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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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08-30-2007
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09-25-2007
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12-22-2007
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01-04-2008
Give me your eyes, I need sunshine
Your blood bones voice and ghost. That all is pretty self explanatory. The person of desire gives him life like the sun does plants, everything about them.
Both been very brave walk around on both legs
Wait for the scary day we both pull the tricks...
To me would be saying how they've both (singer and the desired) went out on their own, away from the "familiar" things such as family and friends to make their own way in the world. And in this process have acquired a history that they don't share with just anyone, but want to share everything with each other.
They'll both believe in anything (love), because they have to, to reconcile risking so much with another person, plus they WANT to believe.
If I could take the fire from the wire
I'd share a life and you'd share a life
Wire is slang for cocaine, their drug use is one of those things coming between them, one of the tricks up their sleeves. But if they can find love in each other, then they won't care about anything else. They won't have to care what others think about them.
Nobody knows you, nobody gives a damn
Is just a reflection of how nothing will matter, or perhaps that they could start over together, and get away from drugs.
I could take another hit for you, take away your trips
Both of these seem to be more drug refrences to me.
Give you my apologies
By handing over my ideologies (which spencer slurs the my and i together)
Would be a part of the compromise that is necessary for relationships to work.
Shaking trees, is an expression to get fruit too high to reach. Olive trees is obviously a refrence to olive branches being a sign of peace.
Oh look at the trees and look at my face
And look at a place far away from here
This is the lyrical and sonic climax of the song, it's just saying, "Look, we're not going to try to reach for things beyond our grasp, we'll make peace with our past, and we'll start over together"
All of this, falls right in line with wanting to believe in love, while knowing that love is little more than a poetic abstraction.
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02-15-2008
both are written in ways that leave the interpretation, meaning and story up to the audience
so many people relate to this song and interpret it in their own way which is exactly the same as the book
plus they have the same themes, tim o'brien's main character has an obsession with his lovers eyes because he believes the world is so much beautiful through them (sunshine) and also there is a huge theme of magic and a 'tricks' to protect someone from the past, his ultimate 'trick' being his final disappearing act with his lover. it quotes in the text "two become one' just like in this song "i'd share a life and you'd share a life"
and then finally theres the line "if i could take the fire out form the wire, i'd share a life and you'd share a life" i see as there inability to have children. (wire being fallopian) tube which also the case in the novel
haha probably the biggest load of crap ever, but it helped me understand the novel more even if there wasnt any real connection, if you've read the book i think you'd understand what i am getting at
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03-02-2008
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04-17-2008
and nobody gives a damn
....i honestly thought of rape or murder when i heard those lines???
the song as a whole comes off as a niave love song, but those lines just do not match at all? so im wondering if its some kind of irony thing. lustrous infactuted murderer, perhaps?
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04-25-2008
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05-05-2008
Pretty sure it's bold legs or bowed legs.
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05-19-2008
"and your ghost" implies that they will end it
"being brave, waiting for the scary day and pulling tricks out of our sleeves" seems like the countown to the day one leaves and how they are trying to deal with it.
"I'll believe in anything" being optimistic that a distance relationship could work
"If I could take the fire out from the wire" keeping the passion HOT during future communication over the phone (or internet)
"take away your trips from you" I think means if we keep it going, you'll be visiting me a lot, or possibly they move as well (saving all the trips as they will be living together)
The one leaving really doesn't want to loose the other.
Beautiful fucking song.
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06-04-2008
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06-21-2008
Flexible enough to apply to many situations. Great great track. wonderfull to think its so new.
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08-19-2008
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08-19-2008
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 what's been assaulting you
And I could give you my apologies
By handing over ideologies
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
the end is like trying to calm someone..."oh look at the trees, look at my face, look at a place far away..." and come back from this horrible sickness.
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08-20-2008
"give me your eyes i need the sunshine,
give me your eyes i need the 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 pulled tricks out of our sleeves but,
I'll believe in anything and you ll believe in anything.
i said, i ll believe in anything and you ll believe in anything.
if i could take the fire out from the wire id share a life and you d share a life,
if i could take the wire out from the wire id share a life and you d share a life,
if i could take the fire out from the wire id take you where nobody knows you and no body gives a damn,
i said nobody knows you and nobody gives a damn,
but at best i pofessed that,
i could take another hit for you,
or i could take away your trips from you,
but im the thing thats putting salt in your eyes
and im the thing thats been assaulting you.
and i could give you my apologies by handing over all the olive trees,
but what are the chances that you will receive them,
when none of the branches have any leaves?
and im sorry bout the time that you start to bleed on yourself and all i said was you should keep it clean."
04-20-2009
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10-28-2008
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11-07-2008
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11-20-2008
I think I've had a massive moment of enlightenment in regards to this song. I don't mind if you don't agree with me, but to me lyrics like this are similar to poetry.
Think about the stages of grieving when losing aloved one or a dear friend, or even someone dying themselves. especially in relation to the second half of the song. 'If I could take the fire out from the wire I'd share a life and you'd share a life' to me sounds like bargaining, but taking fire out from a wire, whatever that means, sounds like something impossible, no one can 'share a life' but he'd do anything to save them.
Then you definately have depression:
I said nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn either way
About your blood, your bones
Your voice, and your ghost
And the end to me could perhaps be acceptance, not too sure on that though though if it is 'anyway' rather than 'either way' then it seems like the person cares less about no one 'giving a damn'
'And I could take another hit for you
And I could take away your trips from you' etc.
Going backwards I know, but this verse could perhaps be anger, about people not doing as much as they could. OR (sorry for the random rambling) the whole verse could be about what 'God' could be offering someone, the place far away from here being heaven.
Whatever the case, this is completely death related. I had this down as a love song first few listens, but now I just don't see it.
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11-20-2008
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01-02-2009
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01-26-2009
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02-19-2009
They played this song for the encore. Right before they started, Spencer acknowledged a friend of his in the audience. The friend had just gotten married and he was congratulating him. He then said and i quote:
"And since this is a song for lovers it goes out to him. Cheers."
So i'm sorry to say but i think the book can be closed on this one.
It's one of the most beautiful love songs i've ever heard and is one of my favorite songs of all time.
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03-05-2009
In the second verse, he talks about how they have been through a lot of bad things together, but have managed to be brave, and keep walking together.
But in the third verse talking about how they'll both believe in anything confuses me. My first thought was that they believed in whatever eachother said... maybe a first love? where you are too inexperienced to know what words to believe, so you end up just believing what ever they say.
When he talks about taking the fire out from the wire, i think he is talking about an electric fence... which I'm assuming is a metaphor for the thing that is holding them back from running away together... and that if he could, he could take that away so they could just be together.
Then he talks about how he could make her happier, removing the tear from her eyes, and taking away the salt from her body, saying he could cleanse it in a way i guess.
The next part is about he could take away all her body's flaws, like her shaking knees (not literally, obviously) and other things. and that he oculd take away all the stress from her life and just run away with her and make her happy and stress-free.
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03-13-2009
"Wait for the scary day / We both pull the tricks out of our sleeves". Referring to waiting around for an inevitable conflict. Both Israel and Palestine seem to have "tricks up their sleeves" in how they respond to/initiate violence.
"I'd share a life and you'd share a life". Bringing peace in the region means sharing life.
"I could take a hit for you / Or I could take away your trips from you". Talking about the good and bad that can be done in an advantageous position. Israel can "take a hit" from Palestine by not retaliating, in the interest of peace. Or, it could "take away" Palestine's trips, by blocking all roads out of areas like Gaza and the West Bank (which it's done).
"I could take away the salt in your eyes / or take away the sweet assault in you". Again, Israel could stop its heavy retaliation that ends up hurting many civilians, taking away the "tears" or "salt in your eyes".
"And I could offer my apologies / By handing over all the olive trees / and I could take away the shaking knees / by handing over all the olive trees". One of the biggest economic blows to Palestine has been Israel confiscating or destroying the olive trees in the area, which the Palestinians traditionally use to make olive oil, a major export for them. If Israel wanted to "apologize", it could give back the olive trees (which have become somewhat of a symbol for the conflict. For example, Thomas Friedman's book, "The Lexus and the Olive Tree"). "Shaking knees" referring to the general fear that Palestinians have as tanks drive through their country every day, and so on.
"I'll believe in anything, You'll believe in anything / because nobody knows you, and nobody gives a damn anyway". Both Israel and Palestine have clung to their individual ideologies pretty strongly, for different reasons that both basically stem from the fact that nobody seems to care much about Palestine or the Palestinian people.
Ultimately, I think it's a song about wanting the conflict, but I think it is just as likely that the conflict is also being used as a metaphor for a type of relationship, wherein one person abuses another out of a sense of misguided rationalization. Again, I honestly don't mean to turn the comments into a political debate, but I think it's worth looking at in this way, as there is plenty of evidence. Additionally, if this IS one of the meanings of the song, it certainly gives it a whole new air, and, in my opinion, is quite genius on the parts of Wolf Parade.
03-13-2009
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