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Someone Great Lyrics
I wish that we could talk about it,
But there, that's the problem. With someone new I couldn't start it, Too late, for beginnings. The little things that made me nervous, Are gone, in a moment. I miss the way we used to argue, Locked, in your basement. I wake up and the phone is ringing, Surprised, as it's early. And that should be the perfect warning, That something's, a problem. To tell the truth I saw it coming, The way, you were breathing. But nothing can prepare you for it, The voice, on the other, end. The worst is all the lovely weather, I'm stunned, it's not raining. The coffee isn't even bitter, Because, what's the difference? There's all the work that needs to be done, It's late, for revision. There's all the time and all the planning, And songs, to be finished. And it keeps coming, And it keeps coming, And it keeps coming, Till the day it stops (Repeat x3) And it keeps coming, (Repeat x7) Till the day it stops. I wish that we could talk about it, But there, that's the problem. With someone new I could have started, Too late, for beginnings. You're smaller than my wife imagined, Surprised, you were human. There shouldn't be this ring of silence, But what, are the options? When someone great is gone. (Repeat x8) We're safe, for the moment. Saved, For the moment.
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10-25-2009
Yes, SOME lines work with a friend dying or a new born but the song is more than a couple lines long. How can he argue with his new born baby in the basement? Think people. If it was a friend dying, why would it be too late for beginnings? He could make new friends anytime.
Either the love of his life (to that point) leaves him or his therapist passed on. He wants to mope and mourn but life doesn't care and isn't convenient and "it keeps coming." He has deadlines and bills to worry about that don't care about his loss.
Also, he didn't say that the person was breathing on the phone, he could have just noticed Kamen's poor breathing at a regular meeting and noticed how bad it was getting.
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09-29-2009
I always interpreted it as the death of someone who he was having an affair with,
"with someone new I could have started" is refering to how he could have left his wife to be with this person. The lines about arguing with his wife seem to fit in with the idea that he wasn't happily married.
"You're smaller than my wife imagined
surprised you were human" for some reason the surprised you were human part always suggests to me the idea of an affair.
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09-19-2009
I wake up and the phone is ringing,
Surprised, as it's early.
And that should be the perfect warning,
That something's, a problem.
To tell the truth I saw it coming,
The way, you were breathing.
But nothing can prepare you for it,
The voice, on the other, end.
This makes me wonder if it's about a current relationship or possibly getting caught having an affair and it's his current love/wife calling/finding out.
I also can't figure out the last words of the song...we're safe for the moment, saved for the moment. If it is about an affair, it makes sense, if not, then what does this mean?
The therapist connection other people have discussed also makes sense to me now, since I made my assumptions about this song before reading how others interpreted the song. Beautiful and sad song regardless of the interpretation.
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09-15-2009
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01-13-2009
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/seconds/lcd-soundsystem-someone-great.htm
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01-05-2009
I wish that we could talk about it,
But there, that's the problem.
With someone new I could have started,
Too late, for beginnings.
You're smaller than my wife imagined,
Surprised, you were human.
There shouldn't be this ring of silence,
But what, are the options?
In relationships, we see our spouses as super heroes for the most part... dont we? but when in break-ups, we see ourselves more like humans, something smaller than what we imagined before.
There is always that tell tail sign that warns you it is over the way we breathe and react to what we say. Maybe when the phone rings it is the actual moment he realises it is actually over? The phonecall is a metephor for the dialogue that goes on in your head trying to make sense of it all.
When you have to think about having to start over, it is impossible to think of starting new with someone else, your ex is the only thing you've known for the length of time you've been with her.
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01-05-2009
After she was done, we got to hold our baby and she fit slightly bigger than our hands. She was someone great. So I can see how it could be about that in away... Only,
The breathing part is kind of ambiguous to this idea...
There was a night when I was walking with my ex-wife and we seen my best-friend/cousin drive by in his truck and thought how great he was doing, how much life he had in him and how wonderful things were, because he was someone who was doing what he wanted even though he didnt finish highschool etc...
That night I woke up with a sudden surge of energy through my body which lifted me off my bed, and I lay there suspended in time, listening to my wife breath as she slept, terrified... A few hours after I got back to sleep, I was wakened by the sound of the phone ringing...I heard my mother in law at the time say to the voice on the other end, "ok, just wait, i will get him." I was not suprised or shocked, but was still unprepared for it. My sister was on the other end to tell me that my cousin died in a car crash.
When we went to go see my aunt at the hospital, she was gone already, but my uncle was still there, standing in the room where my cousin lay. It was unexpected how peaceful and un mangled he was, he was human... That night/week (as we hung out on christmas eve that year) he was larger than life.
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10-08-2008
'i wish that we could talk about it, but there thats the problem' ..the one person he would have/would have wanted to talk to about the loss is gone...that's the problem
'there shouldn't be this ring of silence' ...you would sit in a ring shape in group therapy..what that guy was known for, so maybe this is a description of the first session without him...
i think the rest fits for death generally, and even more so for having lost someone you felt understood you more than anyone...i get a vibe of loneliness listening to it...an individual grieving, like theres no vibe that he can really grieve with anyone else, or that he is
might be looking too deeply but incredible song
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09-23-2008
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09-23-2008
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08-22-2008
I wish that we could talk about it,
But there, that's the problem.
With someone new I couldn't start it,
Too late, for beginnings.
The little things that made me nervous,
Are gone, in a moment.
I miss the way we used to argue,
(This whole paragraph really describes what it would be like to lose a therapist. I was nervous, therefore, my thoughts were irrational and you used to "argue" with me about how to fix them)
Locked, in your basement. (don't know about this)
I wake up and the phone is ringing,
Surprised, as it's early.
And that should be the perfect warning,
That something's, a problem.
To tell the truth I saw it coming,
The way, you were breathing.
But nothing can prepare you for it, (nothing could prepare you for the death)
The voice, on the other, end.
The worst is all the lovely weather,
I'm stunned, it's not raining.
The coffee isn't even bitter,
Because, what's the difference? (He was seeing a therapist for a reason...negativity. Now that the therapist is gone, he realizes that all the stuff he worried about doesn't matter)
There's all the work that needs to be done,
I wish that we could talk about it,
But there, that's the problem.
With someone new I could have started,
Too late, for beginnings.
(he doesn't feel as if he could connect to another therapist)
You're smaller than my wife imagined,
Surprised, you were human.
(he used to talk to his wife about the therapist. And it's surprising that a person who helped you so much is such a small person.)
There shouldn't be this ring of silence,
(he doesn't have a therapist to talk to about his anxiety anymore)
But what, are the options?
It may not be about losing a therapist at all. But it would make sense if it were.
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07-04-2008
I've always thought the song was about an estranged parent or sibling. "You're smaller than my wife imagined" refers to the way he had always described the person he lost to his wife. When we drift away from family, they become almost mythical in stature, and when we talk about them as if they were larger than life- they're either perfect or pure evil... so his wife was surprised at the funeral to see a normal human being in the casket.
Man, that verse about the weather and work needed to be done is so true. You think the world will stop, and it doesn't.
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06-10-2008
"You're smaller than my wife imagined,
Surprised, you were human." - You talk about your past loves with your new one and that person builds them up in their mind, but when they finally met them they're like, "Oh, ok,."
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06-07-2008
I think that if it were to be about death, it's probably death by cancer, especially lung-cancer from smoking.
'To tell the truth I saw it coming,
The way, you were breathing.'
that line shows that the narrator new that the person was probably going to get cancer, as they could tell from their difficulty in breathing (or smoker's cough)
If it's about someone who's died, it's probably about a mother or father figure of some form. The phone call that the narrator receives is probably the first contact he's had with the person for several years, due to an unresolved feud.
'You're smaller than my wife imagined,
Surprised, you were human.'
I believe that line refers to the physical size of the person. The wife may have never seen the caller (mother, father, therapist or whoever) before, and the size of the person is different than the narrator had explained to her. This, i believe, is a good indicator the person is probably very old, and has actually shrunk in height, as people do when they get older (especially if they have illnesses like cancer).
The narrator realizes that his chance to reconcile his relationship with the person has now passed, then the line 'Too late, for beginnings.'
If the song is about a therapist how has died or is dying, the reference to 'arguments in the basement' is probably a metaphor for a therapy room.
'I wish that we could talk about it,
But there, that's the problem.
With someone new I couldn't start it,'
These lines clearly show that although he wants to keep talking to his therapist, he can't, but he can't start anew with another therapist.
Again, if the therapist is dying (as is suggested by the second stanza) he is probably dying of lung cancer or similar.
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06-05-2008
That's the "true" story, but all other theories are certainly great to hear and meditate over. I love this song.
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05-31-2008
its about a death, the dr thing kinda makes sense.. and with the reference to being smaller than his wife imagines, surprised you were human would imply that his wife didnt have a strong relationship with this person
but majority of the song is about greif, and how dificult it is to just get on with life after someone great is gone..
definetly not about a breakup... well thats what i think anyways
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05-14-2008
I don't know, though. Lots of explanations seem viable. I just know I've felt that way when I've heard that my exes are getting married.
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04-28-2008
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03-27-2008
The first grouping of lines refers to the author wishing he could talk to his partner about what happened with their child, longing to go back to a time when they were able to talk about things, argue in the basement.
The second grouping of lines could either refer to the phone call telling the author that the relationship is over or, and what I think, the phone call notifying the author that his child has died. It should have been the perfect warning that it was early, and he could tell by the way the person on the other end of the phone was breathing (perhaps crying, distraught) that something was wrong. And of course, he could not prepare himself for that news.
The third grouping of lines refers to how life goes on after death. How it isn’t far that the weather is nice and the coffee is sweet. The author wishes the world around him reflect the pain he is going through. And then there is all the work that needs to be done, life doesn’t stop even when your world is upside down.
The chorus, and it keeps coming I feel refers to the pain that just keeps coming until the day it stops. After losing someone the waves of pain just come and come for what seems like forever.
The last four lines in the last grouping of lines is where I get most of my interpretation of the song. You’re small than my wife imagined, surprised you were human is what makes me believe the song is about an infants death and then “there shouldn’t be this ring of silence” refers to how there should be a child crying, not nothing.
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03-25-2008
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03-16-2008
With someone new I couldn't start it,
Too late, for beginnings.
The little things that made me nervous,
Are gone, in a moment.
how it sucks to start brand new with someone new
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03-03-2008
Here4amin said that if it was about a death, the line about "with someone new I couldn't start it" makes no sense, and that's totally wrong. Particularly with a shrink that someone became close to; one of the people you *most* feel the need to talk about a loss like that is a shrink (if you have one), but if the shrink is the person who died... and if you start going to a new shrink, you have to go through the whole process of starting it all, them learning about what your issues are, you getting to trust them... makes total sense.
And if the shrink had such an impact on him, when Murphy talked about to his wife, he probably sounded larger than life...
And no, it's not about a fucking abortion.
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02-27-2008
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02-20-2008
It does if he is talking about starting therapy again with someone new.
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02-19-2008
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I wish that we could talk about it,
But there, that's the problem.
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would certainly be ironic if he is singing about a therapist that passed away. The person he always go to deal with difficult situations is now gone.
This would also easily explain "all the work that needs to be done" and "arguing locked in your basement". I don't know too many couples that lock themselves in a basement, argue, and enjoy it. This seems to describe a therapeutic relationship.
Love is only mentioned once, and it concerns the weather. No talk of pretty eyes, soft hands, or affection. I don't get the feeling that this was a romantic relationship.
With one or two lines taken out of context this song can be perverted to mean anything, but the loss of a therapist fits well. Not to mention the album was dedicated to a deceased therapist.
But who knows maybe it is about an aborted fetus... HAHA
08-27-2009
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