| | Red Rabbits Lyrics Artist(Band):The Shins
Hurled to the center of the Earth again, The place where it's hot, love, You know, it hurts to breathe in, And the watershed you balance on is begging it, Well did he ever know, Will he ever know? The trees in the moonshine are a dark lattice, So you catalog in the angle you notice, In a vacuum you are charged to record this, So you won't make it easy on me. I can't go into this no more, It puts too many thorns on my mind, And the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor, We've pissed on far too many sprites, And they're all standing up for their rights. Born on a desert floor, you've the deepest thirst, And you came to my sweet shore to indulge it, With the warm and dreaming eyes of an orphan, But there is not enough, There is not enough. Out of a gunnysack fall red rabbits, Into the crucible to be rendered an emulsion, And we can't allow a chance they'd restore themselves, So we can't make it easy on you. Undaunted, you bathed in hollow cries, The boys with swollen, sunburnt eyes, A reward for letting nothing under their skin, So help me, I don't know, I might, Just give the old dark side a try. Don't cast your whirling eyes on the shore ‘til we even the score. I still owe you for the hole in the floor, And the ghost in the hall, Who decides who paddles over the falls? Yeah, who makes the call, Who makes the call? I know there's an eventual Release from every scale of crime, But the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor, We've pissed on far too many good intentions held by clever sprites, And they're all standing up for their rights. If you find some error in Red Rabbits Lyrics, would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You. Thanks to kellylb02@yahoo.com for submitting the lyrics. Review about Red Rabbits I love this song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/9/09 I am trying to decide if this is about a love affair or someone in a situation where someone in the lead is taking over, and there are some people who are suffering. I think that one of the people prbobally a male is on the side where the people are leading and taking over. There is someone else who is one the other side "the dark side" who convinces him to join. The watershed would be covering the stuff that they are doing from the people under their rule. Not sure if any of that made sense :P somber lyrics for such a beautiful song | Reviewer: anne onimous | 5/30/09 I think this song is about a love affair from the eyes of the man that the woman is cheating with. Their affair leads to her getting pregnant with several children and she decides to get an abortion. this event takes an emotional toll on both of them and the husband is oblivious to the whole ordeal. Bizarre But Good | Reviewer: mel | 4/12/09 It does seem like some kind suspicions of a love affair, doesn't it? The "necessary balloon on the floor" really reminds me of someone finding a used condom. But, at the same time, it seems to imply witchcraft and spells and wierd stuff. The "Red Rabbits" that get rendered into emulsion and "giving the dark side a chance". Very bizarre and interesting. Rabbits Eh? | Reviewer: Scott | 2/18/09 I love this song, to be honest i love this band. Every song is like a riddle and a poem swirled into one with a delious frosting of slight cords and percussion. My personal belief of what this song is about IS... That it is about his girlfriend/wife, cheating on him with other men. However she is great at hidding it and it is only a belief he has, yet he doesn't want to bring it up because if he is wrong he looks like the villian. The balloon i belief resembles a speech bubble or a thinking bubble stuck because the impact of which confronting his partner would cause. <-- Also explains the line, "Who decides who paddles over the falls? Yeah, who makes the call,", but it almost makes it seem as if he did something wrong also. That is my outlook sorry if you disagree. =D I want to know all outlooks though, please post more. Love, love love. | Reviewer: Nina | 11/12/08 I am falling in love with the most incredible mind and being, who has presented this song to me as an interlude, to what. I have to find out. All the sprites are standing up for their rights the balloon lays a corpse on the floor, at some point one has to make a decision, is it worth it to find out if there may be the most magical friendship and love there? Who wants a life of regret and fear? Perpetual ambivalence is not living, we can only create with, or with the influence of others. One must find out. You cannot have screaming sprites and busted balloons your whole life until you die. This is what love is, it's mutual invention and evolution, spectacular and very hard at times. Mercer did it, many great minds do. I must. I will. indulge my creative interpretation | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/31/08 love the song too! Makes me feel good Too ! I think due to the changes lyrically as well as instrumentally . I can't say my interpretation is correct but, it is creative . crazy perhaps too ! 1st stanza - I think he is saying he is in hell seeing her or falling for her . " it hurts when he breathes in "-- the passion he has for her is so full and painful to bear . "The watershed "-- I think implies her sexuality . that She may be cheating / hding her emotions or perhaps doing something else on the side . ( that is what I get when he says "will he ever know" which could also hint that her current lover/spouse does not realy know her or realy get her _ " The trees in the moonshine are a dark latice "- to me that implys that he is watching her from a distance " next few lines are a tad bewildering not 100% sure to the meaning "And the necessary balloon lies a corpse on the floor" this line says to me that he's talking about condoms but "unused "-meaning that she is living in a passionless relationship and it hurts him to see that or that he is cheating with her and he is refusing to do it anymore due to the anguish he is feeling to being in that situation . "Born on a desert floor, you've the deepest thirst, And you came to my sweet shore to indulge it,With the warm and dreaming eyes of an orphan, But there is not enough, There is not enough." Here I think it implys how much passion and lust she has and perhaps he thinks he can never realy satisfy her or believes she will never be satisfied . "Out of a gunnysack fall red rabbits, Into the crucible to be rendered an emulsion, And we can't allow a chance they'd restore themselves, So we can't make it easy on you." I think red rabbits represent femal sexuality ie like vaginas or overt female sexuality ) I think it is just a line that is being stated not from the point of the man but in regards to the heavenly /magical forces in the universe . For people who have read about Alchemy there is alchemy of the spirit or soul and to me this is implying the cleansing or rendition of impure or rather extremity of the senses . Because I don't realy believe it to be impure but , if people believe in karma and the progression of spirit and soul there are those that beleive that the more you are able to rise above the base lust or human appetites then the pureer you are . Thus you will be like the alchemist "Gold " rendered pure from various tests to the soul .Here it is implied as a roof over all of women not just her . Then "Undaunted, you bathed in hollow cries" ( either going about her business without any verbal support from her partner or a indescrite other reason ) The boys with swollen, sunburnt eyes, A reward for letting nothing under their skin( men / or boys who indulge in looking but not trying to reach out to her ) So help me, I don't know, I might, Just give the old dark side a try.( feels that he is committing adultry or feels that he would rather try something he considers bad to be near her to make her happy ) " Don't cast your whirling eyes on the shore ‘til we even the score.( has still some issues with her ..& still wants to be the one who is in control ) I still owe you for the hole in the floor,(spying on her ) nd the ghost in the hall,( spying on her ) Who decides who paddles over the falls? Yeah, who makes the call, Who makes the call?" ( he loves her but both of them are extremely passionate and he knows she can be bold and yet self destructive and the line of who paddles over the falls could imply either 1- the passionate self destructive side or the leap of faith into something destructive ie as in an affair "I know there's an eventual Release from every scale of crime," ( which could imply either the guilt from her or his part involving sex for the most part . We've pissed on far too many sprites, And they're all standing up for their rights. I think here that it is just a line to say how life has given them both so many good oportunities to hook up but, they sort of screwed it up and as a result the other man made so called opportunity options have been screwed also .. like magical forces saying "hey, we did you a favor before and you didn't listen so , now you don't get any more " . "You didn't listen when you were sopposed to listen ". A grumpy guardian spirit saying "F You " ! Big Guy Verse Little Guy | Reviewer: Shakesbeer | 4/13/08 This song rocks. When I first listened to it I thought it may be about the current political climate in the world which it could be. However, I think it may actually be about the music industry and the people who record, publish, distribute and ultimately decide who "goes over the falls" and who doesn't. meaning??? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/21/08 Could this be a song about an "aborted" love affair. Maybe a girlfriend had an abortion without consulting the man... Just quick ideas flowing into my head based on what the lyrics "look like" in my head... Red Rabbits | Reviewer: Bryant | 3/20/08 It is because of this song that i am a new fan of The Shins. The lyrics cause you to visualize the images of the words sung as you listen. You become immersed in the words spiraling down and not caring if you step foot on land again. Red Rabbits | Reviewer: Jarrett | 1/5/08 You will listen first for the song's beauty and lyrics and stay for the amazing meter change at "far-too-many" and "I don't know, I." Review By Pages: 1 2 Review the song Red Rabbits The area is only for review, if you want to submit the lyrics or the corrections of the lyrics, please click the link at the end of the lyrics.  Download "The Shins" Music | |
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