i envision, a man sitting in a bar, and in walks this woman, a woman he once loved and whom loved him.
he probably hasn't seen or even thought of her in quite some time but the minute he sees her walking by; laughing, talking, drinking, he is flooded with emotion. the memories of who they were and what they had, come pouring in; reasons for why they ended their relationship are irrelevant because since it has been so long, all that is left are memories of the good times. she walks over to him and he feels just as he did when they had each other "so you can smell her perfume
you can see her lying naked in your arms."
he remembers what it felt like to hold her, to love her, to be with her, and for all of the love to be returned.
she leaves with another man.
she makes sure he sees that she has someone else because she wants him to know that she has found love again, that she is happy, that she has everything she needs.
i assume she is clouded with emotion just as he is,
otherwise, why would she bother in making such a scene about having another?
she leaves the bar and moments later he stumbles out, to search for her or perhaps himself.
he's not quite coherent and the floods of mixed emotions aren't helping.
all he wants is to see her again, to be in that place again, that place of love and sweet bliss, but he knows that if he sees her again it will only further prove to himself that he can never have her again, that everything they are has passed over into sweet memory.
"You just have to see her
and you know that she'll break you
in two"
he had forgotten her for so long and now that he is reminded, what will he do?
I love this song so much it makes me feel alive. You sound pretty accurate with what you say. I managed to see them live in carlisle in england and they did not dissapoint. I am also going to see them again in glasgow on the 30th of january. If you get the chance go and see them. Where you from by the way please
I love this song so much it makes me feel alive. You sound pretty accurate with what you say. I managed to see them live in carlisle in england and they did not dissapoint. I am also going to see them again in glasgow on the 30th of january. If you get the chance go and see them. Where you from by the way please
Boaky says you sound "pretty accurate" in your response, No. What you wrote about the song was poetic and hit the nail on the head in a way that would probably make the writer of the song smile. What you wrote is EXACTLY what I envisioned. A beautiful song. So much emotion, so much feeling, so much progression. It's funny how a few drinks will do that sometimes. Not that he wouldn't have felt the same way without the drinks, but that level of spiraling emotion usually starts with a glass.
Boaky says you sound "pretty accurate" in your response, No. What you wrote about the song was poetic and hit the nail on the head in a way that would probably make the writer of the song smile. What you wrote is EXACTLY what I envisioned. A beautiful song. So much emotion, so much feeling, so much progression. It's funny how a few drinks will do that sometimes. Not that he wouldn't have felt the same way without the drinks, but that level of spiraling emotion usually starts with a glass.
Your analysis on him is right on point. I disagree about what you said about her, though. I don't think she has found someone new, that she cares about as much or has as much of a connection with as with the man in the song. She is trying to make him jealous. They probably haven't thought of each other in awhile, but it is impossible to ignore their magnetism. Once they see one another again, they're drowning in memories. She still has immense feelings for him, but probably still holds a grudge over why they broke up. So, to...
Your analysis on him is right on point. I disagree about what you said about her, though. I don't think she has found someone new, that she cares about as much or has as much of a connection with as with the man in the song. She is trying to make him jealous. They probably haven't thought of each other in awhile, but it is impossible to ignore their magnetism. Once they see one another again, they're drowning in memories. She still has immense feelings for him, but probably still holds a grudge over why they broke up. So, to make him jealous she makes sure he notices her, to prove to herself that he still wants her. And of course, as the end of the song shows, it works.
I have to agree with bestlaidschemes...She still wants him bad! I just had an ex tell me that this song reminds him of how he feels when he is laying down to fall asleep. We both have this amazing connection and for many reasons aren't able to be together at this time. He is the greatest love of my life...and yet, I know when I see him...I want him to notice me...I want him to want me. I guess I just want him to feel what I feel or how deep our connection truly is...so I...
I have to agree with bestlaidschemes...She still wants him bad! I just had an ex tell me that this song reminds him of how he feels when he is laying down to fall asleep. We both have this amazing connection and for many reasons aren't able to be together at this time. He is the greatest love of my life...and yet, I know when I see him...I want him to notice me...I want him to want me. I guess I just want him to feel what I feel or how deep our connection truly is...so I would be doing the same thing...then as I walked out the door...feel my stomach ache and wish I was still in his arms. I think there are those people in our lives...that test our faith...Does anyone know of any others like this...???
I'm totally with Mike 818whatevers on this, i don't feel sorry for this joe at all. i suspect that the woman is married, hence the white dress (are those lyrics accurate?)..
and what if the guy she left with was just a friend, or relative, or the drummer? ...he's there with all his friends, right? sorry. this song reeks a bit of overly dramatic ego... the bright eyes/explosions/okkerville sound mentioned earlier definately has it's hook, but i'm annoyed already and thinking the narrator should consider himself lucky he wasn't tangling with something more deadly and lost his head altogether. ...
I'm totally with Mike 818whatevers on this, i don't feel sorry for this joe at all. i suspect that the woman is married, hence the white dress (are those lyrics accurate?)..
and what if the guy she left with was just a friend, or relative, or the drummer? ...he's there with all his friends, right? sorry. this song reeks a bit of overly dramatic ego... the bright eyes/explosions/okkerville sound mentioned earlier definately has it's hook, but i'm annoyed already and thinking the narrator should consider himself lucky he wasn't tangling with something more deadly and lost his head altogether. i'd rather endure thirty days of bright eyes or stinking casiotone for the painfully alone than have to hear this one more overexposed time. barf
and as for the brilliant poetic lyrics..."feral waves " ? influenced by Don Delillo? LOL so much affect they make you suspect the whole works was cut and pasted from a montage of girlfriends loveletters. it's a good thing they're a charitable lot.
sarahlynn, your interpretation is so generous; maybe you should rewrite the song, enlist the help of the tattooedharpist and make something less likely to induce the gag reflex.
sarahlynn, your interpretation is so generous; maybe you should rewrite the song, enlist the help of the tattooedharpist and make something less likely to induce the gag reflex.
I agree that the subject of the song is feeling a lot of emotion, but I don't think there's anything happy about it. Your analysis was very well written but I'm not sure it's as accurate as people are saying. If only because it's really presumptuous. You assume that they haven't seen each other in a long time, that they're happy to see each other, and that she's happy without him, of which there is no evidence (and in some cases there is contradictory evidence) in the lyrics.
I agree that the subject of the song is feeling a lot of emotion, but I don't think there's anything happy about it. Your analysis was very well written but I'm not sure it's as accurate as people are saying. If only because it's really presumptuous. You assume that they haven't seen each other in a long time, that they're happy to see each other, and that she's happy without him, of which there is no evidence (and in some cases there is contradictory evidence) in the lyrics.
He sees her and it makes him feel sort of sad and wistful (that's why the melancholy piano matches her smile).
Then she comes over and makes small talk which only brings back a lot of memories for him:
"all of these memories come rushing/like feral waves to your mind/of the curl of your bodies/like two perfect circles entwined/and you feel hopeless, and homeless..."
Feral implies that they're vicious feelings that rip at him. The loss of that bliss he had with this woman makes him feel empty and helpless.
The next part is open to interpretation.
A) She leaves with someone else and makes sure he sees, not to show him that she's happy, but to make him jealous. And it works. His "blood boils" his stomach ties up and he goes pale and gets visibly upset.
B) All the games she's playing are in his head and he's just convincing himself that that's what's happening because he's in pain.
Either way, he tries to drink his pain away and stumbles down the street, aching just to see her again even though it's caused him so much pain already. Because, sometimes, seeing the one you love can rip you apart but not seeing them is even worse.
It's a situation that a lot of people can connect with and I love how raw it sounds when he sings "You look like you've seen a ghost." Even the tone and way it's played/sung make it easier to relate to.
e>It's about a man sitting in a bar sometime around midnight, still thinking about the girl he recently broke up with and remembering all the times they had together. He's gloomy and upset about the whole situation, and he's watching some woman in a white dress that reminds him of his ex (you haven't seen her [his ex]
for a while).
e>It's about a man sitting in a bar sometime around midnight, still thinking about the girl he recently broke up with and remembering all the times they had together. He's gloomy and upset about the whole situation, and he's watching some woman in a white dress that reminds him of his ex (you haven't seen her [his ex]
for a while).
e>She's keeping watch on him from afar, finally wondering what's up with this guy, she walks over to him to start small talk ("the room spinning" because she's close now and the memories of his ex are flooding his thoughts). He smells her perfume and it reminds him more and more of his ex by the second ("thoughts of lying naked and being 2 perfect circles entwined").
Still caught in the memories and his drinks getting the best of him, he becomes delusional and thinks this woman is his ex, and it freaks her out. The woman walks away, finds her hook-up, watching him as she walks out, and bolts out the bar ("And she leaves...with someone you don't know, but she makes sure you saw her she looks right at you and bolts") [He thinks it's her new boyfriend] and he gets enraged.
His friends walk over and ask him what happened and he snaps out of it and plays it cool ("he's just seen a ghost").
Now in the streets he has given up on life and doesn't care about anything or anyone but his ex ("and you so care what you look like [sarcasm] the world is falling around you") because he knows just as the woman walked from the bar, his ex has left him for good and she never wants to see or talk to him again.
As he walks to where-ever, he slowly puts away the thoughts of his ex for good. (You just have to see her and you know that she'll break you in two)
[From his thoughts: "Man I just have to see her, I have to! But if I do, she'll kill me...There's no way I could speak to her again. It's useless.]
These lyrics are exactly the way I felt when I saw an ex one time in a club. I was over her, but I had not seen her for over a year, she was different. I was in a bar I suddenly was empty and jealous, longing for something I didn't know I even wanted. Had I not been drunk I may not have felt that way. But I did feel something, like a whirlwind. These lyrics bring it back vividly into my mind. I now feel like I am not the only one that that has happened to....
These lyrics are exactly the way I felt when I saw an ex one time in a club. I was over her, but I had not seen her for over a year, she was different. I was in a bar I suddenly was empty and jealous, longing for something I didn't know I even wanted. Had I not been drunk I may not have felt that way. But I did feel something, like a whirlwind. These lyrics bring it back vividly into my mind. I now feel like I am not the only one that that has happened to. In a way it is like how dare she continue to exist without me. Of course the writer could mean virtually anything. LOL!
this song is so wonderful, i can't even take it.
i envision, a man sitting in a bar, and in walks this woman, a woman he once loved and whom loved him. he probably hasn't seen or even thought of her in quite some time but the minute he sees her walking by; laughing, talking, drinking, he is flooded with emotion. the memories of who they were and what they had, come pouring in; reasons for why they ended their relationship are irrelevant because since it has been so long, all that is left are memories of the good times. she walks over to him and he feels just as he did when they had each other "so you can smell her perfume you can see her lying naked in your arms."
he remembers what it felt like to hold her, to love her, to be with her, and for all of the love to be returned.
she leaves with another man. she makes sure he sees that she has someone else because she wants him to know that she has found love again, that she is happy, that she has everything she needs. i assume she is clouded with emotion just as he is, otherwise, why would she bother in making such a scene about having another?
she leaves the bar and moments later he stumbles out, to search for her or perhaps himself.
he's not quite coherent and the floods of mixed emotions aren't helping.
all he wants is to see her again, to be in that place again, that place of love and sweet bliss, but he knows that if he sees her again it will only further prove to himself that he can never have her again, that everything they are has passed over into sweet memory.
"You just have to see her
and you know that she'll break you in two"
he had forgotten her for so long and now that he is reminded, what will he do?
I love this song so much it makes me feel alive. You sound pretty accurate with what you say. I managed to see them live in carlisle in england and they did not dissapoint. I am also going to see them again in glasgow on the 30th of january. If you get the chance go and see them. Where you from by the way please
I love this song so much it makes me feel alive. You sound pretty accurate with what you say. I managed to see them live in carlisle in england and they did not dissapoint. I am also going to see them again in glasgow on the 30th of january. If you get the chance go and see them. Where you from by the way please
Boaky says you sound "pretty accurate" in your response, No. What you wrote about the song was poetic and hit the nail on the head in a way that would probably make the writer of the song smile. What you wrote is EXACTLY what I envisioned. A beautiful song. So much emotion, so much feeling, so much progression. It's funny how a few drinks will do that sometimes. Not that he wouldn't have felt the same way without the drinks, but that level of spiraling emotion usually starts with a glass.
Boaky says you sound "pretty accurate" in your response, No. What you wrote about the song was poetic and hit the nail on the head in a way that would probably make the writer of the song smile. What you wrote is EXACTLY what I envisioned. A beautiful song. So much emotion, so much feeling, so much progression. It's funny how a few drinks will do that sometimes. Not that he wouldn't have felt the same way without the drinks, but that level of spiraling emotion usually starts with a glass.
Your analysis on him is right on point. I disagree about what you said about her, though. I don't think she has found someone new, that she cares about as much or has as much of a connection with as with the man in the song. She is trying to make him jealous. They probably haven't thought of each other in awhile, but it is impossible to ignore their magnetism. Once they see one another again, they're drowning in memories. She still has immense feelings for him, but probably still holds a grudge over why they broke up. So, to...
Your analysis on him is right on point. I disagree about what you said about her, though. I don't think she has found someone new, that she cares about as much or has as much of a connection with as with the man in the song. She is trying to make him jealous. They probably haven't thought of each other in awhile, but it is impossible to ignore their magnetism. Once they see one another again, they're drowning in memories. She still has immense feelings for him, but probably still holds a grudge over why they broke up. So, to make him jealous she makes sure he notices her, to prove to herself that he still wants her. And of course, as the end of the song shows, it works.
I have to agree with bestlaidschemes...She still wants him bad! I just had an ex tell me that this song reminds him of how he feels when he is laying down to fall asleep. We both have this amazing connection and for many reasons aren't able to be together at this time. He is the greatest love of my life...and yet, I know when I see him...I want him to notice me...I want him to want me. I guess I just want him to feel what I feel or how deep our connection truly is...so I...
I have to agree with bestlaidschemes...She still wants him bad! I just had an ex tell me that this song reminds him of how he feels when he is laying down to fall asleep. We both have this amazing connection and for many reasons aren't able to be together at this time. He is the greatest love of my life...and yet, I know when I see him...I want him to notice me...I want him to want me. I guess I just want him to feel what I feel or how deep our connection truly is...so I would be doing the same thing...then as I walked out the door...feel my stomach ache and wish I was still in his arms. I think there are those people in our lives...that test our faith...Does anyone know of any others like this...???
I'm totally with Mike 818whatevers on this, i don't feel sorry for this joe at all. i suspect that the woman is married, hence the white dress (are those lyrics accurate?).. and what if the guy she left with was just a friend, or relative, or the drummer? ...he's there with all his friends, right? sorry. this song reeks a bit of overly dramatic ego... the bright eyes/explosions/okkerville sound mentioned earlier definately has it's hook, but i'm annoyed already and thinking the narrator should consider himself lucky he wasn't tangling with something more deadly and lost his head altogether. ...
I'm totally with Mike 818whatevers on this, i don't feel sorry for this joe at all. i suspect that the woman is married, hence the white dress (are those lyrics accurate?).. and what if the guy she left with was just a friend, or relative, or the drummer? ...he's there with all his friends, right? sorry. this song reeks a bit of overly dramatic ego... the bright eyes/explosions/okkerville sound mentioned earlier definately has it's hook, but i'm annoyed already and thinking the narrator should consider himself lucky he wasn't tangling with something more deadly and lost his head altogether. i'd rather endure thirty days of bright eyes or stinking casiotone for the painfully alone than have to hear this one more overexposed time. barf and as for the brilliant poetic lyrics..."feral waves " ? influenced by Don Delillo? LOL so much affect they make you suspect the whole works was cut and pasted from a montage of girlfriends loveletters. it's a good thing they're a charitable lot.
sarahlynn, your interpretation is so generous; maybe you should rewrite the song, enlist the help of the tattooedharpist and make something less likely to induce the gag reflex.
sarahlynn, your interpretation is so generous; maybe you should rewrite the song, enlist the help of the tattooedharpist and make something less likely to induce the gag reflex.
I agree that the subject of the song is feeling a lot of emotion, but I don't think there's anything happy about it. Your analysis was very well written but I'm not sure it's as accurate as people are saying. If only because it's really presumptuous. You assume that they haven't seen each other in a long time, that they're happy to see each other, and that she's happy without him, of which there is no evidence (and in some cases there is contradictory evidence) in the lyrics.
I agree that the subject of the song is feeling a lot of emotion, but I don't think there's anything happy about it. Your analysis was very well written but I'm not sure it's as accurate as people are saying. If only because it's really presumptuous. You assume that they haven't seen each other in a long time, that they're happy to see each other, and that she's happy without him, of which there is no evidence (and in some cases there is contradictory evidence) in the lyrics.
He sees her and it makes him feel sort of sad and wistful (that's why the melancholy piano matches her smile).
Then she comes over and makes small talk which only brings back a lot of memories for him: "all of these memories come rushing/like feral waves to your mind/of the curl of your bodies/like two perfect circles entwined/and you feel hopeless, and homeless..." Feral implies that they're vicious feelings that rip at him. The loss of that bliss he had with this woman makes him feel empty and helpless.
The next part is open to interpretation. A) She leaves with someone else and makes sure he sees, not to show him that she's happy, but to make him jealous. And it works. His "blood boils" his stomach ties up and he goes pale and gets visibly upset.
B) All the games she's playing are in his head and he's just convincing himself that that's what's happening because he's in pain.
Either way, he tries to drink his pain away and stumbles down the street, aching just to see her again even though it's caused him so much pain already. Because, sometimes, seeing the one you love can rip you apart but not seeing them is even worse.
It's a situation that a lot of people can connect with and I love how raw it sounds when he sings "You look like you've seen a ghost." Even the tone and way it's played/sung make it easier to relate to.
My interpretation:
My interpretation:
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It's about a man sitting in a bar sometime around midnight, still thinking about the girl he recently broke up with and remembering all the times they had together. He's gloomy and upset about the whole situation, and he's watching some woman in a white dress that reminds him of his ex (you haven't seen her [his ex]for a while).
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It's about a man sitting in a bar sometime around midnight, still thinking about the girl he recently broke up with and remembering all the times they had together. He's gloomy and upset about the whole situation, and he's watching some woman in a white dress that reminds him of his ex (you haven't seen her [his ex]for a while).
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She's keeping watch on him from afar, finally wondering what's up with this guy, she walks over to him to start small talk ("the room spinning" because she's close now and the memories of his ex are flooding his thoughts). He smells her perfume and it reminds him more and more of his ex by the second ("thoughts of lying naked and being 2 perfect circles entwined"). Still caught in the memories and his drinks getting the best of him, he becomes delusional and thinks this woman is his ex, and it freaks her out. The woman walks away, finds her hook-up, watching him as she walks out, and bolts out the bar ("And she leaves...with someone you don't know, but she makes sure you saw her she looks right at you and bolts") [He thinks it's her new boyfriend] and he gets enraged. His friends walk over and ask him what happened and he snaps out of it and plays it cool ("he's just seen a ghost"). Now in the streets he has given up on life and doesn't care about anything or anyone but his ex ("and you so care what you look like [sarcasm] the world is falling around you") because he knows just as the woman walked from the bar, his ex has left him for good and she never wants to see or talk to him again. As he walks to where-ever, he slowly puts away the thoughts of his ex for good. (You just have to see her and you know that she'll break you in two)[From his thoughts: "Man I just have to see her, I have to! But if I do, she'll kill me...There's no way I could speak to her again. It's useless.]
These lyrics are exactly the way I felt when I saw an ex one time in a club. I was over her, but I had not seen her for over a year, she was different. I was in a bar I suddenly was empty and jealous, longing for something I didn't know I even wanted. Had I not been drunk I may not have felt that way. But I did feel something, like a whirlwind. These lyrics bring it back vividly into my mind. I now feel like I am not the only one that that has happened to....
These lyrics are exactly the way I felt when I saw an ex one time in a club. I was over her, but I had not seen her for over a year, she was different. I was in a bar I suddenly was empty and jealous, longing for something I didn't know I even wanted. Had I not been drunk I may not have felt that way. But I did feel something, like a whirlwind. These lyrics bring it back vividly into my mind. I now feel like I am not the only one that that has happened to. In a way it is like how dare she continue to exist without me. Of course the writer could mean virtually anything. LOL!