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I Didn't Understand Lyrics
Thought you'd be looking
For the next in line to love then ignore Put out and put away And so you'd soon be leaving me alone Like I'm supposed to be Tonight, tomorrow, and every day There's nothing here that you'll miss I can guarantee you this Is a cloud of smoke Trying to occupy space What a fucking joke What a fucking joke I waited for a bus to separate the both of us And take me off far away from you Because my feelings never change a bit I always feel like shit I don't know why, I guess that I "just do" You once talked to me about love And you painted pictures of a Never-Never Land And I could've gone to that place But I didn't understand I didn't understand I didn't understand |
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04-11-2004
"you once talked to me about love and you painted pictures of
a never-neverland and i could've gone to that place
but i didn't understand "
he feels resentment towards her, thinking that she will just move on and find someone elses heart to break.
" waited for a bus to separate the both of us and take me off far away
from you 'cos my feelings never change a bit i always feel like shit".... i think this is about how he wants to forget about her and get away from all the pain she caused him but the pain never leaves.
mos def one of my fave elliot songs
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04-16-2004
heartbreaking and breathtaking.
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04-19-2004
"you once talked to me about love and you painted pictures of
a never-neverland and i could've gone to that place
but i didn't understand "
almost like the other person tried to show him how to be happy and how to cope, and tried to brighten him up in any way possible but nothing was working because at the time he obviously didn't understand happiness. and then to me it seems like he goes into the feelings of knowing the person is better off without you because he knows his feelings will never change. I see that in this line.
" waited for a bus to separate the both of us and take me off far away
from you 'cos my feelings never change a bit i always feel like shit i
don't know why i guess that i "just do" "
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06-16-2004
i love the voices create a melancholy emotion in the whole piece.
this song is about being rejected and confused.
"thought you'd be looking for the next in line to love then ignore
put out and put away
and so you'd soon be leaving me along like i'm supposed to be tonight, "
means how this person has done this to him, and is now moving on. there are some hostile feelings.
"there's nothing here that you'll miss"
is saying how, he is just agreeing, like saying, "yeah youre better off" even though he is hurt.
this- "you once talked to me about love and you painted pictures of
a never-neverland and i could've gone to that place
but i didn't understand"
is saying how, he must have cared more, and loved this person but now that the relationship is over with, must have not understood the relationship and he is at fault.
this song is about confusion and how the person agrees with his love and then is hostile.
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11-16-2004
He feels worthless, inferior. And even if the relationship has lasted a long time, and there have been happy moments (which are seen only as a cover - clouds of smoke), he feels in himself that there is no reason for her to love him. That he will always be alone. He is unloved, unlovable.
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12-16-2004
basically like everyone before me said, its just about not understanding, and sometimes wanting to understand or not wanting to understand whats going on around you. Basically you put up this wall that keeps this gap inbetween you and the world and no matter what kind of happiness or feelings you come across you can't feel them, you simply can't understand, thus leaving the person emotionless and unable to connect wtih anyone. Always having this unbearable pessimism towards everything that makes those who you know you love drift away from you, no matter how much they show they love or care for you, you still continue to widen the gap making it impossible to love you back.
just my thoughts.
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01-02-2005
"Granduer, knowledge, fame,
Friendship, pleasure and wellness,
All is only wind, that smokes:
For better saying, all is nothing."
This seems appropriate here, Smith seeming to be a Kierkegaard fan in his lyrics.
"i can guarantee you this is a cloud of smoke
trying to occupy space
what a fucking joke"
Would be to say metaphorically, smoke rises to slowly disappear in the air, what he must have shared with this person (maybe himself) he realizes it's just another useless mask. The things that seem like they matter at the time are just smoke, all is only wind that smokes. And in the end, realizing this would make one feel like nothing. Almost trying to convince (in despair?) that it was all a joke in the first place.
"...and so you'd soon be leaving me alone, like I'm supposed to be tonight, tomorrow, and every-day."
Once again, mentioning that he is nothing anyway. And since he's nothing he'd rather they go. Like he knew from the beginning he knew it was all going to happen, but he didn't want to believe that love was just a painting and a fairy-tale.
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02-09-2005
I think it's about a relationship where he just wasn't happy, even though the girl was amazing. He just didn't realize it was love at the time. Now he regrets it.
The reason I think this is because of the "you once talked to me about love and you painted pictures of a never-neverland and I could have gone to that place but I didn't understand"
again, so precious.
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03-06-2005
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03-17-2005
it's a lot like Laura in the Glass Menagerie, if anyone's read that.
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03-28-2005
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04-02-2005
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05-25-2005
"and so you'd soon be leaving me, ALONE like I'm supposed to be tonight, tomorrow and everyday"
this makes alot more sense and it is what he says, I think
also, "i always feel like shit i dont know why, i guess that i just do"....i dont see any reason to have quotation marks around the "just do" part because it doesn't seem like a quote to me. he is saying that he always feels like crap regardless and he can't explain why but if there are quotation marks here the meaning is distorted and it doesn't work as well in my opinion.
any, i love this song and i agree with what most of you guys say about it. so simple and beautiful.........RIP
Edited by YtseJam on May 25 2005, at 07:06AM
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05-25-2005
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07-06-2005
Elliott was an amazing songwriter and he will always be so missed.
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08-07-2005
"there's nothing here that you'll miss
I can guarantee you
this is a cloud of smoke
trying to occupy space
what a fucking joke,"
when I hit a low point, and by low, i mean as down with the ground as possible, I find myself feeling this way... dissipating into the air. so yeah it's a good time for me to rediscover this song. heh
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08-08-2005
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08-12-2005
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10-10-2005
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10-10-2005
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01-01-2006
Now that has never happened before. The last couple of lines, what a sentiment, especially when you think how it all ended for Elliott.
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01-20-2006
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01-27-2006
This song is one of my absolute favourites. I can only listen to it when I'm alone and there is no chance of an interruption. I play in a band, and I remember specifically listening to this song once when I got home from a cross-country tour, during which Elliott died. I was driving home a day after getting back and I just parked on the backroads near where I live, watched the snow come down and listened to this song about 5 times in a row. The line "I waited for a bus..." really reminded me of leaving for a tour and leaving someone behind. It hit home then, whether that's what he actually meant or not.
Anyways, I remember sitting there and listening to that song and really wishing that my favourite musician wasn't dead.
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03-10-2006
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05-31-2006
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