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Cold Contagious Lyrics
Wherever you are, you will carry always
Truth of the scars and darkness of your faith Slowly move on, how did we get to here It all went wrong, gravity claiming all your tears Everything looks so much better now, so much better now You will get yours, you will get yours, you will get yours You have no right to ask me now, you were never that around I have missed Reality daytrips and your suit me, suit me ways Turn out the light switch, we've been awake for days And no-one's coming round here no more, no-one's coming round here You will get yours, you will get yours, you will get yours You will get yours, you will get yours You have no right to calm me down, you were never that around I have missed, I have missed Cold contagious, all the might mighty men What you save is what you lose out in the end Cold contagious, cold contagious Paint your perfect day, I don't mind this I'm better off by the way, deeply grounded You will get yours, you will get yours, you will get yours You will get yours, you will get yours, you will get yours Cold contagious, all the mighty mighty men What you save is what you lose out in the end Cold contagious, cold contagious Cold contagious, cold contagious |
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03-05-2002
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06-02-2002
"cold contagious" - we all start thinking of the slang word for "cold" i.e. a virus infecting our bodies. i think he means the actual coldness ("darkness of your faith", "reality daytrips" - hyperventilating i.e dieing)
"you will get yours" - since feeling cold is a sense, all the "mighty mighty men" don't seem to feel anything... they want to be invincible but its futile coz they will get it in the end
any other views??
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06-17-2002
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07-09-2002
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10-17-2002
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10-17-2002
(first half of song)
"Wherever you are, you will carry always
Truth of the scars and darkness of your faith"
*this has always reminded me of depression. the "truth" may take the form of a scar. like looking in a mirror, the honesty you collect from yourself causing pain and suffering that you can never shed.
"Slowly move on, how did we get to here
It all went wrong, gravity claiming all your tears
Everything looks so much better now, so much better now "
*possibly in a relationship, when love goes wrong you find yourself backtracking through the relationship trying to figure out what you did wrong, and why you always had a unbelievable talent at making her cry. the last line "everything's is so much better now" is like a lie that you tell yourself. you rationalize it and conclude that you'd be better off without her, but inside you know it's nothing more than a lie. when gavin sings this you can hear the pain in his voice, somehow implying that everything isn't in fact "all better now"
(chorus)"You will get yours, you will get yours, you will get yours .You have no right to ask me now, you were never that around. I have missed "
*he feels abandoned by this person (possibly a girl from a relationship), and resents her for it. she comes back and tries to show him kindness, possibly to try and be his friend, but instead of accepting this he tries to mentally push her away, and can only comfort himself either by either by hoping that one day she'll get hurt just as bad by someone (you will get yours), or he may be saying that after he shows her how much her abandonment has caused him to hate her, she'll hurt as well (you will get yours)
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10-17-2002
Turn out the light switch, we've been awake for days
And no-one's coming round here no more, no-one's coming round here"
* the first part of this reminds me of how when you're in a relationship, sometimes the person your with is always needing more and more pieces of you. or maybe you have to continually do things to suit the person your with in order for them to want to be with you. the second part of this paragraph is actually one of my favorite parts of the song "turn out the like switch , we've been awake for days". sometimes when depression really hits you hard (in this case, over a relationship gone bad) you always feel so tired all the time. no matter how much sleep you get, you always feel like you've been awake for days. it's like your mind is in so much pain and struggle that it continually tries to convince you to go back to sleep so it can rest. finally, the last part is just another impication of feeling abandoned by everyone, or more particularly, one certain person.
"Cold contagious, all the might mighty men
What you save is what you lose out in the end
Cold contagious, cold contagious"
*i think this is where i get the real meaning of the song. what it makes me think about is how when you're depressed, you eventually start to spread that darkness to the people you love ... the people who are around you most often. as if "depression (cold) is contagious". he realizes that the reason this girl couldn't stay with him is because his constant depression was making her become depressed as well. i see the "what you save is what you lose out in the end" line as a direct statement of his negativity. kind of like saying "why should we try to live life and strive to be happy or succesfully , when ultimately, in the end we all die"
"Paint your perfect day, I don't mind this
I'm better off by the way, deeply grounded"
* what a perfect ending to this song. a very sad and hopeless ending, but probably my favorite two lines. he realizes that the girl will be so much happier without him, but he still resents her for it. gavin says something that is so simple is such a beautiful and poetic way. alot of times people who are depressed fall in love with it, and will give up people that they love before they will change. so in the end i think he's saying "go on and have your perfect, happy life without me, because i can only be myself if i'm depressed"
thanks to anyone who took the time to read this. hopefully i'll read a few more interpretations for this song.
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03-04-2003
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03-26-2003
"Paint your perfect day, I don't mind this
I'm better off by the way, deeply grounded"
No offense schliffen, but if you really dont think gavin Rosdale has meaningful lyrics then do a little re-evaluating. He has some of the best lyrics out there, filled with emotion and real meaning. This is definitley my favorite song, and there are so many lyrics that hit me really deep. I will let NightNeverSleeps translate it, nice job on that.
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03-31-2003
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04-19-2004
This is one of my all time favorite songs, i could hear it straight for 12 hours - its really depressing but i like it that way.
Well, the meaning - i seem to always think about it - for me its about a one-sided relationship which finally ended and the time (years) thereafter.
I cant comment on each line but a few i can really relate too :
"Wherever you are, you will carry always
Truth of the scars and darkness of your faith"
She will never forget about him, she will never forget what she did to him - the darkness of your faith could probably mean her bad conscience after all this time.
"Slowly move on, how did we get to here
It all went wrong, gravity claiming all your tears
Everything looks so much better now, so much better now"
How could this relationship end ? We will know in later verses, however he may know that its already over and that it is the best for him - it feels so much better to be without her - she probably caused him alot of pain - and her tears mean now nothing to him.
"You will get yours, you will get yours, you will get yours"
Could mean the person (girl) will sooner or later see what she is missing , that there s probably no one that will care for her that much like he did - she will get her insights what she has done... she will miss the time they both had, but much much later till she realizes that there is noone else just like him
"You have no right to ask me now, you were never that around
I have missed "
Time passed, and she calls him again but he doesnt want to hear anything from her - he had missed her so much - it rip him apart and she didnt care - now its to late to go back.
"Cold contagious, all the might mighty men
What you save is what you lose out in the end "
She saved her emotions, which means she did not invest into this relationship - she would always take and probably never gave any love back - she didnt want or wasnt able to evolve simple feelngs for him - this of course will come back to her, you gain nothing for just nothing.
"Paint your perfect day, I don't mind this
I'm better off by the way, deeply grounded "
As in "You have no right to ask me now", he was able to forget about her - what she caused to him - that she couldnt love him enough - he doesnt care about her anymore.
This is all i could think of - to sum it up - she wasnt able to realize what kind of men he really was, that he cared so much about her but she couldnt evolve any feelings, she finally sees her mistake after a few bad relationships and she wants him back, but alas its to late already.
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10-18-2004
this song is really multilayered. there's a lot going on. I think mainly it's about being depressed and how it can start small but really severe. and when he sings "you have no right to tell me now..." I think he's telling a friend or significant other that he doesn't care what they think because either he has to face it alone or because they ignored him when he really needed their help. This song is outstanding, Gavin isn't a spectacular singer, but he's still mesmerizing with his voice.
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08-16-2005
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08-27-2005
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07-03-2006
rossdale was deemed as a kurt cobain copycat back when bush started, this style of lyrics being one of the reasons - kurt said that he just wrote lines that sounded good, but didnt always mean something... but in such a style it always does when it's sub concious.
i love bush!
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08-08-2006
"Reality day trips" and "paint your perfect day" refer to the fantasy the other person lived in. They didn't give to the relationship. If the song is about betrayl then they are dating someone else but the speaker thinks they will now get theirs karmically and be hurt.
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02-11-2007
This is an amazing song.
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08-29-2007
Someone with AIDS telling someone else that he/she has AIDS? And trying that someone not fell sory for him...
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12-07-2007
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02-25-2008
The lines "You will get yours" and "you have no right to ask me now, you were never that around" applied both to my boyfriend and man who raped me. I was also a virgin at the time, so the "What you save it what you lose out in the end" also had meaning to me.
Basically, this was one of the songs that was on repeat while I was drowning in depression and self-pity. This song is one of the songs that remind me of the darkest time in my life, but I still love it for giving me something to relate to. And it's still a truly beautiful song.
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11-14-2008
I see it like this:
Imagine it from the point of view of a man who was broken up with by a woman whom he had incredibly strong feelings ("Truth of the scars")for but who was uninterested and dispondent toward him, possibly even disloyal("darkness of your faith"); cold. In this case, the wherever you are is general, like wherever you are in your life, wherever you go, wherever you are at emotionally. They meet again and she wishes to talk about what happened (borne out later), but now he feels callous toward her ("everything looks so much better now""You will get yours"). The cold was contagious. She tries to talk to him about his feelings but 'she has no right to ask him now'."I have missed" is continued emphasis on how painful losing her was. The following section begins with "Reality daytrips" or his desire to focus on how terrible of a reality being with her was "your suit me, suit me ways" where being awake for days and no one coming around here no more is from constant fighting. The desires for her to be punished and him avenge grow (more "you will get yours"s). As he works himself into a rage about how upset he is over the whole spectacle, now "she has no right to calm him down". Still more emphasis on losing her.
So the cold spread to him. Now he is cold, like all the mighty men. Fighting to keep things is pointless and one must let things go. Here she might be attempting to renew 'paint your perfect day' reminds me of something my lady friend does when I am angry to the point I am ready to leave. A uniting action. Here, I think, contrarily, that she is trying to make her life after him sound rosy. But now he doesn't care. She is talking without asking him anything. He is 'better of by the way' and he is more sure and self-confident. He wouldn't go through emotional terrorizing again. He is a changed man.
That was really long. But this song deserves it.
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12-24-2008
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