Oh, this song...this is what it feels like to be stuck forever in a small, dull town, bored to tears, and you resort to thoughts of lost love...("a curse for this town")...and the bitterness and anger is somehow toned down to a jaded apathy because what use is it to be angry? You curse everyone and everything you see ("all the bakers at dawn, may they all cut their thumbs and bleed into their buns till' they melt away") and the days pass and you don't even seem to notice, and you think your life could have been so much more if that one person had just stayed...(If you'd a took to me like a gull takes to the wind") And your self-esteem is gone entirely ("king of the eyesores," "too dumb to refine") and you reach your breaking point and you tell this person...five seconds later you realize you shouldn't have. ("Never should have called, but my head's to the wall and I'm lonely.") Talking to the person now, you realize they're happy, they're doing well, and here you are. ("I'm looking in on the good life I might be doomed never to find.") There's so much more than meets the eye to this song...The musical composition is so simple and monotonous-like the speaker's life-and the lyrics are so completely opposite. They're original and fresh, and thus all the more bitingly articulate-old cliches have lost their meaning in the face of lines like this-specific imagery painting a picture that's not quite coherent until the very end. I love this song.
I agree, a very beautiful interpretation. Just getting over a break-up of 3 years. this song is all too true. But the song can do nothing but make me feel good.
I agree, a very beautiful interpretation. Just getting over a break-up of 3 years. this song is all too true. But the song can do nothing but make me feel good.
it's absolutely about a breakup. you're missing that person, and you give away your feelings every time you see that person. you can't help it. "i don't know how it got out" and "never should have called." you're hurting but they're not. and "turn me back into the pet i was when we met i was happier then with no mind set" shows you want to just erase the relationship...because before you dated this person, you didn't know what it was to MISS them.
it's absolutely about a breakup. you're missing that person, and you give away your feelings every time you see that person. you can't help it. "i don't know how it got out" and "never should have called." you're hurting but they're not. and "turn me back into the pet i was when we met i was happier then with no mind set" shows you want to just erase the relationship...because before you dated this person, you didn't know what it was to MISS them.
Nice interpretation though..The Shins write their songs like a poet writes poetry and thus it must be analysed like such. As a writer and reader of poetry (along with the help of a poetry interpretation class i am taking) i felt as if i could at least offer my take on the song. Take it line for line then stanza by stanza. But as to the meaning its about a couple who did not try hard enough to make things work. Try not to focus on the literal meaning of phrases like gold teeth and gulls taking to the wind....
Nice interpretation though..The Shins write their songs like a poet writes poetry and thus it must be analysed like such. As a writer and reader of poetry (along with the help of a poetry interpretation class i am taking) i felt as if i could at least offer my take on the song. Take it line for line then stanza by stanza. But as to the meaning its about a couple who did not try hard enough to make things work. Try not to focus on the literal meaning of phrases like gold teeth and gulls taking to the wind. Gold teeth paint a picture of the character of the man and when he says like a gull takes to the wind he does not simply mean that he wishes she would take to him, but submit to him like a gull to the wind. If this change had been made he would have gladly come down from his tree (remember those, when you wanted to get away when you were a kid?) and danced (or jumped through hoops) for her like the king of the eyesores (sore eyes, the king of being with the same girl his whole life). Then the song changes (a NEW slang, slang being a term used in substitute for the actually, probably what he calls her) and the man who wished he was back in the infatuation stage of a relationship now changes his mood to a bitter reflection, how as a relationship moves on you see faults in the person (dirt in your fries) that you hope is all good as you grow old and die. The next bit of the chorus i assume was somethingof a booty call, if you have ever broken up with someone you truely fell for you would know how hard it is sometimes to get free of that influence. As for the bakers, you see that at dawn they are making their buns and the writer wishes them to cut their thumbs and bleed into their work, because as a baker the purpose in life is to bake and as a lover it is to love, you must put yourself into that purpose until you die. Also notice the references to food to descrbe the nature of dating, he found dirt in his fries, not something he has to deal with forever. As to the girl's response pay attention to the line with no flaming fields or trust, too dumb to refine? She could find nothing horribly wrong or completely right about this guy and she wonders if she was too dumb to make the thing something worth more. This song offers a bleak outlook on love and marriage (you also have to pay attention to the music, kinda melo) and is, in my opinion, pure genius. I love the shins and i apologise for the hurriedness of this post and jonny, it should strike you differantly every time, its music. Anyways poetry is always one thing and one thing more (Robert Frost) but never everything at once.
Nice interpretation though..The Shins write their songs like a poet writes poetry and thus it must be analysed like such. As a writer and reader of poetry (along with the help of a poetry interpretation class i am taking) i felt as if i could at least offer my take on the song. Take it line for line then stanza by stanza. But as to the meaning its about a couple who did not try hard enough to make things work. Try not to focus on the literal meaning of phrases like gold teeth and gulls taking to the wind....
Nice interpretation though..The Shins write their songs like a poet writes poetry and thus it must be analysed like such. As a writer and reader of poetry (along with the help of a poetry interpretation class i am taking) i felt as if i could at least offer my take on the song. Take it line for line then stanza by stanza. But as to the meaning its about a couple who did not try hard enough to make things work. Try not to focus on the literal meaning of phrases like gold teeth and gulls taking to the wind. Gold teeth paint a picture of the character of the man and when he says like a gull takes to the wind he does not simply mean that he wishes she would take to him, but submit to him like a gull to the wind. If this change had been made he would have gladly come down from his tree (remember those, when you wanted to get away when you were a kid?) and danced (or jumped through hoops) for her like the king of the eyesores (sore eyes, the king of being with the same girl his whole life). Then the song changes (a NEW slang, slang being a term used in substitute for the actually, probably what he calls her) and the man who wished he was back in the infatuation stage of a relationship now changes his mood to a bitter reflection, how as a relationship moves on you see faults in the person (dirt in your fries) that you hope is all good as you grow old and die. The next bit of the chorus i assume was somethingof a booty call, if you have ever broken up with someone you truely fell for you would know how hard it is sometimes to get free of that influence. As for the bakers, you see that at dawn they are making their buns and the writer wishes them to cut their thumbs and bleed into their work, because as a baker the purpose in life is to bake and as a lover it is to love, you must put yourself into that purpose until you die. Also notice the references to food to descrbe the nature of dating, he found dirt in his fries, not something he has to deal with forever. As to the girl's response pay attention to the line with no flaming fields or trust, too dumb to refine? She could find nothing horribly wrong or completely right about this guy and she wonders if she was too dumb to make the thing something worth more. This song offers a bleak outlook on love and marriage (you also have to pay attention to the music, kinda melo) and is, in my opinion, pure genius. I love the shins and i apologise for the hurriedness of this post and jonny, it should strike you differantly every time, its music. Anyways poetry is always one thing and one thing more (Robert Frost) but never everything at once.
@StarClaire I'm in this EXACT situation. It's just this dread and apathy of being stuck where you are, and this person being perfectly fine and happy without you, and you're back to the shitty, monotonous life you lived before. This anger and apathy spans to everything you see. Such a perfect interpretation!
@StarClaire I'm in this EXACT situation. It's just this dread and apathy of being stuck where you are, and this person being perfectly fine and happy without you, and you're back to the shitty, monotonous life you lived before. This anger and apathy spans to everything you see. Such a perfect interpretation!
@StarClaire I'm in this EXACT situation. It's just this dread and apathy of being stuck where you are, and this person being perfectly fine and happy without you, and you're back to the shitty, monotonous life you lived before. This anger and apathy spans to everything you see. Such a perfect interpretation!
@StarClaire I'm in this EXACT situation. It's just this dread and apathy of being stuck where you are, and this person being perfectly fine and happy without you, and you're back to the shitty, monotonous life you lived before. This anger and apathy spans to everything you see. Such a perfect interpretation!
@robbybass11 and it hurts, hurts a lot i passe trought a breakup too and it looks like our heart is shattered but the love comes back and heals amd no matter what it allways comes, and love and amazing things will allways come to you doesnt matter what amazing and wonderful things will allways come to you because that reflects you, i dkn't knkw you but its obvious friend🤍🤍❤️ these moments heal and qe understand them looks like a TERRIBLE ADVICE and like it doesnt help AT ALL but when you feel that sadness and it allways come, but you...
@robbybass11 and it hurts, hurts a lot i passe trought a breakup too and it looks like our heart is shattered but the love comes back and heals amd no matter what it allways comes, and love and amazing things will allways come to you doesnt matter what amazing and wonderful things will allways come to you because that reflects you, i dkn't knkw you but its obvious friend🤍🤍❤️ these moments heal and qe understand them looks like a TERRIBLE ADVICE and like it doesnt help AT ALL but when you feel that sadness and it allways come, but you allready defated it and KICKED IT ASS, when it comes CURSE IT and even not believing remember that jts not true and all of that difficulty things that looks SO TRUE, they are not and do things that distract you, even if you think that will not be distracted just go, do things you like, watch a movie, do something you want to or want to learn, pretend like you arent sad and i knkw because i did this and tought that it would help in NOTHING but it Just helps SO MUCH and talk to persons you like or a therapist, looks like IMPOSSIBLE TO TALK but it helps SO MUCH and they talk to us and its just so good. you allready KICKED THAT THING ASS and will allways do🤍🤍🤍🩵💞 send a dm if need friend
@StarClaire and i tought that my life would allways be like that, i were 100% right about that but no, that just means it will not, persons that we don't even met yet appear and just by reading your comment its A LOT MORE THAN OBVIOUS the amazing and INCREIDBLE WONDERFUL PERSON YOU ARE, you change this world and persons to só much better everyday and amazing things and moments, experiences will allways come to you because this reflects you friend. There are moments in our life that looks like these things define us but they never will, doesnt matter...
@StarClaire and i tought that my life would allways be like that, i were 100% right about that but no, that just means it will not, persons that we don't even met yet appear and just by reading your comment its A LOT MORE THAN OBVIOUS the amazing and INCREIDBLE WONDERFUL PERSON YOU ARE, you change this world and persons to só much better everyday and amazing things and moments, experiences will allways come to you because this reflects you friend. There are moments in our life that looks like these things define us but they never will, doesnt matter what we think they never will and when we think they do it just prooves they don't, deosnt matter what or the circustance things allways chenge to good even we don't even believe it and i didnt believed it but they do and i believe because the EXACTLAY THING YOU WRITTED HAPPENED TO ME, ITS A LOT CRAZY and changed. you are incredible friend just allways remember that and you give proud and love to SO many persons that Love you and persons that you dkn't even met yet but will and they will love you SO SO MUCH
Oh, this song...this is what it feels like to be stuck forever in a small, dull town, bored to tears, and you resort to thoughts of lost love...("a curse for this town")...and the bitterness and anger is somehow toned down to a jaded apathy because what use is it to be angry? You curse everyone and everything you see ("all the bakers at dawn, may they all cut their thumbs and bleed into their buns till' they melt away") and the days pass and you don't even seem to notice, and you think your life could have been so much more if that one person had just stayed...(If you'd a took to me like a gull takes to the wind") And your self-esteem is gone entirely ("king of the eyesores," "too dumb to refine") and you reach your breaking point and you tell this person...five seconds later you realize you shouldn't have. ("Never should have called, but my head's to the wall and I'm lonely.") Talking to the person now, you realize they're happy, they're doing well, and here you are. ("I'm looking in on the good life I might be doomed never to find.") There's so much more than meets the eye to this song...The musical composition is so simple and monotonous-like the speaker's life-and the lyrics are so completely opposite. They're original and fresh, and thus all the more bitingly articulate-old cliches have lost their meaning in the face of lines like this-specific imagery painting a picture that's not quite coherent until the very end. I love this song.
brilliant interpretation
brilliant interpretation
I agree, a very beautiful interpretation. Just getting over a break-up of 3 years. this song is all too true. But the song can do nothing but make me feel good.
I agree, a very beautiful interpretation. Just getting over a break-up of 3 years. this song is all too true. But the song can do nothing but make me feel good.
it's absolutely about a breakup. you're missing that person, and you give away your feelings every time you see that person. you can't help it. "i don't know how it got out" and "never should have called." you're hurting but they're not. and "turn me back into the pet i was when we met i was happier then with no mind set" shows you want to just erase the relationship...because before you dated this person, you didn't know what it was to MISS them.
it's absolutely about a breakup. you're missing that person, and you give away your feelings every time you see that person. you can't help it. "i don't know how it got out" and "never should have called." you're hurting but they're not. and "turn me back into the pet i was when we met i was happier then with no mind set" shows you want to just erase the relationship...because before you dated this person, you didn't know what it was to MISS them.
Marry me.
Marry me.
beautiful interpretation. thank you
beautiful interpretation. thank you
Nice interpretation though..The Shins write their songs like a poet writes poetry and thus it must be analysed like such. As a writer and reader of poetry (along with the help of a poetry interpretation class i am taking) i felt as if i could at least offer my take on the song. Take it line for line then stanza by stanza. But as to the meaning its about a couple who did not try hard enough to make things work. Try not to focus on the literal meaning of phrases like gold teeth and gulls taking to the wind....
Nice interpretation though..The Shins write their songs like a poet writes poetry and thus it must be analysed like such. As a writer and reader of poetry (along with the help of a poetry interpretation class i am taking) i felt as if i could at least offer my take on the song. Take it line for line then stanza by stanza. But as to the meaning its about a couple who did not try hard enough to make things work. Try not to focus on the literal meaning of phrases like gold teeth and gulls taking to the wind. Gold teeth paint a picture of the character of the man and when he says like a gull takes to the wind he does not simply mean that he wishes she would take to him, but submit to him like a gull to the wind. If this change had been made he would have gladly come down from his tree (remember those, when you wanted to get away when you were a kid?) and danced (or jumped through hoops) for her like the king of the eyesores (sore eyes, the king of being with the same girl his whole life). Then the song changes (a NEW slang, slang being a term used in substitute for the actually, probably what he calls her) and the man who wished he was back in the infatuation stage of a relationship now changes his mood to a bitter reflection, how as a relationship moves on you see faults in the person (dirt in your fries) that you hope is all good as you grow old and die. The next bit of the chorus i assume was somethingof a booty call, if you have ever broken up with someone you truely fell for you would know how hard it is sometimes to get free of that influence. As for the bakers, you see that at dawn they are making their buns and the writer wishes them to cut their thumbs and bleed into their work, because as a baker the purpose in life is to bake and as a lover it is to love, you must put yourself into that purpose until you die. Also notice the references to food to descrbe the nature of dating, he found dirt in his fries, not something he has to deal with forever. As to the girl's response pay attention to the line with no flaming fields or trust, too dumb to refine? She could find nothing horribly wrong or completely right about this guy and she wonders if she was too dumb to make the thing something worth more. This song offers a bleak outlook on love and marriage (you also have to pay attention to the music, kinda melo) and is, in my opinion, pure genius. I love the shins and i apologise for the hurriedness of this post and jonny, it should strike you differantly every time, its music. Anyways poetry is always one thing and one thing more (Robert Frost) but never everything at once.
Nice interpretation though..The Shins write their songs like a poet writes poetry and thus it must be analysed like such. As a writer and reader of poetry (along with the help of a poetry interpretation class i am taking) i felt as if i could at least offer my take on the song. Take it line for line then stanza by stanza. But as to the meaning its about a couple who did not try hard enough to make things work. Try not to focus on the literal meaning of phrases like gold teeth and gulls taking to the wind....
Nice interpretation though..The Shins write their songs like a poet writes poetry and thus it must be analysed like such. As a writer and reader of poetry (along with the help of a poetry interpretation class i am taking) i felt as if i could at least offer my take on the song. Take it line for line then stanza by stanza. But as to the meaning its about a couple who did not try hard enough to make things work. Try not to focus on the literal meaning of phrases like gold teeth and gulls taking to the wind. Gold teeth paint a picture of the character of the man and when he says like a gull takes to the wind he does not simply mean that he wishes she would take to him, but submit to him like a gull to the wind. If this change had been made he would have gladly come down from his tree (remember those, when you wanted to get away when you were a kid?) and danced (or jumped through hoops) for her like the king of the eyesores (sore eyes, the king of being with the same girl his whole life). Then the song changes (a NEW slang, slang being a term used in substitute for the actually, probably what he calls her) and the man who wished he was back in the infatuation stage of a relationship now changes his mood to a bitter reflection, how as a relationship moves on you see faults in the person (dirt in your fries) that you hope is all good as you grow old and die. The next bit of the chorus i assume was somethingof a booty call, if you have ever broken up with someone you truely fell for you would know how hard it is sometimes to get free of that influence. As for the bakers, you see that at dawn they are making their buns and the writer wishes them to cut their thumbs and bleed into their work, because as a baker the purpose in life is to bake and as a lover it is to love, you must put yourself into that purpose until you die. Also notice the references to food to descrbe the nature of dating, he found dirt in his fries, not something he has to deal with forever. As to the girl's response pay attention to the line with no flaming fields or trust, too dumb to refine? She could find nothing horribly wrong or completely right about this guy and she wonders if she was too dumb to make the thing something worth more. This song offers a bleak outlook on love and marriage (you also have to pay attention to the music, kinda melo) and is, in my opinion, pure genius. I love the shins and i apologise for the hurriedness of this post and jonny, it should strike you differantly every time, its music. Anyways poetry is always one thing and one thing more (Robert Frost) but never everything at once.
I love you.
I love you.
That brought me to tears. You should write a book.
That brought me to tears. You should write a book.
@StarClaire I'm in this EXACT situation. It's just this dread and apathy of being stuck where you are, and this person being perfectly fine and happy without you, and you're back to the shitty, monotonous life you lived before. This anger and apathy spans to everything you see. Such a perfect interpretation!
@StarClaire I'm in this EXACT situation. It's just this dread and apathy of being stuck where you are, and this person being perfectly fine and happy without you, and you're back to the shitty, monotonous life you lived before. This anger and apathy spans to everything you see. Such a perfect interpretation!
@StarClaire I'm in this EXACT situation. It's just this dread and apathy of being stuck where you are, and this person being perfectly fine and happy without you, and you're back to the shitty, monotonous life you lived before. This anger and apathy spans to everything you see. Such a perfect interpretation!
@StarClaire I'm in this EXACT situation. It's just this dread and apathy of being stuck where you are, and this person being perfectly fine and happy without you, and you're back to the shitty, monotonous life you lived before. This anger and apathy spans to everything you see. Such a perfect interpretation!
@robbybass11 and it hurts, hurts a lot i passe trought a breakup too and it looks like our heart is shattered but the love comes back and heals amd no matter what it allways comes, and love and amazing things will allways come to you doesnt matter what amazing and wonderful things will allways come to you because that reflects you, i dkn't knkw you but its obvious friend🤍🤍❤️ these moments heal and qe understand them looks like a TERRIBLE ADVICE and like it doesnt help AT ALL but when you feel that sadness and it allways come, but you...
@robbybass11 and it hurts, hurts a lot i passe trought a breakup too and it looks like our heart is shattered but the love comes back and heals amd no matter what it allways comes, and love and amazing things will allways come to you doesnt matter what amazing and wonderful things will allways come to you because that reflects you, i dkn't knkw you but its obvious friend🤍🤍❤️ these moments heal and qe understand them looks like a TERRIBLE ADVICE and like it doesnt help AT ALL but when you feel that sadness and it allways come, but you allready defated it and KICKED IT ASS, when it comes CURSE IT and even not believing remember that jts not true and all of that difficulty things that looks SO TRUE, they are not and do things that distract you, even if you think that will not be distracted just go, do things you like, watch a movie, do something you want to or want to learn, pretend like you arent sad and i knkw because i did this and tought that it would help in NOTHING but it Just helps SO MUCH and talk to persons you like or a therapist, looks like IMPOSSIBLE TO TALK but it helps SO MUCH and they talk to us and its just so good. you allready KICKED THAT THING ASS and will allways do🤍🤍🤍🩵💞 send a dm if need friend
@StarClaire and i tought that my life would allways be like that, i were 100% right about that but no, that just means it will not, persons that we don't even met yet appear and just by reading your comment its A LOT MORE THAN OBVIOUS the amazing and INCREIDBLE WONDERFUL PERSON YOU ARE, you change this world and persons to só much better everyday and amazing things and moments, experiences will allways come to you because this reflects you friend. There are moments in our life that looks like these things define us but they never will, doesnt matter...
@StarClaire and i tought that my life would allways be like that, i were 100% right about that but no, that just means it will not, persons that we don't even met yet appear and just by reading your comment its A LOT MORE THAN OBVIOUS the amazing and INCREIDBLE WONDERFUL PERSON YOU ARE, you change this world and persons to só much better everyday and amazing things and moments, experiences will allways come to you because this reflects you friend. There are moments in our life that looks like these things define us but they never will, doesnt matter what we think they never will and when we think they do it just prooves they don't, deosnt matter what or the circustance things allways chenge to good even we don't even believe it and i didnt believed it but they do and i believe because the EXACTLAY THING YOU WRITTED HAPPENED TO ME, ITS A LOT CRAZY and changed. you are incredible friend just allways remember that and you give proud and love to SO many persons that Love you and persons that you dkn't even met yet but will and they will love you SO SO MUCH