måndag 31 Aug 2009, 15:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax84xcaLfHs
"The First Train Home" the first track on Ellipse and the new single is a really beautiful but sad song. I know it is only my personal opinion but I see it as a woman who finds herself in a sad and doomed relationship. She feels if she can just run and can but only get home all will be well with the world.She see the first train home as her escape and her solution to all her problems
It sounds like her her relationship has run it's length, she asks her partner what does it matter that he has had one too many to drink or that he does not find her any fun anymore. It is finished to the point that she does not care what he looks like or even knows why she stays.
She just wants to get home where everything is so much better , she remembers her childhood playing in her hideaway with Play-Doh and fun times like painting the kitchen. Sadly she no longer loves her partner and she desperately needs someone to love .
I know I can't be the only woman in the world who has ever felt like this. Most of us have to stay and make the best of things and we often end up happy again, some cannot mend the gulf between themselves and their partner and move on. But we all see our childhood in a rose tint!
Personally I hope she never catches that first train home I would like to think she faces up to her failing relationship and grows . I really love this song !
(I've got to get on it) (3x)
Bodies disengaged, our mouths are fleshing over.
It's just an echo game, irises retreating
to ovals of white.
The urge to feel your face
And blood rushing to paint my hand print
A Frisbee one by one
Your vinyl on lamente
Desperate for some kind of contact.
First train home, I've got to get on it (3x)
To Catch, to catch, catch catch catch.
First train home, I've got to get on it (3x)
First Train home
Temporal dead zone where clocks are barely breathing
Yet no one cares to notice for all the yammering on
I calm up to hold it together.
I want to Play-Doh wave forms in the hideaway
I want to get on with getting on with things
I want to run in fields, paint the kitchen
And love someone
And I can't do any of that here, can I?
First train home, I've got to get on it (3x)
First Train home
So what? You've had one too many.
So what? I'm not that much fun to be with
So what? You've got that silly hat on
So what? I didn't want to come here, anyway.
What matters you, doesn't matter, matter to me.
What matters to me, doesn't matter, matter to you.
What matters to you, doesn't matter, matter to them.
What matters to them, doesn't change anything.
Got to get on it first train home.
Got to get on it first train home
First train home I've got to get on it
(I've got to get on it)
To catch, to catch, catch-catch, catch.
(First train home)
First train home I've got to get on it
First train home.
(First train home)
To go, to go, to go
Get, get, get, get
Out, out, out, out
Now, now, now, now