| By Pages: Previous 10 Pages 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next 10 Pages Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Hide And Seek (page 11/ 84) ------ performed by Imogen Heap After the funeral | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/22/09 I've heard this song so many times and I just love it. But, the last time I heard it and even just now, thinking about it, I start to tear up. When I heard it last time, I suddenly had this feeling that the song was about someone who had died, an older female, like someone's mother. A family member who had been living faraway came back for the funeral, and when they went to the family's house afterward, they found everything had been given away to charity. No more furniture, no pictures on the wall, all the clothes given away. And, the family member is angry that this was done without consulting them first about it. Having recently gone to a funeral for one of my parents, I felt a connection to the song because my other parent has completely taken over the house and changed everything in it. They lived seperate lives in different houses and it feels like a takeover and I know they think it's for the best, but it feels wrong too somehow. Anyway, that's my take, although I love the analogy to 9-11 too. Fantastic song! 9/11 theory | Reviewer: simon | 1/19/09 For me the 9/11 concept is a powerful one.... First verses about the shock of the images of the towers... the dust is an obvious reference. As the building falls, the carpets leave 'crop circles' as the furniture is momentarily suspended above. The people in the streets cannot believe it, they hold their heads. 'Hide and seek' refers to looking for the missing relatives... trains and sewing machines are ordinary things, that suddenly seem out of joint. The sweeping insensitivity is the thinking that killing thousands of innocent people for a religious ideal could possibly be a good idea. 'All those years/they were here first' could be about the sudden disappearance of valued lives..likewise blood and tears. Oily marks could refer to the photos hung up of loved ones, or the stained landscape of the aftermath. Bush (and the medias response generally) cannot connect with the genuine Human feelings of those who lost relatives 'you don't care a bit' section. The Holocaust/Future world/broken relationship interpretations are also perfectly valid. Like poetry, each person puts their own interpretation on the song - which is as it should be. Once Imogen's song is in the public arena, it means what you feel it means to you, and no-one can say 'you can't think that'!!! So don't insult people for having different views.... I think.. | Reviewer: kate | 1/19/09 I think its about a man and woman and the man has suddenly become very vilont "oily marks on the walls where pleasure moments hung before the takeover" the "pleasure marks" being things like photos that represented a plesurable time before "the take over" of anger and vilonce. 'Trains and sewing machines (oh you won't catch me around here" meaingind she's running away and thanks to technology it will be hard to find here. I thinks its called hide and seek because she's hiding and he's seeking her. "Ransom notes keep falling from your mouth mid sweet talk news paper cutouts" are refering to the vilont threats and the sweet talk used to apologise. You don't care a big refers to the fact the vilont man doens care. ren | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/14/09 well these are all good points and all but when i listen to the song i see the overwhelming takeover of technology in the modern world and how its disabling our ability to feel emotion. "oily marks where pleasure moments once hung before the takeover" indicates the destruction of homely residences to make way for factories etc. "trains and sewing machines" doesnt really need explaining. "blood and tears they were here first" we used to do things for ourselves to survive without the aid of technology. "mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut outs speak no feeling" things typed on paper express no feeling at all unlike the true spoken word. "mm watcha say? that you only meant well?" our development of technology was to make our lives easier but has slowly made us overly dependent on it to allow us to exist. "speak no feeling" "no you dont care a bit" void of emotion the 9/11 theory is good i can see your point . | Reviewer: :] | 1/13/09 i think that the song is about a sepeeration, it may not be a relationship, but seperation of a mother and a child. 911 is possible , but the words point towards a seperation . in the end , everyone has their own interpretaion of the song . its what you think it means , no what others think is right. xx This is totally Wrong... | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/12/09 Okay i have this really wrong, but i thot i'd put it down anyways. i thought it was about the Industrial Revolution (1800's). When things in everyday life started to change and become more about products and speed and technology. obviously cuz of : Trains and Sewing machines ( that time is when both were invented) spin me round again, and rub my eyes, this cant be happening ( everything is so new, they cant believe it!) kinda stupid i know, i see some other comments waaaay better. i guess cuz im learing about it in history class right now, made me think about it Colmbine Massacre | Reviewer: Nina Williams | 1/12/09 I first heard this song on a video from youtube about the columbine massacre with this song in the background, and i feel like it really made it more powerful its a really sad song and kinda made it worse to watch. not that hard to understand | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/2/09 The song is about a person who has just had someone walk out of their life (probably in the form of a relationship) and now they're left in the aftermath wondering about it all. The "Crop circles in the carpet" refers to the marks of where the furniture was. Meaning the person has taken all of their stuff. "Oily marks appear on walls, where pleasure moments hung before" meaning that pictures of the two of them together that once hung on the wall have been taken down. "Spin me round again and rub my eyes" meaning that she still is in shock. Can't believe what has just happened. Can't believe they are gone. And the most powerful part of the song is when she says: Mm what'cha say? Mm, that you only meant well Well of course you did Mm what'cha say? Mm that it's all for the best Of course it is Mm what'cha say? Mm that it's just what we need You decided this? Mm what'cha say? Mm what DID you say? All of that refers to this idea that, ok you did all this and you thought it was best for us...But it's NOT what is best for me. You are what's best for me. And the "You decided this?" showing that it wasn't a mutual leaving. That she hasn't moved on, that she is still quite attached. And at the end "You don't care a bit..." pretty much sums up how she interprets how the other person feels. Obviously they don't love her or care about her since they left in such a sudden and insensitive way without consulting her first. It's a BEAUTIFUL song...But quite sad. Hope that helps =) Alien Cyborgs DUH!! | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/1/09 Come on guys, you're all stupid, this song is obviously about alien cyborgs from the future.. DUH!! it says "crop circles in the carpet", which meant that they practiced crop circles on their carpets, so they could finally come here and make crop circles on our planet.. And then "ransom notes keep falling out your mouth", means that all the people that got obducted were being held for ransom by the alien cyborgs from the future.. IT ALL MAKES SENSE Holocaust? | Reviewer: Bethany | 12/29/08 To the person who said this was about the holocaust (Ms/Mr "your all stupid"): Imogen herself had mentioned in an interview that she wrote this song about 9/11 and how the Bush Administration hid so many things from the general public. Knowing this, "ransom notes keep falling out your mouth mid-sweet talk" becomes all too relevant & has nothing to do with Hitler, but, rather, another leader who sweet-talked his people. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages: Previous 10 Pages 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next 10 Pages | |
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