this weeks song of the week is "i can feel a hot one" by manchester orchestra. im going to post the lyrics. you are going to read them. and then for fun youre going to leave a comment. tell me what you think the song means. come on...itll be fun.
"I could feel a hot one taking me down
For a moment, I could feel the force
Fainted to the point of tears
And you were holding on to make a point
What's the point?
I'm but a clean man, stable and alone man
Make it so I won't have to try
The faces always stay the same
So I face the fact that I'm just fine
I said that I'm just fine
I remember, head down,
After you'd found out
Manna is a hell of a drug
I need a little more, I think
Because enough is never quite enough
What's enough?
I took it like a grown man crying on the pavement
Hoping you would show your face
But I haven't heard a thing you've said
In at least a couple hundred days
What'd you say?
I was in the front seat, shaking it out
And I was asking if you felt alright
And I never want to hear the truth
I want to hear your voice is sounding fine
My voice is sounding fine
I could feel my heartbeat taking me down
And for the moment, I would sleep alright
Invading with a selfish fear
To keep me up another restless night
Another restless night
The blood was dry, it was sober
The feeling of audible cracks
And I could tell it was over
From the curtains that hung from your neck
And I realized it then, you were perfect
With my teeth ripping out of my head
And it looked like a painting I once knew
Back when my thoughts were not entirely intact
So i prayed for what I thought were angels
Ended up being ambulances
And the Lord showed me dreams of my daughter
She was crying inside your stomach
And I felt love again"
Sunday, November 09, 2008
-song of the week-
Posted by pablo at 1:52 AM
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Um... this song just kinda made me want to kill myself. I'm going to go tickle the dogs now and then maybe head down to your house to deliver your snow hating self a neck punch.
Upon second reading I no longer feel a bit suicidal and am going to spare you the punching of the neck.
the guy feels lost and alone...on drugs? He gets into a car accident, killing his wife/girlfriend. She was pregnant, and he realizes he feels love for this child..not sure if it is because he lost it or because he lost his lady and now has the child...or maybe it is just him imagining the life he could have had if he had not screwed up.
Is it kinda "you don't know what you got 'til it's gone" type thing?
Ok, so now what is your take on it?
my take: it starts out with a devastated man imagining killing himself.
i think the "manna is a hell of a drug" line is not a drug reference. i think its about blessings from god. (manna from heaven) i think hes devastated and feeling like he cant get enough comfort from god. (or blessings)
long story short, think its a miscarriage. i think its about his reaction to his wife/girlfriend telling him that she miscarried. and then the event causes a separation in the relationship..and leads him to lonliness and dispair...but eventually he either remembers the daughter....or realizes another is on the way...and feels love again for his wife/girlfriend...or child. (old one..or possible new one) or just love in general.
thats the really quick "on my lunch break" version of my take. sorry if its sloppy.
ps
i thought car accident at first too. but the more i read and listen...the less i think there was an accident. "the feeling of audible cracks" i think is just a fancy way of saying that he could almost hear and feel the situation breaking. it was so devastating that he could hear and feel this fragile thing breaking.
and the "teeth ripping out of my head"...i think hes just expressing an intense emotion here. anger...frustration...grief. i almost imagine him just yelling out in anger or grief.
I think you are right...After listening to the song after your take on it, that makes sense..I still don't get the curtains that hung from your neck...
I thought it was drugs because of the line "Back when my thoughts were not entirely intact" more so than the manna...and I wonder if the manna line is that his life was going well and he took it for granted, pulled away from God (the good things were like a drug in that they made him think he didn't need God), and then things fell apart?
Those are my thoughts for the moment anyways..and I am pretty tired...I tried to post last night, but for some reason it didnt work..user error I am sure..
curtains that hung from your neck...
this line got me too. ive got 2 theories on it. a hospital gown could look like curtains hanging from her neck...
OR...and i think this one makes more sense...imagine her already knowing the baby is lost...and him sitting in the waiting room or in the car or whatever waiting for her. he looks up and and sees her walking towards him...head down. a long haired girl with her head down. her hair could like curtains hanging from her neck. i think it just means he could tell it was over by her posture. head down staring at the ground.
I think it's a turbulant relationship on the rocks... the first two paragraphs being present day...spiraling back to the past...
1st paragraph... He's having a emotional breakdown... he's questioning why she didn't leave... what she wanted from him...
2nd: WHERE HE IS IN LIFE RIGHT NOW!! (FINE BUT NOT FINE)
3rd: The biblical food manna was a spirital food SOME believe it was mushrooms "magic ones" others just what you said. He starts to say he remembers when she found out.... and I THINK the manna reference is just thrown in there so we get an idea of what's gonna happen...
4th: so we know she found out... he finds out HE'S A MESS!! The relationship is turbulant he hasn't heard what she's said in "a couple 100 days" BUT HE HEARD what she said. He just needs to see her face to comprehend .... WHAT'D YOU SAY??
5th: he puts his feelings aside (shakes it off) asks her if she too is OK... because again he's FINE or a least acting it (like in the beginning of the song) HE CAN TELL IN HER VOICE she IS NOT!!
6th: they drive home.... HE TAKES IN SOME MANNA.... being whatever you want to believe it is.... BUT HE'S AT PEACE his nights have been restless up until now BUT for the moment .... HE FALLS ASLEEP!!
7th: HE WAKES...the blood is DRY (he's been asleep awhile), He's in SHOCK (shock is "sobering" moment) he knows there are noises/time is passing (feels audible cracks) but he's in his OWN WORLD... HE KNOWS IT's over (the blood is dry and she's hanging from the curtains she used) HE REALIZES how much he LOVES HER (she's perfect) .... he has a breakdown... (NOW THE PAINTING and thoughts not entirely intact could having mean of his OWN DEPRESSION or drugs) He calls the ambulance BUT IS PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE!!
the last lines I believe is his acceptance of her death, the crying of the baby meaning she's reaching out to him that it wasn't his fault....
-peg
peg...
yeah that makes sense too. im going back and forth still from my theory to something more centered around drug use.
a few of the lines are just too vague for me to decide forsure. i feel like im relying on personal experience and feeling too much to shape my view of the song.
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