship. But in reality, there is no way in hell the relationship would ever work, and both parties are just kidding themselves.

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BigNToasty
12-20-2005

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I have a feeling it's "fire out from the WATER". That would make more sense, as a metaphor for his personality being overcome by shyness or something

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ryan81
01-03-2006

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The line "I'd take you where nobody knows you and nobody gives a damn" kills me. The timing of it and the way he stretches nooooooobody is perfect. To help someone, to take them somewhere new with no history or atachments or relationships, where "nobody gives a damn" is so refreshing to me. amazing song.

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Dargonlord
01-19-2006

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I think that "if I could take the fire out from the wire" means "if I could take all the bad things away" or "if I could take the hardships away"
Something like that.
Thats how I saw it

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smunchy pb
01-22-2006

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i immediately interpreted "if i could take the fire out from the wire i'd share a life and you'd share a life" as using those shock things that bring people back to life or something. yeah i know that sounds vague. after reading what some other people had to say though that's unlikely, especially because some of their other songs are very anti- modern science and what not. i could take away the salt from your eyes is ovbioiusly saying i could stop your crying. i think the stuff about olive trees is talking about peace (olive branch = peace) and to me most of the song - besides being a love song - is talking about finding peace.

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thenewblacktie
01-26-2006

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i'm surprised that nobody has commented on the lines "oh look at the trees and look at my face and look at a place far away from here." there's a lot of musical emphasis immediately after those lines, which lead me to believe that they are a crucial part of the song. he seems to be almost begging someone to go away with him.

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breakit
01-28-2006

Rated -1 
Anybody notice the huge parallel to "Neighbourhood #1" by The Arcade Fire?

From I'll Believe in Anything:
"I'd share a life and you'd share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd take you where nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn"

From Neighbourhood #1:
"You climb out the chimney,
And meet me in the middle, the middle of the town. And since there's no one else around,
We let our hair grow long,
And forget all we used to know.
Then our skin gets thicker from
Living out in the snow."

Same premise of loving somebody so much that you just want to go away and forget about everything. Plus both songs have some of the most powerful lines in any song, whether it be "Then we think of our parents,
Well what ever happened to them?" or "I'd take you where nobody knows you and nobody gives a damn", both bands deliver their key lines with so much passion that you can't help but smile every time you listen to it.

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Kelly Smith
02-01-2006

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I agree with couldBanyone’s interpretation of the lyrics. Just a guess, but I think this song is about being so infatuated with someone that you want to trade lives with them (kind of like a Being John Malkovich theme.) Anyway, going along with that idea, the part "If I could take the fire out from the wire," I think is saying if I could take the life or soul (whatever you want to call it) out from its external body.

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yourtwowinters
02-01-2006

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i just read a little inteview with win butler from the arcade fire, in rolling stone, where he says this is "the best thing [he's] heard this year." i just liked that in association with the arcade fire a couple of posts ahead.

i think both songs have that sense of isolation or escapism or whatever, and it's a little naive in both cases. and great.

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Sam-Vimes
02-02-2006

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I agree it's definately
"i could you my apologies
by handing over all the olive trees"

he even sings about olive trees a line or 2 later.
and the idea that it's about peace is an excellent suggestion.

also I noticed while casually listening to this song on a car journey home tonight that the line following

"and I could take away the salt from your eyes"
has got to be
"and take away what's been assaulting you"

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thelorax
02-05-2006

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Actually I do think it is "I could take away the salt from your eyes". Meaning he could take away her tears. Tears are salty.

The song to me sounds like a deep display of honest affection. The kind of love where you want to know every last thing about them, you want to be a part of them. And it also the 'give me' part sounds like a request of trust. The repeating of "nobody knows you and nobody gives a damn" is about the fact that it seems that neither of them "belong" in the place they are in. But he wants to take her to a new place where 'nobody knows you and nobody gives a damn' implying starting over new.

And the song is not just about him, it's about both of them. "We've both been very brave", "We both pull the tricks out of our sleeves", and they'll both believe in anything. They seem to both be desparate for "something else", together.

I think that taking the fire out from the wire (or water) is just implying some kind of hardship or something that keeps them from going to a "place far away from here" and living happily ever after. And he very desparately seems to want this for them both. The beginning of the song is a lot more questioning than the end which increases in energy and is almost -demanding- that he will succeed.

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Sam-Vimes
02-07-2006

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hey thelorax...you made some good points there...especially about the increased energy at the end of the song...there's definately a new level of intensity there...
i agree its 'take away the salt from your eyes' i was talking about the next line?

anyways he's talking about handing over his apologies and giving olive trees...an olive branch being the sign for peace...

i think that part of the song is a definate plea for forgiveness and that he's serious about it...
look at the trees...i'm apologising
look at my face...i'm not kidding...
and look at the place far away from here...
i agree he's suggesting they go away somewhere and start over.

and then the intensity of the song just goes into overdrive...his voice gains so much more emotion...
he really needs this.

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Arcadia
03-08-2006

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It sounds like he's saying
"And I could away away the salt from your eyes
and take away the skin and salt in you".

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DamabaRR9
03-13-2006

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I think the line about taking the 'salt from your eyes' is about more than just keeping someone from crying. It's about taking the bitterness from the tears, possibly leaving only happy tears.

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archemist1
03-16-2006

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To me, this song is being sung by a recovered (recovering) heroin addict to another heroin addict that he unequivocally loves and wants to save.

"We've both been very brave
Walk around with both legs
Fight the scary day"

Refers to the courage required to face life's difficulties by walking through it, putting one foot in front of the other, or "with both legs".

"We both pull the tricks out of our sleeves."

Means, we've both dealt with these hardships by shooting heroin.

"If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd share a life and you'd share a life"

Means, taking the rush, the high and the need for it out of the needle of the syringe. With the need for heroin gone we could share each other's lives.

"and I could take another hit for you
and I could take away your trips from you"

This reinforces his desire to get her free from addiction because he loves her.

The rest of the song seems obvious.

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