Feist – I Feel It All

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  Song Meaning:This one is really fun to interpret, and it's a song that I only came to understand recently, after a very difficult time in my life (for many many reasons). This is also (imo) Feist's very best song, lyrically.
  
  The song is about a person have the life epiphany about the balance of life: of people, of relationships, of foilables of others, the weaknesses, the strengths, the love, the hate, and everything in between. In short, it's the recognization that one has the tools to see the very inner workings of another and be able to shape and manipulate people seemingly at will. However, Feist also recognizes (thank goodness!) the evil in forcing people to do things against their nature and also sees that only through the use of truth and good will towards others can you bring about positive change that won't leave good people angry in your wake.
  
  It's a remarkably mature and breathtaking lyric, when Feist recognizes that in the end, the only one who can really destroy her is herself, through her own actions ("I'll be the one to hold the gun").

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  Song Meaning:This one is really fun to interpret, and it's a song that I only came to understand recently, after a very difficult time in my life (for many many reasons). This is also (imo) Feist's very best song, lyrically.
  
  The song is about a person have the life epiphany about the balance of life: of people, of relationships, of foilables of others, the weaknesses, the strengths, the love, the hate, and everything in between. In short, it's the recognization that one has the tools to see the very inner workings of another and be able to shape and manipulate people seemingly at will. However, Feist also recognizes (thank goodness!) the evil in forcing people to do things against their nature and also sees that only through the use of truth and good will towards others can you bring about positive change that won't leave good people angry in your wake.
  
  It's a remarkably mature and breathtaking lyric, when Feist recognizes that in the end, the only one who can really destroy her is herself, through her own actions ("I'll be the one to hold the gun").

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  General Comment:I love this song so much...she means she REALLY feels it all: literally the balance between good an evil, and how they measure out in difference people, as well as entire categories (i.e. good people, bad corporation, good country, bad state) When you can literally see the how balanced (between the two sides) things in life are, and in knowing this feeling a bit off balance yourself, because it's a bit too powerful.

  Flag bernlin2000on December 30, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:I feel it all I feel it all
  I feel it all I feel it all
  The wings are wide the wings are wide
  Wild card inside wild card inside
  
  
  This song gives me the chills. She begins the song by saying how deeply she experiences her feelings towards her previous relationship. She says the wings are wide as in she is ready to fly, and there is a wild card inside because it could go one way or the other.
  
  If she keeps letting herself remain in this relationship when she knows that it is toxic, she is going to break her own heart. She says she knows more than she knew before, meaning that she knows too much about the relationship and that it is not healthy.
  
  She always goes back on what she knows in her heart to be true. She tries to deny that she doesn't know what she knows, that the relationship is doomed. They go back into a honeymoon period where they don't fight for a while and he doesn't treat her poorly hence the "I love you more! No I love YOU more."
  
  She acknowledges the fact that she has to be strong and leave him. She uses the metaphor of putting her wait against the door holding up an entire gulf, and the loudness of a kick drum on the basement floor. She compares her love for him like a winter bird, she had been so strong and withstood so much and now it is starting to take a serious toll on her.
  
  The whole song is pretty much her way of saying that she can't un-know what she already knows although sometimes she wants to. If she stays, she is staying with the knowledge that it is toxic and there will be no one to blame but herself when it inevitably falls apart.
  

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  Song Meaning:i think this song is about a girl who had lots of bad relationships in the past that make her think she had learn enough to break her heart one more time.. so she set up standard on what a relationship she should be involved.. then she met this extraordinary guy who he think is different ( wing are wide,wide card inside) that make her think that the love they have is extraornary love.. but later found out that he's just the same as the other. and one day she found out that she has been bending all the rules she established for this man and doesnt know what to do anymore (stranded in a fog of words).. and is helplessly inlove with the man.. though she knows this relationship is gonna end bad, and the more she fight not to fall with the guy, the more love she feel for him ( put ur weight againts the door).. so its like holding a gun to defend urself only to realized ur aiming the gun to urself.. so she let go of the guy and break her heart... the truth lied , what she think she know about love is enough is isnt enough at all..

  Flag Gatekeeperon February 14, 2011   Link

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    This is how I see it too. She tries to protect herself by not falling in love by breaking up with guys before she can let herself fall in love and vulnerable to the pain for a heartbreak, even though she still feels all the love and pain still.
    
    "Ooh, I'll be the one who'll break my heart
    I'll be the one who'll break my heart
    I'll be the one who'll break my heart
    I'll end it, don't you start it"
    
    The guys can't break her heart if she breaks her own heart first. She'll end the relationship before it gets too far. She holds the gun.
    
    But now she's starting the think that she wants to win the war of love. She wants to fall in love again...
    

    Flag moveoneinchatatimeon December 28, 2011  
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  General Comment:Did we fight or did we talk?
  
  So beautiful. I love it.

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  General Comment:As in, it reminds of another song. ^^^
  Sorry =/

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  General Comment:"Fly away
  Fly away to what you want to make"
  
  Why does that part sound like another song?

  Flag simdaneson April 16, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:I love Feist. And I was going to give my intepretation of the song, but goldenblind221 and some others already nailed most of it. Still.. here's my version.
  
  "Oh I'll be the one who'll break my heart
  I'll be the one to hold the gun.
  (...)
  I'll end it though you started it.
  
  I think this part indeed refers to her ending the relationship cause it was bad for her or hurting her. But meanwhile it hurts her to have to end it. This could be for whatever reason and the relationship can be in whatever form. Like an unrequited love, but more likely in my eyes.. a person who has been betrayed by their lover.
  
  Therefore if she sings 'No one likes to take a test' I think in that part she describes how it feels when you feel torn. When you know rationally that you should let go of the realtionship and your love cause they hurt you, but you still love your partner. For instance: what do you feel when you find out that your lover cheated on you? Especially if the realtionship is good otherwise and you were happy and in love with the person, you can be very torn between your feelings.
  
  All the feelings that come with this mix of pain, anger, sadness, relief, fear and love can create a very restless storm of emotions.. hence the line 'I feel it all'. I think the 'wild card inside' refers to her divided emotions and feelings and the outcome of them which is still undecided.
  
  Another example of these divided emotions probably shows in the lines where she sings 'I love you more' right after she sang that she would have to pull the trigger on the relationship and break her own heart.
  The dilemma of: Forgive and love them, or leave and lose them?
  
  In some cases you have know other option but to choose for yourself. to let it burn (that's why I love the video, it accurately depictures the feelings she sings about) 'and fly away'. To break free from it all and the painful emotions.
  
  The truth lies
  The truth lied
  And lies divide
  Lies divide
  
  To me this part obviously describes how things weren't the way she thought they were. And how lies can ruin things, tear people apart and the truth or situation as you knew it will never be as it was before after you find out.
  
  When she sings 'I know more than I knew before' she probably refers to something she found out that changed her perspective on the realtionship or situation.
  Then later she sings 'I don't know what I knew before', what could mean that first she thinks she knows what to do about what she found out, but then it turns out to be more complicated then she thought.
  But either way, she know she want to 'win the war'. Possibly either the war she got in with her partner or the struggle she has with her own mixed up emotions, probably both.
  
  Very strong emotional song, and with such an upbeat tune!

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  General Comment:I think all you guys are the shit.

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