where are we?
what the hell is going on?
the dust has only just begun to form
crop circles in the carpet
sinking feeling
spin me round again
and rub my eyes,
this can't be happening
when busy streets a mess with people
would stop to hold their heads heavy
hide and seek
trains and sewing machines
all those years
they were here first
oily marks appear on walls
where pleasure moments hung before the takeover,
the sweeping insensitivity of this still life
hide and seek
trains and sewing machines (oh, you won't catch me around here)
blood and tears (hearts)
they were here first
Mmmm whatcha say,
Mmm that you only meant well?
well of course you did
Mmmm whatcha say,
Mmmm that it's all for the best?
of course it is
Mmmm whatcha say?
Mmmm that it's just what we need
you decided this
whatcha say?
Mmmm what did she say?
ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs
speak no feeling no I don't believe you
you don't care a bit,
you don't care a bit
(hide and seek)
ransom notes keep falling out your mouth
mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs
(hide and seek)
speak no feeling no i don't believe you
you don't care a bit,
you don't care a (you don't care a) bit
(hide and seek)
oh no, you don't care a bit
oh no, you don't care a bit
(hide and seek)
oh no, you don't care a bit
you don't care a bit
you don't care a bit
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Review about Hide And Seek Indescribable | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/28/10
I am a dancer and I love songs that make me feel the emotion of the lyrics. I feel so alive dancing to this song. It really has a beautiful quality to it then other song ever have. I love how she just uses her voice to describe a scene. And her voice really enhances it. The words are perfectly and creatively placed. "what the hell is going on?" I hate how Jason D took this beautiful song, added raps and a strong beat to it and its somehow more popular than the original AND didn't give Imogen Heap any credit. Now thats just low. How low do u go?
I teach a Music Appreciation Class @ a high school in TN. Every week we do a Song of the Week where my classes listen to a song and analyze from the music to the lyrics. It was awesome to read your comments see that everybody has a different perspective. I'm eager to share this song and your comments with my classes as well as hear the different perspectives they give on the song.
song is amazing | Reviewer: Lonesome | 8/16/10
i love this song, its so beautiful and she has such an AMAZING voice. I first heard this song when my boyfriend sung it to me...everytime i hear it i think of him, we live in different states. So this song pulls beloved memories of him and me together. I listen to it when im lonesome for him.
I Love Imogen Heap.
what a powerful song | Reviewer: Megan | 8/14/10
Hide and Seek is such an amazing song. She uses only her voice with no music in the background and it is incredible. It is shocking that people only know her song because Jason Derulo took the "Whatcha Say" part and made a song that is pretty crappy other than when Imogen Heap is singing. It is truly sad. She deserves a lot more credit for this song!
Break-up | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/15/10
I first heard this song after I broke up with my boyfriend of four years. "Crop circles in the carpet" = the round impressions left in the carpet from the feet of heavy furniture. "Oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before the takeover" -- Pleasure moments are pictures that were taken down from the walls, and the oily marks are where they filled in the holes from the nails and painted over them.
"Whatcha say? That you only meant well...that it's all for the best...that's it's just what we need. You decided this" -- This was a one-sided break-up.
On Intent | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/12/10
It's really interesting to see how others interpret this song. I've loved the chords and tones of this song for a long time but haven't looked up the lyrics until fairly recently. I jump to general issues of development. "Oily marks appear on walls" and the "trains and sewing machines" maybe represent industrialization. And these developments come at the expense of those who "were here first", probably indigenous peoples. The line "blood and tears" brings up the image of the Trail of Tears for me.
Development/Imperialism/Globalization is justified by the good intentions of those in power. But Imogen has us re-examine that intent, she doesn't believe the sound bites, the "newspaper word cut-outs". Despite good intentions, there is real, irreparable harm done to people, and we can't overlook those lives.
lyrics' meaning | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/5/10
this song is actually about a marriage or engagement broken off. Trains= bridal dress trains, sewing machines for fixing it up before the wedding. Crop circles in the carpet= circles left behind from moving away furniture (leaving), like the legs of chairs and stuff.
Different this time | Reviewer: victim | 8/8/10
Usually I think about a husband leaving in this song, but I was raped two days ago and this song really speaks to me right now. Especially "sinking feeling
spin me round again
and rub my eyes,
this can't be happening"
angry love | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/25/10
i love imogen heap and her music ever since her frou frou days, and i was quite upset once i heard that some idiot rapper had the nerve to take a piece from her beautiful song with out crediting her. i hope he gets sued. but any way, this song is all i listen to when i am depressed and it makes me feel at peace, so please keep it up immie :3
These lyrics are clever & truly intelligent.
Not just the rambling of some egotistical pop/rock "star", but true poetic over-view of a still-young life.....a great maturity therein...
calls deeply on many levels to myriad experiences & most people on several levels......
this IS a poem, and should live on as such.
It is worthy of joining any other modern poetry
already published in collections....years from now, her words will stand the test of Time.
She speaks of universal experience.
Poignant, cynical, world-weary, yet beautiful.
Thank you.
(from a woman, 60 )
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