Which song don't you get?

ShE.dREAmS.in.CoLOr

love the song but, Spin the black circle?... records?... never was 100% about it. any thoughts?

is it just my way

Caresser wrote:

So I posted this earlier but nobody helped me out. So please, i'm really curious:

I know the lyrics to Immortality. But what is it really about? The lyrics don't make sense to me. I know this is probably an obvious one. But please someone fill me in. What's with the "stripped and sold Mom and the auctioned Forearm"?
Thanks!

i honeslty dont know what exactly that line means, very abstract, but my own interperation of it is about wanting your soul to live on forever, your earthly boydy might die, but your spirit will live on forever, peole who get you down here cant touch you later in life, and i think its a little about suicide as well, the end line haunts me " some die just to live" ( especially having dealt with a family member and suicide) i really think too every song depends on your own life, what you been through and how you see things.

catefrances

ShE.dREAmS.in.CoLOr wrote:

love the song but, Spin the black circle?... records?... never was 100% about it. any thoughts?

yes. that's exactly what 'spin the black circle' is about.

catefrances

krissevee wrote:

yeah, thats true, but i think daughter is actually about an abusive relationship between the mother/daughter (possibly father?) because the daughter not only cant live up to the expectations, but because she is slow

eddie was reported saying so, and at the end of the song he says "the shades go down"

they pull the shades down so no one sees them beating her.

just what i think! lol and from what ive heard/read

'the shades go down
it's in her head
painted room
can't deny
there's something wrong
don't call me daughter
not fit to'

certainly some room there for interpretation isn't there?

i guess when it comes down to it, all that matters is what it means to you as an individual.

Caresser

That makes sense. I think you are right about it being partially about suicide. Especially too because of the lyric "a truant finds home". I don't know. I'd still like to hear more ideas. Thanks!

ycckk

i never really got that song either.

thesoviet

Caresser wrote:

That makes sense. I think you are right about it being partially about suicide. Especially too because of the lyric "a truant finds home". I don't know. I'd still like to hear more ideas. Thanks!

Kurt Cobain's Death, I figure.

Comatosed

thesoviet wrote:

Kurt Cobain's Death, I figure.

CORRECT!!!!!

"Cigar box on the floor" etc etc It is so obviously about Kurt

Jamal

I really, reaaaaally don't get it ...

TheGreenDisease

Jamal wrote:

I really, reaaaaally don't get it ...

According to Eddie, it's the best way he could express his feelings about the Roskilde tragedy.

Hence them playing Arc 9 times live.

mbangel10

SoonForgotten2 wrote:

You know, maybe Daughter is a prequel to Why Go. I think they can be seen as one continuing story.

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe Daughter is the prequel to "Rearview Mirror".

"the shades go down...."

"finally the shades are raised..."

Daughter is about physical abuse (imho). I'm not sure if it's the mother that was actually the abusive one or just the one who ignores the abuse, because the lyrics fit both cases. Rearview Mirror, imho, is about the girl finally escaping the situation.

I didn't read all the posts, so if someone explained this already, sorry for the double post.

prytocorduroy

mbangel10 wrote:

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe Daughter is the prequel to "Rearview Mirror".

"the shades go down...."

"finally the shades are raised..."

Daughter is about physical abuse (imho). I'm not sure if it's the mother that was actually the abusive one or just the one who ignores the abuse, because the lyrics fit both cases. Rearview Mirror, imho, is about the girl finally escaping the situation.

I didn't read all the posts, so if someone explained this already, sorry for the double post.

Daughter -> Why Go -> Leash -> rearviewmirror

All about the same person to me. Listen to them in that order and keep the "daughter" in mind.

wolfbear

I am always amazed at these threads that try to decipher the lyrics. I love all the different interpretations, and really enjoy reading about them, but for myself, I just love the music and Ed's voice and make up my own meanings for the most part. Music to me shouldn't be hard, just fun. Keep on though, as I said, I love reading all of these.

Jamal

TheGreenDisease wrote:

According to Eddie, it's the best way he could express his feelings about the Roskilde tragedy.

Hence them playing Arc 9 times live.

Ahhhh, now that you say it... I do believe I have read this somewhere
Must have forgotten

LeatherMosquitoMan

TheGreenDisease wrote:

According to Eddie, it's the best way he could express his feelings about the Roskilde tragedy.

Hence them playing Arc 9 times live.

All
Roskilde's
Children

9 Vocal loops..

something like that..

abhi101cru

I don't understand 95% of the songs...I'm horrible at interpreting lyrics

Abookamongstthemany

Lowlight...I love it but I'm not sure about what's going on in it.

acutejam

Olympic Dream - wtf?

Brez

Two songs... Lowlight and Off He Goes. I love quite a few of the lines from both songs, but the overall meaning of those songs just zip right over my head. I'm sure there are plenty of you who know.

abhi101cru

I'm really curious to hear a sober, live version of Yellow Ledbetter. I think it would be interesting if they opened with it once.

Open with Yellow Ledbetter and end with Long Road.