Nothing means nothing, Nothing means nothing at all
Fuel has touched so many people. Here are a few interpertations of their songs, done by their fans. Enjoy!
Body Part Girl's interpertation of Shimmer
anyway, this is from memory, pardon imperfections, plus I never did real well in shakespearean interpretations either....
"she calls me from the cold, just when I was low, feeling short of stable
and all that she intends, all she keeps inside isn't on the label"
...(me) She's down and out, she calls out to him because she is in a needy place (the cold), and it is at a time that he himself is rather low and barely able to manage for himself (from her, maybe?); what her motives are and what she is about are not apparent from looking at her or even knowing her, they are held deep within
"she's, she's ashamed, can she take me for a while?
and can i be your friend, we'll forget the past
maybe i'm not able
and i break at the bend...."
....(me) she is upset and ashamed, this is more important to her than his feelings or feeling low, and she may be too self-centered to see his pain anyway, she needs him now and that's all that matters, she can easily write off whatever hurt has been before between the two of them and just make him her "friend", but his feelings run deeper and they are more painful, and he is not just able to do this as she is, and my favorite line: and i break at the bend
he is no longer able to bend where he should be able to, his resilience is gone, in a way he is destroyed, he breaks where he should bend
"we're here and now, will we ever be again?
'cause I have found, all that shimmers in this world is sure to fade away, again"
....(me) kind of plain, but basically what is here is all that is real, because it might not recur, and all things that are shiny and beautiful, including his intense feelings for her and her reciprocating them, have a way of just dimming and dying...
"she dreams a champagne dream, strawberry surprise, pink linen and white paper, lavender and cream, fields of butterflies, reality escapes her.
she says that love is for fools that fall behind, and i'm somewhere between, never really know a killer from a savior, til i break at the bend"
....(me) her reality consists of things that are beautiful and painless and lovely and light (meaning not heavy or burdensome), love is not one of those things, love to her is for fools because it runs the risk of paining you and setting you back, not for her at all, not one of the pretty things that is what she makes her reality. But he has experienced love, but he can't judge whether the person whom he loves will redeem him or destroy him until he is actually destroyed, which by then is too late.
"it's too far away to hold, too far away.... guess i'll let it go."
....(me) in this case, i don't think it means distance, she could be right there in front of him, but he could never "hold" her--he could never make her understand his depth of feeling and his pain. So he is resigned to letting it go, it is more of a realization that he can never hold on so that he must grudgingly let her out of his grasp, it's not that his love for her was not real.
carl's heart was shattered when he wrote this song. carl, i think you are the best. :)
bpg/irene
hey kat and robinz, thanks for the opportunity to expose myself to ridicule ;)
love yaz
Kat's interpertations of Hideaway
Hideaway
this is the last song on sunburn (DUH KAT!!!) hey im trying to write a review here!!! lol.
ok, so this song isn't as complex as shimmer, but it still has some underlying features.
i think this song is very much a searching sone, rather than and answering song like ozone. hope you like the review. im exhausted now.
Hideaway, take me now
I cannot face another round
crucial opening lines here dudes. without listening to the lyrics, hideaway could be a person or a place. or something that he just wants to do. but with the song, harmonies and rythmn in the back ground, we are to presume that its something he wants to do. Take me now - pretty self explanitory, he wants to get away from it all as soon as possible. at first, it seems like hes running from something.
I cannot face another round - reminds me of boxing. he doesn't want to face another blow to the jaw, or to the heart or soul. so if he goes now, he wont have to face that next round.
And I'm flipping throught these pages
For a name to take my place
vision here for me is a guy sitting in the dark with a little lamp or something. like in the never ending story. flipping the pages, like magic looking for the right name to take his place. notice he says name not person. this is lyrics wise, but that factor is still there.
Close my eyes, wish that i could find a space
closing his eyes could make it all disappear. have you ever done that. just closed your eyes wanting everything to go away. i think hideaway is better listened to with your eyes closed. we are also meant to close our eyes when we make a wish or else it wont come true. you know, the harder you close your eyes the more likely the wish is to come true!! find space to hideaway, to make space so that he can. more space means more opportunity to hide.
Troubled days cloud my eyes, stole the sun from my skies - again eyes are the windows to our souls. so if his trouble days are clouding his eyes, they cloud his soul, making him sadder, and more desperate to hide. if the eyes are clouded, perhaps this makes it harder to wish. with no sun to light the eyes, there can be no wishing perhaps.
and in this darkeness i am tossing, turning
lying wide awake.
- still darkness, we are presuming he is in bed, unable to sleep, for sleep will not hide him either. but lying wide awake is making him tired, there fore the tossing and turning, from lack of sleep and solace.
hold my breath, wish that i could find a place
to hideaway.
whoa, look out, death rears its head here for me. hold my breath - means of self suffacation perhaps. wishing again. you can just picture this guy holding his breath, in bed, closing his eyes so tights hoping that little wish will come true and that he will be able to hide.
carl, there is only one reason why everytime i hear this i feel so distressed, so ecstactic, so moved and so damn inspired. because the words are so real for me
hideaway, take me now
I cannot face another round
kat
My interpertation of Untitled
Okay, it only took me a week to get to it, but once I started everything just flowed out onto the keyboard! So, with no further ado, my interpetation of Untitled:
"I wanted to feel something
To be something
To see something"
Okay, right here it seems like he feels what he's doing in his life is pointless, he doesn't feel anything, he feels like he's nothing, he feels there's nothing in his life or around him worth seeing. But also, he knows that there's something out there, that he can possibly be part of it and there has to be something worth living for.
"I wanted to find
One thing that was mine
And leave this behind
But I can't find my way
To get far away
And bury these days"
He wants to find that something he knows is out there so he can break out of the life he's living now that he feels is pointless but he feels trapped and he can't get away. He also wants to forget, to "bury" what he feels now, or what he's doing, but he can't forget and he can't get away.
"Fantasy
Once reality
Becomes such a parody"
He did have at one time what he wants. It may have been what he's living in now, or it may be a way he was living before that he lost and now all he can do about it is fantasize about it. To him this is a cruel joke life has played and makes him feel he's just living a copy, a parody, of what he used to have.
"If shining
Or if shaking
It's really faking"
"All that shimmers in this world is sure to fade away again"? Does anyone else see the continuous theme here? He thought he had what he wanted, it was shiny and appealing, but then he realized that it was fake and it wasn't what he wanted at all, and again, he's stuck where he is and he resents what drew him in in the first place.
Leanne's interpertation of Sunburn
Ok, I wanna do sunburn coz that's a kick ass song...(and album)
'the sky was dark this morning, not a bird in the trees, and silence hung suspicious and anxious like a blanket covered scream'.
That's pretty much explaining what the start of his day was like. You can tell already it's not gonna be a happy sorta day, there's something going on...
'you were gone, you were not there for me, and I cursed the sky and begged the sun to fall all over me, life's not living baby, living ain't free.'
It sounds like his girlfriend has left him when he needed her. You know in movies when someone falls to their knees and screams to the sky? That's what I picture Carl doing when I hear this. Then he is really upset and he wants it to end, so he's asking the sun to fall (not literally, like he wants something to happen that will stop him feeling the pain he's going thru.)
The line about living is really good. It's like you can be alive, but sometimes you're not living. When he was happy, he felt like he was living. Now he's sad and he feels like he's just alive.
'and if I can't find my way back to me, let the sun fall down over me, let the sun fall down.'
He's basically saying if he can't get back to who he was before 'you were gone' then he wants something to make it stop, to keep him from feeling like that.
'all my friends are searching, quiet, desperately.'
Maybe his friends were trying to find out what was wrong with him, why he was feeling so down.
'Look into their eyes, you'll see the faithless crying, save me, save me, save me.'
I'm not sure about this. Maybe he was so wrapped up in his own problems that he thought his friends didn't like him and they were only being his friend because they felt they had to because he was upset...??? the faithless bit I don't get...
'but what are they to feel, and who are they to be, and what am I to do with, do with me?'
He's saying what should his friends be doing and saying. It's like when your friend is upset and you don't know what you should say or do to make them feel better. He's saying that about his friends, and also he doesn't know what to do about himself either because he's depressed and he can't get over it.
chorus again...
'till my eyes cry out, till my head is free from doubt, till my lungs sigh right out, till I'm wiser...'
He wants something to sort of...ummm...shield him from everything until he is over it and can go on with his life. Until he has no more tears to cry, no more doubts about why she left, no more sighs to sigh, and he is ok with it, it's all over now.
There ya go, that's my interpretation. I'm wondering whether this song is written about the same person shimmer is about...if shimmer is about a person at all...that's what I think anyway. After all, they're on the same single so you never know.....
Great job everyone!! And if anyone else has a Fuel song that means a lot to them and wants to put it in words feel free to send it to me!
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