Lyrics for The Bleeding Heart Show as interpreted by Little Timmy

The Bleeding Heart Show Lyrics
I leapt across three or four beds into your arms
Where I had hidden myself somewhere in your charm
Our golden handshake has been smashed into this shape.
It's taken magic to a primitive new place
Watch them run, although it's the minimum, heroic

We hunched together in one chair out on the deck
In snow that froze and fell down on the modern set
It looked as if I picked your name out of a hat
Next thing you know you are asleep in someone's lap
Watch them run, although it's the minimum, heroic

We quit the room
Quit so our thoughts could rest
Rest them, I'll never move?
That's when we grab a hold
Of whatever it is we fell into
Lousy with your contempt
With what the majestic cannot find
In business of your lives
The perception, it is wrong, mile after mile
The phantom taste drinking wine from your heels

We have arrived too late to play the bleeding heart show


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___electric
11-12-2005

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omfg this song is so amazing!!! i love the last part of the song where neko is singing "we have arrived too late for the bleeding heart shoW"

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ArrestedDevelopment
12-26-2005

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I love, love, love this song. The way it crescendos into an epic sing-a-long is just simply, awesome. It's like a smack too the face. When the song ends, you sit there in awe, trying to figgure out what the hell just hit you.

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The_Variable
12-28-2005

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This song gives me goosebumps all over. This is definitely one of my most favorite songs of 2005. Way to go New Pornographers.

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thetaste_ofink
01-20-2006

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=] amazing

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edma0012
02-03-2006

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the way they use Neko is so freaking awesome!

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squeakyfingers
02-18-2006

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"That’s when we grab a hold
Of whatever it is we fell into."

that line gives me shivers every time i hear it.

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rhymeswithorange
03-08-2006

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This one stood out on Twin Cinema. The ending is just so...huge.

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npfanatics
03-09-2006

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This song is obviously about the ending of a relationship. More subtly, it appears to be about the end of a relationship that begun either as a friendship, or as a transitional or rebound love affair, that in turn was the product of previous heartbreak, and that temporarily evolved into something more serious. Nonetheless, the lovers eventually realize that they are not well suited, and one of them takes the apparently easy, but in fact difficult, decision to end the relationship.

I leapt across three or four beds into your arms

The relationship arose out of heartbreak over past relationships. There was a leap, perhaps signifying the differences (and incompatibilities) between the lovers. Or perhaps he is leaping across working through the pain over the "three or four beds" to comfort in her arms.

Where I had hidden myself somewhere in your charm

The singer was hiding in her charm. His personality was lost in their (magical, primitive) chemistry, in her charisma. He's also hiding his pain in the relationship.

Our golden handshake has been smashed into this shape.
It's taken magic to a primitive new place

The original understanding was that the relationship would take a certain form: a friendship or transitional love affair, but it has since changed dramatically, due to their chemistry.

Watch 'em run, although it's the minimum, heroic

This relationship is ended abruptly (at running pace, even at the glorious liberated pace we hear in the climax). Although walking away seems easy -- it is the minimum -- it is also a heroic decision because it means walking away from the chemistry.

The second stanza tells us they found each other at a time when both of them needed comfort against the cold (a bitter breakup). Lyrical choices like "picked your name out of a hat" and the impersonal "someone's" lap imply that anyone could've been a comfort or company. They are basically good-intentioned, but not a good fit.

We hunched together in one chair out on the deck
In snow that froze and fell down on the modern set

This hints at the relationship beginning out of adversity

It looked as if I picked your name out of a hat

They were apparently incompatible to those looking on.

Both singers sing the third stanza / buildup to climax, which seems to say that they are both experiencing what's contained in these words. They need to quit each other and grab hold of something that is more true for themselves individually. The perception - twisting themselves into loyalty to the relationship despite how it doesn't fit - it is wrong.. it doesn't hold up against the miles. A.C. sings the last line alone .. he will miss her taste, and how she made him feel tipsy like wine.
Still - she's running away, and there's no point in putting on a big breakup "bleeding heart show" - best to understand they're not right for each other and move on.. the celebration of this hard realization is beautifully, exultantly realized in the climax of this song.

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Anderson_Council
03-15-2006

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i didn't really notice this until yesterday, but the coda is jampacked full of incredible drum work.

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MattSimmons
03-27-2006

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After several months of intensive listening, I think this is the song that has emerged as the real standout from a great album. Loved the analysis npfanatics! You're right Anderson Council, I only really noticed a few days ago just how amazing the drumming is on that track. I guess the drums is not really one of the things I pay much attention to...

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Lost the Plot
05-19-2006

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I LOVE this song! My favourite NewP song...(although I've only heard this one, Use It, Sing Me Spanish Techno, Jackie Dressed in Cobras and Twin Cinema) Does anybody know what it is they are singing at near the end, after the oohing? underneath the "We have arrived to late to play the bleeding heart show.)

Thanks

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SmittyTheBlasphemer
07-26-2006

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They're singing, "Hey-la-hey-la, hey-la-hey-la."

xP

I don't know if it's an intentional reference, but when Terence Mckenna talks about psylocybin mushrooms he recommends a minimum of five dried grams. He calls this a 'heroic dose'.

The minimum: heroic

Coincidence?

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Anra
08-30-2006

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F-in brilliant.

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comebackkid_
09-09-2006

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this song is one of my four favourite songs in the world ever.
sometimes it makes me cry.
i agree that the ending that neko sings is amazing.

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magicaldreamer11
09-10-2006

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Story of my life. This song is a religious experience.

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gracelessly
09-14-2006

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"Rest them, I’ll never move?
That’s when we grab a hold
Of whatever it is we fell into
Lousy with your content"

Those lyrics don't sound quite right to me, specifically: "I'll never move" and "Lousy with your content." I've seen another site say "Rest them with nothing new", but that doesn't sound right either, and "Lousy with your good time" which sounds... better.

Anyone have any idea? I have a love/hate relationship with singing along to that verse, I love it musically but hate that I mumble that part because those lyrics just don't sound right to me.

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deadeyeduck
09-25-2006

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this song made me truly fall in love with the new pornos...and dammit, neko, marry me

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ilikeGOODmusic23002
12-29-2006

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The hey-la bit reminds me of the Lion King music lol

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airwolf queen
01-07-2007

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OK- all NP songs have AMAZING drums, but the coda to this song takes the cake.

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camkid2
01-25-2007

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listening to this song is a life altering experience

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muzakgeek
02-03-2007

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Fantastic NP song – The climax and chorus at the end give me chills every time I hear it. It's actually my 5 year-old daughter's favorite tune right now… she asks to listen to it in the car nearly every day on her way to school. Wish I got to hear such great tunes when I was in kindegarten.

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turn*it*out
02-20-2007

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"The hey-la bit reminds me of the Lion King music lol"


OMFG ME TOO!!

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Sunset Rubdown
06-19-2007

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this song is so good i love how it starts out like kinda sad and stuff and then leads into an inspirational sing along type song, its so good

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ohkkkay
06-20-2007

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SmittyTheBlasphemer might have a point.
i interpreted the song as a person who is heartbroken from past relationships, and is caused to "leap into someone's arms" in an attempt to move on, but is also doing so because he is intoxicated

"Where I had hidden myself somewhere in your charm
Our golden handshake has been smashed into this shape."
he is drawn to her by her charm, and despite the fact that they've just met they "take magic to a primitive new place" which might be an illusion to sex.
"It looked as if I picked your name out of a hat"
they wouldn't be together under normal circumstances; she's just a random girl that he chooses to be with for one night
"That’s when we grab a hold
Of whatever it is we fell into"
he hasn't fallen in love, but is just trying to excape the pain of past relationships.

that's what i got from it, but probably because that's my situation too

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triple07
06-28-2007

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ok so I've been really into this album lately and I was just watching tv and this song came on on a commercial for univ of phoenix! It was really cool/weird

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