Reviews for Hide And Seek Lyrics

i love this song! i think the song is based on an every day basis....like the world we live in is just so crazy theese days it seems as if aliens are taking over were there will be blood and tears and pain...and everyone is to busy to see that or even care a bit..

I can honestly agree with some of you, The song is special, but that's make it so awesome! Its slow and soft. I just cant understand. Did Jason take '' MMm whatcha say '' from her ? Someone who could answer ? ;) Well , i do like this song. '' Just for now '' is very good too!

I listen to the lyrics, and yes, we all know about how the concepts of relativity and interpretation apply to each person when they listen, but I think that the subject matter is a little bit less traumatic than someone close going away. I've listened to this a couple of times, and personally, I think the matter actually be a child who is being moved out of the house they grew up in, or a person who has lost their home. Most of the lyrics- crop circles in the carpet, trains and sewing machines, hide and seek, and many others- seem to give reference either to a person's surroundings, or a person's nostalgic memories. Very little is said about people, aside from the famous "Mmm what you say" refrain mentioned near the end- and even at these parts where another person's presence is being addressed, it's in a very vague context which can be easily molded to the "moving" theory I mentioned before.

Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek" is a small flickering candle of musical innovation in the bog of generic rhythms and beats that today's mainstream eats like popcorn, and I don't think there will ever be anything quite its equal.

I feel that this is about the holocaust. Just the title hide and seek is kind of enough, Anne frank hid, Nazi Germans seeker for her. Trains were used to transport Jews to the 'labor' camps, where they were often put to work, perhapes making clothes with sewing machines. Jews were here first because jeudaism is one of the oldest religions aroound. Hitler and the Nazi regiment said it was all for the betterment of the German empire. But in the end, it didn't go over very well, and while WWII was goingon, troop deaths would no doubt cause great sorrow in busy streets, and the Germans who opposed the socialist regiment no doubt were upset At what was happening to their country, ESP. Since the first world war. Just a thought here.

wow, this is great.
i love love love this song, love Imogen Heap, and i love this all-around! I couldn't think of anything to add, take away, or criticize. It's pure perfection, and it absolutley never gets old! Her voice portrays a beautiful, mysterious story that can be interpreted many different ways everytime you listen to it, so it's always new, fresh, and interesting. I'm in love!

first of all....eric n andrew....take ur advise but read on....it states that the album was based on IMOGEN'S divorce.....and to all the ppl that say this song is based upon the native americans....well I AM one upon millions of em....n I don't see how the heck this song has any ties except the part about mmmm whatcha say.....but oh well...to each his/her own....

We were talking about Watcha Say vs. Hide and Seek in Music. My Music teacher said its about the native americans. "They were here first" and all the stuff about trains and sewing machines makes sense in that topic. I think that's what its about.

Okay, this is my favorite song in the whole world. There can truly be a million meanings to it, but I think that the divorce view is what Imogen Heap meant. However, I usually prefer to think of it as a literal takeover. Like... there was a peaceful kingdom that wasn't particularily advanced (trains and sewing machines) and then a more advanced civilization came and ruled over them because they thought they would improve it (that you only meant well, well of course you did) but it really made everyone miserable (hold their heads heavy).

this song is really good! I agree about the divorce theory it's definatly a sadder story then Jason Derulo's song. Not only that but the part he took makes a lot more sense in this. Love love love it.

I honestly think everyone hears something differrent in this song , but thats what makes it so awsome.
I imagine a native american women's feelings about the white man taking what was thiers.
No IM not Native American nor am I a female.
Its just what I hear and visualize.

I agree with the divorce interpretation of this song. As has already been mentioned, Imogen Heap's parents divorced when she was young, so it makes sense to me that this song is understood from the child's perspective:

Where are we?
What the hell is going on?

(She wakes up one day and is confused by her surroundings. Something is missing. Or, more like, someone is missing. She's addressing the remaining parent.)

The dust has only just begun to form
Crop circles in the carpet
Sinking feeling

(The dust has only just begun to form could be a feeling in the back of her mind that something terrible has happened. I think crop circles in the carpet refers to the imprint heavy things make in carpet when they stand there a long time. Perhaps the parent who left claimed this or that piece of furniture or whatever and took it with them leaving crop circles in the carpet where there was once something there. On that note the dust forming could also refer to dust collecting on the things that settled, and she's saying, "Why did you go away? I don't understand; it was too soon. The dust was just beginning to form, and we were happy and comfortable here." The sinking feeling is indicative of loss and dread.)

Spin me round again
And rub my eyes
This can't be happening

(She's talking to the remaining parent again, asking him/her (I think both men and women are capable of leaving) to convince them this isn't just a dream. "This is just a dream, show me this isn't real and rub my eyes to wake me up, so we can go back to reality.")

When busy streets a mess with people
Would stop to hold their heads heavy

(She notices the people around her neighborhood are acting strangely. They're hanging their heads not wanting to get involved in the relationship problems they observed, minding their own business.)

Hide and seek

(Denial: "He/she's just hiding. This is a game. I just have to find them and everything will go back to normal.")

Trains and sewing machines
All those years
They were here first

(She's observing what's still here as she searches, what wasn't taken. Trains and sewing machines could symbolize the family. Why would the parent take the furniture which means nothing but not take the toys? Why would they choose him/herself over us?)

Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before the takeover,
the sweeping insensitivity of this still life

(When pictures (pleasure moments) hang on walls for a long time, the grime of the air and the inherent messiness of life collect on the pictures and the walls. It happens so slowly that you don't realize it's there until you take the picture down, and the place the picture hung is clean but the rectangle of grime on the walls stand out: Oily marks on walls. The remaining parent is ridding him/herself of the happy memories that are now ruined in their mind. The sweeping insincerity of this still life is what's taking over and ruining the moments.)

Hide and seek

(This time she accepts that the parent has left, but now wants to know why. She's seeking reasons, understanding.)

Trains and sewing machines (You won't find me around here)

(She's not going to find answers by just comparing what is and is not still there: the repetition of trains and sewing machines.)

Blood and tears (hearts)
They were here first

(She's finding answers by recalling the the blood and tears of the life before the parent left. They were here first, so they'll be more effective in gaining understanding.)

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?

(She's asking the remaining parent again. The mmms are her not believing him/her. Sarcasm: "You meant well? It's for the best? It's just what we need? ...Yeah... right. Of course it is. Best for whom? You decided this without me.")

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

(She's saying that the parent keeps making things up (Newspaper word cut outs). They're justifying what happened (Mid sweet talk). They claim not to have had a choice (Ransom notes). But they made this choice without considering what it would do to her, "You don't care a bit (about me).")

I just think it makes a lot a sense. I know that this song means different things to different people, but that's what I get out of it.

I love how Andrew laid it out factually, then Ashley comes along and offers the typical ignorant response. This is Imogen Heap a British/German singer, not Toby Keith. As previously stated, 5 minutes on Wikipedia makes a world of difference. It just goes to show you that the song is what you make of it (which is what Imogen intends with her music) no matter how different the interpretations may be. I think the best way to sum it up is to say this song is about betrayal by [insert anyone you've felt betrayed by here]. As far as my review is concerned, this is a breath of fresh air and can't even be ruined by Jason Derulo's horrible "remake".

When i first heard this song i had no idea what it meant. i heard many meanings and they all seemed to make some sort of sense but the one that caught my attention the most was divorce. Her parents are divorced and if you listen to the lyrics the way she explains everything it makes so much sense. I wanted to believe the song meant more then another relationship song, but it really speaks to me in this way now. It really could mean anything. its important to find what the song means to you.
oh, ps, jason derulo should be slapped for cutting up imogens masterpiece and turining it into another annoying mainstream song.

This is just what I've heard off and on, but I'm pretty sure its about capturing animals and killing them for their furs... I know it sounds kinda odd at first, but it makes sense... just think about it... it seems like a really good interpretation to me!

There are so many meanings to this song, and I'm almost positive none of us are "Right". The song has a meaning to everyone that reads it! And there is no need for argument about what we interpret it to be. Just for my own entertainment, I like to think of this song to symbolize the 9/11 indecent.

Where she refers to the crop circles, they could be for me, a way of saying the debris from the towers, to have began to fall upon the city, as people in busy streets hold their heads heavy. And everyone knows about the suspicison that the President supposedly knew about all of this. And where she said, "That you only meant well, of course you did, that its all for the best?" and "you decided this". In my opinion is a way of saying that this was known to happen. Hide and seek is refering to the search for the "real culpret", (the reason for the war in Iraq and Pakistan). And the line "where oily marks on walls" are of the families that were affected by the tragedy.

But like I said, this song can be interpreted many different ways, if it couldn't then it would not be music, and Imogen would not be an artist.