I don't claim to "know" what it's intended meaning is, but this is what it means to me:
"I threw you the obvious,
And you flew with it on your back,
A name in your recollection
Down among a million same"
Here, the speaker seems to be addressing someone he loves (for all intents and purposes, I'll say "he" and "she"). Someone he clearly loves, and has no interest in trying to hide it from her. Yet, she doesn't respond. Instead, he becomes just like any other, just another blurry face a the sea of people.
When I hear it, though, I don't think he's talking directly to her - but these are the things that go through his mind when he thinks of her or looks back. Like, when you can't get someone off your mind, during the late stages of a would-be relationship, when you're realizing that it just won't work out or won't be the way it used to be. To me, it's that conversation you have with yourself, and you desperately want to try to justify why it's all okay in your head. You want to find a reason to leave it all behind you.
"Difficult not to feel a little bit
Disappointed and passed over
When I look right through
To see you naked but oblivious
And you don't see me"
I really like this line; he's not saying "oh, I'm sad now." He purposefully understates his pain, saying that definitely isn't nothing. He feels something, at least, which seems like a real world way of communicating something like "you hurt me." He also lets you that he felt he had a real connection. He can see her pain, her troubles, her soul. He KNOWS her, but she just doesn't recognize that, or can't. And as a result, he's left alone to deal on his own.
"But I threw you the obvious just to
See if there's more behind the
Eyes of a fallen angel
Eyes of a tragedy"
Again, he avoids being entirely upfront with her. Maybe because he's timid, maybe just because he's human. He sees her, why doesn't she see him? After all, he's doing what he can to make it easy - he's not direct, but he is open. I think he's trying to say, "I see you, I feel you... But, can do the same for me?" He certainly wishes she would, which is ironically why he must remain passive about. Otherwise, it's almost forced or just artificial.
"Here I am expecting just a little bit
Too much from the wounded
But I see, seeing through it all
Seeing through, see you"
Maybe, he feels, that he could be asking for too much. Maybe she's not strong enough to look past her troubles to see him and the way he is. As much as he wants that mutual connection, he knows that it's not an easy thing to deal with, and it's perhaps... unfair to expect it. But he does want it.
"'Cause I threw you the obvious to
See what occurs behind the
Eyes of a fallen angel
Eyes of a tragedy, oh well
Oh well
Apparently nothing
Apparently nothing at all"
At this point, he's lost all hope. Sadly, she wasn't able or wasn't willing to let herself be moved by his efforts (not to say that he was expecting her to suddenly fall in love with him, but she just didn't respond). He put himself out there, hoping that she could respond to him the way he did with her, but that day never came.
"...You don't see me at all"
He was always invisible. To her, just another guy. Just another day. To him, well, it's hard to assign words... not great. Not great.
Now this may not be what he's saying, but it's all I hear...
Yes, that is almost exactly what I feel in this song also.
Yes, that is almost exactly what I feel in this song also.
The main difference, to me, is that I always see the "girl" (because I'm a man, it can work both ways) as a heartbreaker.
The main difference, to me, is that I always see the "girl" (because I'm a man, it can work both ways) as a heartbreaker.
She knows men fall in love with her ("A name in your recollection / Down among a million same"), but she is cold hearted. Perhaps she has been hurt too. Perhaps she is just cold.
She knows men fall in love with her ("A name in your recollection / Down among a million same"), but she is cold hearted. Perhaps she has been hurt too. Perhaps she is just cold.
I've met girls like that in my life. And a good example would be Summer Finn (she's like the wind...) in that movie "500 days of summer".
And I can really feel his resignation. To me, he knew he souldn't have fallen for her. He was expecting to see nothing behind those "eyes of a fallen angel".
The way he put it ... "threw you the obvious" ... It's like "guess what? Yeah, I also love you. Get your heartbreaking over with already."
I don't claim to "know" what it's intended meaning is, but this is what it means to me:
"I threw you the obvious, And you flew with it on your back, A name in your recollection Down among a million same"
Here, the speaker seems to be addressing someone he loves (for all intents and purposes, I'll say "he" and "she"). Someone he clearly loves, and has no interest in trying to hide it from her. Yet, she doesn't respond. Instead, he becomes just like any other, just another blurry face a the sea of people.
When I hear it, though, I don't think he's talking directly to her - but these are the things that go through his mind when he thinks of her or looks back. Like, when you can't get someone off your mind, during the late stages of a would-be relationship, when you're realizing that it just won't work out or won't be the way it used to be. To me, it's that conversation you have with yourself, and you desperately want to try to justify why it's all okay in your head. You want to find a reason to leave it all behind you.
"Difficult not to feel a little bit Disappointed and passed over When I look right through To see you naked but oblivious
And you don't see me"
I really like this line; he's not saying "oh, I'm sad now." He purposefully understates his pain, saying that definitely isn't nothing. He feels something, at least, which seems like a real world way of communicating something like "you hurt me." He also lets you that he felt he had a real connection. He can see her pain, her troubles, her soul. He KNOWS her, but she just doesn't recognize that, or can't. And as a result, he's left alone to deal on his own.
"But I threw you the obvious just to See if there's more behind the Eyes of a fallen angel Eyes of a tragedy"
Again, he avoids being entirely upfront with her. Maybe because he's timid, maybe just because he's human. He sees her, why doesn't she see him? After all, he's doing what he can to make it easy - he's not direct, but he is open. I think he's trying to say, "I see you, I feel you... But, can do the same for me?" He certainly wishes she would, which is ironically why he must remain passive about. Otherwise, it's almost forced or just artificial.
"Here I am expecting just a little bit Too much from the wounded But I see, seeing through it all Seeing through, see you"
Maybe, he feels, that he could be asking for too much. Maybe she's not strong enough to look past her troubles to see him and the way he is. As much as he wants that mutual connection, he knows that it's not an easy thing to deal with, and it's perhaps... unfair to expect it. But he does want it.
"'Cause I threw you the obvious to See what occurs behind the Eyes of a fallen angel Eyes of a tragedy, oh well
Oh well
Apparently nothing Apparently nothing at all"
At this point, he's lost all hope. Sadly, she wasn't able or wasn't willing to let herself be moved by his efforts (not to say that he was expecting her to suddenly fall in love with him, but she just didn't respond). He put himself out there, hoping that she could respond to him the way he did with her, but that day never came.
"...You don't see me at all"
He was always invisible. To her, just another guy. Just another day. To him, well, it's hard to assign words... not great. Not great.
Now this may not be what he's saying, but it's all I hear...
:)
Yes, that is almost exactly what I feel in this song also.
Yes, that is almost exactly what I feel in this song also.
The main difference, to me, is that I always see the "girl" (because I'm a man, it can work both ways) as a heartbreaker.
The main difference, to me, is that I always see the "girl" (because I'm a man, it can work both ways) as a heartbreaker.
She knows men fall in love with her ("A name in your recollection / Down among a million same"), but she is cold hearted. Perhaps she has been hurt too. Perhaps she is just cold.
She knows men fall in love with her ("A name in your recollection / Down among a million same"), but she is cold hearted. Perhaps she has been hurt too. Perhaps she is just cold.
I've met girls like that in my life. And a good example would be Summer Finn (she's like the wind...) in that movie "500 days of summer".
And I can really feel his resignation. To me, he knew he souldn't have fallen for her. He was expecting to see nothing behind those "eyes of a fallen angel".
The way he put it ... "threw you the obvious" ... It's like "guess what? Yeah, I also love you. Get your heartbreaking over with already."
So that's my opinion, to complement your view!