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Sometimes I go whole days
Listening bored, half sleep
I won't say anything
That's worth a thing to me
One day, suddenly, time
Took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly
What begins as an unguarded
Train of thoughts slowly can become
An addiction to the slumber
Of disconnection and the resonance
Of memory that no longer has a shape
But keeps you numb through
The hours till gone is another day
Be aware, my darling
These things I say I mean
Are just traces of something
I long to feel again
I see our time expand
In the air almost forcibly,
Spreading thinner till it dissolves completely
Listening bored, half sleep
I won't say anything
That's worth a thing to me
One day, suddenly, time
Took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly
What begins as an unguarded
Train of thoughts slowly can become
An addiction to the slumber
Of disconnection and the resonance
Of memory that no longer has a shape
But keeps you numb through
The hours till gone is another day
Be aware, my darling
These things I say I mean
Are just traces of something
I long to feel again
I see our time expand
In the air almost forcibly,
Spreading thinner till it dissolves completely
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"Sometimes I go whole days
listening bored, half sleep
I won't say anything
that's worth a thing to me"
is a pretty fair description of how you feel when you're in the midst of that sort of addiction. Real life feels unreal, you can barely focus or function, all you can think about is how much you NEED to escape back into your dream world.
"One day, suddenly, time
took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly
What begins as an unguarded
train of thoughts slowly can become
an addiction to the slumber
of disconnection and the resonance
of memory that no longer has a shape
but keeps you numb through
the hours till gone is another day."
How it all starts. A dream lingers in memory, maybe you write it down, maybe it just sticks in the back of your mind. You start wondering if maybe, just maybe, sleeping a little more wouldn't be such a bad thing - an unguarded train of thoughts that leads you slowly into an addiction where that need to retreat, to escape, becomes more and more overwhelming and you spend less and less time awake, until you're really just going through the motions of life because you're expected to, until you sleep away entire weekends and holidays, barely leaving your bedroom except for bathroom breaks and meals.
"Be aware, my darling
these things I say I mean
are just traces of something
I long to feel again
I see our time expand
in the air almost forcibly,
spreading thinner till it dissolves completely."
This come across almost like a warning to me not to abuse dreams to the point where you form an emotional dependence on them. The last few lines ring true especially for me - even in the aftermath, knowing how unhealthy your lifestyle was at that time, it's incredibly alluring to fall right back into it again, to miss all those hours of dreamtime stretched into days without a care in the world.
VERSE 1;
Sometimes I go whole days; Listening, bored, half asleep
I won’t say anything that’s worth a thing to me
*(Obviously means that most times she is “out of it”, or detached emotionally from herself)
One day, suddenly time took a turn that once felt so brief
I blinked to see polite ghosts fading quickly
*(one day she met someone for a brief moment that made the ‘ghosts’ of her past lovers fade- or made her forget about them) ***OR; if the lyrics are; "I blink to see, but light goes fading quickly." as ginasf says; then this could mean that she was blinded by the beauty of this person when first seeing them.
CHORUS;
What begins as an unguarded train of thought slowly can become an addiction
To the slumber of disconnection
*(She has a feeling about that new person and soon these thoughts come on so regularly that it’s like she is addicted to them. “To the slumber of disconnection” can perhaps mean, having these feelings until the moment the previous lovers disconnect, or break up.)
And resonates a memory that no longer has a shape, but keeps you numb
*(These new feelings bring on memories of her past lover, that no longer have meaning and rather than feeling love or happiness, she’s numb)
Through the hours still gone’s another day.
*(wasted so many days with these feelings)
VERSE 2;
Be aware my darling, these things I say I mean
Are just traces of something I want to feel again,
*(to her old lover; she is addicted to this new man and she means it- these feelings are traces of how she used to feel about her old lover, and what she wants to feel again.)
I see our time expand in the air almost forcibly
Spreading thinner ‘til it dissolves completely.
*(She sees their time as lovers slowly coming to an end and soon their love will dissolve like the air or fog she describes as expanding and spreading thinner)
**this is how I see it anyway... but again; personal experiences can make us interpret it all differently
First line sounds like Sometimes I go whole days listening, bored, half asleep to me though :S
Great stuff.