Do you remember What things looked like when you were young? The voice of an old friend Or the notes to your first song It's been a while now Since you asked me to be Your cat, your dog Your owl or bumblebee Lately I've been feeling Like the day?s gonna come You'll walk up to me And erase my memory Can't wait to feel brand new I can't wait to meet you again, friend I think I must have known you In another life I think our rocking chairs Used to rock together all night With pictures of owls All over the walls Tiny ships in bottles They won't sail too far out



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Track duration: 04:04

"Hands Remember" as written by Sindri Mar Sigfusson, Sindri Mar Sigfusson

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  • +1
    General Comment:This song is insane, i get the chills everytime i listen to it.

    I agree that its def about first love but also more than that. I think its about the intense shut everything else out kind of love. The kind that feels like its simply meant to be, the kind that never fades and when you expiernce the entire universe makes sense.

    Anyways thats my take on it.
    Flag BiggerThanTheSoundon June 29, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I get a totally different meaning out of this song, not to say I'm right necessarily.. But I've always thought that the song was about a girl that he used to be with, and things didn't work out, so instead of going the rest of their lives without each other they erase the memory of being together so that they can meet once again under different circumstances and have some sort of friendship the second time around. "Tiny ships in bottles, they wont sail too far out..." I've always interpreted as, the two would reacquaint inevitably because they are the ships and there's only so far they can go, before they must turn around and run into each other again.
    Flag amypuffon May 27, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think this is about two friends or lovers who haven't seen each other in years and now are going to meet and the song is about the anticipation he feels for this moment as he remembers all those times they had together so long ago and will have again now.
    Flag Cyberghoston April 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This song is definitely about two loves, first loves, I think.
    About love that is innocent and pure, clean and beautiful, without all the messiness of certain mature "adults things" that are in relationships when they get older.

    Then the couple possible gets married, and it's been a while.
    "Since you asked me to be
    Your cat, your dog, your owl, or bumblebee"
    Cat, dog, owl, bumble bee, kind of like to hubby?

    "You'll walk up to me and erase my memory
    Can't wait to feel brand new
    I cant wait to meet you again,
    friend"
    Meaning that every time they walk up to him, he falls in love again, forgets all he was thinking of, and sees her the same way he did when they were first in love.

    "I think I must have known you
    in another life
    I think our rocking chairs used to rock together
    All night"
    Him saying that they are true lovers, meant to be.
    I think that you have your soul mate, and if you don't find them in your first life, you're bound to meet in the next, and this line kind of is like that. How They probably found each other in a past life and managed to find each other again, because they're meant to be.

    "Tiny ships in bottles, they won't sail too far"
    like what setsunamudou732 said,
    They won't sail too far away from eachother, because they're meant to be, it's their destiny, and they cannot escape that.
    Flag whoregasmicon February 03, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i love this song :)

    this is what it means to me-

    youtube.com/…

    (i made the video)
    Flag ireallylikebagelson March 29, 2008   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:two lovers, who've had a falling out. and the narrator is waiting for the fight to blow over so they can see each other again. I get the impression this is not an entirely uncommon occurrence, that maybe they've gotten in fights like this before, and they separate for a while, but always come back because underneath it all they're so perfect for each other it's like they already lived a whole life as a couple, and have already died of old age sitting in rocking chairs together. they're like ships in a bottle, they can never get very far away from each other.
    Flag setsunamudou732on February 16, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i agree with the previous comment. this song is amazing. really, it's amazing.
    Flag woahhelloon December 21, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:This song is so excruciatingly gorgeous. When I heard it for the first time I felt my heart go pitter-patter above the butterflies in my stomach.
    Flag elrondioon November 23, 2007   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:well yeah maybe thats the line
    but i dont think anybody but seabear themselves know for sure.

    but it's not worth changing 2 words, you know.

    if you're a real fan, you can figure it out for yourself.
    Flag littlebabykatieon October 27, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:great job! thanks for sharing.

    I hope you don't mind me correcting something. the line:

    "Lately I've been feeling like the day has come"

    I think that last bit there is "the day is gonna come." also, I think he sings the word "out" at the end of:

    "Tiny ships in bottles, they won't sail too far"
    Flag arnfdenoon October 13, 2007   Link

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