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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Hide and Seek (page 3/ 71) ------ performed by Imogen Heap mmmm watcha say? | Reviewer: Tuli | 9/9/2008 I think I've listened to this song over a hundred times in the past few days...it has it's own playlist. The first time I heard this my breath caught in my throat. I'm a dancer and performed to this last year...it still never fails to completely blow me away... I see this song in three ways... In the choreography I performed this song was interpreted by the choreographer as being about children and the loss of innocence...where are we? what the hell is going on? Hide and Seek...it was beautiful My boyfriend recently broke up with me in the most horrific way, which leads to my personal interpretation of the song (and subsequently my reason for listening to it on replay!) Where are we? To me that line indicates the sudden chnage in relationship status that people have to deal with...where are we in relation to one another? 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 you say? This describes so many of the pompously bad decisions my ex made for the "benefit of our relationship"...if only they hadn't been based on his own arbitrarily constructed social and moral scruples. He always did it with such conviction...he always meant well...it was always for the best...how mislead he was... 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 He never let me speak...always bulldozing me...bombarding me My third interpretation is my favourite and at the same time the hardest...it's about my dad. where are we? what the hell is going on? the dust has only just begun to form crop circles in the carpet sinking feeling He's in hospital...it's just started to sink in...the crop circles have just begun to form and I can't escape the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. spin me round again and rub my eyes, this can't be happening when busy streets amass with people would stop to hold their heads heavy So much is wrong with my life that I can't quite comprehend it...please can someone rub my eyes and tell me that it was all a dream...please. My father is not in hospital...I have not lost my passport and the only means of getting back home to see him...my boyfriend did not ruthlessly dumb me...I'm not a sick and injured dancer...I am not a hopelessly useless human being... hide and seek trains and sewing machines all those years they were here first Trains and sewing machines...it was a train that used to take my father to his Contract Labour destinations under Apartheid in Nambia...he learnt to sew as a political prisoner on Robben Island...he still has his old sewing machine oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before the takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this still life He was fine...it was all going to be ok and now the indomitable oil has blotted my landscape...life is biological in it's purest sense...people live, people die...that is the sweeping insensitivity of this still life...life doesn't care that without my father I will die...the world will still keep spinning. hide and seek trains and sewing machines (oh, you won't catch me around here) blood and tears (hearts) they were here first You won't catch me around here...I can't deal with the memories of trains and sewing machines...I can't deal with the memories of my father. Blood, tears and hearts...all the basics of humanity...they were here first...we have so little conrol over them. 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 you say? If there is a god...or a universal energy...or whoever or whatever created this universe this is what I would ask them...did she make us so that we could destroy one another...my father was destroyed by the racist machinations of a supremacist government...he was tortured and imprisoned for what he believed in...they took away 18 years of his life because they saw the right in what he did...they needed the wrong but look where it got them...look where it got them and look what it did to my father in the process! 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 Don't you dare tell me everything will be ok! Stop giving me generic responses! Stop telling me these things happen! I know they do but that doesn't make it any less painful! This is my individual pain! I'm surrounded by people and I've never elt so alone! 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 I love you dada...please be ok Unbelievable. | Reviewer: ss | 9/5/2008 This is definitely one of the best songs of this generation. I personally like Hide and Seek 2 better than the original. If you haven't heard it, look it up on youtube or something. It's also on the CD Songs for Tibet - The Art of Peace. If you like Imogen Heap and laid back yet meaningful music, pick this CD up. sublime... | Reviewer: Med | 9/8/2008 this song its one of the smoothest yet strongest songs ive ever heard.... it has numberous meanings that come flying in my mind when i read everything people has writen here... but, the first time i heard it... it gave me the feeling of uncertainty... confusion... like one of you said.... "...all of a sudden they hit you like a ton of bricks..." what ever it is that hits you... its like making a stop and really feeling and living those things in life where you dont understand whats happening and you need to stop and think about it... when you just let everything you feel come out from your chest.... its beautiful.... its one my few favourite songs in my life... Interpretation | Reviewer: Shirley | 9/8/2008 Everyone can no doubt make interpretations as they like, but for me it seems clear that the lyric speaks about the clash between the Indians and white Americans, who brought with them "trains and sewing machines". The Indians were there first, but were given no respect or human value. I think this lyric is a magnificient way of presenting how it must have felt for them. A real and bitter game of hide and seek. The music supports the lyric beautifully. It's still hard for me not to start crying when I hear it. I think this song has made me a more respectful person. Hide and Seek-Tibet? | Reviewer: John | 9/8/2008 I believe it has to do with Tibet. It was featured on the album 'Songs for Tibet' and repeatedly uses the phrase 'all those years, they were here first'. Also, in India, Tibetan protesters have been known to play 'hide and seek' with policemen who are trying to capture them. The trains and sewing machines might have to do with the cultural imperialism that the Chinese are using, as just last year a highly controversial train was constructed in Tibet to move foriegn Chinese into the region. Amazing | Reviewer: erin | 9/6/2008 this song is amazing. i love the fact that you can interperate itt whatever way you want and it will still blow you away. i think that discovering the meaning to it may take away the magical part of the song. Wow. | Reviewer: Shelby | 9/3/2008 I listen to this song and touches me. i don't know exactly what it's about, but i think that everybody interprets it in such different ways, all personal to their own lives, that that's what makes it so amazing. The fact that there's no music - woah that just blows my mind. Such a simple theory that turns out so amazing. Just wow. Ending of a relationship | Reviewer: Stormyeyez | 8/31/2008 Parts of it seem like it could be a commentary on society, but overall it has vibes of a relationship ending abruptly. "where are we? what the hell is going on? the dust has only just begun to form crop circles in the carpet sinking feeling" Immediately after...you don't know what is going on. As the dust settles and the numbness starts to wear off you get that 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" This too seems to be about disorientation, disbelief. "hide and seek trains and sewing machines all those years they were here first" this part kind of throws me, but a relationship can be like hide and seek. "oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before the takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this still life" Where pictures conveying happy moments are, now are painful reminders of what was lost. The takeover could be reference to another woman taking over her place. *skip chorus* "Mmmm whacha say, Mmmm that you only meant well? well of course you did Mmmm whacha say, Mmmm that its all for the best? Because it is Mmmm whacha say? Mmmm that it's just what we need you decided this whacha say? Mmmm what did she say?" All common lines used when leaving someone. "it's for the best" "this is what we need" Again a reference to another woman. "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" Meaningless words being said to smooth things over and her disbelief of anything he says. I can't say how many times I have listened to this song in the past few days. trains and sewing machines | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/30/2008 I disagree with some of the interpretations about what trains and swewing machines symbolize... for me... I was thinking along the lines that life is full of train wrecks and we are always trying to sew our lives back together... much more metophorical than standing for her mother or father's roles.... Aliens | Reviewer: LC | 8/31/2008 Hi Im leah just wondering if anyone elce thinks this song is about aliens just putting that out their i've been trying to convince my friends just wondering what this song is acually about.n It's realy cool song Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages