So this has been.my favorite song of OTEP's since it came out in 2004, and I always thought it was a song about a child's narrative of suffering in an abusive Christian home. But now that I am revisiting the lyrics, I am seeing something totally new.
This song could be gospel of John but from the perspective of Jesus.
Jesus was NOT having a good time up to and during the crucifixion. Everyone in the known world at the time looked to him with fear, admiration or disgust and he was constantly being asked questions. He spoke in "verses, prophesies and curses". He had made an enemy of the state, and believed the world was increasingly wicked and fallen from grace, or that he was in the "mouth of madness".
The spine of atlas is the structure that allows the titan to hold the world up. Jesus challenged the state and in doing so became a celebrated resistance figure. It also made him public enemy #1.
All of this happened simply because he was doing his thing, not because of any agenda he had or strategy.
And then he gets scourged (storm of thorns)
There are some plot holes here but I think it's an interesting interpretation.
Everybody knows
But no-one's saying nothing
And it's a sound so very loud
That no-one can hear
I got something in my shoes it's keeping me from walking
Down the long and winding road back home to you
Around this town you've ceased to be
That's what you get for sleeping with the enemy
Where angels fly you won't play
So guess who's gonna take the blame
For my big mouth, my big name
I'll put on my shoes while they're walking slowly down the hall of fame?
Into my big mouth you could fly a plane
I'll put on my shoes while they're walking slowly down the hall of fame?
Slowly down the hall of fame
I ain't never spoke to God
And I ain't never been to heaven
But you assumed I knew the way
Even though the map was given
And as you look into the eyes
Of a bloody cold assassin
Is only then you'll realize
With who's life you have been messin'
Around this town you've ceased to be
That's what you get for sleeping with the enemy
Where angels fly you won't play
So guess who's gonna take the blame
For my big mouth, my big name
Who'll put on my shoes while they're walking
Slowly down the hall of fame?
Into my big mouth you could fly a plane
I'll put on my shoes while they're walking slowly down the hall of fame
Slowly down the hall of fame (fame, fame)
Slowly down the hall of fame (fame, fame)
And round this town, you've ceased to be
That's what you get for sleeping with the enemy
Where angels fly you won't play
I guess who's going to take the blame
For my big mouth, my big name
I'll put on my shoes while I'm walking slowly down the hall of fame
Into my big mouth, yeah you could fly a plane
I'll put on my shoes while I'm walking
Slowly down the hall of fame (fame, fame)
Slowly down the hall of fame (fame, fame)
Slowly down the hall of fame (fame, fame)
But no-one's saying nothing
And it's a sound so very loud
That no-one can hear
I got something in my shoes it's keeping me from walking
Down the long and winding road back home to you
Around this town you've ceased to be
That's what you get for sleeping with the enemy
Where angels fly you won't play
So guess who's gonna take the blame
For my big mouth, my big name
I'll put on my shoes while they're walking slowly down the hall of fame?
Into my big mouth you could fly a plane
I'll put on my shoes while they're walking slowly down the hall of fame?
Slowly down the hall of fame
I ain't never spoke to God
And I ain't never been to heaven
But you assumed I knew the way
Even though the map was given
And as you look into the eyes
Of a bloody cold assassin
Is only then you'll realize
With who's life you have been messin'
Around this town you've ceased to be
That's what you get for sleeping with the enemy
Where angels fly you won't play
So guess who's gonna take the blame
For my big mouth, my big name
Who'll put on my shoes while they're walking
Slowly down the hall of fame?
Into my big mouth you could fly a plane
I'll put on my shoes while they're walking slowly down the hall of fame
Slowly down the hall of fame (fame, fame)
Slowly down the hall of fame (fame, fame)
And round this town, you've ceased to be
That's what you get for sleeping with the enemy
Where angels fly you won't play
I guess who's going to take the blame
For my big mouth, my big name
I'll put on my shoes while I'm walking slowly down the hall of fame
Into my big mouth, yeah you could fly a plane
I'll put on my shoes while I'm walking
Slowly down the hall of fame (fame, fame)
Slowly down the hall of fame (fame, fame)
Slowly down the hall of fame (fame, fame)
Lyrics submitted by AzWeThinkIam
My Big Mouth Lyrics as written by Noel Gallgher
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Well, in my opinion this song is about being a young & maybe a little naive &/or introverted girl and finding yourself loving a man who is at first very charming, carefree & outgoing, and seems at first to be without limits, as in
"There was a time
you opened up every doorway
you didn't mind if everything
wasn't your way"
then that man starts to gradually become more introverted & shows their more possessive/obsessive side to you as the relationship progresses, even while they keep up the appearance of being carefree & outgoing to everyone else,
"Don't pull away
that goes against what you told me
I look in your eyes
I realize what you've sold me
is love in a vacuum"
so you confront them about the way they're acting and of course they deny it,
"I think you've changed
but you insist that
that's not true"
quite possibly they are an addict of some sort, my guess would be cocaine, &/or showing very obsessive behavior towards you (early on in the video for this song we see the man hanging a picture up, it is a very large portrait of Aimee & it is prominently displayed in his/their apartment for the duration of the song), thus their "love in a vacuum",
"You look so strange, so distant
that you're hardly you
Now I can see
how you have been acting different
You say it's me
but I know
that it isn't
it's love in a vacuum"
but still you are in love with them and don't want to leave them and you know that they are truly in love with you and they don't want you to leave them either, maybe they are convinced you can save them from themself, maybe they are so broken that the possibility of an overdose &/or suicide attempt is very real and you want to get through to them that their behavior not only dangerous but it is also just pissing you off and if they don't wise up they run the risk of loosing you, as in the lines
"You will be lonely
if you leave me alone", so you want to save them but can't get through to them due to the addiction &/or emotional problems they have,
"Love in a vacuum
and that's not enough
love in a vacuum
You will be lonely
you'll be the only one who feels this way
You will be lonely
if you leave me alone
You will be lonely
you'll be the only one who feels this way
it's just not enough"
you want them to understand that the love they are giving you is not enough when it is filtered through the vacuum of their drug addiction &/or emotional impairment,
"You will be lonely
you'll be the only one who feels this way
it's just not enough
and just wait
you will be lonely
Love in a vacuum
Love in a vacuum
and that's not enough
Love in a vacuum".
'Love In A Vacuum' for me is a hauntingly truthful acute argument on the loneliness of obsession and almost inevitable loss of love that follows people who are broken in some way or another; the obsessives, the coke heads, the drunks, addicts or the just-plain-old emotionally broken; a razor sharp, lyrically driven, deceptively poppy, yet ultimately-depressing-in-the-best-way song.
Quintessential Aimee Mann.
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This song is def a twin to "Unfair" (a song she has been quoted as saying is about falling in love with someone who is already in a relationship) so it is presumably about the same person. Given the references to buying an apartment and not being able to see her love interest "after tonight," it's most likely that she's moving away and she'll "wait a day to break the bad news" (i.e. notifying him that she's leaving once she's already gone).
And, of course, the fact that she sees in him a fellow "idealist" and "dreamer" (terms commonly given to people with the INFP personality on the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)) portends that she'll always be left wondering if they would've been perfect together.
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In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Be Here Now is a great album. At times a little long but the music is very good. Little more bass maybe for the songs.
Liam&Noel say..My Big Mouth- "Even I'm not interested in what I've got to say half the time. But 'I aint never spoke to God, and I ain´t never been to heaven´ - that´s about fans who think you´re on the phone to John Lennon and you have all the answers."
Oasis - "My Big Mouth" Be Here Now. Critically blasted for the past several years this album had more than a few gems on it and should be remembered as THE epitome of a coke album. How much blow would the band have needed to make this song and it's 26 tracks of squealing, stuttering, distorted, twisted, overdriven, vulgar guitars? Fucking feedbags of it hoovered straight to the dome. This band made me see that it was an acceptable goal in life to make the world and everyone in it my bitch.
who reckon's mat2710 is full of shit
But this song is just about how someone spread a rumor and destroyed somebody else's life, reputation?
first impression - about spreading rumours.
then thought it could be about the press and media, how they spread the rumours about the band
i think this songs about sell outs.. 'where angels fly you dont play' - shame of disloyalty to image the hall of fame lyrics suggests that oasis have stuck to their true beliefs and have never compromised their image and this hall of fame is their distinction. 'around this town you ceased to be... That's what you got for sleeping with the enemy' - sell outs forgotten possibly ... sleeping with the enemy being disloyal? it could be about rumours... but there is evidence to suggest its about sellouts
Oasis got the inspiration for this song from The Smiths' song, "Bigmouth Strikes Again."
Both excellent tracks. There's gotta be some payoff and apparently the listener likes what s/he gets. Put that in your roll and smoke it.
I ain't never spoke to God And I ain't never been to heaven But you assumed I knew the way Even though the map was given I am a huge poetry fan...these are lines from an Emily Dickinson Poem...I am not sure which one..and they are not the exact words but you get the idea...i thought that was cool..it was kinda giving tribute to Emily..that rocks.