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Sun in an Empty Room Lyrics
Now that the furniture’s returning to its goodwill home
Dishes and last week’s paper, rumors and elections, crosswords, our un-ending wars the black in fingers smeared the (????) now that the last month’s rent is scheming with the damage deposit take this moment to decide (sun in an empty room) we were meant to if we tried (sun in an empty room) felt around for far too much (sun in an empty room) things that accidentally touch (sun in an empty room) the hands that we nearly hold with pennies for the gst the shoulders we lean our shoulders into on the subway, mutter an apology the shins that we kick beneath the table, that reflexive cry the faces we meet one awkward beat too long and terrified know the things we need to say (sun in an empty room) we’ve said already anyways (sun in an empty room) parallelograms of light (sun in an empty room) rooms that we repainted white (sun in an empty room) sun in an empty room sun in an empty room sun in an empty room sun in an empty room sun in an empty room sun in an empty room sun in an empty room sun in an empty room take eight minutes and divide (sun in an empty room) by ninety million lonely miles (sun in an empty room) watch the shadow cross the floor (sun in an empty room) we don’t live here anymore (sun in an empty room)
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04-07-2007
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05-02-2007
the one line that just captures it for me is "watch the shadow cross the floor, we don't live here anymore". i don't know why, but the way he sings the words, they just sound so tragic and moving.
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08-08-2007
I think it ties in with the crosswords line above it. When you are mad at the person you live with, there is not much to do. You don't want to watch TV. You'd be in the same room. So you do crosswords.
At first, I thought this song was about moving homes, but now I think its more about breaking up with a live-in girlfriend/boyfriend. The first verse I think has to do with the living stituation, where things are going downhill and they are deciding to end it or whatever "we were meant to if we tried".
And I think the second verse describes how lonely the speaker is once they have moved out, seeing people on the subway, and seeing their ex breifly in a public place.
In the rooms that used to be full of life, there is only sun. Maybe it takes like eight minutes for the sunlight to reach earth from ninety million miles away?
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08-14-2007
I like that idea. You're also right about the changed lyrics. One other lyric I believe is different is "we were meant to if we tried" should be "if we meant it if we tried."
Great job on the lyrics!
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08-16-2007
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08-24-2007
With dishes and last week’s paper, rumors and elections,
crosswords, an unending wars
the black in fingers smeared their prints on every door pulled shut
now that the last month’s rent is scheming with the damage deposit
take this moment to decide (sun in an empty room)
if we were meant to if we tried (sun in an empty room)
felt around for far too much (sun in an empty room)
from things that accidentally touch (sun in an empty room)
the hands that we nearly hold with pennies for the gst
the shoulders we lean our shoulders into on the subway, muttered an apology
the shins that we kick beneath the table, that reflexive cry
the faces we meet one awkward beat too long and terrified
know the things we need to say (sun in an empty room)
and said already anyways (sun in an empty room)
my parallelograms of light (sun in an empty room)
and walls that we repainted white (sun in an empty room)
sun in an empty room
sun in an empty room
sun in an empty room
sun in an empty room
sun in an empty room
sun in an empty room
sun in an empty room
sun in an empty room
take eight minutes and divide (sun in an empty room)
by ninety million lonely miles (sun in an empty room)
watch the shadow cross the floor (sun in an empty room)
we don’t live here anymore (sun in an empty room)
only line that sounds really hard to figure out is the one about the reflexive cry.
Anyways, I love this song. Def one of my favorites off the album.
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09-18-2007
the painting is a really great image to go with the song.
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10-03-2007
"Take this moment to decide, if we were meant to if we tried, felt around for far too much, from things that accidentally touch", to me, seems to mean that they were looking for too much in a relationship that they got into out of random chance, and that they were feeling around for far too much, or far more than was possible between them.
The second verse, I think, is about things we as humans do by accident, and are way more awkward to us than they should be for some reason. Bumping shoulders with someone on the subway or bus, kicking them under the table, or your eyes meeting in public when they catch you staring (The faces we meet in one awkward beat too long and terrified).
And I think the second chorus is all about running out of things to say to the person you're dating. I know I've been there before, having nothing left to say but small talk because you've already said everything. "Know the things we need to say are already said anyway." I think the other two lines in it are in reference to the painting by Edward Hopper, look it up on Google image search.
And, on the last chorus, you're right. The Earth is, at its closest, 91 million miles from the Sun, at its furthest 94.5 million miles. It takes a time of 8.3 minutes for light from the Sun to reach us here at the Earth, and I think the line is referring to him watching the shadow slowly move across the floor as, every 8.3 minutes, new light hits the floor and moves it slightly, across a room that's been left empty of furniture and memories, as no one lives there anymore.
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10-04-2007
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10-26-2007
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10-27-2007
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09-27-2008
"take this moment to decide if we meant it if we tried or felt around for far too much from things that accidentally touched"
that seems to me like a line about trying to decide whether it was fate that brought them together or if it had been just an accident.
the 2nd verse is about their last days or weeks together, and the awkwardness and loneliness of a failing relationship, where two people who once were so close are now almost as distant as strangers. Almost holding hands by instinct but not quite, leaning against each other but only by accident, looking at each other a little too long but not wanting to speak, etc. It's all things you do when your relationship is over, perhaps just waiting for the lease to be up before you can move on.
Sun in an empty room is the end product of the relationship and all that's left when it's over.
The image of the painting really does go well with the song. Thanks to those who pointed that out.
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10-04-2008
To me it is saying packing up their dishes in last week's paper (as to not break them when moving). And their prints are smeared on the doors due to the ink smudges on their hands from handling the newpaper.
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01-22-2009
And when he's talking about the "rumours, an election, cross-words, an unending war" it's about the contents of the newspaper.
Love this man's songwriting!
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03-29-2009
Now that the furniture's returning to its Goodwill home, with dishes in last week's papers—rumours and elections, crosswords, an unending war—that blacken our fingers, smear their prints on every door pulled shut. Now that the last month's rent is scheming with the damage deposit, take this moment to decide if we meant it, if we tried, or felt around for far too much from things that accidentally touched. The hands that we nearly hold with pennies for the GST, the shoulders we lean our shoulders into on the subway, mutter an apology. The shins that we kick beneath the table, that reflexive cry. The faces we meet one awkward beat too long and terrify, know that the things we need to say have been said already anyway, by parallelograms of light on walls that we repainted white. So take eight minutes and divide by ninety million lonely miles, and watch a shadow cross the floor. We don't live here anymore.
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11-05-2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u75nHvSvxO8
The video offers a very interesting perspective of the song, when the old bald guy goes into a house, while thumbing money in an envelope and looks around at the sun in an empty room. That, combined with the references to the decay of the North End made me think that we see the song through the bald guys perspective, and the song he's singing is sort of a general lament for the loss of the North End.
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