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There is no need to throw your arms around
And there is no need to ask unless there is some doubt
If you are comfortable with two feet on the ground
You don't need wings now
You don't need wings now
Have you set down your course
Or are you out of control, my dear?
Or are you accidentally part of
Some involuntary movement here?
We thought we knew it so well
We could do it with our arms
Tied behind our backs
And our eyes shut tight
I thought i knew it so well i could stop
So i stopped and i can't...
Can't start again
Stand under the hole in your roof
Let the rain come in and fall down on your head
Cos it's a simple joy you can bring upon yourself
It's a simple something new, something else
Trees stand in a perfect line
Trees stand at attention
Not much time has passed
But already she likes concrete better than grass
And i don't think we'll last
So i stare up at the sky and it hurts my eyes
Maybe i'll go blind
Maybe all i'll see is, all i'll see is sunshine
Sunshine
Sunshine
I'm not trying to sound
I'm just trying to sound
I don't wanna sound like this
Sound like this
Sound like this
You're the last day of april every year
You're grey, feeling for something, anything, you can't have
Oversize, owning the road
Pulled by a current, tossed over in the wind
You focus your sights and try
Try to stare up at the sky
Does it hurt your eyes?
Maybe you'll go blind
Or maybe all you'll see is, all you'll see is sunshine
Sunshine
Walk in a straight line
You waste energy in the daytime
And i know exactly what i'm doing, doing
Sometimes
Sometimes......
And there is no need to ask unless there is some doubt
If you are comfortable with two feet on the ground
You don't need wings now
You don't need wings now
Have you set down your course
Or are you out of control, my dear?
Or are you accidentally part of
Some involuntary movement here?
We thought we knew it so well
We could do it with our arms
Tied behind our backs
And our eyes shut tight
I thought i knew it so well i could stop
So i stopped and i can't...
Can't start again
Stand under the hole in your roof
Let the rain come in and fall down on your head
Cos it's a simple joy you can bring upon yourself
It's a simple something new, something else
Trees stand in a perfect line
Trees stand at attention
Not much time has passed
But already she likes concrete better than grass
And i don't think we'll last
So i stare up at the sky and it hurts my eyes
Maybe i'll go blind
Maybe all i'll see is, all i'll see is sunshine
Sunshine
Sunshine
I'm not trying to sound
I'm just trying to sound
I don't wanna sound like this
Sound like this
Sound like this
You're the last day of april every year
You're grey, feeling for something, anything, you can't have
Oversize, owning the road
Pulled by a current, tossed over in the wind
You focus your sights and try
Try to stare up at the sky
Does it hurt your eyes?
Maybe you'll go blind
Or maybe all you'll see is, all you'll see is sunshine
Sunshine
Walk in a straight line
You waste energy in the daytime
And i know exactly what i'm doing, doing
Sometimes
Sometimes......
Lyrics submitted by davewoody
Track duration: 05:55
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And I always assumed that the 'last day of April' was a reference to Walpurgis Night, I've no idea why.
to me some of the lines elude to paul addressing a person who is bored with the mundane routine of everyday life and how the general population is caught up in their routine, i.e. like trees standing in a line, & 'liking concrete better than grass'.
it's about choosing to see things in a better way. =]
"already she likes concrete better than grass" moving away to the city... Like a cliche.
"I don't wanna sound like this" hes being careful and doesn't want his words to be taken the wrong way... A way to say he cares? Not wanting to be too criticizing?
"You focus your sights and try
Try to stare up at the sky
Does it hurt your eyes?
Maybe you'll go blind" I think is obvious. Take a large load at once and you'll break underneath.
"trees stand at attention" Controlling... Controlling the trees, shaping the world to be as you want it.
Looking for something different... Going out to find it without thinking through completely what you could be throwing away. Just wanting to get out without thinking about the consequenses... Feeling a need for change...
When really youre running away from something that is already great.
"you don't need wings now"
To me that means both greed, expecting and wanting too much, and that you don't need everything to be happy.
"Or are you accidentally part of
Some involuntary movement here?"
Are you going to blame this on someone else?
I could go on forever... I love this song.
this song is my favourite.
it's absolutely amazing.
and pretty unique with the progressions.
Yet, there is this human ability to look at these things and either be pessimistic or optimistic, so when you stare at the sky it can either hurt your eyes, or you can see sunshine. I think this point is really enforced by being at the song's climaxes.
Easily my favourite song. Ever.
Both in the relationship thought it was strong enough, and simply stopped putting in effort. "We could do it with our arms Tied behind our backs". It continues to describe the inability to feel for a once blooming relationship -"So i stopped and i can't...Can't start again"
The rain pouring down, being symbolic of tears shed over a disintergrating relationship - and being described as a simple joy - a simple way to relieve ones self of tension, anger, saddness - or any negative emotion. If you follow the "hole in your roof" metaphor further, the image of the same person, standing beneath the spot where once he had been crying, and now seeing sunshine; seems to suggest the person is considering leaving, ignoring the problem - simply being happy.
Come to think of it, haven't we all had a relationship like this? haha.
it seems to be about decisions in life, maybe things will change, "maybe ill go blind", but "maybe all i will see is sunshine". These lines suggest it is quiet an optomistic song, trying to look on the brighter side of every decision made. Things happen, he just accepts these and gets on with his life.